Standing in the white square at the foot of Montmartre in Paris, looking back at the neon windmills on the rooftops, Li Fei was a little reluctant. More than an hour of performance time passed, and reality and dreams were somewhat confused. Is this the Moulin Rouge that I have infinite longing and yearning for?

Although with the departure of He Wenrui, the Beijing-Hong Kong Entertainment City of Xiangzhou Hotel has long since died down. However, the impact that the opening of the Beijing-Hong Kong Entertainment City brought to the Perfume Galaxy Hotel a few years ago, and the sense of humiliation that accompanied this impact, Li Fei still remembers it vividly. This hurt Li Fei's self-esteem after being unwilling. He made up his mind to build a better entertainment city in Xiangzhou, and he was ashamed.

In the past few years, he has inspected many entertainment venues in Hunan, Guangdong, Shanghai and Wuhan in China; He also took the opportunity of overseas research from industry organizations, last time to the United States, this time to Europe. In the U.S., he focused on the entertainment industry in Las Vegas. This time in Europe, the cabaret venues represented by the French Moulin Rouge are naturally the projects he is most interested in.

As for why He Wenrui left the Xiangzhou Hotel, Li Fei got the news like this. Business has been good since the opening of the Beijing-Hong Kong Entertainment City, and most of the investment has been recovered within a year. But the employee shareholders were not satisfied. The reason is that they think that He Wenrui personally fished too much oil and water from it. Bands, singers, guests, and ladies who want to enter the Beijing-Hong Kong Entertainment City must pay rent to He Wenrui. The benefits could have been better, but as a result, the individual was throttled.

Tao Ziqian conveyed the shareholders' opinions to He Wenrui, but He Wenrui could not accept them. He frankly said that it was impossible to ask the horses to walk well and to make the horses not graze. Tao Ziqian thought about it, the entertainment city accounted for half of the turnover of the entire hotel, isn't it all his credit to He Wenrui? In turn, Tao Ziqian went to do the work of the shareholders.

At a time when the two sides are fighting and the contradictions are unresolved, there is a new wave of anti-corruption campaigns, and singing and dancing entertainment venues are the first to bear the brunt, and the business of Beijing-Hong Kong Entertainment City has been greatly affected. It happened that a four-star hotel from other places came to ask He Wenrui to be the general manager, and He Wenrui left as soon as he shook his hand. Under the dual influence of political factors and He Wenrui's personal factors, the Beijing-Hong Kong Entertainment City fell from the peak, and since then it has been in a slump until it closes. Fortunately, at the peak of its operation, the hotel mortgaged the casino to a local bank, and the personal investment was not lost. The local bank acted as the main culprit, and when it was finally demolished and sold, it was a pile of worthless construction waste.

Attention CEOs! The chaotic street sounded the voice of the team leader Xiao Wu, please gather in the car and return to the hotel quickly after taking photos. Don't get separated.

Leader, can we go back to the hotel later? Li Fei approached Xiao Wu and asked.

Why? Team leader Xiao Wu glanced at Li Fei and saw his roommate, Liu Guangliang, the president of a hotel in Beijing, standing behind him.

Liu Guangliang said that we still want to go around.

Li Fei and Liu Guangliang had already planned that they would play more at night and then go back. I finally came to Paris once, saw a few attractions during the day, and went back to the hotel to sleep after watching a show at night, and I didn't have any free time at all, which was too boring. Paris at night, Paris at night, what does Paris really look like at night? Fill their hearts with curiosity.

No way. Xiao Wu, the leader of the amiable team all the way, said bluntly.

Why? Li Fei also looked tough.

Because we're a team. Xiao Wu said that he wanted to come and go together. You can't let your solo actions delay your time.

Isn't it just that you can't wait for us? We don't want you to wait, we'll take a taxi back by ourselves. Li Fei said.

You don't understand the language, how can you take a taxi back?

Can't we use this? Li Fei took out a card and shook it in front of the team leader. This is a card for staying in a hotel, and when he went out, Xiao Wu asked each person to take one in their hands in case they got lost.

Do you know how far away we are from where we live? Xiao Wu was given a headache by these two people, he said, it is more than ten kilometers from here to the hotel where we are staying! Moreover, it is very unsafe in Paris at night, and there have been robberies of Chinese tourists not long ago. The leader of the team has talked about this many times along the way, like chanting scriptures. Travel agencies are most concerned about the safety of their guests.

You help us take away our cameras, mobile phones, and wallets, Li Fei said, the two of us are together, and we don't have valuables on us, so there shouldn't be anything wrong.

