Chapter 229

Attract love

When I returned to the hotel, I ran into Nie Gong, his sister and Sandan in the lobby.

Nie Gong, carrying a pile of documents, spread his hands and said, "I didn't expect that staying in a hotel in Shanghai would be so expensive."

The hotel where Chen Lina stayed cost thirty yuan a night, but the worker had no money left after emptying his wallet to buy a few plane tickets.

So, in the hotel, the father and son were eagerly waiting for Miss Chen.

"Weiguo broke the pot." said Nie Gong when he entered the room.

Chen Lina said, "I'll get you a new one when we get back. That pot is too old."

"He smashed your beehive coal stove." Engineer Nie said worriedly.

Chen Lina said, "The stove core is burnt out, it's time to replace it, it's okay."

When the worker saw that everything was fine, he mentioned the most serious incident: "The kitchen cabinet and bowls were all smashed."

"Nie Bozhao, I thought you couldn't bear to leave me, so you came all the way here to be with me. So, you came to me just because your home was destroyed and you have no place to eat or live?"

"To be honest, if you're away for half a day, the Nie family will completely disband." Nie Gong still feels a lingering fear when he thinks of Erdan standing in the kitchen.

What else could Chen Lina say? She could only say, "Don't worry, I'll take care of everything."

After a while, Deng Dongya arrived at the hotel.

Of course, he didn't go upstairs. He ordered a table of dishes directly from the hotel downstairs and asked Chen Lina and her family to go down for dinner.

The worker came here to find a place to write his newspaper in peace, so of course he wouldn't go downstairs to eat.

As for Nie Weimin, he was acting mysterious and no one knew where he had disappeared to.

Chen Lina took the elevator downstairs with the two children and Nie Weixing in her arms. She followed the receptionist to the door of the private room on the second floor. She only took a look inside and said, "Comrade, go in and tell the gentleman in the middle that we don't want to eat his food. If you want to see the children, come upstairs, okay?"

The receptionist was puzzled and asked, "You are here, why don't you come in?"

Chen Lina went upstairs without saying anything.

She only took a glance and saw a woman sitting next to Deng Dongya, who looked to be in her early thirties, and was quite quiet and pretty. She held a cup of tea in her hand, and she took a sip herself to taste it before handing it to Deng Dongya beside her. Deng Dongya said nothing, but took it and drank it naturally.

Such an intimate act, even if they didn't sleep in the same bed, at least they had opened their hearts to each other.

No wonder Ji Chaoqun was so upset. This Deng Dongya had slept with his family members three times in seven years of marriage and even had a cup of tea with another woman outside.

As a married woman, Chen Lina especially disdains his behavior. No matter what flaws Ji Chaoqun has, she is still his original wife. No matter how good this woman is, she is still a mistress.

Chen Lina disdains to eat at the same table with San'er.

Deng Dongya was chatting with the Hong Kong businessmen he had invited when he heard from the receptionist that Chen Lina had come with her children and left again. She had sat there for a long time. He had no choice but to ask Director Zhao from the office to comfort the Hong Kong businessman and his beautiful wife, or mistress. He packed up two dishes and hurried upstairs.

Chen Lina ordered a few bowls of Yangchun noodles for the children and bought some snacks. As they were eating around the table, Deng Dongya knocked on the door and came in.

"Lina, the people I invited are all Hong Kong businessmen who are most interested in investing in our mining area. I just want to ask you, why don't you go down?" Deng Dongya said.

He saw three children eating around the table. One of them was Nie Weixing, a little girl wearing a red skirt with white dots. She had a slightly dark skin and was as pretty as a doll.

There were two other boys, wearing the same washed blue jeans, the same white shirt, the same round head, the same height, and even the expressions on their faces were exactly the same.

After all, he only had one son and his beloved wife died early. Although Deng Dongya was angry and hated Deng Chun, he was also filled with guilt in his heart.

Both children looked at him, but neither of them spoke.

"Deng Chun?" Deng Dongya stretched out his hand, ready to shake the hand of one of them.

Nie Weijiang hit Deng Chun with a palm. "Wow, your father really made a mistake. He thinks I am you."

