Chapter Seventy-Four: Shencheng Little Bailing
"Night Shanghai, night Shanghai, you are a city that never sleeps...... The lights are up, the cars are sounding, and the singing and dancing are leveling......"
The night of Shanghai is intoxicating, the night of Shanghai is dreamy, and the night of Shanghai is mysterious...... The lively ten-mile ocean field, the colorful neon lights flickering and dazzling, weaving a big prosperous world, the Huangpu River breeze with a unique smell mixed with the smell of various imported perfumes, in the air is actually blended into a unique flavor of Shanghai extravagance.
The night in Shanghai is exciting, gentlemen and ladies wear fashionable dresses and wear all kinds of exquisite top hats into various casinos, and the gate of the "Lido Nightclub" is full of traffic and pedestrians.
The dance floor was filled with men and women, wiggling their waists, their faces either smiling or cool, and a few pairs of dancers showed off their skills on the dance floor to catch the eye.
The singer on the stage is dressed in a big red narrow cheongsam, draped in a feather shawl, while gently swaying her body, while singing all kinds of popular love songs with a nightingale-like voice, she is very beautiful, very charming, very seductive, her bright eyes are shining with happiness, and her rosy lips open and close to sing all kinds of beautiful love songs, her singing voice is as moving as her beauty.
Many people in the audience are paying attention to her, deeply attracted by her style, and some people come to the stage to send flowers to her.
Tang Xiaoyun finished singing, holding a bouquet of flowers in her hand, and slowly walked off the stage in applause, the band on the stage played some Western dance music, she swayed to the corner, the darkest table, threw the bouquet on the table at will, and sat next to a man.
"Why are you here again?" Tang Xiaoyun complained a little.
"Don't you want me to come?" The man said in the dark.
"No, it's too dangerous. When we are together, either you kill me or I kill you. Tang Xiaoyun took out a cigarette and a lighter, and with a click, a beam of flames popped up in the lighter, and the firelight reflected the face of a melancholy and beautiful man.
"Let's go, I don't want you to die in Shanghai."
"You care about me."
"Heh, the guy you're looking for is already dead."
"Why deceive yourself?"
"I'm not her, stop talking nonsense." Tang Xiaoyun stood up a little angrily, he pulled her down and whispered in her ear: "Your Shanghai accent is very well imitated, but unfortunately, it can't hide your northern accent." ”
"I am indeed from the north, so what? You can't prove anything. ”
"I can, as long as you go back to Peking with me and go back to see your sister."
"I don't have a sister, maybe you want to see that sister yourself, so you use me as a cover."
Hearing this, the man collapsed on the couch and let go of the hand that had held her.
Tang Xiaoyun said again: "Xu Manlin is on her way to Shanghai, let me tell you, you can't escape from her palm." ”
"I didn't plan to run away from her."
"You'd better be careful."
"Leave Xu Enhai and come with me."
"Oh, the person who said this last time was lying on the cold street the next day."
"Then let him beat me to death."
"You're so stubborn and stupid, why should I go with you?" She stood up sharply and looked at him with a frown, her eyes full of anger and pain: "Who are you mine?" Who am I to you? Do you have money or power? Can you raise me? Or do you love me like crazy? She ignored him and turned to leave.
Zhou Ruikang drank all the "whiskey" in the cup in one gulp and fell lonely on the sofa.
Tang Xiaoyun sat in the dressing room standing at the back, took off the hair ornament on her head, threw it into the mirror irritably, picked up the cigarette from the ashtray, and took a deep puff.
"What's wrong with you?" Another singer named Ji Qing next to her looked at her and asked, "How did you become so angry in the past two months?" I heard that you gave Boss Xu a look two days ago. ”
Tang Xiaoyun glanced at her, took a puff of cigarette, and didn't speak.
"Are you tempted by that kid?" Ji Qing asked with a smile.
"Don't talk nonsense." Tang Xiaoyun subconsciously looked at the door. I'm afraid that the partition wall has ears.
Ji Qing saw her nervous appearance, smiled even deeper, lay on the dressing table, stared at her face, and said with a smile: "Hey, don't you want such a beautiful man?" ”
"Go. I don't want to kill people anymore. Again...... He has someone in his heart. Tang Xiaoyun's eyes became dazed, shook his head, and frowned.
