Chapter 1354: Why did you come downstairs

As soon as Zhao Desan heard Lan Mei had come downstairs, he couldn't help but tremble slightly, smacked his lips, turned around slowly, and his attitude did a 180-degree turn. He respectfully said with a chuckle, "Director Lan, why did you come downstairs?"

"Waiting for you to send the materials up, you're quite leisurely, aren't you?" Lan Mei glanced at Zhang Hui. Perhaps because she felt this young woman had snatched her man, there was clearly a hint of jealousy in her tone.

Zhang Hui was also a woman and could see that Lan Mei was a bit angry because Zhao Desan lingered here to chat, so she proactively accompanied her with a smile and waved to greet Lan Mei: "Director Lan, hello."

Lan Mei wasn't an unreasonable woman. Seeing Zhang Hui proactively greet her, the expression on her face softened a bit. She smiled faintly and said, "Manager Zhang, hello. What wind blew you here?"

"Director Lan, look at what you're saying. We real estate people have to run to your Construction Committee often," Zhang Hui said with a smile.

Lan Mei smiled, rolled her eyes at Zhao Desan on the side, and said to him seriously, "Why don't you take the materials up!"

Zhao Desan said "Oh" submissively, suddenly feeling he had no face in front of Zhang Hui. He thought, Damn it, can't Director Lan be a bit polite to me in front of other women! He pretended to be calm, turned back, waved to Zhang Hui with a smile, and said, "President Zhang, I'll go up first." As he spoke, he glanced at Lan Mei timidly and headed upstairs.

Zhao Desan walked and thought along the way. Lan Mei's reaction when she saw him chatting with Zhang Hui clearly seemed a bit wrong, as if she was a bit jealous. Thinking this way, Zhao Desan felt much better. After all, being able to have such a beautiful and charming mature young woman jealous for him was really a bit flattering. Standing at the door of Lan Mei's office, after Lan Mei came up, Zhao Desan handed the document to her. Lan Mei glanced at him, and while opening the door, she said with clear jealousy, "You come in!"

Zhao Desan followed her into the office. After Lan Mei walked to the office chair and sat down, she looked straight at him with an eerie look and asked in a light tone, "Comrade Xiao Zhao, you seem to be quite familiar with Manager Zhang?"

"Yes," Zhao Desan chuckled. After saying this, seeing Lan Mei immediately widen her crystal-clear eyes in surprise, he realized he had said the wrong thing and immediately changed his words: "No, no, it's just that last time she came to handle that procedure, you weren't there, Director Lan, so she found me. We just know each other, not really familiar."

The surprised expression on Lan Mei's face gradually softened. She looked at him with a strange gaze and asked, "Comrade Xiao Zhao, what do you think of Manager Zhang's looks?"

"Director Lan, you… what do you mean by this?" Zhao Desan was suddenly confused by Lan Mei, not knowing what she wanted to do by calling him to the office. He really didn't know what medicine was sold in her gourd, so he didn't dare to act rashly and give a clear answer to Lan Mei's question.

Lan Mei turned her eyes, smiled shallowly, and said as if nothing had happened, "Nothing, just asking casually. You have a unique eye, don't you? Just asking what you think of Manager Zhang's looks?"

After a brief confusion, Zhao Desan immediately understood. Lan Mei just felt he had been too intimate with Zhang Hui just now and wanted to fish for words from his mouth. Having grasped Lan Mei's thoughts, Zhao Desan knew what to say, so he said with a straight face and a steady heart, "From a man's fair and just perspective, she looks quite good. But compared to you, Director Lan, there's a difference." After saying this, he felt it wasn't enough, so he added, "No matter how good-looking a woman is, compared to you, Director Lan, in my eyes, it's like the difference between clouds and mud."

Lan Mei knew her own conditions were indeed not bad, but having Zhao Desan say it as if she were a fairy descending to earth really made her feel a bit embarrassed. A thin layer of red blush appeared on her face, and she rolled her eyes at him with a charming look, scolding, "I knew you wouldn't tell the truth. You can't spit out ivory from a dog's mouth!"

"Director Lan, what I said is the absolute truth, absolutely true, and the sun and moon can testify," Zhao Desan immediately looked anxious to show his sincerity. At the same time, he raised his right hand and swore anxiously: "Director Lan, if you don't believe me, I can swear. If I, Zhao Desan, have half a lie, may I be struck by lightning and die a horrible death!" After saying this, even he felt it was too fake, thinking to himself, "Zhao Desan, Zhao Desan, if you swore like this, you would have been struck by lightning tens of thousands of times!"

"Alright, alright! You don't need to show your loyalty here." Seeing Zhao Desan looking serious and solemn, Lan Mei hurriedly rolled her eyes at him to stop him.

"Who told you not to believe what I said, Director Lan." Zhao Desan, seeing Lan Mei had already wavered, deliberately looked at her seriously.

Lan Mei was really unable to withstand Zhao Desan's "pestering" and said helplessly, "Alright, I believe you, okay!"

Zhao Desan then triumphantly put down his raised hand.

Thinking of Zhang Hui, Lan Mei asked him seriously, "What did Zhang Hui come to the unit for today?"

"Said she was handling a procedure that needed Zheng the Bald Donkey's signature, but he wasn't there," Zhao Desan said truthfully. He didn't need to lie to Lan Mei about this.

