Tit For Tat (Beloved Enemy) - Chap 4
Gu Qing Pei handed the menu to the person who just shook his hand. “What is your name?”
“My name is Zhang Li. Call me Xiao Zhang and takes care of the boss. You just order something, I will not order food.”
“You should eat something…. can you eat spicy food?”
“Not too much …… there is wine and meat on the line.”
Gu Qing Pei smiled, “What kind of wine you want to drink?”
“Beer.”
“Good.” Gu Qing Pei signalled for the waiter. He added a few dishes, a dozen beers and some drinks.
Once the drinks arrived, the table was full.
“Come on, I hope everyone is hungry…….let’s eat.”
“No hurry, let’s get a drink first. We haven’t seen Yuan Yang for a long time. We met Mr. Gu today and so you have to have a drink first.”
When several people poured wine, Gu Qing Pei extended his hand to make a stopping gesture. He smiled and said, “I’m sorry, I’m seriously allergic to drinks and I’ve to save myself from an accident. I’ll use the tea to make a salute.”
Several people were silent. They looked at Gu Qing Pei and obviously they did not believe it.
Li Zhang simply poured a cup to ease tension, “Gu boss, that sounded really fake, please do not be afraid of people looking at us now, Do not worry, we understand people like you, who are not heavy drinkers.”
Gu smiled and opened a can of drink for himself. “It’s true. I can’t drink it all but if I don’t take a cup, I’ll have a rash in my mouth. Then I can’t work in the afternoon. This is my first job. Heavens, please forgive me, but when I look at you, I feel very happy, too.”
One former soldier said, “Gu, I’ve brought so many friends today. You’re too cheeky, let’s have a drink, alcohol….yeah…. I haven’t seen anyone with such allergies to alcohol. I haven’t seen them…. Is it really serious?”
Gu Qing Pei knew that as long as he took a sip, it would just be a mouthful and not a cup and there won’t be much of a problem. They were so many people that they would certainly suffer from their own losses meaning they won’t monitor him closely, so he wouldn’t drink a mouthful. This group of princelings did not always try harder. He took a sip of the alcohol. He simply just had to be thicker than their skins, the tension from the princelings was not necessarily his opponent. He looked at them with a grin and clenched his teeth and drunk.
The tension was so red that even Yuan Yang was flushed. He didn’t even think about Gu Qing. When he thought of so many people persuading Gu to take a drink, Gu’s drinking was actually very embarrassing.
Gu Qing Pei laughed, “Actually, as long as there is affection, what we drink is not important. Today I have seen so many vibrant youngsters from the People Liberation Army. I’m full of confidence in our national defence force. I must drink to the identity of an ordinary citizen, a cup for the People’s Liberation Army. I will pay for drinks and everyone can eat for free.” After Gu finished speaking, he took a drink first.
The crowd including Yuan Yang did not expect that this subject of patriotism would be brought to that height all of a sudden. Under the circumstances, there was a bit of difficulty riding on him and he also took his drink from the glass.
Originally he had just made a random plan to destroy Gu’s cool nature but now he was even more upset about it. He thought that this guy really wasn’t good enough to deal with him. He would not be able to take him down with ordinary means.
At the time of dinner, two of his former comrades were chatting with him, while others were chatting with Gu.
Somewhat absent-minded, he had been paying attention to what Gu Qing Pei was saying to his other comrades. He actually heard them talking about planning to seeing each other. Gu Qing Pei also looked like he took them seriously. They looked like they were enjoying talking to him. They chatted with their heads together. He spoke to everyone well but he had a little bit of embarrassment.
A way that makes people not help but express enthusiasm, they smiled and turned their backs. For a while, Gu Qing Pei attracted everyone’s attention. Several of his former comrades-in-arms had put their paws in front of Gu Qing Pei to show him their complete attention.
