Chapter 710: Drink two glasses with me

Zheng Ru curled her lips in disdain, saying he was turning his elbows out. Zhao De, however, appeared respectful in front of Zheng Tulu, nodding to his words whether they were right or wrong. He inadvertently discovered that Zheng Tulu always glanced at his bag intentionally or unintentionally. Only then did he remember that he had forgotten the main business because he was so engaged in chatting. He glanced at his leather bag and smiled at Zheng Tulu with mutual understanding. Zheng Tulu was a sensible person and understood his meaning. He pretended to touch his pocket, using the excuse that he had no cigarettes, and instructed Zheng Ru: "Ruru, go downstairs and buy me a pack of cigarettes."

Zhao De understood his meaning. Originally, his pack of Zhonghua had just been opened and two cigarettes had been taken out, so he crossed his fingers and didn't make any moves.

"Aren't there many cigarettes at home?" Zheng Ru knew that there was almost a small mountain of good cigarettes and wine in that empty room at home, so she looked at Zheng Tulu suspiciously.

"I'm not used to smoking cigarettes from other places. Local people smoke local cigarettes," Zheng Tulu excused, "Go downstairs and buy a pack of 'Haomao' up. Local cigarettes are still smoother to smoke."

Zheng Ru curled her lips, stood up reluctantly, turned around, opened the living room door, and went out.

With Zheng Ru sent away, Zhao De took the leather bag from the sofa on the side, unzipped it, took out the Vacheron Constantin box, placed it in front of Zheng Tulu, and said with a chuckle, "I was so engaged in chatting with you, Director Zheng, just now that I forgot about this. This is a little bit of my heart, and it's also something my cousin specifically instructed."

Zheng Tulu pretended to decline and said, "Look at you, child. I said it's fine for you to come over. Not only did you bring tea and wine, but why did you bring this over? It's really too polite." On the surface, he appeared very embarrassed, but his hand reached out without any hesitation, took the box, and began to fiddle with it.

Damn! Stop pretending to be a prick! If you have the ability, don't touch it! Zhao De thought. Seeing his hypocritical look, he felt disgusted. With a respectful smile on his face, he said, "Director Zheng, you are too polite. Just accept it. It's a little bit of my heart to honor you. Maybe I'll need Director Zheng's help in the future." Saying this could be considered making him feel that he shouldn't accept rewards without merit, giving him a reason to accept it and a step down.

"Comrade Xiao Zhao, look at what you said. Even if you came to the house as a guest empty-handed, I would welcome you with open arms. Besides, for Minister Su's sake, if you have any difficulties, I won't stand idly by," Zheng Tulu said smoothly, "Since it's your heart, then I... I will accept it..." Saying this, he took this expensive watch, stood up, and walked toward the 'small treasury' filled with good cigarettes, tea, and wine, and put this Vacheron Constantin watch in a hidden position.

When Zheng Tulu came out of the small treasury and returned to the living room, Zheng Ru had also bought cigarettes and returned, handing them to him. Zheng Tulu took them, opened them, took out two, and handed one to Zhao De. He hurriedly took it with both hands, took out a lighter, and went over to help Zheng Tulu light it.

"Comrade Xiao Zhao's home is in Yuyang, right?" Zheng Tulu began to probe his family situation again.

Zhao De nodded and said, "It's in Yuyang."

"Then where do you live in Xijing?" Zheng Tulu didn't know he was boarding at Su Qing's house.

"At Su..." Zhao De was just about to say the word Sister Su when he realized it was wrong, so he hurriedly changed his words: "I live at my cousin's house."

Zheng Tulu nodded with a chuckle and said, "That's good, this way if there's anything, Minister Su can take care of it. How does it feel to work these few days? How familiar are you with the work?"

"Almost... almost there." Zhao De glanced at Zheng Ru and chuckled.

Zheng Ru interjected, "That woman surnamed Lan hasn't arranged specific work for him yet."

Zheng Tulu said with slight surprise, "Division Chief Lan hasn't arranged work for you yet?"

"Mm, Division Chief Lan asked me to familiarize myself with the work process recently, saying she would arrange it for me after I'm familiar with it," Zhao De said.

"Since you're familiar with it, I'll say a word to your Division Chief Lan when I go to work on Monday and let her arrange something for you to do. You have to do the work specifically to know it. Otherwise, not having anything to do like this is not conducive to development." Zheng Tulu had already regarded him as his prospective son-in-law, so how could he allow his future to be delayed like this?

Zheng Ru always felt that her dad was too enthusiastic about Zhao De, so she felt a bit unbalanced and said, "Dad, I've never seen you care about others like this before. Is it because you see that Zhao De has connections?"

This made Zhao De feel very embarrassed. He was already afraid of people looking at him through colored glasses. From Zheng Ru's words, he felt that this girl still had some prejudice against him for getting into the Construction Bureau through connections. He thought, you are also a connection-user who got into the Construction Bureau through your dad's connections, and you are a crow laughing at a pig for being black!

Zheng Tulu pursed his lips and pulled a long face, saying, "You girl, who in the unit do I not care about? You've only been working for a few days, how would you know! As a leader, it's only natural for me to care about the people below. Do you feel that I, as your dad, don't take enough care of you? This is also for your personal development. How can young people not be tempered?" Zheng Tulu's serious look seemed as if he were the synonym for an honest official.

Chatting one sentence after another, Zhao De knew what should be said and what should not be said. Although Zheng Tulu always tried to probe his family situation from his mouth, Zhao De always glossed over it, making Zheng Tulu no longer embarrassed to ask. Because Zhao De came late, it was soon noon. Zheng Tulu instructed his wife to start cooking. Zheng Ru was most afraid of smoke. After sitting for a while, she really couldn't stand the secondhand smoke from these two people, so she got up and returned to her boudoir.

Zhao De glanced at the smoke inadvertently and saw Zheng Tulu's wife, who still had charm, busy in the kitchen with her back to the living room. Her tall stature and plump but not greasy figure looked quite tempting from behind, especially her plump, upturned buttocks, which made people involuntarily prone to wild thoughts. From behind her, he could also see no underwear marks, so he concluded that she really wasn't wearing a bra. When she finished cooking and brought it out to the dining table, Zhao De had ulterior motives and appeared very observant, saying, "Auntie, I'll help you serve." He got up and followed her into the kitchen.

When Zhao De followed her into the kitchen, this charming mature woman looked at him intentionally, a flash of ambiguous autumn ripples in her star-like eyes, and she smiled with a bit of nervousness, saying, "Comrade Xiao Zhao, you don't need to help. You go out and chat with Old Zheng. I'll do it alone."