Chapter 85 Face the Edge

The unclear relationship between Cyndi Liu and Zhou Chao is not unknown to Xia Jinxian.

Anyway, I am rekindling my old relationship with Xu Yanqing, and I am not qualified to criticize Cyndi Liu from the moral high ground.

However, she still said to Zhu Jiajia, "Actually, Cyndi Liu really needs to think carefully about what she wants. She is not satisfied with this or that, and she will not be happy no matter what the final arrangement is."

Zhu Jiajia nodded.

However, Zhu Jiajia didn't stay long as she was called back by another phone call.

Xia Jinxian sent her away, placed the mint by the window sill, and set a reminder to water the flowers every few days.

She was the only one in the office that afternoon. She finished her assignments and did some things at hand. She turned on her mobile phone and connected it to a Bluetooth headset, listened to the radio, and trimmed the leaves of the potted plants.

A song "At least I still have you" sung by a male voice was playing on the radio. The dead leaves were cut off by her and fell on her ruffled hip-hugging skirt. The sunshine outside was just right, falling on the window sill and shining on the potted plants.

When Xu Yanqing came in, he saw this scene.

Just like how she looked ten years ago, her whole body was wrapped in light, and she was too beautiful to behold.

Xia Jinxian saw him coming in, took off her earphones and asked, "Why didn't you say anything when you came?"

Xu Yanqing took off his suit, and Xia Jinxian went over to help him pick it up, and said to him, "Secretary Cen and Director Shi are not here, so call Director Zou. Come here?"

Xu Yanqing leaned on the office chair and rested for a while, obviously very tired.

Xia Jinxian brought him hot tea, which was chrysanthemum, wolfberry, and cassia seeds for clearing the liver and improving eyesight. She leaned on the edge of the table in front of him and asked him, "Did the business trip go well?"

Xu Yanqing took a sip of tea, put down the cup, and held her hand. , "I returned to the capital once and submitted another indictment."

Xia Jinxian asked, "Didn't Han Yun make trouble with you?"

Xu Yanqing smiled and said, "You say it's strange or not, things are so unpredictable in the world, right at the airport In the VIP terminal, I saw her sitting on the lap of a little man. I even took a photo

of her, and she was so angry." Xia Jinxian raised her eyebrows and looked at his expression carefully, as if she was afraid that he would be sad.

Xu Yanqing took the back of her hand and kissed it, "Xiao Xian, I don't care, it's just that after so many years, she still doesn't understand what she wants, which is quite sad. She wants everything, the most and the best. How can such a good thing happen in the world?"

Xia Jinxian's hand was held in his palm, and she suddenly sighed, "I thought she didn't love you back then."

Xu Yanqing laughed and said, "

No. Only a person can harm, plunder, and persecute without restraint.

Because if you really love someone, you will not be willing to let the other person get hurt.

You will want fulfillment, blessing, and respect for the other person's choice, and you will also understand the other person's reason for giving up.

There is no resentment, only distress.

The Bluetooth headset was taken off, and the song was playing on and off the phone.

"Maybe I can forget the whole world. I just don't want to lose the news about you. I always remember where the mole is on your palm."

Xia Jinxian took his hand and found the red flesh in his palm. mole.

He kept saying that it was her...

Her fingers repeatedly touched the mole, causing it to itch.

Xu Yanqing spread his hands and let her fiddle with them.

Xu Yanqing said, "Do you know when Han Yun started saying that he liked me?"

Xia Jinxian shook her head. He had never said anything about what happened between him and Han Yun.

Xu Yanqing said, "Probably during my freshman year, the school organized an academic seminar, and I was one of the speakers. She participated in the summer camp held by their high school and also came to observe the seminar. At that time, I After I finished speaking, a girl confessed to me——"

Before Xu Yanqing could finish her words, Xia Jinxian started to laugh.

Xu Yanqing deliberately frowned and said, "Listen well, don't make trouble."

