(Chapter 3 is out, it’s pitiful. The book system collapsed in the afternoon, and the only three or four chapters of the manuscript were also lost. It seems that I am a man who shouldn’t have manuscripts! Please pity)

After dinner, Chen Huai did not return to the town government immediately, but instead stalked around the town.

The reception station is a newly built building in 1990s. It can be said that it is the most iconic building in Meixi Town besides the steel mill.

The building is three floors facing the street, and it is raised to the fifth floor to the west. It has a semi-arc structure and smooth lines. The facade is covered with mosaics decorated with blue flowers, like a white wave coming.

The half-pan Building facing the street is used as a town reception station. In addition to catering, there is also a guest house. However, Meixi Town is very close to Donghua City. Guests with slightly strict accommodation requirements will stay in Donghua City. The business conditions of the guest house department at the reception station are not ideal, and the only catering department relies on the food and drink of the government and steel mills to live a particularly comfortable life.

Walking in from the garden south of the reception station is the cultural station in the same building as the reception station.

It is said to be a cultural station, but it has actually been contracted out long ago.

There was a circle of game consoles in the lobby on the ground floor when entering the door. At noon, there were many young people in society and students from Meixi Middle School. In the corner, there was a group of people gathering around two slot machines gambling game coins. No one cared about Chen Huai coming in.

Walking up from the corner escalator, the second floor is the town’s video screening hall. There is a blackboard hanging at the door, and the videos to be played this afternoon were written in red and white chalk.

The title of the film "Your Beautiful Woman" also has the six words "Hong Kong Beauty, Love Made".

The third floor is a dance hall, and the light inside is dim. It is not yet time to open, so no one can be seen. The fourth floor is the only reserved facility for the Town Culture standing in this building. The town library. The door of the library is closed, and no one can be seen.

The fifth floor is the office, and there is no one there at noon, so there is the rooftop.

There were couples hiding in the corner and eating their tongues on the rooftop. They were wearing Meixi Middle School uniforms. When they saw Chen Huai coming up to the rooftop, they separated. They pretended to be calm and turned to look outside.

Apart from the blast furnace of the steel mill and the water tower of the tap water plant, there is no building taller than this building in Meixi Town.

Chen Huai stood on the rooftop with a wide view. Looking into the distance, you can see the blast furnace of the steel mill and the air steel corridor to the south, you can see the rippling waves of the Meixi River to the west, and to the north, you can see the fields in the east. Xiamei Highway, Xuetang Street, Meixi Old Street, Gangchang Road and some rural dirt roads divide Meixi Town into dozens of uneven pieces.

The scenery is magnificent from afar, but when you look back, you will see the poverty and dilapidation of Meixi.

Not to mention the rural areas further away, the town is full of rows of blue brick houses, with thatched roofs, and the winding alleys look old and messy.

From the Cultural Station Building and Xuetang Street with Xinpu asphalt pavement, we can see that Meixi Town's financial resources were quite considerable around 1990s. Unfortunately, the sweet period was too short. Meixi Middle School between the Cultural Station Building and the town government compound mainly had the school buildings that had been left before liberation and the horse sheds built by the Japanese army invaded China.

In addition to the lush trees, Meixi Middle School looks old and the field is also yellow.

Don’t expect any plastic tracks or turf. Chen Huai saw a request for the application for the long jump sand pit from the Education Office in the morning about the use of two tons of sand from Meixi Middle School. He saw how embarrassed the education payment of Meixi Middle School was.

To the north of the cultural station is the town nursing home, two rows of bungalows built in the 1960s and 1970s. Looking down at the Huai River, you can see the roof of the southern bungalow peeling off a tiles from the strong wind and temporarily covering it with thatch and mulch spear. In the large yard of the nursing home, seven or eight widowed elderly people dozed off, and more than a dozen free-range chickens were chasing the yard.

The vegetable market in the west of Xuetang Street is a colored steel shed. Last winter, heavy snow was snowed and the colored steel shed was crushed by too thick snow. Now you can still see traces of collapse on the roof of the colored steel shed.

Perhaps I have never looked at Meixi Town from this perspective before, and I don’t have such a profound and distinct feeling about the economic lag and dilapidation of Meixi Town.

Not to mention the rural towns in Europe and the United States, Meixi Town is also much behind compared to the towns in Pingjiang City on the south bank of the Zhujiang River.

"What are you looking at?"

Chen Huai turned around and saw Chen Dan climbing up the rooftop from the other escalator, leaning against the railing, saying, "I didn't expect to stand here and see the scenery of Meixi Town so well..."

"You have just walked up to inspect your territory, so you think it's good to stand up and see the scenery. If you come up twice more, you will see the backward places of Meixi, the steel mills and Meixi River in the south are very polluted..." Chen Dan said.

Will this be his own territory? Chen Huai asked himself.

He had decided to stay in Donghua before, first, to take good care of Xiaoli, and then to think about doing something to change the Song family's view of him, but to truly examine this land that made him dream of, he couldn't help but feel an impulse that surged out of his heart:

Only by making this land better and richer is what he should do.

"Where are you and Xiao Li living?" Chen Huai looked at Chen Dan calmly.

"No, that bungalow is the dormitory in the town," Chen Dan pointed to a narrow alley west of the Cultural Station and said, "Secretary Chen, if you don't live in an old house, you can live in a guest room at the reception station, or you can live in a dormitory in the town; maybe you can live directly in front of the dormitory building of the steel mill..."

