Chapter 2139

Watching Ma Lili's face flushed with tide after being tossed by two men one after another, He Liping smiled and said: "It seems Old Zheng tortured his wife miserably, making her so thirsty."

"By the way, Sister He, did Zheng Tulu go on a business trip today?" Zhao Desan suddenly remembered that he saw Zheng Tulu's driver helping him take a luggage bag from the office and put it into the car today. In the afternoon, Zhang Hui came to the unit and came to his office to sit for a while, saying she was looking for Zheng Tulu, but he wasn't there. Until the end of work, Zhao Desan didn't see Zheng Tulu appear in the unit.

He Liping nodded and said: "He went to Beijing for a meeting."

"How long will he be gone?" Zhao Desan asked. If Zheng Tulu wasn't in the unit, he could freely arrange his own time. If he had nothing to do, he could go to the Chanba Development Zone to stroll around and find District Mayor Wu Min to drink tea or something.

"About a week," He Liping said.

"Then wouldn't Ma Lili be able to come here to find excitement every night for this week?" Zhao Desan said with his heart and mind in a state of confusion.

He Liping looked at Ma Lili sitting in the distance, laughed twice in a mocking tone, and said to Zhao Desan: "But for a woman to reach Ma Lili's point, it's really sad enough!"

In his heart, Zhao Desan actually felt a bit of sympathy for Ma Lili; after all, there is no greater sorrow for a woman than this. His view was diametrically opposed to He Liping's, and he chuckled: "I think the one who is truly pathetic is Director Zheng. To have his wife cheat on him so many times, with his head shining green, and yet remain completely oblivious—that is what you call pathetic."

He Liping smiled helplessly and said: "Alright, you are eloquent, I can't beat you, Sister. Why do you care about other people's business? Let's take care of ourselves."

"That's true." Zhao Desan nodded in agreement.

He Liping yawned, raised her wrist to check her watch, found that it was already past 12 o'clock, and said with a bit of fatigue: "Little Zhao, it's not early, shall we go?"

Zhao Desan also had a trace of sleepiness, nodded and said: "That's fine, let's go."

Thus, the two stood up, bypassed Ma Lili sitting in the front row, and quietly slipped out of the dance hall. As soon as they walked out of the dance hall, Zhao Desan opened his mouth wide and took a big breath of fresh air, saying to himself: "Damn! I was almost suffocated!" When sitting inside, he didn't feel it, but as soon as he walked out of the dance hall, he immediately felt that the air inside was too turbid, filled with a strange smell of alcohol, smoke, and the smell of human secretions mixed together. Zhao Desan took a few big breaths of fresh air outside the dance hall, called a taxi for He Liping at the entrance of the dance hall, opened the door, sent her into the car, said goodbye, and watched her leave by car. Only then did he light a cigarette and sit on the steps next to the dance hall entrance to smoke, preparing to leave after smoking this cigarette.

While smoking, he recalled everything that happened tonight, like a movie flashing through his mind one by one. From the beginning of discovering that Hu Tao and Li Fang had an affair, to later seeing Zheng Tulu's wife Ma Lili looking for a man in the dance hall to release her loneliness, all of this felt incredible like a dream. For a moment, Zhao Desan even felt that he was dreaming, but he didn't drink much alcohol. Under the blowing of the night wind, his mind was very clear, knowing that the scenes flashing in his mind were all real things that happened tonight. Ma Lili took advantage of Zheng Tulu's business trip and not being at home to come to this notorious black-light dance hall alone to find a wild man to release her suppressed loneliness. This he could understand, and his interest was not in this. What interested him most was Hu Tao and Li Fang. From the beginning, he suspected that Li Fang organizing migrant workers to come to the unit to chase wages was a bit tricky. It seems he really guessed it right, but what he regretted was that he couldn't control his belt and slept with Li Fang once, paying a price of 400,000 yuan. Originally, after paying the money, it was like spilled water, and he didn't want to think about this matter anymore. But when he understood that this was someone deliberately setting a trap for him to jump into, he felt that he must find out who this person was. Even if someone wanted to put him to death, he felt he had to die clearly. He had worked for several years and had been planning to marry Zhao Xue in his heart, but until now, he couldn't even afford the down payment for a house in Xijing. If it weren't for helping Zheng Jie with all his wealth at the beginning, if it weren't for using more than 400,000 to seal Li Fang's mouth, let alone the down payment, he could afford the full payment.

Damn! Which grandson wants to play with me? Is it Zheng Tulu? Or Li Changping? Or Hu Tao? Or someone else? The grudge with Zheng Tulu was formed very early, why did he have to set him up at this time? Zhao Desan felt that Zheng Tulu should be excluded. He felt that although he had no dealings with Li Changping on weekdays, the contradiction was very prominent. First, he had a serious conflict with Li Changping's wife Zhang Ailing when he was at the Yuyang Coal Bureau, and he wanted to take revenge for his wife; second, in the competition for the Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, he used Xi Bingbing's heaven-reaching relationship to operate secretly and pushed Su Qing to the position of Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee. Li Changping must have investigated secretly and found that the report call came from him. He would certainly not let this matter go and would try to retaliate. And Hu Tao? There was no substantial contradiction between him and Hu Tao, just secretly jealous because of Zheng Jie. Comparing them, Zhao Desan felt that the mastermind behind the scenes should be Li Changping.

