Police officer Chen Shu

Chapter 536 Twenty Thousand?

Chen Shu smiled and waved his hand: "Just an ordinary friend."

Zou Qing said "Oh," deliberately slowing her pace to wait for Chen Shu to approach, and said in a low voice, "If you're just a regular friend, then I can pick anyone~"

After saying that, he deliberately dragged out the last syllable.

"Well, you're something else!" Chen Shu said, both amused and exasperated. "You little rascal, you've actually learned to threaten people now?"

Zou Qing chuckled, her eyes crinkling into crescent moons, and said playfully, "We're just ordinary friends anyway, so a small gift will suffice."

Chen Shu became anxious: "That won't do, this is a matter of etiquette!"

Zou Qing pouted and hummed twice, unaware that her tone revealed a hint of disappointment.

"Hey, still saying you're not my sister-in-law? Looks like I'll have to put in a lot of effort to help my senior brother out today! But seriously, shopping is tiring."

You're already tired after just stepping out the door?
Chen Shu coughed lightly: "After you've picked out the gift, buy one more as a reward from your senior brother for your hard work."

"Really?" Zou Qing's eyes lit up instantly, and she exclaimed excitedly, "Then what are we waiting for? Let's choose!"

As she spoke, she pulled Chen Shu along and quickly walked into the shop filled with dazzling array of goods.

"Senior brother, what did your wife give you?"

Chen Shu had given up on Zou Qing's persistent use of the term: "Um, stop being so gossipy, just pick out your gift properly."

"That won't do. The return gift has to be appropriate! You can't just give someone a watch and then give them a bottle of perfume in return, can you?"

Chen Shu thought about it and realized it made sense: "This girl has some skill; you actually guessed right. Hmm, a Longines watch and a BOSS suit."

scare!
Zou Qing, who was pushing her way in, suddenly stopped, her bright eyes wide with disbelief. "Wow! My sister-in-law is so generous! I really want to see what she looks like. Hmm, she must be beautiful and gentle."

If Zou Qing knew that this outfit was just something Zhu Li had casually bought for Chen Shu while she was away on a business trip, she would probably grin from ear to ear.

However, it was only then that Chen Shu realized that Zhu Li, who was just a forensic doctor at the branch office, would buy such an expensive gift for him, and he couldn't help but feel a little strange.

They're all police officers, and they all know exactly how much money they have in their paychecks. Logically, the salary at the criminal investigation department wouldn't be much higher than that at the police station.

These clothes and watch together cost a month's salary!
"Go away, what are you thinking! We're just ordinary friends!"

Chen Shu originally thought that choosing gifts with Zou Qing, the female guide, would be a very easy task, but he didn't expect that this woman would be a real pain when she went shopping.

Try on all kinds of clothes, shoes, and bags, from top to bottom, and occasionally add some small accessories such as earrings and bracelets.

This whole ordeal almost drove Chen Shu, this straight man, to the brink of a nervous breakdown.

After a long three-hour journey, Zou Qing finally picked out two small boxes of cosmetics, officially ending her day's trip.

In the end, Chen Shu still couldn't understand why Zou Qing had tried on so many clothes beforehand when the cosmetics were given as a gift.

With a few questions in mind, Chen Shu paid by card and then felt somewhat dazed and unreal afterward.

"Senior brother, what do you think? My taste is pretty good, isn't it?" Zou Qing leaned over smugly to show off, her beautiful eyes curving into crescent shapes like a proud cat, making Chen Shu roll his eyes.

He pulled Zou Qing, who was carrying two small boxes of cosmetics, aside and weighed the boxes in his hand; they felt incredibly light.

Chen Shu swallowed hard and whispered, "These bottles and jars cost ten thousand?"

As he spoke, he looked up at the gleaming gold signs and the highly professional waiters around him, and finally swallowed the words, "Could I have been scammed?"

Zou Qing revealed a disdainful expression and patted her obviously unsophisticated senior brother on the shoulder with an old-fashioned air: "Senior brother, you can't catch a wolf without risking your cub."

"..." Chen Shu had no way to refute it and could only swallow his anger.

"Senior brother, you don't think this is all? Your wife gave you a gift worth over ten thousand yuan, you should at least give back twenty thousand!" "It's not about the money, it's just that seeing these little bottles cost over ten thousand yuan makes me feel..."

"Hey, senior, it's all about money! It's your problem!"

Chen Shu was taken aback, and suddenly felt that the image of the girl in front of him was somewhat similar to that of Chen Chuan. He sighed and agreed, "Alas, it's my problem."

"That's right~"

After sending Zou Qing home, Chen Shu returned home with the cosmetics in hand. As soon as he entered the door, he smelled the aroma of food and knew that his mother must have taken the time to cook for him again.

"Huh? Cosmetics? Son, tell me the truth, do you have a girlfriend? Who is she?" Chen's mother, who was always talkative, clicked her tongue for a long time, her gossipy mood overflowing.

“Son, let me tell you, dating costs money. Don’t try to save money, because everything at home is for you, so it all comes from the same bowl.”

"Girls need to be pampered. Buy them whatever they like. When you go out, spend money as you please. If you don't have enough, ask your mom!"

Seeing her son, who was nearly thirty and still hadn't made a move, suddenly realize he was buying gifts for girls, Chen's mother excitedly patted her chest.

Many older people are like this, feeling that their lives are particularly successful, so successful that they only had one relationship before getting married, and then they give pointers and impart their experience to freshmen who start dating in junior high school.

To put it another way, it's like they themselves have a monthly pension of 4,000 yuan, and then they talk to their juniors who earn 20,000 yuan a month about life and career planning. Of course, it's not that they can't offer advice, but that inexplicable confidence is really baffling.

Chen Shu is a typical straight man, which is rather unusual, so we won't discuss him here.

Out of a woman's unique sensitivity to cosmetics, Chen's mother stopped Chen Shu and asked curiously, "Son, how much did it cost?"

"Twenty thousand."

"Twenty thousand!!!"

Chen Ma opened her mouth, her expression slightly dazed, her mind blank except for one sentence: "Oh my god!"

Chen Shu returned to his room and placed the cosmetics on the table. They didn't seem particularly expensive, but he wasn't too concerned about the price now, mainly because he had already paid for them.

The real headache is figuring out how to give a gift.

Invite someone to dinner?

Chen Shu's intuition told her that this was not appropriate. The two were just colleagues, and it was not suitable for a man and a woman to meet alone.

Remembering how he had cried in Julie's arms in the NX Gobi Desert, his snot dripping onto her clothes, Chen Shu felt a little embarrassed to face her.

Hey ~
With a long sigh, Chen Shu collapsed onto the bed. After tossing and turning, he decided to ask Chen Chuan what to do when he went to work. Although that guy was unreliable, he was a master at dealing with women.

Chen Shu had no choice but to admit defeat.

Outside, Chen's mother pulled Chen's father, who had just come out of the toilet, into the guest room. The two chatted for a while, but of course, they didn't get to the bottom of anything.

After dinner, back at home, he spent half the night discussing his son's marriage, but still couldn't reach a conclusion.

Their son is grown up, and they can't control him anymore. If they can't control him, then let him do what he wants. What's that saying again? A grown son is no longer under his mother's control!

However, the two elders were generally in a good mood, at least their simple-minded son had made progress in matters of love.

This finally put Chen Shu's parents, who had always doubted his sexual orientation, at ease.

"There is finally hope for the Zheng family to have a successor."

Chen's mother patted Chen's father on the back in a playful manner, teasing him.

(End of this chapter)