Chapter 1104: Caught off guard

Ma Debang encountered this kind of thing that made him a bit caught off guard for the first time. He hadn't asked Secretary Zhang for anything before, so his expression appeared extremely tangled and unbearable, his brows were locked, and his face was full of gloom. He "coughed" and cleared his throat, while rubbing his thighs a bit nervously, and bit the bullet and said: "Secretary Zhang, actually there is nothing, just... just want you to come forward and help me tell Director Zheng that what happened last night was my fault, I was drunk, and I was crazy..."

Secretary Zhang knew from the beginning that Ma Debang came so early in the morning for this matter, but after all, Ma Debang was also a member of the party group and Deputy Director of the Construction Committee, so he was a bit embarrassed to talk about last night's matter directly. Waiting for Ma Debang to take the initiative to talk about this matter with a tone of self-reproach, he appeared a bit emotionally excited and interrupted Ma Debang's words and said: "Old Ma, is this still called nothing? Do you know how big the movement you and Director Zheng made last night? You are a high-level leader of the Construction Committee after all, how can you not know the height of the sky and the thickness of the earth when you are drunk? Director Zheng is the number one leader of the Construction Committee after all, and his official position is bigger than yours. That is a fact, why do you still go to provoke him?"

Ma Debang knew that since he stood up for Zhao Desan yesterday, Zheng Tulu wanted to fix him, instigating everyone to drink with him. To say that the root of the conflict was that he stood up for Zhao Desan once, but he didn't expect Zheng Tulu to take the opportunity to vent his dissatisfaction with Zhao Desan to him, which led to the final frontal conflict. But Secretary Zhang said it right, people's official position is big, and he can only swallow his anger now. The only hope is that under Secretary Zhang's roundness, Zheng Tulu will not take last night's matter too much to heart, and he also has to pull down his face to apologize to that old guy. "I was drunk last night, and I was crazy." Ma Debang smiled.

Secretary Zhang, this old man, is a person who speaks human words to people and ghost words to ghosts. He has been in the Construction Committee for so many years and has not offended anyone, so the position of secretary can sit as stable as Mount Tai. At this time, he appeared to be very sympathetic to Ma Debang's situation, took a puff of cigarette and said: "Old Ma, speaking of yesterday's matter, actually Old Zheng is also wrong. You said you were drunk and couldn't drink, and Old Zheng still forced you to drink. That is his fault. But having said that, Old Zheng can find you to drink, which is also looking at you. Hey! Wine is really not a good thing. Who knows that you are so serious when you are drunk? The movement last night was too big. If you hadn't taken the initiative to admit your mistake later, I estimate that Old Zheng would have been chasing you and making trouble with you all night."

Ma Debang didn't know much about Old man Zhang's character, only knew that he was the secretary. After such a thing happened, it was most appropriate to ask him to come forward to solve it. At this time, hearing from his words, the secretary was still very reasonable. At least he didn't favor anyone in front of him, and talked about the right and wrong of the conflict between the two sides. This made Ma Debang feel that he had found the right person. The awkward emotion when he came to find him just now also disappeared, and he chuckled and said: "Secretary Zhang, it is still you who speak reasonably." Ma Debang said this with two meanings. First, it can be interpreted as he thinks Secretary Zhang is still looking at the cause and effect of this matter very fairly; the second meaning can be understood as he thinks Secretary Zhang's words are reasonable. As the saying goes, "Reasonable goes all over the world, unreasonable is difficult to move." He wanted to convey that Secretary Zhang is a person who speaks reasonably, and it is most appropriate for Secretary Zhang to come forward to say something about the conflict between him and Zheng Tulu.

"I speak reasonably, ha." Secretary Zhang smiled very comfortably in his heart, took a puff of cigarette, turned his face and asked him: "Old Ma, then how do you want to do it when you come to me? You say it first, I listen to your thoughts."

Secretary Zhang's expression gradually eased from the dissatisfaction with what happened last night. Ma Debang observed his words and colors and felt that Secretary Zhang should have agreed to help him say this, so he took the opportunity to say: "Secretary Zhang, look, you are in charge of the party work in the unit. If the relationship between me and Director Zheng is stiff, it is not good for you. You have to come forward to mediate."

Secretary Zhang considered for a while and felt that Ma Debang had come to the door. If he didn't give him some face, it wouldn't make sense; furthermore, what Ma Debang said was right. He was in charge of the party and government work in the unit, and mediating the relationship between leaders was also part of his duty. If he didn't come forward, in case the two fought too fiercely and it reached the higher-ups, it would be his dereliction of duty as a secretary. After weighing it all, Old man Zhang nodded and said: "Since Deputy Director Ma has come to the door, it won't work if I don't come forward. For the sake of the overall situation of our unit, alright, I will go and say this for you." After speaking, he stubbed out the cigarette butt, stood up and went to the bathroom to pee, washed up, returned to the room, put on clothes, and said to Ma Debang: "Old Ma, you stay here for a while, I will go and talk to Old Zheng first."

