Lu Tao looked at Du Xiaoyu a little surprised, nodded and said, "Your analysis is correct, Chen Pei's mother is indeed opposed to me dating her, and the reasons are similar to what you speculated, so it is basically impossible for me and Chen Pei to become lovers." ”

When Du Xiaoyu heard his later words, his face once again showed joy, he took a sip of the oat tea in front of him, suddenly raised his head to look at Lu Tao, and said, "Let me tell you one thing: I have resigned from my job in the provincial capital and am going to go back to Taolin to live for a while." ”

Lu Tao asked a little surprised: "Why did you suddenly remember to quit your job and go back to Taolin? I remember the last time you asked your sister to borrow money, you said that you wanted to partner with someone else to open an art training school, but now you have returned to Taolin, isn't it exposing the lie? If your sister asks about this, how do you reply to her?"

Du Xiaoyu smiled and said, "It's okay with my sister, as long as I am willing to come back, she won't ask about the million yuan at all." Besides, even if she asks questions, I can say that my friend is preparing to run a school, and I don't know how to operate and manage, so I am only responsible for investment and do not do specific things, and she should believe it. ”

Lu Tao couldn't ask any more, so he turned his head to the waiter standing at the door and said, "Little sister, please bring the menu over, and we will order." ”

Du Xiaoyu smiled and said: "You still say that you often eat seafood here, and you don't understand the rules of how to order? Eating seafood is generally not ordered according to the menu, you should go to the seafood pool outside, order whatever you want, and the waiter will weigh it on the spot and send it to the kitchen for processing." The waiter will only serve stir-fried dishes and drinks on the menu, and there will be no seafood. ”

Lu Tao has come here to eat two or three times before, and others have paid for it, and he really doesn't know the rules of ordering, so he was teased by Du Xiaoyu, scratched his head a little embarrassed and said: "See me! Although I have eaten here a few times, it was all arranged by others, and I really didn't order." Let's go to the seafood pool together. ”

Du Xiaoyu sat still and said, "When I came, I ordered a few seafood outside, which should be enough for two people." If you want to eat stir-fried food and drink, ask the waiter to add two or three stir-fried dishes to the menu!"

Lu Tao hurriedly called the waiter, ordered a small fried yellow beef and a little cabbage, and asked Du Xiaoyu if he drank alcohol?

The waiter hurriedly said, "Sir, this lady has already ordered two bottles of red wine, do you need to order another wine?"

Du Xiaoyu saw Lu Tao raise his eyes and look at him, and said with a smile: "Let's drink red wine tonight, okay? ”

Lu Tao hurriedly said: "Okay, okay, it's best to drink red wine." ”

A few minutes later, the waiter brought two bottles of red wine. Lu Tao glanced at the outer packaging of the two bottles of red wine very casually, and couldn't help but be surprised: he remembered very well that the two bottles of red wine on the table ranked first in the "Drinks and Drinks" column on the menu, and the price was 3,888 yuan per bottle, and the total of the two bottles was nearly 8,000 yuan......

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but glance up at Du Xiaoyu, but saw that she was also staring at him, and a mischievous smile appeared on her face, as if she had insight into what he was thinking.

Lu Tao is a face-saving person, although he was a little surprised in his heart, but his face was calm, he ordered the waiter to open the wine, and he personally poured a small half glass of wine in the two red wine glasses.

Subsequently, the waiter began to serve the food, the first thing that came up was a king crab with a weight of three catties and a golden body, followed by a large plate of boiled Roche shrimp, estimated to be three or four catties, and then braised abalone, steamed grouper, chilled snails, cordyceps flower clam soup, and finally the two stir-fried dishes.

Lu Tao silently calculated, these plates of seafood plus two bottles of red wine have exceeded 10,000 yuan. A meal of tens of thousands of yuan for two people can really be regarded as a "luxury meal......

When all the dishes were served, Lu Tao raised his glass and said: "Xiaoyu, I salute you, thank you for your generosity last time, relieve Miss Lin Susu's difficulties, and also wish you eternal youth and a successful career!"

Du Xiaoyu didn't take the cup, a mischievous smile appeared on his face, and asked: "I relieved Sister Susu's distress, what do you want you to thank? ”

Lu Tao hurriedly said: "Don't I have a blessing word behind me?

Du Xiaoyu picked up the cup, touched the cup with Lu Tao, and drank the small half cup of wine.

At this moment, Lu Tao's mobile phone rang suddenly, and when I looked at the caller ID, it was Zhou Youliang calling.

Lu Tao wanted to go out to answer the phone, but considering that it didn't seem good to leave Du Xiaoyu alone in the box, he opened the answer button, only to hear Zhou Youliang say in an anxious tone: "Xiao Lu, tell you bad news: This afternoon, Li Xuzhong took advantage of the gap between me going to the Songshan City Public Security Bureau to report on my work, and held a party committee meeting, and decided to accept the administrative reconsideration application of the O'Neill Hotel and reconsider the case of you beating the hotel employee. At the same time, Li Xuzhong excluded me from the list of members of the Administrative Reconsideration Committee on the grounds that I had also been reported and needed to be recused according to regulations.

"I estimate that after the administrative reconsideration, the county public security bureau will definitely overturn the decision of the Chengguan Police Station not to punish you last time and file a case against you for investigation. I also heard that the security guard of the O'Neill Hotel who was injured by you last time is still living in the hospital and has done a forensic examination, which resulted in minor injuries. In this case, if you are re-investigated, you will most likely be criminally detained. ”

Speaking of this, he paused and continued: "After I learned the news, I originally wanted to find Li Xuzhong to theorize, but after thinking about it carefully, I felt that it was inappropriate. Because I am now at the critical juncture of promotion and promotion, if I quarrel and quarrel with Li Xuzhong for your problems, firstly, it will have a bad impact, and secondly, Li Xuzhong and my competitors are likely to seize this point and complain to their superiors, saying that I am shielding and protecting criminal suspects. My superiors didn't know the real situation, and if I believed him, my promotion problem would probably be ruined. I hope you understand my struggle. ”

Lu Tao secretly complained in his heart, but he couldn't show it, so he had to say: "Director Zhou, I understand your distress, thank you." ”

Zhou Youliang said again: "The best way for you to do it now is to rush to Songshan City immediately, find Secretary Zhou Yihong, and ask him to think of a way for you, and it is best to ask him to put a little pressure on the Municipal Public Security Bureau, so that the leaders of the Municipal Bureau can come forward to find Li Xuzhong and Ouyang Qi, do their work, and let them not file a case against you for investigation." ”

Lu Tao said "um", thanked him again, and then hung up the phone.

Although Du Xiaoyu didn't deliberately listen to him calling, he saw that his face was ugly after hanging up the phone, and he couldn't help asking, "Lu Tao, did you encounter any difficult problems?"

Lu Tao said "um" absentmindedly, and said calmly: "It's a very troublesome thing, and if I don't get it right, I may go to jail." ”