Chapter 77: An Unexpected Meeting
Updated: 2012-08-01
(This is the fourth update, and I still thank the Simachimo brothers for their support; the update of the new day is probably going to be until tomorrow morning)
When Chen Huai said that he would place the dinner in Nanyuan, Chen Dan was a little puzzled and asked, "If you eat, why don't you come to the town and have to go to Nanyuan?"
Chen Huai smiled and said, "The town reception station is given to you for contracting, and the town government also plans to support it as a key catering enterprise in Meixi Town. If you don't learn more, how can you do it? Donghua's catering industry is only the Nanyuan companies. After all, Nanyuan serves the city leaders, don't look at the losses every year. There are many people who eat and drink for free. The real software and hardware are first-class in Donghua. The standard of the reception station is to learn from abroad directly. The requirements are too high. Let's follow Nanyuan first..."
Chen Dan smiled, with an indescribable gentleness in his eyes, and said, "Then I will go back and put the agreement first and wait for you at the back door of Anlan Temple..."
Chen Huai knew that Chen Dan didn't want to leave the town government by car, and fell into the eyes of others, so he followed her and said, "Okay, I'll process the documents at hand, and then go there after about a quarter of an hour to twenty minutes..."
After Chen Dan left, Chen Huai was slowing down in the office for twenty minutes, then went downstairs and drove out of the town government with Passat.
At this time, he rushed to get off work and get off school in the factory school. The streets of the school were very congested. Xiao Li had to go to school for dinner at school and then went to study at night, so Chen Huai and Chen Dan didn't have to pay attention to her. Chen Huai was going back to the dormitory to change his clothes, but it was blocked on the road for a few minutes. He was afraid that Chen Dan would be anxious, so he went directly to the agreed place to take her into the car.
Anlan Temple is located in a small temple on the south side of Meixi Old Street. The main gate is facing Meixi Old Street and the back gate is facing Gangchang Road. Chen Dan made an appointment with the back gate of Anlan Temple on Gangchang Road.
Gangchang Road is a dead end, extending to Meixi River, and there is no bridge to go to the city, so there are not so many idle people on the back street of Anlan Temple. However, to go to the city, you have to go around from Xuetang Street and walk down Mei Highway...
Chen Dan changed into a thin tweed windbreaker. In 1993, she only looked more high-end in Donghua. It was mid-December, and the weather was cold and the north wind made the ground white. Chen Dan wore a red scarf, and the warm tone made her face look tender and greasy, red and beautiful.
"It's cooled down today, and the temperature suddenly dropped, which is unbearable," Chen Dan asked, seeing Chen Huai wearing the dark blue work clothes of the steel mill, "Do you want to go back and change your clothes?"
"What's wrong? We workers can't take a beautiful girl to Nanyuan for dinner?" Chen Huai asked.
Seeing Chen Huai's exaggerated appearance, Chen Dan knew that the more he talked about it, he became more proud. He glanced at him with beautiful eyes and rubbed his hands to breathe.
"It's so cold?" Chen Huai said, "Then I'll lend you to cover it in my arms."
Chen Dan dragged his voice and said, "Drive quickly..."
Zhao Dong had a rare rest today, and he also knew that Chen Dan was going to sign a contract agreement with the town today, so he specifically told Chen Huai to celebrate, so Chen Huai asked him to treat him to Nanyuan.
Chen Huai did not tell Chen Tong, Yang Haipeng and others about the meal, and knew that Chen Dan didn't like to make some things too public.
When they drove to Nanyuan, Zhao Dong and his girlfriend Xiao Mingxia had already arrived first and were waiting for them there.
"You won't change your clothes?" Zhao Dong has been shopping with Xiao Mingxia during this period, and he is also rare to come to a high-end place like Nanyuan for dinner. He is wearing a suit and stands outside Nanyuan like a human being to pick up Chen Huai and others.
After Chen Huai parked his car and walked over, wearing the steel mill's work clothes, Zhao Dong could only ask helplessly.
"What's wrong? You lost your simple style of the workers and waited to go back to the steel mill to educate you," Chen Huai joked with Zhao Dong and greeted Xiao Mingxia again. "During this period, Zhao Dong was like a mule and worked in the steel mill, saying that he had no time to serve you comfortably. Don't you hate me, right?"
