杜达雄大鸟

Chapter 582 Thirst for Talents

Having sauntered in Qiu City for a while, they still find nothing. They don’t come back to the quadrangle courtyard until dusk.

Shao Gusu and Shao Shuai spend the whole day sitting in the house today, awaiting.

Watching Tang Jiusi and the others come back, Shao Gusu immediately stands up and rushes forward, reaching out her hands to grip Tang Jiusi by his collar.

“Tang Jiusi, are you looking for a beating? How dare you leave me alone and run out yourself?” Shao Gusu looks rather irritated.

Tang Jiusi frowns and feels so annoyed, “Get your hands off me.”

“What if I don’t?” Shao Gusu sneers and looks as if she were not threatened at all.

Tang Jiusi tries to refute and yet says coldly in the end, “If you don’t…”

“What?”

“I will forgive you then!” Tang Jiusi says viciously.

Gao Ge, Yue Xincheng and the others watch them talking, composed and even amused.

They kind of admire Tang Jiusi’s style of talking.

He is able to talk like a wimp in the most imposing manner.

Yet, it is kind of nice.

Otherwise, why does Gao Ge think that they make a perfect couple?

“Ahem. Let’s have dinner first,” Shao Shuai interrupts with a smile, “Why don’t we continue talking after dinner?”

“Humph. I’ll let you go this time!” Shao Gusu releases Tang Jiusi’s collar and snorts.

After they sit down again, the chrysanthemum wine, the local specialty, is really served over the dinner. However, having taken a sip of it, Gao Ge finds it a bit unpalatable. It tastes a little bitter with a remaining taste of unbearable sweetness, which is not acceptable to Gao Ge.

Hence, he still asks for the Wuliangye Liquor.

As to the sauce-scented liquor like Maotai, Gao Ge doesn’t like it either.

“Gao Ge, if you need our help, just feel free to tell us,” Shao Shuai clinks his glass with Gao Ge’s, saying with a grin.

Gao Ge nods his head smilingly and feels a bit strange.

Somehow he feels that Shao Shuai’s current attitude is quite weird.

When he was in Keli City, he felt that Shao Shuai was a warmhearted man to some degree, who would definitely not step into others’ business.

Nevertheless, he doesn’t say anything about it, or he will make Shao Shuai lose face.

Gao Ge is not too young. He still has a sense of propriety. Even if he can’t disclose that he is looking for Meng Jing, it is no big deal to say okay to Shao Shuai first.

It is always said that one must stay sincere and distinguish clearly between right and wrong. Gao Ge believes that it is not true sincerity but whimsically ideal foolishness. This is what life is about. There is no problem with being cool, but if you make yourself incompatible with the people around you for being cool, it is really problematic.

Of course, if you can be totally cool and true to yourself, just like the master who is learned, free from the boundaries of the worldly trifles, and able to pursue his own life and make every day count so as to stay spiritually contented and carefree, Gao Ge won’t say anything about it.

However, if you want to be yourself and do whatever you want, and meanwhile yearn for being acknowledged by the others and living a well-off life, in Gao Ge’s eyes, you are just daydreaming… One cannot achieve that unless he is a second-generation rich kid, who was born with everything.

Is there this kind of man?

Of course yes, but not many.

After they finish drinking, they just go back to their rooms, respectively.

“Gao Ge, I need to go out,” Tang Jiusi comes to knock on Gao Ge’s door and says.

Gao Ge sees two men standing in the yard, who happen to be the ones following behind them in the daytime.

“Here come the people of the Dragon Court?” Gao Ge laughs.

“Yeah. It seems that they are in trouble,” With a bitter smile, Tang Jiusi says, “It’s lucky for you that you are no longer a member of the Dragon Court now, or I must make you go with me.”

“Go ahead. Be careful,” Gao Ge says.

“Okay…” Tang Jiusi turns around and takes a few steps forward. Then he thinks of something, turns around again and reaches out his hand to Gao Ge, “Give the lighter back to me.”

With an annoyed face, Gao Ge passes the lighter to him.

Watching Tang Jiusi leave, Gao Ge heaves a sigh and happens to see Liu. Then he gets another lighter as well as a carton of cigarettes from Liu and then goes back to his room.

He lights up a cigarette and the smoke reflects a kind of watery blue under the lamplight.

He takes a deep breath. The smoke flows in his mouth and then it is puffed out slowly. With narrowed eyes, he lies on the chair, gazing at the orange lamplight.

He sways the chair.

On and on.

Soon he feels pain in his fingers.

He hangs his head and takes a look only to see that the cigarette which he puffed on twice has burned out. The cigarette ash hasn’t dropped down.

He gives a light, sad smile, puts out the cigarette in the ashtray, and then opens the window to get some fresh air. The moonlight outside the room is quite beautiful. It happens to be the 15th day of the lunar month today. Although it is not Mid-autumn Festival, the moon is round. Metaphorically, it is like a bright jade plate.

“Can’t you fall asleep?” In the yard there is a pot of tea and two cups. Shao Shuai wearing a white gown waves at Gao Ge.

Gao Ge laughs and walks out.

“The tea has just been made by me and the tea leaves are brought here by myself. Would you like to taste it?”

“Sure.” Gao Ge nods his head. The tea smells like an herb, but it tastes sweet and refreshing.

Gao Ge is not an expert in tea, but he still highly praises the tea sincerely.

“I like drinking tea but I don’t like making tea, because I don’t know much about making tea and also find it quite cumbersome. Therefore, I always ask others to make tea for me. In the world, not many people have drunk the tea made by me, probably no more than five?”

Gao Ge replies with cupped hands before his chest, “I am so honored.”

“Haha. Small quantity doesn’t equal good quality!” Shao Shuai shakes his head and says calmly, gazing at the moonlight, “I hear that you no long work for the Dragon Court. What about servicing the Shao Family? Of course, we have quite some single girls in the family. You may marry one of them or make one of them your concubine if you like.”

Gao Ge is a bit astounded.

“Haha. I know. You have your own sweetheart, but you are a talent indeed. As long as you service the Shao Family, you will be well treated.”

Gao Ge shakes his head and says with a smile, “Thanks for your appreciation, but I’m used to freedom. I don’t like being constrained.”

“We don’t mean to constrain you, but you are required to do us a favor when we are in need,” Shao Shuai continues.

He is really stubborn.

Actually, this is not the first time that he has offered the olive branch to Gao Ge.

In the black market, Shao Shuai proposed it before, but it was turned down by Gao Ge back then. Unexpectedly, he is so persistent. It also shows that the Shao Family have encountered danger indeed, or they won’t thirst for talents to this extent.

Before Gao Ge says no, Shao Shuai offers another tempting condition.

“Moreover, our family can also promise to find Meng Jing for you. How about that?”

Shao Shuai says with a smile.

But Gao Ge’s eyes turn fierce.