Chen Dan pointed to the two rows of gray-white buildings behind the steel mill on the south side.

Meixi Steel Plant's annual steel production volume is less than one-tenth of that of the municipal steel plant, but it has nearly 800 employees, making it the best-selling factory in the distance.

"Are you here to look for me?" Chen Huai asked again.

"Ah," Chen Dan then realized why he was going to the rooftop.

She just walked up and saw Chen Huai looking into the distance and being attracted by his handsome face and focused expression, she turned the matter apart.

Chen Dan's pink face turned slightly red and said, "Zhao Dong has come here. He happened to go to the reception station to borrow a phone number to contact you. I watched you turn into the cultural station and thought that you would be on the rooftop, so I came over and called you..."

Chen Huai and Chen Dan came downstairs, and Zhao Dong and Yang Haipeng were waiting outside the reception station. They didn't know where they got a Santa, and they stopped by the roadside.

Chen Huai looked at Yang Haipeng and asked, "Zhao Dong resigned from the city steel factory and is doing nothing now. Why don't you care about your building materials store?"

"Hi, how big can there be in the store? Today is Secretary Chen, your new official, and you have to come here to join in the fun. Secretary Chen, won’t you not welcome me here, right?" Yang Haipeng touched his hedgehog-like buzz cut, smiled and narrowed his eyes into a slit, and enthusiastically called Chen Huai’s new official name.

Chen Huai smiled and clapped Yang Haipeng's shoulder, saying, "Don't call me apart. I have no friends in Donghua. I am willing to make two friends with you and Zhao Dong."

Yang Haipeng was pestering Zhao Dong and rushed to Meixi Town together. He also had his own Xiaojiujiu, and was worried that Chen Huai would not like it if he was too clear. At this time, he called him this palm and felt aroused in his heart.

"Go in and find a place to talk..." Chen Huai invited Zhao Dong and Yang Haipeng to the reception station.

The lunch meeting asked him to mess up the situation. The reception station was deserted at this time. I don’t know where He Yuelian went. Chen Dan led them to the private room on the second floor to make tea, or stand at the door of the private room, neither going in nor leaving. It seemed that he was a waiter who could always wait for instructions.

Chen Huai picked up the teapot and distributed tea to Zhao Dong and Yang Haipeng, saying, "The situation today is a bit complicated. I had a quarrel with Du Laohu in the morning. It is said that he should have taken me directly to the steel mill to announce the appointment in the afternoon, but according to his eyes, he may hide and ignore me."

"Is the appointment approved?" Zhao Dong asked.

"Du Laohu is considered a tiger in Meixi Town, but he has no courage to violate the will of the county. The appointment has been passed," Chen Huai smiled. "Since all appointments have been passed, it doesn't make sense for them to delay the appointment. Maybe he was angry at noon, so he used this matter to relieve his anger..."

"How can you help Du Laohu get angry?" Yang Haipeng asked.

Just south of Meixi Bridge, there is a building material store next to the Heyun Wharf. The west bank of the river belongs to Tangzha District, the east bank belongs to Meixi Town, and Yang Haipeng's building material store is located on the west bank of the river, but he has a good understanding of the situation in Meixi Town.

After knowing what happened to Chen Huai, he took Lao Xiong to the provincial capital yesterday, Yang Haipeng was not worried that Chen Huai, supported by the Secretary of the New Municipal Party Committee, would not be able to bear Du Jian, but he was also curious about how Chen Huai would make a fuss with Du Jian on the first day.

"No, please ask Chen Dan about this..." Chen Huai said with a smile.

"What's next to me?" Chen Dan stood at the door and said coquettishly, "I'm just taking the tea and handing water, I don't know anything else."

Yang Haipeng smiled, and he also believed from the bottom of his heart that Chen Huai rented the old house that Sun Haiwen left for his sister, so he went to this delicate and bright Chen Dan. Because he had a good relationship with Sun Haiwen, although he had never met Chen Dan much, he also knew some of her situation.

This world is about men and women's love. Chen Huai is young and powerful, and he is romantic and elegant. Even if there are a lot of flowers and plants around him, it is not a shortcoming in Yang Haipeng's eyes.

He looked at Chen Dan and Chen Huai's eyebrows and thought, could it be that he had sex?

Zhao Dong's mind is not as complicated as Yang Haipeng. He also thought about the incident that Chen Huai had had a quarrel with the town party secretary the day before, and said, "Xu Xiting, the deputy chief engineer of Meixi Steel Factory, was from the city steel factory. He knew me and Haipeng. He had long wanted to find an opportunity to have a meal together, but Xu Xiting was cautious and thought about meeting again after he decided to make a decision. If Du Jian dragged you to the steel factory and announced his appointment, would he ask Xu Xiting to come out for a meal together in the evening?"

"It's OK." Chen Huai nodded. Du Jian's series of methods in the morning were nothing more than trying to undermine him. If he wanted to gain real power, he just wanted to attract enough people to listen to him.

Chen Huai was familiar with Xu Xiting. He entered the city steel factory. Xu Xiting also guided him in technology and was one of the people with relatively strong technology in the city steel factory. Meixi Steel Plant introduced British short-process electric furnaces for expansion in 2018, and specially hired Xu Xiting from the city steel factory to preside over the project.
Chapter completed!