Chapter 343: Arrival in Sijiucheng

The next morning, the group of thirty from Xiangjiang had arrived in Yantai City; Mayor Liu personally hosted a banquet to entertain them, and it was already two o'clock in the afternoon by the time the banquet concluded.

Meanwhile, Liu Shujun, who was conducting a home visit at Qi Tongwei's house, shamelessly lingered at Qi Tongwei's home to cadge a meal in order to wait for Zhang Weijun to return, but she waited and waited, yet never saw a trace of Zhang Weijun.

"Abominable, how dare he hide from me!"

"Teacher Liu, Second Brother went to the city to handle some business."

Seeing Liu Shujun gnashing her teeth, Qi Tongwei did not know why he felt a bit of agreement with his second brother's description of her as a "mother tyrannosaurus," but he still braced himself to explain to Zhang Weidong.

"Hm? Then forget it. The time is about right; Tongwei, let's go back to school."

"Mm, okay."

"Father, Mother, I'm going to school. Little Brother, stay home and look after Little Sister well."

Because Qi Qinghai's leg injury had been healed, he had two more children in the following ten years: nine-year-old Qi Tongren and five-year-old Qi Tongyu.

"Mm."

"Don't worry, Big Brother, I will take good care of Little Sister."

Watching the family of five, Liu Shujun suddenly felt a bit envious; she also had three siblings in her family, her eldest sister was already married, and her younger brother was studying in Sijiucheng, leaving only her to come to Yantai with her parents.

On the road, the two bumped into a motorcade head-on; it was precisely Zhang Weijun and his party.

"Teacher Liu, that is my second brother's car," Qi Tongwei said, pointing to one of the small cars.

"Are you sure?"

"Of course. I remember the license plate number. Second Uncle, Second Uncle, Teacher Liu is looking for you!"

"Hm?"

Zhang Weijun had drunk a bit too much at noon, and since the road surface was uneven at that moment, although he didn't vomit, he was feeling muddled inside the car.

"General Manager Zhang, it's Tongwei and his teacher; it seems they are looking for you."

"Mm... stop the car and see what's going on."

"What is it, Tongwei?"

Zhang Weijun pushed open the car door and walked out unsteadily, forcing himself to perk up, but who would have thought that once the mountain wind blew on him outside, he immediately became muddled again.

"You... hmph!"

Looking at the half-drunk, half-sober Zhang Weijun, Liu Shujun knew he wouldn't remember anything she said now, and her desire to question him about calling her a "mother tyrannosaurus" faded.

"Hey, hey, you..."

Just as Liu Shujun was about to leave, she saw Zhang Weijun, blown muddled by the mountain wind, falling toward her side, and she subconsciously caught him.

Fortunately, because she exercised year-round, she barely managed to catch him, but the heavy smell of alcohol mixed with a fierce masculine scent made her feel completely uncomfortable.

"General Manager Zhang, General Manager Zhang!" Wei Wenjie, who was both driver and bodyguard, hurried forward to support him.

"Sorry, this teacher, our General Manager Zhang has drunk too much."

"It's... it's fine," Liu Shujun stammered, and taking Qi Tongwei, she hurriedly fled the scene.

"Teacher Liu, are you alright?"

"I'm fine."

At this moment, Liu Shujun's face was beet red, and even her ears were flushed through; it was her first time having such close contact with a member of the opposite sex.

In the evening, Zhang Weijun woke up in a daze and felt a dull pain in his waist; he lifted his clothes to look, and sure enough, there was a patch of blue and purple.

"What happened?" Zhang Weijun was a bit bewildered.

"Wenjie, Wenjie!"

"Yes, General Manager Zhang."

"Did anything happen this afternoon?"

"This, nothing much, just that on the way back we ran into Tongwei and his teacher, and you, you..."

"What about me?"

"You were so drunk you fell onto that female teacher."

"......"

Zhang Weijun rubbed his head, and his memory slowly cleared; he had almost fallen at the time, and it seemed he had held onto a woman to keep from falling.

"Damn it."

Zhang Weijun's brain instantly thought of Liu Shujun, so it was no wonder that the mark on his waist was pinched by her.

"Hiss, she really is a mother tyrannosaurus," Zhang Weijun muttered.