Gu Qing Pei really looked seriously at each and every single one of them. He was easy-going and eloquent. He was very happy to be with a few soldiers, and he had a good meal with them. In the end, he was actually admired at by these soldiers and Yuan Yang was depressed.
After the meal, all the former comrades in the party were gone. Gu Qing Pei looked at the watch and found the time was up. He went to the toilet and came back to find out that Yuan Yang was sitting with hands on his chest and looking out of the window.
What are you thinking?
Gu Qing Pei called out, “Let’s go back.”
Yuan Yang twisted his head and ironically said, “You look well…. I do not believe that you have drink allergies.”
Gu Qing Yan shrugged, “I am allergic to seasonal pollen.”
“Bullshit”
“Itis true. Since I’ve seasonal pollen allergies, that’s why I didn’t want to sitout or lunch,” Qing Gu Pei spoke without a fuss.
YuanYang’s disbelief showed on his face, he gritted his teeth, “Today we camehere to see my comrades in the party, to give you a grace, the next time youtalk nonsense from your mouth, don’t blame me.”
Thisis quite rude thing to say to Gu Qing Pei.
Gu’s face sank. He put his pockets in his handsand stood beside Yuan Yang, and said with a cool voice, “Oooh….don’t saythat, I was waiting for you to bring such a bunch of helpers to give me a roundof drinking so that I would lose face out there today. This plan of yours wasnot well thought out, are you not convinced?”
YuanYang stood up and stared at him. “When did I say I’m going to make youdrunk huh?”
“Oh,then when you brought so many friends….what did you want to do?” Gu QingPei smiled. “I’m not afraid to drink…… If you have any sense offairness, you’ll fight with me alone, don’t look for outside help,” saidGu.
YuanYang sneered. “Do you want to drink with me? No problem, find time, wewill learn from each other.”
“Well,a word is certain, can we go back to the company now?”
YuanYang gave him a look and turned away.
GuQing Pei followed him. The two men crossed the road and returned to thecompany.
ZhangXia was waiting for Gu Qing Pei outside the office early. When she saw him, shequickly ran over. “Gu Zong, the company’s management has all beeninformed, and the meeting will be on time….. in ten minutes?”
“Uh,got here just on time.”
“Thisis … …” Zhang Xiasecretly looked at Yuan Yang eyes, her heart experiencing strange drumbeats. Ohoh yeah what a day today, ah, usually the company’s yin and yang is in decline,with a few decent men, today …. Two hot men have appeared, whichallows everyone in the company to digest ah.
“Heis my assistant and driver.”
YuanYang slowly turned his head. “What?”
GuQing said: “Xiao Zhang, you go ahead and I’ll follow.”
Zhang Xia peeked at the sight of the two people.The atmosphere, it felt very wrong though…. this young guy seemed to be veryhot with a bad attitude, why was he hired?
AfterZhang Xia left, Gu Qing Pei entered the office with Yuan Yang in tow.
“Whendid I become your fucking assistant and driver?”
GuQing Pei entered the office and actually began to untie his tie. He saidslowly, “With your academic qualifications, you can only do this kind ofwork now. Young people, these days aren’t too good-natured, and even if thefuture may be unlimited, the most important thing is to do a good job at themoment.”
“Why do you undress?”
GuQing Pei threw his tie on the sofa. “It’s noon …..it’s hot…..we havehad too much to eat, clothes are too smoked, I’m going to take a bath andchange clothes, you can wait here, or you can also go first.” He took outthree sets of clothes from his suitcase, hung them in the cupboard, and thenpicked one set and went into the bathroom.
YuanYang anger burned and he grabbed his collar and said coldly, “Making meinto a driver? What kind of play are you trying to do?”
YuanYang hand was too strong, and Gu felt that he was pulling him tightly. Therewas a lot of pressure on Gu Qing Pei’s clothes. Gu Qing Pei looked down at hisshirt. Well, all three buttons were lost.
Yuan Yang’s hand rubbed his bare chest justright, and this scene was even hotter in his mind
