Chapter Eighty-Seven: The Beautiful Arms Dealer
The charity bazaar will be held in Central Park between the Met's Uptown and Downtown. It is a huge Taiji diagram design. It was once the hunting ground of the playboys in Uptown, so it was nicknamed the "tarmac" by some.
But tonight, something good will happen here. After all, as long as it is charity, no matter what the purpose is, and how much ugliness is hidden in the middle, it can still bring some benefits to the people at the bottom after all. It's better than doing nothing, nothing.
It's just that due to the recent frequent geological disasters and weak disaster relief, social security has become a huge problem, so the organizers of this party have made great efforts to arrange security measures, resulting in many ordinary people who want to see the excitement want to enter Central Park but are unceremoniously stopped by the security outside, which has caused a new round of dissatisfaction and riots. It's a vicious circle, but no one is currently able to solve it.
Ke Junxia was also blocked when he entered the park, mainly because his armed bus, which was full of single holes, was too eye-catching. However, after some negotiations, he was allowed to drive in.
As soon as he got out of the car, Ke Junxia saw a lot of good cars parked in the parking lot, and even a few private small airships, it seems that there are a lot of local tyrants who came tonight.
After walking a few steps, several people walked by, one of them was a man, wearing a uniform and carrying a volunteer logo, who turned out to be a member and was responsible for bringing them to the main venue, and the other was a bunny girl in a bathing suit, wearing a red swimsuit, wearing a pink bunny ear hairpin, and holding a donation box - it seems that no matter how much it is tonight, there will be some blood.
Fortunately, Yu Niang is very familiar with the rules of these activities, and has prepared some small silver coins in advance, but has prepared a few coins for Ke Junxia.
However, Ke Junxia was born as a bitter child after all, and he was still a little distressed when he saw the money fall into the donation box. If you were to work as an ordinary clerk according to your mother's arrangement after graduating from college, you would have donated half a month's salary just now.
Ke Junxia had never participated in this kind of party before, so he had a bit of a taste of looking at dioramas, but he soon noticed that his appearance had also attracted the attention of many people for three reasons:
The first reason is that although he does not admit it now, nor does he recognize his relatives, he is the outer son of the Mu family after all, and he has already been noticed when arranging the list of people who will attend the party;
The second is that his appearance is really different, who usually drives a bus full of bullet holes to a party?
The third is because of his female companion today.
Manida is a goth fan, and she usually dresses up as a gothic every day, but today she was skillfully done by Yu Niang and her friends, although she is still gothic, she has changed from a bloody girl to a gothic princess, her main costume tonight is a black narrow step dress with suspenders, a black veil with a skull hairpin, and a blood-red *** section at the top plays the finishing touch, which is very easy to stand out from the crowd, but it is easy to disappear under the dark light. It can be described as easy to advance and retreat.
In addition, Manida's figure is very thin, with obvious bones, but with a slender figure, giving people a sense of quiet beauty, and the incense fan in her hand can be used as a small prop to hide her face when necessary.
It's just that Manida is a little nervous, and Ke Junxia can detect that the arm she is holding his arm trembles a little from time to time, and it is so close to him that his elbow seems to touch a small lump of fleshy and elastic things.
Although thin, after all, she is also a young girl.
Since it was a small focus of the party, there were inevitably many people who came up to talk, including two of his cousins and an uncle, and everyone had to introduce themselves, have a glass of wine, and chat a few words, all kinds of people had all kinds of attitudes.
Ke Junxia participated in this form of party for the first time, although he was not stunned, but also inexperienced, although his humble and not arrogant personality made him easy to deal with people, but after all, the social experience is insufficient, so that it is difficult to have a correct purpose judgment for the person who came to talk in a short period of time, fortunately, Yu Niang always followed him within five steps, and could give him good advice and reminders at any time.
But this made Manida feel a little inferior, because this was supposed to be her task.
Manida is not from an aristocratic family, although her family always considers itself a small nobleman in the metropolis, but in fact it is not, their family is just a successful merchant family in the upper middle range, belonging to the rich but not expensive, and has not successfully joined the political circle of the metropolis, and Manida is still young and unfamiliar with this environment, so it is indeed a little difficult for her to help Ke Junxia in this regard.
Ke Junxia was afraid of being late, but now he found out that it was early, and the auction had not officially started, so Ke Junxia had to continue to pretend to live a first-class social life, eating exquisite but not full pastries, drinking bitter high-end wines, and saying inexplicable and inexplicable but calculating kind words to each other, and soon got tired of it.
He wanted to leave, but the bus hadn't been sold, he hadn't said what he had to say, and he hadn't done anything he was expected to do, so he couldn't leave.
Fortunately, he has a jade lady.
In fact, when Old Man Mu just gave Yu Niang and others to him, he was resistant in his heart, and now he found out that he had picked up a treasure. The only thing that feels a pity is that in the ranking of masters, he can only rank second at most, or even this is an optimistic estimate.
When Ke Junxia was bored, he suddenly felt a tightness on his arm, and Manida whispered, "Let's go." As he spoke, he dragged him to turn around and leave, but at the same time, Ke Junxia saw a woman on the other side of the wine table smiling at them and trying to come over.
