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Cao Jianjun returned home happily with the medal and certificate. He suppressed his excitement and showed off in front of his wife Zhou Hui, who was so happy that she cheered with joy.

Although Zhou Hui usually told Cao Jianjun that he didn't need to care about his parents' opinions, she actually wanted her husband to be looked up to by her snobbish mother. So after seeing her husband's medal, she immediately decided to take Cao Jianjun to her mother's house.

Cao Jianjun had this idea in mind. He was a person who cared a lot about his reputation and loved to show off. Especially in front of his snobbish mother-in-law who had always looked down on him, he wanted to show his best side.

Even if Zhou Hui didn't say it, he would find an excuse to go there in a roundabout way.

Now that his wife Zhou Hui mentioned it, he agreed without hesitation.

The couple brought their daughter to her parents' home in high spirits, and explained the situation openly and proudly to Zhou Hui's parents.

Zhou Hui's father used to work in the system. When he learned that Cao Jianjun had won the second-class merit, he was very surprised and praised him repeatedly.

Cao Jianjun also wanted to appear humble, but he couldn't hide the smile on his face.

His eyes were always on his mother-in-law. He was more eager to get praise and recognition from her than from his father-in-law.

But to his disappointment, the scene he expected did not happen. His mother-in-law did not look at him differently because he won the second-class merit. Instead, she compared him with her eldest son-in-law with disdain and belittled him as worthless.

He was too embarrassed to face it, and his wife Zhou Hui got furious and had a big quarrel with her mother-in-law. Then the family of three left angrily without even having a meal.

Although his wife comforted him after she got angry, the more Cao Jianjun thought about it, the more uncomfortable he felt. He felt particularly aggrieved and wanted to vent.

So he went back to the police station. Since he couldn't hold his head high in front of his mother-in-law, he decided to brag and show off to his colleagues.

He came to the station in high spirits and told his colleagues on duty that he would invite them for drinks and dinner. Although everyone congratulated him enthusiastically on his achievement, when it came to drinks and dinner, everyone started to refuse, making him look very unhappy.

Treating people to a meal when they have made contributions has always been the unspoken rule in the institute. Although it is impossible for everyone to go, no one was willing to go despite his invitation, which is a problem.

It is impossible for anyone to not feel resentful, especially for someone like him who cares so much about his reputation. This is simply a slap in his face.

Although Cao Jianjun often shows off and loves to show off in the police station due to his personality, it is not the case that he has low emotional intelligence. His relationship with his colleagues is not particularly good, but it is definitely acceptable in terms of face, and there is no problem for them to drink and eat together after get off work.

But this time, he really suffered a setback, so the anger that had been accumulating for a long time was about to burst out.

When Zhou Chen came down from the second floor, he happened to see this scene.

Cao Jianjun walked out with a gloomy face.

"Brother Cao."

He paused and saw Zhou Chen coming down from upstairs.

Zhou Chen smiled and said, "Brother Cao, I heard you're going to treat us to a meal. It just so happens that I'm about to get off work. If you don't mind, wait for me for a while and let's go out to celebrate."

The expression on Cao Jianjun's face changed immediately and he showed a bright smile.

"Of course it's no problem. I was able to achieve this achievement thanks to you. I thought you had gone back. Otherwise, you would have been the first one I called."

"That's settled. I'll finish the work on hand for ten minutes."

"Okay, no problem. I'll wait for you outside."

"Okay, then I'll take your car later, Brother Cao. My car was driven away by Yang Shu."

"Okay."

Cao Jianjun left with a smile on his face, which was completely different from his previous gloomy expression. Although Zhou Chen was alone, he felt much better. What he lacked now was someone to talk to.

Watching Cao Jianjun leave the office area, the colleagues who had just rejected Cao Jianjun looked at each other in bewilderment.

The old policeman, known as "Seventh Son", walked to Zhou Chen's workstation.

"Zhou Chen, you shouldn't have agreed to go out with Jianjun. Didn't the director tell you something?"

Zhou Chen smiled and replied, "Seventh Brother, I know you are doing this for my own good, but after all, this case was handled by Brother Cao and I. Without Brother Cao's help, I would not have been able to receive this second-class merit. It is reasonable for me to support Brother Cao."

"You kid, ah."

Qizi is also an old policeman, and his personality is also rather stubborn. However, he has been on several police calls with Zhou Chen, and he has a good impression of Zhou Chen, a young man who never takes credit for others' work. So he wants to persuade him, but there are some things he can't say.

Zhou Chen added: "Seventh Brother, although I am a newcomer and have just arrived at our institute, I really like the atmosphere of our institute."

Qizi laughed: "Well, everyone says you are mature, but I think you are not only mature, but also smart. OK, I am meddling in other people's business."

"Seventh Brother, what you said is true. I was hoping you could take me on more police calls."

"Then you can relax. If I can't find you, you won't be able to escape."

On the second floor, Wang Shouyi stood at the door of his office, looking from afar at Cao Jianjun, who was standing next to his car and smoking at the gate of the police station.

Cao Jianjun is his apprentice, and he believes he knows this apprentice very well. He has always been worried that Cao Jianjun will become too proud after making achievements, so he has always been on guard against him.

