Chapter Seventy-Four: The Hippodrome

At this time, it is the season of the racecourse, people come and go, it is very lively, this circle occupies more than 400 acres of land, known as the first in the Far East. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 infoIf you want to go in, you have to buy a ticket, and the ticket price is five yuan. There are various lottery tickets to buy before and after entering. In the horse racing hall, a man of about thirty, holding a lottery ticket in his hand, watched the horses and riders below warm up, and the stands were full of people, and the eyes were basically full of foreigners, and there were few Chinese, and this man was Chinese, so he was very conspicuous among the foreigners.

But those who did not come in can also buy champagne tickets, winning tickets and other types of lottery tickets to participate in the event, nominally champagne tickets are only purchased by members, which is considered a private activity, so the Ministry of Industry Bureau in the concession has not collected taxes. In fact, as long as you want to buy, someone will sell it, and the Chinese are no exception.

Finally the field warm-up ended, dozens of foreigners rode their own maintenance horses to the starting point, with the red flag waving, the horse galloped out, a circle in an instant, the man clenched the lottery ticket in his hand, and silently thought in his heart: must win! The tickets he bought were expensive, and of course the returns were higher when he won. But when he was about to win, the front hooves of the horse he fancied suddenly bent, and the whole horse fell to its knees, and the foreign riders on it were also thrown out, just past the finish line. If whoever crosses the finish line first wins, the foreign rider has already won, but this is a racehorse and not a racer, so the referee decides that the other horse wins.

The man angrily tore the lottery ticket in his hand: "Shady! Foreigners are really not a thing! ”

The man got up to leave, but found that the next game was about to start, so he thought about it, continued to sit down, and asked the handyman to bring a lottery ticket. Outside the racecourse, a woman in her twenties hurriedly came to the racecourse, she was Zhang Hatshui's disciple, Li Yu.

Li Yu had something important on this trip, and hurriedly wanted to find Song Xiao and the others, and not long ago Mr. Xiang called to the mansion where they were staying, saying that he would immediately let Song Xiao, Qin Xuan, and Fang Bai get together and discuss important matters. Li Yu heard a little urgency from Mr. Xiang's tone, and felt that this matter was extraordinary, so he inquired again, only to know that the statistics of this morning, the special issue of "Zero" had surpassed the special issue of "Shanghai Daily"! In this way, Li Yu did not dare to delay, and hurriedly looked around.

The conduct of these three people, Li Yu knows it clearly, Song Xiao is a gambler, Qin Xuan and Fang Bai are fun. In the morning, the male writers who came to Shanghai together had already made an appointment to go out, but fortunately Li Yu asked before they went out, otherwise they wouldn't know where to look for them now. This is cynical, and I am afraid that I don't know that a big thing is coming.

Li Yu got out of the rickshaw, stepped on high heels, and hurriedly wanted to enter the horse racing hall, but before he could enter, a middle-aged man in a black coat smoked a cigarette and stopped: "This young lady, if you want to go in, you have to buy a ticket first." ”

"More money?"

"Five dollars."

Li Yu stomped his feet anxiously, but there was no good way, so he could only take out five yuan from his small purse and hand it to the middle-aged man, and he actually asked for five yuan. After Li Yu handed over the money to the middle-aged man, he didn't bother too much, and hurriedly trotted in.

"Hey, Miss, you're good to play." The middle-aged man threw the five yuan into his pocket, and then looked left and right, but no one found that the money was his own. The racecourse has an income of 100,000 yuan a year just by selling tickets, and he is greedy for these few dollars, and he has nothing to do.

After Li Yu entered, she looked left and right, and occasionally a few foreigners glanced at her and whistled a few times, if she was normal, Li Yu could still go up and tease these foreigners, but there was really something wrong today. So he quickly passed through the foreigners. Li Yu's arrogance made foreigners feel novel, and several foreigners' eyes followed the plump Asian cheongsam lady several times.

“Sosexy . ”

“hh,sexylady . ”

“Sexybreastsandhips . ”

Foreigners joke that Asian women, especially Chinese cheongsam ladies, have a unique charm, and the cheongsam is a kind of clothing that can undoubtedly highlight women's figures, and they look much sexier and more beautiful than women in other countries.

Of course, Li Yu couldn't hear these words, and finally found Song Xiao in one place, who was waiting for the next game to start. When Li Yu walked in front of Song Xiao and blocked Song Xiao's gaze, Song Xiao didn't react, he had already bought several lottery tickets in a row, and he also made a lot of bets.

"Huh? Why did you get here, didn't you go shopping today? Song Xiao was a little angry when he found that someone was blocking him, but when he looked up and found that it was Li Yu, he was surprised.

"Let's go, something happened." As soon as Li Yu's words came out, Song Xiao chuckled in his heart, but he didn't understand what Li Yu meant by the accident.

In the Yipin Building, not far from the racecourse, it was only three or four o'clock, and there were not many guests, and a stage was set up in the building. In the afternoon, a group of singers were invited to sing on the stage, and there were four or five tables of people sitting below. The person who performed on the stage is said to be the apprentice of the frightened master Mei Lanfang, known as "Little Flower Moon", and there were several performances in Yipinlou during this time. Xiao Huayue sang the famous song "The Drunken Concubine" on stage, and after singing the song, it attracted four or five tables below to applaud. In addition to the following guests, it also attracted many courtesans in Yipinlou who had just gotten up, and these courtesans mostly knew ancient rhymes, calligraphy and painting, and babble, and they were lying on the railing of the stairs, laughing and talking.

Finally after the singing of "The Drunken Concubine", Xiao Huayue went backstage to rest and prepare for the next night's show. On the stairs, the girls upstairs saw themselves come out like this for a long time, but this group of people turned a blind eye, and as soon as Xiao Huayue came out, they were very happy, and they felt bored, and turned back to the room. By the way, he also laughed at the group of men downstairs for not knowing the goods and so on.

Xiao Huayue didn't come out for no reason, but saw a few acquaintances, and walked in front of these acquaintances, Xiao Huayue said with a blessed body: "Uncle, third master, everyone, all blessings and health!" Xiao Huayue looked at the people in front of her, among whom she knew the uncle in a white robe, Fang Bai, the eldest in the family, so she called him uncle. Qin Xuan on the side is the third in the family, so he called the third master, and the rest of Xiao Huayue didn't know him, but he also called them the master.

Several people saw that Xiao Huayue, a little famous dan, actually came over to say hello, which made the people next to them very envious, and Fang Bai and the others were quite proud. Xiao Huayue came to Shanghai with them, and there were several performances in Shanghai, and Xiao Huayue performed several times in Beiping before, and these people were also very popular, so Xiao Huayue regarded them as friends. In the past few days, I heard that Xiao Huayue was performing here in Yipinlou, and Fang Bai and they came over to cheer on it.

Xiao Huayue asked, "Why didn't you see Song Ye?" ”