Meanwhile, at home, every time Liu Shujun thought of her actions that afternoon, she would blush; not only had she pinched him several times in retaliation, she had also touched his abdominal muscles a few times.

"Daughter, what's wrong? You've been staring blankly like a fool since you got back from the home visit," Liu Haiyang asked his wife in a low voice.

"Maybe she's taken a fancy to someone's brother?"

Mother Liu had seen the expression on Liu Shujun's face when she returned clearly—at times shy, at times angry; wasn't that exactly what it looked like when a girl's heart was first stirred?

Thinking about it, their daughter was twenty-one this year, and it was indeed the age to get married.

"What?"

The two had been talking in low voices, but this exclamation from Liu Haiyang directly summoned the soul of the person involved, Liu Shujun, back.

"Father, Mother, what are you two doing?"

"Nothing, your father and I were just thinking about what to eat tonight."

Giving the two a suspicious look, Liu Shujun didn't think much of it; after all, she had grown up using her fists to reason, and it was only after becoming a teacher that she slowly changed.

That night in their room, Mother Liu recounted what her daughter had told her the day before.

"You're talking about Qi Family Village?" Liu Haiyang's brows furrowed slightly.

"Mm, what's wrong?"

"Nothing."

Liu Haiyang said it was nothing, but inwardly he thought it was bad; the Zhang Ping'an family were all succubi.

Although he admitted that the young man Zhang Weijun was excellent, he was not on a career path in officialdom after all, so he was not a very suitable match for his family.

"Doesn't our daughter always want to return to Sijiucheng? Let her hand over her teaching duties and go back to rest for a few days," Liu Haiyang thought to himself, if I can't afford to offend them, can't I at least hide from them?

"Good."

The next day, professional personnel from Xiangjiang had already taken over, and Zhang Weijun set off impatiently, his destination being Sijiucheng.

"Tongwei, was your second brother alright yesterday?"

"He was fine, but I don't know what's wrong with him; my dad sent him a bottle of bruise liniment in the evening."

Others might not know, but she was certainly clear; she hadn't gone easy on him yesterday, and his waist must have been bruised at the very least.

"Hmph, daring to take advantage of this young lady," Liu Shujun snorted softly.

"Second brother left for Sijiucheng early this morning, and everything here has been handed over to his subordinates."

"What?"

Waving to dismiss Qi Tongwei, Liu Shujun had originally wanted to take the opportunity to visit Qi Family Village more often under the guise of home visits, but now that the person involved had left, she had no heart for home visits either.

Returning home at noon, Mother Liu told her daughter what Father Liu had said last night.

"Alright Mother, I'll go hand over my work now." After eating at home, Liu Shujun went back to hand over her work and went to Jingzhou that afternoon to catch a flight.

"Hee hee, is this fate?" Liu Shujun murmured on the plane.

"Could I have been mistaken? Does my daughter not have those kinds of thoughts?"

Mother Liu shook her head and stopped thinking about it; it was better if she didn't, as Liu Haiyang's meaning last night was clearly disapproval, which would save the father and daughter from having a conflict.

Over in Sijiucheng, Zhang Weidong had also confirmed the final location, a rocky area of nearly four hundred mu in Fangshan District.

When Liu Haiyang returned in the evening and learned that his daughter had flown back to Sijiucheng that afternoon, he simply assumed his wife's analysis yesterday had been wrong.

If it were truly a budding romance, she would certainly have tried every way to stay, but Liu Shuhua's impatience clearly proved otherwise, which improved Liu Haiyang's mood by quite a bit.

Two days later, Cai Yonggang, the person in charge from Xiangjiang who had remained in Qi Family Village, found Liu Haiyang after confirming the investment plan.

"Mayor Liu, we have already confirmed our side; how about your side?"

Actually, Cai Yonggang did not want to make this trip, but the Commune side said they had no authority and it had already been taken over by the city, so he had no choice but to come over.

"Good, good, good."

Looking at the plan in his hands, Liu Haiyang was excited; not only was there a five million investment for the existing breeding farm, but an additional one million USD was invested in road construction, which would also solve the employment problem for several hundred people.

"By the way, where is your General Manager Zhang?"

"General Manager Zhang left for Sijiucheng the morning before last; everything here is now my responsibility."

"..."