Chapter 44

When he first arrived in Nanjing, Xu Zhi actually deliberately avoided the opportunity to meet Fei Nanzhou.

She did not go to several social gatherings organized by the hospital, including activities jointly organized with several energy group branches in Nanjing.

Ji Yuan once asked at the dinner table: "Sister, don't you like to make friends?"

She had many friends, but they were all cuckolds.

Ji Yuan is a ballet teacher, teaching in a dance institution here in Gulou.

This has always been a pet peeve of Tan Jingzhen, and she feels it is not decent.

For people like them, a job like Xu Zhi's would sound more formal. Teaching ballet in some institution sounds like it's not a serious job, not to mention that it would be too much for her to work one day and have one day off.

"No, I've been busy with work recently." Xu Zhi casually found an excuse.

"No matter how busy you are at work, you still have to take care of life-long matters." Opposite me, my second uncle Ji Honglang shouted at the top of his voice, which made him very angry.

Ji Hongming ate his meal slowly with his eyes lowered and did not participate.

The two brothers have very different personalities, perhaps because of their different paths. In Ji Hongming's eyes, Ji Honglang is just a 250-year-old who speaks without thinking.

It’s also hard to believe that he was placed in this position two years ago due to CITIC’s mixed-ownership reform, which was regarded as an omission. He and his wife Jiang Xueli made a special trip to Nanjing to see them on their trip south, probably with the intention of asking for his opinion, not just to visit relatives.

As soon as Ji Honglang started chatting, he talked endlessly. The more he talked, the more enthusiastic he became. Somehow he mentioned the voting at the meeting last year: "I got angry when I talked about it. It was just one vote, and he insisted on vetoing me. , Aren’t you deliberately trying to antagonize me? You’re already here and you’re still trying to antagonize me, and your hands are stretched too far. A few days ago, Lao Lu told me that he was working on the Moon Bay project..."

Xu Zhi listened. Only later did I realize that he was talking about Fei Nanzhou.

She lowered her head to drink the soup without making any comment.

Ji Hongming gave her a chicken wing and asked her to eat more.

"Thank you." Xu Zhi took a bite. The chicken wings were rich in sauce, but she ate a little absentmindedly.

Ji Honglang was still arranging Fei Nanzhou, and later talked about Fei Pucun. Ji Hongming finally couldn't help but interrupted him, and brought the topic to how to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Although Fei Pucun is in Beijing, he has no direct relationship with this place. Ji Hongming is cautious and very taboo about talking about other people's rights and wrongs. And since Fei Pucun is above him in rank, he should still be given the respect he deserves.

The amount of information contained in one meal was too much, so Xu Zhi ate it silently without expressing any opinions.

Before leaving, he received a meaningful look of approval from Ji Hongming.

After autumn, the temperature changes obviously.

The most striking thing is the gradually turning red leaves in the courtyard.

That week, Director Zhang chatted with her for two hours. He opened his mouth and said something like "Oh, the market is not going well lately. I know your difficulties." After going around and around to lay the groundwork, he finally got to the point, alluding to the fact that her recent performance was too average.

Xu Zhi understood that her performance was largely a function of Zhang He's performance.

"I will work hard."

Zhang He was obviously not satisfied with this kind of official talk, so Xu Zhi had no choice but to accept a form he handed over and agreed to try to contact these business cooperation.

When she was about to get off work, Liang Ye from the next department came over to look for her and couldn't help but take her arm and want to go with her.

In the first few days when Xu Zhi came here, Liang Ye was not warm to her. Later, when he saw a car with a municipal party committee license plate coming to pick her up, his attitude immediately changed 80 degrees.

Xu Zhi's experience in the past two years has become calmer than before, and she is not so easy to use tricks. After a long time, Liang Ye can't find out her background.

The next few days were quiet until she officially went to try to get the Chengwan project.

At first, I contacted Secretary Wang Yuwen Wang, but unfortunately the other party was not easy to talk to and didn't pay much attention to her at first.

Just when she was about to give up, the other party temporarily changed his tune and asked her to go to the guest house in Xikang on Sunday.

Xu Zhi felt that things had turned around, and the day passed happily.

But she didn't expect so many people to come. She and Liang Ye originally planned to wait in the corridor.

Secretary Wang smiled and opened the door on one side for her, allowing them to go in directly.

Xu Zhi suddenly felt that many representatives from surrounding companies were looking at her with a sense of probing.

She was extremely embarrassed, and those who didn't know thought she had gone through some kind of back door.

At that time, she thought to herself, what the hell, she didn’t recognize Wang Yuwen’s leader at all.

She and Liang Ye went in with a smile. There were many people inside, including Secretary Wu, whom she had met before. When he saw her, he stopped communicating with the people next to him and waved to her.

Xu Zhi quickly went over with a smile on her face and prepared to sit down next to him.

He stopped halfway through his steps.

There was a tall and thin figure at the corner, facing her sideways. The surroundings were noisy and full of people, but he felt a kind of detached tranquility, standing alone in a corner over there.

He was dressed very simply and seemed inconspicuous at first glance, but upon closer inspection, he discovered that among the five or six people, he was the only one sitting on the single sofa. When the other people were chatting, they would also subconsciously look at him to ask for his opinion, regardless of whether he was interested in responding.