Ke Junxia felt that this woman was very familiar, she was also a thin and tall figure, but taller, like a model, or maybe a retired model, but it was not commensurate with her body type, it was her towering breasts, which was not only a bit outrageous, but also ruined the original beauty.
Ke Junxia recognized this woman, she was Manida's mother, and she had met when she had returned from the abyss.
Ke Junxia is a mother-lover, so he also hopes that the mother-son relationship between other people's families is good, but judging from Manida's performance, the relationship between the mother and daughter is not very harmonious.
Of course, Ke Junxia can't just rely on Manida's temperament, and Manida naturally can't drag him. Fortunately, Manida's mother had some social experience, and when she came over, she said to Manida with a smile: "Daughter, can you lend me this handsome man next to you for a while?" ”
Manida twisted her head and didn't speak, but her hand slowly dropped from Ke Junxia's elbow, and her mother took advantage of the situation and said to Ke Junxia, "Shall we go for a walk over there?" ”
Ke Junxia saw that there were not many people in the direction she was pointing and it was relatively secluded, so he said, "Of course." Then he told Yu Niang: "Take care of her." ”
This she, naturally, refers to Manida.
Ke Junxia and Manida's mother walked on the boulevard of a French plane tree, and they didn't speak for a long time, until they came to a darker place, and Manida's mother said faintly: "Thank you." ”
Ke Junxia was stunned for a moment, and said with a smile: "If you are talking about the abyss, madam, you have already thanked you." If I'm not mistaken, you're Sui's husband's last name – may I call you Mrs. Lous? ”
Mrs. Lu Siwen smiled and said, "Of course, but if you are willing to call me by my name when I was not married, Qiaojun, I will be happier." ”
Ke Junxia said: "Won't it be too intimate." ”
Mrs. Lu Siwen said, "Then make a nickname in private." ”
Ke Junxia looked up and said, "Then it's better to call you Mrs. Lu Siwen at this time." ”
Mrs. Lu Siwen smiled, did not force it, and said, "The little girl has been taken care of these days. ”
Ke Junxia said: "Madam, you are too polite, in fact, it is Manida who has helped me a lot, she is now in charge of the customs, and she works hard every day." ”
Mrs. Lu Siwen nodded and said, "I know, I have been to the customs office in Fort Town, but she hides and does not want to see me, and often says that I am the spokesperson of death. ”
Ke Junxia was stunned.
The joke that the death spokesperson was an arms dealer, Ke Junxia only knew that the Manida family was a businessman, but he didn't know that it was an arms dealer. His mind moved...... Whether it's the chaos caused by the future disaster of the metropolis or the riots this morning, the weakness of the fortress's lack of force has been revealed. The strongest force now is Lin Quan's Tree Spirit Guard. But after all, this is a diplomatic, symbolic armed force, it is reasonable to use it in the fortress town, but it is very inflexible to use it in other places, although it is possible to form new troops, but training and armament are problems, and now there is a ready-made arms dealer in front of you, is it a divine arrangement?
But Ke Junxia also has a bit of business knowledge, and if he reveals something too early, the negotiation will become a supply-side market.
So Ke Junxia immediately smiled and said: "If you don't say it, I really can't see that you are an arms dealer, you should be a model manager." ”
Mrs. Lu Siwen stopped, turned to Ke Junxia, looked at him with a little admiration and said, "You really have an eye, I used to be a model, and I have filmed a few films, if you are interested, I can give you a copy." ”
"I can't ask for it." Ke Junxia said this, but he was on guard in his heart, but whenever a middle-aged woman makes a girlish posture in front of a man, she must ask for something.
However, Ke Junxia feels that some problems are not problems, they are what should be done, and there is really no need to make the problems too vulgar. So he took the initiative to say: "But there is one thing I have always wanted to discuss with you, but I don't have the opportunity, I see that your family background is good, and you have enough financial resources to immigrate to foreign countries, why don't you take Manida with you?" ”
Mrs. Lu Siwen breathed a sigh of relief and said, "It's time to go, but our family's business is too dependent on the decrees of the metropolis, so after immigrating to foreign countries, we can only be fools, and we will soon not be able to afford to eat." ”
Although what Mrs. Lu Siwen said was exaggerated, it was also true. Arms in troubled times are always good business, and such a dangerous business is indeed very dependent on local government decrees.
Mrs. Lu Siwen then said: "Our family started out as an outdoor hunting business, but then I don't know which tendon in charge of the family went wrong, and we had to enter the arms industry, and the result seems to be a large gross profit, but all kinds of taxes and fees have come down, and it is almost not profitable, that is to say, our family's business cannot be stopped from time to time, and once it stops, it will go bankrupt." If nothing else, and not afraid of Mr. Ke's jokes, you must not be able to guess how much I spent on admission to today's party? ”
"So there's an entrance fee." Ke Junxia has gained insight again.
He was about to learn more about Mrs. Lu Siwen's business when a bell rang in the distance, and the bazaar had officially begun.