In order to avoid unnecessary impact, when the car arrived at the intersection of the county middle road, Chen Huai signaled the driver to stop and let Zhou Qian go down.

Zhou Qian's bad mood had not been cleaned up yet, and she got off the car in a panic. She looked like the slightly worn black Santa car that was far away along the street. She felt disappointed and empty, and walked along the tree-lined avenue to the school...

There are tall metasequoia trees on both sides of the tree-lined avenue, covered by thick shade. Zhou Qian felt a little cold in her body and her heart was also a little cold when she walked.

Zhou Qian returned to school and pushed the door into the office. The teacher in the same office said to her: "Zhou Qian, your sister just called and said she had booked a flight ticket for next Wednesday..."

When Zhou Qian heard that her sister who had not met for a long time was going back to China next week, she felt a little better. Even if she could meet next week, Zhou Qian was eager to call her sister at this time, and then she said that her colleagues helped her to pass the message, but she did not ask some things clearly. Next Wednesday is next Wednesday in China, or next Wednesday in the other side of the Pacific Ocean, which is a day off.

But the phone number in the office can’t be removed even if it’s long-distance internationally.

Zhou Qian thought that she would not have her class in the afternoon, so she wanted to call the post office with her bag. She was lazy and changed her mood. She turned around and realized that she had not brought her bag back to the office at all. She thought for a moment and then confirmed that she had put the county magistrate Luoxin and others in the car.

Zhou Qian felt a headache and was about to call Wang Weicheng with the office phone number. The phone number in the office happened to ring at this time, which scared Zhou Qian.

Wang Weicheng called:

"I saw that you got out of the car and you were all in school. It would be great if you were in school. I would like to see a guest in Beishan in a while and I would send it to you. You can wait at school and don't leave."

Zhou Qian thought to herself that Wang Weicheng and the others saw her bag falling into the car, but did not chase her. Instead, they asked Wang Weicheng to send it alone without bothering, probably to avoid suspicion. Thinking about it, it was true that the school teachers knew that she had just taken the county magistrate's car to return to school, and some rumors might be heard.

Zhou Qian was not completely unaware of this society. She thought that the county magistrate was so deliberate to avoid suspicion and should have no special thoughts about herself. However, when she thought of Xu Zhi's misunderstanding, she could only sigh powerlessly. A very bad mood was in her heart and she felt very uncomfortable.

Zhou Qian thought that she was going to the post office to call her sister, so she made an appointment with Wang Weicheng to meet at the school intersection.

When she walked to the intersection, she watched Wang Weicheng drive from across the street in the slightly worn black Santana. Zhou Qian shook her hand and signaled her to cross the road. Wang Weicheng didn't need to turn around specially. But just as she crossed the road, she saw Xu Zhi standing in the shade of the tree at the intersection with an ugly face.

Zhou Qian was just waiting for Wang Weicheng to come, but Xu Zhi stood under a tree not far from him without paying attention. At this time, she jumped nervously and knew that Xu Zhi would definitely think about it again when she saw this situation.

Wang Weicheng also saw Xu Zhi, thinking that Xu Zhi was probably quarreling with each other, and his mind was a little clearer, so he ran to the school to find Zhou Qian to make up. Unexpectedly, sometimes things were just coincidental. Seeing him driving over to deliver bags to Zhou Qian, he thought that he would probably be stubborn again.

Wang Weicheng didn't want to make him messed up. If it caught fire in his backyard, it would be really hard to explain. He handed the bag to Zhou Qian through the car window and drove away.

Zhou Qian got the bag, looked at Xu Zhi's ugly face and turned around and left. She stepped on her high heels and chased her across the road. She almost scraped off a car. She didn't care about the driver's ugly scolding and fear, so she caught up with Xu Zhi and said, "Can you listen to my explanation..."

"What else can I explain?" Xu Zhi looked at Zhou Qian with a handsome face twisted, feeling unspeakable irritability in his heart, and asked coldly.

"I took Wang Weicheng's car back to school, and the bag fell into his car. He sent it back to me. Can you not think about it elsewhere?" Zhou Qian felt uncomfortable because of such a misunderstanding, but thinking about the difficulty of having a relationship for more than two years, she still said with a look, "Wang Weicheng is my sister, my brother-in-law and classmate. I have known him for more than ten years. You will never doubt what Wang Weicheng has to do, right?"

