In name only: In the name of Zhao Mengsheng's son!

"know?"

Sha Ruijin asked a question, but quickly realized something. Liang Lu was a teacher at Handong University, and Liang Lu and Gao Yuliang's wife, Wu Huifen, were good friends. Gao Yuliang was also handpicked by Liang Lu's father to become an administrative staff member. It's a good thing Liang Qunfeng is gone, otherwise Sha Ruijin would have thought that you, Li Dakang, had joined the Handong University faction!

"Yes, Professor Liang Lu is a teacher at Han University; I've met her a few times!"

Zhao Zhongxin smiled! Tian Guofu, sitting next to Sha Ruijin, also came over and said with a smile!

"It's said that this teacher Liang Lu was not very virtuous when she was young, and had a..."

Tian Guofu is still as annoying as ever. He started a three-person meeting right here and even brought up Liang Lu's past. No wonder he's the number one villain in Handong, a hypocrite! It's always "it is said." Besides "it is said," do you have anything else to say?

Sha Ruijin was somewhat surprised when he heard Tian Guofu say these things. No wonder Liang Lu and Hou Liangping had been married for so many years but had no children.

Zhao Zhongxin didn't want to talk to the two of them anymore, mainly because he didn't want to talk to Tian Guofu, who was disgusting!

Zhao Zhongxin got up and went to the restroom. Liu Kun, who was sitting behind him, also got up immediately. Was his boss going to the restroom? No, he was going to smoke. His boss certainly didn't carry cigarettes in his pocket. As a secretary, you have to be observant and attentive to everything!

"Boss, have a smoke!"

"Um!"

Zhao Zhongxin nodded, and then Zhao Donglai also came over with a grin to ask for a cigarette. His motto for being an official was to get acquainted with the leaders!

Zhao Zhong was always generous and very polite to his younger brother, Liu Kun, who also handed Zhao Donglai a cigarette! Then the three of them started puffing away!

"The governor's cigarettes are still the best!"

Zhao Donglai took a puff and looked at the cigarette he had never seen before. He couldn't help but feel that the taste and aroma were top-notch!

"Hehe, you have good taste! These cigarettes of mine, um, were a gift from my dad!"

Zhao Zhongxin paused for a moment, then said it was given to him by his father! He almost told the truth!

"Hey, your father's cigarettes, I'll get some for you too, hehe!"

Zhao Donglai said with a smile!

After finishing their cigarettes, the group returned to their seats and the food was served. Only Sha Ruijin and Zhao Zhongxin were eating and drinking. The others were waiting for Li Dakang to offer them a toast.

Everyone else is a colleague, and only two are superiors, so we can eat and drink normally!

"Secretary Sha!"

"Governor Zhao!"

"Secretary Tian!"

Li Dakang was toasting according to their ranking! His main goal was to avoid offending anyone!

Then it was the other tables, and the people at those other tables—it wasn't Li Dakang toasting them, it was clearly them toasting Li Dakang! That's the taste of power! Countless people are fascinated by it!

"Congratulations, Executive Director!"

Congratulations!

But no one said anything about having a son soon. Liang Lu is already so old, she must have gone through menopause by now. Besides, these are basically local officials from Handong, and everyone knows that Liang Lu can't have children!

If someone says that out loud, they're basically here to cause trouble! They don't want to work here anymore!

Li Dakang, on the other hand, enjoyed displaying his power in front of lower-ranking officials! After finishing the toasts, he returned to the large table!

"Thank you all for coming to my wedding. I'll drink this, you can do as you please!"

Naturally, no one would refuse. Zhao Zhongxin took the lead and drank, followed by Sha Ruijin, and the other provincial party committee members also drank one by one!

The next day, Zhao Zhongxin took several people to the Jingzhou Municipal Government for an inspection. Qi Tongwei had been recommending Sun Liancheng to him, asking him to come to the municipal government as the executive vice mayor and his deputy!

He had Liu Kun bring over Sun Liancheng's file, and nodded in approval. Sun Liancheng had no official position yet, and had been doing a good job lately. He was an honest and reliable person, and the Guangming Peak project had been very successful, from which he had reaped the benefits! He was already at the level of a full-fledged department head, so a lateral transfer to the executive level was perfectly feasible!

But we still need to investigate!

Li Dakang was quite happy. Although Zhao Zhongxin only went for one day, he could be in charge of the provincial government for another day! Even though a democratic life meeting couldn't be held, it was still great!

"I heard you two are now the top marksmen in the Handong cadre team!"

Zhao Zhongxin walked in the small garden of the municipal government and said to Qi Tongwei with a smile!

"Haha, don't worry, Governor, we're all paid to provide the services; we would never engage in such petty embezzlement or corruption with the organization!"

Qi Tongwei also laughed! Sun Liancheng then said!

"Yeah, at first we only spent 500 yuan a month on bullets, but later, we spent a third of our monthly salary on shooting!"

Sun Liancheng thoroughly enjoyed the rat-a-tat-tat sound, especially the machine gun—it was incredibly satisfying! But hitting the target wasn't so great. Sun Liancheng's idol now wasn't the astronomer Albert Einstein, but the legendary machine gun master of Normandy during World War II, Heinz Severo, practically a god-like man! The Omaha Monster!

This guy could change the barrel while firing, and he did it more than ten times! Astronomy? Sorry, Sun Liancheng said he wasn't familiar with him anymore!

Machine guns are a man's romance!

"Heh, you two, hahaha, Tongwei, you've really corrupted Secretary Sun!"

Zhao Zhongxin laughed when he heard this; the two were birds of a feather.

"Sigh, Governor, Mayor Qi helped me find joy in life, how is that corrupting me! Why don't you come with us and play a few rounds? You'll definitely love this feeling!"

Sun Liancheng invited him; he wasn't trying to curry favor. He just wanted Zhao Zhongxin to experience his happiness!

Zhao Zhongxin extended his hand and said with a smile!

"Look at my hands! I've been shooting guns every day since I was six. I never want to touch a gun again in my life, I'm sick of it!"

This isn't Zhao Zhongxin bragging. From a young age, his grandfather took him to the shooting range. At first, he liked it, thinking it was a man's romance. But after shooting so much, and it became a daily routine, after each mission, he genuinely felt nauseous. Just seeing a gun made him sick. Back then, it wasn't just shooting; there was also tactical training. New guns would be worn out in just six months. He'd worn out over a dozen guns since he was a child! It's truly a case of "one man's meat is another man's poison!"

Compared to marksmanship, Zhao Zhongxin preferred boxing; the kind of visceral, bone-crunching combat was what truly captivated him! Zhao Zhongxin couldn't help but recall his days of free fighting at the municipal party committee!

When Qi Tongwei, Sun Liancheng, and Xiao Lin, the head of the Political Security Department, saw the calluses on Zhao Zhongxin's hands, they couldn't help but think that he was definitely a good gunman.

Yes, besides his secretary, Qi Tongwei only brought Xiao Lin, the head of the Political Security Department. He really liked this young man, just like himself back then! His eyes shone with light! This time, he wanted to host a grand banquet for his former self! He wanted to introduce Xiao Lin to Zhao Zhongxin!

Most men have a tendency to like teaching, especially when they meet a young person who is similar to themselves in age!

(Chapter 2 today, Chapter 3 should be posted this afternoon. Please urge me to update, it's really important to me!)