C7

Silence fell over the phone. Huo Jiamin couldn't help but sigh and say, "Alright, I won't talk about it anymore. Mom and Dad won't mention this matter to you because I'm afraid that you'll be in trouble." You and Sun Mann can discuss what to do next. "Then that's it. You rest early, I'm hanging up."

"Mm." Huo Shuqing hung up the phone and turned the phone over in her lap, not saying a word.

In the eyes of many, Huo Shuqing, who was thirty-eight years old, was a success. When Tan Chunming was the East China Province Wu Steel, Huo Shuqing was the first secretary of the provincial government's courtyard. For a whole five years. Even though his level wasn't high, he had a lot of power. And right now, he was going to be the Mayor of the Jiangning province, so there weren't many people who could achieve such an achievement at his age. But God never gave a man everything he wanted.

Closing her eyes, Huo Shuqing heaved a long sigh.

Just then, he suddenly remembered that he had given Su Fann his birthday present. He had seen her text message in the afternoon, but he hadn't expected that the ticket she had bought was the birthday present his niece wanted. It was easy for him to get tickets for the concert, but Su Fann had already bought them. After all, she had thought about it and should be grateful to her.

The next morning, Su Fann received the concert tickets. She remembered that Huo Shuqing said she would deliver them to him as soon as she got the tickets. So she texted him about the situation.

At this moment, Huo Shuqing was in her office, working on several of her leaders' speeches. When she received her text message, she called her.

"Su, I'm in my office right now. Bring it over!" I have a meeting in an hour, and I may not have time. " "No," he said.

"Oh, okay, okay. I'll be right over. Where is your office? " Su Fann asked hurriedly.

"The building opposite the door, the building in front of you, 4012, is the one you passed through the entrance to the provincial capital." "No," he said.

"Alright, I'll remember, goodbye Secretary General Huo." She hung up the phone, thought for a moment, then quickly walked into the office. She whispered to Sister Li who was sitting opposite to her desk, "My classmate came to find me because of an urgent matter. I'll be out for an hour."

"Don't worry, go ahead. If the Leader comes looking for you, I'll cover for you." If not, I'll call you. "Hurry up and go!" Sister Li said enthusiastically.

Su Fann quickly carried her bag and left the office.

She knew that Huo Shuqing was following Secretary ofProvincial Committee and those leaders were all short on time. If they said that the meeting would be held in an hour, then it definitely wouldn't be for one hour and one minute. As soon as she stepped out of the house, she hailed a taxi and drove straight to the provincial council compound.

Luckily, the traffic was very smooth at this time of the morning. Even so, Su Fann was still extremely anxious, afraid that she wouldn't be able to catch up with Huo Shuqing.

Fifteen minutes later, the taxi stopped at the side of the provincial council's gate. Su Fann got off the taxi and walked quickly to the door guarded by the armed police.

Before she could reach him, she was stopped by a military police officer, giving her a fright. She stared at the armed police officer with a gun in her hand with some fear.

So scary!

The military police pointed to a small house on the left side of the gate and told her to go there to register.

Su Fann was so scared that she almost died. When she went to register, her heart was still thumping wildly. It was said that the yamen was hard to enter, so it was not empty!

On the registration form, she wrote down her name, her work unit, and Huo Shuqing's name and office number. Then she handed the door card to the military police standing guard and entered the provincial government compound through the small door on the left.

The office building that Huo Shuqing was in was the old building of the provincial government, only six stories tall. There was no elevator and even the banister was made of wood. It looked very ancient. In the garden in front of the building, a tall spruce tree covered in green leaves stood in the cold wind, as imposing as the armed police officer at the entrance.

Su Fann went to the fourth floor and found Huo Shuqing's office. She stood at the door and looked at her phone. Luckily, she didn't waste too much time.

Thus, she took a deep breath, raised her hand and knocked on the half-closed wooden door.

When Huo Shuqing heard the knock on the door, she directly said, "Please come in." She then pushed the door open and entered.

"Hello, Secretary General Huo!" Su Fann asked politely.

"Oh, it's you. Close the door and sit down. I'll be ready soon." He smiled up at her and pointed to the chair on the other side of the desk.

"Yes." Su Fann obediently closed the door and sat opposite him.

"You're pretty fast, aren't you?" Huo Shuqing said, her tone light.

"There's no traffic on the road, so it's pretty fast." Su Fann replied as she sat across from him.

His desk was simple, a pen holder containing a few neutral pens, and two stacks of paperlike papers were placed on the corner of his left and right hands respectively. Oh, and a picture frame with its back to her.

She sat up straight in her chair, not daring to look around, and stared at his large desk.

"Alright." Hearing his words, Su Fann's slightly relaxed mind immediately focused. She quickly took out the ticket from her bag.

"Secretary General Huo, this is the ticket." She stood up and placed the colorful brochure containing the tickets in front of him, but did not sit down.

