Jagged city

Jagged City - Chapter 230 Small circle

At 22:[-] in the evening, Lin Tao and others arrived at the oldest dance hall in Shanghai, Paramount. ╚ ^ ╝ During the period of the Republic of China, it was the entertainment venue for foreigners in the concession, domestic warlords, compradors, and capitalists. Today, Paramount is still one of the most upscale dance halls.The people who come and go here, except high-level socialites, are people with status, status, and wealth. Of course, there are also some cowherds here who are hunted down by some rich women.

This Paramount is a big dyeing vat of mixed fish and dragons. Many beautiful women do not hesitate to take risks alone, hoping to catch a wealthy son-in-law, but most of the rich people who often come and go here are for entertainment. Momentary pleasure.These wealthy people often spend hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars to order a song or dance a dance, for the sake of face, to win the smile of the beautiful woman, and win a lottery.

"Night Shanghai, Night Shanghai—" Paramount still played the old discs, and this song gave people a nostalgic feeling.

As soon as Shen Hechuan arrived, a beautiful female foreman immediately greeted them and led them to a seat prepared in advance.

"Boss Shen, is it still Chivas Regal?" the female foreman said to Shen Hechuan familiarly.

"If you have no objections, then take two bottles first, and bring the oldest one."

"No problem, please wait a moment."

"Brother Shen is very familiar here!" Lin Tao laughed.

"We come here for consumption, of course they welcome them. Although they are very enthusiastic, they are all for the sake of money."

"That's true, but you didn't come here to dance, and you didn't bring a partner?" Lin Tao couldn't help asking.

Several people looked at each other and smiled.

Long Hao said: "Brother, is this your first time visiting this kind of place?"

"Almost!" Lin Tao said suspiciously.

"Come here to dance, some with a partner, and some without a partner. There are three classes of people without a partner. The first class is for beautiful women who come to invite them. The second class is for men who actively invite women. The third class is flowers. Qian danced with a professional dancer from Paramount. The few of us come here to dance, and the third-class men usually pay the bill." Long Hao laughed.

Lin Tao smiled, and said to himself, these people are quite interesting, and they are here to test their charm.Lin Tao asked with interest: "Then who pays the bill every time!"

Shen Hechuan said with a smile: "Brother, tell me, which of us looks like the last one to pay the bill!"

Lin Tao looked at a few people, and then said: "I can't say this well. Everyone has different charms, different tastes, and opposite sexes attract. It's hard to say who will pay the bill. But the female foreman counts so much with Brother Shen, it should be Brother Shen More is the right time to pay the bill.”

"Brother, you are really accurate, but I don't understand. Is it obvious that I am rich and powerful when I sit here? Why is it always me who appears in the end?"

Everyone laughed.

Lin Tao looked at it carefully and said: "Brother Shen, when you are not talking, you look upright and serious. You look more like a government official than me. No, to be precise, you look a bit like the leader of the Public Security Bureau. I think ordinary women dare not approach easily."

A few people laughed louder when they heard it, it was true, and their views were similar to Lin Tao's.If this Shen Hechuan didn't speak, he would make a cold stare so that people would not dare to approach easily, and those little girls would naturally dare not take risks easily.

"Oh, brother, it's ruined by this too manly face. Don't say anything, it's full of tears!" Shen Hechuan drank it down.

Li Deyong said: "You are a good-looking man who is cheap. With Bao Gong's face, he looks trustworthy when doing business. I don't know how many people have been deceived by the first impression. In fact, he is hiding the face of a profiteer. Wolf in sheep's clothing!"

"Brother Li is right. As long as I do it myself, the business will be settled on the eighth floor. Brother Li, this is the charm of my personality. Brother Li, you don't want to slander my noble personality like this." The words that came out of Bao Gong's face made Lin Tao feel very funny.

Long Hao sat next to Lin Tao, and pointed out to Lin Tao: "Look at the women over there, at first glance, they are veterans of romantic occasions, they are social butterflies, and the young ones over there are here to explore, maybe it's their first time here , everything is new. The table over there is full of urban white-collar workers or successful professional women who come here for entertainment. If you meet the right one, you may have a one-night stand. There is also a table over there with younger and older people. Wearing famous brands and high-end jewelry, those who look at men under the age of 30 are the rich women who come here to find excitement. And the ones over there are here to hunt diamond kings and fifths, and they will not end easily—"

Listening to Long Hao's explanation, Lin Tao thought to himself, this Lin Hao seems to be a master of this, and his eyes are very poisonous, he can see people very clearly.After he instructed those people, it turned out that some of them, as Long Hao deduced, each found a different goal.

