Chapter 135: A Valuable Gift

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The owner of this "Argentine club" is an Argentine, but it is said that the actual person in charge of the latter is the nephew of a major minister of the previous dynasty, it stands to reason that with this relationship, the club will not be too depressed, but I don't know why, compared to the other ones on Jing'an Temple Road, it is always a little worse.

It's okay to have fun with friends three or five times, but whether it's fun or not is the key to whether you can retain guests.

At the beginning of the opening, a few red dancers were poached from other dance halls with high salaries, and the club was simply overcrowded every night, but later one of them, Miss Min, known as the "Queen of Dance", was shot dead in public by her old love in the venue, and that popularity plummeted.

Liao Wanyu walked beside Zhang Dingyun, looking at the club's dΓ©cor as she walked, and the blonde woman who spoke fluent Chinese in front of them was the owner Luciana that the club had always claimed to be public.

The owner of the club is a woman, and Liao Wanyu didn't think about it at all before she met her.

"Amor hasn't been feeling well for the past two days, I'll show you around."

Liao Wanyu didn't know who she was talking about, so she glanced at Zhang Dingyun, only to see Zhang Dingyun nodded, "Except for the body, it's all small things, and it's important to take care of your illness." ”

Luciana's skin is not white, compared to the Russian women Liao Wanyu has seen, it is even dark, but her skin is shiny and dark.

"The first floor is a dance hall, and it doesn't seem to be any different from other people's homes." Luciana spread her hands and shrugged, "The second floor has a gaming table." She took Zhang Dingyun and Liao Wanyu to the second floor, standing by the railing and looking down at the empty dance floor on the first floor, "The third floor is the banquet hall, and the fourth and fifth floors are hotels. ”

Liao Wanyu held on to the white-painted wooden railing with one hand, scanned the dance floor downstairs from left to right, and finally turned around and looked at the gambling tables in the hall on the second floor.

Everything is sleek, and this five-storey American-style mansion is undoubtedly luxurious inside and out.

"If there's no difference, why would anyone else have to come here?" Liao Wanyu thought of it and asked directly.

Luciana let out a long "hmm", "I'm not actually a businessman, but Amor is not in good health, although I can help him take care of it, but ...... I just can't do more. Trouble Tang Gong is also a last resort. ”

Only then did Liao Wanyu figure out who the "Amor" in her mouth was, and then thought of Li Jingping's body as a wheelchair for many years and the pain that was said to be alleviated by a large cigarette cream.

Li Jingping and the former important minister are uncles and nephews, and Tang Tingou is willing to come forward, and it is precisely this kind of relationship that he sees. After all, when he was young, he was indeed taken care of by that important minister.

Although the person is no longer there, he Tang Tingou still remembers that kindness, and it is good for him not to come forward and hand it over to his apprentice.

"Let's go, let's go upstairs and sit down, although I'm not used to eating, but the cook is from the palace, and everyone says it's good."

Luciana made a gesture of invitation and led the two to a small box in the banquet hall on the third floor, before they took their seats, and then waiters rushed in, serving more than a dozen kinds of snacks and serving three pots of tea.

Liao Wanyu and Zhang Dingyun came with breakfast, and they couldn't eat anything, so they each chose their favorite tea and tasted it slowly.

"I don't want to overwhelm anyone, I just want not to disappoint Amor. He...... I don't know how much longer, and I don't want to disappoint him. ”

Luciana's three-dimensional face showed a little helplessness, and she reached out to stroke the ends of her curly hair, "Please help me." ”

Zhang Dingyun is a player, Shanghai's large and small dance halls and clubs, except for the smoky miasma downstairs in Shikumen, but there is no one he has not been to, what is interesting about each family, he is very clear, "Seeing that the weather is about to be hot, if there is any way to cool off, are you still worried that the sons and brothers who are afraid of the heat will not come?" ”

He told the truth, as a ballroom club, the most sorrowful thing is summer, in winter is not afraid of cold, there are hot water and charcoal basins left and right, but in the summer it is very helpless to heat up, dozens of hundreds of people, jumping and jumping, even if the house is placed with big ice cubes, it is useless.

"Isn't it okay to have a fan? I can go and order a batch right away. Luciana had seen that thing a few years ago, but Li Jingping was weak, afraid of the wind in winter and summer, and did not install it at home.

"Ballrooms and casinos have to be installed, that will be a large number of goods, Shanghai is not so much stock, order not two months to a month, when the time is in the installation, I am afraid that a summer will be delayed."

When it comes to doing business, timing matters.

"Since it can't be cool here, why don't you find a cool place?" Liao Wanyu tilted her head, not understanding why she had to change the current environment, "Summer is only three months, and when the foreign goods come, they will pass, isn't it time to miss the opportunity again?" ”

Zhang Dingyun came into contact with Liao Wanyu these days, and found that her brain was very active, and she would listen to her say this, and let her say.

"Although I am not familiar with Shanghai, I want to come to some naturally cool places, rather than go to the trouble of waiting for foreign goods, why not find a suitable place to decorate a little? Whether it's gambling or dancing, it's a lively thing to think about. After she finished speaking, she looked at Zhang Dingyun, asking for his opinion.

