South to North: A Prison Guard at the Beginning

Chapter 380 Visiting Jin Yueji's House

"Mr. Jin, you're too polite. How about this, when I'm free, I'll call you and visit you in person?" Yuan Mu replied with a smile.

"Okay, then I'll be waiting for you." Jin Yueji also laughed.

"Okay, that's it." After saying that, Yuan Mu hung up the phone.

As soon as the phone was hung up, Yuan Mu's face turned cold instantly, which scared Song Zian next to him. The leader was fine just now, why did he suddenly change his expression?

"Xiao Song."

"Leader." Song Zian responded quickly.

"Look at my schedule for tomorrow and take some time to go to the Provincial Party Committee's staff quarters."

"Ah? Oh, okay." Song Zian was surprised for a moment and then nodded quickly, picked up the small notebook that recorded Yuan Mu's work arrangements and started to check it.

"Boss, your work schedule tomorrow is quite full, but I do have some time the day after tomorrow afternoon, what do you think..."

"What do I have to do tomorrow afternoon?"

"Tomorrow afternoon is a routine meeting."

"Well, let's postpone this meeting to the afternoon of the day after tomorrow. I have to go to the provincial party committee's staff quarters tomorrow afternoon. You can make the arrangements," Yuan Mu said after thinking for a while.

"Okay, leader." Song Zian nodded, and then began to write and draw on his notebook.

"Oh, by the way, buy me two boxes of pastries before you go tomorrow." Yuan Mu suddenly remembered something and instructed Song Zian.

"Good leadership."

Jin Yueji doesn't accept gifts from anyone else, including her in-laws, so will she accept gifts from him, a member of the Municipal Party Committee? This is also a bit of Yuan Mu's evil taste, to see how Jin Yueji handles this matter.

If she accepts the gift, it means that there is really something wrong with her thinking. If you don't accept her gift, it means that she is really honest and has such a character. Tomorrow we will be able to verify what kind of person she is.

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The next afternoon, Yuan Mu took the district committee's No. 1 car to the provincial committee's family compound. After Song Zian explained the situation to the guard at the door, the door was opened and the car drove into the provincial committee's family compound and soon stopped in front of a villa. This was Jin Yueji's home.

"Xiao Song, wait for me here." After getting out of the car, Yuan Mu looked at Song Zian beside him and said.

"Yes."

Then Yuan Mu walked to the door with two boxes of pastries and knocked on it.

After about twenty seconds, the door opened and a middle-aged woman came into view. Even so, it could be seen that she must have been a great beauty when she was young. Yuan Mu recognized her. This should be Hao Dongmei, Zhou Bingyi's wife and Jin Yueji's daughter.

"Comrade, who are you looking for?" Hao Dongmei looked Yuan Mu up and down and asked.

"Is this Jin Yueji or Jin's hometown?" Yuan Mu asked with a smile on his face.

"Yeah, you're looking for my mom?"

"Yes, my name is Yuan Mu, and Mr. Jin invited me here." Yuan Mu nodded.

Hearing this, Hao Dongmei became a little interested in Yuan Mu. You know, her mother Jin Yueji usually wouldn't invite anyone to her home as a guest unless they were a leader. But looking at the man in front of her, she estimated that he was at most around 30 years old. Could he be a leader?

"Oh, then please come in." Although Hao Dongmei thought so, she still opened the door to let Yuan Mu enter the house.

"Please sit down. I'll go call my mother. Wait a moment." After leading Yuan Mu to sit on the sofa in the living room, Hao Dongmei spoke.

"Okay." Yuan Mu nodded.

About a minute or two later, Jin Yueji came down from upstairs with a smile on her face.

"Comrade Xiao Yuan, I'm sorry, I just received a call."

Yuan Mu complained in his heart, why are you answering a stupid phone call? You knew I came at this time but you still acted so arrogantly and waited upstairs on purpose. If you were still a leader of the provincial party committee, it would be understandable. But you, a retired cadre, acted like this in front of him, and you still needed his help. This made Yuan Mu's impression of her decrease a little.

"It's okay, Mr. Jin, I just arrived too." Yuan Mu stood up and said with a smile.

"Please sit down, Xiaomei, please make a cup of tea for the guests." Jin Yueji walked to the sofa and said to Hao Dongmei.

"Okay." Hao Dongmei nodded and went to make tea.

"Comrade Xiao Yuan, please take a seat."

"You too." Yuan Mu nodded with a smile and then sat down.

Then the two began to chat, talking about the work in the district. Soon Hao Dongmei came over with a cup of tea and placed it next to Yuan Mu.

"Comrade Xiao Yuan, let me introduce you. This is my daughter, Hao Dongmei."

"Hello, Comrade Hao Dongmei." Yuan Mu smiled and stretched out his hand to shake her hand.

"Xiaomei, this is our province, the secretary of the Daoli District Committee of Harbin City, Comrade Yuan Mu."

Hearing this, Hao Dongmei's pupils shrank. She really didn't expect that Yuan Mu was actually the secretary of the Daoli District Committee! He was a cadre at the level of a department head, and a member of the Municipal Party Committee Standing Committee, at the same level as her husband Zhou Bingyi, and even ranked higher than Zhou Bingyi in the Municipal Party Committee Standing Committee. How old is he?

"Hello, Secretary Yuan." Jin Yueji could call Yuan Mu Comrade Xiao Yuan, but she couldn't, not even if her father was still alive.

Soon the three of them sat down again. Yuan Mu picked up the two boxes of pastries beside him, looked at Jin Yueji and spoke with a smile.

"Mr. Jin, these are some small pastries I bought on the way. I didn't prepare anything for my first visit, so please don't mind."

Jin Yueji was stunned for a moment when she looked at the pastries in Yuan Mu's hand, but soon she smiled.

"Comrade Xiao Yuan, you are so thoughtful. I am old and my teeth are not good. Now I like to eat something soft. I will accept it this time. Next time, I must not bring anything."

Yuan Mu sneered in his heart, while Hao Dongmei on the side was confused. She had lived with her parents for so many years and had never seen them accept gifts from anyone. However, what she said was not absolute, because they did not accept gifts from subordinates and other people. They had to accept gifts from their superiors.

"Okay, then I'll put it here for you." Yuan Mu had already cursed in his heart, but on the surface he still had a harmless smile on his face.

"Mr. Jin, you must have something to ask me today. If so, please tell me directly. I have great respect for you, the older generation of proletarian revolutionaries. I will not refuse as long as I can help!" Yuan Mu shouted slogans loudly, but only Yuan Mu himself knew whether his slogans would work when the real situation came.

When Jin Yueji heard Yuan Mu's words, a gleam of excitement flashed in her eyes.

"Okay, Comrade Xiao Yuan, please speak quickly. If I continue to beat around the bush, it will seem unpleasant. The thing is, you should know my son-in-law, Zhou Bingyi, right?"

"Deputy Mayor Zhou? He is your son-in-law?" Yuan Mu pretended to be surprised.