Chapter 96: Lin Lei Invites Guests

  Looking at the childhood photos of Ye Pingyu, Ping Ruxue shouted to Ye Pingyu. After Ye Pingyu walked over, he smiled and said: "This is a photo taken when I was five years old, and then I didn't take any more. This is my only childhood photo!"

  Ping Ruxue smiled and said: "It's so precious, it must be kept well. I took a lot of photos when I was young, they're all displayed in my bedroom!"

  Ye Pingyu thought, villagers don't have money to take so many photos, having this one is already good enough.

  "Hehe, photos can't actually capture youth or the passing of time, they can only capture a little memory." Ye Pingyu said with a smile.

  Ping Ru Xue smiled and said: "Isn't leaving memories a good thing? If we didn't have photos, we wouldn't even remember what we looked like when we were five years old."

  Ye Pingyu said: "That's it, if I didn't look at the photo, I would have forgotten by now."

  The two of them chatted for a while in the house, and then Ping Yuan suddenly called Ping Ruxue. He was still worried and asked her where she was. Ping Ruxue laughed and told him that she was playing outside and would be back after she finished.

  Ping Yuanchao told her after hearing, tomorrow he will return to the capital, and asked if she would go back together? Ping Ruxue thought for a moment, originally planning not to go back together, but since Ping Yuanchao called her now, he must want her to go back together.

  After some thought, she agreed to Ping Yuan Chao's request and would return to the capital with him tomorrow. After hanging up the phone, Ping Ru Xue said: "Ping Yu, my dad is going back to the capital tomorrow, are you still coming with me?"

  Ye Pingyu said: "I still have things to attend to in the county, I'm afraid I won't have time to go."

  "Are you so busy with work? Can't you just take a leave?"

  Ye Pingyu said: "I think I won't go to Beijing after all. How about when I have time, I'll go to Beijing alone and look for you?"

  Ping Ru Xue immediately said: "Then you must keep your promise and make time to visit me!"

  Ye Pingyu smiled and said: "I will, although we are a bit far apart, there is a saying that goes 'without colorful phoenixes flying in pairs, but with a spiritual connection that understands each other'!"

  "Who would have thought your mouth is so sweet!"

  The two of them chatted and laughed for a while. Then, Ping Ruxue glanced outside and whispered to Ye Pingyu, "Pingyu, what kind of person is your mom?"

  Ye Pingyu said: "She's a good person, and they all consider you as their daughter-in-law!"

  "What are you talking about? I hate it! Who wants to say that when you're my wife!" Ping Ruxue pounded Ye Pingyu, her face blushing as she said.

  "This is what my mom said, not what I said."

  "What your mom said is also useless, it's better than what you said..." As she spoke, Ping Ruxue suddenly leaned into Ye Pingyu with a shy face, her gentle expression like water.

  Ye Pingyu involuntarily opened his arms and hugged her, feeling a kind of unprecedented happiness and a beautiful vision for future life.

  Just now, Guo Wenxiu and Ye Pingyu finished talking, then went out to buy vegetables to entertain Ping Ruxue, but when she came back, she saw Ye Pingyu walking out with her, saying that they were going back.

  Guo Wenxiu tried his best to persuade her, Ping Ruxue was very obedient and finally stayed for dinner together, which made Ye Pingyu feel a warm family atmosphere.

  When they were about to leave after finishing their meal, Ye Cunli was late again. Seeing this, he asked Guo Wenxiu: "Ping Yu's mother, who did Ping Yu come back with?"

  "Mind your own business, knowing too much just means you'll go around spreading rumors, it's none of your concern!"

  When Guo Wenxiu said this, Ye Cunli had no choice but to stop asking questions with a disappointed face.

  Ping Ruxue and Ping Yuanchao returned to the capital together, on the way Ping Yuanchao mentioned the matter between Ye Pingyu and her. Ping Ruxue said that Ye Pingyu was a good person, she didn't think much of those young masters in the capital, if they wanted her to get married soon, she would like to be with Ye Pingyu.

  After hearing her words, Pingyuan Chao fell silent for a moment. For families like theirs, when choosing a marriage for their children, they would of course prioritize those with similar social status, otherwise others might look down on them. However, some children who get married do not have happy marriages and do not bring great benefits to the family either. Do they still need help from others? Not at all. Therefore, the happiness of the children is the most important thing, and one must not force their children to change their decisions for the sake of alliances between families.

  After some thought, Ping Yuanchao told Ping Ruxue that he wouldn't interfere with her decision, but she must be cautious. Although Ye Pingyu is a good person, his family is a political one and they are separated by distance. If they were to get together, there would be many difficulties to overcome, and he wanted her to realize this.

  Ping Ru Xue heard him say this and said: "Dad, can he be transferred to the capital?"

  When she asked this way, Ping Yuan Chao said: "It's okay to adjust, but we should also respect Xiao Ye's opinion. I think he is a person with his own ideas and may not agree to be transferred to the capital!"

