At around ten o'clock in the morning, when Zhao Xiangdong was inspecting the expansion of the canteen in the town middle school, he received a call from Xie Zhengliang.
"Xiangdong, where are you... Come back first, the city TV reporter wants to interview you. Boy, that's great, you've made the town party committee and the town government look good."
Xie Zhengliang said happily on the other end of the phone.
"That's not because Secretary Xie gave good command. I completed the work under your leadership."
Zhao Xiangdong took the opportunity to flatter him.
"Haha, you are getting better and better at talking. Come back soon. Reporter Ye is waiting in the town government conference room."
Xie Zhengliang smiled heartily, urged him a few more words and hung up the phone.
Hurrying to the town government and arriving at the conference room, Zhao Xiangdong saw Xie Zhengliang chatting with a man and a woman. The woman is in her mid-twenties, tall and beautiful, with a pair of slender and straight legs under a navy blue skirt. The man is a middle-aged man with an unshaven beard. The two of them sit together and look out of place.
"Come on, Xiangdong, let me introduce you. This is city TV reporter Ye Na, and this is the photographer..."
Xie Zhengliang saw Zhao Xiangdong coming in and hurriedly stood up and introduced him.
"Hello, I am Zhao Xiangdong."
Zhao Xiangdong hurriedly stepped forward and smiled. When he saw Ye Na extending her hand, he immediately stretched out his big hand and shook it gently, then shook it with the photographer again.
"My name is Ye Na, a reporter from Qingquan City TV station. I didn't expect Mayor Zhao to be so young and handsome."
Ye Na stared at Zhao Xiangdong Junlang's face with a shy expression.
After the two exchanged greetings, Ye Na smiled slightly and said: "Mayor Zhao, after we saw the news on the Internet in the past two days that you went to farmers to help villagers sell walnuts, the leaders of the Qingquan Municipal Party Committee Propaganda Department and the Municipal TV Station are very high to you. evaluate."
"Therefore, the Municipal Radio and Television Station has entrusted me with the Propaganda Department of the Municipal Party Committee to conduct an exclusive interview with you."
When Zhao Xiangdong heard that he was being interviewed on the spot, he suddenly became a little nervous. He blushed and sat up straight, saying, "Actually, all my work was arranged by Secretary Xie. Reporter Ye, you just interview Secretary Xie."
Seeing that Zhao Xiangdong was too nervous, Ye Na smiled faintly and said: "Before you came, I had already finished interviewing Secretary Xie. Now this is an exclusive interview with you, so just think of me as the sister next door. Mayor Zhao, what do you ask me? What makes you think of selling walnuts for the villagers?"
Zhao Xiangdong raised his head slightly and thought for a moment, then said: "More than three months ago, I occasionally ate paper-skinned walnuts from Dawa Village. I thought they were very delicious. They tasted like sweet springs and were crisp and refreshing. But at that time, I didn't think of selling them to the villagers. Walnuts, when I was chatting with Director Lu of the National People's Congress five days ago, we also talked about walnuts in Dawa Village, saying that the walnuts in Dawa Village could not be sold..."
"One day, I came to Dawa Village and found that almost every villager grew walnuts, and they couldn't sell the walnuts. Some of the villagers even fed walnuts to pigs. I was shocked at the time. Isn't this a waste of natural resources? So the idea came up at that time. I wanted to help the villagers sell walnuts. With this idea in mind, I immediately reported to Secretary Xie when I returned to the town. Secretary Xie was very supportive and gave good suggestions and guidance..."
Xie Zhengliang, who was sitting nearby, couldn't help but brighten his eyes when he heard this, and once again showed admiration for Zhao Xiangdong.
After the interview, Ye Na stood up and stretched out her slender hand again and said: "Thank you, Mayor Zhao, for accepting our interview. The video will be broadcast on the city TV station tomorrow afternoon. Please pay attention to watch it."
Seeing this, Zhao Xiangdong stretched out his hand and held her soft hand again, and said: "Journalist Ye, another reason that actually prompted me to help the villagers of Dawa Village sell walnuts was to expand the popularity of Dawa Village. I hope that entrepreneurs and aspiring people from all over the world Talented people come to invest, leading Dawa villagers to the road to wealth."
