Fang Qiang waved his hand generously and said with a smile, "Hey, we're on the same side. Don't be so polite. I was just saying, Xiao Li, you're really amazing. You're driving a BMW at such a young age, and it's a five-series. Tsk tsk … really … really, how should I say this? You're really young and promising! "
Li Rui said with a smile on his face, "Secretary-General Fang, don't laugh at me. This is not my BMW. This is my wife's best friend's car. She's lending it to us temporarily."
Fang Qiang smiled as if he didn't believe him and said, "Really? Is there such a good thing? Anyway, I don't have such a friend who can lend me a BMW. "
Li Rui felt a little depressed when he heard that Fang Qiang didn't seem to believe him. He thought to himself, "Is there something wrong with your eyes? Can't you see that it's not my car? It's a provincial license plate! If it's really my car, it must have a Qingyang license plate. "But he also knew that if Fang Qiang believed him, he would believe him no matter what he said. But if he didn't believe him, he wouldn't believe him no matter what he said. In that case, he didn't want to waste time explaining. The more he explained, the more it seemed like he was trying to cover it up. He changed the topic and said," Secretary-General Fang, you're also coming for dinner? "
Fang Qiang looked away from the BMW and turned to look at the entrance of Shengjing Hotel. He nodded perfunctorily and said, "Let's go together."
Li Rui thought that he was going to invite him to his banquet. He knew that he was just being polite, so he smiled and said, "No, thank you for your kindness. I won't cause you trouble. I'll invite you alone another day."
Fang Qiang looked at him with a faint smile and said, "What do you mean by cause me trouble? Aren't you with me? "
Li Rui was stunned, and then he realized that he seemed to have misunderstood. The reason why Secretary-General Fang appeared downstairs in Shengjing Hotel was not to attend other banquets, but to attend Ji Gang's banquet with him. Thinking of this, he was embarrassed. Fortunately, it was not a big joke, so he just smiled awkwardly. However, he was also wondering why Ji Gang would invite the deputy secretary-general to the banquet. No matter how useless this Secretary Fang was, he was still a Divisional Leader. Why did he come here to sit with a Section Chief? Wasn't he ashamed of himself?
Fang Qiang saw that he had come to his senses. He smiled and said, "Let's go up." Then, he walked towards the door.
Li Rui hurriedly followed him. He thought that in theory, Fang Qiang was Ji Gang's former boss, so it was reasonable for Ji Gang to invite him to a meal. As long as one was willing to take the beating and the other was willing to take the beating, it was not too much.
The two of them walked into the hotel lobby and took the elevator to the restaurant. When they found the private room, they found that almost everyone was there. Ji Gang personally received the guests at the door of the private room. Needless to say, in the private room, there were two large tables that were almost full of people. Among them were all the people in the Second Department of the Secretaries, the Divisional Heads of the General Affairs Department of the Second Department, and a few key personnel. There were also the secretaries of the leaders of the Municipal Party Committee, and a few people in charge of the General Affairs Department of the Municipal Party Committee.
Among these people, the highest ranking person was a Section Chief like Li Rui. Therefore, when Fang Qiang, a Divisional Leader and a Deputy Leader of the General Affairs Department of the Municipal Party Committee, arrived, he immediately became the star of the crowd. Everyone stood up and came over to greet him. Fang Qiang immediately enjoyed the treatment of the highest leader in the banquet. He was surrounded in the middle like a moon surrounded by stars, passively receiving people's greetings and attentiveness. He also enjoyed this scene very much. His face was full of smiles, and his eyelashes were blooming from his smile.
At this time, Ji Gang walked into the private room and saw that Fang Qiang had stolen all the limelight. Even Li Rui, the First Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee, who was in the limelight for a while, was standing behind him and drowning in his shadow. An unnoticeable sneer appeared on Ji Gang's face.
Ji Gang had specially invited Fang Qiang to suppress the banquet. Ji Gang had already considered that Li Rui was the most distinguished person among the colleagues he had invited. Even if he had more seniority in the Municipal Party Committee, he would not be able to suppress Li Rui's glory. When he thought about how Li Rui would become the most dazzling person at the banquet, he felt a little uncomfortable in his heart. Therefore, he specially invited Fang Qiang, the Deputy Secretary-General, to suppress Li Rui so that Li Rui would not be able to steal the limelight. However, Fang Qiang had refused to participate in this banquet at the beginning. Old Fang also felt that it was not good to do so. He felt that it was a little demeaning. However, Ji Gang had invited Fang Qiang many times. Fang Qiang could not refuse him and had to come.
Now, Fang Qiang had stolen all the limelight in the private room and was enjoying everyone's attentive greetings. Ji Gang had also achieved his goal of suppressing Li Rui and making him an outsider. It could be said that everyone was happy.
