Chapter Twenty-Seven: The Banquet, the Singer

This is a restaurant located on the banks of the Hongkou River, and Mr. Qin has his brother as a companion. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 The info dishes are delicious, and the sticky, searing hot rice wine is also comfortable to drink.

"Cheers!" Ah Fa was also more excited, his hat had been taken off, and beads of sweat appeared on his head, but what made him feel a little uncomfortable was through the bamboo screen, and the sound of mahjong sliding and laughter kept ringing around.

"Mr. Chen, I'll find you an older and cheaper maid." Qin Manguo said with a blink of somewhat bloodshot eyes.

"It's too cheap, isn't it, isn't that not very good at work?" Ah Fa asked with some doubts.

"Cooking, cleaning, laundry...... will do, you don't have to worry about it. Mr. Qin paused and asked again, "How do you calculate the money for the meal?" ”

"I give her food money, and she goes to the market to buy it and cook meals for two people, hers and mine." Ah Fa said with a smile: "If you are diligent with your hands and feet, I will give her New Year's money during the New Year." ”

Haha, haha, Mr. Qin and his brother laughed, Mr. Qin squeezed his eyes, and said with a flirtatious demeanor: "If you are not too old and look okay, it won't cost much more." You, don't think about it anymore? ”

"Hehe, young people are not suitable to be servants." Ah Fa smiled and shook his head in refusal, then tilted his head slightly to listen.

There was a bit of a harsh piano sound, and a girl's miserable and moving singing, although Ah Fa didn't quite understand what dialect it was, but he did feel that it was sad and sad.

Qin Manguo drank another glass of wine, and his brother touched him lightly, and gestured.

"Mr. Chen, how about calling the singer to come and sing a song?" Qin Manguo looked at Ah Fa with an inquiring gaze.

"Oh, no." Ah Fa shook his head and refused, "I don't understand dialects very well. ”

"If you don't like it, tell her to go." Qin Manguo continued to suggest: "It doesn't matter if you don't understand, music can only listen to sounds, not words. ”

Ah Fa acquiesced, and for some reason, he didn't refuse again.

A few minutes later, a slender young girl walked in, accompanied by a luthier. When the girl came in, she looked at Ah Fa with amazement, as if she was surprised that he did not have braids, and then hung her head.

The pianist sat on the ground, played the erhu, and the girl began to sing. At first glance, the sound of the piano is indeed a little harsh, and the singing voice does not have the charm of ups and downs.

Ah Fa lowered his head and drank slowly, the smell of wine slowly echoing in his mind. As he listened, he became more and more attracted to the girl's plaintive singing and her low-hanging oval face. He began to understand the richness of her childlike expression, the tilting of her head as she sang, the fingers twisting her clothes, and the meaning of the few strands of curly hair in her ears.

"Okay, good singing." Ah Fa clapped his hands vigorously, and although he still didn't understand the meaning of the lyrics, it didn't stop him from graciously taking money out of his pocket.

Qin Manguo smiled, and did not stop Ah Fa, after exchanging a warm look with his brother, he asked the singer to sit down and sing again.

Ah Fa leaned lazily in his chair, watching the singer's breasts heaving under her clothes, her rouge-rubbing cheeks, and her lipstick-covered lips. He shook his head vigorously, feeling like he had drunk a little too much, and the demon was injecting evil thoughts into his mind of caressing the girl's breasts. In order to drive the demon away, he lowered his head and rubbed his temples vigorously.

The singing stopped, and the girl rested her hands on her knees, her eyelids drooping, and she looked very restrained.

Ah Fa handed the girl another piece of money, and said, "You sing very well." ”

"It's not good." The girl glanced at Ah Fa, lowered her eyelids, and replied in a low voice as usual.

Ah Fa took out a cigarette roll, lit it with a match, slowly spewed out a long strip of blue smoke, and said slowly: "Okay, let's go!" ”

The girl and the luthier stood up, bowed slightly, turned around and walked out, and Qin Manguo's brother followed out.

After a while, Qin Manguo's brother walked back and whispered a few words in Qin Manguo's ear with an inexplicable smile on his face.

"Mr. Chen, do you like that girl?" Qin Manguo's face turned even redder, he raised his chin at Ah Yang, and said with a smile: "She looks very standard, right?" ”

Ah Fa's head was still a little dizzy, and he nodded subconsciously, not knowing whether he was expressing his liking for the girl, or admitting that the girl was very good-looking.

"You can take her home while you're gone." Qin Manguo's brother put down his chopsticks and said with a flattering expression.

"Take it home, what are you doing?" After several days of busyness, Ah Fa was a little relaxed today, drank too much, and reacted a little sluggishly, not understanding the meaning of the Qin brothers' words, but asked stupidly: "Don't sing, it sounds uncomfortable." ”

"Singing is just one of their skills." Qin Manguo glanced at him, touched his mustache, and said with some sneer: "They have made a fortune, and they have also paid the price. ”

Ah Fa smoked a cigarette and slowly understood the meaning of the Qin brothers' words, he had not yet drunk to the point of losing his normal thinking and degree. He felt sorry for the girl, and he got up slowly, and his cautious, dull gait indicated that he was already showing signs of drunkenness.

Saying goodbye to the Qin brothers, Ah Fa walked out of the restaurant, he saw the childish goose egg face, a black and shiny green silk, a pair of smart black eyes, and the girl walked over slowly.

Ah Fa stopped, took out his wallet, counted out a few bills, stuffed them into the girl's hand, and said lightly: "You go, I drank too much, and I want to go home and rest." With that, he turned around and walked towards the rickshaw next to him.

"Sir—" The girl cried out in astonishment, glancing at the money in her hand.

Ah Fa didn't look back, jumped into the rickshaw, and drove all the way.

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