In his heart, it's not that he doesn't want Cao Jianjun to make achievements, but rather than asking Cao Jianjun to make achievements, he hopes that Cao Jianjun can be more obedient, work hard, and not be so competitive and love to show off, because such people are most likely to get into trouble.

But when he saw Zhou Chen slowly walked out of the police station and got into Cao Jianjun's car, his expression suddenly changed.

He immediately called the police officer downstairs up.

"Zhigang, I saw Zhou Chen and Jianjun leaving, what happened?"

"Director, this is none of our business. We all followed your instructions and didn't dare to skip work. But Zhou Chen is not under my jurisdiction. He did go to dinner with Jianjun."

"Oh, this brat, was he sent by God to go against me? Oh, my old waist."

Wang Shouyi was so angry that he held his old waist and sat down.

"This brat is pretending to be ignorant. It's been a few months, and these newcomers are more troublesome than the last."

Although he was very depressed, he also knew that it would not help.

Cao Jianjun brought Zhou Chen to a restaurant and booked a private room.

"Zhou Chen, if you have any friends, you can call them over today. Your brother Cao will treat you."

Zhou Chen smiled and replied, "Brother Cao, to be honest, I don't really have any good friends. It's just that I got along well with Li Dawei and others since I entered the institute, but they are all busy right now, so I have to accompany you, Brother Cao."

Cao Jianjun: "Okay, then it's just the two of us today. We're happy today, so is it okay to drink a little?"

Zhou Chen thought for a moment and said, "Although this is a bit against the rules, Brother Cao, you also said that I am happy today, so I will make an exception and have a good drink with you, but only this time, Brother Cao."

Cao Jianjun was even happier: "Of course, I have been a policeman for more than ten years, and I know the rules. I will only be a policeman in my life, haha."

There were only two people, but Cao Jianjun still ordered a table full of dishes. Zhou Chen did not stop him. He knew that Cao Jianjun just wanted to vent today, and he was just here to keep him company, so he did everything according to Cao Jianjun's wishes.

"To be honest, in our institute, when it comes to being straightforward, Zhou Chen, you are definitely one of the best. Anyway, I think you are very capable."

Cao Jianjun was not stingy with his praise. This was his sincere opinion. Having worked with Zhou Chen on cases for such a long time, he could naturally notice the differences in Zhou Chen. Although he was proud and conceited, he still had vision for people.

"Brother Cao, you are too kind. I admire you a lot. You are also a great man of action in our institute. If we encounter criminals, I can really hand over the criminals to you with Brother Cao by my side without any worries."

"Haha, I'm not as good as you say."

Cao Jianjun was very fond of Zhou Chen's tricks. He was all smiles and felt that Zhou Chen was his confidant.

After the food and wine came, Cao Jianjun took the initiative to pour wine for Zhou Chen, and they both drank it right away.

"Brother Cao, slow down, let's drink slowly."

"It's okay. I can drink quite well. If you can't drink, just drink slowly. Today we are just two brothers. There's nothing to be embarrassed about."

Cao Jianjun acted like a big brother. He had just started drinking, but he seemed a little drunk.

"It's really thanks to you that I was able to receive the second-class merit this time."

"Then according to what you said, I was able to receive the second-class merit thanks to you, Brother Cao. After all, if it weren't for your help in the investigation, this case would not have been solved so quickly."

"Haha, you speak really well, much better than my nerdy apprentice."

"Yang Shu is not really a nerd. He has a very smart brain."

"Of course, I'm his master, so of course I know he's very smart, but he's a good student who graduated from school, and his thoughts are relatively simple, so it's not a big deal to call him a nerd."

After drinking, Cao Jianjun started chatting with Zhou Chen casually, talking about whatever came to his mind. If Zhou Chen hadn't kept urging him to eat, he would probably have just drunk the wine.

But even so, in less than half an hour, Cao Jianjun started to get drunk and the dark skin on his face turned dark red.

As he became more drunk, Cao Jianjun gradually lost control of his emotions and began to vent his frustration and dissatisfaction.

"Today I won the second-class merit, so I went to my wife's home with her, thinking that I wanted to give her some face, but who knew it would be like that, fuck..."

He was so angry that he even uttered curse words.

"Zhou Chen, you don't know, my mother-in-law, she, she is really that kind of person, that kind of person who is particularly, particularly, particularly snobbish, all she cares about is money, whoever can make money, she thinks is good."

"My wife is a twin and has an older sister. My brother-in-law is the CEO of a company and is rich. My mother-in-law likes him and thinks he is good in every way. As for me, I am just a small policeman, so she has always looked down on me. I am not afraid of being embarrassed. Let me tell you, in her eyes, I am not even as good as a finger of Sun Youguang."

"She looks down on me, I don't care, but my wife treats me very well. Every time her mother scolds me, she will quarrel with her mother. I just want her mother to look up to me and let her know that her daughter, my wife, made the right choice. But I am also a loser. I can't even do such a simple thing. I mess it up every time. I am really a loser."