Xia Jinxian still giggled non-stop.

Xu Yanqing said helplessly to her, "I won't say anything if you do this again."

Xia Jinxian could only say, "Okay, okay, I won't laugh." She covered her mouth and blinked at him.

Xu Yanqing leaned over, reached out to hold the back of her neck, and then kissed her forehead.

"You know I have social anxiety, and being in public made me very embarrassed. I didn't even know what that girl looked like. When the whole audience started booing, I returned to my seat very coldly. That's it. That time, Han Yun was deeply impressed by me, and later she told me that the girl had been a child of someone else's family since she was a child."

After hearing this, Xia Jinxian said, "That's understandable."

Xu Yanqing nodded, "But. That girl later settled abroad and married a well-known economist. She should be living a good life. "

Sometimes people's obsessions are so inexplicable.

Xia Jinxian didn't know what to say for a moment, and Xu Yanqing didn't continue the topic.

He glanced at the gardenias on the window sill and said with a smile, "Why do you have the time to grow flowers?"

Xia Jinxian looked at the pot of gardenias and explained, "I didn't buy them. Zhu Jiajia came to see me and brought them for me. "

Xu Yanqing walked to the window sill and fiddled with it.

Xia Jinxian followed behind and said with a smile, "Someone also said that he raised it when he was a child, and I don't know who raised the pot in the end."

When they lived together, they had a strong affection.

Sometimes after get off work, the two of us would go shopping together.

There is a street outside the market near that community, selling everything from flowers to department stores to pet shops.

At the end of summer, it was the last flowering period of gardenias. When Xia Jinxian smelled the fragrance of the flowers, she couldn't move.

Xu Yanqing saw that she liked it, so he picked a pot and said that he had raised gardenias before, so he would raise them after buying them.

Xia Jinxian said, "Later, you didn't raise it either. One time when I was mopping the floor on the balcony, I found that all the gardenias were dead and the leaves were all dry on the branches. I stupidly watered it again. I thought maybe if I watered it, it would survive again? But in the end, I watered it all down.

The topic was obviously sad, but when she said it, it felt inexplicably joyful.

He said, "If you didn't know better, you'd think you were composting."

Xia Jinxian hit him.

Before she finished speaking, there was a knock on the door of Xia Jinxian's office.

Before she could say please come in, Du Qiongyu opened the door directly and came in.

Seeing Xu Yanqing, Du Qiongyu's expression was not surprising at all. He had obviously seen Xu Yanqing enter her office a long time ago.

Xia Jinxian glanced at Xu Yanqing and said to him, "Xu Qu is joking. I'm not very good at growing flowers. They were just gifts from friends."

Xu Yanqing was also very calm and said to her, "It's good to grow flowers occasionally to cultivate your sentiments. "Yes."

Before Xia Jinxian answered, Du Qiongyu said quickly, "What the leader said is that I also like to sing and climb mountains."

Xia Jinxian suppressed her laughter, and it was a bit hard to bear it.

Xu Yanqing glanced at her, his eyes full of smiles.

Du Qiongyu just saw Xu Yanqing coming. He quickly smoothed out the revised situation report and then printed it out.

While Xu Yanqing is here, use it to show off in front of Xu Yanqing.

He is Zheng Guanzhou's distant cousin, and the relationship is actually not close. However, in his opinion, Zheng Guanzhou became the deputy district chief earlier than Xu Yanqing. He feels that from this point of view, his background is very tough.

He took the manuscript and said to Xu Yanqing, "Xu District, I have revised the situation report that Mayor Shao needs. I heard that Mayor Shao graduated from an Ivy League school with two PhDs and has a very high theoretical level. I found the latest theory Frontier journals combine our project advancement with these theories."

Xu Yanqing sat back at Xia Jinxian's desk, leaned on the back of the chair, and reached out to take the manuscript handed over by Du Qiongyu.

