Chapter 3032

The man with triangular eyes shook his head nonchalantly and said with a smile: "Brother Shuanzhu, look at what you're saying. Since you are Director Liu's brother, and Director Liu is our Fourth Brother's friend, then we are brothers, right? 'One doesn't get to know each other without a fight', right? Since we've already gotten to know each other, it's fine. Come, brother, let's cheers!"

Shuanzhu and the man with triangular eyes each raised their glasses forward, clinked them gently, and at the same time, raised their necks heroically. With a raise of their glasses, a glass of wine was downed in one gulp.

After Shuanzhu toasted Ma Laosi and the man with triangular eyes and apologized, Zhao Desan finally breathed a sigh of relief and let go of his belly to drink happily with Ma Laosi. Unexpectedly, Ma Laosi's drinking capacity was really poor. After only a few glasses, his face was already flushed, his eyes were drifting, and he was a bit unsteady. Seeing this, Zhao Desan didn't force him anymore, drank a glass with the others at the table in turn, and then said that this meal was about enough, suggesting that everyone drink a reunion toast and call it a day.

As the only leader working in a government unit at the table, Zhao Desan's words were naturally as effective as an imperial decree, and everyone nodded in agreement almost simultaneously. After the last reunion toast was finished, this reconciliation banquet was over.

On the way back to the store by car, Zhao Desan instructed Shuanzhu again that if he had any trouble in the future, he should go directly to Ma Laosi for help, especially if anyone dared to go to the store to collect protection money, he should call Ma Laosi directly. Moreover, Ma Laosi had also patted his chest and made a guarantee at the dinner table: "Brother Shuanzhu, if there is any trouble in the store in the future, just call me, Fourth Brother. I, Fourth Brother, will help you settle it."

"Big Brother, do you think that Ma Laosi will come to find trouble with me again?" Shuanzhu was following Zhao Desan to a reconciliation banquet for the first time. Although Ma Laosi and the man with triangular eyes had clearly expressed that they had let go of their previous grievances at the dinner table, Shuanzhu still had some concerns.

Zhao Desan glared at him fiercely and said: "Damn it! If they still dare to find trouble with you, then why did I take you to drink with them today! Wouldn't it be a waste of effort!"

Seeing that Zhao Desan was a bit angry, Shuanzhu grinned, scratched his head, and said: "I... I was just asking casually."

"You can put your heart at ease. This Ma Laosi has a good relationship with me. Since he made such a promise at the dinner table today, there will absolutely be no more trouble," Zhao Desan said confidently.

"Then I can rest assured." Seeing Zhao Desan's confident appearance, Shuanzhu dispelled his worries and grinned.

Before long, Zhao Desan drove to the entrance of Zheng Jie's building materials retail department and said to Shuanzhu: "You kid, work hard here, you hear me?"

"I know." Shuanzhu nodded honestly. After getting out of the car, he said: "Big Brother, go into the store and have a glass of water?"

"I have other things to do, I won't go down." Zhao Desan waved his hand. Although he hadn't had many glasses of wine at noon, for some reason, he suddenly felt uncomfortable in his head and wanted to find a place to sleep. After waking up, he would go to the Procuratorate to find that Chief Procurator, and only after completely removing Tong Lan's worries could he completely relax and return to the district to work honestly.

"Then should I tell Big Sister Zheng about today's matter?" Shuanzhu stood outside the car window, looking at Zhao Desan with a grin.

Zhao Desan was stunned for a moment and said: "What's there to talk about!" Although he said this, thinking of Zheng Jie, Zhao Desan felt that he had really paid too much for her. If it weren't for Shuanzhu saying that if he didn't show up, he was afraid it would implicate Zheng Jie's future business in the retail department, he wouldn't have planned to find Ma Laosi. Shuanzhu suddenly mentioned Zheng Jie, and her beautiful face appeared in Zhao Desan's mind, making him feel a deep longing for her, and he suddenly wanted to see her very much.

After sending Shuanzhu into the store, Zhao Desan drove toward Zheng Jie's home. The distance from the retail department to Zheng Jie's home was not too far. Ten minutes later, Zhao Desan's Passat stopped at the entrance of this old residential area along the street. He got out of the car. Because he was anxious to see Zheng Jie, he didn't even buy a gift and walked upstairs empty-handed.

"Ding-ling..." Standing at the door, Zhao Desan pressed the doorbell with great anticipation.

Before long, the door slowly opened. Zhao Desan's face was filled with smiles, and just as he was about to face Zheng Jie, whom he hadn't seen for a long time, he realized that the person who came into view was not the woman he was expecting, but Zheng Jie's daughter, Nini. The little person stood at the door, raised her fair and beautiful face, and looked at Zhao Desan with her watery, big eyes. Seeing that it was him, she ran over with a grin and hugged Zhao Desan's leg, saying: "Uncle, you're here."

