Afternoon.
It's past four o'clock.
The sun just happened to shine into Dong Xuebin's temporary office, so Dong Xuebin lit a cigarette and leaned his butt on the desk, squinting in the sun, which was warm and comfortable.
There was a sudden knock on the door.
The person who came in was Meng Hanmei, "Secretary." The Power of Time and Wealth 1874
Dong Xuebin looked at her, "Here comes someone? Didn't it say it's after six o'clock?"
Meng Hanmei gasped. "No, the person hasn't arrived, but the phone has arrived. The people from the England exchange group brought a translator from their country to call County Party Committee Office. Later, the call was transferred to me. The translator didn't know where they got it from England, and it wasn't Mandarin. Very good, plus there was noise on the phone. After talking to him for a long time, I finally understood. He asked us what food we had prepared for the evening. I said it was a Western restaurant, which should match their appetite, but the translator said that they had been eating Western food and were tired of it. When they came to the Republic, they wanted to try the food of the Republic. He also said that this was the idea of those England- people, so let's prepare it now."
Dong Xuebin looked at the watch, "What time is it?"
Meng Hanmei was also very unhappy and said, "Yeah, it's already this time, where can we prepare them for going? It's sooner or later than later. We have to come soon!"
Dong Xuebin said, "It seems they don't understand what it means to do as the Romans do. They really regard themselves as Old Cheng. They can do whatever they want and do whatever they want!"
Meng Hanmei said, "I didn't have much time to refute on the phone. Later, someone from the city answered the call. I don't know who it was. It should be a cadre from the city government office. Anyway, it means that we entertain Foreign Guests and everything will be in accordance with Foreign Guests's wishes. What can I say? I can only agree."
Dong Xuebin is quite annoyed. Aren't these people coming to cause trouble? He suppressed his anger and said, "There's still more than an hour left for them to arrive?"
Meng Hanmei hummed, "The translator said that in one hour, we have already met some investment groups in the city and had lunch. Our next stop is here."
"Is it too late to change hotels now?" Dong Xuebin asked.
"I don't know. Ten people and twenty people are just fine. Counting our own people, there are forty or fifty people this time, and we also have to pack a Banquet Hall or something like that. You can't eat with other diners, right? The time is definitely... I can only say give it a try." Meng Hanmei said.
Dong Xuebin said, "Just give it a try and do your best."
Meng Hanmei said no more, "Okay, then I'll go quickly."
As soon as she leaves. Dong Xuebin also went out smoking a cigarette, and happened to see Zhang Dongfang and County Party Deputy Secretary Wei Zhixuan walking and talking, Dong Xuebin said, "Zhang Ji."
"Secretary Dong." Both of them turned back.
Dong Xuebin informed them. "The reception location has changed. It is no longer the previous Western restaurant."
Wei Zhixuan was startled, "Isn't everything decided?"
Dong Xuebin said, "Old Meng just got the letter. We have made a reservation, but those England people are not satisfied and asked us to change places. They said they don't want to eat Western food. We don't know where the location is yet. Old Meng has already gone to organize the place. We will let everyone go there when Old Meng gets the place ready."
Zhang Dongfang frowned and said, "I've already sent people to decorate the banners, so I'll call them back quickly. Alas, this happened."
Wei Zhixuan also muttered unhappily, "Foreigners have too many things to do." The Power of Time and Wealth 1874
Dong Xuebin also felt something, "They will leave tomorrow, you can just fool them."
The three of them chatted and got along fairly well. Completely opposite to the previous tit-for-tat fight on Standing Committee, now Dong Faction and the Zhang family have entered a period of ambiguity, or a relaxation period. Both sides are relatively restrained, so they have not caused any other disputes. For the time being, they have maintained a balanced stage, which is a good sign. No county can continue to grow in an environment where leadership struggles are constant.
It's not even six o'clock.
Meng Hanmei had just decided on the location of the hotel. They were also members of the county party committee. They temporarily cleared the place and left Banquet Hall to them. Although I felt a little sorry for the people who had booked there in advance. But there is nothing we can do about it, Foreign Guests is the most important thing.
Knowing the location, everyone rushed there.
Decorating the venue, getting banners and the like, it was chaos.
It's easy for those England- people to say a word, but they never thought about how long Jiaolin County would have to go through because of their words.
I just managed to catch up.
This is one of the best hotels in Jiaolin County, and it is also very grand.
In front of the hotel, Dong Xuebin and Zhang Dongfang stood at the outside, followed by some cadres at the back, deputy secretaries Wei Zhixuan, Director of the County Party Committee Office Meng Hanmei, and executive deputy County Chief Xu Zhuang, Deputy Standing Committee member County Chief Song Hefei, and so on, in addition to some County Party Committee Standing Committee Member, most of the cadres from relevant departments also came, as well as their Jiaolin County investors and many entrepreneurs from the county government, a sparse thirty or forty people.
Xu Zhuang looked into the distance and asked, "Is anyone here?"
A staff member from the county government said, "County Chief Xu, it's not here yet."
"It should be almost time, right?" Wei Zhixuan also looked at his watch, "It's already six o'clock. What time was it agreed to be?"
Meng Hanmei said, "The notice above is to arrive at the hotel around six o'clock. There may be a traffic jam on the road. Well, it should be here soon."
Wait.
What else can be done?
five minutes...
Ten minutes...
Twenty minutes...
But it was almost half past six. I waited and waited, but I still didn't see the motorcade coming.
It would be fine if all the people here are ordinary people, just wait and wait, but the problem is that everyone from County Party Secretary to the county cadres are here. In addition to them Civil Servants, there are also a dozen entrepreneurs who were called by the county based on personal relationships, and let them stand here and wait for half an hour?? The Power of Time and Wealth 1874
Many leaders have lost face.
Those entrepreneurs are all impatient. Which one of them is not worth tens of millions? Waiting outside for so long in the cold weather? If it weren't for the sake of the county, they would have walked away!
Dong Xuebin also looked ugly, "Call! Ask!"
Meng Hanmei was responsible for contacting her about this matter, so she took out her mobile phone and called there, "Hi, I'm Meng Hanmei from Jiaolin County."
There was a middle-aged man on the other end, "Oh, Director Meng."
Meng Hanmei said, "I would like to ask, when will the people from the exchange group arrive?"
This person was obviously a cadre of the city. Hearing this, he said, "Hey, look at my memory. I just said I would inform you, but I forgot about it in a hurry. They won't go to your county for dinner at night. The people in the exchange group suddenly changed their minds and wanted to eat with the city, but they will still go to your place for accommodation." It should be here before eight o'clock. "(To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for Recommendation Ticket and monthly votes at Qidian. Your support is my biggest motivation. Mobile phone users please go and read.