While Xu Yanqing was watching, he took the tea cup and drank it slowly.

Du Qiongyu said to Xu Yanqing from the side, "Xu District, I have described our work at this stage by combining good governance, unified management through one network, decentralization of approval power, and supervision and participation."

Xia Jinxian coughed and stood up. Add water for Xu Yanqing.

Xu Yanqing said thank you and said to Du Qiongyu, "It's very good."

After hearing this compliment, Du Qiongyu immediately raised his head and chest, and said in a somewhat proud tone, "Please give me some advice from Xu District."

Xu Yanqing hesitated. He waved his hand and returned the materials to him and said, "You should show it to Pei Ling first."

Du Qiongyu didn't expect Xu Yanqing to say this and was a little embarrassed.

Xia Jinxian took it and said, "When Secretary Cen comes back, I'll give it to her."

Du Qiongyu quickly took back the materials and said to Xia Jinxian, "I'll give it myself."

Xia Jinxian didn't insist anymore and let him take it away. Material.

Xia Jinxian leaned against the table, Xu Yanqing sat on the chair, and Du Qiongyu stood beside him.

The scene was awkward again.

Xu Yanqing drank tea, wondering when he would be able to leave.

Xia Jinxian knew that this man had extremely low emotional intelligence. He would not leave unless he took the initiative to speak, but if he did speak, he would be unhappy.

So Xia Jinxian coughed and said, "Xu District, wait a moment. I'll see if Director Zou is here."

After saying that, she walked out and knocked on Zou Peng's door. Zou Peng was there in the afternoon, and he said please come in.

Xia Jinxian then informed Zou Peng that District Chief Xu was here.

Zou Peng hurriedly came over to welcome Xu Yanqing into his office.

In this way, Du Qiongyu was finally driven away.

Xu Yanqing stayed at Zou Peng's place for more than twenty minutes. Before leaving, he went to talk to Xia Jinxian.

Xia Jinxian took his coat and sent him to the parking lot downstairs.

Xu Yanqing took the coat and Xia Jinxian said, "I bought you a suit that day. It's still at home and I'll give it to you on the weekend."

Xu Yanqing looked at her tenderly. If it hadn't been for broad daylight, his kiss would have fallen on her forehead.

He asked, "Is Du Qiongyu always like this?"

Xia Jinxian hummed and opened the car door for him.

Xu Yanqing felt a little sorry for her, so Xia Jinxian comforted him and said, "It's okay. I don't meet many people like this. I won't take it to heart."

Xu Yanqing got in the car and kissed her while she wasn't paying attention. back of hand.

This intimate behavior made Xia Jinxian sweet in her heart.

In the afternoon of the next day, Cen Peiling summoned team members and several department heads to discuss the report materials to Mayor Shao.

Du Qiongyu made some explanations at the meeting.

Liu Wei, deputy director of the research office, sat next to Xia Jinxian, covering her forehead and looking like she couldn't listen.

Xia Jinxian looked at Du Qiongyu and smiled at Liu Wei.

Liu Wei curled her lips and rolled her eyes at Du Qiongyu.

Xia Jinxian patted her hand under the table, telling her to pay attention to her expression.

The small actions of the two people were also noticed by the three members of the team, but everyone was a mature social person and no one tried to expose it.

The final draft received numerous comments from those present, and Du Qiongyu looked unconvinced.

Xia Jinxian silently wrote down everyone's opinions. She guessed that Du Qiongyu would not change a word in the end. She even felt that everyone present was not good enough and might replace Cen Peiling's draft report at the end.

Xia Jinxian has many ways to deal with such people.

She called Qiao Ling over, sent all her revision comments to Qiao Ling, and asked Qiao Ling to collaborate with Liu Wei on the manuscript.

The day before Mayor Shao arrived, Xia Jinxian took Qiao Ling and Luo Yue from the planning department to the project site at 4pm to look around and walk around.

Xia Jinxian thought about everything she could think of.

