Chapter 16 The Front and Back of the Mask(1/3)
When it comes to nightlife with bright lights and wine, the current capital is far inferior to Wushan. Before the "Regulations on the Administration of Foreigners" was issued last year, foreigners in Beijing could only move in a few foreign-related hotels such as Friendship Hotels and Beijing Hotels. Even now, on the passage to the suburbs of Beijing, warning signs that prohibit foreigners from passing are still occasionally seen.
Mainland cities are generally still in a closed state, let alone the capital city as the political center of the Republic.
The black car walked through the streets of the capital. Although the street lights were bright, along the way, there were really no public places that were still open except for hotels and hotels. At this time, it was just around 10 o'clock in the evening. In Wushan, for many people, nightlife had just begun.
After entering the palace-like lobby of Friendship Hotel, two young internal security personnel came up and checked politely. The two young men were very energetic and polite, but when they looked at Lu Zheng and the other two, they were very alert.
Friendship Hotel only accepts foreign friends, or some foreign-related personnel involved in friendship activities, now it is midnight, domestic individual tourists, so naturally they will not be welcomed.
Jiao Lei hurriedly borrowed the phone number from the lobby to contact the permanent staff of the Changming Group Office.
Lu Zheng was waiting next to him and lit a cigarette. Here, the county magistrate's work permit was taken out, and it was afraid it would be of no use.
A few minutes later, Jennifer hurried over, and the two internal security personnel continued to sit back to the rest area as if nothing had happened. If they didn't look carefully, they would definitely mistakenly think that they were also guests here.
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The Friendship Hotel covers an area of more than 500 acres, and the entire building complex is full of oriental charm. It is distributed symmetrically with the Friendship Palace as the center. The five buildings with rich ethnic colors all have green glazed roofs, flying eaves and flowing ridges, and carved beams and painted buildings.
There are four relatively independent communities around the hotel, named "Suyuan", "Xiangyuan", "Yuanyuan" and "Yuanyuan". The garden styles of the four places are different: "Suyuan" is a reconstruction of Suzhou gardens; "Xiangyuan" is a microcosm of farmyards in northern China; "Yuanyuan" is a park that imitates the landscape characteristics of the Summer Palace; "Yuanyuan" is an amusement park designed for foreign children living here.
Walking between the entire building complex, Lu Zheng sometimes suddenly feels that he is not in a hotel, but in a park. Because of the lush trees, there will be a archway, a glass roof, etc. from time to time. Many exquisite decorations make Lu Zheng sigh at his unique ingenuity.
"The air is very good tonight, Mr. Lu, I'm glad to see you." Walking in the ancient corridor, Jennifer spoke politely to Lu Zheng.
This is Suyuan, with curved corridors surrounding the pavilion and courtyard, decorated with flowers, trees, stone peaks, small bridges and flowing water, rugged rockery, and a scene of a southern water town.
A stone bridge is ahead, and there are several small southern buildings hidden in flowers, trees, mountains and rocks across a bay of water from west to east, called Suyuanyuan. At the same time, these independent courtyard rooms are also the most expensive suites in the Friendship Hotel.
Wei Xiangxiu lived in Suyuan No. 2 Courtyard.
The southern folk house style building, in front of the courtyard, the bluestone path winds from the corridor, and inside the wall is an ancient and ancient attic.
Jennifer knocked on the door with a ring and said with a smile: "Two minutes ago, I invited Miss Wei to play tennis with us in this house, but she didn't want to go. Mr. Lu, do I have the honor to invite you?" As he said that, he might not feel it was appropriate and explained: "We worked overtime until 9 o'clock and had just had dinner. I think they should relax."
Jennifer is the director of Changming's Beijing office. Although he is rude in Chinese, he has no problem communicating with others. Although she doesn't know that Lu Zheng is actually the boss behind the scenes, she knows that the company's president Mr. Schroder respects Lu Zheng very much. At the same time, the two have close relationships. Therefore, the company's party secretary can actually be regarded as a senior supervisor of the company's operation team. When it comes to work, she is naturally cautious, so as not to cause a bad impact on the company headquarters that they are just eating, drinking and having fun in Beijing.
