Lu Yuqing was still asking Big Baby Liu about his shoe size and clothing size, saying she would buy him a pair of hiking boots and a hiking outfit.

Ah, could Big Baby Liu refuse?

No way, just enjoy it!

I mean, man, when a woman buys you clothes, pants, and shoes, isn't that a real treat? Just take it!

When Zhang Zhenglong arrived, Liu Zhizhong welcomed him with a big smile.

Regardless of any grudge between Liu Zhizhong and his brother-in-law Zhang Hongyang, Liu Zhizhong didn't show it on the surface and got along with everyone.

This is the style of a young person in officialdom with potential and intelligence, friendly on the surface, and if you want to take action, do it in secret!

"Ah, Uncle Zhang, you've worked hard!"

Calling him uncle wasn't too much.

Zhang Zhenglong, with his round, plump belly, huffed and puffed his way up to a pavilion at West Mountain Summit, sweating buckets and gasping like a bull.

The top-notch Armani purple T-shirt was soaked through, the fronts and backs clinging to him, and the thick legs beneath his shorts were dripping with sweat too.

His two sunglass-wearing bodyguards, on the other hand, were cool and collected following their boss. But as soon as the boss went into the pavilion to see Liu Zhizhong, they tactfully stayed out, standing about ten meters away from the pavilion.

Such bodyguards were quite professional.

While catching his breath, Zhang Zhenglong cursed, "Liu Zhizhong, you son of a bitch, you're really trying to kill your Uncle Zhang, damn!"

"Hehe... Uncle Zhang, life is all about exercise, right? You don't exercise regularly, of course you'd get tired!" Liu Zhizhong watched the fat man with a smirk, thinking to himself that with that body of his, he wanted to sleep with my mother-in-law? He'd probably surrender in less than two minutes.

But, thinking of Lu Yumei sleeping with such a Fat Ball, Liu Zhizhong didn't feel right either.

Of course, Lu Yumei didn't like him, probably because of his physique, right? Looking fatty and greasy; who could fall for that genuinely?

But Zhang Zhenglong's face, fair and plump, was well-maintained and he still looked somewhat delicate. Midlife, in his forties, yet still looking young, that wasn't bad at all.

Zhang Zhenglong sat down, dangling his legs, not even taking the cigarette Liu Zhizhong offered him, saying he was too tired to smoke.

Soon, his voice lowered, he said, "I actually wanted to have regular exercise with your mother-in-law, but damn, these past two years... sigh... I've been feeling a bit like a failure! You rascal, did you really say she goes up West Mountain in the mornings?"

Liu Zhizhong nodded with a smile, "Sigh, originally, she didn't want to come climb. But since I accepted Secretary Zhang's task, I had to set you two up! I've been persuading her for days now, and she finally agreed to climb every other day. Isn't this perfect? Uncle Zhang, you should lose weight. She likes to exercise, so you exercise with her, learn some fitness tips from her, and gradually, won't you develop feelings for each other?"

"Women, you see, you need to spend a lot of time accompanying them, wooing them. You're always busy with business and work, not just sending flowers or treating her to meals, clothes, and drinks. If you can't be there for her, how will that work?"

"Besides, if you don't lose weight, being so fat... she said it herself, you look greasy. How could she be attracted to you? You can take a hint from that, right? She thinks you're too fat!"

"So, Uncle Zhang, listen to me, it's the right thing. By then, you're supposed to..."

"…"

Liu Zhizhong was quite the smooth talker, and after his spiel, Zhang Zhenglong was inwardly pleased, nodding continuously.

However, Zhang Zhenglong eventually laughed and said, "Not bad, kid, good idea. For the sake of regular exercise with your mother-in-law, I'm going to start losing weight. But, are you supposed to accompany us up the mountain every morning, playing the third wheel?"

"I don't want to, you think I do? Isn't your aunt coming too? Besides, my mother-in-law gets up early, she'd be climbing the mountain early. With West Mountain being so vast, what if she came across some bad guy early in the morning?"

"Bullshit! If I come here in the morning to climb the mountain, I could have the place under martial law, got it? Where would there be a bad guy? Besides, can't I just have someone pick her up?"

Zhang Hong, with haughtiness and arrogance, still seemed a bit of a simpleton when it came to love, getting a bit hot-headed.

Liu Zhizhong chuckled and said, "What are you talking about? It's about arranging for you two to meet by chance and keep meeting by chance, right? Why would you send someone to pick her up?"

"Oh, hehe, yeah, that's right, haha... Okay, I'll do what you say, kid. I'm going to head down the mountain now and have someone buy me hiking boots and some workout gear..."

As he spoke, Zhang Zhenglong stood up excitedly, ready to leave.

Liu Zhizhong quickly said, "Hey, Uncle Zhang, wait up, I have a little favor to ask of you."

"Eh~~~~?" Zhang Zhenglong sounded intrigued, sizing up Liu Zhizhong, "I just knew it, you sly kid. How else could you carefully arrange things between your mother-in-law and me? Tell me, what's up?"

Liu Zhizhong turned serious and said, "Sister Qixiang originally wanted to invite Secretary Ma to her No. 9 villa for a meal, intending to control Secretary Ma by leveraging some scandal and weakness with her 'beauty battalion.' I don't know what for, haha! But I refused, and Secretary Ma knows about it now. However, she's quite angry and threatened me, saying that the good days for me and my boss are over. What's this all about? I'm feeling a bit uneasy; could you, Uncle Zhang, help me out here?"

Zhang Zhenglong's expression changed slightly, his brow furrowing, "Did she really demand that, say those things?"

Liu Zhizhong perked up, Ah, there's a chance here?

"Isn't that so? After she spoke to me, she even blocked me on WeChat. I think Sister Qixiang is set on targeting Secretary Ma and me!"