Xin Yunmao received her praise. He finally got back the situation he had not long ago. His expression completely changed from gloomy to bright. He snorted faintly: "That's better."

"What about the management of the tea garden?" Xin

Yunmao's eyebrows jumped: "I'll consider it."

Chu Zhishui saw that he was about to give in, so she took the opportunity to suggest: "After we finish our work and drive back to the bureau, let's buy some fruit tea on the way."

"Why?"

"I feel like you seem to like fruit tea." Chu Zhishui smiled, "I just happened to drive by here. There are actually desserts in the store. I can pick some and take them back. I can eat them with Jin Yu in the afternoon."

Xin Yunmao raised his eyebrows happily: "Are you buying it for me this time and bringing it to her?"

"You can pick what you like in the store." Chu Zhishui didn't answer seriously, but said sincerely, "I didn't go out with you often before, and I wasn't sure what flavor to choose. I could only try it every time. You just come here today."

Xin Yunmao wanted to continue to show off, but she interrupted him with a few words and soon he was coaxed into feeling comfortable.

Chu Zhishui's attitude was well-behaved and correct, and Xin Yunmao couldn't find any fault with it, so he agreed to her request without thinking.

In the tea garden, Xiao Huang and Xiao Hei huddled in a corner like quails. They watched the black-haired young man watering the tea trees with his evil spirit, and heard him promise to come to check on the situation regularly in the future. At this moment, they were pale as dirt and felt that their future was bleak.

How could he make human wishes come true so easily?

They didn't want to confront the Conferred God monsters holding dragon-bone umbrellas all the time!

Xin Yunmao may have noticed the resentful look in the two monsters' eyes. He turned back and looked at them coldly in his spare time, and asked casually: "Are they useful?"

"They..." Chu Zhishui glanced at the two monsters, "They are okay, what's wrong?"

"If they are not useful, burn them."

Chu Zhishui saw the two monsters shaking with fear not far away, and advised: "Don't, just use some."

Xin Yunmao used the demon energy to irrigate the tea garden quickly, and the gauze-like mist enveloped the tea trees. After the demon energy was catalyzed, it blew a burst of rustling, and the fine and soft water vapor was blown away.

Chu Zhishui felt the cool raindrops, and she was about to turn back to the house to get an umbrella, but she didn't expect someone to get there first. With a rustling sound, the umbrella was pushed open. When she looked up, she saw the dark blue paper umbrella shielding her from the rain.

She found that most of the paper umbrella was leaning towards her, and hurriedly said, "Move over a little, you're going to get wet."

"This is originally a demonic aura, it doesn't matter if I get wet."

Xin Yunmao held the umbrella in one hand and led her forward.

Chu Zhishui still remembered that he had nothing in his hands just now, and didn't know where he took out the dark blue paper umbrella from. She looked at the internal structure of the paper umbrella carefully. The handle of the umbrella was like a strong and fierce joint, pushing open the dark blue paper. As if it had been burned by the Samadhi True Fire, the handle and the umbrella were covered with large areas of burnt black, and the lighter color also left burn marks of sparks.

"Is this umbrella called a dragon-bone umbrella?" Chu Zhishui asked, she remembered the cry of the white-haired monster that day.

"They seem to call it that."

"Then how do you call it?"

"I usually..." Xin Yunmao paused for a moment and confessed, "I don't call it, or just call it an umbrella."

Chu Zhishui blinked with a sense of novelty: "So you are a dragon?"

"Of course not." Xin Yunmao glanced at her, as if he was amused by her words, "You are clearly worshipping me, but you don't know what I am?"

"How should I know?" Chu Zhishui said innocently, "It was you who insisted on me being a believer, you know I have no demonic energy."

Speaking of which, she still doesn't understand why she worships him?

Xin Yunmao turned his head away, he was inexplicably depressed: "Forget it, I should have known it earlier..."

Chu Zhishui asked curiously: "So what are you? Just tell me directly, then I will know."

"There is no point in telling you." Xin Yunmao said in a very cold tone, "Anyway, you are a person who only cares about appearance, and you have been coveting my skin. I will not change my appearance at any cost."

"..."

Chu Zhishui didn't understand why she was blamed. She took a deep breath and said helplessly: "No, I have never understood why you always think about me so much. In all conscience, I have never done anything beyond your control, right?"

Xin Yunmao was very firm: "You didn't do it, but you thought about it."

"...To be honest, aren't you feeling too good about yourself?" Chu Zhishui observed his slightly changing expression and said gently, "Okay, we admit that you are quite pretty, but information is so developed now, there are a lot of videos of handsome guys on the Internet, and there are also many male celebrities who rely on their looks. It's not like I haven't seen handsome guys before. Have you ever thought that you are worrying too much?"

