Chapter 161: Expand the gains further
Over the next two days, Zhang Shen and Yao Ming once again drove Su Can and Li Pengyu out, visiting several scenic spots on the outskirts of the city and Barrier Lake Park.
Unlike the problems they had seen and heard about a few days earlier, this time Zhang Shen and Yao Ming deliberately took Su Can farther afield, putting Huangcheng's pollution and its monolithic local power blocs behind them. They also fished at a lakeside holiday resort at Barrier Lake. With rippling water and green willows around him, Su Can occasionally made a couple of calls to Rongcheng, Beijing, and Shanghai. It was quite relaxing.
But when he returned to the Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government Family Compound, Zeng Ke told him that quite a few people in the city had been asking about him over the past two days, all in roundabout ways.
Worried that Su Can had gotten into trouble, Zeng Ke questioned him suspiciously about what exactly was going on. That Zhu Cheng, in particular, had come looking for him twice in one day. The first time he knocked, Su Can was out, so he said he would return that afternoon. That afternoon, Zhu Cheng eagerly came running back, only to find, to his dismay, that Su Can still had not returned.
In the end, Zeng Ke offered to give him Su Can's number. Zhu Cheng took it very carefully, but after some thought, he said, "It would be better to talk about this face-to-face." He said he would come back once Su Can returned, then left looking crestfallen.
Su Can imagined how dejected Zhu Cheng must have been each time he plucked up the courage to knock on his door, only to find him absent. It had certainly