Fuck your grandma! Old Li, just wait and see, I won't let you have a good time! Zhao Desan secretly made up his mind that no matter what, he would find a way to take Li Changping down in the future. Of course, there was also Zhang Ailing, this old woman. When he first entered the Coal Bureau, he served you, this old woman, comfortably. Once it involved interest relations, you, this old bitch, wanted to suppress me. I took the initiative to resign and come to the province, and you, this old woman, still wouldn't let me go. Just wait and see!

The more Zhao Desan thought, the angrier he became, and he hated Li Changping and his wife to the bone, especially Zhang Ailing. Zhao Desan decided that if there was a chance in the future, he must return to the Yuyang political circle and properly set up this old woman Zhang Ailing.

"Grandpa, your grandson is calling you..." When he smoked half a cigarette, Zhao Desan's phone rang.

He thought it was He Liping who had arrived home safely and was calling to report peace. When he took out his phone, he found it was 'Ma Lan's' call.

Why is she calling me so late? Zhao Desan guessed, hesitated for a moment, pressed the green answer button, put it to his ear and said: "Hey! Sister Lan, is there anything you want to find me so late?"

"Desan, you... where are you? Sister is drunk, can you come to send Sister home?" As soon as the phone was connected, Ma Lan's drunken voice came from inside.

Damn, drunk again! Zhao Desan cursed inwardly. Although he was extremely unwilling, as soon as he heard Ma Lan's drunken voice, he asked with concern: "Where are you?"

"I am... in... 'in Xiangmeizi'." Ma Lan hiccuped and said intermittently on the phone. Listening to it, he knew she had drunk a lot of alcohol.

"Then you wait, I'll be there right away." Saying this, Zhao Desan hung up the phone, threw away the half-smoked cigarette, stood up from the steps, stopped a taxi at the entrance of the dance hall, sat in, and asked the driver to drive him to the 'Xiangmeizi' private kitchen restaurant located on Dongfeng Road.

On the way to pick up Ma Lan, Zhao Desan was thinking about who Ma Lan drank with tonight. He didn't know if it was a government unit or a business partner. However, there was one point he could be sure of, and that was that there was definitely no Liu Jianguo among the people tonight. If this old guy was there, Ma Lan wouldn't have to call him to pick her up.

Although since Ma Lan came to Xijing to engage in real estate and the two reunited, Zhao Desan forgave Ma Lan for her betrayal of him and also took the initiative to propose that he would help her fight for that piece of land in the development zone, the relationship between the two could no longer be restored as before. Although Zhao Desan forgave Ma Lan, the usual dealings between the two were no longer as close as before. Zhao Desan had his own things to do, and Ma Lan had also been busy running around for that piece of land and dealing with various relationships during this period. On the way to 'Xiangmeizi' on Dongfeng Road, the scenes of when he first met Ma Lan a few years ago flashed through Zhao Desan's mind. Think about how good it was then. Just entered the Coal Bureau, relying on his little cleverness, he was not only flourishing in his career and deeply appreciated and valued by leaders, but also blossoming everywhere in his feelings. He maintained a vague relationship with Li Shanshan, the secretary of Zhang Ailing, Wen Qian, the cashier of the Finance Department, Bai Ling, a young married woman who was a temporary cleaner in the Coal Bureau, and Zhang Aiai, who managed the warehouse in the Logistics Department. And he was heart-to-heart with Ma Lan, treating her completely as his confidante. He told her everything about his unhappiness at work and his dissatisfaction in life. Even in order to help her win the bid for the coal mining rights, he didn't hesitate to fall out with Director Zhang Aiai and Deputy Director Wang Chunqing. And Ma Lan, who was used to playing with people in officialdom, also paid a sincere emotion to this young handsome guy in the system like Zhao Desan. Perhaps because he was too invested and too serious, when he discovered that Ma Lan went to a hotel to open a room with Yu Haiping, the then deputy mayor in charge of coal work in Yuyang, he was completely disappointed and completely awakened. His heart hardened, and he took the initiative to withdraw from the Yuyang Coal Bureau and went to Xijing City alone to seek a broader development space. Fortunately, he accidentally met Su Qing, the Minister of the Organization Department of the Provincial Party Committee, before this, and his career development was smooth. He sat in the position of deputy division chief at a young age.

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nbsp; Perhaps it was because he had new women around him in the two years he came to Xijing City and was in a more complex agency unit, Zhao Desan felt that he seemed to have no extra energy to spend on repairing the relationship with Ma Lan. He held an attitude of letting nature take its course toward this relationship. Anyway, knowing that the two couldn't have any results, it was not bad to treat her as a friend. Especially when he discovered that he was deceived by Zheng Jie, he had a suspicious attitude toward the feelings between men and women and began to distrust this illusory thing. With age, he had always had a yearning for a family. He originally planned to marry Zhao Xue in Yuyang City this year, letting her silently be the woman behind him, and he would have more energy and motivation to make a world of his own in officialdom. But since discovering Zheng Jie's betrayal of him and giving him a green hat, Zhao Desan's outlook on life had undergone a subtle change, and his plan to marry Zhao Xue in his heart had been pushed back a lot. He also wanted to properly test whether true feelings could withstand the test of time and distance.

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