"Is tennis?" Lu Zheng was stunned for a moment, and his hands were slightly itchy. He hadn't touched the tennis racket for a long time.
The sound of footsteps came from the yard, and then the door latch sounded, and the wooden door was opened. In the door, there was a sexy red-haired beauty wearing a delicate black tight leather jacket and leather pants, standing sexy and hot Wei Xiangxiu, standing pretty. She seemed to be born to seduce men to covet their eyes.
Looking at Wei Xiangxiu's charming long red hair like a waterfall, Lu Zheng was so surprised that he couldn't close his mouth for a long time.
Although I knew Wei Xiangxiu loved beauty early in the morning, she had always had the habit of perming her hair secretly, but she was not big and couldn't tell when she was on duty. But what is it now? Isn't it?
"Jennifer took me to make my head. I saw that this color is pretty, so I wanted to try it. I didn't expect it to be so exaggerated, but it's pretty, right?" Wei Xiangxiu grabbed the red hair ends of her pretty face with both hands, and showed it to Lu Zheng as if she was offering treasures, making her look even more pretty and cute.
"Beautiful is beautiful, but is life too long?" Lu Zheng said helplessly, but he had to admit in his heart that Wei Xiangxiu is so charming that it is outrageous.
However, now, it is just like the Friendship Hotel that has such exaggerated dyeing.
"I'll be back before the end of the annual leave." Wei Xiangxiu said nothing. Now she is in the unit and has no hope of striving for the best. It seems that she is ready to start a life of scattering.
Lu Zheng coughed and said, "Then what, let's go, play tennis, I'll tell you something."
"Okay, teach me?" Here, Wei Xiangxiu felt as if she had come into contact with the unknown side of the world. She was curious about everything, but Lu Zheng was not here just now, so she would not go out with irrelevant people.
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The indoor tennis hall of Friendship Hotel is not big, with only three tennis courts next to each other, but the air conditioner and warm wind are blowing, making the hall as warm as spring.
Lu Zheng and several male employees of Changming Company changed their jerseys in the locker room and entered the stadium. Four male employees, one West German, one American, one Italian, and one Chinese.
There were only a few of them in the stadium. Originally, the hall had closed at 9 o'clock. It was Jennifer who had communicated with the hotel for a long time before giving two hours.
Sitting on the bench in the lounge area of the arena, Lu Zheng smiled: "We are almost forming the Eight-Nation Alliance."
Western staff in Beijing offices all know Chinese, so they were transferred by the headquarters to conduct publicity, market research, contact the technical department of the Academy of Sciences and other work.
The Chinese staff member is Zhao Letian, who is a recruited local staff member in Beijing and a top student who graduated from Huaxia University last year.
The three Western staff have been influenced by European and American media for a long time. No matter how gentlemanly they appear, when facing the Chinese, their arrogance in their bones cannot be concealed, and their language and actions always have a vague attitude of being superior to others.
Especially they didn't know Lu Zheng's specific position, and only heard Jennifer say that Lu Zheng was a Chinese executive in the company, so he was even more dissatisfied. Can Chinese people manage companies? It's just a decoration that relies on political factors to get in.
Zhao Letian just walked out of the school gate. He is also a proud student and has a bad relationship with three Western colleagues. He also ignores Lu Zheng.
So Lu Zheng made a joke, but no one took the blame.
Lu Zheng smiled and went to fiddle with the racket in his hand. Not to mention, the rackets prepared by Friendship Hotel are good. French Baibaoli, touching the network cables one by one, you can feel how exquisite the workmanship is.
Suddenly, the Westerners sitting beside Lu Zheng were in a state of turmoil. The tallest and burly American mixed-race Jason, who had his fingers tucked into his lips and whistled loudly.
Zhao Letian was more subtle, but he looked at the passage to the west intently.
