The Shanghai Club is a building that is wide from east to west and narrow from north to south, with ten suites on each side of the north and south sides of the third floor, and only seven rooms on the façade facing the Huangpu River facing east. Three of them are located on Greek temple-like porticos protruding from the entire façade, while the other four are flanked on either side of the portico, with a central triangular rome as the central axis, forming a strict symmetry. Gao Yi's suite is the northernmost of the seven rooms.

Ascending from the large escalator leading to the third floor, there is first an entrance hallway, flanked by cloister entrances leading to the rooms on the north and south sides, and a double-open door in front of it, flanked by several hoop chairs, on which sat four attendants.

Seeing Gao Yi coming up the stairs, several waiters jumped up as if they had springs on their buttocks, two of them opened the door, and one of them led the way in front with a key. Outside the door is a horizontal corridor, and turning left along the horizontal corridor to the end is Gao Yi's room.

The members' suites of the Shanghai Federation are all the same style, all the rooms are arranged in a '1' shape, the entrance is a small dining room, the small dining room is followed by a cloakroom, one corner of the cloakroom is a fully enclosed toilet with wooden boards, there is a bathtub outside the toilet, only a wooden screen is slightly separated from the surroundings, and after passing through the cloakroom is the study and living room, which is the main activity space of the suite owner.

Membership suites do not have bedrooms, because it is impossible to imagine any reason why someone who has the right to use these rooms would need to spend the night in these rooms. Even if they are suddenly kicked out of the house by their wives, they should have a place where they can spend the night more comfortably.

Gao Yi's room has a balcony, but it is not a separate balcony, but a balcony-style corridor connected to the other six rooms. Normally, this promenade is separated by a half-height wrought iron railing, but these railings are movable, and can be easily removed in the event of a celebration or other event that requires the use of the balcony as a whole.

Shanghai will always be a hierarchical place, and even going to the bar for a drink has to be divided into seats, not to mention the members' suites. The seven rooms on the east façade with a view of the Huangpu River and a large balcony with a view can only be used by the seven members with the highest qualifications. Of the seven suites, three are located in the center, the middle one is the chairman's room, which has always been used by the president of the General Council, but needs to be handed over after leaving office, and the current chairman is Mr. Paulette; The other two are honorable to the south, and the south one is Keswick's room, so he is nominally second, but given that the chairman of the committee is a ceremonial position, he is actually the highest position in the club.

As for Gao Yi's room, it was the northernmost of the seven suites, and theoretically he was seventh among all the members, but since two of the seven rooms were still empty, he should actually be ranked fifth.

For a newcomer like him to be in such a high position, of course there will be people who are not convinced. What's more, he is still a mixed-race person, and in the Shanghai general association, whose membership is limited to white men, it is debatable whether a person like him can join the association in the strict sense. Now not only does he not clamp his tail and behave, but he also climbs on top of most people's heads, which is really unbearable for uncles and aunts.

However, rules are always meant to serve the economic base. For example, the three-story brick and timber building of the Shanghai Federation has been in use for nearly 40 years, and the building is outdated, and the various entertainment facilities are outdated. After half a century of operation, the wealthy Shanghai Tang expatriates need reinforced concrete structures, elevators, longer bars, pachinko rooms, underground bowls, more luxurious reading rooms, restaurants, chess and card rooms, large restaurants, and banquet halls. And how much budget is needed to demolish the old building and rebuild it into a real comfort nest that keeps pace with the times in the minds of members? 450,000 taels of silver. Who will pay for such a large sum of money? Is it distributed to each member? Of course not, the original three-story brick and wood building was sponsored by the Hogg family of Mega & Co., and the new building can rely on nothing more than Jardine Matheson, HSBC, Bu Neimen, Zhengguang and other leading enterprises. Therefore, the committee of the General Association can be said to be powerless to resist the demands of the future successors of Jardine Matheson and HSBC.

