Chapter 3 third chapter

There's not much business in the cocktail lounge this afternoon.The time for some cocktails before dinner has not yet come, but the time for shopping, resting or hanging horses in the afternoon has already passed. I went in, pausing to rest a bit to let my eyes get used to the sudden dimness of the light. There is a chandelier hanging above the cash register, so the bar is quite bright.Purple light shines on the counter-like table, giving the impression of moonlight.The surrounding booths are completely invisible to a guest who just walked in from the sunny street. I didn't see her at all until she slid around me.

Lai Tangnuo?she says.Her voice itself was low and sweet, like a gentle caress. Chanon?I asked. Yes, you're here to discuss the rules of the game? Can't I just buy a glass of wine? I won't chat with you if I don't buy wine! Can I buy you a glass? No, it's against the rules, I'm the foreman. Where are we talking? follow me. She led me to a booth in the far corner.The booth design is very wonderful, as if it can be completely separated from the lounge. What would you like to drink, Tang Nuo? Have an Alpens Grande.I said. OK, I'll get it and bring it to you myself.Give me a dollar, Don Nuo.

I give her one dollar. The bartender is a nice guy.She said: "He'll get the drinks right and he'll signal me when it's time for me to come back.You can rest comfortably here. I sat comfortably on the soft leather sofa cushions. When Shannon came back with Alpens, my eyes had completely adapted to the light in the lounge, and I could see her clearly. She's a tall (left to right), long-legged girl with a wonderful figure.His eyes were cold, and he seemed to be concentrating on it, as if he was appraising a piece of goods. She put Alpens on a silver plate, stooped, looked over her shoulder quickly, put the glass on the corner of the table, and moved to sit down beside me.

Tang Nuo, she said: I'm a little scared. To what extent are you afraid?I asked. There is nothing that a thousand yuan in cash can't overcome.But I'm afraid it's true. In this matter, your benefit is 1,000 yuan?I asked. The eyebrows that had been drawn turned into arches, Tang Nuo, didn't you know? I shake my head. Tang Nuo, what do you know? don't know anything.I said: Except for the one thousand yuan thing. do not do that. What not to do? Don't do this when I'm asking you, hoping to get some news. Maybe the two of us tell each other what we know.I said: Tell me first, why did you choose me to work on this matter?

because I like you.A working woman like me has trained a pair of eyesight to see through a man's mind.You came here with a girl a few days ago, who is that woman, Tang Nuo? Friends only. She kept her eyes on you.You are such a gentleman, treat her well, think of everything for her, anyway, she cares about everything She told me, Tang Nuo, is this woman someone else's wife?Was that an extramarital affair? I said: Let's talk now, the protagonist should be you. Of course, but I should also know a little about you.She replied skillfully: I'm going to spend a long night with you after all.

It was you who suggested discussing the rules of the game first.I remind her. That can wait.She said: I first need to know how much risk I want to take. How much risk you take depends on the situation. what's the situation? See how much you know. Tang Nuo, she said: I don't know anything.I went into the hotel, and the hotel staff saw me clearly.I believe the clerk will tell the police that he will recognize me when he sees me again. This incident made me helpless, because I couldn't give up my present job.On any given day, sooner or later the police will find me, and I will have no reason to explain it.

so what?I asked. So, she said: Because I have a thousand yuan in cash to support me, I am willing to take a little risk now. Which aspect do you mean? you do not know? Just an outline.I still want you to say it again. As far as I know, the police will check the registration list, and then check each address one by one.For our pair, they couldn't find the address, they couldn't find the person.Maybe the address was looked up, the person was wrong, and the person who lived at the address didn't leave San Francisco all weekend. So they would look up the license plate number I wrote on the registration, which was wrong.Maybe the car with the license number was an Oldsmobile, and the owner was in Seattle for the weekend.So the police knew that the man and woman staying in the hotel had left false names and false addresses.The car I have on the books is a Cadillac.

Why Cadillac?I asked. Because that was the first car I saw when I looked up from the counter and out the window.It was a Cadillac with the number VGH five three five.So I replaced G with C and wrote VCH five three five. Since the police will know that the registration is fake, I said: Do you think they will start investigating all Cadillacs with plates similar to yours? Won't.She said: They will think that I just write a car number randomly, and make up a car number. In fact, if I didn't look up and saw four or five cars parked outside the window, and one of them happened to be able to see the number clearly, I would have to make up a car number. a number?

Okay, I said: From here on, what are we going to do next? At the next stop, she said: Let's go to the motel together, and I will go in and ask for the key.The clerk will notify the police that the couple who stayed in one house that night and paid to live in another house on their return from San Diego have returned.We'll go into the house and have a glass or two of it, and the policeman will come.They'll ask me questions, I'm acting like a fallen angel, you're playing Kyle. Are you willing to do this? I'm willing to risk it so far.She said: Know that no one will believe that the woman who works in the lounge is a holy angel.I got mixed up.I've been married, I've been divorced, anyway, I'm really messing around.

