A film series in the Republic of China: The legendary Taoist priest in Shanghai

After singing half of the song, the two girls were still immersed in the singing and couldn't extricate themselves for a long time.

"Let's go somewhere else to talk. This is a casino, and it's not good for you to stay here. Otherwise, I'll treat you to dinner at the Lowe Hotel."

Last time I took sisters Ren Tingting and Ren Zhuzhu to Lowe Restaurant for dinner, the food was delicious and I also impressed Xu Wenqiang.

Wencai was very happy to eat and play. This time there were two beauties, and he wanted to go again.

"It's too early to eat!"

Fang Yu looked at the women's watch on her wrist and said.

"I want to go down and gamble."

Yiping said something shocking.

"You, go gamble. Yiping, you are really crazy. There are all kinds of people in the casino down there. If we girls go to gamble, are you still Yiping?"

Fang Yu was unbelievable.

“What’s wrong with that? I went to sing in Shanghai. I was very nervous and scared. But the more nervous and scared I was, the more inspiration I got. I wrote Misty Rain. The songs I wrote before were all about mountains, water and fragrant grass. But after going to Shanghai and gaining life experience, I was able to write new songs.

Now I'm going to take a gamble and see how difficult Shanghai really is."

When Yiping said this, Fang Yu's thoughts were in turmoil.

Her teachers often said that her paintings were soulless and missing something.

Once, a male classmate in her class was praised and his work was published in the school magazine.

The classmate's painting was not a landscape with apples, nor a lady in gorgeous clothes, but a picture of a filthy and gloomy brothel, in which a woman in her thirties was waiting for customers, her breasts exposed, and a dark and skinny suckling baby in her arms.

The lowly prostitute and the noble maternal love, two sharply contrasting pictures, one glance at them will shock your soul and you will not be able to let it go for a long time.

Fang Yu's paintings, like those of most of her classmates, were all the same, dull and boring white clouds and clear water.

Compared with that classmate's soul, Fang Yu's paintings and photos are no different.

With the development of technology today, cameras have gradually entered the homes of ordinary people. If art students want to paint like cameras, then they should not learn painting. This is what Fang Yu’s teacher said.

Art is not found in the palaces, but in the various aspects of the world.

The casino is also a part of the world.

Not only that, the more casino-like and romantic the place is, the more expressive people's faces are.

This is the perfect place to paint.

"I want to bet too."

Fang Yu gritted her teeth and made the decision.

"Well, you've all grown up, it's time to get to know the real Shanghai."

Wencai did not refuse the requests of the two beauties.

The three of them went downstairs. Wencai originally wanted to take the VIPs on the second floor to play a few games, but the two women refused and insisted on going to the lobby on the first floor.

When they got downstairs, Yiping and Fangyu took out their wallets to exchange for a dozen dollars worth of chips to play with.

Wencai generously gave them each two hundred chips.

"If you lose, it's my fault. Whoever wins will pay."

"it is good!"

Both women agreed.

After playing for more than two hours, the two innocent female college students became addicted to gambling.

Maybe it was because good people have good luck, or maybe it was because it was their first time gambling and there was a luck bonus, Yiping and Fang Yu had good luck and both won money.

Yiping was used to being poor, so she couldn't let go even when she was lucky. She bet one dollar at a time. After playing for two hours, she only won 40 yuan after deducting the cost.

However, even if it was only forty yuan, it was the total living expenses that Lu Zhenhua had given her for two months.

Forty yuan was easily obtained. Yiping sighed that sometimes, it seemed that the more she degenerates, the easier it would be for her to make money.

Compared to Yiping, Fang Yu is much more relaxed.

Fang Yu is a native Shanghainese. Her family owns a nice big apartment in the Japanese Concession. Her father used to be a university professor. Later he started a magazine and made a lot of money.

As the boss's daughter, she is naturally more generous than Yiping, who is used to poverty.

So she always bet five or ten dollars, which was much wilder than Yiping's betting of one dollar at a time.

After two hours, Fang Yu doubled her money and won more than two hundred yuan.

Fang Yu was overjoyed. It was so much fun, much more exciting than the roller coaster in the amusement park.

During the Republic of China, many places were in dire straits, but Shanghai had its roller coaster ride as early as 1932.

After gambling, he took the two girls to the Lowe Hotel for a French meal.

In 1935, the Lowe Hotel had just opened, and a meal at this famous restaurant later cost twenty or thirty dollars.

One meal can cost an average person’s monthly salary, and people who go there are rich and poor.

As soon as you enter the door, there are foreign waiters. You have to use bird language to take your order, which looks very cool.

Yiping and Fangyu are both top students, but one of them studies painting and the other studies music, so their knowledge of bird language is limited to common daily expressions.

Seeing Wencai communicating with the foreign waiters skillfully in bird language, Yiping and Fang Yu felt that Wencai was very knowledgeable, just like an old university professor.

As an old university professor, he is also a very popular figure among innocent female students.

"Wencai, you speak bird language really well. I want to learn bird language from you in the future."

"Mr. Xu, I also want to learn from you."

"Okay, it's my honor to teach a beautiful lady how to speak bird language."

Bird language is the language spoken by the Eagle people. The Eagle people claim to be descendants of the Sun Eagle, and the language they speak is called the Eagle language.

The Dragon Country calls itself the Dragon Clan, and the divine eagle is the Dapeng. In mythology and legends, the Dapeng feeds on dragons, so the people of the Dragon Country fear the idea that they are descendants of the divine eagle, and so they privately call the Eagle Country "bird language" and the Eagle language "bird language."

An eagle is just a bird.

When Wencai heard that two beautiful women wanted to learn bird language from him, he was immediately overjoyed.

In later life, before Wencai traveled through time, there was a professor named Hou in college who specialized in tutoring bird language to female students, female white-collar workers, female celebrities, female neighbors, female subordinates, and even his son's girlfriend.

All the women who had received his tutoring were attracted by his elegance in teaching bird language and were willing to become his confidantes.

Professor Hou was also the person Wencai admired most in his previous life.

When Wencai heard the two women asking him to teach them bird language, he felt that the opportunity had finally come and it was his turn to teach the beauties bird language.

"When speaking bird talk, the pronunciation is short. When speaking in authentic London accent, you must curl your tongue. Stick out your tongue for me to see if it curls."

They sat down to eat, and before the food was served, the three of them were talking in bird language.

Wencai also taught Yiping and Fangyu the standard pronunciation of bird language in a serious manner.

Yiping and Fang Yu didn't think much about it and both stuck out their tongues for Wencai to see.

"Yes, curl it a little more. You need to practice more..."

………………

A meal costs more than 40 yuan, which is almost a month's salary for two ordinary workers.

If Wencai hadn't brought them here, Yiping and Fangyu would definitely not have come to this extremely expensive foreign restaurant to eat.

A plate of palm-sized steak costs five dollars, and a plate contains at most 1.5 ounces of meat. You should know that beef is only 0.2 cents per pound now, and pork is even cheaper at 0.16 cents per pound.

You can die from eating meat for five dollars.

Yiping was about to pay the bill, but Fang Yu paid it generously.

Today she went to the casino and took out the money Wencai gave her for gambling, and she won more than two hundred dollars.

Logically, she should pay the bill, and even if she paid the bill, Fang Yu would still have one hundred and eighty or ninety yuan left.

It's really a fortune.

"I'm so happy! Mr. Xu, Yiping, I'm so happy."

Fang Yu said with a smile.

He sang and gambled a lot, then ate and drank all day without spending a penny, and even had money left when he went home.