Zhou Qian was afraid that Xu Zhi would want to go somewhere else, so she dared not say that the county magistrate and Wang Wei sent her back to school together.

Xu Zhi felt disgusted in his heart, staring at Zhou Qian's face coldly, as if he saw the vanity that made him disgusted from that beautiful face, and immediately exposed her lies and said, "Is it necessary to lie? You have no ghost in your heart. Wang Wei has given you a bag and drove away? Do I not even have the qualifications to park and say hello?"

Zhou Qian didn't know Wang Weicheng, and Shen Huai had heard them quarrel in the lobby on the ground floor of Zhujiang Building. Seeing Xu Zhi questioning like this, it was a chorus, and he didn't know how to explain it.

Moreover, she was afraid that Xu Zhi would misunderstand, so she deliberately said that she was taking Wang Weicheng's car to go back to school. At this time, she wanted to say that Shen Huai asked Wang Weicheng to drive the bag in order to avoid suspicion, which was too late. She could only look at Xu Wei's face that was strange to her, and her heart sank to the end.

Seeing that Zhou Qian didn't explain anything anymore, Xu Zhi just thought his guess was correct, and he became more and more embarrassed and walked back to the bus stop. He watched the bus coming, and didn't care which bus it would go straight up when the door opened.

Zhou Qian was squatting on the side of the road with her bag in her arms, so sad that she wanted to cry...

Xu Sheng did not see the quarrel between Zhou Qian and Xu Zhi, but only saw her squatting on the side of the road, signaling the driver to stop the car, poking his head out and asking, "Does Teacher Xiao Zhou feel uncomfortable?"

"Ah..." Zhou Qian looked up at Xu Sheng, and after a while he realized, he shook his head in a mess and said, "It's nothing, I just rest on the roadside for a while, and I don't want to rush back to school."

Xu Sheng was happy when he heard Zhou Qian say that he didn't want to go back to school. He quickly opened the car door and said with a smile: "Your school has no classes? Then you don't have to go back. By the way, Lao Zhang from the health school will treat you to dinner and discuss the merger of the vocational school. Teacher Xiao Zhou, you are also a member of the preparatory group of the Education Group, come and participate..."

Zhou Qian felt empty and felt nowhere to go. She just wanted to leave here as soon as possible, and got into Xu Sheng's car in a daze. She was so distracted that she didn't notice that there was a little weirdness in the eyes of the front driver from the rearview mirror. Xu Sheng's eyes were even more greedily looking at her curvy body...

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Xu Zhi held his anger and took the bus back to the city, but did not return to the design institute, so he went home directly.

The exterior walls of the tube building built in the 1970s were not painted with cement, and the red bricks were directly exposed, with obvious weathering marks and the railings were rusted. The corridors were filled with cabinets and stoves of each house. You could smell the sour smell mixed with diapers when you entered the building. It was not particularly strong, but it did exist. When you walked into the corridor and used the turnway, you could use it. It was called the residents on the left and right to pile up coal balls and other debris, leaving only a very small space for people to fold their bodies and down the corridors.

When Xu Zhi returned home, he threw his bag to the corner of the wall, pushed the door open and walked into the room, irritated and lying on the bed as if he was dead. He couldn't help but think that Zhou Qian would take off naked and cheer under another man. He became jealous and told him to smash the things in the room.

But there was nothing to smash in his room. A bed was so small that it could roll down even if it turned over. The remaining space could not even be placed on the desk. He used a wooden board to cross between the two walls to act as a desk.

The door "creaked" and Xu Zhi pushed open without looking up, just knowing that his mother saw him coming home outside and rushed over.

"Didn't you say that you have something to do at work and go to Xiapu and see Zhou Qian by the way? Why did you come back so early? Have you quarreled with Zhou Qian? I said you should think about getting married too. Both of them are twenty-seven, and the family is not easy to live in. The unit does not distinguish between houses. I think you can buy a smaller commercial house first to get married. Didn't you say that Zhou Qian can get 1,500 yuan a month for salary increase? Then you two have 2,500 yuan in total. I'll ask your uncle and others to raise some money. Zhou Qian's sister, her brother-in-law is abroad, so it's always easy to borrow 30,000 or 50,000 yuan. First go to Nanyuan to buy a house for you to get married. You two have such high salary, and you will get back the debt in the future..."

