Chapter 97: Autumn in Warsaw
Gu Tie's mood at the moment was a little complicated, he logged out of the quantum network, and lay on the KingSize double bed with a confused expression, staring at the smudge on the ceiling in a daze. After the TV showed a variety show into the commercial, Ed looked back boredly, was startled by Gu Tie's expression, and rushed over and dangled in front of the Chinese with his big bear-like hands: "Hey, Tie, are you okay?"
"Nonsense. Gu Tie said angrily, "It's not my style to be blind. β
"Whew, that's good. The Pole sighed, "Do you need anything? food, water, wine, women, men?"
"Don't bother me, I have to think about something. Gu Tie sighed, resting his head and looking at the chandelier with both hands.
His unusual behavior still made the bearded man a little worried, and Ed walked around the room with a pistol, looked at the lifeless Chinese, tried to open his mouth several times, and then closed his mouth and swallowed back the words of comfort. It was dark outside the window, and it was time for dinner, Ed grabbed the phone and dialed the service desk, asking the overly attentive receptionist at the front desk to bring in some food, and ten minutes later there was a knock on the door, and the Pole flashed to the side of the door, and after confirming that there was only one food delivery outside, he opened the door and hid the pistol behind him.
"Your dinner, Mr. Grenevsky. The receptionist actually remembered the last name on the butcher's passport, and his face was full of smile lines: "I would like to introduce you to today's special meal: the main course is the restaurant's signature sauerkraut stewed duck with tomatoes, wild mushrooms, smoked plums, apples, peppers, juniper, mint, basil and Italian red wine, the main dishes are delicious parogi dumplings filled with minced meat, sauerkraut and mushrooms and Ruthenian dumplings filled with cheese, potatoes and fried onions, and the soup is a fresh bazas beetroot soup with sausage, cabbage, potatoes, sour cream and brown bread. In addition, we will give a bottle of champagne for couples, although it is a domestic sake, it has a soft mouth, rich bubbles and sweet taste, which is perfect for two people's Langman dinner. β
"Bookkeeping. Ed pulled a cart full of food into the room.
"Of course, Mr. Grenevsky. The receptionist looked around with a smile on his face to see what was going on in the room: "Is there another gentleman resting, isn't he? If there is no arrangement for the evening, I would like to recommend the night show of the Freddy Merkley Club, where male strippers from Cyprus start their hot performances at 10 o'clock every night......
The Pole stretched out his left hand, and between his fingers a green bill appeared: "You have two choices, first, take the dollar in my left hand and get out of here, and second, guess what my right hand holds." β
The receptionist deftly took out the dollar and hid it in the palm of his hand, and bowed deeply: "There will be no guests in the other rooms on this side of the corridor tonight, you don't have to worry about disturbing other guests, I wish you a good evening, Mr. Grenevsky." β
Ed locked the door, hung up the burglar chain, and spat in disgust on the floor. He pushed the cart to the bedside and lifted the stainless steel dinner plate lid, the aroma of food filling the room. Although it was not as tempting as the exaggerated receptionist, the colorful local dishes of Northeast Poland still aroused Gu Tie's appetite, and he sat up with a flutter and shook his head: "Love how you want, if you want to die, you can be a full ghost...... Lao Ai, what did you just talk about with the food delivery person?"
"You certainly don't want to know. Seeing that Gu Tie came to life, the bearded man grinned, "Eat, eat." β
The two opened the champagne and had dinner together in the hotel room, and the Chinese forked a dumpling and took a bite: "Well, the appearance is similar, it tastes far worse than Chinese dumplings, when you have time to go to China and let Lao Zhao make you lamb and radish stuffed dumplings to eat, so fragrant that you swallow your tongue." Speaking of this, his expression suddenly darkened: "Do you have time to go to China? β
"What's wrong with you?" Ed stared at him suspiciously, feeling that Gu Tie's half-dead expression now really complemented his dejected appearance.
"Lao Ai, if you are told that you have six months to live, for example...... I guess I have a terminal illness or something. What do you most want to do?" the Chinese asked, pouring champagne over the two.
The Poles were stunned. He took a drink from his glass and wiped the wine stains from the corners of his mouth with his sleeve, "In six months, I should accompany Marlene to travel abroad, she grew up in Bialystok and has never gone abroad to see the scenery outside." β
"What about your great cause of restoring the country?" This answer surprised Gu Tie a little.
"Within six months? That's not a revolution, it's a sacrifice in vain. The bearded man shook his head, and his expression suddenly changed: "Why do ......you ask this?