What's more, in addition to Keswick alone, Gao Yi also got the support of important people such as Bane, Rida, Anderson, and Hollid. You must know that it was this group of people who should have been the most opposed, the chairman of the board of directors of the Ministry of Industry Bureau and the nominal first person in the concession, the old family of Shanghai Tang, Lyda, the football star Anderson, another old family in Shanghai, Hollid, and the commander of the International Chamber of Commerce, these people or families are fully qualified to use the seven suites in the east, but even they are now relegated in the member suites on the north and south sides, but a newcomer occupies one of the seven rooms. Therefore, they have every reason to oppose it vehemently. But the reality is that they are active supporters of this proposal, so others have nothing to say.

And after Gao Yi suddenly climbed to such a high position, instead of revealing the ugliness of a monkey as some people imagined, he was calm and calm, and did not show timidity at all, as if he was born to be a person of this status and should have been treated like this. In this way, it made everyone lose their temper. In addition, his star halo after the ball game has not faded, so he is very sought after by some people. In the past half a month, he has not only secured his seat, but also made many new friends. Many people were initially dismissive of him, but after spending some time with him, their evaluation of him quickly turned from negative to positive, and then rose to a high score.

There are two bells in Gao Yi's room, one to summon the club butler and the other to summon the valet.

Gao Yi pressed the bell that beckoned the manservant. Soon Mahan rushed over from the servant's rest area on the west side of the building, and after he served Gao Yi and put on his coat, he went out and instructed the waiter in the foyer to go downstairs to inform the groom to prepare the car, and then he returned to the room, estimating that the time was almost up, and then asked Gao Yi to leave and go downstairs. By the time Gao Yi Shi Ran came to the door, the carriage was already waiting under the porch.

Shanghai will always go out and turn left is the intersection of Guangdong Road, from here to Yaxian Ju is only a mile away, even if the carriage walks leisurely, it will take five minutes to arrive. After returning to the room, Gao Yi finished washing up and went to bed at half past eleven o'clock.

The next day he slept until half-past six and got up, first drinking a cup of coffee, which was made by the proprietress and put it on the cabinet outside his door at half-past six every day, and then he went to the terrace to jump rope as usual. When all his preparations are completed and he is ready to start practicing boxing, it will be time for Ah Jin to go to work.

Now the terrace has been changed, and a wooden ladder has been added to the outside of the house, so that it can go directly to the terrace from the outside, so as to facilitate the transportation of goods, and as for the safety of Bersinger, it is completely safe. Gao Yi built an extra wooden hut at the top of the staircase, and Becker slept in it at night. The only problem is that the alley is almost completely cut off at this end of Yaxianju, but this kind of thing is naturally coordinated by the proprietress and does not need to worry about it.

The sound of Gao Yi hitting the sandbag was accompanied by the sound of "poof", but it is estimated that in two days, this steam sound will no longer be heard - ten catties of Nakoding will finally run out.

After practicing boxing, it was about eight o'clock, and after Gao Yi bathed, he went downstairs to have breakfast. At about nine o'clock, he began his research work in the morning, and the current stage was nothing more than cultivating strains, but he had already begun to prepare a new set of experimental equipment, and it was estimated that it would be ready around July, when he would have to prepare the first batch of drugs experimentally.

At noon, Gao Yi will go to Shanghai to have a meal. After lunch, if it is Monday to Thursday, he will go to school, and on other days, as long as there is no activity, he usually goes back to Yaxian Ju to continue his morning work. It's just that there aren't many days like this recently, a while ago he was so focused on the ball game that he even suspended his research work in the morning, and after the ball game, he was popular and there were many people, and all kinds of invitations continued, so in the afternoon when there was no class, he was basically running outside.

In the evening, if no one invited Gao Yi to the banquet, he would still return to Shanghai for dinner, and then he would go to the library for a few hours, and occasionally be invited to the pachinko room to play a few games of billiards. Then at ten o'clock, he went to the bar for a drink, and returned to Yaxian Ju at eleven o'clock, and then a new cycle began.