Zhang Dingyun did not deny it, but gave her a look and encouraged her to continue, "I was wandering a few days ago, passing by Fengzhao Park, and in the evening, a cool breeze blew on the Huangpu River, and the ground was also a cement, isn't it?" ”

When Liao Wanyu said this, a picture had already appeared in her mind, so she described what she was thinking to Luciana and Zhang Dingyun.

"As it gets dark, we can pitch a few sheds in the park, with colorful neon bulbs hanging from the trees and around them, bands playing dance music, and dancers spinning in the cool breeze to the rhythm. Isn't it more affordable than ordering a large number of foreign goods? ”

Zhang Dingyun only took her to the dance venue once, but he didn't expect her to come up with such a good idea, "The open-air dance hall is a good idea, and no one else has done this before, so it's going to be a sensation." Although the cement is not as good as the waxed spring floor, we can sprinkle some talcum powder, and it will be convenient to dance and move. ”

Luciana was overjoyed, and she also felt that this idea was wonderful, and suddenly understood why Liao Wanyu could become Tang Tingou's apprentice, "Then I will start preparing in the past few days, seeing that it is getting hotter and hotter, this matter cannot be delayed." ”

Zhang Dingyun and Liao Wanyu originally came to help Li Jingping, who was behind Luciana, come up with ideas to repay the favor for the master, and how to prepare the open-air dance arena in the future has little to do with them.

The two left the "Argentine club" and did not go back to the Tang Mansion directly, but drove to Ningbo Road, which has a few acres of land bought by Tang Ting Oucai, and has not yet decided what to use.

When the two arrived, they saw Xu Zhiyuan and Xu Taipan of Chase Bank standing beside Tang Tingou, not knowing what to say.

There are many banks in Shanghai, among which foreign capital is the most vigorous, mainly because foreign banks have abundant funds, and in this troubled era, political power overlaps, and financial turmoil may come at any time.

But as Shanghai's leading foreign bank, Chase's Xu Taipan also has his own people he wants to woo, except for bureaucrats and warlords, successful businessmen like Tang Tingou are the best customer targets.

It's a pity that Tang Tingou's deposits have only been deposited in the banks founded by the Chinese themselves over the years, and the one with the most money is the Salt Industry Bank founded by Zhang Dingyun's family.

"Master." Liao Wanyu got out of the car and trotted all the way to Tang Tingou's side.

Tang Tingou didn't take the initiative to introduce Xu Zhiyuan, but Liao Wanyu had met him in the dance hall before, and he greeted him politely at the moment.

Xu Zhiyuan has wanted to see Tang Tingou alone for a long time, and this time it was also an accidental encounter, seeing that Zhang Dingyun was not there, he hurried up and invited him to come to Chase to make a deposit, but he didn't expect that Zhang Dingyun would come before he could say a few words.

Xu Zhiyuan, who missed the opportunity, was not reconciled, although he politely said goodbye on this day, he had a new idea in his heart.

So much so that when Liao Wanyu received the call, she was very surprised.

Xu Daban's spirit, Liao Wanyu has seen it. In the dance hall before, there were only three or four small businessmen and directors of small domestic banks who courted him, but fortunately, this person was public, and the small round platform on the edge of the big dance floor gave her a chance to gain knowledge.

Such a spirited person, he actually called Tang's house today, and when the housekeeper answered the phone, he deliberately concealed his real name, saying that it was Liao Wanyu's tailor's shop that made clothes, until Liao Wanyu came to answer the phone in person, and then he told the truth.

Xu Zhiyuan's tone on the phone was very good, and the kind Liao Wanyu was inexplicable, she really didn't know that she was a nobody, where it was worth Xu Zhiyuan to spare time to invite her to lunch.

"Xu Daban, what is the matter with you, but if you are looking for my master or senior brother, I ......"

Before she finished speaking, she was interrupted by that side, Xu Zhiyuan was very persistent, and even said that she could cooperate with Liao Wanyu's time, which made her feel that the problem was even more difficult.

After hanging up, she stood in place for several minutes, although Xu Zhiyuan repeatedly told her not to tell others, she still wondered whether to tell Zhang Dingyun or Tang Tingou about it.

It wasn't until the evening two days later that Liao Wanyu looked at the pastel landscape pen holder in Xu Zhiyuan's box on the table during the Yongzheng period, and felt that it was a very correct choice for her to tell her senior brother about it.

In these days, most of the gifts are ornaments in the Qianlong period, one is because there are many objects, the price is fair and you can buy good things as soon as one hundred yuan, and the other is that the market is wide, and it is easier for people to sell it.

But in the Yongzheng period, if there is no important thing to ask for, it must be a very good relationship, after all, the age is short, and there are not many imperial kilns burned in total, and the value can be much higher than that of the Qianlong period.

Liao Wanyu obviously didn't have much of a good relationship with Xu Zhiyuan, who met for the third time, so what she couldn't figure out was what she could do for him, it was worth him to send an official kiln pen holder from the Yongzheng period.