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The mayor returned from Beijing before the first lunar month.

On the one hand, it is because I have to go to work, and on the other hand, I feel that the situation has stabilized, and there is no need to hang around in Beijing.

After this year, everyone at work looked happy, but the mayor had a gloomy face. After working all morning, he made a decision to hold a heart-felt meeting for the following units and organizations, and called Wang Guangqi when he was about to leave work at noon. Call and tell him to go to the mayor's house after work.

Wang Guangqi happily visited the house to pay New Year's greetings, and even brought a gift to the mayor, which was a piece of enamel colored porcelain. When he saw the mayor, he told the mayor that it was a fake as usual, just to show it to the mayor for fun. Whether this thing is true or not, both of them know in their hearts.

The mayor didn't speak, went to the bathroom to wash his hands first, and after the nanny left, he took the things Wang Guangqi sent and threw him in the face.

Wang Guangqi didn't care about being smashed, and hurriedly reached out to pick it up, but the hundreds of thousands of objects still fell to the floor with a bang, causing a big crack.

The mayor was furious.

This time, Wang Guangqi really screwed up the matter. Although Yan Xi's little thing won't kill him, it is a big fuse. Fortunately, the higher-ups haven't checked it now. If he really does it, the account can only be credited Wang Guangqi was ineffective.

Wang Guangqi stood in the living room with an eggplant look on his face.

He's in his 40s, and he's being held up like the old man outside. The mayor has said this over and over again, and this fellow has a lot of ideas in his heart. Originally, he wanted to talk to the mayor about Yan Xi's case this time. Seeing that the mayor didn't even mention it, he turned around and left.

The nanny left the TV on when she left, and now it is on the Peking Opera channel, singing "Beat the Drums and Curse Cao".

The mayor was too lazy to clean up the antiques on the ground, and was so angry that he didn't even eat lunch, so he sat on the sofa and reflected on his possible problems for a long time.

After thinking about it, he took the briefcase that he usually carried with him. The mayor is old and has a bad memory, so he took a notepad to record important things. Although it is obscure, this thing will be collected, maybe It's also a thing.

The mayor has been using this book for a very long time. He started using it in the 20s, and it has been more than [-] years now.

The mayor flipped through the contents, and finally stopped at the first page.

It took the mayor a long time to remember what it was about. Looking at the names of the people here, except for Tian Er, the rest are squatting in prison.

The mayor unconsciously took the pen that came with it, and ticked off the character 'Tian', because the vertical character in the middle looked a bit like 'Shen' at first glance.

When he did this, the mayor was already in his early forties, not young, but quite naive.

After holding back for several days to come up with such a solution, the mayor gasped when he recalled it. After all, this method is too crude in the eyes of the mayor. At that time, there was nothing else to do. The trouble is mostly because of my own luck.

At that time, the secretary of the municipal party committee was slapped with double regulations for corruption, and later he was found out to be suspected of murder. The high-ranking officials would definitely bring a team of shrimp soldiers and crab generals. Seeing this opportunity, the mayor asked Xi Zhanqiang and Tian Er to give gifts to Xi Yibei respectively. Real-name reporting, so that the charges will be charged, involving gangsters, corruption, and instigating Zhao Li to fiddle with the search of the secretary's house, classifying Xi Yibei as the secretary's category, so that the above will be wiped out. .

Although Tian Er didn't do anything, things went smoothly.

It's just that the mayor was quite surprised to be sentenced to death. The mayor didn't know what was in it. When the sentence was pronounced later, he really regretted it.

The mayor flipped through it twice, staring at the plastic figure of Liu Xiaoqing on the cover, it was already old and out of shape.

I gave this book to Xi Yibei by myself, because the mayor doesn’t remember what, but I remember that the two of them had a good relationship at that time, and they worked the night shift together every night. The Phoenix brand, which is very difficult to buy, I wear an electronic watch, which the mayor's father got from Shanghai. At that time, these things were so fashionable in this small place.

In fact, no matter in terms of background or education background, the mayor really wanted to make friends with Xia Xiyibei, and felt that the two were very similar.

In fact, their personalities complement each other quite well. Xi Yibei is competitive and the mayor is calm and cautious.

And at the very beginning, Xi Yibei was also very kind to him, eating and chatting together, they were inseparable.

Who knew that after a long time, it was as if he was sick, and he used words to hurt himself all day long. At that time, the mayor was busy preparing for the marriage and didn't have the heart to talk to him, and he himself was ugly and short, and everyone said that to be honest.

When the mayor got married later, the relationship between the two of them became even worse. I don't know which time a quarrel suddenly broke out in the office, and Xi Yibei casually threw this book to the mayor.

The mayor didn't lose it, so he took it back and put it in his office, and used it now.

Although the mayor was small-minded when he was young, he didn't hate him for such a trivial matter. When the two reconciled, it was at Xi Yibei's wedding banquet. At that time, Xi Yibei didn't send an invitation to the mayor. Friends of the year, there is no need to be so stiff, so I went to the wedding with the money.

