After seeing Beijing, the prosperity of the provincial capital seems so-so in Ningxia.
She suddenly thought of the anxious-looking girl in the car just now, who was very proud that she was from the provincial capital. It turned out that regional advantages existed no matter where you were.
People standing on a high place will never look down on those who are lower. Those who are lower may work hard all their lives but never reach their height.
When they arrived at the Provincial Capital Transportation Department, it was already closed. The gatekeeper recognized Ren Jingxiao and hurried over to greet him.
"Comrade from Heilongjiang, why are you here?" The old man didn't know his name, he only knew that he was from Heilongjiang and knew the minister.
"Has everyone in the Ministry of Transport been off work? I'm looking for Minister Shen." When Ren Jingxiao heard him call him comrade from Heilongjiang, he thought of what happened last time he came. It seemed that the news had spread throughout the Ministry of Transport.
"Everyone else is on holiday, but the minister comes here every day to handle things, but he's off work now."
The old man was very polite this time, without any of the arrogance that Ren Jingxiao had when he came last time.
"Then may I ask, sir, where is the Ministry of Transport's family compound?" Ren Jingxiao asked in front, and Ningxia looked at the gate of the Ministry of Transport on the side.
She saw a person squatting in the corner of the gate. When he saw Ningxia looking at her, he quickly shrank back.
"If you follow this road all the way to the end and turn, you will see the Ministry of Transport's family compound. Those rows of houses belong to our Ministry of Transport." The old man became proud again as he spoke.
After hearing this, Ren Jingxiao was about to pull Ningxia away, but when he saw her looking to the other side, he also looked over.
"What are you looking at?" Ren Jingxiao didn't see anyone. The man just now shrank back when he saw Ningxia saw him, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
"I just saw a man there, acting suspiciously and I don't know what he was doing." Ningxia didn't know the man, but his first impression was not good. He didn't look like a good person at first glance.
"Let's go, let's go find third uncle first." Ren Jingxiao didn't care about those things. Maybe they were just passing by, so he didn't take it to heart.
Ningxia didn't pay any more attention and walked towards the direction the gatekeeper said with Ren Jingxiao.
When we reached the end and turned a corner, we saw rows of houses, which were much more magnificent than the residential buildings for the staff of the Ministry of Transportation in their county town.
There are rows of three-story buildings in front and single-family houses in the back. Everyone passing by will stop to take a look.
With eyes full of envy, Ren Jingxiao and Ningxia's arrival didn't surprise anyone in the family compound. They were used to seeing people pretending to pass by every now and then.
It was just Ningxia's appearance that made people look at him twice, but no one dared to go too far, because they looked like they were here to look for someone.
"Hello, comrade. Could you please tell me where Minister Shen's home is?" Ren Jingxiao asked with a smile when he saw someone looking over there.
The man didn't want to pay attention to Ren Jingxiao at first, but when he heard that he was asking about the minister's house and saw that they were carrying things in their hands, it was obvious that they were here to visit relatives and friends.
Thinking this way, he became a little more polite. Regardless of whether he was a relative or friend, even if he just came to ask the minister for help, this person must not be an ordinary person, otherwise how could he know the minister?
"The minister's house is at the back. He's the only family in that row. How about I take you there?" the man said as he was about to stand up and lead them together.
"No need to bother, we can find it ourselves, comrade, you are busy!" Ren Jingxiao refused with a smile. He had a bad impression of the people in the provincial capital's transportation department.
Ningxia followed Ren Jingxiao. She felt like someone was following them all the way, and she felt uneasy.
"Big Tiger, do you feel there is someone behind you?" Ningxia grabbed Ren Jingxiao's arm and asked in a low voice.
"It's okay, we'll be at Third Uncle's house soon." Ren Jingxiao didn't expect Xia Xia to be so alert. He patted her shoulder and comforted her.
As soon as they left the Ministry of Transport, he felt someone following him, but he didn't take it seriously at first.
But later he found that the pace of the people behind him was the same as theirs. When they walked faster, the ones behind them also walked faster. When they walked slower, the ones behind them stopped.
Ren Jingxiao didn't turn around. He didn't know what the purpose of the person behind him was. Xia Xia was still beside him and he wouldn't turn around to catch her. If the person came with bad intentions, Xia Xia would be in danger.
When he arrived at the Ministry of Transport’s staff quarters, he found that those people had not come in, but were still wandering around not far away.
Ren Jingxiao thought Xia Xia didn't notice. His hearing was different from that of ordinary people, and his perception of danger was more acute than that of humans.
Unexpectedly, Xia Xia was not bad either. Ren Jingxiao pulled her to the back.
Ren Jingxiao and his wife suddenly appeared at the door of their house. Minister Shen thought he had seen it wrong. When he looked over carefully, he saw the two children smiling at him at the door.
"Jingxiao? Xia girl?" Minister Shen's voice was full of surprise, and he hurriedly stood up and walked over.
"Third uncle, we are here to see you!" Ningxia greeted with a smile.
Minister Shen's words attracted the third aunt who was in the house to come out. She was surprised to see someone.
"Come in and sit down. How did you get here?" Third aunt took Ningxia's hand and felt relieved when she felt the warmth.
"You should come and tell me so that I can send someone to pick you up. You won't come by car, right?" Minister Shen asked with concern as he saw the two people looking exhausted.
"We just wanted to give you a surprise!" Ren Jingxiao and Ningxia always felt indescribably relaxed when facing the Shen family, just like when they were very tired and suddenly had a shoulder to lean on.
"Then it's just right for us to stay here for the New Year. You guys are on holiday too, right?" Minister Shen thought that the Ministry of Transport had holidays early, and the county towns below had less work than them, so they would definitely have holidays earlier than them.
"We won't be celebrating the New Year here during the holidays. We've already prepared everything for the New Year. Didn't I promise Third Uncle last time to come over to our house? I came here during the holidays. I thought it would be inconvenient if Xia Xia's belly got bigger after the New Year, and I still have to go to work so I might not have time to come again. So I hurried to come over before the New Year."
Ren Jingxiao said whatever he wanted to say in front of the Shen family without any intention of lying.
"Well... you must be hungry after all this journey. What do you want to eat? I'll ask your third aunt to make it." Minister Shen's children are all in Beijing and will not come to celebrate the New Year. They will go back after the New Year.
"Are you going home together after the New Year?" Minister Shen thought that his parents and his younger brother missed the two children very much.
His younger brother, in particular, called several times, asking him to go down there and check on him if he was free. He also called the county transportation department to inquire about the situation, fearing that the two children were being wronged here.
"We won't go back. Xia Xia's belly is too big. It will take us a week to go back and forth. It's too much trouble." When Ren Jingxiao heard him say that he wanted to go home, he also missed his father a little. He said he would call him when he got back.
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