Taking advantage of the night, Lin Yao walked towards the bar in the town.

Stone Town is a medium-sized prosperous town, the main industries are animal husbandry and agriculture, and the residents of the town are either farmers or cowboys grazing for the farmers, and the income is relatively good.

When residents have money, nightlife is an essential part of it.

There are no formal casinos in Stone Town, and the bars have the duties of a casino and a brothel.

When I arrived here, it was just eight o'clock in the evening.

The bar was bustling, with cowboys sitting at tables on three or five drinking and bragging, drinking a 12-cent bottle of inferior rum, boasting about how good they were and what great things they had done.

That look is no different from the social person who sits in front of a barbecue stall in the summer, has tattoos on his body, and says how many people he has cut.

You just listen to these words, eight out of ten sentences are false, and the remaining two sentences are also other people's stories.

In addition, there are several tables of gamblers playing cards in the back of the bar.

They didn't play big, because there was a special casino in the basement of the bar, and there was a big game in it, and the small characters were playing on it.

Lin Yao glanced at it briefly, and it was all small chips of a few cents.

After someone won the money, he pulled a nightingale standing in front of the bar and went upstairs, women and chips will always be an indispensable part of the West.

"Little handsome guy, are you interested in accompanying my sister upstairs, my sister will show you good things!"

"Hey, you look so clean, I charge two dollars with someone, and I only need one dollar with you, are you interested?"

Seeing Lin Yao walking towards the bar, the nightingales came up from all around.

Nightingales are also human, and compared to accompanying the old man and the sloppy cowboy, Lin Yao's handsome little brother can make them more interested.

"A glass of whiskey, the best."

Lin Yao ignored the nightingales around him and handed the bartender a dollar.

The bartender took the money, took an opened bottle of whiskey from the top of the wine cabinet, poured half a glass, and then asked Lin Yao for 65 cents.

In a town like this, there is no such thing as a good wine in the strict sense of the word.

A whiskey of 35 cents is the limit of the town's spending power, after all, ordinary inferior wine is only 10 to 15 cents a bottle.

"I heard that there is a girl named Emma who plays the violin in the bar, is she in the bar now?"

Lin Yao took a sip of whiskey and asked the bartender quietly.

The bartender nodded, pointed down the stairs and said, "She goes to work at eight o'clock every night, and she performs down there at this time." ”

"Thank you."

Nodding, Lin Yao walked down the stairs.

Gambling was allowed in Texas, casinos were built in basements, but the area of the bar was not enough and had to be expanded downward.

After Lin Yao went down, he found that it was really not small below.

In a basement of 500 square meters, there are more than a dozen gambling tables, and dozens of people drink and play cards in it.

At first glance, he had the impression that some people were residents of the town.

There are also some strangers, who should be from nearby villages and towns or outsiders, the oldest of whom looks to be over the age of six, and the youngest of whom is only in his teens.

A few waiters gathered around, bringing the gamblers drinks, fruit plates, and even some hungry tortillas.

Everyone was immersed in it, the smell of wine and cigars lingered for a long time, and it was another day of drunkenness.

Of course, Lin Yao didn't come to see people gambling money.

Scanning his gaze over the crowd, he soon noticed a small stage in the southern corner, and a very beautiful girl who looked to be eighteen or nineteen years old sat on a chair and played the violin.

The first time he saw Emma, Lin Yao felt amazing.

She is a bit like Galadriel, the elven queen of The Hobbit, giving people a delicate, pure, ethereal, and fairy beauty.

At the second glance, Lin Yao frowned again.

Because Emma was not dressed, she sat in a chair naked, and the only thing that could block the spring was the violin.

Some drunken cowboys sat next to her, watching her play.

It's hard to say, whether they're enjoying music or something else.

No wonder everyone's expression is unnatural when they mention Emma, she has really changed a lot, she was innocent when she was a child, like an angel who came to the world.

Now, she has shed her angel feathers and looks more like a depraved succubus.

Lin Yao drank wine and looked at Emma quietly.

At the end of the song, he offered a two-dollar tip.

He gave the most money of any person present, and the others would only give a few cents and a few cents.

Emma noticed him with a big hand, and after a brief moment of surprise seemed to recognize him, an unnatural blush flashing across her face.

There was no dialogue and not much eye contact.

After giving the money, Lin Yao raised his glass and turned away without any more memories.

"Stephen, Stephen?"

As soon as Lin Yao walked out of the bar, Emma chased him out from behind.

She put on a pink dress, with a panicked look on her face, pulled him and said: "It's not what you think, I didn't come out to sell, I just need money, I want to go to France for further study, but I don't even have the travel expenses." ”

"I can understand you, I won't make fun of the girl chasing her dreams, no matter how embarrassed she is, because I respect other people's dreams."

"Really?"

Under Emma's questioning, Lin Yao nodded with a smile and said, "Of course, I never lied since I was a child!" ”

After getting Lin Yao's confirmation, Emma breathed a sigh of relief, and then looked at his dress and asked in disbelief: "Where have you been all these years, I see that your clothes are good." ”

"It's okay, what about you, how have you been all these years?" Lin Yao asked rhetorically.

Emma brushed her hair and replied, "I'm okay, I used to perform with a ballet troupe, but then for some reason I gave up ballet and became a violinist, I aspire to be a violin master like Eugène Isaiah, to stand on the world stage..."

Lin Yao listened quietly, and he heard Emma's heart from her words.

It's not so much that she loves the violin, but that she loves the feeling of being surrounded by an audience.

Between the lines, her desire for fame and fortune is all revealed, and such ambition is fatal to a girl who was born in the western United States and whose family conditions are not superior.

Emma asked Lin Yao more than once if he had made a fortune outside and dressed more beautifully than everyone in the city.

In particular, the bearskin coat looks like it is worth a lot of money, and it may cost the salary of ordinary people for several years to buy one.

This couldn't help but make Lin Yao wonder what was the reason why Emma chased it out.

The first love of childhood sweethearts back then is to see if he is rich.

The latter is probably the majority, right?

If he wasn't wearing a bearskin coat or an elk shirt today, but was like the down-and-out cowboy in the bar, would Emma still chase him out?

Lin Yao didn't know, he only knew that people would change, and Emma when she grew up was no longer the little girl in his memory who wore a white dress and held a small flower in her hand, and dreamed of eating cream cakes every day.

She longs for fame and fortune and is not willing to be ordinary.

In order to get everything she wants, she does not hesitate to use this indecent way to sing in bars, and use her beauty to attract a group of people who don't know how to appreciate the violin to give her a reward.

What a change!!

Lin Yao saw everything in his eyes, although he was very disgusted with Emma at this time, he had to say that she was really courageous.

If you are an ordinary girl, you can't be so cruel to yourself.

"Truth be told, I'm not as good as you think, except for this dress, I'm worth less than a hundred dollars."

Lin Yao briefly explained his situation, and never handed over the huge sum of $1,500 to his family.

Hearing this, Emma's smile became a lot more formulaic.

Who do you love and who loves you?

That's a problem!!

Maybe four years ago, Emma, who had never seen the outside world, would say that she liked Lin Yao very much and didn't dislike him for being poor.

But now she prefers money, and during the two years she performed with the ballet troupe, she saw things that were not available in the town, and it also gave her ambitions.

If Lin gets rich, she might do something.

didn't get rich, let's still be a passerby, in the past, I was ignorant when I was a child, and now everyone has grown up.