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"Eh, look, that's 'Second Miss Xiacheng' Zhong Min, she came to this place at this time, I'm afraid something will happen again."

Before three o'clock in the afternoon, Zhong Min led Zhong Li and Yuan Xian to the hippie bar in Xiacheng District. Although this is the least crowded time here, there are still a lot of idle thugs who sit here as soon as the bar opens, and of course many of them are the eyes of the gangs.

"The one next to her is his brother, I remember his name is Zhong Li, in the early years, when the second lady was not too mixed, he also came over from time to time to support the scene, but now I haven't seen him for many years, I don't know what he came to do this time."

There were some self-proclaimed old birds in the corner, and when they saw the excitement, they told the newcomer, "That thin and tall girl looked at Miansheng, and the specific situation will depend on who will come in a while." ”

Zhong Min has long been accustomed to such a squirming voice, and wherever she goes in Xiacheng, she is indispensable for other people's discussions.

"Uncle Seven, give me a secluded place, and let's talk about something today. You should recognize this person who came after a while, a figure who hasn't shown up for many years. She said to the silver-gray man with his back at the bar.

"Oh." The man called Uncle Seven slowly put down the shiny goblet in his hand, walked out of the bar, and asked the apprentice to continue his work with a look. "Then return the small one."

"Cheng, you arrange."

Uncle Seven waited for a peaceful smile, walked in front of the three of them, and led everyone to a small room very close. "What's the trouble you're getting in again?" He glanced at Zhong Li and then asked Zhong Min.

"It's a blessing and not a curse. If something really happens, Uncle Seven won't patronize me and carry me out. ”

"Second Miss is joking, you don't do unruly things, who else in the lower city will do to you right now?"

"I think so too, but when you see that person in a while, you don't necessarily think so."

Uncle Seven smiled and said nothing, with his experience, he wanted to go through the characters with heads and faces in Xiacheng City from his mind, I was afraid that he would think of it when it was dark. With one hand, he slowly pushed open the black-lacquered tin door with sailor's round windows and graffiti on musical instruments, and half-bowed to lead the three of them into a cabin with two two-seaters, two leather sofas, and a half-height coffee table. "What do you want today?"

"Let's get lemonade first, I need to stay awake for a while."

The seventh uncle smiled goodbye to the three.

As soon as he walked back to the bar, Uncle Seven saw a woman wearing a small white cardigan, a black dark rose pattern dress, and a small white gold-rimmed hat walking into the store. Compared to the discussion around Zhong Min when she entered the store just now, except for a few little ghosts looking at her with squinting eyes, she didn't attract much attention.

However, when Uncle Seven looked at her a second time, he almost broke the glass in his hand, which is an act of retirement for an old bartender. The woman noticed that Uncle Seven had changed from surprise to mixed feelings, so she walked to the bar with light steps.

"Long time no see, Uncle Seven."

Uncle Seven put the cup down steadily before raising his head. "You might as well call me Ah Qi, Miss Gu Yu."

"I'm afraid of calling myself old." Gu Yu's three fingers pinched the glass that Uncle Seven had just wiped, and shook it against the dim light. "Long Island Iced Tea."

"Have you changed your taste?" Uncle Seven's standard smile still hung on his face, but if you looked closely, you could see that the corners of his mouth were shaking.

Gu Yu placed the cup in front of him, then stretched out his hand and deliberately scooped out seven pieces of ice from the box of ice cubes that were not close, and then put them into the glass one by one. "Doesn't it depend on who concocts it?" After a pause, she asked, "Are they coming?" ”

Although he didn't mention a word, Uncle Seven also knew that Gu Yu was the old acquaintance Zhong Min said just now. "I'll take you there."

After the figures of the two gradually disappeared into the dim and long corridor, the newcomers began to ask their masters, "Who is this woman", "Why did Uncle Seven let her call Ah Qi", "Why did Uncle Seven react like this", "Why did you come here to order such a cheesy wine as Long Island Iced Tea" and so on. Many self-proclaimed old birds can't say why they face such a problem.

At this moment, a man sitting alone in a corner, wearing a gray-green tattered trench coat, drinking the cheapest wine, slowly stood up, walked to a place where everyone could see, and asked slowly and solemnly in a gloomy tone: "Haven't you heard the story of 'Death in the Lower City'?" After saying that, he dragged his obscure body and walked out with a sneer.

There was a sudden silence in all directions, and the chicks looked inexplicably at the empty tin door, and the slender and dazzling light flickered through the door.

"What is this man talking about?"

Some people couldn't help laughing, but when they turned around, they saw the old bird whose eyes had shown vicissitudes of life at the moment, his face was pale, and his forehead was sweating.

"I'm afraid I've touched the mold today!"

2

With the help of Gu Yu's seven ice cubes, add gin, rum, vodka, tequila, and then with the vicissitudes of life, half a cut lemon is squeezed out of almost all the juice. A spoonful of Cointreau, two teaspoons of granulated sugar, and a little more than a third of the newly opened Coke......

Long Island Iced Tea, a drunken cocktail, may be regarded as the tackiest drink by people who come to this bar to deliberately taste Uncle Seven's mixology, or to listen to the anecdotes of the lower city. But an old bird may know that when Uncle Seven was still called Ah Qi, he relied on the Long Island iced tea tree with a thousand cups a night to make a name, and finally earned this bar.

