Chapter Fourteen: Cooperation

  The next morning, Wentao was woken up by his aunt and started shopping with her. They tried on clothes nonstop: eleven suits, seven shirts, twenty-three ties, fifteen pairs of shoes, and many other small items that were hard to count.

  Wen Tao secretly called out in pain, it was just that he had learned the skill of tempering his mind from playing Go with Gu Han's master, otherwise he really feared that he would not be able to hold back and explode.

  It's more tiring than carrying a few hundred kilograms and running for a day, and it's even more exhausting than playing Go with Kong Jie for ten hours. This kind of fatigue seems to be more suitable for women, which should be determined by male and female genes in medicine. After my own research institute is set up, I can also study this.

  That evening, when Hu Kai-zhu and Wen Tao arrived at the place invited by Kong Jie, they secretly congratulated themselves on not being clever enough to wear a swallowtail suit or other formal attire, because Kong Jie had invited them to a teahouse called "Sui Yi".

  Wearing a suit and tie seems too formal, but the casual outfit is more suitable for this atmosphere.

  Here, sixty miles outside the city, now with well-developed roads, it takes less than half an hour to get here. All are bamboo-built doors, houses, and the ground is all green grass, from time to time there are some small squirrels jumping between trees.

  Clear stream water is introduced and meanders through the entire tea house, surrounding every spot where people drink tea with bamboo forests and encircling them with streams.

  The more urbanized a city is, the more people yearn for natural places, but only occasionally to experience and find feelings, after which they still have to return to their busy lives.

  "Mr. Hu, Brother Wen has arrived just in time, try some, this is a top-grade Da Hong Pao." Seeing Hu Kai and Wen Tao enter, Kong Jie stood up to greet them, then sat back down to make tea. Hu Kai and Wen Tao entered and sat down as the tea water was poured into the teacups, the timing was just right.

  Kong Jie was one way with Zhou Dehai and others, but when it came to the Go world, although he was also overbearing and sharp, he was completely different.

  After drinking tea, dishes are served, the dish is vegetarian, and the wine is national wine.

  After three rounds of wine and five dishes, Kong Jie finally said: "This time we invited Mr. Hu to come, mainly to discuss the future development of Kaitu Chess Club, as well as the future development of the Go League and other matters, all of which need to hear Mr. Hu's suggestions."

  "Kong Gongzi's grand vision and ambition made Hu Xiangyu admire him, but I'm already at this age, and the Kai Zhu Qi She has reached its limit. If it develops further, it would be overdoing it for me. As for the Go League Alliance, Hu Xiangyu had said from the beginning that he supports Kong Gongzi's development of Chinese Go, perfecting the league system and regular training institutions. If there's a place where I can contribute, please let me know. However, as for providing strategies and suggestions, I don't dare to take on that role."

  Hu Xiangyu had been doing business since he was young, although not very successfully, but he was quite shrewd. Only when he got older did he shift his focus to Go, which he loved the most.

  As for Kong Jie, he admired him, but still had a deep guard against him.

  When Hu Kai heard this, Kong Jie understood and smiled, shaking his head: "No need to be humble, Mr. Hu. Although I haven't had much contact with you, I have some understanding of you. Are you satisfied with the current scale of Qizhong Chess Club? Don't you want to expand it nationwide? As for management, we can find a professional management team. A real boss doesn't need to manage everything personally, just set the overall direction and make decisions. As for the Go League, we'll discuss it in detail at a meeting later. For now, let's not talk about it, but Qizhong is still too small and needs to develop quickly."

  Actually, Hu Kai-zhu had been whispering with Wen Tao for half a day on the way here, and he had also thought of these things. The money that was delivered to his doorstep, he didn't dare to accept, actually he also understood that if Kong Jie had any intention to deal with the small Kay-zhu Chess Club, there was no need to go through so much trouble, it's just that he always felt uncomfortable in his heart, perhaps because of Kong Jie's strong momentum when he challenged the club at first.

