Code 521
In April, Dongguan City in North Jiangsu Province, spring breeze is warm, all things recover, a peaceful and auspicious scene.
Office workers in the city, hastily passing through streets of all sizes, although busy, but always with a faint smile on their faces. Living in this beautiful and prosperous city is itself a happy thing for them.
Early in the morning, Zuo Dong got out of bed, washed and had breakfast. After finishing his meal, he excitedly opened his closet, carefully selected a business casual outfit, put it on, and then checked himself in the mirror from left to right, afraid that something was not suitable.
Zuo Dong is a person of average height, slightly chubby build, and has a naturally cheerful face. This adorable smile always gives people a childish impression, which is also the reason why this smile brings great convenience to Zuo Dong at work.
Today is a special day for Zuo Dong. His girlfriend, Shui Ling, has promised to take him to meet her parents today. This holds great significance for 25-year-old Zuo Dong.
Zuo Dong, after making sure he was dressed to the nines, left his apartment and got into his Land Rover, heading towards the commercial street in the city center. He had agreed to meet Shui Ling there, as he wanted to buy something for her parents; since he was going to see his elders, it would be inappropriate to go empty-handed.
Two years ago, Zuo Dong came to Beijiang City and worked for the largest trading company in Beijiang City - Dingli Trading Co., Ltd. The company is located in a 30-story office building not far from the city center of Beijiang City, occupying the 21st to 30th floors of the building. From this, it can be seen that the scale of this company is not ordinary.
The company where Shuiling is located and the company where Zuodong is located are in the same office building, but the company where Shuiling is located mainly provides information consulting services, so it is very small, with only a few small offices on the 15th floor of that office building.
Since both people are in the same building, their chances of meeting will greatly increase.
That day, Zuo Dong, who was used to the 9-to-5 routine, walked into the office building with a smile on his face as usual. As he passed by the two security guards standing in the center of the first-floor lobby, he greeted them and received their smiling response.
Perhaps due to his work habits, Zuo Dong is always polite to everyone around him, and with a naturally smiling face, he unintentionally draws closer to others, which can be considered a kind of affinity. Everyone who has come into contact with Zuo Dong has a particularly good first impression of him, which gives him a small reputation in the office building, while also giving him more freedom in the office building.
It's still half an hour before work, and Zuo Dong walks slowly towards the elevator entrance, looking happy and confident.
At this time, the elevator door, which had already fallen to one layer, slowly opened, and there was a man and a woman inside.
The man was about twenty-six or seven years old, while the woman was only twenty-one or two. The man looked very angry, with a fierce face deeply etched on his head, and he pulled the slightly disheveled girl out of the elevator. The girl didn't want to follow the man, constantly backing away, trying to shake him off, but the man tightly grasped her arm, forcibly pulling her towards the outside of the hall, her high heels making irregular knocking sounds against the marble floor.
Zuo Dong stopped in his tracks, smiling as he watched the man drag the girl towards him. The girl's pained and helpless expression made Zuo Dong's heart tighten slightly, but his smile didn't change. Perhaps heaven had indeed given Zuo Dong a smiling face and a good temper, for seeing such a scene, the changes in his heart were still minimal.
Other people who were walking into the office building to start work looked at the couple, then hastily walked away, making way for them and afraid of offending the angry man.
The two security guards in the hall looked at the couple with indifference, just watching them with a helpless expression.
The girl followed the man passively while begging: "We can't be together, I don't like you at all, just let me go, okay?"
The man didn't care what the girl said and viciously said: "You are mine, I have lived so big and still haven't gotten something."
The way this man speaks, he's either a rich second generation or an official second generation.
That man saw Zuo Dong blocking his way, so he loudly shouted: "You, get out of the way, don't block my path." The whole hall could hear his shout.
Zuo Dong seemed not to have heard what the man said, a standard smile hung on his face, standing straight in place.
The man saw that Zuo Dong did not intend to give way, although he was angry in his heart, but he didn't want to get entangled with the smiling idiot in front of him, so he slightly changed his direction and walked past Zuo Dong's side.
The girl continued to back away, her eyes filled with pleading gaze fixed on Zuo Dong who was standing there smiling, as if saying: "Save me, please."
Just as the girl was about to walk past him from the left, he grabbed the arm of the man holding the girl with one hand.