And he was relaxed and indifferent from beginning to end, as if he didn't need to deliberately cater to others.

Xu Zhi just stood there and looked at him. Unknowingly, his palms had tightened.

Before this, Xu Zhi never expected to meet Fei Nanzhou on such an occasion.

For a moment, she had forgotten her ability to think. When she came to her senses, she just wanted to run away.

But with so many people around and so many pairs of eyes looking at her, she finally calmed down.

However, she didn't even know what Secretary Wu said to her, so she only smiled in a forced manner.

Fortunately, Fei Nanzhou didn't look at her much during the whole process. His eyebrows were cold, as if he didn't recognize her at all.

Xu Zhi breathed a sigh of relief, but at the same time he felt sad. He couldn't describe the feeling.

After returning home that day, she felt as if she had finished a marathon. Her whole body was sore and she couldn't muster any strength. When she got home, she soaked herself in the bathtub.

This conversation lasted for a few hours, so long that her aunt thought something had happened to her and came to call her.

Xu Zhi then stood up and wrapped herself in a bath towel, while loudly responding to her that she was fine.

Unexpectedly, he walked too fast, slipped back and fell to the ground, falling on all fours.

Later, the aunt sent her to the hospital for a detailed examination. Fortunately, the problem was not serious, just a slight bone fracture.

When Ji Hongming returned home, he specifically asked her why she was so careless and whether she was in serious trouble.

He just asked a normal question, but Xu Zhi's face felt a little burning for no reason. He lowered his head and said it was nothing, just careless.

It's so embarrassing that you broke your bones in the shower because you missed your ex. How can you have the nerve to tell anyone about it?

She took a few days off and worked from home.

Fortunately, it was not serious and the leg injury was almost healed before the Mid-Autumn Festival.

That day Liang Ye invited her to attend a cultural event at the Municipal Bureau, and Xu Zhi happily agreed.

I haven't been out for several days, and I'm almost drying myself into dried plums.

Before going out, she specially put on makeup, changed into new clothes, and took Jingneng's car to go to the hearing site first, and then to the exhibition hall.

The exhibition hall was requisitioned from the venue of the Cultural and Sports Center, which was quite large. It was inevitable that someone like her, who had no sense of direction, would get lost when she came here for the first time.

Liang Ye got close to the city leaders halfway and left her alone.

Xu Zhi had no choice but to look around by himself.

As we walked, we came to a secluded exhibition hall.

This place is exhibiting some kind of niche calligraphy art. There are no people there, and there are only a few light footprints on the red carpet.

She took a drink from the guest table and took a sip, feeling completely happy.

The exhibition hall was temporarily built with wooden boards, and the diaphragm response was not very good. She vaguely heard someone talking in the corner, and walked over out of curiosity.

There was a pot of Araucaria in the corner, slightly blocking the figures of the two men. From her perspective, she could only see two shadows, one tall and one short. The more Xu Zhi looked at him, the more he felt something was wrong. The tall man seemed familiar.

Sure enough, he turned slightly sideways out of the cover of the Araucaria, and Xu Zhi saw it was Fei Nanzhou, and couldn't help but take a breath.

Although there were two people, it was the short middle-aged man who was always speaking. He was very attentive and stuffed tea into his hand while talking: "This is a specialty here. This tea is really good. Try it. I posted them all by myself, they don't exist in Beijing..."

"Mr. Liang, if you have anything to say, you can speak directly." Fei Nanzhou's expression was always calm, and he finally frowned slightly when he saw that he was talking a lot without getting to the point. .

After being reminded like this, the middle-aged man rubbed his hands a little embarrassedly: "Actually, it's nothing. It's just the energy project last time. In fact, our Dongjian is really good. I think we can still fight for it. If things come true. Yes, I will definitely remember your kindness."

After hearing this, Xu Zhi wanted to laugh. It turned out that he wanted to go through the back door.

In the past, Fei Nanzhou could have stopped him from getting off the stage, but now he just gently put the tea he took a sip on the table, took out a tissue and wiped the corner of his mouth: "How do you choose a company that combines all aspects of the company?" My strength is not up to me. Well, if there is any progress, I will let my secretary tell you."

Hearing his excuse, the middle-aged man smiled and said, "As long as you speak, I think..."

Xu Zhi had already seen his impatience, but she couldn't bear to look at him directly. She suddenly felt that he was quite pitiful for being so cowardly.

She didn't think much at that moment and reached out to knock over the table and chair next to her.

"Who? Who is there -" Mr. Liang walked around the Araucaria with a guilty conscience.

Xu Zhi lifted up the fallen chair and smiled at him sheepishly: "Sorry, I didn't mean to disturb your conversation, right?"

His eyes subconsciously fell on Fei Nanzhou.

But he just glanced at her coldly and then looked away, calmly, as if she was just a stranger.

Xu Zhi's smile was a little stiff, and she was so confused that for a moment she didn't know where to place her hands and feet.

Fei Nanzhou didn't say hello and walked past the two of them.

"Mr. Fei——" The middle-aged man quickly caught up.

In the empty exhibition hall, only Xu Zhi was left alone.

She smiled as if to comfort herself, but she couldn't get the smile from the right angle.