Deng Dongya quickly went to hug the other child and said, "Deng Chun, I haven't seen you for four years. You've grown so tall."

Deng Chun waved his hands, still eating noodles. "It's okay. I won't miss you even if you don't see me for another forty years. You won't miss me, will you?"

Deng Dongya felt ashamed and sad. He wanted to hug his son, but he pushed him away. "I still want to eat noodles. I didn't expect the price of Yangchun noodles to go up. Now it costs 1.5 yuan a bowl. When I was a kid, it was only 80 cents a bowl."

"Uncle Deng, Deng Chun just said that you would mistakenly recognize the wrong person." Nie Weixing said.

Deng Dongya bent his knees, looked at the three children, and asked, "Why?"

Nie Weixing tilted his head and said, "Because, in all these years, you haven't even asked for a photo of him, how could you recognize him?"

Deng Dongya let out a long sigh, "Uncle, I'm extremely ashamed."

Chen Lina went to three rooms and let the children eat first, then took Deng Dongya to the room where Deng Chun and Nie Weijiang lived.

"You are talking about work everywhere, while your wife is visiting everywhere with the children, saying that you have a messy private life with your subordinates. Am I right?" Chen Lina asked Deng Dongya straight to the point.

Before Deng Dongya saw his son, he was not that ashamed. He himself had a serious stomach problem. He covered his chest and sat on the chair.

After a long pause, he said, "The relationship between Xiao Ji and I has always been bad. In fact, remarriage was a mistake from the beginning. Thank you for your hard work. It's not that I don't want to call Deng Chun back, but our family atmosphere is really not suitable for raising children."

After a long silence, he continued, "I am closer to Director Zhao, but, Lina, we are classmates. I will tell you the truth. We are close friends, but there is absolutely no such thing as cheating on each other."

That's right. The person who just rinsed the tea bowl for him in the private room was Deng Dongya's office director.

"Do you know Gao Feng, the current mayor of the autonomous region?" Chen Lina asked Deng Dongya.

Deng Dongya quickly said, "Yes, I am a year younger than him, and we are fellow students at Fudan University."

"You also know He Lanshan. She is the middle-aged woman who, after you arrived at the mining area, took care of you and found a guesthouse, then sent you to the hospital, found a doctor for you, and followed you around all day without saying a word." Chen Lina then continued.

He Lanshan was not beautiful, so Deng Dongya had of course forgotten about her long ago.

He shook his head. “I can’t remember.”

"Then let me tell you, He Lanshan is a very ordinary woman, so ordinary that you can't even remember her. But Gao Feng and she have been separated for five or six years. The office director is always a man, and he never takes a female comrade with him on business trips. Let me tell you something that we married men and women are not ashamed of. He goes back to the mining area to pay public rations three times a week, and he never refuses."

Deng Dongya laughed and said, "Why are you telling me this?"

"The total economic development value of the entire autonomous region is less than one-third of Shanghai. But Gao Feng will soon move to Beijing, and you have to continue working in Shanghai. Do you think it's because his political performance is more outstanding than yours?"

Deng Dongya said nothing.

"That's because, even if what you chose was a pile of cow dung, since you have chosen it, you have to eat it up even if you cry or kneel. Oh, if you really think Ji Chaoqun is a pile of cow dung and think there are other women out there who are better than her, then why did you marry her in the first place? Ah, she said that she slept with you three times in seven years. For a woman to say such a thing, her life must have been very desperate." Chen Lina said while chopping the table.

Deng Dongya let out a long sigh and said, "What happened between Ji Chaoqun and me has nothing to do with Director Zhao. The gap between her and me comes from my ex-wife Wang Chun. She is the responsible doctor. I only found out from my ex-mother-in-law after we got married that she delayed Wang Chun's condition. This is the crux of the matter. Of course, this is also the reason why I want to send Deng Chun to the mining area. I don't want Deng Chun to hear these things. I may occasionally talk to Director Zhao and confide in him something, but I tell you, Chen Lina, I am an international communist fighter. I am not so dirty as to collude with my subordinates."

"No, a good leader is invincible. For example, I am also very tired, sometimes very busy, and have many confusions.

But I will not complain to my subordinates, because such complaints are of no value and may even give them the opportunity to be used against me.