Xi Yibei was really energetic that day. He was wearing a small suit and his hair was neatly cut. He led the beautiful bride to toast the mayor. He drank a cup of white wine and patted the mayor's hairy head at the end. , The mayor was a little embarrassed.

The mayor thought that the two of them had reconciled just like that, but in the end there were still a lot of troubles. He was the one who helped him chase Miss Ji, and he was the one who told his wife that he almost divorced him. It was only when the relationship was completely broken that they hadn't said a word to each other until Shi Yandu was in junior high school, and now they couldn't say anything even if they wanted to.

On the last page of the notebook, the mayor wrote wishing friendship forever with blue and black pen.

The mayor closed the notebook, went to the kitchen to get the steel basin and the buddy, tore it out, and set it on fire page by page.

It vaguely recorded most of the mayor's life, and the scenery was infinite, but it turned into charred black and floating embers in a blink of an eye.

The mayor received some other documents from his home and burned them. Although there is no movement from above, it is better to plan ahead.The mayor also thought about Shi Jiu for a while.

Seeing that this brat is fine now, the anonymous letter must be nonsense, and Xi Yibei's son has probably been in the detention center for two months, so he needs to find some time to deal with it.

Although it was thanks to him that he got into all these troubles, the mayor is not as angry as before.

I feel that I have been competing with Xi Yibei for so many years, and I still fight against his son when I grow old. I didn't have such a big enmity before, and now I don't have such a big grudge. If it wasn't for the attention of that boy who hit Shi Jiu, the mayor would not be tempted to kill him. .

While thinking about it, the cell phone at the mayor's house suddenly rang.

The sandalwood boards sounded on the TV, the stage was full of flower guns, and a samurai was singing with his hands on his hips, "I intend to sweep away the thieves for my father, but I lack a murderous knife in my hand. One day it will be delivered, and I will draw my sword to kill the sea dragon." '

The mayor took a look at this strange out-of-town number, thought about it and picked it up.

The person on the other end of the phone was hesitant to speak, and told the mayor Lin Kongjie and others that they had been censored, and that a task force had been set up above, and if nothing unexpected happened, they should come to conduct an internal party censorship on the mayor tomorrow.

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When Shi Jiu followed Lao Liu out of the detention center, there were fence marks on his face.

When Lao Liu and Shi Jiu came here at first, they were still very friendly, and the one who handed cigarettes and chatted was called a courteous person. After all, the people in the Administration Bureau are quite good in this city, let alone cadres, but now they come out. Old Liu followed behind Shi Jiu with a sallow complexion, not saying anything for a long time, and looking at Shi Jiu with particularly gloomy eyes.

Shi Jiu wiped the gray marks on his face, turned his head and smiled: "Hey, Lawyer Liu, just now Lawyer Yan suddenly lost his breath when talking about the case, and he was about to have a heart attack... I went up to do artificial labor for him. The breath is gone...it's not that...don't think too much about it."

Old Liu laughed dryly, opened his mouth, but still didn't speak.

Thinking about Lawyer Yan's eyes open, he didn't intend to faint at all, and besides, I have never seen anyone standing face to face doing artificial respiration in my life, is there such a posture...

Moreover, the two of them can chat. I smoked a whole pack of cigarettes outside in the winter, and I was so stupefied that Shi Jiu didn't come to call me. I couldn't stand it, so I thought about going back, but when I opened the door, Good guy, it's really annoying.

Shi Jiu got into his car: "Hey, Liu Er, bring me with you when you come next time."

Old Liu's face was a little stiff, and he smiled at Shi Jiu: "Then what, Minister Shi, you can't always bring someone here, so I have to ask for help..."

Shi Jiu ignored him, opened the door and got into the car.

The car was as cold as an ice cellar, Shi Jiu turned on the air conditioner to the maximum, hunched his arms and savored the taste of the lawyer's lips.

Sigh... so beautiful... It's that old Liu who is annoying, he doesn't say hello when he comes in, and he has to let go as soon as he touches the tip of his lips.

Shi Jiu was about to start the car when the phone rang.

It was Jiao Lin who called Shi Jiu. He didn't know much about the lawyer's case, the court he belonged to, and which detention center he belonged to. He just asked about the situation in general.

Shi Jiu was overwhelmed by this, and was stunned for a long time before he came back to his senses.

Thinking that the Buddha burned incense for a week, he seemed to be dead, why did he suddenly start to appear.

Before Shi Jiu could ask Jiao Lin, he opened his mouth again, telling Shi Jiu not to say anything about it. Forgiveness or something.

Later, the old man didn't say anything else, and Shi Jiu didn't ask, anyway, he told him what he wanted. After all, it's not easy for the old man to be so direct. These days, the leaders can't wait to say a word. Signing a horizontal sign and a vertical sign have two meanings. Naive and straightforward leaders like Jiao Lao are about to die out. I really hope that such a person can live for two more years.

After hanging up the phone, Shi Jiu heaved a sigh of relief.

I feel that I have to go back quickly and tidy up the lawyer's house. He is not here these days, and I have built the house like a pigsty. I don't want the lawyer to turn hoofs with me when I go back and see it.