Qiao Ling said, "Director, you are so meticulous."

Xia Jinxian smiled and said, "Just don't think I have too many things to do."

After spending this time together, Qiao Ling fully recognized Xia Jinxian as a person.

Usually Xia Jinxian would help her buy some coffee or something. Although she was not a petty person, Qiao Ling was touched by being cared for in this way. In addition, Xia Jinxian had a clear mind and was very considerate in her dealings with others. If they were not thoughtful enough, She would explain to them patiently and gently, so Qiao Ling admired and supported her very much.

Luo Yue is a business expert and usually doesn't like to talk much.

Xia Jinxian is now also the head of the Planning Department, which also has a business station under it.

She observed several people and found that Luo Yue was the most reliable and steady.

Several things had been assigned before, and in addition to prompt replies, Xia Jinxian could also give some pertinent suggestions from a professional perspective, so Xia Jinxian almost used Luo Yue as the deputy section chief.

Every time when the planning department held a scientific affairs meeting, although Luo Yue was a newly appointed department member, Xia Jinxian always asked him to speak last.

She accepted all Luo Yue's suggestions. As time went by, everyone knew that Xia Jinxian liked Luo Yue.

In Bingang New Area, Cen Peiling is the master of one word.

The two deputy directors were selected by Xu Yanqing and Cen Peiling. They are all their own people and there is no problem of internal friction.

Generally, what Cen Peiling says is the final decision, and both deputy directors support it unconditionally.

Once Cen Peiling makes a decision, it is Xia Jinxian who is responsible for the implementation. At the specific operational level, the three team members are very detached and leave everything to the office for coordination.

When Xia Jinxian first came, Zhang Lai, the section chief of the Investment Promotion Department, tried to challenge Xia Jinxian.

Several times, Xia Jinxian asked Zhang Lai to help with things, but Zhang Lai used Zou Peng's name to back him up.

Xia Jinxian did not complain directly.

Since Zhang Lai doesn't want to do it, Xia Jinxian will let Du Qiongyu in the office do it.

Anyway, he couldn't do it well, so when he finally opened a guild, Cen Peiling gave him a scolding.

Xia Jinxian was obviously reprimanded, but how could Cen Peiling not know that it was because Xia Jinxian couldn't coordinate with the Investment Promotion Department that things couldn't be done?

At the office meeting that day, Cen Peiling said to Xia Jinxian in front of everyone, "The office is not a trash can. You do everything. What do you want other departments to do? Starting next week, the office will issue orders and supervise the implementation every week." Report the situation to me, the functional departments are responsible for the affairs of the functional departments, do you hear me?"

In front of everyone, Xia Jinxian was scolded by Cen Peiling, but she also received Shang Fang's sword.

Zhang Lai didn't take it seriously in the first week. When Xia Jinxian took the inspection results to Zhang Lai, he said, "I don't think the leader will be too satisfied with the project this week. I won't write it for you for the time being." Right?"

Zhang Lai said indifferently, "Just write it, it's just a formality."

In this case, Xia Jinxian was not polite. She reported the supervision situation to Cen Peiling in advance and communicated with Zou Peng. .

During the meeting, Cen Peiling did not mention the specific work, but talked about execution ability for two full hours.

Before the meeting ended, he threw the supervision form to Zhang Lai and said, "The office is supervising the work on my behalf, not on behalf of any individual. This matter was decided at the meeting last week to be docked this week. At least the environmental impact assessment and approval must be done. Zhang Lai, how far have you gone?"

Zhang Lai sensed something was wrong from the moment Cen Peiling started speaking, and kept his head down the whole time, waiting to be scolded.

After all, Xia Jinxian had reminded him that he didn't take it seriously. Now that he was being targeted, he really couldn't blame anyone else.

Senior section chiefs like Zhang Lai were defeated in front of Xia Jinxian. Who among the other newbies dared to face Director Xia's sharp edge?