CHAPTER XVI

When I woke up in the morning, I slept on the sofa, I had a terrible headache, and it was almost ten o'clock in the morning. The mobile phone next to me desperately thought that it was a call from home.

"Still sleeping? What time is it and you can't get up? Did you drink last night? "I just said one: Hey, and I was bombarded by my mother.

"I worked for more than 20 hours yesterday, and when I came back, I didn't even get into bed, and I fell asleep on the sofa all night." I sat on the couch and my neck hurt terribly.

"Why are you so desperate?" Mom's tone was full of heartache, "Can you come back?" ”

I sighed, "I can't go back, there are few stores that open during the Chinese New Year, and I want to make money after a while!" The case I'm in charge of, it's not good to go by yourself! I'm going to pack up and go in a moment, so I won't tell you yet, I have to hurry. ”

Mom gave a few more instructions before hanging up the phone. This time I came to my senses and suddenly remembered what happened last night. When I pulled down Gao Xiang's head, raised my foot and kissed it, but when I was still 0.01 mm away from his lips, I was pulled away by him, and then Gao Xiang ran away with a red face, his gloves still on the sofa. Recalling Gao Xiang's embarrassed appearance, it feels so funny.

I took a hot bath, drank a cup of bean flour, grabbed my purse and went out, and a new start of the year!

When I arrived at the store, Gao Xiang had already arrived, and when I threw the gloves to him, a red cloud actually floated across his face.

"Hey, you took me home yesterday!" I pretended to be drunk and didn't know anything, so everyone would be embarrassed to say it! Gao Xiang is such a thick-skinned person.

"Ahh Forgot. Gao Xiang saw that I had forgotten, and he didn't seem to care so much, "How is it, have you woken up?" ”

"No problem at all." I nodded to him and ran to the back kitchen.

In the first three days of the first month, business in the store has been good, the customer flow began to fall on the fourth day of the new year, and after the sixth day of the new year ushered in a small *, everything returned to normal.

After a week, I have been liberated from the state of fatigue, and I came to the cold face on the seventh night of the first month, and asked all the staff who helped to go to PUB, and I was no exception.

It was a very cold day, very windy, and we walked there, and I was frozen enough along the way. As a last resort, run around everyone to add some heat. It's good that PUB isn't far away, otherwise I'd really be shrinking into a small ball.

"I thought the northerners weren't afraid of the cold." A colleague from the south said.

I laughed, I was the exception, I was afraid of heat in summer, cold in winter, wind in spring, rain in autumn, everything I occupied. Fortunately, it was warm enough in the PUB and there were a lot of people, so it didn't take long for me to recover.

We booked two tables and sat down, it was the first time I had come to such a lively bar, and I used to go to the so-called bar with Joe Mei to drink juice. When everyone ordered a drink, I didn't understand, I had never drunk it, and I wanted to order beer but I was afraid that everyone would laugh, so I just sat and laughed without saying a word.

"What does Natsu drink?" A colleague handed over the wine list.

I shook my hand, "I'll do whatever I want, you can order it." ”

Most of the cadres here are Nantian's cadres, and everyone drinks very well. Nantian saw that I was so honest and thought that I wouldn't drink, so he asked me for a bottle of red wine, and I drank it with Sprite, and it wouldn't be intoxicating.

The hotel is huge, with a large bar in the middle flanked by a bartender in the middle of the bar, who is mixing cocktails for the two ladies in front of him. The two ladies saw the bartender's flying technique, and clapped their hands early, and the bartender had bought enough, opened the lid, and two different wines came out of it, the two wines did not merge, the lower half was blue, the upper half was orange, and it was very beautiful.

I held my glass and looked at the freshness, and everything was fresh to me.

A few men next to me don't know when they talked about marrying a wife, most of them are single, there are very few girlfriends, only one is married, and it is the leader of He.

"Women are beautiful and don't go to the kitchen, they are not gentle, they are gentle, they are not assertive, they are assertive, they are not feminine, they are not feminine, they are not fashionable, they are not at ease, they are not at ease, they can't be seen..."

I drew my attention back and listened to them chatting and joining their warbands.

"You don't see the same thing as I do!" A lady next to her took a sip of wine and put the wine glass down, "Men, talented people are ugly, handsome and earn little money, and they always don't care about their families when they make a lot of money. ”

Several people burst into laughter, and one buddy burst out laughing, covering his mouth and squatting can't get up, this one is even more crooked than his. It's been a long time in the past few days, and I'm not as restrained as when I first came, and I can joke with everyone, so much so that Gao Xiang said that now it looks like I'm back in high school again. Around me, there was always laughter.

Most of the people who come here are foreigners, but there is no shortage of petite Asian girls around the tall foreign men, and few people who come here speak Chinese, and most of them speak English. In Shanghai, there is a high proportion of foreigners in Shanghai, including Singaporeans, Malaysians, Japanese, and Koreans, and it is difficult to tell which nationality they are without introducing themselves

There was also a group of people, probably from the same company, who suddenly came to us to shout and fight. It's a common occurrence in bars, but I've never encountered it.

The rules are very simple, heads-up, by everyone by drawing lots, one by one, the first person to fall loses. The losing side treats and pays for the drink.

My colleague told me how to play, and I was very interested, and when the wine glass was placed on the table, I realized that I would play with the dead. Lined up, there are more than twenty wine glasses, which contain different wines, all of which are concocted. The cocktail looks light and the taste is not strong, but it is easy to get drunk.

I was unfortunately selected. The opponent was drawn by a tall foreign man, and he lost half of his momentum. They were so happy that they told us to just admit defeat.