Long Hao said again: "The first one of us to be invited to dance by a woman, or, if no one invited us, the first one among us to invite a woman to dance successfully, is the person in charge of the next party. It's just going to Five Star Whether you choose a high-end hotel or go to a country store, everyone has to obey unconditionally, of course there are exceptions for special circumstances at work."

Lin Tao laughed and said, "You seem to be very interested. What kind of activities have you been doing?"

Shen Hechuan grinned and said: "Don't talk about it, you are still very interested. Last time, Brother Li had to do some field training, plus camping and having a picnic. The four of us plus Chen Dong, a total of five people went by plane On the Shennongjia side, after getting off the plane, I had a full meal, and then rented three off-road vehicles, one of which was packed with the set that was consigned for camping in the wild, such as tents, sleeping bags, fishing gear, two shotguns, and a A set of picnic tools, etc., loaded into a car. What we ate were two bags of bread and a bag of ham, and what we drank were three buckets of mineral water. In this way, the five of us set out on the road.”

"Brother Shen, you guys are too frugal, so you just buy one piece of bread each, is that enough?" Lin Tao laughed.

"Let's pull it down, is there enough to eat? It's not enough for my teeth. We drove for six hours and arrived at Shennongjia. It was after three o'clock in the afternoon. It was a riverside. We placed our tents in a higher place. Then we started Fishing. Usually, this group of people can fish better than anyone else in the fish pond, but when they come to the wild in this mountain village, the imported bait is no longer effective, and it takes a long time to get one. Later, Lao Fan dug a few earthworms. Only a dozen small crucian carp with a length of more than two inches were transferred. At that time, it was getting dark, and everyone started cooking. Five old men were carrying raw rice, and faced with a dozen small crucian carp that were grilled. Yes Alright, there are fourteen in total, how to divide them, there is still one short of three for each person."

Lin Tao laughed and said, "If one of the last four eats the fish head and the remaining three eat the body, then that's fine."

"Oh, why didn't we think of it at the beginning? This Long Hao insisted on telling a joke. Whoever makes everyone laugh first will eat three." Li Deyong said with a slap on his thigh.

"What jokes did you tell?" Lin Tao couldn't help asking when he became interested in the small group of four people.

Shen Hechuan said: "Chen Dong said it first. He said that a group of robbers robbed the bank. After they successfully got rid of it, they began to distribute the money, but they had to count it first? The amount is too much, and they are afraid that there are counterfeit banknotes inside. The sheets were counted, but it was not finished until dawn, and most of the piles were still uncounted. One robber said, forget it, with such old money, it doesn’t matter if there are a few fake sheets, so we should just divide them up? Another Said, I don’t know how much to divide? A robber next to him slapped the back of the robber’s head and cursed, you are so fucking stupid, don’t you know how much after watching the news? "

Seeing that Lin Tao didn't respond, several people couldn't help laughing: "Haha—we were also like Lin Tao at the time. It's a bit too much for Chen Dong to say that we hold back our laughter just because of a fish."

Long Hao went on to say that the jokes Shen Hechuan told were about teachers and students.

Say: The teacher wrote on the blackboard: finally, hard work, paralysis, learning, him, even, still, but, learning, brave.Then ask the students to choose a sentence.Correct sentence: Even though he is paralyzed, he still studies hard.

Classmate A: He studied hard and was finally paralyzed.

Student B: Even though he studies bravely, he is still paralyzed.

Classmate C: He studied hard and finally learned to be paralyzed.

After Long Hao finished speaking, Lin Tao finally smiled.Shen Hechuan said proudly: "Did you see that Brother Lin laughed, brother I was the first one to eat fish at that time. The other four people looked at it. Brother Li couldn't help it when he saw that I stuttered , take the initiative to ask to speak first."

What Li Deyong told was a kissing joke.Say, there is a little sister, ask his brother.Why did my dad blindfold us when there was a kissing scene on TV? My brother said that kissing is unhygienic and we can't do it.The younger sister asked again, why did my father still watch it by himself, and laughed while watching it.The elder brother said with a smile, that's because dad was laughing at them, they are already so big, they might not be as hygienic as our children.The younger sister nodded and said oh.

Shen Hechuan smiled and said: "See, Brother Li, it's not that we don't laugh, it's that your level is not good enough. Look at what Lao Fan said. It said that there was a couple. The husband was on a business trip, and the wife didn't trust her husband. A monkey was drawn on the words. The husband didn’t trust his wife either, so he spent a policeman in the peach garden below his wife. Three days later, the husband came back happily and bought a gift for his wife. The wife was very happy, and they made out with each other. After a while, the two were facing each other. The wife fiddled with her husband and suddenly asked, "No, my monkey is drawn at the bottom. Why did it run up to the top?" The husband glanced at his wife and said, "The policeman I drew is still on your left." , now it’s changed to the right, maybe you don’t allow me to monkey climb trees even if the police change guard?”

