The Guest: Book 2

by Yufeng Zhuang

Chapter 21

  The Adult Ceremony (1)

  “There will be the Bi-moons Festival in a couple days.” The woman in the light screen obviously didn’t get mad because of her only son’s slightly sarcastic tone, she said with a smile, “Your father and I met in that dancing party, I wish that you also have the good luck as your father did. My boy, enjoy it, see you in the winter vacation.”

  Charlie Tai answered with a smile, “But I don’t think that my father’s luck is that good.” It’s a joke which he could have as a son, he added one more words in his heart, his own life don’t have anything good to be enjoyed.

  “Although that girl of the Chad family certainly couldn’t be the candidate who you pick for your wife, but I always think, with her feminine beauty and the relationship with you in those days, you shouldn’t mind to develop some relationship with her.” The woman in the light screen suddenly had a flicker of evil interest flashed on the corners of her lips, “Besides, I have always thought that the shape of her waist and ass suits to have baby very much.”

  The light screen became dark again and retracted back to the ceiling, the expression of Charlie Tai calmed down, he wiped off the foundation make-up which he put below the eyes with a wet tissue, although he had the fear more than the love to his mother, it’s totally different from the relationship which he had with his father in those years, but he also knew it clearly, all his mother did was for his consideration, he was a dutiful son, didn’t want to let lady Tai to worry about his health.

  There were two more days from the dancing party of the Bi-moons Festival, Charlie Tai fell into the silence in the autumn sunshine of the midday. He didn’t care about that dancing party, what Youzhi came to the Pear Garden university for, he knew it very clearly, he was just somewhat annoyed to show up in front of those people, who knew about him, in some kind of established appearance, because he didn’t like that center position which was surrounded by those people.

  According to the tradition of dancing party of the Bi-moons Festival, he should be on the second floor, overlooking those dancing trippingly men and women downstairs. He would pick a favorite girl in the females of the dancing party, then sent out the invitation gently, hoped that she would be his close friend in some certain period, and at the same time ended the virgin career which he held for eighteen years.

  Yes, according to the tradition which the Tai family had already inherited for countless years, this time the dancing party of the Bi-moons Festival, exactly would be the adult ceremony for Charlie Tai, just not many people knew about it in the whole federation, perhaps some powerful characters smelled the message faintly, but they also would never find out the real details.

  The adult ceremony of the Tai family, was about two years earlier than the adult ceremony of the rest big families, it would be chosen to hold at any day and in any dancing party of the young man’s eighteen years old that year. And the very special thing was, the adult ceremony of the Tai family, was a trial about love, man and woman.

  Not a girl could refuse the invitation by the descendants of the Tai family, even if some people didn’t know who he was at all, didn’t know that he presented the oldest and most honorable family history of the federation, but days later in the dream environment built by the infinite wealth and power, they would also all sink into it.

  Love in this story would never be the leading role, or love itself could be planned out, just same as the president who represented the federal spirit and the populace power.

  The very wonderful thing was, the former descendants of the Tai family, didn’t know that their adult ceremony was a trial. Many people rushed into the fire like a moth, just like a child of every common family, to love bravely. Some of them would choose the dancing partner in the adult ceremony, to become the woman to accompany with his whole life, such as Charlie Tai’s father, this should be a kind of relatively happy ending.

  But more people would find out dully in this process, those originally untouchable iceberg beauties in the eyes of the youth budding boys, in front of the horrific power and influence of the Tai family, all would become the made them sad tame sheep. In this process, they would understand, the so-called love, not that holly and pure as what they imagined after all.

  The ancestor of the Tai family set this strange rule, originally, exactly wanted to let his male descendants to know, love is kind of goods which could be bought with money and power, thus they wouldn’t make the irreparable mistake in the future life because of the matter about man and woman.

  Charlie Tai was lucky, because of the reason of seven generation more than him, or perhaps because his parents was the god-given pair from falling in love in the adult ceremony to the end. When he was very little, lady Tai had already begun to tell him the real meaning of the adult ceremony. And very calmly and seriously told him, don’t have the extravagant hope that he could have the good luck same as his father. As the successor of the Tai family, love could have, love should have, but it’s impossible to have it in the adult ceremony.

  This was also the thing Charlie Tai couldn’t understand the most, the seven big families, including the Tai family, always valued incomparably those rules which came down from the ancient times, even lady Tai was not a conservative people, and even she had already told him the real meaning of the so-called adult ceremony, but still asked him to take the opportunity of the dancing party of the Bi-moons Festival… to find a female companion for his this one year campus life. In the opinion of Charlie Tai, this kind of practice was undoubtedly like the popular saying, take off the pants to fart.