The man had not expected Zuo Dong to grab his arm, and he turned around to look at this ignorant little kid. He was about to kick Zuo Dong down with one foot, but before his foot even lifted off the ground, his expression changed. Anger was replaced by pain, and the muscles on his face almost twisted together, a mass of wrinkles, and then he let go of the girl.
The girl lost her balance due to the man's loosening of his grip and sat down on the ground with a thud. Zuo Dong looked at the girl sitting on the ground, let go of the man's arm, used both hands to help the girl up, and blocked the girl behind him, turning around to face the angry man. Throughout this process, Zuo Dong just smiled and didn't say a word.
That man, having lived for so long, probably encountered a second-rate person like Zuo Dong for the first time. The anger in his eyes was about to erupt, as if two buckets of gasoline had been poured onto an already raging fire. He rubbed his arm, which had just been grabbed by Zuo Dong, while staring at him fiercely.
The girl clung tightly to Zuo Dong, her hands resting on his shoulders as if he was her only support. She gazed at the man in terror, and when she saw the man's eyes, she quickly turned away, not daring to look directly at him.
The man faced Left Dong and said with a full tone: "Do you know who I am? How dare you be like this."
Zuo Dong sneered and shook his head disdainfully, not taking the man in front of him seriously at all.
The man was thoroughly enraged and rushed towards Zuo Dong. The girl behind Zuo Dong took one look and immediately squatted down, covering her head with both hands, truly frightened.
Zuo Dong was quite calm and didn't hide, staring at the man as he approached her.
All of a sudden, there was a dull thud. With ease, Zuo Dong lifted the man up and slammed him heavily to the ground.
The man on the ground was curled up and kept twisting, like a green worm that had been stepped on, it seemed he wouldn't be able to get up for a while.
Zuo Dong didn't lower his head to look at the man on the ground, but instead turned around and looked at the girl crouching on the ground. He helped her up again, gently stroking her disheveled hair with a very elegant gesture, just like an older brother treating his neighbor's little sister. The girl looked at Zuo Dong, seemingly calming down a lot.
Ah Kuan smoothed out his suit, his relaxed expression as if nothing had happened earlier. He smiled at the girl and said, "Let's go, it's fine now."
The girl nodded and turned around to follow Zuo Dong together.
That man looked at Ze Dong's back and said painfully: "You wait, I won't let you go!" As the saying goes, those who know the current situation are heroes. The man has become like this, not speaking is already the best policy. It is estimated that he was used to being arrogant and didn't realize his own situation at all.
Zuo Dong turned around again, squatted in front of the man, and patted the man's face with his hand, laughing and saying: "I'm on the 25th floor, waiting for your arrival at any time. Next time you come, remember to bring more people."
The man shook his head back and forth, trying to dodge Zuo Dong's hand, but he couldn't dodge it.
Zuo Dong got up from his seat, looked at the man lying on the ground and thought to himself that he didn't know when this guy would get up. He said to the two security guards in the hall: "You guys help him up, see where he wants to go, and send him there, it's a favor for me."
Those two security guards were apparently stunned by the scene just now, and for a moment they didn't react. In fact, it wasn't just these two security guards, but everyone present was also left bewildered by what they had just witnessed.
Zuo Dong looked at the two security guards who didn't react, so he took out a coin from his shirt pocket and flicked it towards one of them. With a "ding" sound, the coin hit the chest of one of the guards, who suddenly came to his senses and patted the other guard. At this time, the two guards looked at Zuo Dong with an inquiring attitude, as if they hadn't heard what he said earlier.
Zuo Dong pointed at the man, and the two security guards finally understood what Zuo Dong meant. They bowed and saluted him, saying: "Understood, understood."
The two security guards understood what was going on and escorted the girl towards the elevator.
Two security guards watched as Zuo Dong supported the girl and left, then quickly helped the man up from the ground, supporting him as he walked out of the hall, speaking respectfully to him while secretly rejoicing in their hearts that Zuo Dong had beaten him.
In the elevator, there were only Zuo Dong and the girl. Zuo Dong comforted her, "It's okay now, you can work well." Zuo Dong had his hands in his pockets, occasionally looking at the ceiling with an expression of indifference.
The girl's chest heaved regularly, still a bit tense. Looking at Zuo Dong's smiling face and listening to his comforting words, she nodded heavily and said, "I'm sorry for getting you involved in this matter, I'm really very sorry." Her words were filled with guilt.
