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"Yeah." Chen Xueru turned slowly, wiped the swelling around her eyes, and said with a sob, "My mother taught me how to deal with matters between men and women before she died. She once told me that to conquer a man's heart, you must first grab his feet."

"So your refusal to let me wash my feet is a sign that you are dissatisfied with me."

This argument sounded ridiculous. Li Aiguo felt as if his head was wrapped by an unknown force. He couldn't bear to let her continue crying, so he nodded and said, "Then, I'll do it. But this is just a gesture of gratitude."

Hearing this, a relieved smile appeared in the corners of Chen Xueru's eyes. Then, she rolled up her sleeves, gently placed her fair and slender hands into the small basin, and began to knead gently.

Well, traditional customs also have their beautiful side.

Li Aiguo enjoyed this wonderful time and closed his eyes slightly, "When will we hold the wedding?"

Hearing this, Chen Xueru gently kneaded her big feet and replied, "The cloth shop is currently in the process of nationalization, so I have to help you. I'm afraid it's not suitable this month. Will it be more feasible next month?"

Generally speaking, if the blind date is successful, both parties only need to report to their work unit in advance and they can immediately walk into the wedding hall.

But now, the marriage has been put on hold due to some things happening in the Chen family.

Hearing her reply, Li Aiguo just laughed: "It's okay. This weekend, I want to go to your place to see what your family environment is like. How about that?"

“That’s as it should be.”

According to the custom, the man should first visit the woman's house, and the woman should then visit the man's house. This is a way of etiquette passed down from ancient times. As the saying goes, "Newlyweds are inseparable" and "Marrying well is like judging the nature of cattle and horses, and choosing a wife depends on the person."

How should we look at it?

Until you visit the other person's home.

After helping Li Aiguo clean his feet, Chen Xueru prepared to say goodbye and go home.

"Brother Aiguo, the tailor shop is calculating prices these days and needs me to monitor it from the side. I may not come here often."

"Let's focus on the business."

Li Aiguo also plans to complete the preparation of the drawings for his homemade dump truck before the wedding.

After Chen Xueru left, he sat back at his desk, picked up his pen and wrote, thinking about the design details.

The opposite side.

The modern Chenji Clothing Store became the first clothing store in Damen Street to achieve public-private integration.

The street administration team gathered people to promote the merger through various means such as beating drums and posting posters, which created an unprecedented enthusiasm and active atmosphere in the street.

While it was very busy outside, the troubles at the street administrator, Director Zhang, were more serious. He was troubled by the difficulty of selecting public managers.

This position is crucial for the public-private merger. If the management effect is not good, it may affect the process of similar mergers in the future. Therefore, it is necessary to select a cadre with high ideological level and in-depth understanding of the business of Chenji Clothing Store.

When Director Zhang was considering candidates, he found that no suitable candidate appeared. At this time, there was a sudden knock on the door.

I looked up immediately and saw a handsome young man with deep eyes and side-combed hair standing outside the door, looking at me with a friendly smile.

"Secretary Fan, come in quickly!"

The person who came in was Fan Jinyou, one of the current temporary members of the street office. He was exactly 21 years old this year and was a very talented young generation in the street office. In the past, he was the one who coordinated the affairs regarding the merger of Chenji Clothing Store.

Fan Jinyou is a smart person. After entering the house, he took out a pack of Zhonghua cigarettes and handed it to Director Zhang.

After receiving it, Director Zhang asked, "Secretary Fan, the streets are so lively today, why don't you go and enjoy it?"

"I'm not interested in these lively scenes. Besides, I need to finish the matter of Chen Ji's clothing store, and I have a lot of other work to do."

Fan Jinyou knew very well that Director Zhang preferred officials who were low-key but had outstanding practical abilities, so he came back to join the work during his busy breaks.

After observing Fan Jin for a while, Director Zhang's eyes brightened.

In front of this suitable candidate, I actually forgot his existence!

In fact, Fan Jinyou was the key figure in promoting the successful merger of Chenji Clothing Store, and it was most appropriate to appoint him as the public manager. After a few words of conversation, Fan Jinyou's intention was made clear:

Director Zhang asked directly: "Mr. Fan Jinyou, are you interested in becoming the public manager of Chenji Clothing Store?"

This proposal just suited Fan Jinyou's mind. As a temporary cadre still on probation, he had to show actual achievements and results in order to obtain a formal status.

However, Fan Jinyou also understood very well that work in the subdistrict office was mostly based on seniority, and if he continued to stay here, it would be almost impossible for him to have an outstanding performance.

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"Director Zhang, please rest assured that after I become the person in charge of the public side, I will definitely work hard and will never let you down."

