Chapter 99: Prohibition
After chatting with Dai Tiantian, Chen Zier returned to Dijing Blue Bay.
He didn't see Sheng Qianyu in the afternoon, and she said that she was going to change the quilt cover and wash it off, as well as a few pieces of clothing, so she didn't come out.
After Chen Zier ate in the cafeteria, he returned home in the evening.
After a while, someone knocked on the door, it was Shi Yangqing.
She was dressed casually, with a tennis racket in her hand, and said, "I told you a few years ago." ”
"Tennis, but it's night. ”
"The venue has two headlights, I've seen them. ”
Chen Zier thought for a moment and said, "Okay, I'll change my clothes." ”
In March, it was really embarrassing to exercise outside, wear less, cold, wear more, and can't be used.
Chen Zier found a sweater to put on, and then brought a coat, which can be taken off when it is hot.
When she was in the elevator, Chen Zier asked her, "Why do you want to go to play tennis at night?"
"If you eat too much at night, you will get fat if you don't exercise. ”
"Seriously. ”
"What?"
"This is the most woman-like thing I've ever heard you say. For the first time. ”
Shi Yang glanced at him lightly.
Chen Zier's heart was unwavering, and he said with his backhand, "I won't fight." ”
"Just pick up the ball. ”
Chen Zier: ......
The two learned to stand in the game, and Chen Zier also waved the racket, and it felt okay.
Shi Yangqing was bouncing on the spot to warm up, twisting his waist and turning his hips for several minutes.
She shouted, "I'm going to serve!"
Chen Zier posed.
Shi Yangqing threw the ball into the sky, waved his big hand, and the ball did not pass the net.
Chen Zier thought to himself: Shake me for a while?
Shi Yangqing picked up the ball and shot again, but he didn't hit the ball.
The atmosphere was a little awkward.
On the third serve, she hit the ball, but the ball hit the ground in her half.
Forehead......
Chen Zier couldn't wait, he couldn't wait for the ball to cross the net after standing there for three minutes, he came over and said: "This can't be played, the time is used to pick up the ball." ”
Shi Yangqing didn't admit defeat and wanted to come again.
Chen Zier stretched out his hand and said, "Let me try." ”
He picked up his arm and slapped the ball, but it flew away.
It feels like it's far from what people played in the game.
Chen Zier shook his head and said, "It seems that we underestimated the difficulty of tennis, so let's invite a coach to come over the next day." There should be some introductory teaching of tennis. ”
Shi Yangqing felt embarrassed, coupled with her character of not admitting defeat, and said, "I'll try again." ”
Okay, just try it. But the more she tried, the more certain Chen Zier was of her judgment, tennis should not be like badminton, you can learn it as soon as you learn it.
"Forget it, the serve is not good, how many back and forth can we play?"
Shi Yang threw the racket on the ground angrily.
Chen Zier asked, "What's wrong with you?" ”
Shi Yangqing said: "I'm going to Europe. ”
"Why?"
"Didn't I tell you?"
Chen Zier remembered it, as if some 'benefactor' had resigned.
"I received an email in the early hours of the morning that Mr. Brian had passed away. ”
Chen Zier: ??
"Brian, is that the one who left, why did he die all of a sudden?"
Shi Yangqing was a little sad, she said: "It's not all of a sudden. Mr. Bryan is already 63 years old, and this departure from the company should be a big blow to him. People sometimes live in the world by a belief, and when the things they remember are gone, the will to survive will be much weaker. ”
That's right......
"So you've been absent-minded lately?"
Shi Yangqing nodded, "Half and half." ”
"And what about the other half?"
Shi Yangqing went to pick up the ball, and then said, "Go up and talk about it." ”
"And tonight......"
It's embarrassing, I still want to play, and I can't serve well.
Chen Zier nodded, "I understand, I understand." ”
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Shi Yangqing's home.
"Mr. Brian's departure...... Actually, it has something to do with me, and I was meant to ...... well-intentioned."
Chen Zier was taken aback, and could only say, "Don't think about it." ”
Shi Yangqing smiled, "The human world is too complicated, so complex that we only rely on intuition to perceive the world, and the result is almost necessarily wrong." ”
Chen Zier: ?
"I think you seem to have a lot of knowledge, do you know the famous 'Prohibition' law in American history?"
Chen Zier shook his head.
"That's the only constitutional amendment in the U.S. that has been revoked in more than 200 years, so if you're patient, can I tell you a story?"
"Willing to listen. ”
Shi Yangqing said: "It was the beginning of the 20th century, when adult women in the United States had the right to vote for the first time, and they hated their husbands for drinking and making trouble, going home and throwing tantrums, and domestic violence, which women hated. ”
So almost all adult women were staunch supporters of the prohibition of alcohol, and politicians finally passed this bill in order to appeal to women. In January 1920, Prohibition came into effect. ”
It makes it illegal to manufacture, sell or even transport beverages with an alcohol content of more than 0.5 per cent. ”
"The original wish of this bill is so good, men drink and make mistakes, and I don't know how much trouble will be avoided after less alcohol, and people imagine how many families can be safe and sound, but do you know what the final result is?
Chen Zier said: "It is forbidden to drink, and people who drink alcohol will buy alcohol from the black market at a high price and drink it secretly." ”
Shi Yangqing praised: "Smart." Not only that, but what is even more exaggerated is that some people actually steal industrial alcohol to drink in order to obtain alcohol. Industrial alcohol is an important industrial raw material, and after repeated bans, President Coolidge publicly declared in the newspaper that industrial alcohol itself is toxic, but is it useful?
"Even in a metropolis like New York, where this kind of information is so well disseminated, 1,200 people stole toxic industrial alcohol that year, resulting in 400 deaths. ”
"The wives of these 400 men, did you say they voted for Prohibition?"
Chen Zier was stunned, "Is there such a thing?"
Shi Yangqing nodded, "The starting point of the prohibition is good, but why does good intentions do bad things?"
Chen Zier remembered what Shi Yangqing said before: the world is too complicated, and the perception of the world based on intuition alone is almost certainly wrong.
He thought for a moment and said, "Maybe it's because our world, whether it's the social structure, the cooperative relationship between people, and each person's own heart, is a very complex thing, and we can see too little just by the intuition that human beings have developed over millions of years." ”
Shi Yangqing said: "Sometimes I think that even smart people can't see the lines clearly, they just see a layer deeper than ordinary people. ”
Chen Zier comforted: "I can't see a lot of things clearly, so why do you have to see it clearly?"
He poured her a glass of water, "These questions are left to philosophical maniacs, you have to think about what to eat every day, how to keep your skin good, your body good, and forever young and beautiful, this is the right thing." ”
Shi Yangqing sneered, "You are a person, people tell you mundane things, you talk about reason, and when I reason with you, you start talking about mundane things again." ”
Chen Zier smiled, "When are you leaving?"
"Tomorrow. ”
"By the way, didn't I tell you the news of Sun Hong's withdrawal?"
Shi Yangqing was stunned for a moment and said, "You did the right thing." ”
"So go and come back quickly. ”
"Good. ”