In the summer season, the weather outside is just as sultry and hot, not much better.
But it's always more comfortable to get some air. At least the slightly tense atmosphere has weakened a lot as the space has expanded.
In the garden behind the city hall building, Tang Shuang said nothing, keeping a parallel line with Xu Shi, with his head lowered and walking thoughtfully.
She didn't speak for a long time. Anyway, he was not very embarrassed. He didn't even pay much attention to Tang Shuang himself. Instead, he looked at the garden in front of him with emotion.
It doesn't feel as refined as the "quill pen".
But this is to be expected. If the city hall is built more lavishly than the consortium, then the City of Night Sin will really be transformed.
At this moment, Tang Shuang suddenly seemed to have made up his mind. He sighed deeply, raised his head and looked at him, and said seriously, "...Thank you, Xu Shi."
"Um?"
Her voice was no better than a mosquito's cry, so I couldn't hear her clearly for a while.
"I said, thank you, Xu Shi."
Tang Shuang repeated it again, her eyes full of sincerity.
Then she smiled a little self-deprecatingly, "Do you think I'm quite ignorant? I obviously accept your great love, but I didn't express it at all. I almost got into a quarrel with you just now..."
"If you say so yourself, I won't feel it."
After Xu Shi came back to his senses, he returned the smile and said, "As for gratitude and so on... don't think too much about it, it's just because you are suitable. To put it more ruthlessly, let's just say everyone gets what they need."
"Even if you say that, to me, it's still a huge favor."
Tang Shuang shook his head, "Except for the consortium, this is the highest height that ordinary people can achieve in their lifetime, right? If it were someone else, if they didn't kneel down and kowtow to you, they would be considered to have some backbone. How could they be as rebellious as me? You, confront you?"
"Thinking about it this way, I should thank our Chairman Xu for his magnanimity."
There is nothing sinister about these words. It can be seen that they are true.
"This is not the first time that some people have disagreed with me. I'm used to it."
Xu Shi waved his hand, indicating that she didn't need to care, "And this position will be yours sooner or later. Even if I don't take action, I can't change it. To put it more modestly, I just accelerated the process."
"Really?"
The Governor of Tang Dynasty asked back.
"Why isn't it true?"
Xu Shi asked back, "You know it yourself. In the past few years, you, the old man, have always been at the top of the polls in Sin City."
"But that's not the deciding factor."
Tang Shuang blinked, "Not to mention how long Yue Chizheng can sit in the position of governor if nothing happens. Even if he really retires and steps down according to normal procedures, countless people will find ways to sharpen their heads. Drill up, right?”
Xu Shi was unconvinced about this statement.
From some perspectives, Tang Shuang does have many competitors - the city hall is not just a few people, it is also a very large system. Even if Yue Chizheng is shoveled this time, the carrots are pulled out and the mud is pulled out. Many are involved.
It's just that those people are not in his eyes at all, but for Tang Shuang, this is indeed an issue that needs to be considered.
Even without this incident, the possibility of her being able to compete is very small. There is no way. This girl has a straightforward temper. She is called the tigress and the king of hell within the Inspection Bureau, not to mention other functional departments, interpersonal This area is considered her weakness, or she doesn't care at all.
"Whatever you say."
Having said that, when everything was settled, he was not worried. "Anyway, the result is good. For me, I can rest assured that you will be the governor."
"Oh? Didn't some people just say that if I didn't agree, they would have to live in officialdom themselves?"
Hearing what he said, Tang Shuang suddenly wanted to laugh and couldn't help teasing him.
"Pull him down. It's so comfortable for me to be a hands-off shopkeeper, so I don't have to suffer like this."
Xu Shi completely denied his joke.
The truth is this. No matter how hard you beat him to death, he won't really do it. Isn't that losing the watermelon and picking up the sesame seeds? Even if you can help a puppet up, you will have to operate it from behind. There is no big difference.
"So I have to endure the hardship, right?"
Tang Shuang gradually stopped smiling, and her tone became serious, "You know, Xu Shi? In fact, this is also the most contradictory part of me."
