Chapter 2292: Completely Divided

"Bullshit! If he hadn't laid the foundation for him, would he be where he is today? You have made a great contribution to the current situation of Xiquan City. I didn't say that, my dad said that." Xie Simin said.

"Alright, stop complaining on my behalf. The province will definitely have an explanation for my case. It doesn't matter whether I need an explanation or not. What's important is that the province must give an explanation to the people, so this matter will definitely have a result."

"Just based on the current situation, the result won't come out for a while. You are also working in the provincial party committee, so you should be able to see some political details."

"This is a serious matter that cannot be resolved simply by rehabilitating me or issuing a notice. There are too many issues involved. At least we need to determine who is responsible before we can rehabilitate me."

"So this matter will take some time. At least there will be no results before the Chinese New Year this year." Qin Feng said his guess.

Chinese people like to use the Chinese New Year as a time node for everything they do. Qin Feng has been in "jail" for more than seven months, and now it's almost the end of the year in a blink of an eye.

"Let's not talk about me first, let's talk about you. Were you forced by your father to come to work in the province or did you make this choice on your own?" Qin Feng asked Xie Simin.

Qin Feng had discussed this issue in depth with Xie Simin before in Xiquan.

"It's my own choice, you know. If I don't agree, no one can force me." Xie Simin said.

Qin Feng nodded, turned the car right according to the navigation, and prepared to drive into a restaurant next to him, but found that there was a traffic jam in front of the restaurant. There were staff members directing vehicles, and there were already many people queuing outside the store.

"You don't want to invite me to dinner here, do you?" Xie Simin asked.

"What's wrong? I heard that this store is the most popular store in Zhongjiang recently."

"You're right, but because it's so popular, you can't get a table here. You can't even queue up. Look at how many people there are. You may not be able to get a table even if you queue up tonight. I've been here several times and never got a table. Forget it. There's no way I can get a table. Find another one, or I'll be late for work this afternoon."

Qin Feng looked at the grand scene at the entrance of the hotel and smiled.

"Don't look at it. You can't eat here. Others have said that even the municipal party secretary has to queue up to eat here. It's useless even if you can find connections. I don't know how deep the connections behind this boss are. I only know that this boss has made a fortune." Xie Simin muttered, persuading Qin Feng to give up the idea.

"It looks like this boss is really making a lot of money." Qin Feng nodded with a smile, then turned the steering wheel and drove away.

Li Jing had said earlier that this store was doing a booming business, but Qin Feng had not expected it to be this popular. He had been thinking of inviting Xie Simin to have a meal here at noon to experience it for herself, but it seemed that there would be no such opportunity today, and he estimated that there wouldn't be many opportunities in the future.

Since there was no queue here, Qin Feng just found a restaurant nearby and ordered a few dishes with Xie Simin.

"You have been working in the Propaganda Department for some time, right? How do you feel about it?" Qin Feng asked.

"It's okay. I was a little uncomfortable at first, but I got used to it slowly."

"What are you responsible for?"

"The leader specifically talked to me and asked me to continue to be in charge of the publicity work on the new media front, saying that it was to make use of my expertise."

"That's great. You're famous for your propaganda skills. It feels different to work in an office than at the grassroots level, right?"

"Of course it's different. It's completely different. It feels like it's not the same world or the same job."

"What's the specific difference?" Qin Feng leaned back in his chair and smoked.

"Let me put it this way. Working at the grassroots level, taking my previous work in Yi'an as an example, everything I did, I could intuitively feel the benefits it brought to the people. Some of it directly created benefits for the people, and some of it brought convenience to the people's lives."

"So when I work at the grassroots level, I can intuitively feel the significance of my work, which makes me more motivated, more goal-oriented, and I know what I am doing."

"But I don't have this feeling when I work in government. Work is just work, and I work for the sake of work. The content of the work may seem high-end, but it is not easy for people to have an intuitive sense of achievement."

"To be honest, compared to working at the grassroots level, working here is really boring..."

Qin Feng and Xie Simin chatted while eating, and most of the time it was Qin Feng who was listening to Xie Simin's complaints.

It seemed like Xie Simin had a lot of things to say for a long time with no one to talk to, and today she poured them all out to Qin Feng like beans pouring out of a bamboo tube.

What Xie Simin talked about were basically all the unpleasant things that happened to her after she started working in the Propaganda Department.

When Xie Simin was working at Yian, everyone knew that she had a close relationship with Qin Feng, so she was almost like an empress in Yian.

But when she arrived at the Propaganda Department of the Provincial Party Committee, although she was a section-level cadre, she was not even considered a cadre in this place, but only a low-level clerk. In addition, she deliberately concealed her father-daughter relationship with Xie Zhiguo, so in this extremely snobbish agency, she naturally felt that everything was not going well and she was full of grievances.

"Do you regret coming here?" Qin Feng asked with a smile.

"No, it was my own decision to come here to work, so I don't regret it. I never regret any decision I made on my own." Xie Simin is still the strong-willed Xie Simin.

"How are you and Lu Zian? Are you planning to get married? I hope your return here won't affect your relationship?" Qin Feng asked, changing the subject.

Xie Simin glanced at Qin Feng, lowered her head to eat, and said lightly while eating: "We have broken up."

Qin Feng was eating, and when he heard this he raised his head in surprise: "Are you kidding me?"

"I'm not that boring." Xie Simin rolled her eyes at Qin Feng.

From Xie Simin's expression, Qin Feng knew that Xie Simin was not joking, and asked, "Why did you break up? Aren't you two doing well?"

"I don't know how to put it. Maybe it's because of our incompatibility in personality. I'm too strong and he can't stand it." Xie Simin said it all in a few words.

Qin Feng frowned. He knew that the reason why Xie Simin and Lu Zian broke up was not that simple, but this was their private matter. Xie Simin didn't want to elaborate and it was not convenient for him to ask. Besides, who could really explain matters of the heart?

"Are they really broken up completely? There is no possibility of getting back together?" Qin Feng put down his chopsticks, lit a cigarette and asked.

"No, we're completely broken up. It's because we're completely broken up that I decided to come back to Zhongjiang to work." Xie Simin said lightly.

Although Xie Simin spoke calmly, as she spoke, tears suddenly began to drip onto the table in front of her.

This frightened Qin Feng, and he quickly walked over and hugged Xie Simin: "Silly girl, why are you crying? It's no big deal if you break up. Breaking up only means that your fate has ended, or that your fate has not yet arrived. You are still young, so what does it matter?"

Xie Simin lay in Qin Feng's arms and burst into tears.