When the boss, Song Chaoyang, was researching outside, he was good at finding problems and paying attention to how to solve them. When he talked to the local leaders, it was more of a practical attitude and a bit of a judgmental attitude towards the local affairs. Of course, there was no derogatory meaning in his judgmental attitude. It just showed that he was concerned about the local affairs. As for the Secretary-General, he was not concerned about the problems and never showed the slightest anxiety about how to solve the problems. He was like a pure spectator. It was enough for him to walk around and understand the basic situation.
Li Rui thought that the reason for the difference in the two leaders' performance during the research was very simple. To put it bluntly, it was because their positions determined their heads. As the Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee, Song Chaoyang had a lot of power and was in charge of all the party and government affairs in the city. He had a sense of mission in his heart. Therefore, he paid attention to the problems encountered in the city's social and economic development and how to find solutions to them. He also had enough power to express his attitude towards the lower-level leaders. Du Minsheng was only the Secretary-General of the Municipal Party Committee. Although he had the title of a member of the Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee, it was a title that was specially bestowed to better serve the Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee. His real power was limited to within the Municipal Party Committee and his main job was to assist the Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee. Based on this point, he naturally could not comment on the local affairs during the research. He was just going through the motions. More importantly, the leaders of the local and municipal government departments might not give him face.
After thinking about the reason behind this, Li Rui thought about the lecture that the Secretary-General gave him in the car. To put it bluntly, the Secretary-General's real purpose was to let him think more and think more and not to treat the research as an outing or a pastime. Only by learning and observing and improving through thinking could he go further in the bureaucracy.
Confucius said, "Learning without thinking is lost, thinking without learning is dangerous." This was the same everywhere.
Li Rui did not know that when he was thinking about this, there was a beautiful woman beside him who looked at him from time to time. Her eyes were full of emotions and her expression was sometimes curious and sometimes admiring. There were a few times when she could not help but want to talk to him. However, when she saw the leaders in front of her, she dismissed the idea.
Who else could this beauty be but his little disciple, Jin Rui?
It was not the first time that Jin Rui had accompanied Li Rui on an excursion with a leader. He was quite familiar with Li Rui's behavior during excursions, but he had never seen Li Rui like today. Li Rui's expression was very serious, and his eyebrows were tightly knitted. It was obvious that he was thinking about something very important. He did not smile or say a word during the whole excursion. Jin Rui really did not know what was on his mind. He really wanted to ask him what was on his mind, but it was not convenient for him to do so, so he could only give up for now.
Because he was paying too much attention to him, Jin Rui accidentally stepped on air when he was walking down from the city wall. He cried out in alarm and looked like he was about to fall forward.
At this moment, Du Minsheng, Li Jing, and the others who were walking in front of her couldn't see this scene. The staff of the Municipal Cultural Relic Bureau who was walking behind her saw it but couldn't come over to help her. As for her master, Li Rui, who was walking beside her, it was even more impossible to count on him. His soul had flown out of his body and no one knew what he was thinking.
There was no hero saving the beauty, so Jin Rui fell down the stairs without any accident. She didn't make much noise, but she fell very awkwardly. Her whole body fell on the stairs, and the flat-heeled leather shoe on her left foot flew off and landed in the corner of the city wall. Her skinny foot wrapped in nude colored stockings was completely exposed to the air, attracting people's attention. If she didn't use her hand to support herself on the brick stairs in time, she would have rolled all the way down.
After this scene happened, Du Minsheng and the others in front of her still did not see it. They watched as she walked to the bottom of the city wall and turned out of sight.
Li Rui had already recovered from his thoughts. When he saw his beautiful disciple fall on the stairs, he was shocked and didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He quickly went up to help her up and said, "Of all the times to be distracted, why did you have to be distracted now? Are you hurt?" Jin Rui resentfully said, "It's all your fault!" Li Ruiqi said strangely, "Why are you blaming me? First, I didn't push you, second, I didn't trip you. You fell on your own okay? "
The staff of the Municipal Cultural Relic Bureau who was walking behind also came up to help. Someone warmly asked if she was hurt, and someone picked up her shoe and respectfully placed it by her feet.
In front of so many people, Jin Rui couldn't say much to Li Rui. She grimaced as Li Rui helped her up. She only felt pain in her knees, thighs, chest and arms. She carefully looked at her palms. Luckily, there were no bruises. Her knees and thighs were burning with pain. She probably scraped the skin.
Li Rui asked with concern, "Are you okay?" Jin Rui resentfully glanced at him and said, "I'm fine." Li Rui said, "Then quickly put on your shoe." Jin Rui stuffed her left foot into her shoe. When she wanted to squat down to lift the heel, she felt a great pain in her thighs. She couldn't help but cry out, "Aiyo!" Li Rui quickly asked, "What's wrong?" Jin Rui groaned and said, "I can't squat down. My leg hurts when I squat." Li Rui didn't have any other good ideas. He could only say, "I'll help you put it on. Stand firm on your own. " As he said this, he let go of her arm and squatted down next to her. He used one hand to hold her ankle and gently lifted it up. He used the other hand to help her put on her shoe.