"Why did Zhao Dong say that you are very powerful in Meixi? You can stop the child from crying at night!" Xiao Mingxia asked with a smile, "Why can't the dog's mouth spit ivory?"
"I'm young and don't have a slight face in the government. They think that my steel mill is used to collect scrap iron," Chen Huai said with a smile. "Anyway, in your eyes, I'm just a scrap iron..."
Chen Dan smiled with a pursed lips. She also thought Chen Huai was too serious and too strict in the town. She was so strict that he was seriously disconnected from his age who was only twenty-four years old. She really liked his hippie smile and sunny look at this time.
The main building facing the street of Nanyuan has rooms and dining, but the essence of Nanyuan catering is still in the Cuihua Building Banquet Hall at the back.
Cuihua Tower was a synagogue-style building during the Republic of China, surrounded by more than a dozen old-style Western-style buildings, namely the "palaces" of the city leaders. Walking from the street, it is a tree-lined path with a quiet environment.
The slightly larger banquets of the Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government will almost be held in Cuihua Building.
The price of dining at Cuihua Building is not about how expensive it is. The key is that people who have nothing to do with will have no chance to go in and have a meal.
Chen Mingde died suddenly due to illness and held the responsibility for the poor management of Nanyuan by the Municipal Government Office. After that, the Municipal Party Committee Office was in charge of Nanyuan. Others could not settle the seat in Cuihua Building, but Zhao Dong didn't mind taking Xiong Wenbin's name out of the name.
Chen Dan and Xiao Mingxia fell behind and talked. Chen Huai and Zhao Dong walked up the steps in front. Just as they were about to push the door into the lobby, a famous staff member inserted it from the side and wanted to stop Chen Huai who looked like a worker:
"Sorry, sir, who are you looking for?"
"I don't look for someone, can I go in and have a meal?" Chen Huai stopped and looked at the staff trotting over to stop him. He was a pretty girl with a familiar face, but he couldn't remember his name.
"Chen, Secretary Chen," the staff saw that the ordinary worker was dressed up by Chen Huai, and his face suddenly changed. He hurriedly apologized, "I'm sorry, I'm so sorry, I didn't see clearly that Secretary Chen, you." He then turned his body sideways and opened the copper-covered glass door, asking Chen Huai and the others to enter the lobby.
Chen Huai and Chen Dan spread their hands and said, "After I left the city government, my temper has actually changed a lot..."
Chen Dan smiled with a pursed lips and said thank you to the girl who helped them open the door before entering.
She knew that Chen Huai was in Meixi Town and was very strict with her colleagues and cadres, but she was calm in her attitude towards the staff. Even in the steel mill, others killed chickens and scared monkeys, and Chen Huai also killed monkeys and scared chickens.
I really didn't expect that the girl in front of me was so afraid of Chen Huai. I really didn't know what kind of morality Chen Huai was in the municipal government before...
He didn't say much to the staff, Chen Huai, Zhao Dong and others walked in.
The dining room on Cuihua Tower is mainly private rooms, but from the front hall, there is a row of floor-to-ceiling windows near the lake, with a great view and several booths. Zhao Dong booked the table there.
Government officials are used to eating and drinking in private rooms. The booth in the lobby seems deserted, and only one of them is the guests. Chen Huai moved out the chair and asked Chen Dan to sit next to him. He smiled and said, "Compared to the private rooms, we have booked the lobby and this lake view, which is really a big advantage..."
After sitting down, Chen Huai and Chen Dan studied many details of Cuihualou catering in Nanyuan. There are many places where the town reception station can learn without much effort. They are afraid that Zhao Dong and Xiao Mingxia will be neglected. They smiled and said, "Chen Dan has been thinking about this these days, and you will also help pay attention. I encouraged her to take over the reception station in Meixi Town, and I increased the contract fee to 240,000 yuan at once. I was mainly afraid that no one would take over the reception station. However, if she did a loss, she would hate me for the rest of her life..."
"Didn't you just expect others to hate you for the rest of your life?" Xiao Mingxia smiled.