She tried to break his delusion by stating the facts and speaking reasonably.

He sneered: "How is it possible?"

"Why is it impossible?"

Xin Yunmao's smile faded, and a gleam in his eyes: "Okay, then you tell me a name now. Who among the human stars do you think is better than me?"

"Male star?" Chu Zhishui was actually confused by the question, "Let me think..."

"Can't say it?"

"No, I'm not a fan, and I don't care about these at all."

"Then find someone around you. Have you seen anyone better than me?"

"..." Chu Zhishui choked, she weighed the difficulty of both, and calmed down, "Wait a minute, I'll go online right now, get to know some popular male stars and tell you."

Xin Yunmao smiled complacently: "The stars can't say it, and the people around them can't say it either. Do you still think I'm worrying about nothing?"

Chu Zhishui argued with a headache: "This is purely a misunderstanding, not my problem."

"Whose problem is that?" he asked lazily, "Is it my problem? Is it because I took so long to transform?"

Xin Yunmao looked at her with an unfathomable look, and a little smugness that he had won. He wanted to make a face full of "I saw through you a long time ago" and asked her to be beaten.

She wanted to confront him, but she was killed in return. Now she seemed to be really up to something.

"It's not my problem anyway..." Chu Zhishui was so angry that she gritted her teeth and said angrily, "It's the problem of men this generation!"

Xin Yunmao heard her shocking words: "?"

After she said it without thinking, she became more and more confident: "It's all because of the men this generation. If you ask me to name beautiful girls, I can name ten right now. I can find a beautiful one in three seconds when I drive into the city. But there are so few good-looking boys on the street. They can't compare with girls at all!"

Xin Yunmao had a subtle expression: "This reason is too far-fetched..."

"Where is it far-fetched? This is the reality. Do you think you are so outstanding? That's because the level of men this year is too poor. Otherwise, how can you male monsters have the face to be so rampant?"

"..."

"If I were a man, I would be ten thousand times better than you." Chu Zhishui concluded expressionlessly, "Yes, if not you?" Xin Yunmao was so angry that his head hurt, and said coldly, "You don't know my level among monsters!"

Chu Zhishui sneered: "You don't know my level among humans either. We should have taken the college entrance examination together that year, and you would know how big the gap between the two sides is."

"???"

Xin Yunmao's eyes were dim. He glared at her hatefully, and his tone was quite resentful: "That's not what you said just now."

She didn't act like this when she asked the monster to do something.

Chu Zhishui thought about the fact that he had just finished watering the tea garden. Her expression changed in a second. She coughed twice and said softly, "It's getting late. What do you want to eat? How about buying something on the way?"

The war was stopped in time and did not spread.

After the man and the demon left the tea garden, they bought fruit tea and cakes first, and then parked the car in front of a convenience store. There were no decent restaurants on the road. Chu Zhishui could be full with a snack, but she felt that Xin Yunmao was so tall that he probably needed a full meal.

There were not many customers in the convenience store. The space was not big but the light was sufficient. The cashier was sitting and playing with his mobile phone.

"There are no good restaurants nearby, so we'll just have a quick lunch. Do you want any boxed lunches?" Chu Zhishui saw him walking in front of the shelves and said, "There's hot oden over there, and you can also buy snacks."

Xin Yunmao seemed to be entering a convenience store for the first time. He wandered around the room in confusion, and finally just followed her and wandered all the way to the refrigerator area.

Chu Zhishui had never seen him eat before. She took the plum rice ball from the shelf, and saw him follow her to take one, and reminded her, "There's tuna over there."

Xin Yunmao glanced at her, "You like fish so much, why do you have to mention everything?"

"..."

I always feel that this question is full of traps, and I accidentally started arguing again.

She found that she was often provoked by him to reveal her true colors. Not long after they first met, she revealed her sharp tongue. She had obviously been working in the workplace for many years, but he had just provoked her to be competitive and they actually argued openly about who was better.

Chu Zhishui did not intend to continue arguing with him, so she simply kept quiet and waited for him to finish selecting the food. However, Xin Yunmao walked around the shelves carefully, and finally only had the plum rice ball in his hand, which he silently placed on the cashier.

"That's all you want to eat? Aren't you hungry in the afternoon?" Chu Zhishui was surprised. She was about to pay the bill, and she comforted him, "You don't have to worry, just take whatever you want."

She just thought that he didn't bring his wallet, and maybe he felt embarrassed, so he was very restrained when choosing.