"Phew, bah, bah. Gu Tie said, "I don't have a terminal illness, and it's not a plot in a kimchi drama, just ask." By the way, you're now wanted by the whole country, you're going to implicate Marlene, right? She doesn't know who you are, does she? β
Ed said calmly: "Her mother is a professor at a medical university, and her father is a colonel in the armored forces of the Polish Army, so the Countermeasures Executive Directorate will not be stupid enough to embarrass her." β
"A ruthless revolutionary youth, an amorous rich lady. Gu Tie said narrowly: "It's a very nostalgic style script." β
The Pole smiled wryly and said, "If it weren't for your appearance, our peaceful days would have been a few years longer." But this is better, and knowing a friend like you, our dream is one step closer. β
The Chinese were stunned for a moment, and could not bear to tell their Polish friends that "the world is about to be destroyed", which sounds a little naΓ―ve but is incomparably cruel. "That's right, Lao Ai, the glory of the First Polish Republic will once again shine on the land of Poland. He patted the other man's broad shoulder.
"Iron ......" Ed's eyes sparkled as he caught Gu Tie's hands. Gu Tie snorted, glanced back at the double bed, and withdrew his hand with a smile on his face: "Drink and drink, don't get drunk." β
"Drink!"
A bottle of champagne went down, just slightly aroused the two of them, Ed opened the cabinet door, took all the alcoholic drinks in the minibar in the room and threw them into the bed, Gu Tie immediately pulled the amber bottle to his side, and pushed the bottle full of transparent liquid to the other party, he had seen the power of Polish vodka once, even if it was not blended into an expired canned tuna cocktail, he didn't want to try it again.
Neither man is an alcoholic, but in the face of a foreign partner, who is willing to show weakness first and lose the face of the motherland? This scene of wine was drunk darkly, Gu Tie couldn't remember how many small bottles of whiskey he had dried up in one sip, and he couldn't remember whether Ed drank the entire bottle of 750ml vodka in a few sips, and when the first line of sunlight illuminated the room, the Chinese opened their eyes with difficulty and found themselves lying on the aisle between the bathroom and the room, spitting a large pool of red and green beside him, stretching his hands forward to make a flying shape, it seemed that he was running towards the toilet with discomfort, but he fainted halfway in failure.
"Uh......" The headache almost knocked him unconscious, Gu Tie groaned for a few minutes, reluctantly took out his mobile phone to connect to the Internet, and observed the virtual cordon arranged around the hotel last night: the cordon composed of monitoring probes, pickup microphones, smoke sensors, and infrared sensors showed that no one had approached this side of room 219 since yesterday evening, and the talkative receptionist was indeed a sincere person, of course, it was not excluded that the hotel was operating poorly.
Throwing away the phone, Gu Tie touched his buttocks with his backhand, and found that his pants were still well worn on his body, and he breathed a long sigh of relief. He tried to stand up, but found that he had no strength in his body, so he could only drag his stomach and crawl slowly towards the room like a large crocodile. As soon as he climbed next to the TV cabinet, the nausea sensation gurgled up from his esophagus, Gu Tie gritted his teeth and turned around and crawled back to the bathroom, resting his chin on the edge of the toilet, and squirting out a stream of colorful liquid. Spit out the stock in his stomach, he retched a few times, pulled the handle to flush, and said goodbye to Polish dumplings, sauerkraut stew, and whiskey in the toilet.
Grabbing a towel to wipe his face, Gu Tie continued to crawl back to the room on all fours, grabbed the sheets and climbed onto the double bed with all his strength, and lay on the soft mattress with his hands and feet spread. "Uhh......hh When was the last time you drank so much?I guessed that old Xiao's sinister guy was drinking wine, and I will never be able to win against him......" He burped with a strong taste of alcohol, smacked his lips in pain, and looked at the wall clock: "It's only seven o'clock...... How do you feel, Lao Ai?" Gu Tie closed his heavy eyelids in a chattering manner.
The sound of the TV was blaring, and the host was broadcasting the morning news program in Polish he didn't understand, and he couldn't remember if he hadn't turned off the TV in the evening or if Ed had turned it on in the morning. "Lao Ai, you slept to death. Gu Tie closed his eyes and patted the other half of the double bed with his hand, only touching the pillow and the crumpled blanket, "Hehe, it's the same as me, sleeping on the ground, you have to pay if you stain the carpet." He smiled, rolled to the side of the bed and reached out to touch the bed, "Hey, old Ai, wake up, get up and pee." β
No one talked.
Gu Tie opened his eyes strangely, there was no bear-like Pole on the cheap polyester carpet, only two pieces of clothing and a Glock pistol with the safety open. The Chinese's eyes widened suddenly, and the residual alcohol immediately evaporated out of the pores, and he pulled out his pistol from under his pillow with his backhand, calling his partner's name in a flirtatious tone, while vigilantly scanning the room: "Old Ai, where to sleep? Don't say that you are in the bathtub, the curve of the bathtub is not good for the spine!"
The room was empty. There was no one in the closet, behind the desk, under the bed, in the curtains, or in the bathroom, and Ed was missing. The door lock and anti-theft hinges of the room were firmly locked from the inside, and there was no trace of opening, Gu Tie clenched his pistol and walked back and forth in the room several times, standing in the center of the room in surprise, the Pole was completely lost, and his only gain was a few unnoticeable drops of blood on the carpet next to the bedside table, and the blood had not yet completely coagulated.