official journey ups and downs

"Mom!" Mentioning Shen Tong, Xu Xia was extremely emotional. She slapped her chopsticks on the table and said angrily, "Don't mention the past anymore. Do you think it's useful to mention it now?"

Xu's mother buried her head and remained silent, her stomach was filled with remorse.

Xu Xia stood up and said: "Mom, I'm fine. If there's nothing else, you can go back first. I'm tired and I need to rest."

Xu's mother looked at Xu Xia's gradually protruding belly, and said with concern: "Daughter, why don't you go home and live with me, I'm really worried about you looking like this."

"No, this is my home, I won't go back." Xu Xia said firmly.

Seeing Xu Xia's stubbornness, Xu's mother said again: "Either you go back, or you change the door lock. Just now I was terrified when I saw that Zheng Weijun."

Xu Xia shook his head and said, "No, this is also his home. If it really comes to that point, what will my father do?"

Thinking that her husband was still in the hands of Zheng Weijun's father, I felt a dull pain in my heart, so I had no choice but to say: "Daughter, you must take care of yourself. Mom is your daughter. If you have any problems, I will die... ..."

Xu Xia didn't have the slightest expression on his face, and said indifferently: "Understood, I will take care of it."

After seeing her mother off, Xu Xia climbed to the door, the accumulated tears instantly bursting down the bank and streaming down her cheeks.Thinking of the past and the current self, Xu Xia became more and more sad, and slowly squatted down on the ground, crying loudly.

She misses Shen Tong more and more recently, but she doesn't have the courage to take the initiative to contact Shen Tong. How is he far away in Dongquan?Thinking of this, Xu Xia got up to look for her mobile phone, but she couldn't find it after searching the house upside down. She thought she had left it at work, so she sat on the sofa again in a daze.

Empty house, cold home, lifeless.Sometimes Xu Xia always wants to open the window and jump to end this life.But thinking of the child in his stomach and his father's official career, he finally gave up on this idea.Today, she is not living for herself, but for her father.It was really not easy for my father to get to this day. If I really did something stupid, I would ruin my father's future.

"Hey! I'm so tired of living!" Xu Xia got up and went back to the bedroom, took out the photo taken with Shen Tong when she was in college from under the bed, and lay on the bed to look at it carefully without blinking her eyes.

The photo was taken in the evening in the summer of 1996. Shen Tong was wearing a plaid T-shirt, with short ear-length hair, and was sitting on the grass with an acoustic guitar in his arms, playing intently, with an innocent smile on his face.And Xu Xia was wearing a blue polka-dot dress and a straw hat, looking at his handsome sweetheart with a happy smile on his face.The setting sun, the sunshine is crisp, the breeze is blowing, the long hair is blowing, the smile is rippling, it is so nostalgic, but the picture is frozen at this moment.

With tears in her eyes, Xu Xia touched Shen Tong's face with her fingertips. Night after night, Shen Tong accompanied her through the long night.

Zheng Weijun drank again at night.Whenever he drinks, he gets angry.The person I love is in my hands, and I have taken her physically, but I still can't capture her heart.Not reconciled, he rushed home again and again, using violence to vent his distress. He felt refreshed at the time, but regretted it afterwards.

He took Xu Xia's mobile phone and carefully looked through the call and text message records. Except for the calls with his family and colleagues, he did not contact anyone else.He is also very clear about this, because every month he will call up Xu Xia's call list, and carefully identify each number one by one. After confirming that he has not contacted Shen Tong, he is relieved.

Zheng Weijun was very suspicious. He still didn't believe that Xu Xia could cut off contact with Shen Tong. He even suspected that Xu Xia would use another mobile phone to contact Shen Tong, so he planned to take Xu Xia's mobile phone to test, and then sent Shen Tong a text message. text messages.

In the end, nothing happened, which made him very disappointed. Shen Tong didn't reply to the text message.This result did not dispel his suspicions, on the contrary, he firmly believed that Xu Xia must be using other methods to break ties with Shen Tong.

"This Mrs. Shen Tong is no joke. She seduced my wife, and now she's cheating on Du Jingjing again." Zheng Weijun scolded angrily.For Du Jingjing, there is absolutely no relationship, it is just a playmate when she is empty.He suddenly had an idea, can Du Jingjing investigate this matter?

After Shen Tong got in touch with Du Jingjing, Zheng Weijun already planned to let Du Jingjing withdraw from the Dongquan Lion's Head Mountain Aluminum Mine, and let Guo Weijian keep an eye on this project.But now that he has changed his focus, let Du Jingjing go!

Shen Tongna, who was far away in Dongquan, knew what happened to Xu Xia. Fortunately, he didn't reply to that text message. If he did reply, it might ruin his career or even his life.

As soon as I woke up the next morning, my phone started ringing one after another.Seeing that it was Liu Siming's call, Shen Tong picked it up and said, "Mayor Liu, you haven't called him for a long time, what's the matter? When you arrive in the city, you forget the bitter brothers and sisters who used to be in the trenches?" Although Liu Siming is now the chief of the second section of the Secretary of the Longnan Municipal Government, but Shen Tong is still used to using the original address, which seems friendly.