Xin Yunmao shook his head.

"Okay, then tell me when you see something else you want to eat on the way."

What Xin Yunmao didn't say was that he didn't actually need to eat, he just took the rice ball out of curiosity about what flavor she picked.

Neither of them chose to heat up the rice balls, and stood at the door of the convenience store to tear the packaging.

Chu Zhishui pulled lightly, and the rice ball wrapped in seaweed was exposed intact, just right to be pinched in the packaging bag and enjoyed.

Xin Yunmao was confused, and he frowned as he unwrapped the plastic paper, and found that the seaweed and the transparent packaging bag were stuck together, and the whole rice ball was about to be torn into a mess.

"This one needs to be torn in the middle." Seeing him in a hurry, Chu Zhishui handed over the rice ball in her hand and said with a smile, "I forgot to tell you just now, you can eat this one."

"No need..."

Before Xin Yunmao finished speaking, the failed rice ball in his hand was taken away and replaced by a peeled perfect one.

Chu Zhishui quickly opened the other one, took the first bite slowly, tasted the one with worse appearance, and did not exchange rice balls with him again.

Xin Yunmao did not expect her to be so quick. He withdrew his hand and pursed his lips: "You seem to do this often."

"What?" She stood there enjoying the food as if nothing had happened. The way she chewed slowly did not seem like she was in a convenience store, but rather elegant and comfortable as if she was in the Black Pearl Restaurant.

Xin Yunmao felt that the fish was right about one thing. Chu Zhishui had a natural aura of nobility. It was not the kind of extravagance that showed off her wealth, but the ease of being able to handle everything with ease, and the laziness after being extremely full. Even when she helped others, her gestures were casual and natural, and she didn't care at all.

"It's a habit to take care of others." He said calmly, "Isn't it the same for that fish?"

"What kind of care is this?" Chu Zhishui was stunned, "It's just a rice ball, it's not that exaggerated."

Xin Yunmao said nothing.

Chu Zhishui bit the rice ball, and seeing that he remained calm, she couldn't help but frowned slightly, revealing a look of wanting to say something but stopping.

Xin Yunmao noticed her little expression and asked, "What do you want to say?"

"Forget it, I won't say it. If I say it, we'll quarrel again..." It's better for her not to make trouble.

Little did she know that the more she half-concealed, the more she wanted others to know.

Xin Yunmao insisted, "You tell me."

She felt guilty, "After I tell you, you will accuse me of deliberately angering you."

"Go ahead," he promised solemnly, "Just this once, I won't blame you."

Chu Zhishui thought about his long-standing absurd fantasies, wondering if her words and actions had made him misunderstand her and take such a small matter as a deliberate gesture of goodwill, and muttered, "I was thinking, are you not very pitiful and have never been taken care of by anyone, so you are so exaggerated?"

Otherwise, changing the rice ball is not a big deal.

To be fair, she felt that this remark was fanning the flames, and it was indeed quite offensive to say it out loud.

Xin Yunmao was not annoyed. His eyes were deep and he said calmly, "Indeed, no."

Her eyelashes flickered, "...I can't respond to your words." It was

Xin Yunmao's first time eating a rice ball. He chewed slowly, feeling the plum flavor spreading on the tip of his tongue, activating every taste cell that had been dormant for a long time and even dulled. Freshness, sourness, and slight sweetness were all mixed together, novel and stimulating, unfamiliar and fresh.

After he finished eating, he said, "I want another one."

"Go get it, I just think you don't have enough."

The two of them settled the bill again and came out. Xin Yunmao handed the rice ball to the person next to him, staring at her without saying a word, as if waiting for something.

Chu Zhishui didn't complain. She tore open the packaging bag casually, handed it back to him with one hand, and said leisurely, "I'll go back after eating."

The fingers holding the rice ball were slender and white, and the light pink nails were round and small, which could easily distract people.

"Hmm."

He finished the second one silently, and felt that it was more sour and sweet than the last one.

In the Economic Development Department, Chu Zhishui and Xin Yunmao returned with afternoon tea and called Jin Yu, who stayed in the office, to get it.

Jin Yu ran over happily and routinely offered to transfer the money to Chu Zhishui. After being politely declined, he thanked her and took the drinks and cakes. As soon as she took a bite of the fresh cake, she suddenly remembered something important, puffed up her cheeks and said, "By the way, Director Hu just came to see you."

Chu Zhishui: "Looking for me?"

"He said he had something to do."

"Okay, I'll go then." Chu Zhishui casually took out the can of newly bought cookies from the plastic bag. She thought about it and put it back, asking, "Jin Yu, where did you put the green tea last time?"

