Chapter 14: Into the Ballroom
The Charm of Dance bar is full of smoke and miasma, and there is a mixture of fish and dragons. It's a low-to-mid-end nightclub, where people sing and dance, gamble*, drink and fight, and are full of people of all religions. The candle stand was lit, the sheet music was laid out in front of me, and the orchestra playing the accordion and cello was the only bright spot, but it was often interrupted, and some drunkard forced him to pour two glasses, and then returned to his seat and continued to play again, and after a while, it was out of tune.
Even the girls brought with them, a total of more than 30 people, sat at six tables, called draft beer, and drank five or six.
Liao Xuebing ordered a sashimi oyster, a spicy pomfret fillet, and a bowl of rice, and ate it by himself. The oysters are dipped in mustard and put into the mouth, which is pungent and smooth, and the pomfret is cut into thin slices, tender and delicious, and I can't help but exclaim: "Damn, it's a hundred times better than instant noodles." ”
"Brother Bing, you are so hungry, which company do you work as a cleaner?, is the salary not enough for expenses?" said Scarface Nie Ningsheng.
"you, don't disturb Lao Tzu's appetite. Liao Xuebing ordered another cheese grilled scallop. "It tastes good, but it's a pity that the amount is too small. Xiaobai, how many Japanese restaurants do we have on Suzaku Street? Tomorrow I will bring a few brothers to inform them that they will start collecting protection money. ”
Ye Xiaobai smiled, cocked his thumb and said, "Brother Bing, I've been looking forward to your words for a long time." "Due to the suppression of the police, the biker party will not be too arrogant, and the specific business is concentrated in bars, nightclubs, bathing and massage centers, and has never been involved in the catering industry.
"You're already the boss, you can make up your own mind, why wait for me? By the way, warn you again, you can't come and harass me unless I take the initiative to find you in the future. My job is related to the future of the country and the fate of the earth, and I cannot afford to miss a moment. Liao Xuebing didn't raise his head, he ate happily, and the juice splashed everywhere.
"I told you a long time ago that you are responsible for maintaining world peace. Ye Xiaobai said seriously, and the other brothers at the same table laughed. Teaching and educating people can involve words such as "future" and "future", and the students who have undergone education will also have an impact on society, but they are magnified many times by him.
While he was having a good meal, someone came up to him with two boys dressed in fashionable clothes.
"Cross-eyed, why don't you dance and hook your sister?" Liao Xuebing took out a toothpick and picked his teeth very inelegantly.
"Big brother, I have two new younger brothers, I want to see the world. The guy nicknamed Dou Dou Eyed sneered, "Ji Ming, Anzi, are you going to toast Brother Bing Xiaobai?"
The two boys were only sixteen or seventeen years old, dressed strangely, and knew at a glance that they were rebellious students, and they were very excited to see Liao Xuebing, and they poured wine with both hands, and shouted respectfully: "Brother Bing!
"Cross-eyed, didn't I say, you can't provoke students, they are still children. ”
"Big, big brother, they read asshole books and often cause trouble at school, I think it's better to follow us, so as to save yourself from cheating, kidnapping and doing all kinds of bad things. ”
Liao Xuebing ignored him anymore and said to Ji Ming in front of him: "Child, which school do you attend?"
Ji Ming scratched his head a little embarrassed: "Brother Bing, I am in my third year of high school at Longwangshan Middle School, not far from the famous Tulip High School on Yuanhu Road. "Ji Ming is a gangster in the school, fighting, fighting, extortion and extortion, doing everything, and on weekdays, he pulls a ticket for his followers, and is overbearing, arresting and beating whom. He is rebellious, yearning for the exciting life depicted in the movie, after all, the school is a small fight, and he admires the real underworld gangs tightly, once his cousin introduced him to the cross-eyed as the boss, so he thought he was a gangster, and then he saw the boss's boss, and couldn't help but make childish moves.
This pale man with black-rimmed glasses is really the boss of Brother Cockfight, and he looks even more gentle than our teacher.
Liao Xuebing said in his heart: Not far from Tulip High School?
There was an uproar on the dance floor, with three or four gangsters punching and kicking a middle-aged man. "Hey, that old boy is a little familiar, cross-eyed, you take the little brother to help him, yes, it's the middle-aged uncle in a suit, don't cripple people." ”
The cross-eyed battle quickly stopped the conflict and brought the man over. The two students are full of lust, relying on the name of the biker party, fighting majesticly, and acting like gangster heroes.
"I said, why are you again?" Liao Xuebing drank a glass of beer and looked at the man in front of him in surprise.
This man is the poor man who was beaten up when Lao Liao first appeared in the Nightingale Bar. His face was bruised and swollen, his suit was torn a few times, he was very embarrassed, and he said kind words of gratitude to cross-eyed. Cross-eyed smiled: "Our boss is waiting for you, he said he wants to help you." ”
The middle-aged man breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Liao Xuebing, but his expression was even more embarrassed: "Hehe, it's you......"