Ye Na nodded, smiled and said: "Okay! Mayor Zhao is really a pragmatic and truth-seeking good cadre..."
After sending Ye Na and others away, Zhao Xiangdong wiped the sweat from his forehead.
Over the weekend, Zhao Xiangdong returned home with the walnuts and jujubes forced upon him by the head of Dawa Village. When the bus arrived in Taoyuan Town, he got off the bus.
It was already past six o'clock in the afternoon. Thinking that my mother would be getting off work soon, I called her phone. It rang more than a dozen times before she answered the phone and said, "Mom, are you getting off work soon?"
Miao Rou on the other end of the phone said: "I'm leaving soon. It's the weekend today, will you come back?"
Zhao Xiangdong smiled and said, "We've arrived at Taoyuan Town... Well, okay, I'll wait."
Five or six minutes later, Miao Rou rode a battery car to the station. When she saw Zhao Xiangdong, her eyes were red and she said, "You brat, you still remember that you have a mother. Get in the car and go home."
Miao Rou, who is forty-three years old this year, looks five or six years younger than her age, and her charm is still very feminine. It’s just that my husband’s fate was not good. He was in a car accident five years ago and passed away leaving his beautiful wife behind.
In the five years since her husband passed away, although relatives and neighbors have introduced her to potential partners, she has refused them all. It wasn't that I didn't want to look for it, but I was mainly worried that my son would be wronged, so I put it aside.
Although she is not a big beauty, she is dignified and beautiful, with big slender eyes, slightly thick lips, ivory white skin, very delicate, and a slender yet plump figure.
Zhao Xiangdong frowned and asked, "Mom, why are you crying? Is there something wrong?"
Miao Rou smiled slightly, shook her head hurriedly and said, "No, it's nothing. Come up quickly and I will take you home."
"Squeak!"
Suddenly, a Geely car suddenly stopped in front of them. A bald man poked out of the car window and shouted sternly: "Miao Rou, if you don't pay the fine, you won't come to work tomorrow!"
Miao Rou glared and retorted: "I have already explained to you that I didn't talk to anyone in the afternoon."
The bald man said with a dark face, "I said you said it, so you said it. It's useless no matter how much you quibble!"
"You, you are so unreasonable!"
Miao Rou was so angry that tears welled up in her eyes.
At this time, Zhao Xiangdong took a step forward, glared at the bald head and interjected, "You said my mother was talking at work. Who was she talking to? Are there any witnesses?"
The bald man turned his head and looked Zhao Xiangdong up and down, and said angrily: "Your mother? Oh, boy, are you not convinced? Is it useful? You should hurry up and send you takeout. If I give you a bad review late, I will lose hundreds of dollars. .”
"You don't have any control over whether to send it or not!" Zhao Xiangdong scolded him, then turned to his mother and asked, "Mom, did you chat while you were at work?"
Miao Rou frowned and said, "No, that bald guy is the section chief of our workshop. He did it on purpose and made trouble for me more than once."
After Zhao Xiangdong asked the reason, he turned to look at the bald man and said: "I'm warning you, if you find trouble with my mother again in the future, I will twist your head off!"
The bald man sneered, got out of the car and said angrily: "Screaming, that's pretty harsh. How dare you threaten me as a delivery person? Believe it or not, I'll whip you!"
Miao Rou was worried that her son would suffer, so she pulled her son behind her. Just as she was about to speak, a black car slowly stopped and a young man got out of the driveway: "Mayor Zhao, where are you going?"
Zhao Xiangdong looked up and saw the young man and said, "Mayor Lu, what a coincidence, isn't today the weekend? I just happened to pick up my mother when she got home from get off work."
At this time, the bald section chief looked shocked. Isn't Miao Rou's son a takeaway? How did you become the mayor? He even knows Deputy Mayor Lu, who is in charge of industry and other departments in Taoyuan Town.
He is very familiar with Deputy Mayor Lu. He often goes to their cotton spinning factory to inspect. When the factory director sees him, he always smiles and waits on him as humbly as a grandson.
So, he smiled flatteringly and said, "Lu, Mayor Lu, hello."
