Chapter two hundred and fifty-ninth note
At that moment, I wrote an invitation to Mr. Gu and others in Wadesi's office, and handed it to the embassy's servants, and asked him to send it to him from house to house! Then I personally went to the Welcoming Building and ordered a table for the table!
The next day I arrived at Yingbin Building early. Before I could even sit there, Wadesi walked in from outside. As soon as he saw me, he copied me in poor Chinese and said to me: "Charlie Cao, why did you find such a place? I almost got late!"
I took out my pocket watch, looked at the time, and said, "Lao Wa, are you not late? It's still very early!"
Wadesi also looked at his watch, slapped his forehead, and shouted, "Oh, look at me, I got all the time wrong, damn it!"
I laughed and said, "Lao Wa, I think you are hungry, so I said this on purpose!"
Wadesi said embarrassedly: "No, no, it's me that I really made the time wrong!"
I pulled a chair and asked Wadesi to sit down and said to him, "Sit down first, and we will serve the food when everyone arrives!"
He shook his head and said to me solemnly: "Charlie Cao, I'm not in a hurry. Isn't you Chinese a saying? You can't eat hot tofu in a hurry. I'm not in a hurry. I want to eat your Chinese hot tofu!" I couldn't help laughing and said to him: "I don't care if you want to eat hot tofu, even I want to eat hot tofu. Why don't we wait together!"
Wadesi narrowed his blue eyes and stretched out his long thin legs on the chair, saying, "Okay, Charlie Cao, let's wait for the hot tofu to cool down!"
I chatted with Wadesi for a while and heard that the restaurant was getting more and more lively. So I took out my pocket watch, looked at the time, and found that the agreed time had passed, and I finally couldn't sit still anymore. I pushed open the wooden door of the private room and saw the crowds of guests in the Yingbin Building, flowing endlessly. Only the private room door I had booked was deserted, and I couldn't even see a ghost! I couldn't help but feel angry and turned around and said to Wadesi: "Old Wa, wait for a while. If no one comes, we won't wait!"
Wadesi comforted me and said, "It doesn't matter to my friend. No one you invited came. This made me very worried. I think they must know something... so they didn't dare to come to the appointment!"
I nodded and said to Wadesi: "You wait in the house for a while, I'll go down and take a look!" So I pushed open the door of the private room, walked out the door of the Yingbin Building, and looked at the two ends of the street. I saw pedestrians coming one after another, but there were no guests waiting for me! I couldn't help but feel lost and stood at the door, like a cormorant standing in the pond with his neck stretched out, in a mess! The sunset was setting, and the whole street was immersed in the afterglow of the sunset. The bell and drum tower in the distance stood majestic, and the golden sun was dazzling! The crows flying in the sky made a harsh cry! The traffic on the street was full of traffic, and the carriages transporting goods and rickshaw driving past me... A little further away, a group of twin-mare camels walked towards me slowly...!
These camels were carrying heavy goods, and they occupied half of the street in ash, causing passers-by to look at each other! I was so shocked that I suddenly heard a voice behind me calling me, "Sir, sir, are you Mr. Charlie?"
I turned around and saw a little beggar in tattered clothes staring at me with his naked eyes.
He asked him, "Who are you? How do you know my name?" The little beggar looked childish. He clenched his fists, rubbed his nose hard, and said, "Then are you Mr. Charlie?"
I said yes, who told you my name? The little beggar said very skillfully that he was entrusted by someone to deliver the letter to me! I asked him, who asked you to deliver the letter to me? The little beggar turned around and pointed behind him and said, "Someone just handed me a dollar from the car and asked me to hand you this note!" As he said that, the little beggar raised the note in his hand at me!
I said, "Where is the car you mentioned?"
The little beggar turned his head and searched in the traffic coming and going, then scratched the back of his head and said, "The car seems to have left. What are you looking for it? I said, sir, do you want a note? If you want it, I will use it to make a fire!"
I said, why don’t you want it? Give me the note! The little beggar smiled, then grabbed the note’s hand and shrank it back, and said to me: “Sir, do you understand the rules?”. I said strangely, “What rules do you understand?”.
The little beggar curled his lips and said, "Did you forget to give the money?"
I said, "Didn't that person just gave you money?"