"There's nothing to apologize for, it was just a small effort." Zuo Dong didn't think much of the matter.
"It's just that the man is named Tang Feng, his father is a well-known entrepreneur in Beijiang City, and his uncle is a high-ranking official in the Beijiang City government. I'm afraid you'll get involved and suffer unjustly." The girl said hesitantly, looking very worried about Zuo Dong's situation.
Zuo Dong thought the girl's worries were a bit unnecessary, patted her shoulder and said: "Oh, I see why he was so arrogant. It turns out that even as a rich second generation, he is also an official second generation. But it's okay, haha!"
The girl looked at Dong's left and said it so easily, and she also relaxed a lot.
Zuo Dong was now truly taking in the girl in front of him, and under her neatly combed hair was indeed a pretty face, with a small mouth like cherry blossoms, a slightly upturned nose, eyes that were not large but very spirited, as if hiding two autumn waters. Her features were extremely well-proportioned, and she wore a black professional outfit that made her look both capable and mature, yet gentle and lovely. Zuo Dong couldn't help but think to himself: "She's really a beautiful girl."
To avoid losing his composure in front of the girl, Zuo Dong glanced at her a few times before shifting his gaze away and said: "Just focus on work from now on, nothing will happen later. Since you don't want to interact with this kind of person, just be more careful when you see him in the future and avoid him."
The girl listened, feeling that Zuo Dong was like an elder brother educating his little sister, and her heart felt warm for a moment, stirring up waves of ripples, blushing as she lowered her head, secretly smiling.
The elevator stopped on the 15th floor, and after a beep, it slowly opened. Zuo Dong gave way to the girl, who walked out of the elevator with her head down, seemingly forgetting to thank him.
Zuo Dong said as the girl left the elevator: "Remember to drink plenty of hot water in the office, it's good for relaxing your mood."
The girl looked at Zuo Dong, her face flushed with two red clouds, like a rising sun.
Zuo Dong didn't mind what the girl said or didn't say, and as the elevator doors closed, he smiled and waved at her. The girl seemed to remember something and leaned forward to say something, but the elevator doors had already closed, and a look of regret and loss hung on her face as she walked heavily towards her office. As she entered her office, before sitting down, she didn't forget to pour herself a cup of hot water. Holding the cup filled with hot water in both hands, the steam rose and disappeared in front of her. The girl felt a warmth and her thoughts drifted back to Zuo Dong again.
The girl's appearance made Le Dong in the elevator a little flustered, and he secretly laughed at himself for his lack of determination.
That man, Tang Feng, as the girl called him, would definitely not let things go. The next day, he brought a dozen or so people carrying various weapons and stormed into the 25th floor of the office building. The security guard on the first floor knew something big was going to happen and quickly called the reception desk of Dingli Commercial Co., Ltd. The receptionist listened to the security guard's incoherent words, understood the general meaning, and simply replied: "Oh, I know, just take care of the order in the lobby." Then she hung up the phone.
Two security guards finished the phone call, got nervous and didn't know what to do. They kept rubbing their hands, wanting to go upstairs but didn't have the courage, so they could only wait anxiously downstairs, thinking that the 25th floor must be badly damaged now, having provoked such a powerful person, definitely nothing good would come out of it.
About half an hour later, the elevator door on the first floor opened, and the scene in front of them made the two tense security guards stunned. Several young people wearing suits came out of the elevator, each carrying a person who had been beaten to the point where they couldn't move. The clothes of those who couldn't move were torn to shreds, their bodies covered with bruises, and their faces were gruesome, with scars of varying sizes and severity covering their entire face, almost unrecognizable as human. When the two security guards took a closer look, they realized that these people being carried were the ones Tang Feng had taken upstairs. They thought for sure those people would go up there and wreak havoc without anyone stopping them, but they never expected it to end like this.
The elevator went up and down several times, and it wasn't until then that over a dozen people, including Tang Fen, were brought to the first floor of the office building. The last one to be taken out was Tang Feng, who not only had been carried out but also almost beaten to a pulp, with only a pair of shorts covering his private parts. His disheveled appearance could be imagined. The two security guards took another close look at Tang Feng's back, which already showed no signs of life, and found a large "2" written in whiteboard marker. It seemed that Tang Feng had not only been beaten badly but also thoroughly humiliated. Along with Tang Feng, who was taken out of the elevator, was Zuo Dong, still sporting a smile.