"I've never conceded defeat in a drink!" I didn't speak English well, so I called the board in Chinese, which was good, attracting many people to watch the battle. In the Northeast, there are few people who can't drink alcohol, and there are few people who can drink alcohol and don't drink spirits. I'm not an alcoholic, I just don't feel like I'm drunk.

I drank a glass of orange juice to the bottom first. Twenty cups are lined up in a variety of colors, from large to small, but they are very beautiful. I started drinking from a big cup, he drank from a small one, and my tactics were considered incorrect at the beginning. If you drink from a large cup, you may fall down from a cup, and in this way, you will be considered a loser.

But I don't think so, it has something to do with personality, the small cup is boring to drink, and besides, the small cup can be saved for later when it can't be drunk; If there is a big cup left, there will be no confidence

By the time we reached the tenth cup, everyone was excited, because the other person had slowed down, and I was still smiling. My body reacts much slower to alcohol than the average person, which may be the reason why I can drink it.

When the fifteenth glass, the other party had to take a few sips to finish a glass, and I was still laughing, this is a mental tactic, in fact, I also felt that the strength of the wine was slowly playing a role in my body.

The sixteenth cup, the other party needs longer to finish a glass, and I, have already reached the small cup area, and I can't feel the taste of wine anymore, the wine is sweet.

In the eighteenth cup, the other party began to shake. I was in sight of victory, I was not in a hurry to drink the wine in the glass, I just looked at him with a smile, and everyone was cheering for me: "Xiao Xia, Xiao Xia." "Anyone I know, someone I don't know, they're all cheering for me.

By the time the twentieth cup was finished, the other party was already under the table. I suddenly became an idol of my colleagues. Even the cold-faced god stood up and watched us fight.

But in the crowd on the other side, another person stood up, holding a handful of dollars in his hand, "Do you dare to drink with me again?" ”

"What did he say?" He didn't speak English, which I didn't understand. So I asked my colleague next to me.

"He wants to compete with you again." "He spoke in Italian," and then he added, "Would you like me to greet his mother for you?" ”

The cold-faced god spoke in Chinese, and his voice was not loud, but everyone who heard it was secretly laughing, and I gave him a blank look, and then don't say that he is my boss outside, it's too embarrassing.

"Tell him to double the amount of bets, and I'll play with him." I called the cold-faced god to help me talk to him. Unexpectedly, the man was quite arrogant, smiled and took out his wallet from his pocket, which was thick and full of dollars.

"He's not taking counterfeit money, is he?" I only know the RMB, and I really can't see the authenticity of the US dollar.

Nantian was even more ruthless than the cold-faced god, and called the cashier of the bar and exchanged it for RMB at the exchange rate of the day, which was 30,000 yuan. Then he wrote a personal check and put it on the table, "I'll bet on Xiao Xia to win." ”

Now, we became a group bet, and everyone bet one after another, but there were very few people who bet on me, only my colleagues in the company, and the rest bet on each other to win, because I have already drunk one round, and one more round, and no one is sure.

When they were placing bets, I pulled Gao Xiang and whispered in his ear: "The old way, go to the kitchen and get a bottle of rice vinegar and put it in a beer glass." ”

Gao Xiang was stunned for a moment, then nodded with a smile, the key time has to be Chinese to help the Chinese, no one thought that I would drink vinegar with a beer bottle. This hangover cure is a vain test, I don't believe you can try it, but if it doesn't work, don't look for me

Everyone was stunned by my act of drinking beer, I don't know if I'm stupid if I'm not even compared, and I can still drink beer privately at this time? And it's strange that you don't get drunk when you drink it like this. There are already people who regret betting their money on me, and you can see it in their eyes.

He followed my example and drank from a large cup. I smiled and lit a cigarette. I wasn't in a hurry, and by the time he got to the fifth cup, I ran out of cigarettes.

Because although it is a large glass, it is not full, it is all seven points full, which is the basic rule of the bar to pour glasses. I poured several glasses of wine together, one full one, and drank it in one gulp, so that I had only six glasses and the wine on the table was gone. We're both still standing, I'm laughing, he's in a daze.

"Brother, pour wine, don't be stunned." I patted the bartender on the shoulder.

The three bartenders poured the wine again, this time it was different from the last time, and several glasses were all pure wine. "Beijing Erguotou, fifty-six degrees?" I sniffed, "You still have this wine here?" ”

The bartender, whom I called my brother, laughed, "Awesome." He only said two words.

"Vodka." "Eighty-two years of French sweet red" "Inner Mongolia burns knives, sixty-five degrees, this kind of wine is difficult to find now." Tell me where I can buy it, and I'll make sure to buy some back. ”

Everyone was stupid, including Nantian and the cold-faced god, who looked at me like a monster. The only one who doesn't change color is Gao Xiang, this method, we also played once in high school, but that time it was all liquor.

The other party learned to rape this time, and he saw what kind of wine I mixed together, and he also learned. But you can see that he is already sweating a little.

Follow me and you'll be dead. I thought to myself, but I still had a smile on my face. "Get a draught beer glass." As long as I speak, someone has already put something in front of me. I poured all the wine into it, a whole large glass, and drank it in my hand.

Of course, the other party poured the wine into a large glass, just like me. But after a cup of belly, I only heard the sound of "dong", and there was already a person on the ground.

Of course, that person wasn't me. I squatted on the ground and patted my opponent's face, "If you want to fight with me, it's better to be early." ”

"Okay, that's enough." Gao Xiang pulled me up, afraid that I would squat for a long time and get up when I got up.

"Xiao Xia, how did you practice such a large amount of alcohol?" Nanda asked me.

"My dad runs a winery, and I have a second-level taster certificate." I told him the answer, thinking to myself that if my father knew that I was drinking like this, he would have to arrest me back to the Northeast.