The little beggar said with confidence: "You are really a man. You are dressed in five or six people. Why don't you understand the worldly style? Have you ever seen someone running errands for free? Tell you the truth, those who do our business are both good at both ends. Not only did the person who just wrote me to me, but even the person who received the letter also had to pay! Don't be unwilling to accept that every line has rules for each line, and we won't take your money in vain. From now on, you walk on your Yangguan Road and I walk on my single-plank bridge. No matter who asks you, I won't force you to do anything. But from now on, I can't guarantee that you will shake your affairs that day. You can think about it if you are more important!"
After hearing the little beggar say such a big trick, I asked him, "How much should I give you?" As soon as I asked this, I regretted it! The little beggar's eyes rolled, stretched out two fingers, and said to me, "You have to give me at least two dollars!"
I was anxious and asked him, "The person who sent the letter will give you one dollar. Why should I ask me for two dollars? Are you blackmailing?"
The little beggar touched my pulse and he sneered and said, "Stop talking nonsense, why don't you give me? I don't have time to accompany you to swear!" The little beggar saw me hesitating, and spat on the ground and scolded, "Just like you, I don't know what that young lady likes you. If I choose a wealthy rich man, wouldn't it be hundreds of times better than you are poor?"
I was so angry that I was about to start a bad breath and scolded the beggar when I suddenly remembered that the eight famous alleys in Beijing were nearby. Could it be that he also regarded me as the romantic clients who were looking for flowers and willows? Then I thought, I felt that something was wrong. There was not a woman among the people I invited today. So who was the one who handed me the note?
I was confused, as if I was falling into a fog, so I took the words of the little beggar and asked him what the young lady in the car looked like? The little beggar was not fooled by me. He smiled sly, stretched out his dirty little hand, and said, "Add another dollar, I will tell you!"
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The little beggar was a little interested, so he took out three dollars and put them in his palm, teasing him and said, "You can tell me first, let's make it clear that these three dollars are all yours!" The little beggar's eyes rolled and he smiled and said, "You are an adult, why are you embarrassed to lie to me as a child?"
I said strangely, "When did I lie to you? Why do you, a kid, tell lies with your eyes open?"
The little beggar looked at the money in my hand naked and said, "If you didn't want to lie to me, would you dare give me the money first?"
I said, "I gave you the money, what if you tell me?"
The little beggar said disdainfully: "Are you an adult, are you afraid that I will run away?"
I thought to myself that, I will give him the money first. If he dares to run away, he will not be able to run out of my palm! Thinking of this, I handed the money to the little beggar and asked him, "Then tell me what does the person who gave you the note look like?"
The little beggar grabbed the money and handed me the note in his hand and said, "Sir, you put the note away!" I took the note and urged him to say, "Do you say it quickly? What does the person who gave you the note look like?"
The little beggar grimaced at me and shouted, "Sir, don't think about it carefully. What are the rules in our industry? How could I sell my customer for your mere dollar? You underestimate me too much!" After that, he jumped back, stared at his shiny little eyes, and was ready to run away at any time with his hair spread!
I was fooled by the pictures of this little beggar. I just came back to my senses and couldn't help but get angry. I reached out to catch the little beggar. I didn't expect that the little beggar was spinning around in the spot and hit me! I was shocked, and instinctively turned around. The little beggar laughed, penetrated through my armpit, and squeezed into the crowd!
I screamed "Oh" and quickly separated the crowd, but when I saw the figure, there was still a trace of a little beggar there?" I couldn't help but sigh, thinking that I had been so bad today that I had been so bad for eight lifetimes. I didn't say that anyone I invited came. I was still put on a beggar when I was about to walk back. I was so disappointed that I was still holding the folded small note in my hand!
The small note was folded from a plain mark. Under the shadow of the lamp, the dark patterns on the paper could be vaguely seen, and at the same time, there was a fragrance like orchids and musk emitted from the note! I seemed to have smelled this faint fragrance somewhere, but when I carefully followed the source of the fragrance, my thoughts were suddenly interrupted by Wadesi!
Wadesi looked at me in surprise and asked me in surprise: "Charlie, what's wrong with you?" I woke up and took Wadesi's hand to the street. At this time, the street was completely dark, and the lights were on all the shops, and the lights flashed, making the streets look blurry!
I took Wadesi's arm and returned to Yingbin Building. As soon as I walked up to the second floor, I saw a man with big and thick sturdy legs sitting in a private room. The man was bare chest and abdomen, and his body was fat, like a white pig that had been peeled and washed! Seeing that the man was surprisingly fat, I couldn't help but look at him more. The man slapped his hand on the table and shouted loudly: "Where are you running? Where are you dead? Your Master Bai has been here for so long, why haven't you served the food yet?"
Chapter completed!