"Secretary Li, you're putting me in a difficult position. How would I know? I work in the Municipal Government Office, but I'm not the director. Even our director probably doesn't know where the leaders will go next. Anyway, just be prepared, just in case." Brother Liu's voice sounded tired on the phone.
"Haha, Brother Liu is right. I just saw on the news that Deputy Secretary Liang led a team to conduct research in Xichuan City. Brother Liu, which leaders came down in this research team?" Li Xiuyuan asked casually.
"The delegation was led by Deputy Secretary Liang, accompanied by the Executive Deputy Minister of the Provincial Party Committee's Organization Department, and the Deputy Secretary-General of the Provincial Party Committee and Director of the General Office of the Provincial Party Committee. These were the three main leaders, and they also brought along some other people from other key departments."
Li Xiuyuan was somewhat disappointed. He knew the names of the other two main people, but not their surnames. The other party summarized the rest with a vague "odds and ends." These "odds and ends" might all be at the level of division chief or deputy division chief.
However, Li Xiuyuan was still more inclined to believe that if the people who came to the school to see Su Ziying today were the same people who accompanied Vice Secretary Liang's research and inspection team, then they were very likely the two department-level leaders, the executive deputy minister of the Organization Department or the director of the General Office.
Other division-level cadres, accompanying their leaders on research trips, would they dare to run off to handle personal matters?
After exchanging a few more pleasantries with the other party, Li Xiuyuan hung up the phone. There were no computers in this town. If there were, he could go to the provincial party committee's official website and search for news; he might find some clues.
Otherwise, it would be a coincidence; the other person just happened to come from the provincial capital. But that doesn't make sense. If they left the provincial capital in the morning, they couldn't possibly arrive at the central town by eight o'clock. Unless they arrived yesterday and stayed in the county…
Li Xiuyuan was inclined to believe that the other party had come with the research team led by Liang, the deputy secretary of the provincial party committee; at the very least, this possibility was very high.
Li Xiuyuan didn't think about it any further. The next morning, Li Xiuyuan went to the town's middle school for a run as usual, but he didn't see Su Ziying by the time he finished running. This was the second day in a row.
Yesterday, Su Ziying was probably waiting for her parents to come over, but what about today? Perhaps Su Ziying didn't come back yesterday at all, and went to be with her parents or relatives. In terms of relatives or parents, Li Xiuyuan is more inclined to guess that it is Su Ziying's parents.
After all, if they were just ordinary relatives, it would be understandable for Su Ziying to hug that woman, but hugging a man would be somewhat inappropriate.
The morning air was very fresh, and Li Xiuyuan's mind was also working quickly. Assuming that Su Ziying's parents arrived in the county the day before yesterday and came to the central town early yesterday morning, then Su Ziying should have gone back to the county to be with her parents the night before last, which was Friday night.
Even if her parents arrived late, Su Ziying would book a room in advance and wait for them.
Instead of in the central town.
This incident strongly suggests that Su Ziying's parents and the research team have no connection and simply happened to be visiting Su Ziying. There are many inconsistencies in the explanation, so it's not impossible, but rather unlikely.
The most likely candidate now is Su Ziying's father, who is one of the two officials at the provincial-level (equivalent to a department head). He is a deputy minister in the provincial Party Committee's Organization Department, possibly at the provincial level or deputy provincial level. However, the executive deputy minister is usually a higher-ranking official at the provincial level. Of course, this is not absolute, but it is highly probable.
Another leader who is also the deputy secretary-general of the provincial party committee and concurrently the director of the general office of the provincial party committee must be a full-fledged department-level official.
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