"Um?"
"I also know that this is a good result, both for you and for me. Apart from anything else, I have the ambition to be the governor."
The Governor of the Tang Dynasty pulled him to sit down by the flower bed, "And I am confident that if I become the Governor, I will definitely be able to do a better job than that old bastard Yue Chizheng."
"But I can't do anything like you and only pursue results. What I thought before was that no matter how difficult it is, I will fight for it with dignity."
She continued with emotion, "Instead of like now, we have to make up a crime to arrest Yue Chizheng."
In a sense, this is a shortcut, right? Even if she didn't know anything about it before, being pushed away by Xu Shi was proof that she was qualified to join the game.
But is a dream still a dream if it doesn’t come true the way you envisioned?
It was definitely not the case for Tang Shuang, otherwise she would not have been so angry when she received this pie from the sky, because it was disgraceful.
"So you're blaming me?"
Xu Shi asked with interest.
"No, this is my own problem."
Tang Shuang denied this, "I can't completely agree with your approach, just because our starting points and concepts are different, but in essence, what you and I are pursuing are very different."
"No matter what your intentions are, I cannot deny that everything you do is beneficial to this city, so I must accept your actions, let alone blame you for it."
That being said, she is not without emotions. Her lukewarm attitude towards Xu Shi now explains everything very well - she dare not say that she does not have a good impression of Xu Shi, otherwise she will not be able to create ideas in the future. Disagreements can become so confusing and even painful.
If it was just a matter of cooperation and utilization, then she would feel more at ease accepting all this.
Anyway, this guy is really annoying! Tang Shuang knew that there was a perfect Xu Shi in her dream, but in reality he was very close to that Xu Shi and then far away from that Xu Shi. Anyway, she was very uncomfortable being pulled.
"Nothing in this world is perfect, Miss Tang Shuang."
It was rare for Xu Shi to address her by her first name, just as she had just said to herself, "If everything could develop according to imagination, then everyone would be dreamers."
"I'm not a child, I still understand this."
Tang Shuang nodded, "So don't I accept it? I didn't hold my neck and would rather die than obey. Otherwise, I would be really motivated."
"According to you, this is called each getting what he needs, right?"
"Completely correct."
Xu Shi was satisfied with this.
Tang Shuang...how should I say this?
He did dislike her very much at first, even hated her, after all, she came to condemn him indiscriminately, but after that, he became more and more pleased with her.
After all, Tang Shuang really wanted to work hard to eliminate the evils in the city. In this regard, she was very similar to her grandfather, and this was exactly what he needed at the moment.
Such a character is really rare, and she is currently the only one. Even if the plot has been turned upside down, her character has always existed, even if Su Lin is not normal now.
Maybe this also has something to do with the way he treats her? From the beginning to the end, he never used his ability to influence her, otherwise, no matter how determined he was, he would not be in this situation now.
But rationally speaking, improving her abilities is the most beneficial way for Xu Shi... Just kidding, of course it would be easier to have a velvet ball that obeys every word, but it's a pity that I didn't do this at the beginning. It seems a bit late to find another way now. Yes.
All I can say is that people are all cheap. (doge)
"You are such a person...sigh."
Seeing his calm look, Tang Shuang laughed dumbly, "He always has such an attitude, which makes people hate him even if he wants to."
Even if she is conscious of it in her heart, it is the same - insisting on classifying the bad brother is definitely the rotten type. She deliberately sells you favors and shows an indifferent appearance. In fact, this will make the recipient even more embarrassed. Even more uncontrollably thinking about how to repay him, this should be the legendary NBA, right?
"Have it?"
Xu Shi pretends to be stupid every day, it's all your own random thoughts, it has nothing to do with me.
"Anyway, I owe you a big favor."
Tang Shuang didn't shy away from it and spoke out, "But this doesn't mean you can do whatever you want in the future. I'll still have to deal with you if you go too far."
"sure."
Xu Shi raised his hands in a gesture of surrender, "I am a very good citizen."
