Chapter 5639: Mutual Respect Like Guests

"I'm at my old home." Zhao Desan answered truthfully, "Are you finished with your business?"

"I just finished attending the wedding. Let me take you to the airport." After attending the wedding, Zhao Xue didn't even have time to eat lunch before running out of the wedding venue to call Zhao Desan. After these two days of getting along, she had become somewhat inseparable from Zhao Desan.

"Then how about this: you take a taxi to the intersection of Renmin Street, and I'll wait for you there." Zhao Desan thought for a moment and said. Seeing that the time was about right, going to the airport early was also fine.

"Hmm, I'll be there right away." Zhao Xue said and hung up the phone.

After smoking a cigarette, Zhao Desan got up and left the home that held the beautiful memories of his childhood. He came to the side of the road, lit a cigarette, and while looking around, waited for Zhao Xue to take a taxi over.

About fifteen minutes later, a taxi stopped by the side of the road. The window opened, and Zhao Xue waved at him from inside and shouted: "Here, get in."

Zhao Desan trotted over, opened the car door, and sat in. Zhao Xue said to the driver: "To the airport."

Zhao Desan asked her: "Did Feng Xiaoqing say anything when he saw you today?"

"He was getting married, what could he say to me? He just asked who I was with. I told him to ask my mom, and he didn't say anything else." Zhao Xue appeared nonchalant and said.

Seeing that she was fine, Zhao Desan finally let out a long sigh of relief. He was afraid that Zhao Xue's husband would force her to say who she had been with for the past two days, and if he came to the door, it would really be a bit troublesome. However, Zhao Xue's answer reassured him, because the old lady's attitude was very clear: she would help them speak up.

After arriving at the airport, since there were still two hours before boarding, the two wandered around the shops inside the airport out of boredom. They wandered into a men's clothing store. Zhao Xue looked back at the clothes Zhao Desan was wearing. Although he was now a deputy department-level cadre, the clothes on his body really felt like cheap goods. Thinking of how he had spent money like water buying so many things for her in the mall in Xijing City yesterday, Zhao Xue thought about buying him a few decent clothes, so she said with a smile: "The quality of the clothes here is quite good; let me buy you a few." As she spoke, Zhao Xue's eyes were filled with flowing light, and it seemed there was a different kind of emotion present.

"Why buy anything? When I get back to Xijing, I'll buy them myself if I have time." Zhao Desan was most afraid of trying on clothes with women, so he said with some impatience.

"You're a big man, what do you know about buying clothes? Look at the clothes you're wearing; anyone can tell at a glance that they're cheap goods. You're a deputy department-level cadre, after all; don't dress yourself up like those idle young people in society. We women are better at buying clothes. I'll pick them out for you. I happen to have a membership card for this store, which can also be used here, and you can get a 20% discount." Zhao Xue insisted on helping Zhao Desan buy clothes.

Zhao Desan looked at Zhao Xue's spontaneous appearance and had no choice but to agree with her. The two wandered around in the store. Zhao Desan looked at the expensive men's clothing in the store with no interest; in fact, he had no intention of buying anything at all.

"Do you like suits or casual wear?" Zhao Xue asked, seeing Zhao Desan's absent-minded appearance. Just as Zhao Desan was about to say he liked suits, Zhao Xue said: "Let's buy casual wear. You officials wear such formal clothes all day long, making a young man look old-fashioned. I think you must look very good in casual wear." As she spoke, Zhao Xue walked toward the casual wear area.

Zhao Desan looked at Zhao Xue's back as she walked away and muttered: "Was that asking me?"

Zhao Xue stood in front of the clothes rack, picking and choosing, and occasionally matching things, appearing very interested. It was just that Zhao Desan felt it was quite boring; accompanying a woman shopping was, in his view, simply a waste of life. He had just taken out a cigarette, but as soon as he remembered this was an airport, he quickly put it back in his pocket, looking around absent-mindedly, occasionally sneaking a peek at the silk-stockinged beautiful legs of the waitress.

"Desan, try this jacket. How is it? I think you'll definitely look good in this outfit." Zhao Xue chose a piece of clothing she liked and walked up to Zhao Desan, gesturing as she spoke.

"Madam, you have such good taste. This outfit is the best-selling one this year, and it matches you and your husband very well. If this outfit is worn, the whole person will look very clean, refreshing, and young, without losing stability." As soon as the waitress saw Zhao Xue choose this outfit, she immediately stepped forward and started to praise it like a peddler.

Zhao Desan listened to the fluent eloquence of the black-silk-wearing waitress and thought that they probably had to memorize scripts before going to work. When they see a woman trying on clothes, they say how you look in it, and when they see a young man, they say how you look in it, just like the official jargon used in meetings in the officialdom—nothing fresh, but many people still believe it.

"Does it really look good?" A blush appeared on Zhao Xue's face. This was the second time in her life she had been addressed as "Madam." Once was when she was with her husband Feng Xiaoqing, and the second time was now, with Zhao Desan. She was mistaken by this waitress for being Zhao Desan's wife, but Zhao Xue didn't remind her of the waitress's misunderstanding; instead, she accepted it, because deep in her heart, she really longed to be Zhao Desan's wife.

Zhao Desan didn't take the waitress's address of Zhao Xue as "Madam" to heart, but secretly thought about what kind of eye the waitress had, directly muttering: "I haven't even tried it on yet, how do you know what I'll look like in it?"

The waitress was a bit embarrassed by Zhao Desan's pedantic words, but soon smiled again and said: "Sir, I observed it based on your figure. You are tall and have a good build; it will definitely fit well. We've been in this line of work for a long time and have some eye for it."

You have an eye for it? You can't even tell if we're husband and wife! Zhao Desan muttered in his heart, but he didn't say these words out loud.

Zhao Xue saw that Zhao Desan was deliberately trying to pick a fight with the waitress, making a young girl feel awkward, so she rolled her eyes at him and pushed him directly, saying: "Go try it on. You'll know if it looks good after trying it on."

"No need to try it on, it's too much trouble. If you say it looks good, it looks good. I believe you." Zhao Desan saw that Zhao Xue was a bit angry, so he quickly accompanied her with a smile, knowing that Zhao Xue just wanted to buy him a couple of clothes, and thought he might as well fulfill her wish.

Seeing Zhao Desan's sweet-talking flattery, a blush appeared on Zhao Xue's face. The level of ambiguity in these words was no less than calling her "darling." Zhao Xue lowered her head and said to the waitress with some embarrassment: "Then just pack it up. Swipe the card." As she spoke, she walked toward the service desk.

"What card are you swiping? Let me do it." Zhao Desan quickly stopped Zhao Xue and said. ===== CHAPTER 5640 =====