When I was about to get promoted, you became an obstacle, standing in my way. You don't realize that, with all your talents and abilities, you may end up wasting them on a woman. Is it worth it?"

Everyone has ideals and the determination to do something big.

Su Xiangdong was an oil thief, but in his previous life he ran a stall that was more legitimate than that of a state-owned enterprise.

Deng Dongya paused for a long time and said, "Can you persuade Xiao Ji not to divorce? Since I'm married to her, I will definitely take care of her for the rest of her life, no matter what happened with Wang Chun, really."

"Marriage should be based on mutual respect. Since you think that Wang Chun's death was related to Ji Chaoqun's delay, why did you marry her?

I don't know Ji Chaoqun, but I think that many times people don't have evidence, so they shouldn't speak nonsense or jump to conclusions. Also, I won't help you persuade others. You guys should get a divorce as soon as possible."

Having said that, Chen Lina sent Deng Dongya away.

"Nie Weijiang, I want to sleep in the same bed with you." Deng Chun said sweetly when he was sleeping at night.

Sandan closed his eyes. "No, you don't want to. You don't want to at all."

"I really do."

"If you dare to come over, I will kick you to death," said Nie Weijiang.

Deng Chun hid in his quilt, kicking the quilt and laughing like a fool. Because today, he could be lazy for another day.

Finally, he ran over and started to tickle him, "Don't worry, when I get married in the future, she will be your wife, and I will give you half."

"Get out." Nie Weijiang kicked him down.

The young man Nie Weimin, not to mention walking in the mining area, would attract attention because of his heroic face that is both Chinese and Western like his father. Even in Shanghai, when a young man like him walks by, many girls will turn around to look at him.

He was currently standing in front of a small bar next to the Peace Hotel on the Bund of Nanjing East Road.

There is a poster on the building opposite, which is a clothing advertisement of Shanghai Garment Factory. It was probably taken two years ago. Two girls are standing opposite each other, looking sideways at the people walking below the tall building. They are Su Xiangnan and Liu Xiaohong.

Su Xiangnan is a southern beauty, graceful and charming, while Liu Xiaohong is a northern girl. She smiles particularly brightly in the photo, and her two beautiful big eyes are curved as if she is always staring at him.

He put his hands in his pockets and looked up. After a while, two police officers came over.

"Hello, are you the one who reported the case?" said one of the police officers.

Nie Weimin said, “Yes.”

The two police officers looked at each other, and one of them searched Nie Weimin's body. "Where are you? What's wrong with you? Young man, let me tell you, drug dealers are hard for ordinary people to find. How did you find them?"

Nie Weimin pointed at the bar and introduced himself, "I am a student at Tsinghua University. We study in East Highlands. Does anyone know that place?"

The two police officers, one looked confused, while the other opened his mouth wide. "Donggaodi, are there a lot of rockets and planes parked there? The students are dismantling those things as if they are playing a game."

Well, this handsome guy can actually study there?

The police officer was really shocked, because he heard that the children who studied there not only had to be extremely smart, but also most of them had a very deep red background in order to get in.

This kid is a gifted one.

"Look, I'm sure there are a few drug dealers in this bar."

"Have you witnessed the transaction or seen them carrying drugs? Can you go in and help us identify them?" the police said.

Of course Nie Weimin couldn't do that, he had to go abroad, and there were so many children competing for one spot to go abroad.

If anyone saw him in or out of the bar, it would be his end.

However, nothing can be difficult for a laborer, and of course nothing can be difficult for a little farmer either.

He described it as follows: "First, their smell is different from that of ordinary people. Can you smell it? If not, let me describe it to you... Also, their eyes will not look at ordinary people directly, but always look at people at a 30-degree angle. Then, one of their hands is always in their pockets, and the other hand will tremble very frequently. That's because they are always looking for drug dealers. And in this bar, the four people should have something in their hands. The reason why they are very easy to catch is that they are all wearing leather jackets."

The two police officers looked at Nie Weimin for a long time. The one who knew what he was studying said, "Young man, you are not working as a police officer part-time, are you? Also, how long have you been chasing drug dealers?"

As night falls, Shanghai at night is so prosperous.

