To be honest, some people may think that Li Lin is showing off, but Li Lin really doesn’t take his “candidate” status seriously at all. In his opinion, it is dispensable.
He was sitting in the hotel office, busy for a while, then he took the time to stand up and pace around the room to stretch his muscles, and then sat down again to organize the documents.
At four o'clock in the afternoon, Secretary Liu Yong called and said, "Xiao Lin, are you in the office? County Magistrate Ma and I are downstairs at the city hotel..."
Are you coming to visit him?
I remember that the last time Liu Yong and his team came, it was to congratulate Li Lin on his promotion to deputy director. Those were eventful days, and in the evening, the group of people just had a casual meal without drinking a single sip of wine. They left in a rather unpleasant mood, as if Li Lin was very inhospitable.
This time, Liu Yong and his friends must have heard that Li Lin was nominated as one of the top ten outstanding young people in the province, so they came to "drink for free" again.
Li Lin smiled and said, "I'll go down to pick you up."
After saying that, he stood up and called Zhang Mingchen and Xiao Qi from the office to go downstairs to greet his two immediate superiors.
As soon as they met, Liu Yong and Ma Qingyuan excitedly came up to shake Li Lin's hand, and said with a hearty smile, "Xiao Lin, you really made our Shannan County Mayor proud. You were actually selected as one of the top ten outstanding young people in the provincial government... This is really a great honor!"
Ma Qingyuan also smiled and congratulated, "Yes, Xiaolin, you have just been promoted to deputy director, and you have become an "outstanding youth". You are so lucky that we old guys envy you. You don't know that now the cadres in our county will exclaim in praise when they mention your name! Take some time to come back to the county to have a look, your old friends miss you!"
Li Lin smiled and said to them, "Secretary Liu, County Magistrate Ma, I have to thank you two leaders for your good training. If you hadn't given me a good development platform, I wouldn't have been able to catch up with such good fortune. However, I am still only a "candidate" now, and I am afraid that the final result will disappoint the two leaders."
Liu and Ma looked at each other, laughed heartily and said, "We are here to visit you as a candidate today. In our eyes, it is a great thing that you can become an outstanding youth candidate, not to mention that you are a provincial-level candidate, which is very valuable! This shows how outstanding you are among the young cadres in Pingyang. You should not belittle yourself and be low-key and modest, hahaha..."
As they were talking, a beautiful figure walked towards them from behind Liu Yong and Ma Qingyuan.
Li Lin looked up and saw that it was none other than Yang Ping whom he hadn't seen for a long time.
Since Li Lin was transferred to the city, Yang Ping has contacted him several times. The content is nothing more than asking him if he is free tonight and if he can have a "long talk" with her...
At first it was because he was busy, and later because he had established a relationship with Xu Wen, Li Lin rejected her many times.
As a result, Yang Ping naturally hated him, and she cursed Li Lin countless times in her heart: "You will be ruthless in the future."
Looking at Yang Ping's resentful expression, Li Lin smiled awkwardly.
Finally, he waved at her, smiled and said, "Village Chief Yang, are you here to congratulate me too? Why do you look unhappy at all?"
Hearing this, Liu Yong and Ma Qingyuan turned around curiously to look at Yang Ping.
Yang Ping was stunned for a moment, then quickly put on a stiff smile and said, "No, I just feel a little carsick..."
After saying that, Yang Ping secretly rolled her eyes at Li Lin...
Li Lin thought that she was not carsick, but wanted to drive...
When they got upstairs, Liu Yong asked the driver to bring two boxes of wine to Li Lin's lounge and said, "Xiao Lin, you don't smoke either. County Magistrate Ma and I discussed that there will be a lot of people coming to visit you in the next two days, so we prepared two boxes of wine for you to entertain your friends. It's also a little gift from both of us."
Li Lin saw this and thought, could it be that he didn't treat them to drinks last time, so this time he brought his own wine to hint to Li Lin that he wanted to drink tonight?
Li Lin smiled and said, "Secretary Liu, you are too polite. Although my salary is not high, I can still afford to treat the two leaders to a drink. Let's have a good drink tonight to make up for the regret of not having wine last time."
This sentence touched Liu Yong's heart, and he joked, "You, do you remember the last time you invited us to dinner? When you came here, I was still whispering to County Magistrate Ma, saying that Xiaolin couldn't let go in the city, or it was inconvenient to entertain friends. Why didn't you even serve wine when friends came? So we changed our strategy temporarily and sent you two boxes of wine, so that you don't have to find excuses not to arrange wine for us tonight, hahaha..."
Hearing this, Li Lin apologized repeatedly, saying that something unexpected had happened with the reorganization during those days and he was really afraid that drinking would interfere with his work, so he asked the two leaders to forgive him.
Liu Yong also waved his hand at him generously and said, "We all heard about that incident later. We were really worried about you. You did a good job in turning the tide!"
Just as they were chatting enthusiastically, Qian Lingyun called.
When Liu Yong and Ma Qingyuan heard that the call was from Mayor Qian, they immediately fell silent and watched Li Lin talking to Mayor Qian.
I couldn't hear what Qian Lingyun was saying, I only heard Li Lin smiling into the phone and saying, "Mayor Qian, Secretary Liu, and County Magistrate Ma are here to see me. Can you please come and have a quick meal with me tonight?"
"There is wine. Secretary Liu and his team brought it specially...Okay, let's meet at the Dongsheng Hotel...see you later."
Hang up the phone.
Liu Yong and Ma Qingyuan stared at Li Lin in surprise.
Until Li Lin said, "Mayor Qian heard that you two were here and took the initiative to propose to have dinner together. The restaurant is set at Dongsheng. We will go there later."
After coming back to their senses, Liu Yong and Ma Qingyuan immediately showed surprise on their faces and said with a smile, "Xiao Lin, you are so generous. Although we often report the work of the county to Mayor Qian, it is rare for us to invite Mayor Qian to have a meal together. We are really helping you today."
Li Lin smiled politely and said, "No, Mayor Qian is of course doing this for the sake of the two of you leaders."
Liu Yong and Ma Qingyuan naturally understood this. It was not like they had not taken the initiative to invite Mayor Qian to dinner before, but they had never succeeded. This time, Li Lin got it done with just one phone call. Isn't it clear whose face it was?
The two smiled at each other, with a hint of bitterness in their hearts...
Then, Liu Yong asked with concern, "Xiao Lin, when will the official provincial selection begin?"
Li Lin said, "It will start the day after tomorrow. I heard the standard is quite high. Secretary Wang and Governor Zhao will be there."
Liu Yong nodded and said with a smile, "Okay, then I wish you a successful election!"
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