  Ping Ru Xue couldn't help but feel a bit disheartened. Last time in the capital, she had intentionally asked about this matter, and Ye Ping Yu had said he was unwilling to go to the capital. Her old dad really did have insight, able to tell at a glance that Ye Ping Yu wouldn't agree. This was indeed a difficult problem.

  Ye Pingyu bid farewell to Ping Ruxue and returned to Donglin County immediately. Zhuo Zishen asked him the reason why Ping Yuanzhao kept him in Qingyun, he thought for a moment, then told Zhuo Zishen that it was about You Zhongbing's matter.

  As soon as he heard it was about this matter, Zhu Zi Chuan didn't ask any more questions. Ye Ping Yu returned to his office, and Bai Xiao Cui smiled and walked over to say she wanted to invite him out for dinner tonight.

  Since becoming the deputy director of the county party committee office, he often receives phone calls from people inviting him to dinner at night, not only from department heads but also some deputy county heads.

  He used to think that going out for social events was an opportunity for communication, but after a long time, with too many people to contact, it has become a burden. Now when Bai Xiaocui says she wants to invite him to dinner, he thinks of excuses not to go.

  But Bai Xiaocui persuaded him with good words, if he didn't go, it would be a matter of not giving her face, so he finally agreed. However, when he arrived, he found that the dinner party was actually arranged by Lin Lei, who had asked Bai Xiaocui to invite him, fearing that she herself would invite him in vain.

  Since the last encounter in the park, Lin Le has been thinking about meeting again in the park. Although they met a few more times later, it wasn't many times. Firstly, Ye Pingyu's work became busier and he had fewer opportunities to go for morning runs. Secondly, he felt that being with Lin Le too much was not good, so sometimes he wouldn't go running on the side of the park, thus reducing their chances of meeting.

  Lin Le felt that if she didn't specially invite Ye Pingyu once to deepen this feeling, the emotional connection would probably fade afterwards, so she especially invited Ye Pingyu to dinner.

  Several secretaries and deputy secretaries of the county party committee accompanied them, including a young male secretary whose father was a retired county magistrate and had a good relationship with Wu Dong, but he was already married. The other deputy secretaries were either female or male, all relatively young in age.

  Most of them were meeting for the first time, and as Ye Pingyu greeted each of them, they knew he was now Secretary to Zhu Zishen and had already been promoted to Deputy Director of the County Committee Office at a young age, with a bright future ahead of him, making him worth befriending.

  After the introduction, the banquet began. The county party secretary's name was Chen Kang. Although he came to accompany the wine, he was relatively proactive. He came because of Lin Lei's face. There was a story between Lin Lei and him. Although his old man was from an old cadre background, he is now out of power. For someone like Ye Pingyu, they still need to show some respect.

  Under Chen Kang's agitation, the atmosphere on the table was very thick for a while. When Lin Lei asked him to accompany wine, he said that he would invite leaders from the county committee office to dinner, without mentioning anything about Ye Pingyu.

  However, after a fierce battle at the wine table, Chen Kang found that Lin Le was obviously more affectionate towards Ye Pingyu, seemingly beyond the intention of inviting the county party committee leaders to dinner, which made him feel a little jealous.

  Bai Xiaocui was also a romantic figure. She understood Lin Lei's intention and kept observing Lin Lei's performance in the midst of clinking glasses.

  They were all people who mixed in official circles, and their drinking capacity was not ordinary. Chen Kang thought he could drink Ye Pingyu under the table, but it turned out that Ye Pingyu had drunk a lot of wine without any problem at all. Such a capacity for liquor couldn't help but make him admire.

  Everyone at the table drank about half a catty of wine, while Ye Pingyu and Chen Kang each drank more than one catty. It can be said that they all drank quite a bit and were somewhat drunk. Chen Kang, being playful, suggested going to sing songs. At this time, although there was no large-scale KTV, there were song and dance halls, where dancing and singing were the most fashionable things to do.

  As soon as Chen Kangyi was mentioned, Lin Le immediately responded. It was still her treat, and everyone had a good drink, so they were all in high spirits. Since there were both men and women among them, it would be great to dance and sing together, which would definitely be a very exciting thing.

  They all went to sing and dance, Ye Pingyu, who had never been to such an entertainment venue before, could only follow them together, as for how to jump and sing, it would be said later.

  Donglin County now has only one newly opened song and dance hall, called Wang Dynasty Song and Dance Hall. From the outside, it looks very grand, and business inside is booming, with many men and women coming and going.

  Ye Pingyu and his group quickly arrived at the song and dance hall in their car. After Lin Lei went in, they ordered a large private room. There were seven or eight of them, so a small private room wouldn't have been enough for them to have fun.

  After entering, the music started, the lights flashed, and it was exciting inside. With the effect of alcohol, several young women began to sway with the music.

  Ye Pingyu stood there for a moment, watching everyone's revelry, which was completely different from his life in the countryside. There were no such things in rural areas, it seemed that city life was still better!