Chapter 90: Everyone Is in Danger (Part II)
"Moulin Rouge?"
"The most exclusive red light district in Paris."
Chu Tianjiang rolled his eyes and said, "When are we leaving for Shanghai?" β
"Don't rush, you can rest for a few hours." Zhang Xiaogang picked up the brandy on the table and looked at it, then put it down again, probably thinking that the quality of this bottle of wine was too inferior. "If you're not going to sleep, come out with me. You should be in Paris for the first time, right? β
"Okay, I'll go change my clothes."
Chu Tianjiang was indeed the first time to come to Paris. As an active-duty soldier, Chu Tianjiang cannot travel abroad, and will only go abroad when performing overseas missions. The place where the special forces of the Tiger Brigade need to be sent is definitely not a big city like Paris, but the most remote and desolate place in the world.
Before going out, Zhang Xiaogang asked Chu Tianjiang to wear sunglasses specially prepared for him.
When you go out with sunglasses at night, you are either blind or a person with a special identity.
"Where are we going?" After leaving the hotel, Chu Tianjiang asked.
"Wander around, do you want to go to the Moulin Rouge?"
"Of course not, you have to have a goal when you go shopping, right?"
Zhang Xiaogang smiled and said, "It seems that you have never accompanied a woman to go shopping. I bet you used to rarely even go to the mall. β
"I don't have a girlfriend again, and when have you ever seen a big man go to the mall?"
"Yes, a big man should go to a place like the Moulin Rouge."
"Come on, it's your kind of people, not everyone."
"Lao Chu, there are not only Moulin Rouges in Paris, but also many places worth spending time visiting, such as the Champs-ElysΓ©es, such as the Louvre, such as the Pompidou Center, such as Notre Dame Cathedral, such as the Arc de Triomphe, and many more. Each of these places, which embodies the wisdom and painstaking efforts of our ancestors, is a precious treasure of human civilization, worthy of our defense and sacrifice. β
"Lao Zhang, if you want to give me a political lesson, you don't need to arrange it in Paris, right?"
"Okay, let's just hang out." Zhang Xiaogang took a long breath and said, "Let's just say that this Champs-ΓlysΓ©es can make people forget to return." β
Chu Tianjiang had noticed that the streets were lined with shops, and they were mainly luxury goods.
In addition to history and culture, Paris is famous for one thing: fashion. Every year, Paris Fashion Week attracts tens of thousands of celebrities from all over the world. If Paris is the stage for film and television stars, then the Champs-ΓlysΓ©es is the most dazzling T-shape.
After walking a short distance, Chu Tianjiang stopped outside a store selling women's leather bags.
"What, you want to buy something and give it away?"
"No, I'm just looking around."
"Come on, if you want to see it, go in and see." Zhang Xiaogang guessed Chu Tianjiang's thoughts. Although Chu Tianjiang has no girlfriend, he has two women who can't be separated.
There were no customers in the store, only a middle-aged man in his fifties, who seemed to be the owner of the store.
Zhang Xiaogang pushed the door in, and the depressed look on the boss's face was immediately swept away, and he greeted him with a smile, as if no one had come to patronize it for a long time.
"Two distinguished guests, are you going to buy a leather bag for your wife?"
"I'm not a guest, he is." Zhang Xiaogang glanced at Chu Tianjiang.
Although the lights in the store were bright, Chu Tianjiang was still a little unaccustomed to it, so he took off his sunglasses.
"This distinguished guest, do you want to give it to your wife, or do you want to ......" Seeing Chu Tianjiang's appearance clearly, the boss was stunned for a moment, and then reacted, "You...... You are ......"
"Yes, he is." Zhang Xiaogang smiled.
"You are ......" The boss glanced at Zhang Xiaogang a little puzzled, probably thinking that Zhang Xiaogang was also a doomsday warrior.
"I'm a small character, don't care about me."
The boss did think that Zhang Xiaogang was a small character, and immediately put his energy on Chu Tianjiang. "Chu ...... It is a great honor for me to be able to visit our store. I...... On behalf of ......"
"Boss, don't be wordy, we want to buy two ladies' purses."
"Please, it's all new this year. By the way, these two are the most popular and have already sold several. "The owner was very professional." Excuse me, who are you going to buy it for? Is it for Mrs. Chu, or ......"
"Women in their twenties, which ones are more suitable?"
"No problem, these are all suitable. For example, this one, with this year's popular elements, is suitable for professional women, and this one is more natural and suitable for casual use, and the few models here are mainly stable, so ......"
"Lao Chu, what do you think?"
"Me?" Chu Tianjiang was stunned for a moment and said, "I just took a casual look and didn't plan to buy it." β
"The boss is so enthusiastic, if you don't buy it, it will hurt too much."
"Is it possible that when you meet an enthusiastic boss, you have to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy a bag?" Chu Tianjiang has already seen the price tag, the cheapest one costs more than 10,000 euros, and the most expensive one costs tens of thousands of euros. Obviously this is not a women's leather bag with practical significance, but a work of art that should be displayed in a glass case.
