Chapter 20: The Sour Taste

  At this time, Fei Jiu Jian stood up from his seat, and everyone present immediately stood up.

  "Lao Chen's words are good, let's end today's meeting here." Fei Jiujian said as he was about to walk outside.

  "Old Fei, today I'll be the host again, you can just eat here and then leave." Chen Xiru hurriedly smiled and invited: "Xiao Qiang, are you ready?"

  "Everything is ready." Liu Shijiang said with a smile.

  "Who is this young man?" Fei Jiu Jian asked with a smile as he looked at Liu Shi Qiang.

  "This is our department's confidential secretary Liu Shiqiang." Chen Xiru said with a smile.

  "Young man, your future is boundless." Fei Jiu Jian said with a smile as he looked at Liu Shi Qiang.

  "Let's just skip dinner." Fei Jiu Jian said with a smile.

  "Come on, old friend, it's been a long time since we last met, just stay and have another drink before you go." Chen Xiru continued to persuade him.

  "Alright then."

  "Shall we also arrange for your niece, Miss Cai?" Chen Xiru asked.

  "Okay."

  "Director, I'm feeling a bit uneasy, so I won't be attending this dinner party." Wei Zhipin said to Chen Xiru.

  "You're a hard person to describe. Alright, you arrange it yourself." Chen Xiru said with some incredulity as she looked at Wei Zhipin.

  Wei Zhi picked up the hat on the table and put it on, then walked out with his cane.

  "Like this, Fei Shang will be a very important figure, the stability of the military is what the superior values most." Chen Xi Ru said to Liang Ru Ji.

  "Director, rest assured." Then, Liang Rujie lowered his voice and said: "The all-purpose agent we secretly placed beside him can be activated at any time."

  Chen Xiru nodded after hearing this.

  At the entrance of a high-end restaurant, Liu Shijiang was standing there welcoming guests. At this time, Cai Mengyao and Liang Jiru walked over together.

  "We meet again." Cai Mengyao said with a smile as she looked at Liu Shijiang.

  "Nice to meet you, Miss Cai. They've all been waiting eagerly." Liu Shijiang said respectfully as he opened the door, but his heart was racing with anticipation.

  The scenes of those few encounters with her immediately appeared before his eyes.

  The first time was after Liu Shijiang jumped into the lake, she also followed closely and jumped into the lake. After landing on the shore, Liu Shijiang stared at her, gritting his teeth and pointing at her for a good while.

  The second time was in a Western restaurant, she came with Liang Rujie.

  Today Cai Mengyao also came, and he is a person who knows his situation quite well. If she were to tell Liang Rujie or Chen Xiru about this, wouldn't she be completely finished?

  When the time comes, if something unexpected happens, he will get rid of this woman first.

  Let's just wait and see.

  Inside a spacious dining hall, there was a large round table in the middle. Sitting around the big round table were Bao Jiu Jian, Chen Xi Ru, Liu Shi Qiang, Cai Meng Yao and Liang Ji Ru.

  At the entrance of the hall stood a waiter ready to welcome at any time.

  "Come on, let's first toast General Fei with a cup." Chen Xiru said as he raised his wine glass and clinked it against his.

  Everyone then clinked their glasses together with him and sat down to continue drinking.

  At this time, Liang Jiru saw that Cai Mengyao's spoon was a bit dirty, so he quickly took out his handkerchief to wipe it clean and then put it back in its original place.

  Cai Mengyao smiled and said, "Thank you."

  "Ah, what's with the politeness between us?" Liang Jiru said with a smile as he looked at Cai Mengyao.

  "Haha, this Director Liang thinks everything is dirty, only Meng Yao's isn't." Chen Xiru said after reading it.

  "Haha. General, you know that Liang Jiru is the first romantic in our bureau." Liu Shiqiang also hurriedly said with a smile.

  "There is, if I say the emotional kind, it's not as good as Liu Shijiang, I'll tell everyone a secret. Liu Shijiang is actually our bureau's emotional kind, that day in the western restaurant, he had a date with Mei Wenjie." Liang Jiru said with a smile, slowly and calmly.

  "Really?" Chen Xiru looked at Liu Shijiang and asked.

  "Liu Shijiang and I are not a couple." Liu Shijiang said, looking at Liang Rujie.

  At this time, everyone around was looking at Liu Shijiang and Liang Rujie with different expressions on their faces.

  "By the way, Uncle, I want to learn how to shoot a gun." Cai Mengyao said with a smile as she looked at her uncle Fei Jujian.

  "What's the point of a girl learning sword fighting and archery?" Fei Jiujian said, looking at Cai Mengyao.

  "It's for self-protection. Otherwise, it would be a disaster like that day." Cai Mengyao said, and she intentionally scratched her scalp as if to say that this time she must learn how to shoot a gun.

  "It's okay for women to have some fun occasionally. Like tomorrow, Saturday, you accompany Meng Yao to the training ground in the suburbs to learn, huh?"

  Xiao Qiang, you come with us tomorrow too." At this time, Chen Xiru interrupted and said.

  "Okay." Liang Rujie said with a smile, making an OK gesture at the same time.

