Brilliant Years 1991

Chapter 28 I'll give you a chocolate
"Enter!"

The office door opened and Cao Yukun walked in. Zhao Xiaolan, who was processing documents, looked up and saw that it was Cao Yukun. She was stunned for a moment and then smiled, "Hey, Xiao Cao, are you here to collect your salary?"

"Yes, I just miss my Aunt Zhao a little bit. So I came to see you after receiving my salary."

Zhao Xiaolan looked up in surprise. After a moment's pause, she couldn't help but laugh, "You still miss someone? That's not easy! How big of a mess did you make? Ah! Do you know how embarrassed I was? Why didn't you think of me at that time?"

Cao Yukun was speechless and could only laugh.

As we all know, according to official practice, no matter what unit or level you are in, you must have at least one female comrade. She can be a deputy and may not have any real power, but she must have one, because women must hold up half the sky.

However, in fact, although this practice may seem to be a respect and protection for female comrades at first glance, to some extent, it greatly limits the future of female staff in government offices - because there is generally only one vacancy!
So in fact, it has led to another situation, that is, any female comrade who can squeeze up and get a job position of a certain level generally has an appearance, figure, ability, and courage that far exceeds the level of most male comrades of the same level - Zhao Xiaolan is such a person!

She should be in her thirties this year, a little over 1.6 meters tall, smart and generous, handling things in a very appropriate and thoughtful way. In addition, her father is a retired old cadre. All of this made it possible for her to be promoted to a full-time official before she was thirty years old, even at the local level. After working as a village head for three years, she was valued by the county leaders and was promoted to the county government as the chief housekeeper. She also joined the standing committee, which was already a high position as a deputy director.

Moreover, in the more than two years since she took office, she has been praised by everyone from top to bottom.

There's no way. She's the type of person who's beautiful, smart, and capable, and who can really annoy you.

Let alone other things, just her alcohol tolerance, there are few people in the whole county who dare to say that they can drink more than her - Cao Yukun had driven the leaders down for inspection before and had seen her alcohol tolerance with his own eyes. When the 1.5-ounce glass was filled, she would just tilt her head back and drink it all. Let me drink three glasses first, and then I will drink slowly with you.

The problem is that after drinking two or three kilograms of strong liquor, it does not hinder people from handling various things in an orderly manner - in this regard, even the father and son of the Cao family, who are both good drinkers, cannot compare.

Before, Cao Yukun joined the county government's car team because her father Cao Weiguo found her father in a roundabout way and stuffed Cao Yukun in. After he came, Zhao Xiaolan was quite caring towards him. However, the beating of Zhang Weimin by the original owner obviously destroyed everything. Cao Yukun himself didn't care, but the key point was that he felt that this would most likely bring a considerable negative impact on his father's interpersonal relationships, so he wanted to make some repairs.

But after entering the door, he called out "Auntie" after careful consideration, but he felt very embarrassed.

He knew that she must be over 30 years old, estimated to be around 35, but she actually looked like she was less than 30 years old - younger than many girls that Cao Yukun had dated in his previous life!
If I had known this earlier, I would have continued to call him "Director Zhao".

But what needs to be done still needs to be done.

After Zhao Xiaolan vented a few words, Cao Yukun smiled and took out a bar of chocolate from his pocket and put it on the documents on her desk. He bought this for his little girl Cao Yumin yesterday, and he bought extra ones because he was also greedy for it. Now he took it out and added a little drama. "I bought it especially for you, but I was afraid that you would say I was giving you a gift. So here is one bar. It doesn't count as a gift, right?"

Zhao Xiaolan looked at him in surprise. She was stunned for several seconds before she couldn't help but suddenly laughed. She picked up the particularly childish chocolate bar in front of her and looked at it. She laughed again and finally waved her hand with a smile, "Okay, okay, thank you, I accept it! Go away quickly, don't ask me to do anything for you, or it won't be considered a gift from you!"

"Hey! Director Zhao, you are busy now. I am leaving now!"

After leaving the office, Cao Yukun himself felt that this chocolate was a bit childish as a gift, but...it was childish so to speak, and he would think what he thought!

Anyway, I can't call her "Auntie" anymore. That would be really embarrassing.

In short, Comrade Lao Cao, I have tried my best to help you save the situation, and I hope it will not affect your career path too much - although the fact that he has a limp in his leg has actually already limited his career path.

As I was walking down the stairs briskly, I suddenly met a girl coming up the stairs.

As soon as the two met, Cao Yukun stopped subconsciously. The girl looked up and saw that it was him. She was stunned for a moment and then stopped there as well.

"Hello, Xiaoyu."

"Hello, are you here to collect your salary?" "Yes, I am here to collect my salary and go upstairs to say thank you to Director Zhao."

"Well, that day...thank you."

"Hi, it's over. How are you doing lately? Is work going well?"

"Yeah, it's good. The computer room isn't too busy."

"That's good, let's go."

"Goodbye."

"Oh, by the way... I'll give you a chocolate."

"Ah? ... Thank you! How come... you suddenly thought of giving me this?"

"I've never given it to you, but I always feel like something is missing. So I'll give it to you once, so that when I look back on it many years later, I won't think I was so stupid. I couldn't even give someone a gift. I was so stupid! ... Goodbye!"

"Hey...wait a minute!"

They were about to pass each other, but Cao Yukun stopped and turned to look at her.

She hesitated for a moment and said, "I heard from my dad that you bought the Shimen Beverage Factory. I don't understand it either, but my dad said that you must have fallen into a trap set by someone. In the future... I mean, just in case, just in case you need help in the future, I can ask my dad for help on your behalf."

Cao Yukun looked at her seriously. After a moment, he smiled, nodded, and said, "Thank you."

In fact, Xie Zhaofang's attitude that day made Cao Yukun feel a little unhappy, but today, when a little girl like Xie Xiaoyu said this, it suddenly seemed much more sincere and sounded much more comfortable.

Even though everyone doesn't like me...

"Actually, let me tell you a secret!"

"Ok?"

Wow, no wonder the original owner was so fascinated by this girl. There was some confusion in her eyes, and she looked at me with her head slightly tilted. She was really pure, and had an indescribable cuteness - this was more attractive to the original owner, who was a powerful horse like Red Hare, than simple youthful beauty.

"Actually, I didn't fall into any trap. On the contrary, I'm going to get rich!"

He said this with a smile, then simply walked past me, saying, "When I get rich, I'll treat you to a delicious meal! Bye!"

Xie Xiaoyu half turned around in surprise and looked at his back as he walked down the stairs. Her little mouth opened slightly and her eyes narrowed a little. She felt that something was wrong, but she couldn't put it into words.

After being puzzled for a while, he turned around and went upstairs.

(End of this chapter)