Chapter 69: I Didn't Do It On Purpose

  From that day on, Xu Shaojie was nervous and didn't know when Tang Wanrou would appear. This girl was too overbearing, and Xu Shaojie was a little afraid. There was also a crucial issue, Xu Shaojie felt that Tang Wanrou's identity was not simple. When he met Tang Wanrou in his sister-in-law Liu Xiaomei's hometown, Xu Shaojie had this feeling. Later, when Tang Wanrou helped Xu Shaojie get his driver's license without him having to appear in person, and the photo used was from his ID card, Xu Shaojie began to suspect that either Tang Wanrou had a lot of power within the public security system, which was clearly impossible, or her father or mother held an extraordinary position within the public security system. Following normal reasoning, it should be Tang Wanrou's father.

  Xu Shaojie had an innate dislike for the children of leading cadres. Zheng Yuxin and Liu Hong were both children of leading cadres, one made Xu Shaojie experience the pain of a failed romance, and the other almost led Xu Shaojie to disaster, later repeatedly making moves to bring him down. Once bitten by a snake, ten years afraid of the rope, Xu Shaojie did not want to have dealings with the children of leading cadres. These offspring of cadres were either overly deep thinkers, exhausting to interact with, or just overgrown spoiled brats, hard to serve. Of course, due to his own limitations, Xu Shaojie had not come into contact with some truly excellent red successors, but later, through work, he was fortunate enough to meet some and discovered that his understanding was also limited.

  Speak of the devil, Xu Shaojie had something happen a few days later.

  "Director Xu, Director Sun said that there are guests from Huaiyang Municipal Public Security Bureau, please go to the police station."

  Xu Shaojie's head started to swell, needless to say, Tang Wanrou had arrived at the police station. Since leaving the municipal party committee office, Xu Shaojie had not contacted anyone in the office and was avoiding Tang Wanrou. During the Spring Festival, Xu Shaojie stayed at home and didn't go anywhere, so he couldn't see Tang Wanrou. He thought that Tang Wanrou wouldn't be able to find the phone number of the Yudu District police station for a while, and after a long time, she would forget about it. But unexpectedly, this beautiful and lively girl had found her way to Huaiyang City and was now at the police station.

  "Director Xu, Secretary Sun said so, please go to the police station."

  "Director Huang, I know, I'll go right away."

  Xu Shaojie really wanted Huang He to say that he had gone to the countryside, but it's not possible now. He didn't dare believe anyone in the district office except Yang Chen. Now that Tang Wanjou has arrived at the police station, not going to see her would be impolite. The girl came all the way from the provincial city, and he must show his sincerity.

  Xu Shaojie slowly walked towards the police station, which was located on the side of the highway, still a distance away from the district office. Xu Shaojie rarely came to the police station and also rarely visited other stations.

  When Xu Shaojie entered the police station, two auxiliary police officers were on the first floor and did not see any other police officers. The two saw Xu Shaojie coming in and hurried out to greet him.

  "Director Xu, the leaders of Huaiyang Municipal Public Security Bureau are on the second floor. We'll take you up."

  "It's okay, you guys are busy, I can go up myself."

  Xu Shaojie slowly went upstairs, trying to delay as much as possible. Since it was still a while before dinner time, if the police station was having a meeting or reporting, Xu Shaojie had a good reason to avoid it. He wasn't in charge of politics and law, so he didn't want to disturb the police station's report. After going upstairs, all the officers were in the conference room. Xu Shaojie secretly rejoiced, hearing voices coming from inside the conference room, estimating that they were reporting. He turned around, preparing to go back downstairs.

  "Director Xu, you've arrived, we've been waiting for you for a long time."

  The voice of the police station chief came, Xu Shaojie gritted his teeth in hatred. He had finally found a reason, but now it was all over. As he turned around, there was already a smile on his face.

  "Oh, I just arrived and heard you were having a meeting. I don't want to disturb you, I still have some things to take care of, so I'll come back after your meeting is over."

  Xu Shaojie hadn't finished speaking when a commotion burst out of the conference room. Xu Shaojie secretly cursed and prepared to greet Tang Wanjun, whose face didn't look very good. Behind Tang Wanjun stood several police officers that Xu Shaojie didn't recognize. Tan Jian, Standing Committee member and Secretary of the Political and Legal Affairs Commission, and Yuan Haibo, Director of the Municipal Public Security Bureau, came out accompanied by Liu Zhihua and Sun Jianbo. Xu Shaojie had a warm smile on his face, but soon something happened that left everyone stunned.