This joke really made Lin Tao laugh. In fact, this kind of adult joke is often told when there are lesbians present, just to see the shy smile of the woman. This kind of joke is very popular among government officials.

Long Hao said with a smile: "Everyone started to eat, only Brother Li couldn't do it, and everyone still didn't laugh after talking about two more. Seeing that Brother Li is going to be impatient, we each gave him two and the remaining four."

Brother Li said: "If you want me to talk about it again, I will beat you up."

In this way, everyone laughed instead.It can be considered that Brother Li has passed the test.

Lin Tao could see that the five people living in Shanghai had status and status, and their material life was rich, but they needed to relax mentally.Fly all the way to go camping.Sometimes I see rich people doing things that ordinary people can't understand. The main reason is that they are usually under too much pressure and need to do some deviant things to relieve pressure.For example, these five people spent tens of thousands of yuan to go to the wilderness, eat raw rice, and be bitten by mosquitoes. In the eyes of ordinary people, it is called a disease, and they burn it if they have too much money.Just like in the movie "Party A and Party B", the big boss insisted on finding Ge You to find him a place to endure hardship, but he ended up in a poor mountain valley in Shaanxi. With a thin face, he looked like a beggar, and he cried when Ge You came to pick him up.It is estimated that he does not want to experience a life of hardship in his next life.

There is a saying called 'A child who is not a fish knows the joy of a fish'. Different life situations and living environments create different emotional worlds.People who are not at the same level cannot mix together.It's not that someone has a higher realm, but that the spiritual world is different, and the world seen by different people is different.Some people sympathize with beggars, some despise them, and some people fear them.The outlook on life and the world are different, and it is impossible to stay in the same circle for a long time.Li Deyong, Long Hao, Chen Dong, Shen Hechuan and Fan Yulong are a small group.It can also be said that they smell like each other, so they can mix together.Although Lin Tao also listened to their jokes, he couldn't feel the fun of the five of them.It's like seeing who is invited to dance by a woman first. Lin Tao is basically not interested in this kind of thing, but he is very interested in watching dead people.

"Let's go, it's time for us to appear. Let's go drink near the bar and see who is the first to be invited to the dance floor." Long Hao walked over with a glass of wine in high spirits.Lin Tao walked at the end and observed these people. He felt that Fan Yulong, as the executive deputy mayor, was able to play with them, and he did something out of the ordinary. He felt that this person was by no means a law-abiding person.There should be no small ambitions under the peaceful appearance.However, what Lin Tao makes are friends, and other people's ambitions do not affect the communication between friends. Many friends have many paths. This sentence is true.At least when they arrive in Shanghai in the future, there are some things that these people can help.It's not like people from the Commercial Bureau are arrested by the Shanghai police and use the name of the Minister of Public Security to scare people.If the bureau chief was serious, Lin Tao would be ashamed to call the two ministers, Song Jingpeng and Guan Changming, and it would make people laugh if they told him about it.

"Sir, can you buy me a glass of wine?" A woman with an enchanting figure and a layer of powder on her face approached, Lin Tao frowned, because the woman's perfume was too strong, and it couldn't cover up the spot Underarm odor.

"See if that person is there, he is the boss, he is the one who invited me—"

"Damn, it turned out to be a driver. There are five people and six people in clothes—" the woman said disdainfully, picked up the small bag and walked away with her butt twisting.

Long Hao had been by Lin Tao's side and said with a smile: "It's right to ignore her, she looks like Liu Ying."

Lin Tao smiled, didn't say anything, and watched Long Hao walk towards the beauties in a self-styled way.Lin Tao's eyes lit up, because he knew a beautiful woman among those women, she was Bai Lizhen from Jinjiang. They all lost more than one chip, and Bai Lizhen was there, like a pure and refined white lotus emerging from a pile of red flowers.As if there was a tacit understanding, Bai Lizhen felt that someone was looking at him, turned around and saw Lin Tao's eyes, Bai Lizhen's eyes showed surprise, and she walked over with a smile at brisk steps, while Long Hao, who was heading towards him, was more confident Smiling, he was about to say hello, but found the beautiful woman passing by, she was not smiling at him, Long Hao was stunned for a moment, turned his head, and saw the beautiful woman smiling shyly at Lin Tao.

Seeing this scene, Shen Hechuan and Li Deyong next to him couldn't help laughing.