Liu Siming chuckled and said, "How could I forget you? Longnan didn't contact me when you came here. It should be said that you forgot me!"

Shen Tong smiled and said: "How is it? Mayor Liu, when will you let me eat your wedding candy, I can wait for it!"

"No hurry, no hurry!" Liu Siming said happily: "Hui Man has just graduated from university and started work, and it will not be too late to get married in a few years." After chatting, Liu Siming said immediately: "Shen Tong, I want to ask you , how often do you go to Mayor Ma’s house?”

"Why are you going to Mayor Ma's house?" Shen Tong asked doubtfully before he woke up.

"What? You don't even know?" Liu Siming said in surprise when he heard that Shen Tong didn't know that Ma Guotao, the mayor of Yuanshihe Town, had changed.

"I really don't know, what happened?" Shen Tong asked eagerly.

Liu Siming had no choice but to say: "How did you become a secretary? I haven't got the news yet. Let me tell you, Mayor Ma's wife passed away yesterday afternoon."

"Ah?" Shen Tong was shocked.A while ago, when I accompanied Wu Jiangkai to the provincial capital hospital to visit the deputy governor Qiu Zhiguo, I also ran into Ma Guotao.

"Yes, his wife had terminal cancer, and she passed away yesterday." Liu Siming said, "Shen Tong, don't care what Mayor Ma did before, but it's better for us to come forward for this kind of thing, after all, we are also him A former subordinate, right? You hurried over to help this morning, and then you pulled away, and I rushed over."

"Okay, I'll go over after dinner!" Shen Tong said firmly.In fact, there is no quarrel between Shen Tong and Ma Guotao. On the other hand, Shen Tong has to be grateful to him. If Ma Guotao hadn't engaged in a business promotion, maybe he is still in Shihe Town now.

I didn't know such important news. On the contrary, Liu Siming, who was far away in Longnan City, knew it one step earlier than Shen Tong. Someone should let me know.

Shen Tong didn't have time to think about these things, so he hurriedly reported to Wu Jiangkai.Unexpectedly, Wu Jiangkai knew about it in advance, and he said: "Director Zhang has already told me, and I have told him to come over in the name of the county party committee to give condolences. You should go and see, after all, he was your leader before."

That is to say, Zhang Liwei knew the news earlier than himself, and he had credited Wu Jiangkai in advance, but he was kept in the dark. Obviously, Zhang Liwei didn't want him to know.Although it was a trivial matter, the conflict between the two gradually became apparent, and Zhang Liwei had begun to distrust him.

Shen Tong hurriedly ate breakfast and rushed to Ma Guotao's house.When we arrived at Ma Guotao's house, white lanterns were hung at the door, and the cries and cries in the house broke our hearts.Although he was not his relative, Shen Tong felt very uncomfortable, and he walked in with a very solemn heart.

There were not many people in the yard, only Ma Guotao's relatives were helping to set up the coffin shed, and Shen Tong found that there was not even a single person from Shihe Town, which made him fully feel the meaning of people leaving for tea.

Ma Guotao was only suspended, not dismissed, and he was still enjoying the official-level treatment, and he might return to his leadership position that day.In any case, Ma Guotao has been in Shihe Town for nearly ten years. Even if he is heinous and evil, but on this occasion today, the people of Shihe Town should let go of their grievances and show their faces.However, things backfired.

"Shen Tong, you're here, hurry up and sit in the room!" As soon as Ma Guotao came out of the room, he saw Shen Tongchu at the gate. Subordinates of the month.

Ma Guotao had changed completely, his eye sockets were deeply sunken, his face was dull, his body had lost weight, and he looked so haggard.Shocked, Shen Tong grabbed Ma Guotao's hand and said emotionally: "Mayor Ma, I felt extremely sad after hearing this, and reported it to Secretary Wu as soon as possible. Secretary Wu explained what the county committee needs to do. You Just speak up. He was in town for a meeting, and then he came, anyway, sorry!"

Ma Guotao nodded like a drum, and said in a trance: "Thank you, thank you. I'm glad you can come. Come and sit in the room."

Shen Tong hurriedly said: "Mayor Ma, what do you need me to do, just tell me, I'm here to help you."

"No, you don't need to do anything. You have relatives, so you can come in and sit down." Ma Guotao tried his best to decline.

At this time, the coffin shed was short of manpower, so Shen Tong rolled up his sleeves and went up to help without saying a word. Ma Guotao saw it, and felt mixed feelings in his heart.

After a while, Zhang Liwei also rushed over. Seeing Shen Tong in the yard, he was taken aback for a moment, then quickly came back to his senses and took Ma Guotao's hand and said, "Mayor Ma, brother, I don't feel well when this happens. My condolences. After learning about this, I reported it to Secretary Wu as soon as possible, and Secretary Wu specifically explained that the county party committee will go all out to handle this matter well."

have to!The words of Zhang Liwei and Shen Tong were so similar, but Ma Guotao didn't bother to analyze the reasons, he was still grateful to the county party committee for not forgetting him, and thanked Secretary Wu for his care again and again.