Black tea generally swayed in the dim light with reddish-brown dots, and Long Island Iced Tea was placed in front of Gu Yu. Gu Yu pinched the mouth of the cup with his small hand, and sent the cold wine into a big sip, the sweet aroma of the mouth was followed by the fresh lemon aroma and the mellowness of the wine, and then the hot alcohol slowly began to attack, gradually warming the whole body from the mouth.

Gu Yu exhaled a faint smell of wine, raised the corners of his mouth and said to Uncle Seven: "It is worthy of 'breaking a hundred bodies in a thousand cups in one night', after so many years, the craftsmanship is still the same." ”

"Isn't it all drinks in front of Miss Gu Yu?" Uncle Seven lowered his gray head and said modestly, he kept observing Zhong Min who was sitting on the opposite side with his spare eyes, although this little girl has not been here for a long time, it is rare to see her so flustered as today. Although she was still smiling, she had half a cup of ice lemonade, and there were a lot of beads of sweat on her forehead.

"Don't bother you to get down to business, if you need to call me again."

Gu Yu nodded, and watched the seventh uncle leave, so the air in the small room began to condense again. Gu Yu was sitting on a spacious two-seater sofa, directly opposite Zhong Li, and next to him was Yuan Xian. Zhong Min sat on the single sofa chair with his back to the door, and the sofa chair facing the door no one dared to worry about it except Gu Yu. After Gu Yu entered the house, after greeting Zhong Li, the four of them looked at each other like this in the ten minutes that Uncle Seventh had been talking about the wine.

Zhong Li's palms were also sweating, although he was not as afraid of Gu Yu as his sister, nor was he like Yuan Xian, who didn't know what to say at all, but the three acquaintances only stared at him in front of him, which made him feel embarrassed.

"Listen to my sister," he still thinks he should open his mouth first, "The people who can let Uncle Seven make Long Island iced tea don't seem to be ordinary people." ”

"Say I'm old?" Gu Yu deliberately replied angrily, and when he saw Zhong Li's dark nervousness, he immediately laughed again, "Okay, look at you, I'm indeed a regular customer here, as for it?" ”

The sentence "As for it" made Zhong Li not know what to take for a while, if he followed the legends that his sister talked about before, I am afraid that there is nothing to do. He stubbornly continued to ask, "Then you have been in Downtown before?"

"It's work just like today."

Zhong Li knew that he was not good at asking what kind of work it was, so he turned to pick up the topic: "Then what are you going to do today?"

As soon as he mentioned this, Zhong Min and Yuan Xian immediately pricked up their ears and prepared to listen, but Gu Yu laughed after observing this scene. "Didn't you tell them? It's been waiting for me to talk about it for a long time? She dealt with it so easily, but it was as if she was teasing Zhong Li.

Seeing this situation, Yuan Xian couldn't help it, "He told me, don't you want to see my dad, and then don't let him do that artificial intelligence human learning system?" ”

Seeing that Yuan Xian went straight to the point, Zhong Min sat even further forward, eager to get up from the sofa and take a closer look at Gu Yu's reaction, but seeing that Gu Yu's expression did not move, he replied calmly: "It's almost."

"Then why don't you look for him directly, you have to find me through Zhong Li, and then find my father through me?"

"Ling Zun shouldn't be easy to persuade, right? It was his hard work that I asked him to give up. ”

"So you want us to help you persuade?"

Gu Yu nodded his head, "At the same time, it is also to see the reactions of the people around him." ”

Yuan Qian thought for a while and decided to ask, "Can you tell me who you're working for?" ”

"Doesn't it seem insincere when I say no?" Although she received an affirmative answer from the eyes of the three people, she still smiled apologetically, "But it can't be helped, I really don't work for anyone, if there is, I should be for the future of mankind." She added self-deprecatingly: "Am I stupid to say that?" I can't stand it myself. But what was in her deep eyes was a very long loneliness.

Zhong Li saw this loneliness, but Yuan Xian replied first: "Since you say so, it should be clear that if you don't talk to me about this, I shouldn't agree to help you, after all, I know very well what my dad thinks, and I won't stand on the opposite side of him." ”

Gu Yu sighed lightly, although she knew that this was an inevitable reaction to being a girl, she still felt a little troublesome. "Didn't Zhong Li tell you the reason why I did this?"

He said. But he said that he said that he wanted to dissuade my dad, so I would help him now. But now you want me to help you, so I have to listen to you and find out what you think. I know who Zhong Li is, if he says that this thing can't be done, I believe that his reason is valid. If you say you can't do it, then you have to give me a reason to believe you. ”

"That's it?"

"That's all."

Yuan Xian's eyes with dark red and like fire, looked at each other with Gu Yu's dark and deep, like a hundred years of wind and frost, and for a while they collided and rolled like ice and fire, making the atmosphere in the room suffocating like fierce convection.

Zhong Min broke out in a cold sweat on the side, she searched for various words to ease the tense atmosphere, but she immediately understood that whether it was the powerful aura emanating from Gu Yu's calm or Yuan Xian's desperate and determined eyes, she couldn't find a force that could dissolve it, and this was not destined to be a conversation that she could interject.