"Oh? He has someone in his heart, why does he still come to cheer you every day? ”
Tang Xiaoyun looked at herself in the mirror, picked up a tissue, wiped the heavy fat powder on her face, and said faintly: "Maybe I'm like that person's shadow......"
"Ahem, you think so much, I'll go see if he's still there, such a beautiful and tall man, you don't want it, I want it." Ji Qing raised his eyebrows, smiled charmingly, and walked out.
Tang Xiaoyun was even more annoyed, threw the makeup paper in her hand on the table, and got up to change her clothes.
After a while, I heard Ji Qing shouting nervously at the door of the dressing room: "Xiao Yun, come out quickly, he is drunk and unconscious, and the security guard is about to throw him on the street." ”
Tang Xiaoyun hurriedly zipped up her clothes and ran out in a hurry, and sure enough, three security guards were holding Zhou Ruikang's arm and dragging him to the back door.
"What do you do?" Tang Xiaoyun asked in a voice.
She is the pillar of the nightclub, and everyone knows her relationship with Xu Enhai, so they naturally want to buy her face.
"Miss Tang, do you know this person?" The security guard asked.
"He is a distant relative of mine, I gave his account, you call him a rickshaw and let him go back."
"Okay."
The security guards dispersed, Ji Qing looked at Tang Xiaoyun meaningfully, squeezed his eyes, and said with a smile: "You also said that you don't dare to be interested." ”
Tang Xiaoyun's face flushed slightly, shook his head, and said, "I don't want him to die." ”
"Also, look at this face, this figure. Tsk tsk. Ji Qing shook his head and reached out to touch his cheek.
"Ji Qing, what are you doing?"
"Yo, jealous?" Ji Qing smiled.
"You remind me of those perverts who eat women's tofu." Tang Xiaoyun sneered and laughed.
"Hey, who said that only men can eat women's tofu? I'm a female pervert, so what? Ji Qing also smiled.
After a while, the rickshaw came, Ruikang was a little sober, Tang Xiaoyun asked the security guard to throw him into the car, and then said an address to the driver: "Master, when you get there, you just leave him at the door." So saying, he took double the money and gave it to the coachman.
He and Ji Qing returned to the nightclub.
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Zhou Ruikang woke up from his sleep with a splitting headache, he had no memory of everything last night, he sat up, pinched the corners of his eyes twice, and looked up to find that he was in a strange room, his body had changed into comfortable silk pajamas, and in front of the white gauze curtains on the floor, there was a woman in pajamas, she was leaning against the wall in a daze, looking at the scenery outside the window through the gap in the curtains.
"Wakari ......"
"I'm Tang Xiaoyun." She didn't say it with ups and downs.
"Last Night......
"It's a shelter for me, but I can't stay here for more than three hours. I made an exception last night. ”
"What the hell are you doing?" He asked. "I've been observing for the past two months, and I always feel that you are a little mysterious."
"You'd better not know and get out of Shanghai as soon as possible. I'll ask someone to buy you a train ticket and go back to Beiping, where you have your relatives and lovers. ”
"No, there is no one in Peking who is worthy of my nostalgia."
"Huh, huh?" She turned her head, sneered, and shrugged her shoulders: "I can't always be the stand-in for that Ruojun." ”
"......" His heart was like being stabbed with a knife, and he frowned painfully: "Don't mention her." ”
"I didn't mention her, you kept calling her name in your sleep." She shook her head: "A woman who can hurt you so deeply must not be simple." I envy her. ”
Ruikang violently lifted the quilt, stood up, ran to the bathroom to wash, and splashed his face with cold water.
Tang Xiaoyun wrapped her arms around his waist from behind and put her face on his back: "You are a man who will bring disaster to women." ”
"Then stay away from me, and leave me alone."
He took a towel and wiped his face, turned around and came back, looking at her fixedly, what Tang Xiaoyun, it was clearly Mei Ruoli, seeing her face without grease powder, he was even more confirmed, he divided her hair into two strands, and circled her fingers into two braids, hehe, if she is not Mei Ruoli, then he is not Zhou Ruikang.
He shook his head and looked at her: "I don't know why you have to disguise yourself as another person, it's okay if you don't admit it." There is a poem I read to you: 'Traveling in the plum garden on a moonlit night, the shadows under the trees are delicate, and the snow is happy, and they will never grow old. He looked at her, "Remember?" ”
Her hands suddenly let go of him, sadness flashed through her bright eyes, leaning against the cold tiles, looking into his eyes, she took a breath and turned her head to leave the bathroom.
