Chapter 574: Boiling the soup

Chen Mingluo planned to spend the Spring Festival with his parents, but things went against his wishes. Just before the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month, Sang Mingda informed him to rush to the capital immediately and Premier Hong summoned him.

Chen Mingluo naturally did not dare to neglect such things. He immediately packed his luggage and rushed to the capital. When Liu Ruyan was also on the plane and asked casually, he realized that she had been there this time because she was invited by CCTV to sing a song on the Spring Festival Gala.

After the plane took off, Chen Mingluo simply changed seats with someone and sat next to Liu Ruyan. The one-hour itinerary was just chatting and it would not seem particularly difficult.

Liu Ruyan's assistant also followed two of them, both young girls. One of them was the hotel waiter who was particularly admired by the two when he arrived in Beijing last time. At this time, Liu Ruyan had already been poached by him and hired him as his assistant with a high salary.

According to Liu Ruyan, this new assistant is dedicated to his work and can think of everything, which saves Liu Ruyan a lot of effort and uses it very easily. It is much better than the original assistant.

"Is this time going to the Spring Festival Gala a solo repertoire?" Chen Mingluo asked Liu Ruyan.

"Well, it's a solo, but the time is far behind, it's about 11 o'clock in the evening." Liu Ruyan replied.

"That's not easy, this stage is not easy." Chen Mingluo nodded and commented.

The Spring Festival Gala stage is indeed not very easy now, especially for singing and dancing programs. The era of singing eight songs alone has long gone forever. Now the most common thing is that eight people sing one song. Even so, the CCTV Spring Festival Gala stage is a target that most artists flock to.

News often breaks out, saying that in order to promote a certain artist, XXX company spent a lot of money to bribe CCTV Spring Festival Gala directors to get a chance to appear. Such things are sometimes not easy to distinguish, but they can also explain one problem, that is, this topic is always a popular topic.

"It was an appointment in October last year. Fortunately, the director of the Spring Festival Gala gave him more face and did not take it off temporarily, otherwise it would be embarrassing enough." Liu Ruyan said to Chen Mingluo with a smile.

This time she came out, the clothes she wore were quite gorgeous. After all, as a first-line artist, clothing is also a promotional direction. The black fur coat she wore was sponsored by a well-known international brand. From top to bottom, including sunglasses, were specially sponsored by others, and she was paid a considerable amount of advertising fees.

"Fortunately, internationally renowned brands should be more implicit and will not post that obvious trademark everywhere. Otherwise, you may be labeled with trademarks all over you now." Chen Mingluo noticed this and couldn't help laughing.

After hearing this, Liu Ruyan felt a little embarrassed and said to Chen Mingluo with a blushing face, "Oh, there is nothing we can do about it. In addition to the appearance fee, artists mainly rely on advertising fees to survive. I am more cautious in choosing advertising. Unlike Faye Wong and others, they sometimes have to put high heels on their heads-"

"That's right, she is a maverick person, and it's really not very ordinary." Chen Mingluo nodded in agreement.

"Or why are they the advertising queen in Hong Kong-" Liu Ruyan said.

The one-hour journey was relatively short, and I arrived in the capital after a few words.

After getting off the plane, CCTV staff came to greet Liu Ruyan. They would go directly to the hotel near the party site to stay in, then participate in the final rehearsal, and then wait for the official show.

Chen Mingluo is not alone. The staff of the General Office of the State Council have been driving outside for a long time. Just looking at the license plate made the CCTV staff who greeted Liu Ruyan feel envious. This kind of treatment is not something that everyone can enjoy.

The two of them made an appointment. If there was no problem, they would take the flight back to Yangshuo at noon on the first day of the Lunar New Year. Anyway, it would only take an hour and would not miss too much.

After Chen Mingluo got into the car, he began to close his eyes and rest. Soon, the car drove into Xinhua Gate and went straight into the big interior.

"Do you go to see Vice Premier Sang first?" Chen Mingluo asked the staff next to him who greeted him.

"No, I'm going to see Premier Hong." The staff member replied. In fact, he was very puzzled. After all, a prime minister is not so easy to see. Even the staff members of the Mainland China service may not necessarily see the Prime Minister often. However, they did not expect that a young man like Xiang Chen Mingluo could be summoned alone. This is really an enviable treatment.

Premier Hong is really impatient, Chen Mingluo sighed in his heart.

This time, it was probably because Sang Mingda handed over the materials he had sorted to Premier Hong. After reading them, he had some ideas, otherwise he would not have come here so soon. After all, the Spring Festival will be coming soon, and their affairs are relatively busy. It is necessary to meet people from all walks of life, meet envoys from various countries, social groups, democrats, etc.

