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Chapter 2508 Mike's overtures

Mike personally brought in two bottles of Moutai.

"Uncle, I brought two bottles of the finest Moutai. Would you mind if I had a drink with you?"

Sha Zhu stared at the Moutai in Mike's hand, his face turning ugly.

"Didn't Qin Huai say that all the Moutai I got from the big boss was drunk up by my dad?"

"Where did you come from?"

Mike glanced down at the Moutai in his hand and immediately sensed something was wrong.

He just persuaded the Jia family to ease their relationship with Sha Zhu, and then used Sha Zhu to make contact with He Yuzhu.

The process went smoothly.

No one in the Jia family raised any objection.

When it came time to discuss how to ease the conflict, the Jia family was at a loss.

The family offered a cacophony of suggestions, but none of them were truly useful.

It was only when Mike saw Liu Guangtian and his group returning from grocery shopping that he came up with this idea.

They wouldn't have time to prepare the food.

Mike then suggested that he bring two bottles of wine.

Qin Huairu was also very supportive, and turned around to grab two bottles of Erguotou (a type of Chinese liquor). She even said that Shazhu used to love drinking Erguotou the most.

He's trying to curry favor with Sha Zhu now; what's the point of bringing two bottles of Erguotou?

Mike knew Qin Huairu was stingy, so he had to keep persuading her. With Xiao Dang's help, they finally managed to get two bottles of Moutai out of Qin Huairu's hands.

Little did he know that these two bottles of Moutai were actually obtained by Sha Zhu from a high-ranking leader.

At this moment, Mike felt that the Jia family's house was full of pitfalls, and that he could fall into one if he took the wrong step.

Mike couldn't wait to sever ties with the Jia family to avoid them causing him trouble.

Unfortunately, he couldn't.

Without the Jia family connection, how could he possibly establish a relationship with Sha Zhu?

We can only get rid of the Jia family after the matter is settled.

"Uncle He, Aunt Qin just found this. She said you were looking for this bottle of wine last year."

In the past, Sha Zhu would have believed this explanation, but now, he doesn't believe a single word of it.

Qin Huairu has used this trick to deceive him far too many times. He used to be willing to be deceived by her.

Now, he's not happy about it.

"Alright. Just leave the wine there. If there's nothing else, you can go."

Mike was reluctant to leave: "Uncle He, I came here specifically to drink with you."

Sha Zhu stared at him coldly: "You fake foreigner, you came to ask me for a drink?"

Being called a fake foreigner made Mike a little embarrassed.

When he first met Xiao Dang, Sha Zhu also called him that.

He tried to correct him many times, but Sha Zhu wouldn't change his tune.

In the end, it was only thanks to Yi Zhonghai and Qin Huairu that Sha Zhu stopped mentioning it in front of him.

Unexpectedly, this title has been brought up again.

"Uncle He, I'm not a fake foreigner, I'm an American citizen."

“Those are foreign devils,” Xu Damao added.

"I……"

Mike is a professionally trained spy who will stop at nothing to achieve his goals.

He could even tolerate that old woman, Xiao Dang, so he didn't need to take her name to heart.

"You are our elders, so you can address us however you like."

“I still think ‘fake foreign devil’ sounds better,” Sha Zhu said. “With your black hair and black eyes, it sounds awkward to call you ‘foreign devil’.”

This time, Xu Damao didn't argue with Sha Zhu, but instead smiled and agreed.

"You fake foreigner, what brings you here?"

Liu Guangtian and the others standing nearby covered their mouths, trying hard to suppress their laughter.

Mike had no choice but to reply, "Uncle Xu, I really came to have a drink with you."

Xu Damao sized him up: "Drinking? Sure. Han Yue, come on, pour him a drink. If you drink it, I'll let you join."

Han Yue turned around, grabbed a cup, and poured a cup for Mike.

The cup is a two-ounce cup.

The cup was so full it overflowed.

Mike hesitated, looking at the glass, but didn't dare to touch it.

Although his ancestral home is China, he moved to the United States with his family long ago and considers himself American at heart. He is not used to drinking like a Chinese person.