The fact is that there is no need for him to confront Tang Shuang anymore - as she just said, the two people have similar goals, and as long as based on this premise, their strength can always go to the same place.
Besides, she couldn't do anything to herself when there were conflicts in the past, and it will be even less possible in the future... In this case, it is not a problem to give her a mouthful, and there is no need to take everything seriously.
The Governor of Tang Dynasty still thought that he was the big sister in front of Xu Shi, but in fact he was already the stinky sister.
"Okay, since you said that, then I choose to believe you."
Tang Shuang smiled as if relieved and stretched out her hand to him, "Then as the governor of Night Sin City, I wish you a happy cooperation with Chairman Xu in the future?"
"OK."
Xu Shi was in an equally good mood and shook her hand vigorously, "It's a pleasure to work with you."
Then.
He realized that he couldn't pull his hand back.
"What do you want to do?"
Xu Shi suddenly had a bad feeling in his heart, "You're playing a gangster, right? Come on, the governor is abusing his power and molesting a good boy!"
"What? Are you in a hurry to leave? I haven't finished speaking yet."
The Governor of Tang Dynasty did not accept his words, and his smile was a little more cunning, "Of course, I was talking to you as the Governor just now, and now I am talking to you as the Inspector General."
"What do you mean?"
Xu was a little confused for a moment.
"What I mean is that although the handover has been completed, according to normal procedures, I have not officially resigned yet. I am still the Director of Audit in name."
Tang Shuang explained seriously.
"so?"
Xu Shi's eyes twitched unconsciously, no wonder you haven't changed your clothes yet...
"So, I have to take advantage of this time to finish the last piece of work that I have in my backlog."
Tang Shuang smiled more and more wildly, "If I remember correctly, some people still owe one hundred and twenty hours of community service."
"You don't mean to be so serious, do you?"
Xu Shi finally understood what she meant, good guy, I thought you were really relieved, but you were waiting here for revenge, right?
"Don't forget, whether I am the Governor or the Director, before that, I was a woman."
Tang Shuang's hand used force intentionally or unintentionally, "It's a woman's prerogative to be petty, so just tell me whether you do it or not?"
"...Okay, okay, I'm scared of you."
Xu Shi took a breath, nnd's hand was so strong...
The disadvantage of not being a combatant is now reflected, and he cannot defeat her...
"Hmph, that's pretty much it."
After hearing what he said, Tang Shuang let go of his hand with satisfaction.
Damn brother, you finally let me make amends, right?
Of course, in fact, she also knew that for such a dispensable thing, if Xu Shi was really stubborn, she couldn't do anything to him... You can't expect Yu Xingchuan to continue to fulfill his supervision obligations, right? If she didn't take the initiative to stick it on Xu Shi's body, she was being reserved.
Therefore, this is actually an excuse. The main purpose is that she wants to put down other things and stay with Xu Shi for a while regardless.
Or she was conflicted. She couldn't fully agree with Xu Shi's values, but she couldn't really make a clean break with him and only get along with him as a partner.
Under such circumstances, she could only think of a solution that was not a solution.
But he actually agreed, and it was much smoother than he thought... Should I say that he was taking care of his own feelings? Or even further, that he feels similarly about himself?
Anyway, the Governor of the Tang Dynasty, oh no, he has temporarily changed back to the Director of the Tang Dynasty. It is impossible to express his feelings at this juncture. Firstly, she herself is in a mess about this aspect. Secondly, if If you really do this, won’t all those words you said before be in vain?
Well, let's take this opportunity to test it out?
"Tell me, what do you want me to do?"
Xu Shi waved his hand and said that it was impossible to say that he had a clear conscience towards Tang Shuangguang Feng Jiyue. Besides, he was indeed the one who took the lead, so a small request from the other party would not be too much, otherwise this matter would never be over...
"Simple."
Tang Shuang proudly dragged him back to the office and threw him his previous uniform of the Inspection Bureau.
"Tomorrow morning, wear these clothes and report to the Inspection Bureau!"
Who told you to wear it for just a short while last time? The inventory has long been insufficient...
(End of chapter)
