Chapter 4 4. Seducer

I am from Berlin, your love is mine, when night falls, Hold me baby, let's fly. —Bau Bracht Madonna invited us to a nostalgic party called "Back to Joffre Road", and the venue was chosen to be on the top floor of the building at the intersection of Huaihai Road and Yandang. Joffre Road in the 1930s, Huaihai Road today, has always been a symbol of the old dream of the sea. In the post-colonial atmosphere at the end of the century, it and those years full of cheongsams, month plates, rickshaws, and jazz music have become eye-catching again. A bow in the heart of nostalgia in Shanghai.

Tian Tian was not in good spirits that day, but he still accompanied me there.As I said, we were conjoined twins on many occasions, shadows of each other. Wearing pre-made cheongsams and gowns, we walked into the elevator of the building.There seemed to be a voice saying, "Please wait a moment." Tian Tian held the closing elevator door with his hand, and I saw a tall Western man striding in.Followed by a smell of CK perfume. The pale purple light dimly shone on our heads. Two men stood on either side of me, one on the left and one on the right.And so I caught a glimpse of the absent-minded yet sensual look on the tall man's face, the signature of a grown-up playboy.

When the elevator door opened, there was a sound mixed with tobacco and body odor, and the tall man signaled with a smile, please let me go first.Tiantian and I walked through a Xiafei road sign made of foam plastic, lifted the heavy velvet curtain, and in a blink of an eye a sea of ​​colorful makeup dancing in the melody of the past appeared in front of us. Madonna's radiant face is like a luminous undersea creature, walking towards us with a thousand volts of light. "My darlings, you are finally here, oh God, Mark, how are you?" She made a coquettish gesture to the tall man behind us, "Come on, let me introduce, this is Madk from Berlin , this is Tiantian and CoCo, my good friend, CoCo is also a writer."

Mark stretched out his hand politely, "Hello." His hands were heavily hairy, warm and dry, the kind that made people feel comfortable.Tian Tian has already sat on a soft sofa to smoke a cigarette, his eyes don't know where to look. Madonna praised my black satin cheongsam. On the breast of the cheongsam was a beautiful and domineering peony embroidery, which was custom-made in a silk factory in Suzhou.She also praised the cool antique suit on Mark. It was a three-button suit with a small neckline bought at a high price from the widow of a capitalist in Shanghai. With the nobility of the past.

Several men and women came over, and Madonna introduced, "This is my boyfriend, Dick, and this is Fifth and Sissy." The long-haired boy named Ah Dick doesn't even look 18 years old, but he is a well-known avant-garde painter in Shanghai, and he can draw cartoon characters well.At the beginning, Madonna was moved by a stack of cartoons he gave.His flair, his profanity, and his childishness mixed together are enough to inspire motherhood and passion in a woman like Madonna.The fifth child is a go-kart expert, he and his girlfriend Xixi, who wears a suit and tie and plays the male role in reverse, look like a good match, a pair of weird-looking little rabbits.Mark's eyes were faintly sweeping towards me, he seemed to think about it, and then came over to me and asked,

"Would you like to dance?" I looked at the sofa in the corner, and I was rolling a small cigarette with my head down every day. There were a few ounces of hash in the plastic bag at hand. He always smoked these things when he had signs of claustrophobia. I sighed. "Let's dance." I said. The bakelite record of the record player creaked and released Zhou Xuan's golden voice, which actually sang in a hoarse distortion that made people's hearts tremble.Mark seemed to be enjoying this situation very much, with his eyes slightly closed, I saw Tian Tian also closed his eyes, curled up in the large sofa, drinking red wine and smoking hash always makes people sleepy, I am sure he has fallen asleep at the moment .It is often easier for him to fall asleep in a place where people's voices are noisy and phantoms are intertwined.

"You're distracted," Mark said suddenly in English with a strong German accent. "Really?" I looked at him blankly, his eyes were shining in the dark, like the eyes of animals lurking in the bushes, I was amazed at the strange feeling these eyes gave me.He was neatly tidied up and down, and his hair was well waxed, so he looked like a brand new umbrella.So those dishonest eyes seemed to become the center of the whole body, and all the energy poured out from there.Yes, Caucasian eyes. "I'm looking at my boyfriend," I said. "He seems to be asleep." He smiled slightly.

My curiosity was aroused by his smile, "Is it funny?" I asked. "Are you a perfectionist?" he asked instead. "I don't know, I don't know myself 100%, why do I ask?" "It's the way you dance that tells me," he said, looking sensitive and confident.I flashed a slightly sarcastic smile. The music changed to jazz and we did a foxtrot.Surrounded by a piece of velvet, silk, calico, and indanthrene cloth intertwined into a retro fascination, gradually swirling into a light and buoyant joy. When the song ended, I found that the sofa was empty. Tiantian was gone, and Madonna was gone too. I asked the fifth one, and the fifth one said that Madonna had just left with Ah Dick, and Tiantian was still on the sofa just now. .

Immediately afterward, Mark came out of the bathroom and reported a not too bad news to us. Tiantian fell on the edge of the urinal without vomiting or bleeding. He seemed to fall asleep suddenly while going to the toilet. Mark helped me get Tiantian upstairs Get off the road and hail a taxi. Mark said: "Let me send you off, you can't do it alone." I looked at Tiantian who was unconscious, he was very thin, but he was as heavy as a baby elephant when he was unconscious. A taxi is speeding down the street at two o'clock in the morning. Outside the window are tall buildings, shop windows, neon lights, billboards, and one or two staggering pedestrians. In the sleepless city, something is always going on secretly, and someone will always be secretive. The smell of alcohol and CK perfume floated into my chest from time to time, my brain was empty, one of the men beside me was unconscious, and the other was silent. Although there was no sound, I still felt the sidewalk The sticky shadow on the face, and the flickering gaze of a strange man in the dimness.

The car arrived at my residence very quickly. Mark and I hugged Tiantian up the stairs and into the house.Lie on the bed every day, I covered him with a blanket, Mark pointed to the desk and said, "Is this the desk you work on?" I nodded, "Yes, I don't know how to use a computer. In fact, some people say that it can make people get skin diseases, and some people say that computers make people world-weary, clean freaks, and don't want to go out. Anyway..." I suddenly found Mark Walking up to me, with that absent-minded yet sexy smile on his face, "Nice to meet you, I hope to see you again in the future." He French kissed me lightly on both cheeks and said goodnight gone.

I kept his business card in my hand, with his company address and phone number written on it, which is a German-funded multinational investment consulting company located on Huashan Road.