"I also want to be rich, I also want to have a lot of money, but I don't have the ability. I only know how to be a policeman. I have only been a policeman in my life. Apart from being a policeman, I can't do anything else and I don't want to do anything else. My wife can understand me and supports me, but my mother-in-law, she, she..."

When he got excited, he drank the wine in his glass in one gulp.

"Brother Cao, drink slowly and eat some food first."

Cao Jianjun didn't care what Zhou Chen picked for him, he just stuffed it into his mouth, and after he finished eating, he started again.

"Xiao Zhou, you are not married yet, so you may not understand the affairs of married men like us, nor do you know the troubles that men go through at their wives' homes, so you may not understand why I am saying this."

"I understand, Brother Cao, I really understand."

"No, you don't. You really don't."

"I, okay, I don't understand. Brother Cao, don't stand up. Sit down. Let's sit down and talk. Sit down and talk."

"No, I have to stand up. I couldn't stand up at Huihui's mother's house, but here, I have to stand up."

Cao Jianjun roared loudly, and fortunately it happened in the private room. If it was in the lobby outside, he would have become the focus long ago.

Zhou Chen didn't think Cao Jianjun was embarrassed. Everyone has an embarrassing side. It seemed that Cao Jianjun had been suppressing his emotions for too long and finally got the chance to vent them, so he became a little carried away.

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 1043: Advice, Disputes Caused by Children

Cao Jianjun was obviously drunk and intoxicated. After he stood up, his body was shaking, but he didn't care at all and continued to ask Zhou Chen to pour him wine.

"Xiao Zhou, do you know what my biggest idea is? I just want to give my snobbish mother-in-law a slap in the face and let her see clearly that although I, Cao Jianjun, have no money, I am also a capable man. Huihui made the right choice by marrying me."

Zhou Chen pulled Cao Jianjun to sit down and comforted him, "Brother Cao, don't be so excited. I have heard about your story. In fact, in my opinion, you have gone astray."

"Wandering?"

Cao Jianjun's body suddenly shook, and he looked at Zhou Chen in confusion: "Where did I go wrong?"

Zhou Chen finished the wine in the glass and then slowly analyzed it for Cao Jianjun.

"First of all, Brother Cao, you said that your mother-in-law doesn't like you and only cares about your brother-in-law, right?"

"Yeah, what's the matter? Isn't Sun Youguang just a little rich? Apart from not having as much money as him, how am I not better than him?"

"That's the problem. In the eyes of your mother-in-law, Brother Cao, she can certainly see that you are better than your brother-in-law, but your brother-in-law happens to be rich and she is the most powerful, so she thinks your brother-in-law is better. This is a typical case of being blinded by money."

Sun Youguang was a good-for-nothing. Zhou Chen had watched the TV series, so he naturally knew that. Although Cao Jianjun might not be a very good husband and father, he was definitely a better one than Sun Youguang.

"But from what you just said, your brother-in-law is definitely an unreliable person."

"Yes, Zhou Chen, you are absolutely right. If Sun Youguang can be trusted, even a sow can climb a tree."

Cao Jianjun agreed with Zhou Chen very much. The relationship between him and Sun Youguang was not bad, but it was not friendly either.

The main reason was that Sun Youguang was just like his mother-in-law, looking down on him. Every time they met and had dinner together, she would make fun of him in some way or another. Of course, he didn't like that.

Every time he went to his father-in-law's house, he could help with the work, but when Sun Youguang went there, he never did any work. Every time he sat there like a big boss, waiting for his father-in-law and mother-in-law to serve him.

Zhou Chen said, "That's it, Brother Cao, if you think like this, your brother-in-law is so unreliable, and your father-in-law and mother-in-law don't have a son, who will they rely on when they get old?"

"That's for sure. Huihui and I definitely took care of her the most."

"So, when they get older, they will understand how good you are and will definitely live with you. By then, your mother-in-law will be counting on you to take care of her. Will she dare to say anything bad about you? By then, your status with your mother-in-law will have to switch. Now she is controlling you, but in the future, you will be the one controlling her."

When Cao Jianjun heard this, his eyes lit up.

"That makes sense, that makes sense. Huihui's parents will definitely count on us to take care of them in the future. Then I'll see how arrogant my mother-in-law will be, haha."

I don’t know what beautiful picture I thought of, but I couldn’t help laughing.

Zhou Chen found it funny to see Cao Jianjun laughing so exaggeratedly. He just said it simply, but it really touched Cao Jianjun's heart. It can be imagined how much Cao Jianjun cares about his mother-in-law.

In fact, in his opinion, Cao Jianjun's current situation was almost his own fault.

Your mother-in-law looks down on you, so why don't you just not go? But Cao Jianjun always goes with her eagerly. Even if he is scolded, he dares not say a word and has to rely on his wife to argue and seek justice for him.

He doesn't know that the more you do this, the more his parents-in-law will look down on him.

But he was not talking nonsense. Given Cao Jianjun's situation, his father-in-law and mother-in-law were destined to not be able to count on the care of their eldest daughter in the future, and would eventually be taken care of by their youngest daughter's family. Although Zhou Hui had a sharp tongue, she was definitely a good wife and mother, as well as a filial daughter.