Reverse Rebirth 1990

Chapter 399 409 [Literary Youth Song Zhichao]

After talking about important things, then there will be no "gap" between everyone.

Since you are in the Soviet Union, you have to do as the Romans do.

After enjoying a very rich massage service, Song Zhichao followed Yorkoff and others out of the hot spring, and then began a formal "dinner".

The venue chosen for the dinner was of course not a general hotel, nor a general banquet hall, but a secret social place for the upper class of the Soviet Union.

The entrance is directly guarded by men in black with guns and nuclear bombs. Let alone ordinary people, even if they get a little closer, they will probably be shot.

Looking at the surrounding buildings, all the Russian-style attics are stacked together to form a mysterious black castle.

Seeing such a complex of buildings, Song Zhichao's first thought was the social scene in the novel "A Noble House" by the Russian writer Turgenev. Facts have proved that Song Zhichao's imagination is really accurate , because the scene after entering is almost exactly the same as the plot in the novel.

The Russian aristocrats will not change too much due to different times.

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The luxurious social hall is resplendent and magnificent. The top of the dome-like hall hangs high in the air, with gorgeous colors and engraved gold-plated images of Nordic mythology. If you look carefully, it is "Odin's Travels in the World" in the Nordic mythology:
Odin, the lord of the gods, loves to travel, and constantly increases his knowledge and wisdom while traveling.Therefore, Odin often travels to the world, disguises himself as an old man or a wizard, observes sufferings in the world, punishes evil and promotes good.Many miracles of Odin have been left in the middle garden where humans live.

The characters on the entire huge mural are lifelike, whether they are gods or humans, they are full of realistic desires; besides the image story, there is a line of poetry written in Russian:
For eight nights I did not move my body,

Meat and mead are not served;
Only Agnar, son of Girod,
He will be master of the land of the Goths.

Song Zhichao took a closer look and remembered clearly that this should be the famous "Song of Grimnir" in Odin's travels.

If we say that the entire magnificent hall is full of western art such as murals, then what makes the whole place more lively is the purple tulips arranged around the hall that can still bloom in winter.

In the cold winter, seeing these bright flowers, the first feeling is to embrace the rare "spring".

In fact, in Song Zhichao's view, although it looks like a palace, it is actually more like a high-end "private club". Not to mention the luxurious decoration, the most important thing is that it is full of mystery.

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"How is it, dear Song, are you satisfied with this place? Compared with Hong Kong, how is it?" Yorkov wanted to show off in front of Song Zhichao, so he snapped his fingers beautifully and ordered a glass of "Martini" , asked while drinking.

Song Zhichao just smiled, looked around, and said, "It's very good, low-key luxury with connotations."

Yorkoff: "..."

Obviously startled, he said: "Dear Song, I can always hear some very fresh and vigilant words from your mouth. If I didn't know that you were a businessman, I would have thought you were some kind of writer."

Song Zhichao was also very thick-skinned, so he just smiled slightly and said, "I also love literature, just like the poem written on this mural, it should be a story that happened after Odin became Grimnir. ——Grimnir, who was tortured, took the horn cup and took a sip of water. At this time, the flame in the brazier behind him had burned his dark blue shirt. Under the light of the fire, he turned into Gerry Odin of Mnir sang this hymn, in which he described in detail the origin of the world and man, the gods who ruled the world, and the scene in the garden of Asaph, the Kingdom of God. Finally, he told the people before him , he himself is Odin, the supreme ruler of the world."

If at the beginning, Yorkoff's words were just a polite compliment, even teasing, he didn't really expect Song Zhichao to say any poems like a writer, but Song Zhichao didn't show any signs of it. The "quote" directly told Yorkoff how proficient Song Zhichao knew about Russian literature.

At this moment, not to mention Yokov, even Bodoyev and others began to look at Song Zhichao with admiration. They thought that Song Zhichao was just a cunning Hong Kong businessman covered in money, but he was still a literary youth.

In this era, "literary art" is definitely synonymous with nobility, no matter where it is eaten.

Therefore, Song Zhichao was immediately embraced by Yorkoff, and laughed loudly: "Dear Song, I appreciate you more and more! Yes, you are a beautiful friend!"

All his life as a soldier, you might say he was an all-powerful general, but he was a rough man without much ink in his stomach. If he hadn't been promoted to become a general, he probably wouldn't even know a few words.

But Yorkoff is a person who likes to be arty, especially in this kind of high society, arty is very popular.Especially if I don't have a little ink in my stomach, I hope others will say that I have culture, knowledge, and taste.

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The banquet is in progress——
The Russian-style "dinner" is different from the traditional Chinese dinner, even more different from the British-style gentleman's dinner, the French-style romantic dinner, and the American-style open dinner. If I have to describe it, it is "drinking and howling , unrestrained."

Russians drink like hell, and almost every man, from upper class to lower class, loves alcohol, and even many women love alcohol.Perhaps because of the severe cold, spirits became a necessity in their lives.

In the past, Song Zhichao saw on many gossip news that every winter, Russia issued a ban on alcohol, strictly prohibiting drinking at night.The reason is that many men often sleep on the streets after drinking, and are finally frozen to death.

Now, after coming to the Soviet Union a few times, Song Zhichao only occasionally saw some Soviet Russians drinking, but this was the first time he had come into contact with this way of drinking at a "feast".

A huge spittoon-like wine glass—according to Yokov, this is the ancestor Vikings in the Kiev region who killed their enemies and then used their heads to make wine glasses for drinking, and then this custom was passed down and became warriors their favourites.In short, they just took a spittoon-sized wine glass and filled it with spirits vodka, and then the men took turns, and each had a big glass.

Those who drank it all in one gulp will be applauded by everyone present, as well as the favor of the beauties present, those who wilt after a few sips will be ridiculed.

When the huge spittoon wine glass was passed to Song Zhichao's hand, Song Zhichao looked at the jar of spirits and sniffled, this time he really couldn't hold it anymore.

(End of this chapter)