Director Zhang admonished Fan Jinyou again, then suddenly thought of something else and added with a smile: "By the way, I heard that you haven't found a place to live yet. Now, I'll take this opportunity to arrange a place for you, located in Nantongluo Lane near the tailor shop."

"Oh! Director Zhang, I can't express your kindness in words. You really gave me a second life." When Fan Jin heard about the housing benefits, his face was immediately filled with excitement.

Although Fan Jinyou's family owns a house in Beijing, in today's social context, "disdaining the poor and loving the rich" is a norm; Director Zhang's care is undoubtedly a preferential treatment for him.

Then, Fan Jinyou presented him with several boxes of high-end cigarettes. Then, Director Zhang summoned the deputy director of the street office to handle the handover procedures for the tailor shop that Fan Jinyou needed. Then, he contacted the director in charge of Nantongluo Lane affairs and planned to further resolve the housing allocation issue.

Behind this housing resource mobilization, there is more than just a simple housing adjustment. The core of the negotiation was actually in Nantongluo Lane, where a staff member of the local office had a confrontation with him. The matter originated from the fact that during the preparations for a wedding, a person used the other party's house without the other party's consent. Now, taking this opportunity, both parties intend to take this opportunity to make up for the previous behavior.

Considering that the housing issues were already known, the director of Nantongluo Lane consulted with the elders of several large courtyards in the community in advance to avoid causing more conflicts or disputes. During these discussions, one of them, "Uncle Yi", responded extremely enthusiastically and positively - Uncle Yi Zhonghai.

After learning the news, Director Wang of Nantongluo Lane took quick action and assigned staff to summon Uncle Yi to the office to handle relevant matters. Yi Zhonghai quickly rushed to the office and first asked Director Wang:

"Director Wang, this is the message I received while promoting fire prevention knowledge to residents. Is there anything I can report to you?"

"It is the temporary residence for an office staff member that we decided to arrange during our last discussion. Now it seems that our large apartment complex should be the first choice." Director Wang took out the documents and flipped through them. "From all aspects, the conditions there are good."

Later, Yi Zhonghai confirmed that although there were indeed famous houses in the large courtyard, the old buildings might have lost the possibility of actual living, and said that further inspection was needed to confirm: "Excuse me, is this the accommodation application of Mr. Fan that we discussed before?"

"Oh, right. It's that colleague named Fan. What's the connection?" Director Wang frowned slightly.

"It doesn't matter. Please leave it to me, and I promise to complete the task." Yi Zhonghai nodded firmly.

During this period of time, Yi Zhonghai has fully mastered Fan Jinyou's personal information and has a thorough understanding of him. Compared with Jia Dongxu, although he also has a background of only having an old lady at home, his mother is old and frail, and in poor health. At the same time, the old lady's stubborn behavior has repeatedly interfered with Fan Jinyou's personal affairs, resulting in a bad relationship between mother and son, which has become a major obstacle they face together. Yi Zhonghai narrowed his eyes, full of expectations for this plan, because by unexpectedly introducing Fan Jinyou into this large courtyard, it can not only bring challenging pressure to Li Aiguo, but also become a candidate for him to retire in his later years - all these seemingly simple but complex layouts and calculations behind them show the cleverness and wisdom of Yi Zhonghai and his planners.

This moment is indeed just in time.

Neither the matter about Fan Jin's cunning nature nor his indifferent attitude towards Yi Zhonghai had changed.

For those guys who can't escape from his five fingers, Fan Jin can't compare with Xu Damao. What's more, what about a mere Fan Jin?

It was just the right time to put the two unused, dilapidated rooms in Li Aiguo's house next door to Fan Jin's living.

Living next to Li Aiguo, given Fan Jin's straightforward style, the two were bound to have some friction and disputes.

I am a wise man! Now, everything is unfolding according to my expectations and plans.

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Yi Zhonghai has a serious tendency to be a mastermind. He always tries to make arrangements in advance for plots that are closely related to the development of the story, such as winning over Jia Dongxu in advance to provide for his retirement, and later taking step-by-step control measures against Sha Zhu.

Although Jia Dongxu later passed away, in order to maintain his control over Sha Zhu, he even ignored other people's opinions and continued to let Sha Zhu and Qin Huairu have a relationship, so as to bring them under his control and thereby influence the entire community, until in the end Sha Zhu was even unable to be separated from his family - Qin Huairu and her family.

In the later part when facing the real difficulties, facing the situation that his son Shazhu was adopted, he also tried his best to maintain this status quo - not allowing them to divorce, for fear that something unexpected would happen again, because he never wanted to see the possibility of their escape.

Now, in the environment of "Liyuanli", facing the new situation and changes, he naturally sought to make another layout and found a backup option.