Liu Guangliang also said on the side, do me a favor. Xiao Wu.

Xiao Wu reluctantly opened his shoulder bag, accepted the items entrusted by the two, and still made a final effort to persuade him, I suggest that you go back with everyone. I'm not afraid of 10,000, I'm just afraid of what happens. I can't afford anything if something happens.

In case something happens, we are responsible. Is that okay? The two walked away as they spoke. You must not delay too long and get back to the hotel as soon as possible. Looking at the backs of the two, team leader Xiao Wu reluctantly gave a final admonition.

These people are really hard to bring, and they still use themselves as bosses when they go abroad!

At the Moulin Rouge, Li Fei was an eye-opener. They watched the first show, with dinner. The second one does not include dinner and is much cheaper. The team leader asked for everyone's opinions, and no one wanted to watch the second game. They are all general managers, and they are ready to spend money when they come out. I have a lot of dollars and RMB in my waist, and I can't bring it back if I don't spend it? Grandma Liu entered the Grand View Garden. It's a veritable open-mouthed meat.

Unlike domestic performance venues, the performance hall here has a dining table. Like a long table in a conference room, there are candle-shaped lamps on the table, and the chairs are facing each other and extend from one end of the stage. The curtain opens, wow! It feels like two words – amazing. The standard is high, glamorous and vulgar. Not allowed to take pictures, Li Fei took out the paper and pen prepared in advance, and did not dare to take it on the table, so he rested on his lap to draw. He had to paint the stage and the lights one by one.

The stage is three-dimensional and surrounding. Heaven and earth, on and off the stage, front and back, left and right, everywhere is a performance stage. Ten or twenty years later, the Chinese have come from behind and have taken these ideas and technologies to the top.

What are you painting this for? Liu Guangliang, who was sitting next to him, bent over to look.

I'm going to draw it down and refer to it.

The Moulin Rouge is surrounded by a street of nightclubs. The tour leader said that this is the red light district of Paris. Xiangzhou also has its own red-light district. During the period when gambling was opened, it was at its peak. Later, after repeated blows, the wildfires were always inexhaustible, and the spring breeze blew and reborn.

Once, before the morning meeting, I somehow talked about the red light district in Xiangzhou. Yang Yue told a story to everyone, saying that there was an old man in the countryside of Jiangbei who had worked hard to save money for a year, came to Xiangzhou to visit the red light district once, and asked the teenage lady to provide him with a full set of services. When I came out, I sighed: Thank you XXX, if it weren't for XXXX, I wouldn't be able to open this foreign meat in my life! It caused everyone to burst into laughter.

Li Fei believes that it is a fact that there is a so-called red light district in Xiangzhou. But someone made up such a story, obviously with ulterior motives. Fortunately, the times are different, and some forbidden words in the past are now as long as you don't brush slogans and post big-character posters, and no one will do anything to anyone in private.

Last time I went to the United States, the team leader said that tonight's event only needs to be attended by men, and women are resting in the hotel. The team leader chattered. Several female bosses knew that they had to submit to this unequal arrangement.

The show is pole dancing, with beautiful women and full nudity. The green ticket is inserted in the transparent sock tube - the tip of the nest egg. A bunch of Chinese guys, no one is willing to lay eggs.

The team leader on the road repeatedly told him that the law in the United States stipulates that you are only allowed to see, not touch. Don't cause trouble. Li Fei feels that this has no reference significance in China.

On the evening street in Las Vegas, he was blown away by volcanic eruptions, oversized musical fountains and pirate ship shows in front of the hotel. The square show with the Perfume Galaxy Hotel is one truth: to attract guests. It's just that hotels in Las Vegas attract guests from all over the world, while Perfume Galaxy attracts guests from the surrounding area.

Before he went abroad, he thought that he must see a show in a nightclub in the United States. However, there is no such arrangement for group activities. That night in Las Vegas, he asked the team leader to take him to the show alone, and he paid for the ticket.

The team leader didn't understand: the nightclub shows are all singing and dancing acrobatics, what's so beautiful?

I'm not exactly about watching its show, I'm about seeing its venue.

He told the team leader that he wanted to build such a performance venue in China. When the team leader heard that it was in Xiangzhou, a county-level city, he shook his head. At the MGM show, they watched the last eleven o'clock show. He was also not allowed to take pictures, and he regretted not bringing paper and pen at that time.

Team leader Xiao Wu counted the number of people in the car. Someone told him that he was two from Hubei and Beijing. He said they had taken a leave of absence and would come back later.