In about twenty minutes, the plainclothes officers arrested all four drug dealers.

The two policemen were standing guard outside to maintain law and order. One of them patted Nie Weimin on the shoulder and said, "Great, young man. How long have you been with them? I'm afraid it's been ten days or half a month. How can you feel so accurately?"

Nie Weimin saw that Youbu was among those arrested, so he felt his mission was accomplished.

He waved goodbye to the two police officers and pointed out with a proud look, "One day, no, it should be six hours. It took me six hours to catch them."

We just arrived in Shanghai at two o'clock in the afternoon, and it is not easy to find someone in Shanghai.

However, Nie Weimin found a drug dealer, and it was Youbu, so it was easy to deal with.

He had the phone number in hand, so he went to the telecommunications office to buy a yellow pages, and then started looking up addresses.

Then, find the public telephone booth where Youbu called Chen Tiantian.

Nowadays, most public telephones are manned.

Yub used this public phone to call Chen Tiantian twice, which shows that he has been active in this area.

Nie Weimin only needed to give the honest lady a good smile and show her the photo of Youbu. The Shanghai lady, who was as good as the Chaoyang lady, told Nie Weimin everything about Youbu's activities in the area, his daily routine, and what bars he went to at night.

As for Nie Weimin, he only had to follow the smell to find the place, stand outside the bar and observe for three hours, and then make a phone call to call the police.

Back at the hotel at night, Nie Weimin pushed open the door of his room, quietly took out his key to unlock it, and was about to sneak in. As a result, he heard a particularly corny voice, "Hey, don't you want to take a look at the new underwear I bought?"

"Then come under the light again. I want to take a look, really, just one look." Nie Gong wrote absentmindedly, his eyes constantly looking around.

"You can take a look." said Miss Chen.

The worker suddenly threw the pen away and said, "What's the point of just looking at it? I want to eat it. Do you understand?"

Nie Weimin was so frightened that he started running away immediately.

The bathroom in the hotel is a corridor. Fortunately, Nie Weimin did not go in. He just came out quietly, and someone threw a squeaking plastic mouse on the ground. When Nie Weimin stepped on it, it squeaked.

"Who?"

"The mouse, chirping."

"It's a foreign-related hotel, and there are rats." Chen Lina was so angry that she raised her head to let the worker kiss her, and she kept shouting, "My money is wasted."

Nie Weimin looked around and found that his sister was sleeping alone in a bedroom.

Well, he probably understood that his father wanted to find a quiet room to write, so he hid in his room, and his mother slept with his sister for a while and then ran to find his father.

Well, Nie Weimin remembered that his father was very strict and self-disciplined when he was young, but he became worse and worse as he got older.

Sitting at the head of Nie Weixing's bed and reading a book, he thought bitterly that when he gets married, he will be self-disciplined for the rest of his life and will never give up halfway like his father did, huh!

Deng Chun and Nie Weijiang woke up because they were hungry.

One bowl of Yangchun noodles is certainly not enough for children of their age.

However, Chen Lina went out for a walk again today in the evening and bought a bunch of snacks for the children, such as tiger claws, crab shell roe, and fried dumplings, all of which were placed on the table.

Deng Chun got up, opened the window curtains and looked at the neon lights outside. He picked up a fried dumpling and ate it. He said, "Nie Weijiang, I still want to go with you. When we grow up, we will come to this place together. We are brothers. We want to dominate Shanghai Beach and learn from Xu Wenqiang and Ding Li. How about that?"

Although it would take several years for Shanghai Beach to be introduced to the mainland.

However, there were tapes brought in by Hong Kong businessmen, and they were brought up by Deng Dongya. The two brothers watched them in front of the TV all night before going to bed. They saw that all the fighting and killing were on Shanghai Beach, and they were very excited at the moment.

"Okay, I'm Xu Wenqiang, you're Ding Li, we'll be good brothers forever." Sandan also acted childishly for once, and patted him on the shoulder.

Little did they know that Ding Li and Xu Wenqiang were still on good terms after only watching two or three episodes.

Later on, Ding Li and Xu Wenqiang will become enemies.

The neon lights outside gradually became fewer and fewer. The two young men sat side by side on the window, eating steamed buns and staring outside.