Chapter Forty-six Little Tree Sapling

  Baozi Liu went out, Luo Xiaotong looked at Hao Meiyan with a puzzled mind: "Town head, what kind of needle is he sewing?"

  Hao Meiyan glanced outside the door: "This guy has diabetes, every time he drinks before drinking alcohol, he must first inject insulin, and then drink. A man who wants to drink but not his life." The voice was very small, only Luo Xiaotong could hear it.

  Soon after, Fat Liu returned, and as soon as he entered the door, he smiled: "I've made a fool of myself." He said this to Hao Meiyan.

  "Look at what you're saying, this is called enjoying life." Hao Meiyan was very eloquent.

  "I think so too," Hao Meiyan's words struck a chord in Liu Pangzi's heart: "People, when they encounter things, say what they want to say, and don't waste their lives." After a moment of sentimentality, he was moved to drink with abandon. Liu Pangzi had quite a capacity for liquor; after downing two cups, everything seemed normal, and Luo Xiaotong couldn't help but admire: "Brother, you're naturally someone who has an affinity for wine."

  A bottle of wine, two people didn't even take half an hour to finish it off. Hao Meiyan suggested having another bottle, but Fat Liu shook his head and refused to drink anymore, saying he had something to do in the afternoon and didn't want to get drunk and mess things up. Hao Meiyan chuckled: "Going to meet your lover?"

  "Hao Zhenchang, you haven't drunk much wine, how come you're talking nonsense?" Liu Pangzi hadn't drunk a lot.

  "If you dare to do it, then dare to admit it," Hao Meiyan said with a smile: "Besides, proper entertainment is for better work, and your work is so outstanding because your leisure life is well arranged."

  "Hao Zhenchang, I just like a leader like you. If I work under your leadership, even if it's as exhausting as being an ox or a horse, I'd be happy to do so." If he hadn't drunk too much earlier, now the effects of the alcohol were kicking in: "Working under a leader who understands men's thoughts, no, working under a beautiful female leader like you is tiring but also exhilarating." He grasped Hao Meiyan's hand, extremely excited.

  Hao Meiyan furrowed her brow, and with great difficulty, she withdrew her hand, but still smiled: "Right, isn't that what they say? A man without passion is not a man, and a man without an affair is definitely not a good man." The more he spoke, the more excited Liu, the fatty, became. He lit a cigarette, took a few puffs, and threw it away, suddenly filled with passion: "Alright then, I'll go be a good man right now."

  He said and walked away, picking up his bag: "Trouble Mayor Hao to get me a car."

  Hao Meiyan was straightforward and picked up the phone, calling a car from the town to come over, letting Fat Liu go downstairs and take the car himself.

  Hao Meiyan didn't intend to leave, and Luo Xiaotong had also made up his mind. It was a rare opportunity to get close to the town's number one leader, so he naturally wanted to take advantage of it to build a good relationship.

  "Mayor, I've troubled you." Luo Xiaotong said sincerely.

  Hao Meiyan looked at Luo Xiaotong: "Xiaotong, this is not adding trouble. Even if it wasn't you, even if we hadn't started the furnace a few days in advance, this guy would still find some excuse like this. He's already used to it."

  Luo Xiaotong filled a cup for Hao Meiyan and poured one for himself: "Town head, I'll borrow flowers to offer Buddha, respect you." Hao Meiyan gazed at him with beautiful eyes: "Don't be polite, what's the need for respect?" The cups clinked together, and they both drank in one gulp.

  "Town head, you are still young, if there's anything wrong in our town, I hope you can give us more guidance."

  Hao Meiyan was already used to other people's respect and didn't mind it at all.

  "What you said is right, young people need to be tempered. However, I heard from Chen Hua that you have a strong sense of career and I know you won't settle for your current job." He paused with a smile: "But for now, do a good job, as long as you do well, when the opportunity arises, I'll take note of it."

  "This is just a polite phrase, Luo Xiaotong naturally understood. He was just pretending to be sincere: 'I will definitely work hard and not let the town mayor down.'"

