Shen Huai issued an order to expel the guests, and Xiao Jian also knew the situation and followed Zhao Dong out of Cuihua Building first. He knew that the mistake he made tonight couldn't be made up for overnight.

  However, Xiao Jian, as Zhao Dong's future father-in-law, still had an advantage in his heart. As soon as he left the Cuihua Building, he asked Zhao Dong with a belly full of questions: "You really accompanied Secretary Tan for more than three hours to eat, were there any other leaders from the city at the wine table? What did Secretary Tan chat with you three about for more than three hours?"

  Xiao Jian and Zhao Dong were both sons-in-law of Ming Xia's father; although Zhao had opinions about his future father-in-law, he couldn't show it on his face. They didn't have a car, they just walked out of the Cuihua Building, laughing and saying: "Including Deputy Secretary-General Xiong, there are four people in total, discussing the reorganization of Meixi Steel Plant... Secretary Tan asked very detailed questions, unknowingly chatting for three hours..."

  "Is the city party secretary's time really so worthless, or is Shen Hua truly highly valued by Secretary Tan?" Xiao Jian found it unbelievable that Zhao Dong could accompany the city party secretary for a three-hour meal.

  Xiao Jian was just an ordinary cadre in the Tangzhai District Construction Bureau, and Tang Chuan was his immediate superior who he could not disobey. Zhou Yu and Zhou Zhi Bai were people he looked up to but could not reach. However, among Zhou Yu, Zhou Zhi Bai, and Tang Chuan, which one of them had the qualifications to have dinner with the Municipal Party Secretary for three hours and report on their work for three hours?

  The relationship between Shen Hua and Tan Qiping, just this approximate private dinner meeting of more than three hours, Xiao Jian already knew it was not ordinary. Zhao Dong could accompany the municipal party secretary's table for three hours, which is already beyond his position as a future son-in-law in Donghua.

  Zhao Dong indeed had a triumphant smile tonight, but Shen Huan reminded him on the way from Building No. 1 to Cuilou: "You can enjoy power, but you can't indulge in it!"

  It's really something to think about, if Shen Hua was a person who indulged in power and influence, he would have been treated like this by Ming Xia's father today, perhaps with resentment and anger, but he just acted as if nothing had happened - it didn't seem to affect Shen Hua much, but Zhao Dong still felt grateful to him from the bottom of his heart, otherwise he really didn't know how to deal with the aftermath...

  Perhaps after being tempered for a long time at the bottom, Zhao Dong enjoyed this feeling of raising his eyebrows and breathing out, and he could still keep himself sober.

  Xiao Jianjia lived in the Wenshan community just across from Nanyuan, and had always considered Zhao Dong to be a lucky son-in-law. Even if it was already past 11 o'clock when he got home, Xiao would still invite Zhao over for another sit-down, and as soon as they entered the house, he would grab the teapot and start brewing tea for Zhao, making him feel flustered and out of place.

  Wenshan residential area was built in the late 1980s, when the city coordinated with the Medical College, Broadcasting Bureau and Tangzha District government agencies to allocate land for construction. Due to its relatively late construction period, it has relatively complete supporting facilities, including gas pipelines, tap water, and independent toilets for each household.

  The living environment of the residential area cannot be compared with those in Beigong, but in 1993, it was also an unaffordable residence for ordinary people in Donghua City.

  Xiao Jian's allocated house was just a two-bedroom unit, not a mansion, without a separate living room. The dining room was so small that even a round table couldn't be opened up, but Xiao Mingxia's mother had tidied it up neatly and had also placed a single cabinet with a Xuehua refrigerator, which showed that the Xiao family in Donghua City was a well-to-do household.

  Xiao Jianjia is on the ground floor, with a small courtyard. Xiao Jian built a pergola with color steel tiles in the courtyard, which became a place to receive guests from Xiao Mingxia's room.

  The awning was taken out and some flowers were planted in the empty muddy ground. Under the stars and moon, it's quite serene...

  Zhao Dong lives in the northern part of the city. His parents are both old employees of the municipal steel factory, so he majored in metallurgy in college. After graduating from university, he was also assigned to work at the municipal steel factory without a doubt. His parents worked at the municipal steel factory for thirty years and were only allocated a single room apartment.

  No gas pipeline, a few households squeezed out a kitchen in the stairwell space, or directly placed the gas cylinder and coal ball stove in the corridor. The whole floor shared a bathroom, and the public toilet was still outside the tube building. Zhao Dong's single-family household had one room with a very small living room. The room was divided into two rooms for his parents and sister to live; after Zhao Dong resigned from the municipal steel factory, he couldn't live in the dormitory, so he could only set up a wire bed in the small living room. When the whole family wanted to eat, they had to put away the wire bed before setting up the small table. After moving to Mei Xi Steel Factory, Zhao Dong was assigned to live in a single room in the factory's staff quarters, which was much more spacious than his home and also convenient for work...

