Evening.
Seven o'clock.
After dinner, Xu Yan and Yu Meixia chatted as they headed into the kitchen to wash the dishes.
Dong Xuebin went out onto the balcony for a cigarette, still mulling over what Xu Yan had told him that afternoon. Finally, he picked up his phone and called Xie Huilan. "Hui Lan, where are you?"
"I'm on the road. I'll be back soon."
"Huh? You'll be home in a little while? Are you done with everything?"
"Probably not until after ten. Hehe, go to sleep first. Don't wait up for me."
"By the way, I wanted to talk to you about something. Do you think I could try to get assigned to a grassroots post in another province?" Dong Xuebin roughly explained his idea to Hui Lan.
"The idea itself is fine, but what position would you be taking? An ordinary deputy district chief? Deputy county chief? There would be little point in going for a post like that—you might as well stay at the City Discipline Inspection Committee and build up your seniority. But it would be different if it were a district party committee standing committee member or county party committee standing committee member. If it were Secretary of the Political and Legal Affairs Committee of a county, or a deputy county chief who had joined the standing committee, then Sister Xie would definitely recommend that you give it a try. What you just said makes sense. Hehe, if you use this as a transition and achieve something at the grassroots level, then getting promoted to Zhengchu Level will come naturally. It would definitely save you one or two years of waiting. Maybe you really could become a county chief at twenty-six."
"Ahem, I doubt it."
"Oh? My husband is getting modest now?"
"Anyway, if you