To be precise, I dislike that way of drinking. In my opinion, drinking like foreigners is the normal way for people to drink.

"Drink up," Sha Zhu urged when he saw that he wasn't moving.

He was deliberately making things difficult for Mike.

When Xiao Dang first brought Mike to the courtyard house and announced that Mike was her boyfriend, Sha Zhu was very unhappy.

At the time, he treated Xiaodang like his own daughter and was unhappy that she was marrying a foreigner, so he deliberately made things difficult for Mike by making her drink.

They tried to get Mike to drink, but it didn't work; Qin Huairu stopped them.

Now that Mike has come to his doorstep, he's determined to make things difficult for him.

"If you're not going to drink, then you'd better leave now. We don't have any red wine for you here."

Mike took a deep breath and picked up his glass.

He knew very well that if he wanted to fit in with Sha Zhu and his gang, he had to learn to drink.

If he can't learn to drink, Sha Zhu won't truly accept him.

"I drink."

Mike downed the drink in one gulp, then immediately started coughing.

Sha Zhu was surprised that Mike actually drank it, so he took the opportunity to let him sit down.

This was actually a hint from Han Yue to him.

Han Yue's goal was to make contact with Mike, and since Mike had come to him, he certainly wouldn't miss this opportunity.

Sha Zhu asked, "What brings you here?"

Mike smiled and said, "Uncle He, I came to see you because I have a good idea to tell you."

"What good idea?" Sha Zhu asked, puzzled.

Mike paused for a moment before speaking: "It's been eleven years since Aunt Lou left, hasn't it?"

Mentioning Lou Xiao'e, Sha Zhu's face showed some sadness.

What he fears most now is seeing Lou Xiao'e; that's the biggest mistake he's ever made in his life.

Lou Xiao'e returned to him with her child, but he became a tool for Qin Huairu to scheme against Lou Xiao'e.

Lou Xiao'e's hard-earned business in Beijing was all taken away by Qin Huairu.

He wanted to see Lou Xiao'e and He Xiao, but he was also afraid to see them.

He didn't know how to face Lou Xiao'e and He Xiao.

Xu Damao, standing to the side, also looked somewhat embarrassed. He was one of those who felt sorry for Lou Xiao'e.

It wasn't just about reporting Lou Xiao'e, but also about later plotting to seize Lou Xiao'e's family property.

He was jealous of Sha Zhu's good life, with women on both sides, so he deliberately used tricks to sow discord between Sha Zhu and Lou Xiao'e.

At the time, he was quite smug, thinking that Sha Zhu deserved it.

He only realized he had been tricked when he later discovered that Qin Huairu had seized Lou Xiao'e's family property.

He fell into Yi Zhonghai and Qin Huairu's trap and became their accomplice.

"Why are you bringing her up?" Liu Guangtian said to Mike, displeased.

They all felt sorry for Lou Xiao'e and dared not mention her name at all.

Mike said earnestly, "I want to help Uncle He and make it up to Aunt Lou and He Xiao."

"Compensate Lou Xiao'e? How do you plan to compensate her? You're not going to return the courtyard house and Chuanweiju restaurant to Lou Xiao'e, are you?"

If you're planning to do this, then don't say anything.

We've been Qin Huairu's neighbors for over fifty years; we know her better than you do.

Let alone courtyard houses and Sichuan-style restaurants.

"She never paid back the money she borrowed from us back then," Yan Jiefang said with a disdainful look.

Qin Huairu is a man who only takes in money and never gives it back, a fact that everyone in the courtyard is well aware of.

When Sha Zhu isn't fully awake, this method can still fool him without any problem.

But now, Sha Zhu is clearly awake and won't fall for her tricks.

Trying to fool Sha Zhu with this excuse again is simply not going to work.

Yan Jiekuang chimed in, "Don't treat us like fools."

Asking Qin Huai to pay money would be worse than taking her life.

“Exactly,” Liu Guangfu said dismissively. “Now, a courtyard house plus a Sichuan-style restaurant is worth at least 100 million yuan.”

With so much money, let alone Qin Huairu, I ask you, are you willing to part with it? (End of Chapter)