  Living in the tube house for so many years, Zhao Dong felt that Mingxia's family was worlds apart from his own. Sometimes he couldn't blame Mingxia's parents for being pragmatic - if it were his own daughter, he probably wouldn't want her to suffer with a poor guy either. Thinking this way, his resentment towards Xiao Jian lessened somewhat.

  Zhao Dong had a cup of tea for a while, chatted with his fiancé Xiao Jian for a bit, and seeing that it was already very late at night, he bid farewell.

  At this moment, Xiao Mingxia's mother called out to Xiao Jian, and Xiao Mingxia came in, hesitated for a long time, and finally said: "My mom says it's so late, if you don't go back, you can stay here too. And she also handed me this thing."

  Zhao Dong took the thing handed over by Xiao Mingxia, which turned out to be a condom. Looking at Xiao Mingxia's shy face, he thought that it had been a long time since they had an intimate moment together. With a flushed face, he asked: "Do I need to go shout 'Mom' and then come back?"

  "Get out of here and go sleep in the house!" Xiao Mingxia's face turned red with anger, scolding as she pinched Zhao Dong's thigh, making him beg for mercy.

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  Shen Huai and Chen Dan didn't linger in Nan Garden for long, fearing that Little Li had been waiting at home for a while, so they drove back to Mei Creek Town directly. Shen Huai parked the car in the alley and saw that Little Li was still doing her homework inside, with her shadow projected on the window. Seeing Chen Dan about to get out of the car, he grabbed her hand and said: "I couldn't accompany you for dinner, and I left you there, I really owe you an apology..."

  The moonlight shone through the car window and onto Shen Hui's face. Chen Dan turned her body, curled up in the seat, and looked at Shen Hui's face with a gentle gaze. She didn't pull back her hand, letting him hold it, feeling that there was a callus on his palm, and curiously scratched it, saying: "I had a great time chatting with Ming Xia, and Xiao Zhu from Nan Garden even took us to visit the kitchen in the back of Nan Garden..."

  "Little Zhu, which Little Zhu?" Shen Huai asked.

  "It's that girl who was so scared she turned white, Zhu Li Ling. You really don't remember her?" Chen Dan stared into Shen Hua's eyes, thinking he was lying. "A pretty good-looking girl. I heard you just arrived at Donghua and all the girls in Nan Garden have had their butts touched by you. Didn't you touch hers?"

  "Cough, cough..." Shen Huai awkwardly cleared his throat. In the past, under Chen Mingde's nose, he didn't dare to mess around with the girls in Nanyuan, but he hadn't missed out on taking advantage of them in other ways.

  Nanyuan is after all the reception office of the municipal party committee and government, even if it's just a service staff, in Donghua area it's still a pretty good job, there are quite a few girls who look very beautiful. Shen Hua doesn't have a deep impression of Zhu Liling, should not have taken advantage of her. As for her being afraid of him, it's because his temper was indeed somewhat bad when he was in the municipal government and Nanyuan before, otherwise the relationship with his colleagues wouldn't be so bad...

  "I didn't scare her either; she obviously looked at me like a ordinary worker and wouldn't let me in," Shen Huai said.

  "Xiao Zhu asked me to explain it to you, she still thought you were a worker from the factory next door. If they didn't stop the petitioners from rushing in, their entire month's bonus would be gone; she could have waited for a long time to apologize to you in person, but I couldn't bear it and told her to leave first, don't worry that you'll get angry..." Chen Dan said.

  "How come everyone thinks I'm petty? Look at me today, being extra careful in front of Zhao Dong's father-in-law, just like I've got my eyes on his daughter..."

  Chen Dan saw Shen Huan's deliberately feigned dejected look and burst out laughing: Although Shen Huan had a habit of being a lecher, she could truly feel that he was someone who cared about others. Even if he was a bit lecherous, it made her feel very at ease. Maybe men being lecherous wasn't really a flaw after all.

  "I also asked Xiao Zhu many questions. I found that compared to Nanyuan, there are still many areas for improvement at the reception station..." Chen Dan said.

  "If you think it's suitable for others, then just invite them over?" Shen Huai said.

  "Others are working in municipal government reception work, would they be willing to come to a small place like this?" Chen Dan asked.

  "What's wrong with that?" Shen Huan said, "To be honest, looking at her dress, in Nanyuan she is probably the leader of the banquet hall, and the salary is just average, it sounds good to hear. Another thing is that there are several old lechers in the city, beautiful young girls staying in Nanyuan are not safe either. Of course, if she wants to stay in Nanyuan, we can't say anything..."

