Chapter - 88 Fighting Contest to Find a Suitor (5) (1/2)
Having learned that Guo Jing had tamed two white eagles, Huang Rong expressed a certain desire.
”Very well,” he said, ”I did not know exactly where to go. Indeed, tomorrow I'll leave for Mongolia, to catch two white eagles for my amusement.”
”They are not easy to find,” Guo Jing remarked.
”Then how did you find them?” Guo Jing didn't answer and only smiled. ”The climate is severe in Mongolia,” he said, ”the north wind blew icy and hard, how would this young boy with such a weak constitution could withstand it?”
”Where do you live?” he asked. ”Why don't you return home?”
Huang Rong had tears in his eyes, ”Dad doesn't want me anymore!”
”And why?”
”He locked up somebody,” answered Huang Rong, ”and did not want to set that person free. I took pity on the prisoner; as he is displeased all alone, I brought good things for him to eat, and I try to converse with him. Dad got angry and cursed at me, I ran away in the middle of the night.”
”Your dad surely thinks of you at this moment,” Guo Jing said. ”And your mom?”
”Died for a long time! I didn't have a mom since very little…”
”If you have had your fun, it would be better to return home.”
”Dad does not want me anymore,” Huang Rong said crying.
”That's impossible.”
”Then why doesn't he look for me?”
”Perhaps he is still seeking, but haven't found you…”
”You are probably right,” Huang Rong said, ”who changed from crying to laughing. Then when I have my fun, I'll return. But first of all, it is necessary to tame two white eagles.”
They chatted again about what they have seen or experienced. Guo Jing told the incident of the eight women in white disguised as men who wanted to take possession of his horse. Huang Rong raised questions about the small red horse, its capabilities, its character, and was full of envy. He drank a mouthful of tea and said smilingly, ”Big brother, I want to ask for something of great value to you. Would you approve of that?”
”Of course, why wouldn't I?”
”What I would like, is precisely your horse with the sweat of blood!”
”Allright,” Guo Jing said without hesitating, ”I'll give it gladly to you.” In fact, Huang Rong was joking: he saw very well that Guo Jing adored his invaluable horse, and they have met just recently and by chance. He just wanted to see how this good chap was going to refuse his improper request. However, Guo Jing answered with such an amount of generosity and simplicity that he was taken by surprise. Moved beyond words, he could not prevent himself breaking into sobs and hide his face with his arms.
Guo Jing was even more surprised:
”Well, brother,” he asked with concern. ”What has occurred? Don't you feel well?”