However, Li Rui, one of the parties involved, did not know about this. He did not feel that Fang Qiang had stolen the limelight that originally belonged to him. He did not even think about it at all. He just wanted to finish the banquet as soon as possible and go home early to go out for a walk with his wife, Qingman.
After the greetings, everyone sat down again. Fang Qiang naturally sat at the head of the table. Li Rui sat at the lower left of him. As the host, Ji Gang did not sit with his former boss. Instead, he sat at another table, which was called "taking care of the friends at the other table". This excuse was understandable, and Fang Qiang could not blame him for being disrespectful.
At this time, everyone had arrived. Ji Gang ordered the waiter to serve the dishes. The banquet had been booked long ago. The dishes were ordered according to the standard of 1,800 yuan per table (Qingyang was only a third-tier small city, so the price of a five-star hotel was not too high. What Ji Gang ordered was not the most high-end). This standard was not only the number was auspicious, but also the quality of the dishes was higher and the taste was more delicious. As for the wine, Ji Gang brought it from home. It was the most popular Maotai national wine. The waiter in the private room had already been asked to leave. The work of pouring tea was done by the people from the second department of the secretaries.
While waiting for the dishes to be served, the people at the two big tables chatted while drinking tea.
Ji Xiaojia and Li Rui sat at the same table, but not next to each other. She was also the only female comrade at this table, and even in the entire private room. She was the only female, and she was very beautiful. Naturally, she attracted the attention of all the men.
After Fang Qiang drank two mouthfuls of tea, he began to target her and said with a smile, "Our table is a bit boring. Look at that table, it's more lively. How about this, I suggest that our comrade, Little Ji, tell a joke to liven up the atmosphere. What do you guys think?"
What he said was for Ji Xiaojia to tell a joke. However, normal jokes could not pique people's interest at all, especially those in the government. For those in the government, jokes were the most popular, and they were also the most popular ones. They were the kind of adult jokes that intertwined with the government, ambiguous, and dark.
Li Rui treated Ji Xiaojia as his little sister. Therefore, when he heard Fang Qiang's words, he was very unhappy. He thought to himself, 'If you like to listen to jokes, you can tell them yourself. Why do you want our Ji Xiaojia to tell them? Are you bullying me because I'm a girl? ' However, he could only think of this in his heart. He definitely could not say it out loud. Otherwise, he would anger Fang Qiang on the spot.
He raised his eyes to look at Ji Xiaojia. He wanted to see how she would react to this provocation.
Ji Xiaojia was very generous. When she heard this, she chuckled and said, "Okay, let me find one. I'll read one for you guys." As she spoke, she took out her phone and opened a text message. She casually scrolled through it and read with a smile, "A village chief drank too much and went into the pigsty by mistake. He lay beside a sow and said, 'Honey, pour me a glass of water.' The sow snorted. The village chief said it wouldn't pour, so it wouldn't pour. Why was he acting coquettishly? He casually touched it and said, 'I bought a leather jacket. It even has a double-breasted jacket.' "
When everyone heard this, they roared with laughter.
Fang Qiang also laughed, but his smile was very faint. He glanced at Ji Xiaojia's delicate peaks and said, "Aiya, this joke is too old. The last time I heard it, the Olympics hadn't even started yet. Ji Xiaojia, tell another one. Tell a new one."
Ji Xiaojia said, "Okay, I'll look for it again."
Li Rui did not agree this time. He smiled and interrupted, "Xiaojia is a woman. The jokes in her phone are not interesting. Let me tell one to liven things up for Secretary-General Fang."
Fang Qiang was unhappy when he heard this and said, "Xiao Li, you really don't know how to speak. How can you say that you want to liven things up for me? I just want everyone to be happy. "As he spoke, the smile on his face completely disappeared. His expression was a little ugly.
When he said this, everyone could smell the gunpowder in his words. Most of them stopped laughing. The atmosphere in the private room quickly cooled down, and the air was filled with a faint smell of gunpowder.
Ji Gang looked at Li Rui without blinking. He thought to himself that this was great. He could watch him make a fool of himself. Hmph, as expected of the young and frivolous. He accidentally offended the leader. Let's see how he will deal with this.
Li Rui was not afraid of Fang Qiang's rebuttal. He smiled and said, "So Secretary-General Fang wants everyone to be happy. But I see that everyone is already laughing after hearing Xiaojia's joke. The atmosphere is also livened up. There's no need to say more."
This was tantamount to openly challenging Fang Qiang. When everyone heard this, those who liked Li Rui broke out in cold sweat for him. Those who did not like him could only watch helplessly as he made a fool of himself. The atmosphere in the private room became even colder. It even felt like the north wind was whistling.
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