The people in the car were chattering: Didn't they go to the red light district? These people are not honest when they go abroad. Merry Ghost! Didn't you say that you wouldn't be allowed to leave the group and act alone? Some are indignant; Some people feel that they have suffered.

Xiao Wu regretted it, why did he talk to them about the red light district around the Moulin Rouge? Isn't this fishing in front of a greedy cat? If something really happens, you're out of luck. He said that if you don't want to be responsible, you will be exempted? Stupidity! God willing, let those two guys come back safely.

Most of the brightly lit shops on the street are doing the same business – mini runways. The storefront is like an upgraded version of the Chinese rental façade. There are people soliciting at every doorstep. This reminded Li Fei of the scene he saw on a certain section of National Highway 107. The difference is that the language and the scene have changed. And the unfamiliar language and scenes here make people feel that there are traps everywhere, and they dare not rush into it.

Welcome? A broken Chinese phrase stands out and attracts the attention of the two. Please come in - watch the show - wonderful show! Finally someone can communicate.

What show?

Formal performances.

How much is a person?

Fifty.

Renminbi?

Dollar.

The total of two people is about 400 yuan. To see or not to see? If you don't look at it, you may not have this shop in this village. It's a veritable Paris at night. Although there is also a "night Paris" in China now, it is all an impostor. Go in and see what's going on, and if it's not right, we'll leave. If you don't enter the tiger's den, you will get the tiger! The two of them looked together and had the courage to break into the "tiger's den".

Passing through the small reception hall, there is a space of twenty or thirty square meters. There are rows of low benches, a small stage the size of a double bed. That's pretty basic, isn't it? Please be seated. Just two of us? Sit down! The show starts right away.

A blonde woman came out of a door next to the stage, stepped onto the stage and began to twist her ass. This reminded Li Fei of pole dancing in the United States. Suddenly, the dancer turns, and his robe shakes off, revealing his full nudeness.

Not good! As soon as the two exchanged glances, they got up and left. A few people came forward to stop them, speaking in a language they didn't understand. The Chinese-speaking guy doesn't show his face anymore. The language is not comprehensible, but the meaning can be understood. From the shouts of "MONEY" and "MONEY", it is known that they are asking for money.

We watched for less than a minute and couldn't pay fifty dollars. The two idiots also tried to quibble. But quibbling is futile. If you don't pay the money, you won't be allowed to go. Only to pay for it. The handed over green ticket was placed on the half-height counter, and a guy took a wooden stick and tapped it on the counter next to the ticket.

After paying the money, you won't let you go? Still? Inadequate? Didn't you say fifty dollars for good? The trap I thought was a bottomless abyss! A tall and fierce guy appeared, holding his fist like a strong man fighting in the movie. Hmm——! Thunder rolled out of his nose.

Li Fei used all his Chinese shrewdness. Three words are repeatedly spoken in English: Paris - police - friends. What he wanted to convey was that he had police friends in Paris. But it didn't work. They may have opened this shop with the police. Of course, this is his Chinese way of thinking.

It is useless to argue with reason. Then pretend. Pretending to be okay, right? The pockets are turned open, and you see. There is only so much, and the money is here. Hmm——? It's still the same stick, knocking on the top, knocking on the pants. —the work of taking off his coat—in the small pockets pressed by the trouser belt, he turned out some dollars. - The Chinese are cunning and cunning - okay, please leave us a little money for a taxi back to the hotel!

The two who had been looted were driven out. Looking back at this world of flowers, Li Fei was as disgusted as if he had eaten a fly by mistake. Is this the night of Paris? This is the beautiful night Paris in your heart? What a humiliating experience! The language barrier, the lack of understanding of the local laws, the only one you can rely on is the tour leader. But this passage has been blocked by itself. Say that if something goes wrong, you will be responsible.

Even if the tour leader is magnanimous and agrees to help, the itinerary is not allowed. Itineraries are all one loop, and it's impossible to stay in Paris for you two idiots for an extra day. There is no other way but to consider yourself unlucky.

During the day the next day, visiting the Champs-Elysées, Li Fei asked for leave and left the group to go to the Lido Song and Dance Hall. He was fascinated and unwilling to let go of this rare learning opportunity.

After returning from Europe, Li Fei had a rough outline of his vision for an entertainment city. On this day, he inspected the backyard of the Perfume Star River Hotel to see if the size of the plot could meet the requirements of the building. Outside the courtyard of the back wall is someone's house, and if you build a four-story building on your side, it will inevitably block someone's house. Will people agree? He didn't have any bottom in his heart.