  Charlie Tai grew up in the federal society, the books he read and the TV he watched were all the contents of this era. Although the environment he grew up from a child was riches and honor to the extreme, the education he had was totally different from the general peers, he had the mature and calm far exceeded his age, he also had heart willing to assume the responsibility of the family, but he still could adapt to a lot of details after all. The light of the ancient royal family was too far away from him, he didn’t understand why those subordinates would always still treat him as a what prince, in his view, in a democratic society, it shouldn’t still have this kind of thinking mode at all.

  Today the words of lady Tai, let Charlie Tai had a clearer cognition to his own identity and the already planned brilliant future. That share of accompanied with him from a child pressure, seemed to turn into the essence, spilled all over the room, let him to have some difficulties to breathe. He closed his eyes and silenced for a long time, and then picked up his exclusive mobile phone, dialed a phone number.

  This number that guy just said it only once, but Charlie Tai remembered it very easily, he thought that he would never dial this number in this lifetime, but didn’t think of, just only half a day pasted, he had already changed his mind.

  “Don’t bring the night snack to here tonight, bring a whole set of clothes. In addition, do you know in the Coastal state any quieter… brothel?”

  “No need.”

  “Thank you.”

  Hung up the phone, Charlie Tai reposed with the eyes close, waiting for the coming of the night and tomorrow. He was a self-discipline descendant of the old and well-known family, he also had the sense of responsibility. Although he had the rejection emotions occasionally to the surrounding environment and the arrangements of his mother, but he wouldn’t choose the childish escape or resistance. But he thought in his heart, at least adult ceremony this kind of thing, he should arrange it by himself.

  The short-lived meet. Sheilor was absent-minded to look at the table no one around in front of him, there was no more that wore black frame glasses girl over there. It had been four days, he felt that he had already been getting used to the life without her. Because after he escaped from the East Forest Region, he had already got used to be a person silently, but he still would pay attention that across the table without her, the runway without her, the Rose riverside without her, and the night without her.

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bsp; The students passed by around would notice that he was muzzy at the table by the window occasionally, the people knew about this thing, would cast the taunt and contemptuous eyes at him. In the eyes of all the people, the swan might occasionally accompany with the toad to go for the food in the pond, but it’s impossible that she would marry a toad for real.

  The autumn sunshine of the midday fell on Sheilor’s body through the glass, the muzzy him felt some warm, and then his mobile phone rang, the pop-up thin screen didn’t have any number or area code shown on it. He got it through wonderingly, then he heard that voice which he often heard recently, and then he was in a kind of inexplicably stunned emotion.

  What he wants to find the brothel for? Sheilor didn’t know whether that named Tai boy had some problems with his brain, but he also didn’t want to stay in the Pear Garden university at this time, stay in the sarcastic eyes of those students. Thought for a moment, he promised him, and then put forward the suggestion seriously, “I also don’t know this kind of things too well, but I have a friend who should know about this kind of things very well, do you want me to call him out together as well?”

  “No need? Then well, I will wait for you tonight in the lounge.”

  “No thanks.”

  “You won’t be ready to run away from home, right?” Sheilor looked at Charlie, asked seriously. He couldn’t adapt to a child of the rich family such as the other party, would with a kind of thesis defense tone, asked him to help him to find a woman incredibly, he said, “Even if the pressure is big in the family, but after all, your parents did all the things just for your, you shouldn’t mess things up.”

  After he finished this sentence, he then thought of that the father of the other party had already died, so he had the sorry revealed on his face, but his these words were all from his heart, his family died in that mine disaster unfortunately, let Sheilor to long for that kind of warmth more than any one.

  Charlie Tai replied calmly, “Didn’t you always taunt at me that I am a virgin? I just want to find a woman to try what it is. But I fell it oddly instead, when you heard my this kind of request, you wouldn’t even blink your eyes and promise me unexpectedly, that couldn’t let me have to question, whether you often do this kind of thing.”

  Sheilor had a wry smile, but didn’t answer. Thought of when he was on the Bell Tower street in those years, every month he would go to those recreation centers to pay the whoring fee for his boss, he seemed to have already been used to this kind of request, so he would promise him so naturally in the phone.

  Charlie took a look at that green army dust coat on his body, tried to put the rain cap on the head, confirmed that it’s impossible for the monitoring equipments outside the H1 area to take the picture of his face, then he nodded his head satisfied. But then he frowned slightly and asked, “The military uniform of the West Forest, where did you get it from?”

  “I forgot.” Sheilor was not very used to lie in front of his friend, but he was not willing to speak of anything about Little Watermelon, he didn’t prepare to have any relationship with that stood high above the masses Chung family in this life, he looked at the wrapped tightly by the dust coat Charlie Tai, said with doubt, “How come I always felt, we are going to be the thieves.”

  Charlie Tai didn’t answer him, but walked directly to the outside of the H1 area. It’s the 4 a.m. the morning at this time, the zone H was no one around, he just talked with Sheilor optionally, killed the time. They waited until it’s over 6 a.m. the morning, some other students began to come in, then they took a look at each other in the eyes, and walked to the outside.