Chapter 1304

Comrade Xiao Zhao immediately picked up his chopsticks and reached out to pick up a piece of spare ribs. Suddenly, another pair of chopsticks grabbed it. He retracted his chopsticks and saw that it was A-Fang's chopsticks reaching over. Their eyes met involuntarily, and A-Fang's flirtatious look made Comrade Xiao Zhao feel nervous.

Damn it! This woman's belly is so big, and she's still not settling down, Comrade Xiao Zhao thought to himself. He already felt that he had become exceptionally calm and composed in the face of some emergencies, but on such an occasion, in front of Xia Jian, he still didn't dare to have too many flirtatious interactions with A-Fang. But A-Fang's courage was not ordinary; she actually dared to look at him with that kind of look in front of several people, making Comrade Xiao Zhao feel a bit nervous. He shifted his gaze away, stopped looking at A-Fang, and casually picked up a piece of vegetable and put it into his mouth.

Zhao Da ate a bite of food and saw that Xia Jian hadn't moved his chopsticks, so he asked him, "Brother Xia, why aren't you eating? Eat slowly, chat while eating."

Xia Jian looked a bit unhappy and said, "Without drinking something, how can I eat?"

The one surnamed Zhao is really stingy. Just now he said he wanted Zheng Jie to toast, but when ordering dishes, he didn't even order a bottle of wine. Without drinking, the atmosphere wouldn't be lifted, so Comrade Xiao Zhao added, "That's right, Brother Zhao, look at Brother Xia, he helped you so much, transferring sister-in-law to your side. You should at least toast Brother Xia."

Zhao Da was not very smooth. Even though Xia Jian and Comrade Xiao Zhao's words had reached this point, this guy was still a bit pained by the money. He looked extremely stingy and smiled, "We have to work tomorrow, I think we shouldn't drink, right? Let's use tea instead of wine, how about it?"

Seeing that Comrade Xiao Zhao and Xia Jian's faces had suddenly become very ugly, Zheng Jie turned her face and glared at Zhao Da, then immediately smiled and said, "It's okay, you helped me so much, I must toast tonight." As she said this, Zheng Jie called the waiter without hesitation and ordered a bottle of local white wine that cost over two hundred yuan.

Xia Jian and Comrade Xiao Zhao both knew that Zhao Da's financial situation was not well-off, and white wine for two hundred yuan was of a very low grade for them, but for Zhao Da and Zheng Jie, it was considered very generous, so they didn't say anything.

Once the wine was served, Comrade Xiao Zhao stood up, picked up the bottle, and poured a glass for each of the four. Seeing Comrade Xiao Zhao bypass her, A-Fang looked at him with a strange look and said with some dissatisfaction, "Xiao Zhao, how could you forget your sister-in-law?"

"Sister-in-law, you are pregnant, how can you drink?" Comrade Xiao Zhao said with a smile.

Only then did A-Fang smile charmingly and say with a double entendre, "Xiao Zhao is quite considerate. Any girl who follows you can be considered blessed."

Comrade Xiao Zhao understood the meaning behind A-Fang's words. He poured her a cup of tea and said with a knowing smile, "Sister-in-law, you just drink tea."

A-Fang said to Xia Jian, "Look at Xiao Zhao, how considerate he is. A man should cherish his wife, you should learn from him."

Xia Jian said, "Xiao Zhao doesn't even have a wife, and you want me to learn from him!"

Comrade Xiao Zhao smiled and said, "Exactly, I have to learn more from Brother Xia and Brother Zhao, otherwise I won't be able to find a wife as good as the two sisters-in-law in the future."

A-Fang said to Zheng Jie, "Look at this Xiao Zhao, his mouth is like it's been smeared with oil, how well he speaks."

Zheng Jie smiled gently and looked at Comrade Xiao Zhao. When he suddenly looked at her, a chill spread across her face. She immediately shifted her gaze away from him, picked up her wine glass, and said to Xia Jian, "Brother Xia, let me toast you first. Thank you for helping me with such a big favor."

