"Mayor Qi."
"I am Lin Sen, the manager of the brewery. It is my good fortune to meet you today."
"Under your leadership, our Dongshan Town has become increasingly prosperous."
"The people of Dongshan Town are very grateful for your kindness."
Lin Sen looked at Mayor Qi, who was sitting behind his desk with a fawning smile, his belly protruding and his face glistening with oil from eating.
Although the economy of Dongshan Town has actually been declining in recent years.
Several state-owned factories either went bankrupt or couldn't pay wages. As for private factories, the wages were too low and the work was too hard.
But, verbally.
Lin Sen still wanted to praise Mayor Qi.
There's nothing we can do; he's the town mayor, after all!
Furthermore, although Dongshan Town's economy has been very poor in recent years, especially when the whole country was calling for investment promotion and economic development, Dongshan Town's economy has regressed instead of progressed.
However, Mayor Qi has remained steadfast and has been serving as mayor of Dongshan Town for five years!
Five years!
That's quite a long time; it's already been two sessions!
So at this moment, how could Lin Sen dare to offend Mayor Qi?
It's rumored that this Mayor Qi has powerful connections at higher levels. After his current term ends, he's slated to be transferred to the county level and promoted to a key leadership position!
Therefore, Lin Sen naturally had to do everything he could to build a good relationship with Mayor Qi.
After all, with the economy of Dongshan Town getting worse and worse, Mayor Qi can still hold his position as mayor as firmly as Mount Tai, and even get promoted.
This proves that the rumors are true!
After all, if the rumors were false, Mayor Qi would have been dismissed long ago!
After all, there are countless people eyeing the town mayor's seat!
Without sufficient connections, given the development of Dongshan Town in recent years, Mayor Qi would probably have been demoted to a pig farm by now and tragically raised pigs!
"Quite young."
Under Lin Sen's ingratiating gaze, Mayor Qi glanced at Lin Sen with disdain and still showed no intention of reviewing or signing the document.
"Mayor Qi, this is some tea that I brought for you."
"You have worked hard for the people of the town and devoted yourself to the development of Dongshan Town."
"So you should drink more tea regularly to cool down your body."
"Please try it."
As he spoke, Lin Sen respectfully handed the bag of tea to Mayor Qi.
"Um?"
Mayor Qi glanced at it and sneered disdainfully.
The bag contained two tin cans of Longjing tea.
This made Mayor Qi utterly disdainful.
Does he need tea?
Are you kidding me!
You think you can bribe him with just two jars of worthless Longjing tea?
Lin Sen is really dreaming.
That's such a pipe dream!
"Take it back."
Therefore, Mayor Qi put on a stern face and glared at Lin Sen: "We have a rule that we will not accept any gifts."
"To put it bluntly, this would be considered bribery."
"If you continue like this, I, the town mayor, will call the police station."
Mayor Qi glared coldly at Lin Sen: "Arrest you and punish you!"
"Mayor Qi, you've misunderstood."
"Komori was just expressing his respect, not offering any bribe."
Upon hearing Mayor Qi's words, Jiang Yannian was immediately startled. He hurriedly explained, "Mayor Qi, if you don't want to accept it, we'll take it away right now."
"You're busy, you're busy."
As he spoke, Jiang Yannian hurriedly pushed Lin Sen, intending to grab the tea leaves and run away.
"Uncle Yannian".
"I suddenly have a headache. Could you go out for a moment and buy me two painkillers?"
But Lin Sen didn't follow Jiang Yannian; instead, he looked at Jiang Yannian with a wry smile.
He now understood why Jiang Yannian's cannery failed to survive.
Because although Jiang Yannian is reliable, trustworthy, and loyal, he has low emotional intelligence. In layman's terms, he's 'too immature'.
They have absolutely no understanding of social etiquette or human relationships.
Therefore, at this moment, Lin Sen had no choice but to send him away first.
"ah?"
Jiang Yannian looked at Lin Sen with great suspicion.
"Uncle Yannian, listen to me."
"Go out and buy me two painkillers."
Lin Sen looked at Jiang Yannian again: "I really have a headache."
"this."
"All right……"
Although he didn't know why Lin Sen suddenly had a headache, under Lin Sen's intense gaze, Jiang Yannian had no choice but to follow Lin Sen's instructions and walk out of Mayor Qi's office.
"Mayor Qi."
"Please look carefully."
After Jiang Yannian left, Lin Sen smiled and pushed the tea that Mayor Qi had offered back to Mayor Qi.
"Um?"
Mayor Qi glanced at Lin Sen suspiciously, then looked at the tea leaves.
"Huh."
You wouldn't believe it until you see it; Mayor Qi was quite amused.
He was indeed negligent in his observation just now.
Because this tin box containing tea had obviously been opened before!
"Cough cough."
So, after coughing a few times, Mayor Qi opened the lid of the tin box and glanced inside.
The contents of this tin box are not tea leaves at all.
Instead, it was a dense, thick stack of Great Unity banknotes!
Judging by its thickness, it must cost at least 500 yuan!
Two metal boxes, that's a whole thousand yuan!
One thousand yuan is indeed not much to people two decades later.
But in 1984, this was no small amount.
In 1984, a worker's wage was only 35 yuan, meaning they could only earn 500 yuan a year. It would take two years to earn 1000 yuan!
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