Not The Sideburns I Know Chapter 54

This Spring Festival, I struggled to get through to the eighth day of the Lunar New Year. Ryan was itching, and Ervin tossed and turned, almost tortured by lovesickness. Ryan's advantage was that there were many entertainment activities. Even at home, he could play a card game to entertain relatives and friends, and throw dice with his wife and children, and he could spend a whole day. Ervin was distressed. He had nothing to do except singing opera. Although he now had an interest in playing cards, he often couldn't get a partner together, so he urged Xiaolai to learn to play cards, but Xiaolai didn't want to anyway. His good friend Du Qi, as a young master of an old-fashioned family, also pretended to be a filial son at home for a few days during the New Year like Ryan. On the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, he couldn't bear it anymore, so he opened a card game at his residence and called Ervin to play. Ervin asked who was there, and Du Qi smiled and said it was a few girls. Ervin immediately knew that he was calling a piaozi again. Ervin didn't like to hang out with prostitutes, thinking that they loved to get people's secrets when they talked, laughed in a trembling manner, and acted pretentiously. They also winked at him and flirted with him. Ervin, a grown man, was helpless to be flirted with by other grown men. If it was a woman, it would be disgusting. It was Xiaolai who came up with a solution and asked the neighborhood kids to borrow a large package of comic books of "Seven Heroes and Five Gallants". Ervin lay on the kang and read them all day. He was so fascinated that he got off the kang and learned from Bai Yutang's sword and stick dance in the courtyard, which was enough to amuse himself for several days.

On the tenth day of the first lunar month, Du Qi invited him to play cards again, just in time for Xue Qianshan to come and invite him. On one side, there are too many wives, and on the other side, there are too many c0ncubines. It's a headache to be in the middle of it. Although Ervin and Xue Qianshan have had a close relationship, they don't have a deep friendship in thought and spirit. Xue Qianshan has been away for two years, and he feels even more unfamiliar when he comes back. Ervin was polite and gentle to him, not at all as arrogant and domineering in front of Ryan: "But Du Qi also invited me to play cards."

Xue Qianshan seemed very excited when he heard the rejection: "That's perfect. I'll take you there together. I haven't seen the Seventh Young Master for a long time."

The lyricists and actors in their circle have always been familiar with each other, but Ervin always felt that Du Qi didn't like Mr. Xue Er. When they met, his eyes were rolling and he snorted, never showing his face. Du Qi was also a scholar with a petty temper. When he got angry, he would still sneer and look at his best friend Ervin. Ervin was afraid that if he took Xue Qianshan with him, Du Qi would get angry again and he would also suffer. Just when he didn't know how to refuse, Xue Qianshan had already forced him into the car and drove to Du Qi's Houhai Villa. Ervin didn't know when Xue Qianshan knew where Du Qi's yard was so clearly, as if he had been there many times.

As expected, four prostitutes had already arrived at Du Qi's place. Three of them were playing cards with him, and one was leaning on his back smoking a cigarette and whispering something teasing in his ear. Du Qi turned his head to take the cigarette from the prostitute's hand. The servant informed the boss Shang that he was coming, but Du Qi didn't even turn his head and smiled, "Brother Rui, sit down and have some tea first. I'll be done with this game soon."