In fact, Lu Zheng didn't have to look at it, it must be Wei Xiangxiu and Jennifer who came out.
But when Xiangfeng blew on his face, Wei Xiangxiu walked to him and looked up, Lu Zheng couldn't help but feel moved.
Pure snow-white tennis uniforms, white shoes and white socks, youthful invincible. In the snow-white dress, Wei Xiangxiu's devilish figure is faintly visible. Under the short skirt, there is a pair of slender snow-white long legs, which is dazzling. This hot beauty appears in a cool and pure girl's outfit, which is really tempting.
"It's a little cold." Wei Xiangxiu pulled her skirt, and Jennifer smiled from the side, "It's warm after a few exercises. Dear Wei, Mr. Lu and me, who do you want to be your tennis mentor?"
Lu Zheng laughed and waved his hand, "You guys have fun first, I'll say a few words to Miss Wei."
Jennifer made an OK gesture, so he went out to warm up with the players. Zhao Letian couldn't play tennis, and it happened that the four of them were in doubles in a group of two.
Wei Xiangxiu sat next to Lu Zheng, and the fragrant wind blew into Lu Zheng's nose. As soon as he lowered his head, Wei Xiangxiu's slender legs that were tightly tied together and full of temptation. Lu Zheng coughed and suddenly felt a little confused.
Seeing a few foreigners warming up on the court, the Chinese who had no end walked away again, Wei Xiangxiu blinked her charming eyes and smiled, "Living bandits, do you miss a woman?"
Lu Zheng glared at her, "If I were really a bandit, I would have occupied you as the wife of the village!"
Wei Xiangxiu curled her lips, "Do you think others don't think so? Ask Jiao Lei, in his eyes, am I your wife?"
Lu Zheng coughed and thought about it, it seemed that it was true, such as Jiao Lei, Huang Saner and others. He thought to himself that he had already realized that the relationship between him and Wei Xiangxiu was extraordinary.
"But it's nothing. I'm asking for it. No matter how others think, I don't care, and I'm happy. From the beginning, I've been sorry for you. You are still so kind to me. If you turn back, you will really sell me to Africa. I won't complain, really!" Wei Xiangxiu said quietly.
He could hear the seriousness in Wei Xiang's words, Lu Zheng was slightly stunned, and then smiled and said, "What's wrong with you? Why did you suddenly make the atmosphere so serious?"
Wei Xiangxiu turned her head, stared at Lu Zheng with beautiful eyes, and said, "We are going to separate soon, and I have to explain many things to you clearly, otherwise I'm really sorry for you."
"I will move out your house soon. Now my family's conditions are much better. I'm actually saving all your money for rent and Xiaojing's labor. I'll pay it back slowly. You just need to be mentally prepared. I've calculated it. If you count the interest, it will take at least five years to pay it off."
Lu Zheng frowned slightly: "Are you going to draw a clear line with me?"
Wei Xiangxiu looked into the distance and said, "Aren't you here to draw a clear line with me? I had expected that after you talk to your family, our fate will be over, but we can't say it's fate. I have always been relying on you. In fact, I hate this kind of self. But since I met you and was taken care of by you, my life seems to have suddenly become different, my work is getting smoother and smoother, and my life is getting better and better. Even the whole family in my hometown doesn't have to worry about me now. I gradually rely on you. In fact, this is also a disease, and don't you hate such a woman?"
Lu Zheng scratched his head and said, "I have heard this sentence and I think it makes sense. Behind every successful man, there is a woman who is full and has nothing to do."
Wei Xiangxiu was stunned for a moment, then burst into laughter, like a peony flower blooming, charming and gorgeous, giving Lu Zheng a blank look: "You are always so heartless! I don't know if you are pretending!"
Lu Zheng frowned: "I'm too lazy to listen to you saying this! Am I not careful with you?!"
"Look..." Wei Xiangxiu was speechless, then sighed softly and said, "If you like to listen or not, you won't hear it in the future. Being the woman behind you will definitely be very happy. It's a pity that it's not me..."