Lan Mei said "Oh" and said in a strange tone, "It seems the one surnamed Zheng has a good relationship with these businessmen, handling things so quickly."

Zhao Desan understood Lan Mei's meaning and smiled knowingly, "Director Lan, you're right. That old bald donkey has an unusually good relationship with those real estate bosses. But he wasn't there, so Zhang Hui didn't get the matter handled."

"That old fox has taken quite a few benefits from those real estate bosses. Who in this unit doesn't know? It's just that no one says it." Lan Mei looked at Zheng the Bald Donkey with contempt.

Speaking of the relationship between Zheng the Bald Donkey and the real estate bosses, Zhao Desan knew much more than Lan Mei. Before he and Zheng the Bald Donkey had a falling out, that old guy had political marriage in mind and valued Zhao Desan immensely. Whenever there was any social engagement, big or small, he always liked to bring him along, often eating with Zhang Jiayin and Lin Dafu, and never leaving Zhao Desan behind. He certainly understood that the old bald donkey had gotten quite a few benefits from those in real estate. But these exchanges of gifts were only a small part. The real big part, Zhao Desan felt, should be the shareholding agreement Zheng the Bald Donkey had with a real estate company that Ma Debang mentioned after getting drunk in Sanya. This was the real big part. If he could get his hands on this agreement, it would be equivalent to grasping Zheng the Bald Donkey's life and death.

"Director Lan, do you remember the argument between Ma Debang and Zheng the Bald Donkey in the private room when we were in Sanya?" Zhao Desan asked.

Zhao Desan's sudden change of topic made Lan Mei a bit confused. She nodded blankly and looked at him with a puzzled face, "Why suddenly say this?"

"Do you still have any impression of what Ma Debang said that day?" Zhao Desan asked.

Lan Mei frowned and thought about it. She didn't know what medicine Zhao Desan was selling in his gourd again. Ma Debang said quite a few bad things about Zheng the Bald Donkey after getting drunk that day, and she really didn't know which one Zhao Desan was talking about.

Seeing Lan Mei didn't understand, Zhao Desan reminded her, "Ma Debang said Zheng the Bald Donkey signed a shareholding agreement with a real estate company, but Zheng the Bald Donkey's was a dry share, and he was given dividends every year."

Lan Mei heard this and finally remembered. Indeed, Ma Debang exposed this inside story after drinking too much that day, but the specific situation was covered up by a division chief who covered his mouth. "Yes, I remember. Why suddenly say this?" Lan Mei nodded, looking at Zhao Desan with some confusion.

Zhao Desan walked up and leaned against her office desk, leaned close to her, and said with a mischievous smile, "Director Lan, if there really is that shareholding agreement, I'm afraid Zheng the Bald Donkey gets quite a lot of money from the real estate company every year. If we can get our hands on Zheng the Bald Donkey's secret agreement, that would be ironclad evidence of his serious violation of organizational discipline. Once it's handed over to the Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection, I'm afraid Zheng the Bald Donkey being double-regulated and double-expelled is a small matter; at the very least, he'll be sentenced to ten or twenty years. If we get our hands on this agreement, wouldn't that be equivalent to grasping Zheng the Bald Donkey's life and death, holding his lifeline?" Zhao Desan laid out his thoughts to Lan Mei, who had suffered so much torture from Zheng the Bald Donkey.

Zhao Desan's idea gave Lan Mei a glimmer of hope for revenge against Zheng the Bald Donkey. She really hated that beast to the bone. She never expected that beast, as a dignified department-level cadre, would actually drug and rape a female subordinate, using such despicable means to satisfy his lust and do such beastly things. If it weren't because she was a divorced woman, if it weren't for life, if it weren't for considering that she was at least worry-free in the government unit, with a guaranteed life, which could be said to be an iron rice bowl, she really wouldn't have been able to endure Zheng the Bald Donkey's humiliation and would have left. But having entered the government unit to work from the beginning and having worked for so many years, she had no other specialties or skills. If she walked out of the Construction Committee, even life would become a problem. It was precisely because of the comprehensive consideration of various factors that Lan Mei chose to endure humiliation and continue working at the Construction Committee, but this didn't mean her hatred for Zheng the Bald Donkey disappeared. She had been waiting for the day Zheng the Bald Donkey fell. Recently, Zheng Ru's matter hit the Internet and caused a huge uproar, which had gradually given Lan Mei a glimmer of hope. Coupled with the idea Zhao Desan suddenly proposed, she suddenly felt that taking down Zheng the Bald Donkey wasn't difficult. The idea was a good one, but implementing it was a bit difficult. "Could it be that Ma Debang was just talking nonsense?" Lan Mei asked thoughtfully. She didn't know whether Ma Debang was just talking nonsense after drinking in Sanya that day or what.

Zhao Desan affirmed without hesitation, "Director Lan, have you forgotten the saying that truth comes out after drinking? Besides, Ma Debang and Zheng the Bald Donkey have long been at odds with each other. If Ma Debang didn't understand Zheng the Bald Donkey's affairs, how would he dare to talk nonsense?"

"But… but even if the one surnamed Zheng signed that agreement with the real estate company, he must know how to hide it very strictly. He definitely wouldn't let others see it," Lan Mei said, suddenly feeling that finding that agreement to deal with Zheng the Bald Donkey was a bit unrealistic. ===== CHAPTER 1355 =====