Chapter 1032

Zhao Desan said irritably: "Better? How could it be better so fast? Now not only is it not better, but it's even more serious. Otherwise, I wouldn't have not gone to work!"

"Then... then you should have greeted me if you couldn't come. I'm your leader after all," Lan Mei said, finding a step for herself.

Zhao Desan said aggrievedly: "You just had that kind of surgery, and your body is not well. Who knew you would go to work today, Division Chief Lan."

Lan Mei said: "Then forget it, I know. Rest well at home and heal your injuries." Before hanging up, she remembered what Zheng Tulu said about the meeting, so she hurriedly said: "Comrade Comrade Xiao Zhao, wait."

"Anything else?" Zhao Desan asked irritably. Being scolded for no reason by her just now, Zhao Desan was in no mood at all.

Lan Mei softened her tone again and said: "We're having a year-end summary meeting in a while. Where did you put the materials I gave you last time? I'll need them for the meeting."

"They're all in the drawer." Hearing her tone soften quite a bit, Zhao Desan also softened his tone.

"Okay, I know," Lan Mei said. "Rest well at home and apply medicine on time, you know?"

Only this caring remark from Lan Mei made Zhao Desan feel a trace of warmth. He thought to himself that Division Chief Lan was actually quite concerned about him. So he smiled and said: "I know. You should also take care of your body, Division Chief Lan. You haven't had surgery for long, don't be too tired."

Lan Mei said gently: "I know."

After hanging up the phone and savoring the mutual concern and greetings, Lan Mei suddenly felt a warm current surge in her heart. For how many years had she never spoken to a man so gently? Thinking again that Zhao Desan couldn't come to work today because he was scalded in his crotch while helping her boil chicken soup yesterday, Lan Mei felt a bit self-blaming. She thought it was all her fault. If she hadn't stood behind him silently watching him work, she wouldn't have startled him when he turned around, causing him to throw away the soup bowl in his hand.

Lan Mei felt that some things were truly strange, making her not know whether she should believe in fate. She had just had an abortion yesterday afternoon, and the doctor warned her not to have sex for a month. Currently, except for her former husband Fang Jun, Zhao Desan was the only man she had had sex with. It just happened that when she couldn't use her place below, Zhao Desan's place below was also injured and couldn't be used. This made Lan Mei feel it was truly a coincidence. Perhaps such a thing as fate really existed in this world.

Leaning back in her chair, thinking happily for a while, a knock on the door pulled her thoughts back. "Come in," Lan Mei responded while sitting up straight.

The door pushed open a crack, and Han Rui's head poked in, smiling: "Division Chief Lan, we're having a year-end summary meeting in the conference room at 10 o'clock later. Please prepare the report materials for your department."

"I know," Lan Mei responded with a faint smile.

Han Rui pulled the door shut and left.

Lan Mei got up, walked out of the office, and pushed open the door of the Planning Division office again. At this time, Xia Jian was working in the office while relying on his seniority to lecture Zheng Ru and Comrade Comrade Xiao Zhao on big principles. He didn't know that Division Chief Lan had already walked over. He continued to label himself very nobly: "Really, it's not that I'm saying it, but the work atmosphere of our Planning Division is a bit impetuous. You two are okay, but Comrade Comrade Xiao Zhao, let's talk about Comrade Comrade Xiao Zhao's work ability. I won't comment, but at least his work attitude is not serious, not active, and even less enthusiastic. Take today for example. He didn't come to work and didn't tell anyone. It's not because he feels Division Chief Lan values him and won't blame him. But then again, who told Comrade Comrade Xiao Zhao to be good at flattering and have a good relationship with Division Chief Lan."

Comrade Comrade Xiao Zhao suddenly saw Division Chief Lan standing behind Xia Jian, so he coughed to remind him, but Xia Jian didn't understand his meaning at all and was still nagging about Zhao Desan's faults. Nagging about Zhao Desan was one thing, but he even dragged Division Chief Lan into it. Lan Mei had always been very disgusted with people like Xia Jian who liked to flatter, and being slandered like this by him in front of her face, Lan Mei was so angry her lungs were about to explode. She endured her anger and patted him lightly on the shoulder. Xia Jian obviously didn't realize it was Division Chief Lan patting him, shrugged his shoulders dismissively, and continued: "Division Chief Lan values Zhao Desan so much, handing over all work to him, it must be because she wants to climb the relationship ladder since Zhao Desan's cousin is the Minister of the Provincial Organization Department."

Lan Mei had worked for so many years and had never had such thoughts. For more than ten years, she had been diligent and conscientious, climbing to the position of Division Chief entirely through her own efforts. She had always looked down on people who climbed the relationship ladder to rely on the powerful. At first, she had a lot of prejudice against Zhao Desan, but Zhao Desan had indeed dispelled those prejudices through his true ability at work. Unlike this Xia Jian, who had worked for five or six years and had no ability other than flattering, and couldn't even flatter in the right place, yet was expressing his dissatisfaction to others in the office.

"Xia Jian! Can you complete the work if I hand it to you?" Lan Mei couldn't bear Xia Jian's indiscriminate slander of her and Zhao Desan anymore and scolded loudly.

Lan Mei's sudden, earth-shattering shout immediately silenced the office. Several people turned their heads to look at her in unison. Zheng Ru and Comrade Comrade Xiao Zhao turned their faces away to pretend to work, while only Xia Jian looked up at Lan Mei with an extremely awkward expression, his whole body trembling involuntarily, stuttering: "Di... Division Chief Lan, you... you're here."

Lan Mei glared with eyes wide, her face livid, not showing any signs of cooling down, and questioned sternly: "Xia Jian, since you've brought these things up, I'll make it clear to you today in front of Little Zheng and Comrade Comrade Xiao Zhao. You say you've been working for five or six years, what have you contributed to the unit? What can you do all day long other than flattering? You say I hand work to Zhao Desan and not to you. I handed work to you before Comrade Comrade Xiao Zhao and Little Zheng came to the unit, right? But what kind of stuff did you do? You never did it well once! You only know how to cause trouble! Now that Comrade Comrade Xiao Zhao and Little Zheng have come to work at the unit, which of them doesn't have better work ability than you? They learned in half a year what you haven't learned in five or six years! Speaking ill of people behind their backs! Humph! Is this what you learned from your studies at the Party School? Didn't you feel your awareness had improved quite a bit? Is this improvement? Saying Comrade Comrade Xiao Zhao disrupted the work atmosphere of the Planning Division, humph! You're simply talking nonsense. Little Zheng and Comrade Comrade Xiao Zhao are also here. I think justice is in the hearts of the people. What kind of person you, Xia Jian, are, even if Little Zheng and Comrade Comrade Xiao Zhao don't know, I've been your leader for five or six years, can I not know? Considering you're an old comrade, I've given you enough face, but you're promoting some kind of thought in the office all day long? Mutual slander, mutual poking, is it you who disrupted the office work atmosphere or Comrade Comrade Xiao Zhao? Also, Xia Jian, who didn't come to work, who was late, it's not your turn to manage these! I'll thank heaven and earth if you do your own work well!"

Lan Mei completely exploded, giving Xia Jian a bitter scolding, making Xia Jian look extremely awkward, his face turning red and white, losing face to the point of being at home, not saying a word during the whole process. ===== CHAPTER 1033 =====