With his hands in his pockets, he stood in the lobby on the first floor, looking at more than a dozen people being held up. Except for a smile, there was no other expression on his face. He gave a signal to one of the men in suits, and that man in suit walked out of the lobby with another man in suit holding someone, and the other "suits" also walked out of the lobby holding people.
"The Westerners" dragged people to the front steps of the hall and directly threw them down the stairs, without caring about their lives or deaths.
Although it was the first floor of the office building, it was actually the second floor. The grand hall outside had more than 20 steps leading down to the road surface. Only a dozen or so people, including Tang Feng, were thrown down one by one along the stairs, like silkworms blown away by the wind, rolling to the bottom of the stairs with different postures, but all of them looked miserable.
The man in the hall, Zuo Dong, didn't linger for long. He just gave a nod to the two stunned security guards and returned to the elevator. Those "suits" also returned to the elevator one after another.
Before long, a dozen or so ambulances and police cars stopped in front of the office building with their respective sirens blaring. The people who got out of the ambulance put the person lying on the ground into the ambulance, while the twenty or so police officers who got out of the police car took a brief glance at the person lying on the ground before rushing into the lobby of the office building and taking the elevator straight to the 25th floor.
At this time, Zuo Dong was not on the 25th floor, but on the 15th floor.
When Zuo Dong walked into the elevator, he clearly pressed the button for the 15th floor. Because the 15th floor was all small companies and there was no front desk receptionist. He wanted to find the girl from yesterday, so he went along the corridor and searched office by office. The offices in the building were actually made of soundproof glass facing the corridor, which provided great convenience for Zuo Dong to find the girl. When he found the fifth office, Zuo Dong saw the girl through the glass. She was sideways in front of the computer, moving the mouse regularly, perhaps because she was too focused on her work, she didn't notice that someone was watching her behind the glass wall.
Watching the girl work diligently, a strange and indescribable joy flashed through Zuo Dong's heart, and he suddenly wanted to just quietly watch her without disturbing her.
It wasn't until the girl had been working for a while that she finally took a break, releasing her mouse and stretching her neck. It was then that she saw Zuo Dong standing behind the glass wall. At first, she looked tense and surprised, but once she realized it was him, her face lit up with a smile, and she felt an overwhelming sense of joy. The girl quickly got up to greet the man who had helped her out yesterday. Zuo Dong, seeing that he had been spotted, also changed his expression from being focused to a smiling face, and walked into her office. The girl asked Zuo Dong to sit on the sofa in front of her desk and handed him a cup of warm water using a paper cup.
The girl leaned against the desk, seemingly admiring and staring at Zuo Dong, smiling and saying: "I was just about to go find you, thanks for helping me, I still don't know your name."
Zuo Dong took a sip of water and said to the beautiful girl in front of him, "My name is Zuo Dong, from Dingli Company." He continued, "I came here just to tell you that I've already talked to Tang Feng, and he promised me that he won't bother you again." After finishing his words, Zuo Dong was about to get up and leave. The reason he wanted to leave was that in front of this girl, he couldn't help but feel happy inside, giving him a sense of excitement and pleasure. This feeling made him want to hold back yet couldn't be held back, a ridiculous contradictory psychology that made Zuo Dong not want to stay here for long.
The girl looked east and said a few words before leaving, feeling reluctant to part but too embarrassed to say it out loud, so she politely said: "Sit for a while longer, the sofa hasn't warmed up yet."
Zuo Dong had already walked to the corridor, holding a paper cup and saying to the girl: "The water here is very good to drink, don't mind if I come again." This was just Zuo Dong's unintentional politeness, but the girl seemed to have misunderstood, stuttering and saying: "Welcome to come often."
Zuo Dong scratched his head awkwardly, seemingly lost in thought, and suddenly became speechless. He smiled and turned to leave.
The girl seemed to remember something, and quickly stepped forward to block Zuo Dong's path. Zuo Dong was also startled, his face slightly flushed, and his eyes somewhat wandering. The girl had one hand in her shirt pocket, searching for something, while looking at Zuo Dong. Although Zuo Dong couldn't be considered handsome, he still looked very comfortable to watch. After a moment of searching, the girl finally pulled out a business card with a faint scent from her pocket and handed it to Zuo Dong with both hands. Zuo Dong took the card with one hand while holding his cup with the other, looking down at the words on the card, silently reciting: "Shui Ling, Ding Bang Information Consulting Co., Ltd., Business Manager."
