Chapter 905: Something is wrong

Leaning against the headboard and thinking for a while, Ma Lan picked up her phone from the nightstand and called Zhao Desan. Zhao Desan was sitting in front of the computer in the study of Su Qing's home, wearing headphones and watching a movie. His phone was on the nightstand in the bedroom, and he didn't hear the call at all.

Ma Lan called four or five times, but no one answered, and she felt disheartened. She thought that perhaps Zhao Desan had forgotten her now and didn't want to see her again. She also knew that the reason Zhao Desan suddenly stopped asking about her was because he discovered that she was maintaining that kind of special relationship with other men. But Ma Lan was already at this age and knew that even if she and Zhao Desan continued to associate, there would be no future, so it was impossible for her to give up her firm revenge plan for his feelings. After putting down the phone, she lay on the bed and suddenly saw half a pack of cigarettes and a lighter left by Liu Jianguo on the nightstand. She took one out and lit it, but after just one puff, she was choked to tears and quickly threw it away.

Zhao Desan watched two movies in a row. It wasn't until Su Qing stood at the door of the study, swaying slightly, that he suddenly came to his senses. He immediately took off his headphones, stood up, and said, "Sister Su, you're back?"

Su Qing's face was a bit flushed, and her vision was a bit drifting. She clearly had drunk a lot. She leaned against the door and said angrily, "Why didn't you answer when I called you?"

Zhao Desan touched his pants pockets with both hands, only then remembering that his phone was in the bedroom, and quickly said, "Sister Su, my phone was in the bedroom. I was watching a movie in the study and didn't hear it."

"Look at how many times Sister called you?" As she spoke, Su Qing actually picked up his phone, unlocked it, and saw a missed call with the note "Sister Lan," which had been called several times. So Su Qing looked at him playfully, held up the phone, and asked him, "Who is Sister Lan?"

"Sister Lan?" Zhao Desan whispered to himself, immediately understanding that Ma Lan had also called him. He had a flash of inspiration and said with a laugh, appearing very natural, "She's a coal boss from Yuyang City. She asked me to do something for her when I was at the Coal Bureau."

"I can't tell that you have such wide connections?" Su Qing leaned against the door, looking at him with blurry eyes, her face red, but her tone was very playful, as if she were jealous.

"Sister Su, you... look at what you're saying. This is for work," Zhao Desan laughed awkwardly, quickly walked up to support her, and pretended to ask with concern, "Sister Lan, you've drunk a lot, right? I'll help you back to your room to sleep."

Su Qing returned the phone to him, and while being supported by him, walking unsteadily into the bedroom, she turned her face and said with a coquettish expression, "Sleep? What sleep? You haven't paid the public grain to Sister today."

After serving Su Qing comfortably, Zhao Desan was as tired as a horse, lying on the side and falling asleep without even taking a shower. After closing his eyes, he suddenly thought, why did Ma Lan call him so late at night? With so many men, did she still lack him? Was she missing the feeling of doing that with him? Thinking about it with a playful attitude, he fell asleep.

The next day was the weekend. Zhao Desan didn't crawl up until after ten o'clock. He found that Sister Su had already woken up early and was standing in front of the wardrobe, picking out clothes to wear. He stretched and asked her, "Sister Su, it's not a workday today, why are you dressing so beautifully?"

Su Qing turned back and smiled, "You're awake? If you're awake, get up quickly. It's already ten o'clock. Accompany Sister out shopping today and buy some winter clothes."

Zhao Desan scratched his hair, gave an "oh," crawled out of bed to go to the bathroom, washed up, returned to the room, picked out some clothes to wear, and sat on the edge of the bed, smoking and watching Sister Su dress. Su Qing looked at the wardrobe full of dazzling clothes and didn't know what to wear, feeling a headache. Zhao Desan said playfully from the side, "Sister Su, I think you'd better not waste that money. You have a headache not knowing which one to wear from the clothes at home, and you're still buying clothes? You're simply going against money."

Su Qing turned her head and glared at him, "You know a fart. These clothes are out of style. Sister hasn't been shopping for a long time. Today, it's hard to have nothing to do. If you don't want to accompany Sister shopping, then stay at home! You talk too much nonsense!"

"I'll accompany you, I'll accompany you. As long as you have the interest, Sister, I'll accompany you no matter what you want to do," Zhao Desan said with sweet talk.

Watching Sister Su finally pick and choose, she wore a beige woolen trench coat on her upper body and a pair of slim black pants on her legs. The whole person looked noble and elegant, and in her intellectualism, she exuded a charming aura, which had a unique flavor.