Will doing so make you unable to work here any longer?I asked. God, no.She said: On the contrary, the bosses of this kind of place want the women working here to have a slightly sinister atmosphere.This is not a problem at all. What is the problem? What will the police do? What do you think they will do? She said: "I would tell them my story and I would tell them straight up that we were not married but were on our honeymoon. Tell me what's really going on, This man with me, I only know his name is Gatong. Don't know what his last name is? have no idea. How long have you known him?

I met him here oh maybe a dozen times. You have been nice to him? Sometimes I chat with him, and two or three times when the business is slow, I sit at his table and chat. How did it develop later? This Saturday he's free, I can see.Don't ask me how I know.As soon as I saw him, I knew he would be free that day. Never before? This is the first time.Tang Nuo, I really knew it when I saw it.This guy has a wife.His wife went out that day.See friends, go back to her mother's house, anyway, he is free. and you?I asked. Well, she said: I happen to be free too.I've always had a crush and I dumped him a month ago and I just got off work and had to go back to the apartment and I'm pretty lonely. What happened again? Things happen one by one.Gaga invited me to dinner.I volunteered to go with him, thinking of a drink or two and a meal, that's all.I just thought so too. What is his mind? He wants to take advantage of the opportunity as much as possible and accept it all.All men are like this.Men will not back down until they are completely cornered, you will never say that I am wrong, right? I have no opinion.I said: I'm just asking for your opinion. Well, I've given you my opinion.Things developed accordingly. So you go out to eat? Yes. so what? He was going to drive me back to where my car was parked.He said he was going to drive up Muheran Road and asked me if I had any comments. You should understand what this means? God, Tang Nuo.Of course I understand what that means.This guy would stop the car and look at the Wanjia lights, then put his hand behind my shoulder, pull me closer to him, want to kiss me, to see how far I can accept him, his hand will keep moving, see When will I stop him. Do you think so? Of course there is nothing wrong with this.I am a woman.But I can hold up the no-passing sign at any time, and according to my standards, his doesn't count. What about after that? Let's go over there and sit and watch the lights Believe it or not, Tang Nuo, this guy is pretty nice.He wasn't rough at all.He just sat there looking at the lights and talking.Suddenly I think I like him. so what? He turned to me and said something.I purposely turned my head towards him and put my head in the right position where he just dropped down and kissed me. Did he lean down and kiss you? Of course he took the initiative.What's the difference?I opened all four doors, is this guy wood? What happened after that? What happened after that can also be said to have not happened since then, which really made me have a good impression of him.He didn't take advantage of me when I had a good impression of him, and was in a hurry like other men who were afraid that I would repent and that I would miss the train.He hugs me and kisses me.I'd like him to do something about it.I had him on first base, he should have been able to steal second, but he didn't. I said: how? She said: He is so nice, he has enough time, he didn't touch anything, he didn't do anything, he just started the car. And after that? I was surprised after that.I always thought that after the car stopped, I would be ready at any time to signal the prohibition, but he did this, so that I made me A bit disappointed? She hesitated, no, not disappointed.She said thoughtfully: I'm actually studying myself. To be honest, Tang Nuo, this is the first time I've encountered a situation like this. go on.I said. He was driving down the hill, trying to be a gentleman all the way, and suddenly, the car turned around and he pulled into a motel.That hotel, we mentioned not long ago, I once held a meeting of an advertising company in that hotel.I told him I had been there for a drink and swam in the pool.Speaking of how nice the hostel is. And after that? It wasn't until he turned the car into the hotel that I realized he was the real deal, but I really liked the way he did it.He's cool, bold, and sure. Tang Nuo, you know, girls don't like certain kinds of questions.If a man suddenly asks a girl: Shall we open a room, how should the girl answer?Maybe she didn't want to say no.But you can't say that you can do it yourself. Tang Nuo, let me tell you, I don't care about hands and feet, but I absolutely don't like other people's hands and feet.Some people have rough hands and feet, and I feel disgusted from the bottom of my heart. Anyway, the way he proceeds, is it to your liking? I was thinking, this guy knows how to flirt, he's a master flirt.I bet it would be fun to hang out with him, since I'm idle anyway.Why not? What about after that? He asked me naturally and politely if I could go out and register. So you go in and register? So I went in to register, saying that we had driven all the way from San Francisco, and that we were all tired. The clerk looked at me carefully from head to toe. I had heard a person named Pu Jiatong before, and somehow I still had a deep impression on him. , since this person is also called Jiatong now, so I registered Pu Jiatong and fabricated an address in San Francisco myself. So we went into a bungalow in this motel, and the servant wanted to take out our luggage. Gatton told him that he would take out the luggage himself after a while, and I knew I couldn't fool the servant.I'm sure the servant will go back and report that these two guys have no luggage. And after that? Gaton brought out a bottle of wine after entering the room. This was his first mistake, and it was also my mistake.I already drank champagne with my meal.I think it's time for a slow meal, dim lighting, good music, good food, and some champagne. But you don't like hard liquor? dislike. You didn't drink? Only drank a little.He called the hotel to bring ice, but it