Chapter 10

Lu Xiaoqiao and the other two went to the front desk to check in. Because the exhibition venue was not far away and it was the peak period of the exhibition, the guest rooms were not vacant yet. There would be vacancies in the afternoon, so they had to leave their luggage at the front desk first, and the staff would help them put it in the room.

After checking in, they said goodbye to Zhou Qizhen and Li Yuxuan briefly and went to the venue.

Secretary Ding happened to have an empty room in the business suite that he had booked. He went upstairs to put his boss’s luggage away first. Zhou Qizhen and Li Yuxuan sat on the sofa in the lobby waiting for him.

Li Yuxuan glanced at his friend who was sitting next to him and looking down at his phone, and said, “Hey! I just chatted with Sister Xiao Qiao all the way. You know what, you have good taste, brother! The girl is very good, and her personality complements yours. She is lively and cheerful, young, beautiful, and has fair skin.”

Zhou Qizhen’s eyes left the phone screen and looked up at Li Yuxuan, his expression seemed a little unhappy: “You look carefully.”

Li Yuxuan: “…”

“Damn! Old Zhou, are you okay? You are jealous. I am indirectly helping you to check. Why didn’t I see that you were so petty before?”

“And look at how Secretary Ding scared you just now. I thought you were going to change the chief secretary.” 🅆🆆𝓦.🆅🅾🅳🆃🆆1.🅲🅲

Zhou Qizhen ignored Li Yuxuan’s chattering…

When Secretary Ding put down the luggage and came down, he glanced at Zhou Qizhen, and saw that his face was normal, so he dared to step forward: “Boss Zhou, the luggage is in your room, and the driver has parked the car outside. Shall we leave now?”

Zhou Qizhen stood up and glanced at him: “What else?”

After that, he walked out with long legs.

Li Yuxuan glanced at Secretary Ding who was looking down and patted him on the shoulder: “Okay, if you want to show off, next time you just remember that in addition to work, everything should be centered on Miss Lu. You see, you just helped Miss Lu carry the luggage, and you didn’t care about our Boss Zhou, didn’t he say anything?”

Secretary Ding said in a muffled voice: “Well, thank you, Boss Li.”

When getting in the car, Secretary Ding still sat in the original co-pilot seat, and Zhou Qizhen and Li Yuxuan moved to the front row where Lu Xiaoqiao had just sat.

Zhou Qizhen placed his laptop on his legs, his fingers quickly operating on the keyboard: “Which departments in the science and technology building have not been relocated yet?”

Secretary Ding, who was sitting in the co-pilot, turned around and replied: “The two departments of technical operation and maintenance and administrative logistics, Mr. Shen said that they can be relocated before the 11th.”

“Go directly to the branch office, there is no need to go to the science and technology building.”

Zhou Qizhen said and turned to Li Yuxuan who was sitting next to him: “Call Shen Yi and ask him to go directly to the branch office to find us. I will have a video conference later.”

“Well, when did you make an appointment with Mayor Liu?”

“Tomorrow, today’s time is a bit tight.”

After several people arrived at the branch office, Zhou Qizhen went into the office for a video conference. Li Yuxuan was the general manager of the head office, and he was naturally busy here.

When Li Yuxuan was done, Shen Yi just arrived.

The two sat on the sofa in the reception room.

“Where’s Lao Zhou?”

Li Yuxuan opened the lunch that his secretary bought for him: “He’s in a video conference.”

Shen Yi was surprised, “It hasn’t finished yet? Are you having lunch or dinner?”

Li Yuxuan shoveled a few mouthfuls of rice. He didn’t eat enough in the morning and had been busy all day. He was starving: “It’s a multinational meeting, it should be over soon. I haven’t even had lunch. I’m starving.”

Just as he finished speaking, he saw Zhou Qizhen opening the door and walking in.

“Just got here?” Zhou Qizhen walked over to the two of them and sat down.

“Just got here a while ago, let’s find a place to have a drink tonight?”

Zhou Qizhen tilted his head back, leaned back on the sofa as if he was a little tired, closed his eyes, raised his hand and pinched the bridge of his nose: “No more drinking, I’ll have more to drink tomorrow.”