After Sister Su dressed and put on light makeup, he accompanied her to shop in the most prosperous area of Xijing City. Zhao Desan had long since experienced the pain of accompanying women shopping, but to curry favor with Sister Su, he still accompanied Su Qing from one end of the street to the other with high spirits. Finally, when they walked to an underwear store, Su Qing stopped and said, "Sister is buying some underwear."

Zhao Desan and Su Qing walked on the street, and it was clear that their ages and temperaments were not compatible. Plus, seeing the female clerk in the underwear store looking at him and Su Qing with strange eyes, he said to Su Qing, "Sister Su, you go in and look, I'll wait for you outside."

"Are you embarrassed?" Su Qing asked with a wicked smile, "That's fine, you wait for me at the door, I'll just buy a few and come out." As she spoke, she piled the big and small bags in her hands into his arms and walked into the underwear store.

Zhao Desan leaned against the door, lit a cigarette, and stared at the crowd coming and going, waiting for Su Qing to come out. After a while, a woman's voice suddenly came to his ear: "Zhao Desan?"

Zhao Desan looked curiously, and suddenly his eyes widened. This... isn't this Director Zhang? She... she also came to Xijing?

"Di... Director Zhang, why are you also in Xijing?" Zhao Desan feigned calmness and laughed.

"Yes, it's really a narrow road for enemies. I didn't expect to run into you here. Comrade Xiao Zhao, you really have some ability, I heard you're working at the Provincial Construction Commission now?" Zhang Ailing flashed a cold smile at the corners of her mouth and said in a playful tone.

"No special ability, just making a living," Zhao Desan laughed.

At this time, Zhang Ailing's husband, Li Changping, Deputy Minister of the Organization Department of the Provincial Party Committee, came up from behind. He didn't know what grudges Zhao Desan had with his wife and greeted Zhao Desan enthusiastically, "Comrade Xiao Zhao is here too."

"Brother Li, hello." Zhao Desan immediately put the big and small bags in his arms on the ground, took out a cigarette case from his pocket, gave Li Changping a cigarette, and respectfully helped him light it.

"Why is Comrade Xiao Zhao in Xijing? I heard you're not working at the Coal Bureau anymore?" Li Changping also asked with a confused laugh.

"Not anymore." Zhao Desan looked at Zhang Ailing, who was treating him coldly, with an extremely awkward expression.

"Maybe the Yuyang City Coal Bureau temple is too small to accommodate a big Buddha like Comrade Xiao Zhao," Zhang Ailing said in a playful tone.

Li Changping looked at his wife, took a puff of his cigarette in confusion, and asked him, "Comrade Xiao Zhao wasn't doing well at the Coal Bureau? Your Director Zhang has always valued you highly, why did you suddenly say you wouldn't do it anymore?" In Li Changping's impression, his wife valued Zhao Desan highly and had praised him to his face many times. But today, it seemed that the two of them didn't have a relationship like a good teacher and a helpful friend, but rather seemed to have some estrangement. Having been in officialdom for so many years, Li Changping saw that something was wrong at a glance, which was why he got to the bottom of it.

In front of Zhang Ailing, Zhao Desan didn't know how to answer, and his smile was a bit stiff. Zhang Ailing on the side gave a cold laugh and said in a playful tone, "Comrade Xiao Zhao is now working at the Provincial Construction Commission."

Just as Zhao Desan was being driven into a dead end by the couple's attack, Su Qing walked out from inside. Seeing Zhao Desan and Li Changping's couple standing at the door, her loud and clear laughter came before she even arrived: "Old Li, and Director Zhang are also shopping?"

Several people looked in the direction of the sound at the same time and saw Su Qing walking over with a smile.

"Minister Su, what a coincidence that you are also shopping." Li Changping immediately greeted her with a laugh. There was more than one deputy minister in the Organization Department, and compared to the top leader, he was much inferior, so he immediately appeared very humble in front of Su Qing.

Even Zhang Ailing immediately greeted her enthusiastically, "Minister Su, hello."

"Director Zhang, what free time do you have to come to Xijing today?" Su Qing asked with a smile.

Zhang Ailing nodded humbly and said, "There's nothing going on in the bureau today, so I came over early in the morning."

Su Qing joked, "I can't tell that Old Li is such a competent husband. It's hard to have a Sunday, and he still has to accompany his wife shopping, haha..."

Li Changping laughed along on the side. Su Qing suddenly saw Zhang Ailing looking at her and Zhao Desan with strange eyes, so she immediately said with a smile, "Oh, you know Comrade Xiao Zhao, he worked under Director Zhang for a few years. He's my cousin, you guys didn't know, right?"

Li Changping and Zhang Ailing widened their eyes at the same time, were stunned, and then laughed at the same time.

"I really didn't know Comrade Xiao Zhao was your cousin, Minister Su," Li Changping said with a laugh, but his eyes looked a bit skeptical. ===== CHAPTER 906 =====