Lu Zheng suddenly felt a little depressed in his heart. If he really separated from Wei Xiangxiu, would he miss her? It seemed that he would really miss her.
Lu Zheng shook his head, didn’t he swear to never have feelings for women in this life? His current mood is not a good sign.
"Hey, if we just broke it out in one fell swoop, will you miss me in the future?" Lu Zheng was suddenly interested in this question and wanted to know the answer.
Wei Xiang was stunned for a while, then giggled and said, "I'll eat and live in yours. Such a big financial supporter, how can I not think about it?"
Lu Zheng waved his hand unluckyly, as if he drove away flies. Damn, or was it the same as in his previous life that this woman liked her and was always for her own money?
Wei Xiang showed off her spirit for a while, and finally, she seemed to have enough courage and said, "There is another thing that I must tell you, in fact, nothing happened to us that night, it was me who lied to you."
"What? When did we go? What's the matter?" Lu Zheng didn't react for a moment.
"Just that night on the Gold Coast, you didn't think you were with me..., since then, you started to take care of me..." As he spoke, Wei Xiangxiu didn't dare to look at Lu Zheng. God knew what the living bandits would react after knowing that this incident was a scam from beginning to end!
Then, Wei Xiangxiu felt that the temperature of the air in this area suddenly dropped ten degrees, and the cold wind was cold, and a cold gradually eroded Wei Xiangxiu's whole body.
Wei Xiangxiu still didn't dare to look back at Lu Zheng, but she was not very scared. Instead, she felt relieved. No matter what the consequences were, she was asking for it herself. She really couldn't blame the living bandits. Even if she beat herself to death, she would just treat everything back to him.
"Wei Xiangxiu, do you know, I once told you that a woman was sold to Africa by me, and this is true." Lu Zheng's words were almost squeezed out from his teeth one by one.
Lu Zheng looked at Wei Xiangxiu's pretty back, and the anger in his heart rushed towards his forehead like a volcano was about to erupt. He believed such an important thing and became a fool! In his previous life, who could play with his palms like this?
But why did I remember that night was the real thing?!
God, dreaming of himself, right?
In Lu Zheng's heart, the evil fire became more and more intense, but thinking about the little things he got along with Wei Xiangxiu, he really didn't know how to teach her a lesson.
At this moment, the wind was coming from the back of his head, and the angry Lu Zheng dodged away almost like a conditioned reflex. A black shadow passed by his face, shaving Lu Zheng's face ache.
The black shadow landed and bounced into the distance, but it was a tennis ball.
On the other side of the court, American Jason raised his thumb, turned slowly to the pointing ground, and shouted: "Lu! Let's compete in the game!" Obviously, he saw Lu Zheng and the beautiful Oriental beauty who had been on the sidelines, so he felt unhappy.
Jason is a mixed-race man with a very tall and strong figure and good skills. No one on the court was his opponent. Feld from Italy took him into continuous heavy slaps and accidentally fell down. His knee was very big and bloody. He limped to the sidelines to deal with the wound, and he saw that he could not finish the game again.
Lu Zheng was in a state of evil fire in his heart and had nowhere to vent his anger. He was suddenly provoked and immediately found his target and walked slowly to the court.
Jason smiled with satisfaction, pointed at Lu Zheng with the racket, and said, "You replace that soft boy in Feld, and the same group as Steve. You three men are all soft boys!"
Steve glared at Jason angrily. This American who loves to show off is really annoying.
Lu Zheng smiled and said, "Jason, let's do this, you and me, one-on-one, how about it?"
Jason opened his eyes wide in surprise and looked at Lu Zheng, then laughed and said, "Okay, Chinese, you took the initiative to challenge me." At the corner of his eyes, he glanced at the pure and sexy oriental beauty who also came to the sidelines to watch the game. Thinking about the situation where the Chinese was so tired that he beat him like a dog, he felt even more proud.
To be continued...