"Damn it, you're not finished talking!" Xu Zhi sat up angry and shouted at her mother, "Where do they see the broken houses in Qianyuan? They want to live in villas and foreign buildings; they want to live in villas and foreign buildings. Do you understand? Where can I buy them for her..."

The sudden attack on his son made him feel a little confused. Xu Zhi's mother stood at the door in a daze, and said without saying a word for a long time. After a while, she said, "I don't understand the villa and foreign house, but Zhou Qian is a good girl. Look at your house, there is nothing valuable, it's like a pig's nest. What's the point for her to call her? Can she have a relationship with you for two years? However, it's better if you break up. Zhou Qian is so beautiful, she may not be able to live a hard life. I'm afraid that I can't keep it in the future. I've long been dissatisfied with you, but you can't hold it in your heart..."

Xu Zhi pushed his mother out of the door, took in the shoulder bag in the corner, and locked the door.

"Didi", the pager in the shoulder bag rang out at the right time. Xu Zhi threw the bag aside, leaned down and continued to lie down. After a while, he turned over and sat up. He flipped out the pager from the shoulder bag, which showed the mobile phone number of director Wang Mingda.

Xu Zhi ignored it, pulled the quilt to cover his eyes, and continued to sleep with his eyes closed, but his mind was in a mess and he could not fall asleep.

He didn't get up to have dinner at night. Wang Mingda shouted twice in the dark, but Xu Zhi ignored it. At about nine o'clock, the pager next to his pillow rang again, and Wang Mingda called him again.

After lying in a low position for a long time, Xu Zhi calmed down a little now. It would be fine if he lost his love. At worst, he would never have any relationship with that vain woman again and would not lose his job again.

Xu Zhi turned over and went downstairs to Xiaomai store and borrowed a public phone to go back. Director Wang Mingda knew that others were in the city and didn't ask why he didn't reply to paging in the afternoon, so he asked him to rush to the Jinding Club to have a drink.

Jinding Club is an old relative of Vice President Zhang Hua. The design institute wants to entertain customers and go to Jinding more after dinner. If Xu Zhi happened to be able to accompany the customers to have dinner with the leaders in the institute, he could occasionally go there with him to entertain. Today he was really in a mood, but Wang Mingda didn't seem to have expected that he would refuse, so he hung up the phone before he found the excuse.

It was inconvenient to call him to explain that Xu Zhi thought that he would be a job to rush over to drink, so he stopped the taxi and went straight to Jinding Club. When he walked into the box, he saw director Wang Mingda and vice president Zhang Hua, accompanying Zhujiang Construction's project manager Chen Zhirang to drink inside.

There were already three girls who were drinking in the private room, each of whom looked innocent, and they sat next to Wang Mingda, Zhang Hua and Chen Zhi. Before Xu Zhi came, they had already drunk a lot.

Looking at Xu Zhi coming, not only Chen Zhirang sat upright, but also looked over eagerly. Zhang Hua, the vice president who usually doesn't see the ordinary designers under his command, stood up enthusiastically, put his shoulders on his shoulders, and asked with concern: "Manager Chen rarely agrees to go to our dinner, and he also thinks that you and Manager Chen are familiar with each other to contact each other. I asked Wang Mingda to call you several times, but I haven't seen you reply. Is there anything wrong?"

"I forgot to bring my pager with me." Xu Zhi lied.

"Wang Mingda, you will get a mobile phone for Xiao Xu tomorrow, and get a better one. I will get a ticket to my side for reimbursement. It is my special approval," Zhang Hua simply and decisively ordered Wang Mingda, "You can make business volume, and you don't even have a mobile phone in the yard. If you don't say anything else, it's not convenient to contact customers."

"I'll do it tomorrow, and I'll do it tomorrow." Wang Mingda agreed hurriedly.

Xu Zhi was a little flattered and didn't understand what was going on, but Zhang Hua's "careful" made him feel a lot of anger that was depressed in his heart, and he felt that he was finally getting better.

