Her adoptive father had come up through the military, a crude brute. To talk to someone like that, you had to be shameless and play dumb, letting him see right through your intentions and feel smarter than you.
And yet, how could a general who had risen to the rank of Federation lieutenant general possibly be nothing more than a crude brute?
"Hmph, isn't it perfectly normal for some country brat to have no idea of his place?
Why should I stoop to arguing with a country bumpkin?"
Lieutenant General Mo refused to take Gao Jiye's bait. Plenty of people cursed him behind his back. Who did Cunning Rabbit think he was?
Was he supposed to settle the score with every last one of them? He would never get anything else done for the rest of his life.
As a Federation lieutenant general, he considered everywhere outside the Central Court the countryside.
Gao Jiye's expression soured, because by Lieutenant General Mo's standards, he was a country bumpkin too.
He hated that term more than anything. Simply because he came from North Mang, he had been mocked constantly while studying in the Central Court. Even money had done him no good.
Being rich only changed the label from country bumpkin to... wealthy country bumpkin.
It was precisely that contempt that had made Gao Jiye resolve to make something of himself in the Central Court. He would join the Federation and become a Federation legislator, making everyone who had looked down on him regret it!
"Father, are you really not going to help me?"
Lieutenant General Mo drawled, "My dear boy, it really isn't that I don't want to help you. I simply have official duties to attend to.
Surely you don't expect me to travel a thousand miles to settle things