As for what you say to go to the grassroots to have fun with the people, or go to the army to have fun with the officers and soldiers, it is a must-do.

Premier Hong was able to summon himself at this critical moment, which shows his importance to these materials.

After arriving at the local area, the person who led the way changed and became a higher-level staff member. Chen Mingluo probably had to be a cadre at the department level or above, but he was only about thirty-five years old.

These staff members of the Prime Minister’s General Office generally do not stay for too long and are often put down for exercise. They have better conditions and are covered by someone, so there is still a lot of room to go up in the future.

Chen Mingluo was told that the Prime Minister was in a meeting and had a brief meeting with a foreign envoy before he had time to meet him and asked him to wait here for a while.

"Mr. Chen has any need, so he can tell us that if he feels tired from the journey, he can also take a break first. There are rooms and beds here. We will wake you up later." The staff member said to Chen Mingluo.

"Thank you, I want to sleep for a while." Chen Mingluo was not polite, thinking that he would not miss the opportunity to sleep in Da'an. Otherwise, if he really did this with his own ability, he would not know that he would be the year of the Monkey and Horse Month.

Having said that, the conditions in Danei's rest room were average, but it was very tidy. Chen Mingluo might have been really tired, so he fell asleep on the bed after a while.

When someone came to wake him up, he found that it was already lunch time.

"I actually slept for an afternoon, it was a bit surprising." After Chen Mingluo got up, he found that the person who woke him was a young girl. He looked about twenty-four years old, with almond eyes and peach cheeks, and a very soft hair. He was wearing a formal skirt and looked very full of energy.

"Hello, Mr. Chen, I am Premier Hong's secretary Lu Qi." The girl's voice was also very nice.

"Hello Secretary Lu, do you have time to see me?" Chen Mingluo asked.

"Boss Hong has an extraordinary Standing Committee meeting to attend, so you have to wait patiently for a while." Lu Qi replied with a smile.

Chen Mingluo nodded, and then his stomach gushed. Because there were only two of them in the room and the environment was very quiet, it seemed very obvious, which made him feel a little embarrassed.

Although I ate some food on the plane, the lunch box was similar to feeding cats, so I naturally couldn't eat enough. After getting off the plane, I took him to the big neighbourhood and had no chance to eat along the way. Unexpectedly, before Prime Minister Hong could wait for Premier Hong, he had already started a plan to open the empty city.

"Haha, Mr. Chen, I have some dumplings here, so I can cook a bowl for you." Lu Qi also heard Chen Mingluo's stomach screaming, and said to him with a smile.

"Turban, thank you," Chen Mingluo thought to himself that some foods are better than nothing.

If you don’t eat anymore, you will probably feel hungry when Premier Hong comes back, so it’s better to put your stomach on the first place.

There is a small kitchen outside the room. Lu Qi took a box of quick-frozen dumplings from the refrigerator, unpacked the packaging, and then started to make them. After more than ten minutes, she brought the cooked dumplings over.

"Secretary Lu can have something together?" Chen Minglu suggested.

"No, I'm on a diet recently." Lu Qi replied with a smile.

"Then I'm not polite-" Chen Mingluo was really hungry. Seeing that Lu Qi had no intention of taking action, he sat next to the table and ate with his head.

In fact, it is really not easy to eat too much sweetness, but Chen Mingluo was indeed hungry. He drank more than half of a box of glutinous rice balls and drank some soup. Fortunately, Lu Qi saw that he was having a good time, so he went to the refrigerator to turn out two bags of shredded vegetables and let him eat it to dilute the sweetness.

"I'm so sorry. I don't have anything to eat here. When I'm hungry at night, I just cook some dumplings." Lu Qi sat opposite the table, holding her head with her hands, looking at Chen Mingluo eating with interest, and said to him apologetically.

"I'm not picky about food, the dumplings are cooked very well, thank you." Chen Mingluo replied.

In fact, Chen Mingluo could guess that Lu Qi had only dumplings in her refrigerator, not even instant noodles. It can only be said that she is indeed a bit incompetent in life. She probably wouldn't be Premier Hong's life secretary.

"Is this your room?" Chen Mingluo suddenly thought of a question after eating the dumplings.

"Yes." Lu Qi nodded and replied.

Chen Mingluo was shocked and thought to himself that he had just slept on the other girl's bed. Seeing that she didn't mind at all, can she say that she was a little interested in him?
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