Sima Yanan had already stepped down from the standing committee of the Qingyuan City Municipal Party Committee and, a few days earlier, completed the handover to the new municipal party secretary, Shan Wenxu.
According to Zhou Yi's reply, Wei Siqi, secretary of the Southwest Province Provincial Party Committee, had taken on two opponents alone in a lengthy round of "friendly" negotiations with Hou Xiangyang, secretary of the Linhai Province Provincial Party Committee, and Provincial Governor Lan Kun. In the end, he had persuaded them both to let Zhou Yi go.
Barring any surprises, Zhou Yi would probably transfer to Huaining City in Southwest Province as mayor in July or August.
Sima Yanan had long since told her father and uncle that she wanted to work alongside Zhou Yi for a couple of years, and her family had supported the idea.
After all, given the goodwill and friendship they had established, there was no reason not to keep those ties strong!
A transfer from Liaodong to Southwest Province might have seemed difficult to arrange to most people, but for Sima Yanan, it posed no difficulty at all.
With everything ready, she was now just waiting for Zhou Yi to make his move!
What she never expected, however, was that a sudden phone call from her grandfather would completely derail her plans.
Sima Yanan was at a loss for words, but she could not bear to refuse her grandfather's request. With a rueful smile, she asked, "Where in Jingchu Province? Shaohua?"
She knew Shaohua City was her grandfather's second home, a place to which he was deeply attached.
And his request to "take a look" certainly did not mean simply taking a look. There had to be a particular purpose behind it.
"Our Nannan is clever-you guessed it right away. Liu Weiguo