Ruikang walked out and grabbed her: "Does this poem remind you of something?" ”
"What do you remember?" She grabbed the cigarette case on the table, took out a cigarette with some trembling, and lit it: "I don't know what you're talking about." ”
"Ruoli, go back with me and go see your sister. It's too dangerous for you to be Xu Enhai's mistress now. ”
"Why? I like him, and he likes me, it's better than being an unrequited silly girl. She took a heavy drag on her cigarette and puffed it out, enveloping herself in the smoke, as if trying to make it hide her identity again.
"Really? Do you really like him? He asked urgently.
"No, but he is rich and powerful, and he provides for me and protects me. I just like men like that. ”
"It's only been a little over a year, how did you become like this?"
"Change? Hehe" she said a little excitedly: "I was originally like this, you don't know me, I am so cheesy, and it is your Mei Ruojun who is otherworldly." Not me! So don't confuse me with her. ”
"I didn't, and she's not otherworldly."
"You hate her, right? She makes you sad and painful, doesn't she? She trembled, a mocking smile on the corner of her mouth, but there was endless sadness in her eyes: "It seems that your great love is nothing more than that." Hehe. The mockery slowly condensed into a wisp of self-pity.
"Laugh at me, I admit that I am not smart enough, she is a woman of all time, I am passionate." He said with a frown.
"You're not allowed to say that about her!" She stared at him sternly, but immediately realized that her instinct had revealed her identity again, and turned away in a panic.
"You still love her and care about her." He nodded: "You see, this is the family affection that blood is thicker than water." ”
"Oh...... Don't explain it like that, I just hate you men, and when you get hurt, you put all the blame on the women. ”
She snuffed out the cigarette in the ashtray and shook her head in pain: "Zhou Ruikang, Zhou Ruikang, you will kill me." I tell you, I am not a merry, nor can I be a meroroli. Remember that I am Tang Xiaoyun, a singer from the Lido Song and Dance Hall. If you want me to live longer, and you want to live longer, it's better to keep that in mind. ”
"Okay, Tang Xiaoyun, I think you must have your reasons."
"Also, Xu Manlin and Xu Enhai have arrived in Shanghai, I will accompany him tonight, and you, hehe, will do it yourself. I have to leave right now, and you'll be out of here for three hours after I'm gone. ”
She changed her clothes as she spoke, not avoiding him, but Ruikang was a little embarrassed and turned his face away.
The corners of Tang Xiaoyun's mouth raised: "I'm sorry, I'm just a singer, not a yellow flower girl with three chastity and nine spirits, don't mind." She put on a sweater and said.
"Did I ...... you last night," he asked, turning his back to him.
She combed her hair twice with ten fingers, coiled it up, clamped it with a hairpin, and smiled indifferently: "If I were Mei Ruojun, I think everything would be much smoother." It's a pity that you're drunk and confused, and although I'm a singer, I don't want to be someone else's stand-in. ”
She picked up the handbag, tucked it under her armpit, walked up to him, looked up at him, his thick eyebrows, his deep eyes, his straight nose, her eyes stayed on his angular and plump lips, she stood on tiptoe, wanting to kiss him, but in an instant, her mind suddenly flashed that simple and lively silly girl, who took the initiative to show love again and again, was rejected again and again, sad again and again, disappointed again and again, that heart-rending thunderstorm night, saw the scene that broke her heart, the silly girl ran wildly in the wind and rain, Fell, her leg was cut by a stone, blood ran out of her knees, and it was washed away by the rain, and the stupid girl ran and ran...... Running to an unknown distance...... Running into the unknown future......
He didn't know, he didn't know anything, he was immersed in his great love, he didn't pay attention to her at all, he didn't care about her, how similar was his heartbreak at this time to her heartbreak that day, is this the legendary karma? Her heart was bitter and sad, she lowered her heels and lowered her head.
"Wakari ......" he saw what was on her mind, she had changed, she had become mature, charming, deep, and knew how to restrain herself, she had become a woman, a charming woman, and he took her hand.
She shook her head, lifted her already wet eyelashes, and said sadly, "It's late, it's too late...... The Mei Ruoli you're looking for is dead, dead on that thunderstorm night. Now there is only Tang Xiaoyun. Let's go back to Beiping. It's too dangerous here. ”
After saying that, he turned around and opened the door without looking back, and left.