"I put it in the cabinet, I'll get it for you now."

"Can you help me get two cans, thank you."

"Okay." Jin Yu asked doubtfully, "Two cans? What are you going to do?"

"It's a gift, not a receipt. It's for Director Hu." Seeing her eyes wide open, Chu Zhishui soothed her, "It's okay, just give this little thing, Director Hu won't be put in jail."

"...I'm not afraid of that."

Chu Zhishui set out with two cans of tea. She didn't know what would happen to Hu Chenrui, so she simply took something with her in case of an emergency.

In the unit, you can't fail to show your face in front of the leader, which shows that you are not proactive at work, and you can't always show your face in front of the leader, which is too easy to be found out. In the end, you have to grasp the right degree and stay neither too far nor too close, so that you can survive.

Chu Zhishui stood in front of the director's office and adjusted her expression. She knocked on the door gently, and heard Director Hu's response, then slowly pushed the door open and went in.

"Xiao Chu is here." Hu Chenrui said kindly, "I went to look for you this morning, but you weren't there

." He seemed to be in a good mood, so it shouldn't be a bad thing.

"I went to keep an eye on the tea garden this morning." Chu Zhishui explained, and said softly, "Then I brought you something..."

"Hey! This is not appropriate!" Hu Chenrui saw the tea can on the table and quickly refused.

"No, this is a new product of the Economic Development Department. It's picked from the tea garden in the bureau. Everyone has been busy with this recently." Chu Zhishui smiled softly, "You can try it and give us some suggestions to see where we can improve."

"Did you do all this?" Hu Chenrui took a can of tea. He saw the brand name "Guanju" on it and exclaimed, "It looks quite decent. It looks very good." "It's

just a sample. If you think there is something wrong, you can continue to change it."

"I think it's good." Hu Chenrui said with satisfaction, "I came to you to discuss this. You have contacted Yinhai, right? Director Ye called me yesterday and talked about your department's new product. It seems that the order has not been signed yet, right?" Director

Ye is the head of the Yinhai Observation Bureau, and has the same status as Hu Chenrui in the Huaijiang Bureau.

Chu Zhishui suddenly realized that this was a senior leader urging progress over the head. Since the Yinhai Bureau decided to order tea, it has asked about this matter again and again, and also wanted to know the production and pricing of Guanju brand green tea. She was not sure about the difference between the two kinds of green tea at the time, and found that the other party was too eager, so she naturally did not reply immediately, and was polite and perfunctory, and has not yet quoted a price.

Of course, she also had some selfish bargaining intentions, and wanted to delay and play psychological warfare, but who expected Director Ye to call.

Chu Zhishui said hurriedly: "Yes, there were some procedures to go through before, now it's almost done, and soon it will be..."

"Don't worry, don't work overtime, young people should take it easy." Hu Chenrui waved his hand quickly, "It's normal for our unit to be slow!"

Chu Zhishui: "?"

Hu Chenrui coughed twice and said concernedly: "We have a good relationship with the Yinhai Bureau. I heard that you haven't set the price yet. Do some market research and follow the routine. Don't work too hard and think about work all day long."

Both parties are not stupid, and Chu Zhishui understands it immediately.

"Good relationship" means "the order will not run away", "market research" means "I am not satisfied with your current low-price, and "follow the routine" means "quote me a high price or they will be dragged to death."

Chu Zhishui looked at Director Hu's shining eyes, and she came to her senses and responded, "I understand. We are mainly worried that Director Ye and his team are too eager to take care of our business and buy it without thinking. Impulsive consumption is not advisable. We should be a little calmer before setting the price, so as not to waste resources..."

"Yes, you are right." Hu Chenrui clapped his hands happily, "Oh, I always find it so easy to talk to you!"

Chu Zhishui took the opportunity to ask humbly, "Then how do you think the price should be set?"

Hu Chenrui rolled his eyes and asked back, "What is the highest price in the market now?"

Chu Zhishui was silent for a few seconds. She didn't expect the old fox to be so dark. She answered very tactfully, "Director Hu, the price of green tea in the market varies greatly, depending on the quality and craftsmanship. If the price is set randomly, it may disrupt the market."

"From what Director Ye said, they all want to buy it." Hu Chenrui said confidently, "Our tea is sold to monsters. As long as it doesn't flow into the human market, it doesn't count as disrupting the market pricing, and we won't be troubled by the market regulatory authorities!"

"……"

My goodness, it's still the same kind that's trying to take advantage of each other. They really don't treat monsters as human beings.