Huo Shuqing opened the brochure and took a look. Smiling, she said, "It's just a concert, yet the tickets are already so expensive. It's almost a thousand."

"Yeah, this group is really famous. A lot of people like their songs." Su Fann explained.

"That's still too expensive." Huo Shuqing placed the ticket on the table.

"Actually, this isn't the most expensive one. The most expensive VIP ticket would have cost 28,000 tickets!" Su Fann said.

Huo Shuqing stood up and walked over to the water dispenser. She picked up a white porcelain cup and asked Su Fann, "Do you want some water or tea? I have a well here. "

"Ah, no, thank you. I will leave immediately." she said quickly.

"Is there an emergency?" he asked.

"No, it's just —" She looked at him, wanting to say, Aren't you going to a meeting?

"Anyhow, there's always time for a glass of water, isn't there? You have to drink a glass of water before you go. " "No," he said.

"Uh, then let's drink plain water, thank you!" Su Fann said.

"You sit on the sofa and we'll talk for a while. I still have some time." Then she pressed the water dispenser and got her a glass of water.

Su Fann sat obediently on the black leather couch in his office, waiting for him to arrive.

"My niece too. She called last night to see a concert. Her parents refused to come, so she wasn't happy." Huo Shuqing placed the cup of water in front of Su Fann and sat on the sofa on the other side. She picked up her cup and took a sip.

"Kids nowadays chase after the stars." Su Fann answered.

"Would you like to see it? A concert? " he asked, putting down his cup.

"Me?" Su Fann said in surprise, "Oh, I'm not going. I'm still afraid of the scene where so many people are singing so noisily. I'm afraid you can't even hear what they are singing on stage!"

He laughed and said, "The feeling at the scene is not the same as watching TV. If you want to see it, take this ticket — "He got up and walked over to the desk. He took the ticket and placed it in front of Su Fann."

Su Fann was completely confused as she looked at him with a puzzled expression.

"Secretary General Huo, you, didn't you want to give it to your niece? "How can I —" she asked.

"They're just a few kids coming over to see the concert. It seems like there's only one parent accompanying them. You know how children are nowadays, parents are still feeling disturbed, my sister even asked me to watch them, I don't like to watch those concerts. If you're free that day, please help me keep an eye on them. After all, you're about the same age as them, and you won't be restrained when you're with them. I called them this morning and asked for their tickets. This one is from the regular section, well, it's okay, I'll talk to the concert organizer and ask you to sit with them at the VIP section and supervise the kids for me. " Huo Shuqing looked at her.

Su Fann looked troubled. He could tell at a glance, because she didn't try to hide it at all.

"Am I making things difficult for you?" he asked.

"Ah, no, no," Su Fann quickly waved her hand, "Secretary General Huo, I didn't make it difficult for you." "Actually, to be honest, I haven't seen the concert yet, but —"

He looked at her silently.

"But to spend a thousand dollars to go to the concert, just for two hours, I think —" she said, looking down in embarrassment.

Huo Shuqing smiled and said, "It's fine. Just take it as a gift from me. Take it!" His words contained a faint force that did not allow her to reject him. Su Fann had no choice but to put the ticket she had brought back into her bag.

If only he had known earlier that things would turn out like this, he wouldn't have made this trip. she thought.

At this moment, there was a knock on the door. Huo Shuqing said, "Come in," and a young man stood in the doorway.

"Secretary General Huo, the meeting is about to begin." The young man said.

Huo Shuqing looked at the time and stood up, saying, "Alright, I'll be there right away."

When the young man pulled the door shut, Su Fann hurriedly stood up. Huo Shuqing took the few pages of speech on the table and said, "I'm sorry, I'm going to have a meeting. I won't be keeping you any longer. Thank you for coming all this way."

"It's alright. Secretary General Huo, you can do what you need to. I'll be leaving first. Goodbye!" With that, Su Fann walked to the door, gave him a polite smile, and opened the door before walking out.

Looking at her back, Huo Shuqing smiled and walked out of the office with the speech script in her hand.

Walking down the stairs, Su Fann raised her head and looked at the verdant spruce tree. She was a little confused, since he had already asked for the ticket on the phone, why did he ask her to send the ticket over? He could have just said it over the phone. Why would he need her to come over again?

Ai, forget it, he might have messed things up. After all, he was so busy. Besides, if it wasn't for him, how could she even get into the provincial capital's courtyard?

As expected, it was the provincial government's office. It was so quiet that not even the front door of the building could make a sound.

Su Fann enjoyed the eerie silence of the provincial government and walked out of the courtyard.

Soon, it was the weekend.

On Friday night, Huo Shuqing flew on a plane from Cloud City back to Jiang Prefecture.

By the time the plane landed at Jiang Zhou airport, it was already 9 PM. Huo Shuqing went to the airport parking lot, found her car, and drove out of the airport.