wasn't a servant who brought in the ice, he didn't notice, I could see it clearly. You said that it was not my younger brother who brought the ice in. No, it's the hotel detective. Even motels have their own detectives? Kiss Hotel is there.The hotel is huge, you know. Got it, so how? He looked at the two of us carefully and walked out.To be honest, I expected that soon after he left, a call would come in telling us that the house was not rented to us.They would say we had no luggage and they could refund us the rent, minus some basic cleaning costs of course. They didn't? So I procrastinate for a while.I went into the bathroom to get my hair done and Gaton came out with two glasses of wine and I told him I didn't want any, so he drank his and mine.He poured himself another glass, and suddenly I realized he was putting the spirits on top of the champagne.He was relaxed, but the muscles in his face were loose and drooping.I can't tell, but there's nothing cute about this guy all of a sudden. so what? At this time he made a second mistake.He started to get fussy, he was so concerned about the girl's self-esteem back then, so calm, so gentle.If he can continue to do this in the room, everything can still be discussed, but he is scratching and scratching, and I don't like it at all.I picked up my purse, turned around and walked out. What about after going out? I walked to the phone booth, hailed a taxi, and went home. What are you going to tell the police? I'm going to tell them the truth. So what do you say about Pu Jiatong? You are Pu Jiatong.Of course Pukaton is not your real name, but I will tell the police that you are the one who was there with me on Saturday, when you are a bit drunk and we have a fight, I will leave you.I'd say you're calling to apologize.I accept your apologies.I'm here to make up for you today, I shouldn't have released you that day. And me? You continue to act from here, of course there is nothing to act.What they want to ask is whether we have heard anything about Long Feixiao.When did we go to bed, were there any unusual situations or sounds, etc. Of course, after the police left, the two of us had to stay in the house overnight so that they didn't seem strange. I said: The hotel detective who came in with the drink would say, I'm not the man you were in the house with that day. No, he won't.Caton was in bed that day, and he turned his face inward.This was another thing that turned me off, once in the hotel he was conflicted and seemed to regret being with me. Then he came to you, gave you 1,000 yuan, and told you to go to the police to tell such a story? No, he didn't come to me.I haven't seen him at all since that day.Honestly, I don't care to see him again either. How did you get that one thousand yuan?I asked. She said: He told me on the phone that the police were looking for me.He also said that the police would probably find me first, because I exposed a large area.Sooner or later the clerk or the servant or the detective will run right into me. So he said on the phone that he would give you a thousand yuan? Yes. Do you really believe he will give it to you? I've got it. Carry it with you? Yes of course.Do you think that if the money is not in hand, I will do things for him? How did you get it? It was delivered by a special person, ten beautiful new one hundred yuan notes. What did you say to Gatong on the phone? He told me to go back to the motel.He said that he had asked a special messenger to send the rent and told them to keep the house that night.He said I could go back on my own, and that he would pay a private eye to go there and act as my male companion for the day.The clerk would notify the police, and the police would come to me with questions, and I would have the opportunity to tell the story I had prepared so that he could be unhooked. How do you think he can unhook? Since both servants and detectives could back up his story, he was too drunk to hear anything. What did you tell him on the phone? I told him no, I'm not that kind of girl.He said to give me five hundred yuan, but I still said no.So, suddenly I thought of you, and I told him, I said, let me hear, there is a private detective named Lai Tangnuo, if you can persuade him to play the leading role in this matter, and if you are willing to increase the money When it reaches 1,000 yuan, I will do it once.Otherwise, there is no need to talk about it. So what? So here you are.She said: Jiatong has already called, sent money, and left room No. 27, which means we have not moved out. I said: The hotel detective has seen Caton, the porter has seen Caton, in case the police ask them to see me? On Saturday night, they didn't have a chance to take a closer look.The servant didn't care who came with whom, and the detective was looking at me, not at Caton. Are you attractive? Tang Nuo, whenever I look at it, it is always attractive. This is my capital.Are you blind?Or else it's too dark here, are you night blind? It's too dark a relationship. It doesn't matter, after a while you will have a chance to see me more and more.she said, laughing. I said: I lied to the police, I have to be measured.Theoretically I had a few drinks and I proposed to you, and you agreed, that we go to a motel together, and that's the background of the scene.It might work, but it's still a bit far from what we've designed.The main point is that the police must never know that someone is paying money behind our backs. Her face lights up, do you think both sides can pass? You can't go wrong with it.I told her: When will it start? I get off work at eleven o'clock, and I like to eat first after get off work.Do you want to invite me to dinner, Tang Nuo? Of course, I am happy to invite you to dinner. great.Shall we bring luggage? It's better not to bring luggage.I said: We're going to simulate your Saturday night trip. All right, Don Nuo.She said: I'm going back to my client.I'll see you at eleven. Be good.She pressed two fingers to her lips, then to mine. I fumbled for ten minutes and walked out of the lounge. She turned her back to me when I left, but she smiled back in time.She was taking wine orders from two guests.Cocktail hour is almost here.There are already many customers in the lounge.