"Oh, it's the manager." Zuodong said softly.
The girl smiled and waved her hand, "No way, our company is small, anyone who does business is considered a manager."
Zuo Dong nodded and said: "I'm just a small clerk, I don't have business cards, sorry about that."
The girl shook her head happily and said: "It's nothing, let's have dinner together tonight, I'll treat you, thank you for saving me."
Zuo Dong looked at the girl in front of him and thought, "This girl is really interesting." Then he said, "Let me treat you instead, I'm not used to girls paying the bill."
The girl didn't ask for anything, it's just natural for the man to invite the woman.
Zuo Dong continued walking towards the elevator, and the girl looked at Zuo Dong's back, as if she had thought of something, and said: "How did I get in touch with you that night?" Zuo Dong said while walking: "I'll contact you."
Zuo Dong walked to the elevator entrance, facing the elevator and standing still. He turned his head to look back and found that the girl was still standing there, so he gestured for her to go back to work. The girl shook her head, with an uncontrollable excitement and joy on her face, as if it was about to burst out of her face and erupt forth.
He stood up straight, no longer looking at the girl, one hand in his pocket and the other holding a paper cup, quietly waiting for the elevator, watching the numbers on the screen go from 11 to 12, from 12 to 13... Ah Kuan finished drinking the water and put the paper cup into the trash can next to the elevator.
The elevator stopped and opened with a "ding". Left Dong looked inside to see it packed with police officers in uniform, his brow furrowed slightly. He had wanted to wait for the next elevator, but since it would take a long time to come back down, he squeezed in, facing away from the group of police officers. Neither he nor the police knew that this group was after him, and they didn't know that the person standing right in front of them was the one they were trying to catch.
The elevator was originally small in space, and it was crowded with so many people. Suddenly, the smell of sweat filled the entire elevator room. A tall and thin policeman said to a slightly older, short and fat policeman standing next to him: "Director, this time we caught a big fish. I just saw those dozen or so people lying on the floor downstairs, they are either dead or disabled. And it includes our city's famous rich young master Tang Feng. With such a strong background, he dares to make a move. It looks like he is tired of living."
That short and stout policeman glared at the tall and thin policeman, saying: "Don't talk nonsense, we are handling things according to the law. Remember, when we go upstairs, don't ask anything, just catch people, as many as you can catch, especially those wearing Western suits. See? Like this person in front of me."
The fat policeman didn't care about the thoughts of the people in front of him wearing Western suits, and Zuo Dong also didn't take this policeman's words to heart, his face still smiling like a spring breeze.
When the elevator reached the 19th floor, a phone ring echoed in the cramped space. The fat policeman laboriously pulled out his mobile phone from his pocket, looked at the caller ID and answered immediately, saying respectfully: "Director Li, what's up?" It turned out that this fat policeman was just a deputy director, even if he wasn't a deputy director, he must be lower in rank than Director Li on the other end of the line.
A low voice came over the phone: "Don't worry about what's going on with Ding Li, just hurry back with the people."
The elevator is small, and the fat policeman's mobile phone must be a fake, although it has a clear logo of a well-known brand, but there is a serious sound leakage phenomenon, everyone in the elevator can hear what is being said on the phone, including Zuo Dong.
"Director Li, this is a big case, with over a dozen people injured. This is just a preliminary estimate and doesn't even include the people injured on Ding Li's side. Not to mention that Tang Feng was also hurt. If we don't catch a few people, you won't be able to explain it to his father and uncle either." The short fat man said somewhat anxiously, possibly eager to make achievements, half pleading and half threateningly to Director Li on the phone.
"Didn't you hear what I said? Let you come back and you came back, I'll tell you again. If you dare to move one of Deng Li's people, not to mention me, even if it were Tang Feng's father and uncle, they would definitely not be able to get away with it!" The tone on the other end of the phone suddenly rose by eight degrees, and after finishing speaking, he hung up the phone without waiting for Fat Policeman to respond.
Fat policeman heard, behind the back of a burst of cool air, all the police in the elevator seemed to have some chill on their backs, just felt like going to hell to catch ghosts. Only Zuo Dong, hearing the conversation on the phone, drew a slight disdain on his face.