Although Chen Dan is younger than Xiao Mingxia, she has experienced so many things and is much more mature than Xiao Mingxia. Unlike Xiao Mingxia, she has grown up in a relatively wealthy family since she was a child. After graduating from kindergarten, she was assigned to work in an affiliated kindergarten of the city’s steel mill, and she was able to talk about marriage with an excellent man like Zhao Dong...
Just when Xiao Mingxia joked about her and Chen Huai, Chen Dan was still a little embarrassed to speak up.
"Mingxia, Mingxia, you damn girl, you said it was a class reunion, why did you come here?"
Listening to someone calling her name, Xiao Mingxia turned around and saw her parents coming from the front hall. She realized that the lies were exposed. She froze on her face and continued to lie, "I'm having dinner with Zhao Dong and his classmates. Parents, why are you here to have dinner in Nanyuan?"
Seeing that the two people who were walking over were Xiao Mingxia's parents and Zhao Dong's future parents-in-law, Chen Huai did not dare to neglect, so he hurriedly stood up and greeted Chen Dan.
Xiao Mingxia's parents are both cadres of the Tangzha District Construction Bureau. Although they opposed their daughter's marriage to Zhao Dong, their daughter was there with Zhao Dong anyway, so it was not easy to say anything to outsiders.
Xiao Jian just nodded coldly: "So it's Zhao Dong's classmate. You damn girl. To be honest, we can beat you to death!"
Xiao Jian glanced at Chen Huai, looking at his dark work clothes. The young man looked very energetic, and the girls around him were also lit up. But no matter what, he was just a worker, and he was very annoyed and thought: Why did Zhao Dong become less and less prosperous as he lives, and how could he just get along with the workers below?
Xiao Mingjian didn't mean to shake hands with Chen Huai. He had seen the work clothes he was wearing, and he didn't even look at his face. He glanced over and looked at him, and he also said to Zhao Dong directly: "The leaders of the district are treating guests to dinner. It's on the second floor. Someone saw it like you. When we came out, we found that you were really secretly coming to Nanyuan for dinner. There were leaders of the construction bureau in the district on the second floor. You and Mingxia went up to greet everyone..."
Xiao Jian was dissatisfied with Zhao Dong, the prospective son-in-law, but his daughter had already tricked him into bed. His daughter even put the condom in her handbag openly, so he could only pinch his nose and recognize him.
Chen Huai stretched out his hand for a long time, and when he saw Xiao Jiandu turn around, he could only smile awkwardly and withdraw his hand.
Seeing that his father was so snobbish, Xiao Mingxia felt very dissatisfied and very sad, and said, "Dad..." Zhao Dong also looked embarrassed. Mingxia's father had already put on the snobbish face and said, "Uncle, aunt, this is our factory..."
"I know, it's nothing to have a meal with my colleague, and there's no need to say it's a classmate or something." Xiao Jian beat him up, and he didn't want to look at Chen Huai from the bottom of his heart.
Chen Huai smiled. He didn't want to call Zhao Dong. Xiao Mingxia was embarrassed. She patted Zhao Dong's shoulder and said, "You go to the toast bar. Chen Dan and I continue chatting in the hall. We have to wait for this dish to come..."
Seeing Mingxia and her parents leaving, Zhao Dong and Xiao Mingxia were very embarrassed. Chen Huai waved his hand and said with a smile: "Mingxia's parents are willing to introduce you to the leaders in the district. It means that they should accept you as a fancy son-in-law. Go up, why are you hesitating?"
After rushing Zhao Dong and Xiao Mingxia upstairs, Chen Huai asked Chen Dan: "Did the smile on my face froze?"
Chen Dan smiled happily and said, "I told you to change your clothes, but Zhao Dong and Mingxia were caught in the middle and couldn't be a human being." He couldn't help pinching his face and said, "Fortunately, his smile was not completely disfigured..." After that, he couldn't help laughing.
Although Chen Dan could feel more secure when he was full of power in Shen Huai, he felt more close to him when he saw that he was willing to aggrieved him for others, and he couldn't help but show his childlike appearance in front of him, as if he was intimate couple.
Chapter completed!