Shen Yi sighed: “You still know! We agreed that you don’t need to come, I can handle it alone, after all, we are relatives, and now that you are here, these two things are added together, how he can let you have an easy time.” 𝕎🆆𝙒.🅅𝙤𝔻𝙩𝕎1.ℂ🅲

“I haven’t dared to go back to the old house these few days. When I go back, my mother nags me all the time and asks me to persuade you to reconsider. In my opinion, you should just agree. It will be easier to do things with a mayor as your father-in-law in the future, and Liu Tian’er is pretty too.”

Li Yuxuan, who was drinking water, was choked by Shen Yi’s words and coughed a few times: “Don’t persuade him if you don’t want to get beaten. Old Zhou has a sweetheart.”

Shen Yi said indifferently: “Sweetheart? Whose sweetheart? We knew it when he refused the marriage before, but in the end I haven’t seen him close to any woman until now.”

“I saw it! Old Zhou came here today just for her. Her appearance can beat Liu Tian’er by a whole street.”

Li Yuxuan had the same idea as Shen Yi before he saw Lu Xiaoqiao. After seeing her, he had the same idea that Zhou Qizhen was also a member of the appearance association. At the beginning, he might have just seen that the girl was pretty.

“Is there really such a person? Do you have a photo? Let me see.”

Zhou Qizhen, who had been resting with his eyes closed, said: “You two shut up and be quiet for a while. If you want to talk, go outside and talk.”

“Look, you are like this again. You got jealous when I said a few more words to her before. What’s the matter? Now you can’t even mention her?”

Li Yuxuan knew that Zhou Qizhen was embarrassed and deliberately provoked him with words. He simply loved Zhou Qizhen, who had been serious since childhood and calm no matter what happened, but now he became uneasy because of a woman.

Shen Yi became more curious after listening to their conversation: “What kind of woman can make you jealous like this? I have a fiancée and you can’t even look at me? Come on, Yuxuan, let’s go outside and talk.”

After speaking, he really stood up and was about to go out.

Zhou Qizhen opened his eyes that had been closed all the time, tilted his head and looked at Li Yuxuan: “I think it’s just right to send you to the Middle East project.”

Li Yuxuan is afraid of heat. Although he grew up in the south, if he went to a place that is hotter than the city where he lives, it would undoubtedly be because he didn’t want him to have an easy time.

“You are taking revenge for personal gain.”

Finally, under Zhou Qizhen’s threat, Li Yuxuan temporarily did not reveal anything about Lu Xiaoqiao to Shen Yi.

In the evening, the three of them did not drink but had dinner together. Li Yuxuan just watched Zhou Qizhen and Shen Yi eat because he had not digested the food he had eaten before.

Secretary Ding was left in the company to work overtime. Poor Secretary Ding didn’t expect to work overtime when he came to the branch office on a business trip. Fortunately, someone accompanied him, and President Zhou left the driver to himself.

After dinner, Shen Yi drove the two back to the hotel, and before leaving, he laughed at Zhou Qizhen for condescending to live in such a place in order to pursue someone.

After Zhou Qizhen arrived at the hotel room, he took out his mobile phone and called Lin Lin.

“Are you back? Have you had dinner?”

“Just finished and am on my way back. Uncle, are you back to the hotel?” Lin Lin was stunned when she received Zhou Qizhen’s call. She didn’t expect that her uncle, who was so busy, would still take the time to call her and ask if she had dinner.

“I just came back too. You guys should go to bed early and don’t wander around at night.”

Hearing her uncle’s instructions, Lin Lin replied obediently: “Oh, I see, uncle. Don’t worry. We will be there soon. If there is nothing else, I will hang up first.”

Zhou Qizhen couldn’t find anything to say, so he just whispered: “Okay, hang up.”

After they hung up the phone, Zhou Qizhen threw his phone on the bed, turned around and looked at his suitcase. He found that he didn’t bring any cigarettes. He didn’t smoke frequently, but now he was upset and just wanted to calm himself down by smoking a cigarette.