  "Uncle, since you don't want to accept help for nothing, why not let Gongzi join Kai Zhu Group as a shareholder? Of course, Gongzi will only hold a small share, and Uncle is still the real controller of Kai Zhu. Wouldn't that solve the problem?" Wentai had seen it early on, Uncle was already tempted, he wanted so much to make Kai Zhu Chess Club the best, how could he give up this opportunity? Moreover, Hu Kai Zhu himself also knew that among the chess clubs operated by Kong Jie, there were dozens of them as large as Kai Zhu Chess Club, he just had a thorn in his heart.

  Wen Tao's words were like a stepping stone, Hu Kaiyu went down, Kong Jie nodded and smiled naturally, he wanted a overall situation and the final goal, taking some specific measures and changes in between, it didn't make much difference to him.

  Things won't work out if they're not discussed, but once they are, everything will go smoothly. The general agreement was quickly reached. Kong Jie is also a straightforward person when it comes to handling matters, and he immediately had his financial and legal teams meet with Hu Kai Zhu to finalize the financial and legal contracts.

  Hu Kai Zhu left, Kong Jie's gaze fell on Wen Tao, he never mentioned what happened that day from start to finish. Apparently he had also investigated and knew that in the eyes of his uncle and aunt, he was just an ordinary child.

  Wen Tao, however, ignored his gaze and sipped his tea after dinner as if he didn't know Kong Jie was staring at him.

  Kong Jie looked for a full minute, then admired: "From an early age to adulthood, I have always been confident in my ability to judge people, but now that I see Brother Wen, I realize that I am just a frog at the bottom of a well."

  Wen Tao didn't change because of his praise, still very calm and composed: "Kong Gongzi Mu's praise, I was originally just an ordinary person, nothing special. You can't see anything special naturally." A stone, no matter how you look at it, won't turn into jade.

  "Haha……" Kong Jie laughed loudly and said: "Brother Wen is too modest, to be honest, if someone else had shown me that they could defeat Zhou De Wei, who was in the middle of the acquired period, within a few seconds, and then say something like this, I would definitely think it's hypocritical. But looking at you, Brother Wen, even if what you said is fake, I can only say that you are being modest."

  Kong Jie's words are not exaggerated at all. Even now, when Wen Tao says this calmly and composedly, it still has great persuasive power.

  "Hmm... Master Kong's words, I can take it as a compliment!!!"

  "Haha……" Kong Jie burst out laughing again, and at this moment he was not as fierce as when he was fighting, nor as gloomy as when he was playing Go. His bright laughter was like that of a heroic figure from Yan Zhao: "Let's not be so formal with each other, although I still can't see through Brother Wen's depth, but we're all martial artists after all. I'm older than you by several years, if you don't mind, just call me Big Brother Kong."

  Wen Tao, although not very showy in daily life, is not depressed. Kong Jie's heroic side makes Wen Tao appreciate him even more, and he laughs: "I have the same intention, so from now on I'll be on a higher level. Brother Kong, you're like my uncle, just call me Wen Tao directly."

  "Alright, refreshing." Kong Jie didn't pay much attention to the specifics of Wen Tao's actions during their fight that day. He only remembered clearly the middle part, and how he himself could barely manage to subdue Zhou De Wei in such a short amount of time. Apart from himself, even an average post-heavenly peak expert wouldn't be able to subdue Zhou De Wei so easily and quickly. After returning, Kong Jie had been thinking about it, including when Wen Tao arrived earlier, but he didn't notice anything that suggested Wen Tao was a martial artist.

  At that time, Kong Jie thought to himself, his appearance was just like an ordinary person, could it be that he had already... reached the Xiantian realm? No way... He was still so young. That left only one possibility, he was using external family skills, external hard skills. If it were an ordinary expert or even an ordinary Xiantian expert, Kong Jie wouldn't have paid such attention. But someone as young as this, younger than himself who was known as a martial arts genius, yet his strength wasn't inferior to his own, and it was very likely that he practiced external family skills, but looked completely normal... how could he not pay attention?

  "Since you're also a straightforward person, I'll just say what's on my mind. It'll take Boss Hu some time to complete all the formalities, why don't we have a friendly spar first!!!"

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