"Come on, tens of millions of houses can afford to live in, and do you care about a bag of more than 100,000?"
Chu Tianjiang rolled his eyes and said, "Lao Zhang, you don't know the way, I'm also a poor bastard. I can't afford two with my entire deposit. β
"Do you think it's useful to keep the money?"
Chu Tianjiang wanted to refute, but felt that Zhang Xiaogang's words did make sense.
"Why don't I help you choose?"
"Okay, just don't be too expensive."
"One, or two?"
Chu Tianjiang hesitated for a moment and said, "I don't care, you have the final say." β
"Then two."
Zhang Xiaogang walked around the store and chose two leather bags, one was a bright white satchel and the other was a bright red Xiaokun bag.
Although Chu Tianjiang didn't know anything about women's preferences, he could also see at a glance that Zhang Xiaogang chose these two bags for Lu.
Next, Zhang Xiaogang talked to the boss in French. Chu Tianjiang didn't carry a translator, and he couldn't understand French at all.
After a while, the boss sent over two wrapped ladies' leather bags.
"Stand with the boss." Zhang Xiaogang walked over with a camera.
"What?" Chu Tianjiang looked at him a little puzzled.
"Take a group photo."
"Is it necessary?"
"If I told you that this picture is worth half a million, would you believe it or not?"
"The boss promised a discount?"
"It's not a discount, it's a gift, on the condition that you take a photo with him and sign it."
Chu Tianjiang didn't ask any more questions, and immediately stood with the boss. Before Zhang Xiaogang pressed the shutter, he also smiled, which seemed very natural.
Waiting for the boss to print out the photo, Chu Tianjiang signed his name with a signature pen.
It's just that the owner seems a little disappointed. Zhang Xiaogang muttered to him, and the boss smiled, even happier than when he saw Chu Tianjiang.
Leaving the store, Chu Tianjiang proposed to go back to the hotel to rest.
Zhang Xiaogang did not object, if the shop owner spread the news, I am afraid that it will not be long before they will be surrounded by a crowd of people.
"What did you start talking to your boss?"
"You sign with a pen and the boss is a little disappointed. I told him that this is your only autograph, or the signature on the group photo, which is much more precious than the others. β
"And he's happy?"
"Of course, you saw that." Zhang Xiaogang smiled and said, "Lao Chu, you are now a celebrity in the world, and there are billions of people who worship you, and at least one-tenth of them are your 'fans'." Even those celebrities who are purple and red, I'm afraid they are envious to death. β
"Come on, I don't want to be famous. There is a saying that 'people are afraid of being famous, and pigs are afraid of being strong'. β
"This is not a bad name, in the future, you will be the savior of mankind, a big hero in everyone's mind, much better than an obscure little character like me."
"What if not?"
"Isn't it?" Zhang Xiaogang glanced at Chu Tianjiang and said, "That's okay, at least there won't be any living people coming to you to settle accounts." β
Chu Tianjiang rolled his eyes and said, "To be honest, I really want to change positions with you and let you show up." β
"Come on, I don't have what you do. Besides, if you were to be a commissioner, we would have been done with the Planetary Defense Council. β
Chu Tianjiang smiled, Zhang Xiaogang was right.
"Lao Chu, why did the owner of the store in Zhilu Dao give you these two bags worth 500,000 yuan?"
"My autographed photo is worth more?"
Zhang Xiaogang smiled and said: "When it is difficult, everyone is in danger." If the world realm is about to be destroyed, any luxury that is now will be worthless. If the world is not destroyed, but becomes better, then the only signed group photo of the savior hero will surely be priceless. β
"So, the boss is shrewd."
"It's not that we're smart, it's that everybody is planning for themselves." Zhang Xiaogang sighed and said, "Perhaps, you can't understand why I want to arrange these performances, because you don't think about the problem from everyone's point of view." If more than 8 billion people had all planned for themselves, this world would have been chaotic a long time ago. A pile of loose sand could never build a wall, but the sand held together with cement was very hard. In the face of the catastrophe, human society is a plate of scattered sand, and you, and the hope you bring, are cement. β
Chu Tianjiang didn't say anything, of course he understood this truth.
"Fortunately, at least the two days have been fine." Zhang Xiaogang let out a long breath and said, "Tomorrow, after the last show in Shanghai, the time to test us will come. β
"Return to Diego Garcia?"
Zhang Xiaogang shook his head and said, "I want to return to Diego Garcia, but you don't need to." The Doomsday Force was put into combat readiness after leaving Shanghai. β
"This ......"
"The specific arrangements will be explained to you by Howard at that time."
"Can't tell a little bit about it?"
Zhang Xiaogang smiled and said, "There's nothing to reveal, anyway, you have to cheer up." After tomorrow, you'll be on your own. β
Since Zhang Xiaogang didn't want to say more, Chu Tianjiang didn't ask any more.
It's just that Chu Tianjiang knew that Zhang Xiaogang would not make a special trip to Paris to accompany him to Shanghai, and there must be more important things.