"Alright, then trouble Secretary Zhang." Ma Debang stood up and sent Secretary Zhang out of the door, sat back on the sofa in his room, lit a cigarette, waited for Secretary Zhang's news, and his heart was always up and down.

After about half an hour, Ma Debang's mobile phone rang, which immediately pulled him out of his heavy thoughts. Taking out his mobile phone and seeing that it was a call from Secretary Zhang, this call was directly related to whether the conflict between him and Zheng Tulu was resolved. Ma Debang looked at the mobile phone and pressed the green answer button extremely nervously, and fed it nervously.

"Old Ma, you come over, come to Director Zheng's room." Secretary Zhang's tone sounded neither relaxed nor nervous, and it was impossible to tell whether it was said through or not. In order to understand how Secretary Zhang said, Ma Debang asked softly to the mobile phone: "Secretary Zhang, how is it?"

Secretary Zhang didn't answer directly, just said: "You come over first."

Getting such an ambiguous answer, Ma Debang became nervous. He thought, I'm afraid Secretary Zhang didn't help him say it through, right? After being stunned for a while, he said "Oh," and Secretary Zhang hung up the phone. Ma Debang realized that the situation was not good, and couldn't help but be extremely nervous. This was not the result he wanted.

Ma Debang simply felt like dying. He really regretted that he had offended someone he shouldn't have offended in order to show off for a moment to help Zhao Desan, and also said some things he shouldn't have said. Although Zheng Tulu's scandals were only mentioned by him, he was definitely provoked by those words, otherwise, that guy wouldn't have been chasing him like a mad dog in front of so many people last night.

He stood up and walked towards Zheng Tulu's room with an extremely nervous and uneasy mood. His heart beat extremely fast all the way. This distance of more than ten meters seemed to be on the road to the underworld, making him feel like he had no strength to walk forward.

Finally, he bit the bullet and came to the door of Zheng Tulu's room. The door was half-covered, and Zheng Tulu's extremely angry voice came from inside: "Secretary Zhang, you said this Old Ma, actually didn't give me face in front of so many people last night. I drank with him because I looked up to him, and he really didn't take steamed buns as dry food."

"Old Zheng, forget it, calm down, man, be generous. Besides, if you and Old Ma are at odds, one is that the impact is not good, and the other is that it is my dereliction of duty, not mediating the relationship between leaders." If Secretary Zhang didn't want to shirk his responsibility, he would be too lazy to manage these thankless and easy-to-offend rotten things. However, thinking that he actually had an unshirkable responsibility for what happened last night, in order to please Zheng Tulu, he kept helping to instigate others to drink with Ma Debang, and in the end, Ma Debang was drunk and lost his reason, which led to the conflict.

"Secretary Zhang, I am looking at your face today, otherwise I don't intend to talk to Ma Debang." Zheng Tulu said.

Ma Debang, who was hiding outside the door with his heart up and down, heard Zheng Tulu say this, and his nervous mood eased slightly. He knocked on the door gently, and forced a natural smile on his face.

"Come in." Knowing that Ma Debang was coming, Zheng Tulu said unhappily.

Ma Debang pushed the door open, walked in timidly, his face full of fake smiles, and said with a chuckle: "Director Zheng, Secretary Zhang, are you both here."

Zheng Tulu glared at him unhappily, sat down on the sofa, lit a cigarette and took a fierce puff. Secretary Zhang winked at Ma Debang, and he smiled awkwardly and took the initiative to admit his mistake to Zheng Tulu about last night: "Director Zheng, I came to apologize to you for what happened last night. Because I drank too much wine, went crazy, and said some things I shouldn't have said, it's my fault. I hope Director Zheng, you are a great person, don't take it to heart."

Zheng Tulu looked at him angrily, smoking and saying nothing, as if he was deaf to Ma Debang's words.

Old man Zhang saw that Zheng Tulu's reaction was different from what he had promised him just now. Ma Debang came, but Zheng Tulu's reaction was like this, which made him feel very faceless, so he persuaded with a smile: "Old Zheng, look, Old Ma has pulled down his face and came to apologize to you in person. You are all members of the unit's leadership team. Starting from the overall situation, you are all eating national food. You must unite and cooperate to do a good job. Don't be fussy about small things."

Ma Debang knew that if he didn't get forgiveness after offending Zheng Tulu so deeply last night, he might be caught by this old fox and find trouble one day. For this reason, he had already knelt down to this old fox last night, so what else could he not pull down his face today? So he leaned forward slightly, and his attitude was extremely sincere: "Director Zheng, if you feel that you can't swallow that breath, you can slap me twice."

"According to the momentum of last night, I still dare to slap you twice. I'm afraid that if I touch you, you will dare to eat me!" Zheng Tulu glanced at him sideways and finally spoke. Although the tone was very provocative, it made Ma Debang see a glimmer of dawn. He took the opportunity to attack, with a smile on his face, and his slightly bowed waist was like a slave, saying: "Director Zheng, look at what you said, I was really drunk last night, went crazy, otherwise I wouldn't dare to have a thousand or ten thousand guts. If you don't hit, I will punish myself with two slaps." As he spoke, he slapped himself twice on the face.