  "How come I heard you left the city, and the girls in Nanyuan feel much safer now?" Chen Dan asked with a smile.

  "Heaven and earth, my conscience!" Shen Huai cried out in grievance, "You get that little Zhu to come over tomorrow, I'll confront her face-to-face, I want to clear my name..." Seeing Chen Dan seemed not to care about his past, with a smile still on her face, her eyes shone brightly under the moonlight, her lips had an extremely beautiful curve, as she leaned in close, a faint scent of perfume wafted over, Shen Huai took advantage of the movement to pull Chen Dan into his arms...

  Chen Dan was also infatuated, thinking that Shen Huan wouldn't dare to do anything in the car, so she obediently lay in his arms. Shen Huan stroked Chen Dan's smooth and delicate face, lightly kissing her. However, Chen Dan refused to cooperate, pursing her lips tightly, preventing Shen Huan's tongue from entering, and could only lick and kiss her soft and fragrant lips.

  Shen Huai's hands didn't stop moving, reaching into his collar to touch something through his sweater.

  Chen Dan grasped his hand, not letting him drill further up, but her mouth couldn't keep the gate closed, allowing Shen Hua's agile tongue to slip in. The tender tip of his tongue made Shen Hua wrap his lips around it, soft and slippery, making his head dizzy in waves, unable to bear the chaotic emotions, his breathing gradually tightening.

  Even as her neck was pressed against the hard object that was gradually rising, Chen Dan was also intoxicated by Shen Hua's vigorous and masculine aura, wanting to open up but being held in his arms, she just went along with it, passionately kissing.

  What a little demon, even her breathing carried a faint scent of moisture, entrancing Shen Huai's emotions/desires to the point of bursting, but Chen Dan didn't even let him touch her chest, instead entwining their tongues, while her hands still held back: his hands moved up inch by inch through the sweater, while Chen Dan grasped his hands and pulled them down inch by inch. Even so, despite the thin sweater, Shen Huai could feel an astonishing heat emanating from this body that was full of temptation for him...

  Say Chen Dan agreed, her hands did not allow him to move an inch further; say she refused, but her response was equally passionate, the tender tip of her tongue dodging and weaving, occasionally actively entwining with his tongue, and even when it slipped into Shen Hua's mouth, she didn't hurry to pull back...

  Shen Huai saw that the top was not taken down for a while, and his hand stopped moving, sliding to Chen Dan's waist. Chen Dan thought Shen Huai just wanted to touch her waist, lost her vigilance, and was really kissed by him in confusion, only lightly grasping his wrist.

  Although Shen Huai hadn't had a serious relationship before, he wasn't a novice either. He was overflowing with emotions and couldn't help but feel tender and loving towards Chen Dan. However, he didn't want to scare her off, so he restrained himself. But at the same time, he desperately wanted to strip her bare and thoroughly explore her enchanting body. Seeing that Chen Dan had let her guard down, his brain impulsively took over, and his hand directly reached for the area between her legs, touching the place he yearned for the most through her pants...

  Chen Dan did not expect Shen Huan to arrive at that place so suddenly, and she was startled, her legs trembling with fear, her body also stiffening in place.

  Shen Huai thought Chen Dan would grab his hand to stop him, but he felt Chen Dan's body stiffen against his, her legs wrapped tightly around his waist, her hands digging into his back with a force that made his fingers ache. For four or five seconds, a low, husky moan escaped from Chen Dan's throat, the kind of sound that could melt bones and make one weak in the knees...

  Chen Dan realized she had cried out and woke up with a start from Shen Huai's arms, scolding: "You rascal."

  Shen Huai looked at Chen Dan's face, which was flushed like a drunk in the moonlight. Her eyes were filled with emotions that couldn't be hidden, and although she was scolding him, her expression was more like one of embarrassed shyness. Seeing this made Shen Huai's heart beat rapidly, and he knew she wasn't truly angry. He smiled slyly and asked, "So useless?"

  "What's useful and what's not?" Chen Dan didn't respond to Shen Huan's flirtatious words, originally she was kissed by Shen Huan until she was dizzy and confused, her head spinning. The feeling of the past four or five seconds made her body feel numb and tingly all over, with an indescribable comfort. She wasn't really angry at Shen Huan for directly touching that place, it's just that this feeling made her feel both strange and unfamiliar, yet instinctively she felt that the feeling was shameful, and also feared that indulging Shen Huan would lead him to make even more outrageous demands...

  Shen Huai was also strange, Chen Dan was as sensitive as a young girl.