Liu Yonghua got out of the car and shook hands with Li Lijun, the director of the Party and government office of Huachi Town. He had come back with his wife to sweep the tombs and had called the village chief in advance.
The director of the Party and government office is quite influential in the village, and Li Lijun is very respectful of him, as evidenced by his presence at the village entrance.
"Secretary Li, thank you for your help. Why did you come all the way here to pick me up? It's not like I couldn't find you." Liu Yonghua said politely, his gaze inadvertently sweeping over the few people who were about to get into the car.
He was immediately taken aback; he recognized Li Xiuyuan.
He didn't even bother to exchange pleasantries with Li Lijun, and immediately walked towards Li Xiuyuan, calling out as he went, "Secretary Li."
Li Xiuyuan turned around when he heard the familiar greeting, but he didn't recognize the person at all.
"Secretary Li, I'm Liu Yonghua from the Party and Government Office of Huachi Town. We met when we had a meeting in the county." Liu Yonghua introduced himself while extending his hand to Li Xiuyuan.
Upon hearing this, Li Xiuyuan smiled and shook hands with the other party, saying warmly, "Director Liu, hello, hello."
In fact, Li Xiuyuan did not recognize the other party at all. He called him Secretary Li, which was someone he had seen when he was in the county government office. However, back then he was a secretary, and it was already quite good that he could remember the secretaries and mayors of various townships. As for the director of the Party and Government Office, sorry, he never even came into his sight.
"Secretary Li, what's going on?"
"I came back to sweep the tombs; my hometown is Lijiazhuang."
"Oh my, what a coincidence! My wife is also from Lijiazhuang. We might even know each other." Liu Yonghua said, beckoning his wife over. Sure enough, Li Jianguo did know Liu Yonghua's wife. She was two or three years younger than him, but they were from the same village. Lijiazhuang wasn't that big, so they were naturally familiar with each other.
However, after Li Jianguo went to the city, he didn't come back to the village often, so I didn't remember him. But now, whenever the topic comes up, we talk about it enthusiastically.
Li Lijun, the village party secretary and director standing to the side, was a little confused. He couldn't understand how Director Liu knew Li Jianguo's relatives. Yes, in Li Lijun's eyes, they were relatives.
Just now, Li Jianguo didn't introduce Li Xiuyuan and the others one by one. He didn't even know which of the three Li Jianguo brothers Li Xiuyuan was.
“Secretary Li, let me introduce you. This is Secretary Li, no, now I should call him Mayor Li, the executive deputy mayor of the central town.” Liu Yonghua introduced him, then said with a smile, “Secretary Li, you can’t do this. Don’t you know that there’s a leader like Mayor Li in the village?”
"Mayor Li?" Li Lijun looked at Li Xiuyuan's young face with surprise. Such a young deputy mayor?
"Uncle Lijun, just call me Xiuyuan. Li Jianguo is my father," Li Xiuyuan said with a smile.
Li Lijun was even more surprised. He looked at Li Jianguo and then at Li Xiuyuan, muttering, "They look so alike. I can tell. It's just that you guys don't come back to the village often. I really didn't know you were deputy mayors."
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