Chapter 1558: Waking Up

"Don't worry about what good thing it is, just do as I say. Remember, buy more vegetables, and buy two bottles of better wine." Zhao Da repeated excitedly once more, then, without giving his wife Zheng Jie room to ask further, he hung up the phone directly. He gathered the pile of dirty clothes that Zheng Jie hadn't had time to wash in the living room into his arms, sat in his wheelchair, and went to the bathroom. He used all his strength to stuff the pile of dirty clothes into the washing machine. Just by tidying up the house a little, Zhao Da, who had no ability to walk, was already covered in sweat and panting heavily in his wheelchair.

With the two major matters of Zheng Jie's work and the work plan settled, Zhao Desan finally began to calm down this afternoon and focus on his own work. Regarding the work he, as deputy director, was currently responsible for, after half a month of study abroad and another half a month of familiarization, Zhao Desan had completely understood the specific situation of the Chanba New District and the strategic layout of the provincial and municipal governments for the new district. In the afternoon, Zhao Desan finally found a specific entry point for his work—the "three horizontal and three vertical" main road network of the new district. Of course, these rough details had all been planned out before the new district was approved by the State Council, and what needed to be done now was to implement them specifically. But to implement them, what was the first thing to do? Investment. The most normal and reasonable source of investment comes from fiscal expenditure. Yes, that's what Zhao Desan thought of, and he wanted to start from there. If he could pull in a batch of investment to build the main roads of the new district for free, wouldn't he be able to hold his head high with this political achievement?

The method was a good one, but it wasn't so easy to operate specifically. Moreover, he was far from being in the position he was at the CCTV Coal Bureau, where he could play Wang Chunqing and Zhang Ailing. Being in a more complex provincial government unit, he needed to be even more cautious and step-by-step. To operate this method, the biggest difficulty was that he didn't have any big bosses with whom he had a particularly good relationship in the province. If he were in Yuyang City, as long as he had this idea, once he told Ma Lan, she would probably be willing to invest without a second thought.

Speaking of Ma Lan, ever since she came to Xijing City to inspect the development of the real estate market, she had met many leaders of various management units related to real estate development, such as the Housing Management Bureau, the Planning Bureau, the Urban Construction Bureau, etc., under the introduction of Liu Jianguo, Deputy Director of the Provincial Party Committee Office. After returning to Yuyang, Ma Lan hadn't found the time to come to Xijing City again to carry out the specific operations of setting up a real estate company due to several matters at the mines. Just in the last few days, the matters at the coal mines had come to an end, and the funds to enter the real estate industry had been raised from the coal mines. Ma Lan was preparing to come to Xijing again. This time coming to Xijing was to officially enter the real estate market, because she felt she couldn't wait any longer. The Lin family's Lin Construction had already begun to take shape with the Moon Bay project in the Chanba New District of Xijing City. If she waited any longer, there would be no room for development in Xijing's real estate market. Therefore, this time, in order to acquire more plots of land in the Chanba New District at once, Ma Lan had concentrated all the money she had earned from coal mining, preparing to use it to hoard land.

Things in the world are so strange; sometimes what you think about is often what is about to happen. Zhao Desan, who had become estranged from Ma Lan, thought of finding Ma Lan to pull in investment to build roads for free in order to establish political achievements. And at this time, Ma Lan had also concentrated all her money and energy, preparing to come to Xijing to engage in real estate immediately. In Xijing City, where land was extremely scarce, only the Chanba New District, which was still in the wilderness, possessed great development space. Before the new district was approved and established by the State Council, no real estate developer was optimistic about the new district far from the city center. But the sharp-eyed Lin Dafa had taken a fancy to the prospects of the Chanba New District. And as an old rival, Ma Lan had obtained some planning materials for the new district from the provincial and municipal governments from Liu Jianguo, so she was extremely optimistic about the prospects of real estate development in the new district.