  Tang Wanrou rushed in front of Xu Shaojie, without saying a word, reached out and grabbed Xu Shaojie's ear, and a string of words quickly came out of her mouth.

  "Say, why didn't you call me, Xu Shaojie, speak quickly..."

  "Hey, Tang Wanrou, take it easy, I didn't do it on purpose, I don't know your phone number, besides, I'm often in the village, there's no phone, everyone knows that."

  "Hmph, I don't believe you. If you don't make it clear today, I'll keep pulling your ears. Anyway, it's the weekend today. Later, I'll drag you back to Huaiyang City and see if you dare not speak."

  "Tang Wanrou, cough, pay attention to the influence, I was wrong, let go, my ears are very precious, going down to listen to the words, you pinched my ears off, and I became a monster, can't go down to the countryside in the future."

  Tang Wanrou let out a soft laugh, actually she didn't use much force, just wanting to make Xu Shaojie remember. Behind Tang Wanrou, a middle-aged man wearing a police uniform walked by.

  "Xiao Tang, I've never seen you so fierce before! Why don't you introduce us?"

  "Uncle Xin, no, Director Xin, this is my boyfriend, Xu Shaojie."

  Xu Shaojie was about to shake hands with Director Xin and other leaders, when Tang Wanrou said this sentence, he stumbled and almost fell over. Tang Wanrou immediately stared at Xu Shaojie, who struggled to maintain a smile.

  "Director Xin, hello, I am Xu Shaojie from Yudu District."

  "Director Xin, this is our district's deputy secretary in charge of organizational work, Xu Shaojie, the youngest leading cadre not only in our district but also in the whole city. His working ability is outstanding! I didn't expect Secretary Xu's girlfriend to be so beautiful and outstanding, Secretary Xu, you've been hiding her from us for a long time, haha..."

  Xu Shaojie awkwardly shook hands with Xin Ju, and Liu Zhihua's introduction made Xu Shaojie speechless. Although he clearly saw Tang Wanyu getting angry, Liu Zhihua's few words made Xu Shaojie feel a chill run down his spine.

  Director Xin's hands were very powerful.

  "Little Xu, hello! I'm Xin Pingfeng from the Huaiyang Municipal Public Security Bureau. Little Tang is a police flower from the Xilin Municipal Public Security Bureau, you know? The young men in our Huaiyang Municipal Public Security Bureau have been chasing after Little Tang one by one, but it turns out she already has a friend! Little Tang has good taste, such a young and promising leader, not bad!"

  Xu Shaojie knew that Xin Pingfeng was the deputy director of Huaiyang Municipal Public Security Bureau, a regular county-level leader who was actually in charge of the work of the public security bureau, so he didn't dare to slack off.

  "Director Xin, I'm working hard and trying to achieve results. Tang Wanrou is too excellent, currently I feel that I don't match up to her, so I'm striving to be worthy."

  Xin Pingfeng didn't expect Xu Shaojie to say that, and burst out laughing. The several police officers behind him also started laughing.

  "Xiao Xu, not bad, not bad, very humorous indeed."

  Liu Zhihua and Sun Jianbo were going to accompany Xin Pingfeng and other leaders to take a look, Xu Shaojie would not accompany them. He was thinking of taking a breather, but Tang Wanyu brought it up and asked Xu Shaojie to accompany her to take a look around. Xin Pingfeng smiled and agreed, while also smilingly asking Xu Shaojie to arrange for Tang Wanyu's daily life, Xu Shaojie couldn't say no.

  Everyone left the police station and got on the bus. After that, Tang Wanrou held onto Xu Shaojie's arm.

  "Alright, I'm free now, take me wherever you want."

  Yang Chen had been waiting in the courtyard of the police station in his Jeep, and he didn't expect Xu Shaojie's girlfriend to be so beautiful and stunning. When he saw the two of them walking out of the gate, Yang Chen went up to greet them.

  "Secretary Xu, I've been waiting for you, where are you thinking of going?"

  "Yang Chen, let me introduce you, this is Officer Tang Wanrou from the Xilin City Public Security Bureau."