  After a while, they walked out from inside. Cai Mengyao supported her uncle Fei Jiujian, who was a bit unsteady on his feet, as he walked out from inside. Chen Xiru also followed and walked out, accompanied by Liang Jiru and Liu Shijiang.

  A brown sedan is driving down the street with Liang Jiru and Liu Shijiang inside. Liu Shijiang is driving the car.

  "Hey, Shijiang, where did you go for dinner with Wenjie that day?" Liang Jiru asked with a smile, looking at Liu Shijiang. "Back home." Liu Shijiang replied with a smile while driving the car, glancing at him briefly.

  "Go home, then are you...?" Liang Rujie said, scratching his own head with his finger and smiling at Liu Shijiang.

  "Hey, what's going on between you and Meng Yao?" Liu Shijiang asked, changing the subject.

  "I've known Meng Yao for a long time. She was still a little girl, and when I saw her, oh, she was so pretty." Liang Rujie seemed to be reminiscing as he said: "He would wait for me after school. As long as she liked it, I was happy."

  "So you two are childhood sweethearts. How come you haven't gotten married yet?" Liu Shijiang asked while driving the car.

  "Love is something that can be taken slowly, don't rush it." Liang Rujie said with a smile.

  "What's the hurry, it's not that simple between us women, let's just make a meal out of uncooked rice." Liu Shijiang said as he drove the car and turned his head back to look at him.

  "Hey, how can you do this? Xiao Qiang, you're so tacky!" Liang Rujie said with a silly smile.

  "What's Ahjit studying in the US?" Liu Shijiang asked.

  "Psychoanalysis," said Liang Rujie.

  "Since it's about psychological analysis, then you know if Meng Yao loves you or not?" Liu Shi Qiang asked Liang Ru Ji.

  "Ah, you're just like a doctor diagnosing an illness, analyzing a person. First and foremost, you have to be completely emotionless towards them, but all I'm left with is emotions for her." Liang Rujie said happily.

  Liu Shijiang smiled and glanced at him, then drove the car forward along the street...

  Liu Shijiang sprinted over to a nearby tree, picked up a short gun that had been placed there, and fired at the target in front of him with a single shot.

  "Bang bang bang" several gunshots rang out, and a bowl that was placed there shattered in response.

  Liu Shijiang suddenly rolled over, ran a few steps forward, and arrived between two trees. He quickly stretched out his hand to pick up an SKS rifle from the ground and fired a burst of shots at the target in front of him.

  "Rat-a-tat-tat..." With a string of gunfire, the bowls on the target shattered one after another.

  Liu Shijiang suddenly sprinted, then ran a few steps and arrived under a tree. He quickly picked up a hundred rounds of ammunition and fired at the target in front of him with a single shot.

  "Bang, bang, bang!" With the sound of gunfire, the target shattered. Immediately afterwards, Liu Shijiang fired again; with a burst of "bang, bang, bang, bang", the targets shattered and fell to the ground one after another.

  At this time, Cai Mengyao, who was standing beside him, smiled and said: "Good, good marksmanship." As he spoke, he began to applaud with a "pa pa pa" sound. Liang Rujie, who was next to her, also looked over and followed suit, smiling and clapping along.

  Liu Shijiang walked up to Cai Mengyao and Liang Rujie from a distance, smiling as he looked at them. He had just finished this series of actions, but his face didn't flush, nor did his heart skip a beat.

  He put the gun in his hand into Cai Mengyao's hand, smiled at her and said: "I'm going to smoke a cigarette."

  He said and walked away to one side.

  "Shi Qiang, you haven't taught me how to shoot a gun yet." Cai Mengyao said with a smile as she took the hundred-round rifle from his hand.

  "This won't do, let Rújí come instead." Liú Shìqiáng smiled as he glanced at Liáng Rújí, then turned his head to look at Cài Mèngyáo.

  "No, no, no, I won't do it, I don't know how to shoot a gun, that's too dangerous." Liang Rujie hastily smiled and declined.

  "He can still teach me a thing or two about marksmanship." Cai Mengyao said, twisting her body slightly. After finishing speaking, she didn't even bid farewell and walked towards the target.

  When she came to the shooting point and stood still, she raised the gun that Liu Shijiang had just handed over to her own eyes, making a gesture of preparing to shoot, and smiled at Liu Shijiang, nodding her head to indicate that he should come over to teach her how to shoot.

  Liu Shijiang looked over and gave Liang Jiru a faint smile, hinting that he should go teach Cai Mengyao how to shoot. Liang Jiru also smiled faintly and shook his head with some helplessness.

  Liu Shijiang saw him and smiled slightly at him, then walked over to Cai Mengyao and came to her side.

  "Our fates aren't shallow, are they? I helped you a lot that day, didn't I?" Cai Mengyao said with a smile, slightly tilting her head.

  "Are you going to come out and see if there's anything else that can't be faked?" Liu Shijiang said, looking at Cai Mengyao.

  Cai Mengyao listened and responded with a faint sweet smile, but did not answer.

  At this time, he saw that her gun-holding posture really didn't meet the requirements, so he smiled and raised his hand to pull her arm, saying: "The most important thing about shooting is to make three points in a line."

  As she spoke, she supported her arm and fired a shot. The gunshot was over, and the bullet hole on the target was really not ideal compared to what was required.