"Nini, you're so good..." Zhao Desan was stunned for a moment, a bright smile bloomed on his face. He bent down, picked Nini up, held her in his arms, and kissed her on her smooth, fleshy little cheek. He really liked this cute little girl. He had an innocent heart, and every time he saw Nini, he felt as if he had become a child, innocent and carefree.

"Uncle, why haven't you come to my house for such a long time?" Nini looked at Zhao Desan with those watery, big eyes and asked in a childish voice. That innocent look was very likable.

This simple question from Nini left Zhao Desan unable to answer for a moment. Why hadn't he come to Zheng Jie's house for such a long time? Because he was busy with work? Because his studies at the Provincial Party School were intense? Or because of something else? Zhao Desan couldn't say clearly. It seemed that for him, there was almost no spare time, and too much of his mind was spent on dealing with his relationships with women, which left him no time to see Nini. Thinking of this, Zhao Desan felt inexplicably guilty. He was stunned for a moment, then smiled sweetly at Nini, gently pinched her fleshy little cheek, and said: "Because Uncle is busy with work. Where is Mommy?" As he spoke, Zhao Desan felt that the room was unexpectedly quiet, so he looked around and asked Nini with confusion.

"Mommy went out," Nini answered in a childish voice.

"Where did she go?" Zhao Desan asked with some confusion.

Nini shook her head and said: "I don't know. Daddy is here, but he is sleeping."

Zhao Desan said "Oh". Zheng Jie wasn't at home, which made him feel vaguely disappointed. Just at this moment, Zhao Desan suddenly smelled the scent of something being scorched. He wrinkled his nose to smell the source of the burnt smell while looking around the room for something.

Nini saw Zhao Desan's strange expression and also smelled the burnt smell. She wrinkled her small nose and said to Zhao Desan: "Uncle, put me down."

Zhao Desan bent down and put the little girl in his arms down. As soon as Nini got out of Zhao Desan's arms, she turned around and trotted toward the kitchen.

The little girl's action made Zhao Desan feel very strange. He followed her to the kitchen with great curiosity. When Zhao Desan arrived at the kitchen door, he realized that the burnt smell was drifting out from the kitchen. Seeing the scene in the kitchen made Zhao Desan widen his eyes and look into the kitchen in astonishment. He saw Nini standing by the stove, tiptoeing, and struggling to lift a frying pan. A bowl of noodles in the pan had been boiled until it was burnt, becoming a brown lump, and the burnt smell was coming from these burnt noodles. Nini was using chopsticks to scrape the noodles that had stuck to the bottom of the pan after being burnt into a bowl.

"Nini, what are you doing?" Seeing this scene, Zhao Desan felt very shocked. He quickly walked up, snatched the frying pan from Nini's hand, and said sternly.

"Uncle, I'm hungry, I'm cooking noodles, but they got burnt..." Nini pouted her little mouth and looked at Zhao Desan with a look of grievance. Those watery, big eyes looked at Zhao Desan like that.

Seeing Nini's expression, Zhao Desan's heart felt a pang of sourness. He quickly lowered his head, rubbed his sour nose, and asked Nini: "Didn't Mommy cook for the family at noon?" Asking this, Zhao Desan fiercely complained about Zheng Jie in his heart, blaming her: "No matter what, you shouldn't let the child go hungry!"

"Mommy went out in the morning and hasn't come back yet." As Nini spoke, those big eyes stared unblinkingly at the frying pan in Zhao Desan's hand, watching Zhao Desan dump the burnt noodles in the pan into the trash can, a look of regret appearing on her face.

After Zhao Desan dumped the burnt noodles in the pan, seeing Nini looking at the burnt noodles dumped in the trash can with such a look of regret, such a look, such an expression, made Zhao Desan's heart surge with sourness again. He endured the sour and unbearable emotion, gently pinched Nini's face, and said: "Nini, you wait for Uncle for a moment, Uncle will go down and buy you something to eat." As he spoke, Zhao Desan turned around and walked out of Zheng Jie's house quickly.

Coming out of that dilapidated building, when the bright sunshine fell on his shoulders, Zhao Desan suddenly felt a sense of unreality, as if the scene he had just seen was like a dream, but he knew it was a fact. Facing such a miserable family, Zhao Desan had always tried not to get involved, but his natural soft heart, seeing such a scene, forced him to help.

Coming out of the building, Zhao Desan came to the street with a very heavy heart, entered a large supermarket, pushed a shopping cart, and swept from beginning to end along the shelves of snacks, filling the shopping cart. He also carried a box of ham sausages and a box of Mengniu Telunsu. Just buying snacks for Nini in the supermarket, Zhao Desan spent more than six hundred yuan. He carried two large bags and two boxes and walked out of the supermarket with difficulty. This wasn't all; there happened to be a McDonald's on this street, so he went in and packed a family bucket before returning to Zheng Jie's house with satisfaction.

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