  "Officer Tang is good."

  Tang Wanrou smiled at Yang Chen and immediately glared at Xu Shaojie.

  "And what about your identity? Why didn't you introduce yourself?"

  "Oh, that Yang Chen, I'm working hard to pursue Officer Tang, striving to succeed, ah..."

  Yang Chen had already turned his head away, knowing that something was off. He wanted to laugh but couldn't bring himself to make a sound. He never thought that Xu Shaojie, who was so carefree in Yudu District, would have such an intimidating girlfriend - a classic rose with thorns.

  Xu Shaojie really didn't know where to take Tang Wanrou, the district government office was absolutely not a place he dared to go, going there would only make things more embarrassing, after all, he was a district committee leader, being teased by Tang Wanrou like this, what kind of talk is that? However, Tang Wanrou insisted on going to the district government office, Xu Shaojie really had no way out, and was nervous all the way.

  The jeep entered the district office, and after Xu Shaojie and Tang Wanyu got out of the car, they immediately attracted everyone's attention. The district office had never seen such a beautiful girl before. Tang Wanyu was holding onto Xu Shaojie's arm, and Xu Shaojie was surprised to find that Tang Wanyu was particularly gentle at this moment, as if she were a little bird relying on him. Seeing the officials of the district office, they all had smiles on their faces.

  Arriving at Xu Shaojie's dormitory, Tang Wanrou immediately looked around and carefully searched the room. After a while, a satisfied smile finally appeared on her face. Xu Shaojie watched from behind, his scalp feeling numb. This Tang Wanrou was too formidable.

  "Xu Shaojie, your dormitory is pretty good, it's a suite, humph, I only have one room in the municipal bureau."

  "Tang Wanrou, that one bedroom of yours, I don't know how many sets of rooms like this can be exchanged for it."

  "Hmm, you're so young and already a leader, looks like I'll have to keep a close eye on you."

  "Tang Wanrou, what kind of leader am I? Not even a seventh-rank official, not even qualified to be a county lieutenant according to ancient ranks. Can't even count as a ninth-rank official, and yet leading, just a laborer."

  "Hmm, looks like your ambition is not small, you're still a seventh-rank official, but when you become one, I'm afraid you'll be thinking of becoming a first-rank official."

  "I dare not, I dare not. For someone like me, the goal of a lifetime's struggle is just to be a seventh-rank official. You calculate it for me: from deputy section chief to full section chief, at least 3 years; from full section chief to deputy county head, at least 5 years; from deputy county head to full county head, at least 10 years; and from full county head to... that's already 30 years. I'll be over 50 years old by then. Being a seventh-rank official is satisfying enough."

  "Hum, I think you're just an official fanatic."

  "Tang Wanrou, I'm not an official fanatic. This is down-to-earth. If I said that I can be the county party secretary tomorrow, the municipal party secretary the day after tomorrow, and the provincial party secretary the day after that, then that would be an official fanatic."

  "Hum, that's not infatuation, it's daydreaming, or maybe it's just juvenile dementia."

  "Alright, I won't argue with you."

  Xu Shaojie and Tang Wanyu came out when it was already time for dinner, Huang He hurried to welcome them.

  "Secretary Xu, the restaurant has been arranged, Yang Chen knows the place."

  "Director Huang, thank you."

  "Secretary Xu, you're being polite, this is what I should be doing."

  As Huang He smiled and walked into the office building, Tang Wanrou asked Xu Shaojie in a low voice.

  "Xu Shaojie, you're really impressive, everyone sees you and is very respectful. It's really strange, it's all like this in the official circles. I hate this the most, can't people just speak straightforwardly?"

  "So you're a princess, a doll, that's the reality, do you understand? I think you've been living in a vacuum, and from now on, you need to adapt to this situation."

  "Hmph, I've seen more than you, and I'm clearer about it than you are. That's why I just can't stand it."

  Xu Shaojie smiled, it seems that Tang Wanrou is indeed the daughter of a leading cadre, ordinary people can't see so many, Tang Wanrou's words have already revealed this meaning.

  Yang Chen resolutely refused to have dinner with the two of them together. Xu Shaojie and Tang Wanyu had dinner together, not drinking alcohol. Xu Shaojie was very adaptable, his demeanor different when having dinner with rural cadres, and his behavior different when having dinner with Tang Wanyu.