Chapter 5: Mo Lan (I)
We walked into a bar similar to the courtyard style, although the courtyard style, but it is very different from our common form of dwellings, which is the unique architectural style of the Naxi people, "three squares and one wall, four courtyards and five courtyards." "The courtyard is paved with delicate goose stones, and the moonlight shines on it like a damp Erhai Lake. Girls in wide-sleeved robes and navy blue shoulders were dancing exotic, their long braids flying in the air, musical instruments we had never seen before, and a few old men humming intoxicating ballads, I could not understand their language, but I could feel the elegance and depth of the atmosphere.
And inside the house, through the window, the orange light is flashing at the moment, and the figures inside are not good, can you see a man and a woman ambiguous at the window, full of mystery between gestures.
Xiao Yin stood at the door and hesitated, there seemed to be an invisible barrier between him and the noisy environment, blocking him out, wanting to enter but afraid of something.
He wasn't really a good fit for such a place, although he invited me to come here.
The world inside is indeed completely different from the outside, if the courtyard is a celebration, then the small room inside is a grand carnival.
The house is full of all kinds of ornaments with a charming atmosphere, including translucent jade, tea cakes of various shapes, and gorgeous peacock feathers. The lights here were dim, and only a few small kerosene lamps stood on top of the cupboards in the four corners of the room, pulling the darkness slightly.
It's really crowded here, almost a state of people's closeness, people's breath alternates together to form an inexplicable and wonderful taste, people here do everything, some people are reading books on the sofa, some people are sitting on the blanket playing chess and cards. A few musicians dressed simply, with beards and beards, were playing guitars on a few benches in the middle of the room, while humming their original songs, the lyrics did not have any artistic conception, and the tune was not beautiful, but the people around them listened so fascinated, and a few little sisters who looked like they were in their early twenties standing aside, looking at them as if they had just dressed up, but they didn't know the essentials, and they wanted to become mature and helpless and still very young. While tasting the colorful wines, they listened quietly to the interpretation of several vicissitudes of life, and they were fascinated. In the outer circle, several couples of men and women stand in the corner, already beginning to kiss affectionately, and in this dim world, their movements are like one dance after another without rhythm but very indulgent.
Xiao Yin and I slowly walked through the crowd and walked to the bar on the side of the house, so we said it was a bar, which was more like a storage room with a pile of clutter. The boss is an uncle wearing a black vest and a body of tendon meat, with strange foreign characters tattooed on his arm, and a "look at the world" momentum. At the moment, he is playing with Snake on his phone.
"The owner...... We're going to order wine. Xiao Yin's words were still so weak, and the room was already very noisy, so his words were diluted before they reached the ears of the boss.
"Brother! What the are you talking about? Be louder! "The boss has a violent temper at first glance, and he is very open to talking. I know this boss must have been talking to people like this.
Xiao Yin himself is a relatively introverted person, and he is already a little autistic, this sudden "scolding" made Xiao Yin's whole person stay in place, his face became very ugly, and he didn't say a word.
"Boss!" I hurriedly took the words, I knew that you should talk like a hooligan when dealing with this kind of boss, and my voice was unconsciously several times louder than usual. "Let's get a fucking drink! Order wine! ”
As soon as he heard my tone, the fierce boss immediately laughed, revealing a row of white teeth, but unfortunately one front tooth was missing. "Two hundred yuan per person, you can drink the wine here, how you want to match it! Autarky! ”
He pointed to a long table to the right of the bar, with a variety of drinks on it, and no bartenders or waiters.
Xiao Yin took the money out of his pocket slowly, he didn't have a wallet, the money was all stuffed in his pocket, and when he took it out, the four hundred yuan was like four crumpled paper cranes.
The boss was helplessly holding the money as he leaned into my ear and whispered. "I'll go! Your friend is sick. ”
I smiled slightly, and then shouted out to the boss word for word. "Big brother, my friend is not only sick, but also an infectious disease! But we're here to drink, and you don't care if we're sick or not! ”
The boss snorted and laughed, then clapped his hands and shouted. "Interesting! Drink whatever you want, drink whatever you want. He turned his head and started playing with his phone, ignoring us.
"That's right!" He suddenly looked up again and pointed to a blank piece of paper in front of the bar with a few lines of writing on it. "Read this before you drink."
The room was dimly lit, and the words on it were so small that I looked at it for a long time to see what was written:
You can drink, fight, and kiss in this bar, but you can't XX.
"Do you understand, you can flirt with your sister here, but you definitely can't solve it on the spot here, understand?" The boss said sharply, and by the way, he showed us again, that strong figure.
Every scene here is full of decadence and absurdity, I didn't say anything more, Xiao Yin and I poured a large glass of wine from the long table, and then found an empty sofa and sat down.
Xiao Yin sat there like a sculpture, looked around with an expression on his face, and then said to me seriously. "Liu Quan, you can find a woman to talk to."
With that, he got up and sat down in a small chair a little further away from me, staring at me like watching a movie that was about to be played.
I smiled bitterly twice, there are indeed a lot of girls with revealing clothes and beautiful makeup, but I never go to nightclubs, and I don't know any routines, if you ask me to come forward and talk, I will only make things a mess. "Brother, it's not that I don't want to help you, I really can't do this, you know, I'm not that kind of person."
"Why can't you give it a try, Willow Springs? I just want to see what you normal people look like? He was still unrelenting and said very bluntly.
I'm a little irritable, I really can't communicate with him, what do you mean by looking at you normal people, as soon as Xiao Yin speaks, he puts himself in a higher position than anyone else, which makes people inevitably feel a little unhappy when they hear it.
"I ......" I was about to complain about something, when a tall girl in an exotic costume sat next to me, and she was not superior or inferior in appearance compared to the well-dressed girls, because it was a type I had never seen before, and I was sure that she was a minority, because the compactness of her features was really the first time I had seen her.
But it is undeniable that she is beautiful, just like we appreciate those white European and American beauties, although she is not in your aesthetic system, but only beautiful things, the whole world will resonate.
"Hello, it looks like you've come from afar, why don't you talk together, my name is Mo Lan."
She grinned, and in one fell swoop dissolved our awkwardness.