Pressing Xu Zhi's shoulder, Zhang Hua asked again: "Do you know a girl, or do you want me to arrange one for you?"

Xu Zhi didn't like this, but he also knew that sometimes socializing requires acting, otherwise he would be unsuitable for him alone, so he owed his body and said, "It's okay..." He was so arrogant, and he also understood this kind of human nature.

"Okay, I know you young people like to look at your face..." Zhang Hua laughed, stood at the door of the box and called the public relations manager to come over, and asked Xu Zhi to arrange a girl to accompany him to drink.

Singing, drinking, and chatting, Xu Zhi's mood improved, but Zhang Hua's next test, and told him that he finally got better suddenly became worse again: "Xiao Xu, do you know that you know County Mayor Shen from Xiapu?"

"I don't know." Xu Zhi didn't want to offend Vice President Zhang Hua, but he couldn't control his voice and replied to him.

Fortunately, the lights in the private room were dim and the rotating light strip did not hit Xu Zhi's face. The noisy music also covered Xu Zhi's deformed voice. Zhang Hua just thought Xu Zhi was unwilling to say it, so he naturally laughed and refused to ask.

Xu Zhi looked yin and guessed the sinister intention of Vice President Zhou Hua to pull him over.

Chen Zhirang didn't know what Xu Zhi was thinking, but he didn't think he was deliberately hiding something. He came over and said to Zhang Hua: "Xu Gong may really not recognize County Magistrate Shen. You have not dealt with County Magistrate Shen once or twice. Tell me, who has not had some tough skills in recent years and can get special care from County Magistrate Shen? I thought that it should be the draft of the design of Xu Gong this time, which attracted the heart of County Magistrate Shen. Xu Gong should be similar to County Magistrate Shen. For many years, I have been with County Magistrate Shen and found that County Magistrate Shen especially likes to use something similar to his age. I guess he has a better idea..."

Chen Zhirang said this, but Wang Mingda, who was sitting next to him, disagreed:

Xu Zhi has been transferring his subordinates for two years. How much pounds does he have in his hands? How can he not know?

It cannot be said that Xu Zhi has no ability to polish and polish it well. He will still be able to take charge of some cases in two years, but he cannot take any major role at the moment. Especially in the design institute, he gathers key designers and specializes in the one-bedroom in Meixi and Xinpu engineering design business. Xu Zhi, who has just been transferred in, cannot even squeeze into the medium level. At present, he can only say that he has some potential.

Taking a step back, Xu Zhi did not do much work except helping to get the draft of this plan. How could he be favored by Chen Huai?

Wang Mingda guessed that it was something else, and Chen Huai was particularly optimistic about Xu Zhi.

However, Wang Mingda did not make random guesses. In short, Chen Huai hoped that Xu Zhi would perform, and the meaning of performance was clear and there was no fake. Chen Huai was optimistic about people, no matter what the reason, don’t say that Xu Zhi still had some goods in his stomach, even if Xu Zhi was a fool, the design institute would promote and reuse it.

Of course, Wang Mingda also understood why Zhang Hua was so eager to win over Xu Zhi. After all, Zhang Hua wanted to affiliate with the design institute to run his own company.

However, even if Zhang Hua could assign some key designers to the new company, Wang Mingda decided to take over the new company for Zhang Hua, but they were worried that they might not be sure to bring the business of Meixi and Xinpu's design fees of tens of millions of yuan a year from the design institute to the new company.

Chen Zhirang's words made Zhang Hua feel quite moved and nodded, "Manager Chen said that if you want to match the taste of County Mayor Chen, you still have to have some hard skills to achieve it. Needless to say, Mr. Zhou of Pengyue, Mr. Zhou of the Zhou family is already thick, but Mr. Yang of Penghai, Mr. Zhao of Meigang, Mr. Pan of Huailian, Mr. Zhao of your Zhujiang, Mr. Zhu of Ziluo, who are not ** have very real skills?"

