Tong Guangsheng took out a cigarette, and Gao Xinhua helped him light it, then took one for himself.
Tong Guangsheng took two puffs and sighed, "I owe him."
"There's no grudge that can't be talked about between father and son. You should make it clear to him that back then, it wasn't you who abandoned them, it was..."
"Old Gao!" Tong Guangsheng stopped Gao Xinhua from continuing.
Gao Xinhua flicked the ash from his cigarette and said, "I used to think you rich people had no worries, but now it seems you're just like us ordinary folks."
Tong Guangsheng said, "What kind of ordinary folk are you? You're a deputy department-level cadre; you've been distanced from the masses for many years."
Gao Xinhua said, "That's where you're wrong."
"How was I wrong?"
"I'm now a full department-level cadre."
Tong Guangsheng was stunned: "Full department-level? When was the promotion?"
Gao Xinhua explained that he had been appointed as the secretary of Changxing Hospital.