"Good, good," Xia Jian hurriedly picked up his wine glass to meet her, clinked it gently with Zheng Jie's, and drank it all in one gulp very heroically. Although Zheng Jie didn't drink much, in order to show her gratitude, she bit the bullet, raised her chin, sent the wine glass to her lips, and poured it all into her throat. Putting down the wine glass, she frowned, and a faint blush immediately ignited on her fair cheeks.

Seeing Zheng Jie drink so refreshingly, A-Fang smiled and praised, "Zheng Jie's drinking capacity is really not bad."

Zheng Jie smiled embarrassedly and said, "I can't drink either. It's mainly because your Brother Xia helped me with such a big favor, how can I not express it?"

A-Fang didn't know why Zhao Da and his wife were treating these people in the unit to dinner. When Zheng Jie said this, she looked at Xia Jian with some curiosity and said with some flippancy, "He hasn't made a name for himself after mixing for so long. He is like a mud bodhisattva crossing the river, unable to save himself. What favor can he help you with?"

Zhao Da explained, "My wife wants to work in our unit. It just so happens that the Planning Division is short of a person. Thanks to Brother Xia helping me speak in front of the leader today, otherwise, even if there was such an opportunity, my wife wouldn't have been able to transfer over."

A-Fang said "Oh" with some surprise, looked at Xia Jian with a smile, and asked with a sarcastic tone, "You are quite capable? Look at you, Xiao Zhao, and Zhao Da, which one of you is not more outstanding than that Zheng Ru? Especially you, you can be considered an old comrade among the few of you, yet you can't compete with a little girl and were sat on top of your heads by her as a leader."

Xia Jian was mocked by his wife, feeling that he had no face in front of several people, so he immediately retorted anxiously, "A-Fang, you speak lightly. You ask Xiao Zhao and Zhao Da, what connections does Zheng Ru have, and what connections do I have? Zheng Ru's father is the boss of our unit. Promoting his daughter up is a matter of course!"

With such a beautiful atmosphere, and without even drinking to liven things up, Comrade Xiao Zhao didn't want this dinner to end unhappily, so he immediately acted as a peacemaker and rounded things off, "Alright, alright, don't talk about these unhappy things. We can't affect the mood of Brother Zhao and Sister-in-law Zheng Jie. Eat, eat." As he said this, he very tactfully picked up a spicy shrimp for A-Fang and Zheng Jie each.

Mocked by A-Fang, Xia Jian's mood was immediately affected. Thinking that the promotion opportunity that originally belonged to him was snatched away by Zheng Ru, he felt very resentful and poured a glass of wine to drink in frustration. Comrade Xiao Zhao, seeing this situation, immediately picked up his wine glass and said with a smile, "Come, it's not easy to have dinner with Brother Zhao, Brother Xia, and the two sisters-in-law today. Let's all clink together."

Under his proposal, several people picked up their glasses in turn, clinked them together, and after drinking, put down their glasses. Comrade Xiao Zhao filled their glasses again and invited everyone to eat.

Just as he picked up a chopstick of food and put it into his mouth, Comrade Xiao Zhao suddenly felt something kick his foot. He thought it was someone who had accidentally kicked him and didn't pay much attention. Who knew that after a while, his toe was touched by something again. This made him feel that something was wrong. It couldn't be such a coincidence. At such a large table, it was not easy to stretch his feet to touch others' feet. How could he be touched twice in a row? So, with suspicion, he looked down and saw a foot wearing black high heels stretched over, and the toe kicked his foot again.

Seeing this, Comrade Xiao Zhao's heart skipped a beat. This must be a hint from either A-Fang or Zheng Jie. So he feigned nonchalance while eating and looked in the direction from which the foot had stretched. He found A-Fang staring at him with a strange look, a devious smile hanging on the corner of her mouth.

Damn it! Her belly is so big and she's still not honest, I rely on! Comrade Xiao Zhao thought to himself. He really didn't expect that A-Fang, this bitch, was already seven or eight months pregnant and still had the heart to play this, and even dared to secretly seduce him in front of Xia Jian.