Chen Zhirang could see that Xu Zhi was a little excited. I don’t know why. He felt ashamed when he heard them mention the names of the resounding names. He patted his shoulder kindly and said with a smile: “Don’t look at our Mr. Zhu’s current glory. Before meeting County Mayor Chen, the situation was so miserable. Your President Zhang had long recognized us Mr. Zhu. Let him talk to you about our Mr. Zhu’s history of making a fortune…”

"Aren't you afraid that Mr. Zhu knowing that you are poking his back?" Wang Mingda joked. Wang Mingda knew about Zhu Li's embarrassment before he became rich.

Zhu Li was the manager of the Municipal Construction Company before, and he recognized Wang Mingda and Zhang Hua. However, in the past two years, Zhujiang Construction has developed so much that the entire municipal planning and design institute has to rely on Zhujiang Construction's business to make a living, so he felt that Zhu Li's status is far beyond their ability to compare with.

"Our Mr. Zhu, you can't be vague with him when doing work. The rest are very casual. I often see him shirtless and pulling someone to drink on the roadside. Pork head meat, peanuts, and tofu are his favorites. If he pulls someone on the roadside and points to say that he has a net worth of hundreds of millions, he won't believe anyone to kill him." Chen Zhirang said with a smile.

Although Xu Zhi was holding his breath, he still attracted his attention when he heard Chen Zhirang, Zhang Hua and Wang Mingda talking about the trivial matters of these rich people named Zhen Donghua.

Whether it is Zhou Zhibai of Pengyue, Yang Haipeng of Penghai, Zhao Dong and Pan Cheng of Meigang, Zhao Yicheng of Huailian Heavy Industry, Chu Yiliang of Zhujiang Investment, Zhu Li of Zhujiang Construction, and even Chen Tong, who has recently risen Pengyue Lianshang, are all wealthy figures who can make Donghua shake three times with one stomp.

Before, these characters were too far away for him. Although some people in the design room liked to talk about this, Xu Zhi always felt that it was both boring and vulgar. Is the lives of those rich people related to them?

Therefore, he has heard of most of these names, but he has not cared about any stories behind it.

If it weren't for the temporary troubles of the chief designer who accompanied Wang Mingda to Xinpu today, Wang Mingda wouldn't have found other helpers, and it wouldn't have been his turn to accompany him, let alone meet people like Zhu Li and Chu Yiliang.

Zhu Li is a very casual person. Xu Zhi saw it with his own eyes today. They went to the construction site temporarily, and Zhu Li was the driver himself. The off-road vehicle was indeed a bit "terrible". Xu Zhi saw that he was not as handsome as the project manager below, but no matter how much he guessed, he could not imagine that such a person had a net worth of hundreds of millions.

What is the concept of hundreds of millions?

Vice President Zhang Hua can get more than 10 million yuan in business every year, so the institute specially equipped him with an Audi, and the annual business rewards are more than 100,000 yuan. In addition, he heard that he should have a net worth of 200,000 yuan, and he heard that he should have a net worth of 200,000 yuan. Zhu Li looks like he is so arrogant?

Thinking about it, it’s really a must formidable person.

The project estimate of Xinpu Citizen East Plaza is close to 300 million, and Zhujiang Construction is responsible for the investment. As the big boss of Zhujiang Construction, doesn’t Zhuli have a net worth of hundreds of millions?

Seeing Xu Zhi's trance, Chen Zhirang felt that his words were questioned and asked with a smile: "Why, XCMG also thinks that Mr. Zhu doesn't look like a person with a net worth of hundreds of millions? To be honest, the people below are all guessing how much property the boss above has. If you can't guess it correctly, you can only estimate it roughly, but some things are public. For example, Mr. Zhao of Meigang, although he only has 2% of the shares in Meixi Industry, Meixi Industry is now worth 5 billion yuan. Not to mention anything else, just this asset, Mr. Zhao of Meigang is a real billionaire. Even if the old man who started with County Mayor Shen in the early years is not all billionaires, he will never have to worry about money in his life. XCMG, if you make a fortune in the future, don't forget our old brothers..."

Xu Zhi could feel that Chen Zhirang's eyes were real when he said this, and asked with some uncertainty: "Mr. Zhao from Mei Gang and Mr. Zhu from your company, they all started with County Mayor Shen?"

"Ah, you won't even know this, right?" Chen Zhirang was stunned.

"XCM is usually more focused on business and doesn't know much about the city." Wang Mingda explained on behalf of Xu Zhi.
To be continued...