Dressed and sat down, Liao Xuebing handed him a cup of draft beer: "Why did you get into trouble with hooligans again?"
The middle-aged man drank dry, sighed, and said, "I was supposed to pick up a girl in a dignified manner, but suddenly a person came over and said that I soaked him and horses, and then that's it." ”
"Next time you are looking for joy on Suzaku Street, remember to report my name Liao Xuebing, no one dares to touch you. ”
"I said it earlier, I don't need to be so passive. My name is Yi Jianbo, a staff member of the Beicheng District Education Bureau, and I will take care of you. Secretly thinking that the other party is an underworld gang, and the identity of his education department has never had anything to do with them, it seems that he can't repay it, so he called the bartender and said very arrogantly: "Serve beer, drink as much as you want, I will pay the bill." ”
The bar was noisy, Liao Xuebing couldn't hear what he was talking about for a while, and he didn't take it to heart, and said with a smile: "There are more than 30 of us, even if one person drinks two glasses, you will definitely not be able to stand it, don't be reckless, which girl you like should go clubbing quickly." "A cup of draft beer costs 20 yuan, and two glasses for one person will cost more than 1,000 yuan.
"Hey, it's okay, it's okay. I was ostracized and belittled in the unit all day long, to put it mildly, I lived like a dog, and I was too depressed to go to the bar to get drunk. Money, there is still a little bit, enough to pay the bill, Xiao Liao, don't worry. ”
Ye Xiaobai and others looked for him to fight, Liao Xuebing was tired for a day, where was their opponent, he wanted to slip away but was always blocked by his brothers and couldn't get out, and he was afraid of hurting his feelings, until five o'clock in the morning, when the sky began to brighten, he swayed his drunken body back to the apartment.
I couldn't sleep for a few minutes before I was woken up by the alarm clock, remembering that I was on the first day of work today, and I didn't dare to be careless at the moment, so I hurriedly dressed and washed my face and went out. In the corridor, I met the girl who was beaten by her boyfriend last night, and smiled apologetically at him: "Morning!"
"Well, morning, where do you work?" Liao Xuebing entered the elevator with her.
Except for the black green slap print on her face, the girl didn't look like anything unusual, wearing a neat gray professional suit, smiling lightly, revealing two charming dimples: "Thank you last night, I worked as a clerk in the print media advertising company on Yueshi Road, what about you?"
"Oh, I am a people's teacher, the spring silkworm to the end of the silkworm, the wax torch to ashes and tears to dry is a true portrayal of me. ”
"Are you a teacher?" the girl was very surprised, her mouth opened wide, her eyes were full of disbelief, and the meaning in her tone seemed to say: "Isn't being a teacher like you as an idiot winning the Nobel Prize in Physics as dismaying?"
Liao Xuebing basically ignored her reaction: "If you have a son, you can rest assured that you can hand it over to me, and I will teach him to be a pillar of society." ”
The girl covered her mouth and smiled, and said, "Mr. Liao, you are so funny." ”
Liao Xuebing didn't continue to ask her about her boyfriend, after all, it was someone's private matter, and it was not good to ask too much. After breaking up downstairs, he drove to Tulip High School, all the way to the excitement, the electric car drove fast, the trees and pedestrians kept moving backwards, the cool morning breeze kissed his heart, happy as if an old bachelor had finally married his daughter-in-law.
Today is September 19th, Thursday, students have started classes at eight o'clock, the campus is very quiet, and the sound of reading is heard from time to time.
"Mr. Principal, my specialty is Chinese, which class do you want me to be assigned to?" Liao Xuebing, who came to the call, sat opposite the principal, tasting the Tieguanyin he used to entertain guests, and thought: "The old guy does have a bit of taste, and he drinks good tea." Even people like Liao Xuebing, whose taste buds have been ruined by alcohol, can taste how fragrant and sweet the turquoise tea is.
The new young man is really motivated, and the first thing he asks when he meets is about the assignment of work. However, the principal still hoped to take the initiative in this conversation, and he glanced at Liao Xuebing with a little displeasure: "Xiao Liao, why do you smell of alcohol?"
Liao Xuebing smiled: "Yesterday, I was preparing for class very late, thinking of the current situation of the school, I couldn't help but worry, and drank a few more glasses." ”
"Well," the principal nodded, "Drink less in the future, and be a role model for students as a teacher." First of all, let's familiarize ourselves with the functions and personnel relations of the school. Of course, the principal is the soul and core of the whole school, and all work should be carried out around the principal......" Liao Xuebing scolded in his heart: "You braggart and shameless old liar, you still have a board of directors on your head!"