The elevator stopped on the 25th floor, and only Left East stepped out of the elevator. The remaining police officers were like eggplants that had been struck by frost, each hanging their heads in dejection, motionless, watching as the elevator doors closed again and slowly descended towards the first floor.
Two little security guards on the first floor watched a group of police officers leave empty-handed, and their doubts suddenly rose.
The police officers returned to the police car one by one, like dogs that had failed to catch a mouse, exhausted and dispirited. The sirens were not turned on, and they drove away from the office building in a dejected manner.
Later, Zuo Dong and the girl Shui Ling fell in love, their relationship has been progressing until now, when Zuo Dong is about to meet Shui Ling's parents. They have been dating for over a year, and now Zuo Dong is taking the step of meeting Shui Ling's parents, which seems a bit late, but actually it's quite fast. Due to work reasons, Zuo Dong often has to go on business trips abroad, each trip lasting three or four months, so they don't have much time together. Sometimes when Zuo Dong is away, Shui Ling can't even contact him, and she can only stay at home getting angry with Zuo Dong, but whenever Zuo Dong has time, he will call Shui Ling, speaking sweet words and using his charming ways to coax her into a good mood in no time.
Because of Tang Feng's affairs, and also because Zuo Dong would suddenly lose connection with himself during his business trips, Shui Ling always had a faint feeling that this company was not simple. However, he wasn't the kind of person who dug deep into things, and besides, during the time he spent with Zuo Dong, he behaved very well and didn't seem like a bad person, so he reluctantly accepted this sudden romance.
Zuo Dong parked his car in an underground garage not far from the business street and hurriedly walked towards the business street. Although he would never be late every time he met with Shui Ling, it was always Shui Ling who arrived first, which made him feel a bit uneasy. He crossed two intersections and saw a girl wearing a dress and having long black hair standing in the crowd from afar. The girl was Shui Ling. This time, Shui Ling still arrived first.
Zuo Dong dodged pedestrians one by one and came to the front of Shui Ling, who was standing on the sidewalk, exactly half a head taller than Zuo Dong.
Zuo Dong was visibly flustered, panting heavily in front of Shui Ling. Shui Ling threw her arms around Zuo Dong and gently gave him a kiss on the cheek, resting her head on his shoulder, saying: "You're not late, here's a kiss to encourage you."
At work, Shuiling is a capable and efficient female employee, but in the presence of Zuo Dong, she becomes a pure and lovely girl immersed in beautiful love, showing her most adorable side to him.
Zuo Dong joked: "Can you reward a few more? This way the reward is more powerful, it can be seen how much the leader cares about his subordinates."
Shui Ling pushed Zuo Dong away with one hand, but he was still within her control range. Smiling, he said: "Hmph, you're so eager for quick success and instant gratification, your desire to kiss me is so strong. Considering this, I've decided to abolish the condition that you won't be late in kissing me from now on."
Zuo Dong pretended to beg: "Don't go, I promise from now on, whatever you want, Miss, I'll want it too, okay?"
"Look at your attitude, so proper and sincere, I'll consider it again." As they spoke, Shuiling couldn't help but smile happily, and Zuodong also smiled along with her. Zuodong gently picked up Shuiling from the sidewalk and pulled her towards the mall, saying "What do Mom and Dad like? Let's buy them something?"
"Hey, Comrade Zuo Dong, you haven't even married into our family yet, and you're already calling my parents 'dad' and 'mom'? You're getting a bit ahead of yourself. Today is just a casual visit to let my parents take a look at you and see if they approve. Don't think too much about the future for now."
Zuo Dong didn't mind what Shui Ling said and replied, "It's inevitable that I'll have to call Dad and Mom sooner or later. I'd better get in touch with them first, otherwise when the time comes, my tongue will be tied."
Shuiling hugged Zuo Dong from behind and followed him with the same pace, saying: "Your heart is so... I don't even know how to describe it."
"I don't know what to say, let's just kiss, everything is in there." Zuo Dong said with a smile.
Shuǐ Líng grabbed Zuo Dong's head with both hands and twisted it back, then lifted her feet, and the four lips were tightly pressed together.
"What you say goes," said Shuiling after giving Zuo Dong a kiss.