However, whenever he thought of Ma Lan, Zhao Desan would think of the scene where he saw her walking into a hotel with municipal leaders, arms linked. He truly couldn't forget the scene he had witnessed with his own eyes. As the first woman he met after entering officialdom, he had truly had feelings for Ma Lan—a kind of feeling that was suspected to be true love. It was just a pity that as he went further and further in his official career, such feelings didn't last long and eventually ended with his unannounced departure. Zhao Desan felt that he wasn't lacking in women, but to have had such an unforgettable past with a woman as charming and alluring as Ma Lan, Zhao Desan felt it was worth it.

He didn't know when it happened—perhaps Zhao Desan was too focused on his thoughts, or perhaps he was simply too exhausted and fell asleep (having had crazy passion with Lan Mei, whom he hadn't seen in a long time, in the office three times in the morning). In any case, he didn't even know when it was time to get off work until Jia Wanli walked up and knocked on his desk a few times, causing him to wake up with a start.

Zhao Desan opened his bloodshot eyes, said "Oh" in a sleepy daze, and said, "It's you! You scared me!"

"How come you've been listless all afternoon, not even knowing it's time to get off work? Did you do something bad again?" Jia Wanli leaned on his desk and asked with a charming smile.

"Is that so? How do you know I didn't do anything good?" Zhao Desan rubbed his eyes and answered quite honestly.

"Then confess honestly, who else are you messing around with?" Jia Wanli looked at him with apparent anger and questioned him.

Zhao Desan heard Jia Wanli's words and looked at her jealous reaction. He thought to himself with a secret smile: *Don't say, she really guessed it right. It seems women's sensitivity isn't without reason; men's affairs can always be guessed by them to be about 80-90% correct. * Although Zhao Desan thought this, he immediately denied it, saying, "A young girl? Besides you, where would I have any other young girl? Are you trying to introduce one to me?"

"In your dreams!" Jia Wanli rolled her eyes at Zhao Desan with disdain. Then, thinking that he had been out all morning and only returned when it was time to get off work, she seemed to have thought of something. She suddenly became energetic, her large eyes blinking, and she leaned into Zhao Desan's ear, whispering mysteriously, "Looking at you like this, you were fine when you came in the morning, but you've been abnormal since you went out for the morning. It seems you really have that suspicion. I must check to know."

"Ah!" Zhao Desan looked at her in utter disbelief. A moment later, he immediately pretended to be calm, thinking: *I don't believe it. Knowing that the old bald donkey has a camera installed behind the door, you still dare to do it for real? Unless you keep the door open, blocking the camera, but you can't block the sight of people outside. * So Zhao Desan asked with a cheeky grin, "Alright, I'm just afraid you don't have the guts, unless you dare to stage a passionate reality show with me here, letting the camera behind the door record everything." As he spoke, Zhao Desan glanced at the camera behind the door.

"I'm not afraid!" Jia Wanli actually appeared very calm and said she didn't care at all.

This was something Zhao Desan had never expected. He was ruthless, but he didn't expect this young wife to be even more ruthless than him, actually not caring at all about the camera behind the door. Wouldn't that be a big disaster? Not to mention whether his ability was strong or not, the camera behind the door alone would be enough to get him into trouble.

While Jia Wanli pretended to reach out to undo his belt, Zhao Desan hurriedly grabbed Jia Wanli's wrist in a panic, looking surprised, and said, "What are you doing? Are you really playing for real? Stop messing around. If we get recorded, will we be able to do that in the future!"

"What? You admit it?" Jia Wanli avoided the important and focused on the trivial, directly coming up with a brain teaser.

"Admit what?" Zhao Desan asked, knowing the answer.

"If you don't dare let me check, then say you really didn't do anything good this morning!" Jia Wanli said with a tight little face.

Zhao Desan was truly left speechless by this young wife. He couldn't help but shake his head like a defeated rooster and said in a low, submissive voice, "My little ancestor, stop messing around. The camera is recording. Just consider that I've already done it to you, alright? Do you think this is a hotel? This is an office."

Jia Wanli looked at Zhao Desan's expression of being unable to laugh or cry and giggled, "Alright then, I won't tease you anymore. But don't forget you still promised me one thing!" ===== CHAPTER 1559 =====