Chapter 41: Between Ideal and Reality (2)

Meng Tianci shook her head helplessly, walked into the room to change her clothes, and walked downstairs with her. They walked along the side of the road, and before they knew it, they were in the square in front of the Walmart supermarket. Today a stage was set up here, with two speakers next to it, and a few wires taped to the floor. Between the two big trees, a rope was pulled, and a red banner hung on it: Tianzhi Community Music Festival.

From the professional point of view of the marketing department, the layout here is really rough and not worth seeing, and it is full of faults. Meng Tianci shook his head at the thought that suddenly popped up in his heart: Hey, the occupational disease of the marketing commissioner has been committed again.

Looks like it's time to catch the festival today. Yu Qi took Meng Tianci's arm and wanted to stay here and watch.

Sure enough, a host in a long yellow dress came to the stage to announce the start of the festival.

As the music started, more and more people gathered around the square. people already like group activities, especially all kinds of onlookers and watching the excitement. Now there is a lively scene with content, depth and fun, how can it not make people happy?

Yu Qi and Meng Tianci, who were originally standing in the front row, were slowly squeezed out of the circle by the enthusiastic audience who gathered around. They smiled helplessly at each other and tacitly decided to leave the place. But I saw a well-dressed beggar begging for everyone.

Meng Tianci touched his pocket, found a few "steel hammers", and was ready to wait for him to come over and hand them over to him before leaving.

The beggars "worked diligently" along the road and walked unhurriedly towards them. Several assistant stewards and police officers walked towards the beggar, tacitly forming an encirclement: they appeared to be preparing to arrest him and take him to the shelter to return to his hometown.

It was too late, but it was too soon, and when the beggar saw them out of the corner of his eye, he lay down on the ground at once, foaming at the mouth, and convulsed, and showed the appearance of the epileptic patient to the fullest. In the face of this situation, the police are also used to it. They were not annoyed, so they gathered around the beggar, laughed and mocked a few words, and watched his performance.

The beggar finally got tired of the performance, and he lay on the ground and squinted at his surroundings, which were surrounded by pillars, as if he did not see his uniformed legs. He sat up slowly, and was about to pat his ass and stand up, only to find that the police were in the crowd. He immediately wanted to lie down and perform again as usual, but was ordered: "Go! He didn't know if he had no strength, or if he also felt that this kind of performance was not new, so he followed the police without saying a word and in disgrace.

When Meng Tianci and Yu Qi saw this scene, they felt that their originally good hearts were hit with a heavy hammer. Not because they didn't do good, but because their kindness was taken advantage of.

All of a sudden, news flashed into the media about the beggar group deliberately mutilating children and the elderly, forcing them to beg on the streets. Yu Qi thought that after the winter vacation of her freshman year, she took a long-distance bus to Shanghai alone and was stopped by a woman holding a dark and thin child. The woman begged her to give her fifty dollars for the passage home. She looked at the child pitifully, and immediately took out a red old man's head from her purse and gave it to the woman. She told the woman to buy more food for the child.

But after returning to the dormitory, Liu Yang listened to it and scolded her for being brainless and being deceived by others. She thought that if she could make the child better, it would not hurt if she was really cheated.

But seeing this beggar's performance today, her sympathy for these weak people was shattered at once. It turns out that the poor man really must have something to hate.

"Without charity, there is no harm." Suddenly, two PSA sentences were merged in her mind out of place.

Two people who went out for a walk happily suddenly became dull and sullen because of a farce that had nothing to do with them.

Gotta find something to make people happy. Meng Tianci thought to himself.

"Let's go have a big dinner!" I saw Meng Tianci building a high-rise building not far away. Previously, Meng Tianci planned to invite his beauty to the rooftop western restaurant of this high-end hotel to celebrate on the day Yu Qi returned to the Kute marketing department for internship. It's a pity that the two of them were in a cold war by the kid named Wang Dong at that time, so they were in no mood.

Suddenly it rained, and the people who were laughing and watching the performance scattered in all directions. The performance on the stage also stopped abruptly. The performers and organizers packed up one after another, lest the electronic audio equipment and musical instruments get wet.

Meng Tianci and Yu Qi walked quickly to the tall building. Happily walked to the western restaurant. When the manager on duty of the restaurant saw them, he did not enthusiastically make a gesture of "please", but put on a regretful expression: sue them - the restaurant is not open to the public tonight because it has been chartered.

The two of them thought of the rain outside, and begged the restaurant manager to give them a corner seat.

At this time, a group of guests who had come to celebrate their birthday came from the elevator, and the manager on duty asked them to leave in embarrassment.

Yu Qi's personality of not admitting defeat was ignited again. She walked up to the foreigner, who was crowded in, and asked in English for them to take shelter from the rain and eat in the restaurant. They will never disturb their birthday party.

“Whynot?” The Englishman readily agreed.

Meng Tianci chose a window seat in the corner, where the night view of Shanghai could have been unobstructed, but now the floor-to-ceiling glass windows are entangled by raindrops, making the night Shanghai outside look hazy.

Yu Qi has always disliked rain, not because of the inconvenience of traveling, but because she hates the dark world brought to her by dark clouds mixed with huge raindrops. Probably because she was born in winter, she received less sunlight as an infant.

So, once in the daytime when there is no sunlight, her mood will become very bad for no reason.

Yu Qi looked out the window, and she felt that Shanghai in the rain seemed to be filled with a depressing and tense atmosphere. Just like her mood right now, irritable and depressed.

The "Happy Birthday Song" sounded in the restaurant, ah, ** is coming. Yu Qi, like Meng Tianci, couldn't help but look for the birthday star in the restaurant. Ah, it turns out that the Englishman who just agreed to their request is indeed today's birthday star.

Europeans have always spoken softly and civilly in public. But now that they had chartered the room, the joy and excitement of the young people did not need to be deliberately hidden or suppressed: the cheers of the people at that table rang out several times in the restaurant.

After the food was served, the restaurant remembered the sound of clear music, and the group of young people found a dance partner in pairs and danced together in the center of the restaurant.

Yu Qi and Meng Tianci also wanted to join their team together, but unfortunately there was no invitation, and they were embarrassed to disturb other people's birthday parties recklessly.

The two looked at each other desolate and smiled, silently eating the steak on their plates, waiting for the rain outside to stop.

Yu Qi regretted a little why she had asked to stay here to dine before. Is it something that can't be obtained, which can always inspire her to work hard to get it?

She was bored as she cut the veal steak on the plate, and casually glanced up, just in time to see a Chinese boy suddenly kiss the opposite dance partner on the cheek with an excited and shy expression, and the English girl seemed surprised by the surprise attack, and wanted to stay away from him with a look of disgust. But for the sake of face, I had to finish this dance with this boy.

Yu Qi "cut" the boy. Probably some American dramas make Chinese men mistakenly think that Western women are very open, in fact, Yu Qi, who has studied Western literature, knows that most European and American girls are also very single-minded and only have intimate physical contact with their lovers.

Yu Qi's mood was even worse: she felt that the faces of the Chinese had been lost by this boy.