"Engineer Tang, those who can do are no match for those who can talk. If we don't make a big fuss, how can we live up to their hospitality?"
"Exactly, Team Leader Tang. If we secretly used a few tricks, they wouldn't be able to see it!"
"Team Leader Tang, are those people from the capital really going to withdraw? Why don't you ease up and give them a little hope? Let them struggle for a few more weeks, then tell them we'll quietly use some tactics next. Otherwise, we might put in all that effort and they won't even appreciate it."
"I..."
Tang Xiangui was left speechless. He had never imagined that the root of the matter lay in Red Romance.
A certain group's lavish "one-stop service" a few days earlier had given Old Gao and the others a taste of sweetness, planting in them the notion that a scholar dies for his confidant.
If you took someone's money, you had to handle their affairs. And since you had handled their affairs, you naturally had to show off your capabilities for them to see. Otherwise, wouldn't their money have been spent for nothing?
This sort of thing was extremely common in society.
When you were in school and got bullied, you spent five yuan treating a few big brothers to ice cream. After school, those big brothers would make sure to put on a performance of "acting as knight-errants" at the school gate, so that your five-yuan ice cream had been worth it.
After you started working, if you pulled strings, the person whose strings you had used would definitely tell you, after you got what you wanted, exactly where he had exerted effort at critical moments, letting you know that your gift had been absolutely worth it.
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