"When you come to our house for the first time, don't bring anything too expensive or too cheap. If it's too expensive, my parents won't dare accept it, and if it's too cheap, it seems like we're not showing respect to them. My dad likes drinking tea, so let's buy some tea leaves." Shuiling proposed very seriously.
Zuo Dong also accepted the suggestion, and the two of them walked together to a nearby tea house. The two people stayed in the tea house for an hour, selecting some high-quality Mingqian tea, and had the shop assistant package the tea leaves.
Zuo Dong held the packaged tea leaves in his hand, with a confident look on his face.
"What about getting something for your mother?" Zuo Dong asked Shuiling.
Shuiling stood at the entrance of the teahouse, looking around at the surrounding shops. She pointed to a nearby shop and said, "Let's just buy some pastries. I know that store has delicious pastries and they're not expensive." With that, she pulled Zuo Dong towards the shop.
Shuiling held onto Zuo Dong's arm, while Zuo Dong carried tea leaves in one hand and pastries in the other, walking towards the underground parking lot on the other side. Both of their faces were filled with happiness.
Just as the two of them sat in the Land Rover and fastened their seatbelts, Liao Dong's phone rang out of place. He took out his phone and opened it to see a text message that read: "Return to the company immediately!" Upon seeing this message, Liao Dong was filled with inner conflict, thinking about how to explain things to Shui Ling.
Shuiling is a considerate girl. Seeing Zuo Dong's hesitant expression, she had already guessed the general idea and said: "Is it that the company wants you to go back again?"
Zuo Dong nodded slightly, and surprisingly, beads of sweat appeared on his face. After all, today was also a particularly important day for Zuo Dong.
"Don't worry, you go ahead with your work, I'll explain things to my parents. Don't have any psychological pressure, okay? Look at you, you're even sweating! Your mental quality is not good enough!" As she spoke, she used a tissue to wipe away the sweat on Zuo Dong's forehead.
Two years have passed since he truly entered society, and Zuo Dong's EQ has always been stuck in a low position when it comes to love. Although he can coax Shui Ling into being happy, when faced with sudden events, he still cannot handle them well.
"This, this isn't too good, is it?" Zuo Dong said with difficulty.
"It's okay, my parents are understanding and work comes first." Shuiling said with a smile, as if Zuo Dong's return to the company hadn't affected her mood at all.
"Then your parents will..." Zuo Dong swallowed his saliva, preparing for the worst.
"I've already told you that my parents are understanding, so you don't have to worry about this."
Although Shuiling said so, Zuo Dong still felt sorry for Shuiling.
"Hurry up and drive me home, then you can go back to the company with peace of mind. Don't worry about anything else, I'll take care of it," Shuiling comforted.
Zuo Dong took a glance at Shui Ling, who didn't seem to be the least bit unhappy, and started the car, heading towards Shui Ling's parents' home.
On the road, Zuo Dong was preoccupied with his thoughts and didn't say much. Shuiling didn't like this and said seriously: "Comrade Zuo, you've always shown a smiling face to others, don't lose your 'dignity' over such a small matter. It's not worth losing your temper."
Zuo Dong listened to Shui Ling's words, a surge of emotion filled his entire body, as if he had been injected with a stimulant, his back straightened, and a smile appeared on his face.
"Ah, that's right, isn't it? Zuo Dong is still a trustworthy good comrade after all." Shui Ling said with a smile.
Zuo Dong smiled and drove the car to the downstairs of Shui Ling's parents, Shui Ling hugged Zuo Dong and gave him a very encouraging kiss, then got out of the car, took down the tea leaves and pastries from the back seat, closed the car door, and waved at Zuo Dong through the window, indicating that he could leave.
Zuo Dong's face was full of apology as he said, "I'll make it clear to your parents, although I'm busy with work, I will definitely take good care of you and won't neglect you."
Shuiling nodded firmly and continued smiling, saying: "I believe you, let's go, don't be late or your boss will scold you."
Zuo Dong also nodded and drove away.
Shui Ling looked at the distant Zuo Dong, her heart couldn't help but feel desolate, and her face was filled with melancholy. Alone, carrying two things, she headed towards her parents' home...
Zuo Dong was on the bus, thinking to himself: "I agreed to a month's vacation, but now I've got another task after just seven days? It seems that working for the country requires sacrificing oneself."
Zuo Dong didn't know that just yesterday, a major event occurred in the Eastern country, which will drag many countries into it, and a world war is about to break out.
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