  Actually, Hao Meiyan's attitude towards Luo Xiaotong is her own idea. Firstly, she likes this young man and has a good impression of him for some reason. However, this is not important, it may be a physiological reaction. The important thing is another reason, he was brought to the town by Chen Hua, although he is considered an insignificant person, but she is not stupid, she can see that Chen Hua cares about Luo Xiaotong, so she also wants to care about him. Although he is an insignificant person, he cannot be underestimated.

  Luo Xiaotong didn't know the inside story and thought he had grasped Hao Meiyan's weakness. Anyway, it doesn't matter, what two people think is their own business, can't be said out loud. After sitting for a while, Hao Meiyan looked at her watch: "I should go back to work." She stood up but didn't leave, calling Hongyu upstairs: "Get me two packs of cigarettes." Hongyu understood and quickly went downstairs, soon returning with the cigarettes. Putting the two packs of Zhonghua cigarettes in Hao Meiyan's hand, she asked: "Are there any other instructions from the mayor?" Hao Meiyan looked at her, shook her head, then left.

  "Here," Hao Meiyan said, looking at Luo Xiaotong and handing over the cigarette. Luo Xiaotong had not expected that Hao Meiyan's cigarette was meant for him to take, and he declined with a mixture of surprise and politeness: "Mayor, how can this be? You should keep it for yourself instead."

  "Take it if you want," Hao Meiyan's eyes sparkled with a smile: "I'll exercise this right."

  Lu Xiaotong took it over. This is actually Chinese tobacco, and he never thought that he would have the opportunity to own a whole box. Chen Hua was also the town head, but with just one more word "deputy" added in front, he couldn't be so open-minded. It seems that power is still good, and can do as one pleases.

  "Aren't you going back?" Hao Meiyan asked Luo Xiaotong.

  "Of course, I'll go back." Luo Xiaotong followed behind Hao Meiyan, still very close, looking at her back, feeling warm and fuzzy in his heart, always thinking that this woman gave him a sense of closeness.

  It's already a bit late, and the time for going to work has passed. The people in the town government are all sitting in their offices working, but in Luo Xiaotong's eyes, those people are just pretending to be busy. They can finish their day's work in an hour. So if they have to write ten characters today, they need to plan how many to write each hour. This is not a waste of time, it's killing time.

  However, there was one person who wasn't sitting in a chair, and that was Qi Tian. Luo Xiaotong and Hao Meiyan entered the large courtyard, looked up, and saw a head at the window on the second floor, and the person was none other than Qi Tian. However, Luo Xiaotong didn't take a closer look at him, intentionally finding something to say to Hao Meiyan, wanting to let Qi Tian know that he had become quite familiar with the town's leaders nowadays.

  However, Luo Xiaotong had a premonition that Qi Tian would come back to find him. As expected, he had just entered the boiler room and hadn't even had time to change his clothes when Qi Tian strolled in leisurely, his hair still shining brightly.

  "My brother is very busy now," said Qitian with a smile.

  Lu Xiaotong felt that Qi Tian's words didn't sound right, with a hint of mockery or some other meaning. Even if it wasn't in his tone, her smile proved that she was up to no good.

  But Luo Xiaotong was clever and pretended not to know: "Not busy, not busy," Luo Xiaotong said: "How does Captain Qi have time to come to my place?"

  "Feeling tired, I came down to take a walk and ended up here." He said it casually, but Luo Xiaotong felt that it wasn't that simple and became cautious. She remembered the matter she had agreed with him before, probably he was here to clarify this thing.

  "Little one, now that you have a big tree to rely on, you look down on us small saplings?" Zhi Tian spoke bluntly.

  Lu Xiaotong wasn't nervous, having expected this all along, and was mentally prepared. He chuckled: "Look what you're saying, how dare I? Besides, what big tree do I have to rely on? I'm just doing my best with my own affairs. But let's put it another way, Director Qi, you may be a small sapling now, but you're growing vigorously and will soon become a towering tree that touches the sky. I wouldn't dare underestimate you."