Jin Rui really couldn't stand firm. She had no choice but to support herself on his shoulder. She lowered her head to look at him helping her put on her shoe. She felt proud and shy. She thought, "Serves you right to help me put on my shoe. Who asked you to not protect your disciple well?"
Li Rui helped her put on her shoe until it was the deepest on her left foot. Only then did he extend his finger into her shoe to hook her heel. During this time, he naturally couldn't avoid touching her foot that was wrapped in nude colored stockings. He could clearly feel the warmth of her foot and the smoothness of the stockings. His heart swayed. He really wanted to take off her shoe and hold her foot and play with it for a while. Unfortunately, in front of so many people, he didn't have the guts to do so. With a conflicted heart, he lifted her shoe and said, "It's done." As he said this, he stood up.
The surrounding workers of the Municipal Cultural Relics Bureau were a total of two men and one woman. They didn't know that Li Rui and Jin Rui had a master and disciple relationship. When they saw him unceremoniously putting on the shoes for the beautiful secretary of the beautiful deputy mayor, they were all stunned. The two men were even more shocked and indescribably thought, "So you can take advantage of others like this? In the future, I have to learn this. If I encounter this kind of situation again, without any explanation, I'll put on the shoes for the woman. Not only can I show my friendliness and kindness, I can also take advantage of others. Why not? "
Li Rui stood up and said, "How are you feeling? Where does it hurt? Do you want to rest for a while? " Jin Rui looked in front and couldn't see her boss, Li Jing. Her pretty face immediately changed color and she hurriedly said, "No need, no need. Let's hurry up and catch up. Isn't the next stop the Guan Temple? We can't let the boss wait for us. "Li Rui asked," Can you walk? Do you need me to support you? " Jin Rui noticed the three people around them and shook her head, "No need. Just watch over me. Let's go quickly."
Thus, Li Rui carefully accompanied her and slowly went down the city wall with her. A few leaders were preparing to board the car and head to the next research location. The two of them arrived just in time and didn't let the leaders wait for too long.
A line of four cars slowly left the ancient city wall and headed towards the Guan Temple at the north end of the barracks at the northwest corner of the city.
The Guan Temple was dedicated to Guan Yu, which was often called the Guan Yu Temple. Guan Yu Temple was its short name. People's love for Guan Yu could be traced back to the Three Kingdoms, Wei and Jin Dynasties. Until now, people's love and worship for him had only increased. In the movies and TV series about the underworld, the most cliché plot was to cut off a chicken's head and burn yellow paper in front of a statue of Guan Yu. When people went to a big restaurant to eat, they could find a statue of Guan Yu in a very obvious place. Some people even put a statue of Guan Yu in their house. It could be said that Master Guan today was not only the incarnation of loyalty and righteousness, but also the representative of wealth. It could also be said that Guan Yu was the most worshipped and most popular celebrity in China since ancient times. There was no one else who could compare to him. If Guan Yu knew that people worshipped him in heaven, he would be smiling in the underworld.
Since ancient times, Qingyang was one of the well-known martial arts villages in the country. People there were swift and fierce. Therefore, people worshipped Guan Yu more than other places. Since ancient times, people and officials in Qingyang had organized numerous large-scale worship activities for Guan Yu, which were called "Worship Guan". The most recent "Worship Guan" was in the Qing Dynasty during the reign of Xuantong, which was recorded in the "Local Annals of Qingyang".
In the history of Qingyang, there were a total of five Guan Temples. Four of them were destroyed for one reason or another. Now there was only one left, which was also the largest one among the five. It was located at the junction of the southern and northern parts of the city, close to the city center. Now, it was a first-class cultural relic protection unit in Qingyang. Every year during the Spring Festival, a large temple fair would be held in the downtown area of Qingyang. The fair was centered around the only remaining Guan Temple and spread out along the street. The temple fair was also the busiest time in the downtown area, which could reflect the folk customs.
Many of Li Rui's childhood memories were deeply related to this Guan Temple and the Spring Festival Temple Fair. He could still vaguely remember that it was snowing heavily in winter, and he held a candied hawthorn in his hand as he strolled around the Temple Fair. However, he had already forgotten whether the person beside him was his father or his mother. When he thought of his mother who had passed away early, his heart was filled with grief. His mood was heavy and very uncomfortable.
After the investigation team arrived at the Guan Temple, Du Minsheng and Li Jing were accompanied by the director of the Municipal Cultural Relics Bureau, Zhang Mingfang, as usual. Li Rui walked side by side with Jin Rui again and slowly followed behind the leaders.
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