Volume 2: The crown and the hat are all over the capital, and the spirit is full of energy and enter the foggy city Chapter 79 Jealousy
Subtitle of this chapter: You should know that you are just a guest in the dream, so you might as well get drunk together.
“Snap! Snap! Snap!”
Our Master Yuan returned to the Rosewood Hotel accompanied by two lawyers and a large group of reporters. However, they did not enter the guest rooms, but went directly to the large ballroom downstairs which also served as a bar.
Louis Baker and his team booked this big bar as the venue for the press conference yesterday, but now they all know that someone above them wants Yuan Yanshu to keep a low profile, so this press conference turned into a buffet.
When Master Yuan walked into the dinner, everyone stood up and applauded warmly to welcome and congratulate him.
He quickly took off his hat and bowed to the crowd. Miss Lillian Gish and Miss Enuka came forward and stood on tiptoe to kiss him on both cheeks. Then, amid the cheers of the crowd, the two beauties pulled Yuan Yan to the small stage, one on the left and one on the right.
At this time, a pyramid of champagne glasses was built on the stage, and several bottles of fine champagne were placed next to it.
Yuan Yan understood immediately, and without anyone's prompting, she picked up a bottle of champagne and shook it vigorously...
"Bang!"
“Music!”
As he opened the champagne, the small band on the stage began to play light jazz.
After the dinner was officially opened, Master Yuan, as the host, naturally held up his glass of wine to entertain the guests.
He spotted his duel assistant at a glance, walked over and said, "Brother Qingzhi, why are you here alone?"
Major Cao smiled awkwardly and said, "Brother Hongjian, Ministers Gu and Shi are a little dissatisfied with what you and I did, so..."
"Oh..." Yuan Yan nodded suddenly, and said with an apologetic look: "This is my fault, brother. A duel is indeed frivolous in diplomacy."
He groaned for a moment and said, "I have implicated you, brother. I feel uneasy. I will go to the embassy someday to apologize and tell the two ministers that this is all my fault..."
"No, no, no..." Cao Linsheng waved his hands and said, "Brother Hongjian, this is not your fault! Speaking of this duel, you have helped us Chinese to become more powerful and destroyed the prestige of the British. What crime have you committed?"
"It is my honor to serve Brother Hongjian. As for the embassy..." He sighed and said, "Brother Hongjian, you don't have to worry about me. I was planning to return home this year."
Just like in that timeline, this guy was indeed a little disillusioned with the Republic of China's diplomacy, so he planned to return to Seris to "save the country through education", "save the country through military" and "save the country through industry".
How should I put it? Although this Major Cao Linsheng is not well-known in history, he is a West Point graduate who ended up living in Macau. Considering the historical background of the Republic of China when high-level talents were scarce, this is really a pity.
Our Master Yuan had an idea. Didn't he lack military talents? Instead of letting him teach physical education at Tsinghua University and serve as a senior advisor to Marshal Zhang, it would be better to take him to Southeast Asia to do some work.
He believed that everyone had a most suitable position. Although this guy did not do well as a senior staff officer in China, he might not be unsuitable to be a military adviser or even a frontline commander in Southeast Asia.
However, it is too early to say this now. You have to go to Nanyang and see it with your own eyes. Because even the time-travel novels of later generations rarely describe the situation in Nanyang in the 1920s clearly. You have to go there for a field trip.
Moreover, at this moment, Major Cao must have a lofty desire to serve his country in his heart, and he might even have some expectations for the Beiyang government. It would be the right time to win him over after he returns to China and suffers a little.
Thinking of this, Yuan Yanshu stopped trying to comfort him, and instead laughed, "Now is a time of turmoil, and military experts like Brother Qingzhi can only display their talents if they return to China. I wish you a bright future."
He raised his glass and said, "CHEERS."
Cao Linsheng clinked his cup with his and said, "CHEERS."
At this moment, a pair of beautiful and eye-catching golden boy and jade girl came over. The tall man who was as handsome as Master Yuan smiled and said, "Nio, congratulations."
Yuan Yan turned around and asked cheerfully, "Francis, why are you here?"
Mr. Fitzgerald said happily: "As soon as I saw the news of your duel in the newspaper, I took the train to watch your duel. I was thinking of coming to see you in the evening. But you were arrested, hahahaha..."
"Please allow me to introduce you." He pointed to the beautiful lady next to him and said, "This is my wife, Zelda Seri Fitzgerald."
Mrs. Fitzgerald, who was considered a "troublemaker" by the standards of the time, raised her hand and said with a smile, "Mr. Yuan, it's nice to meet you. Francis described you as the most talented novelist alive."
"Nice to meet you, beautiful lady." Master Yuan politely kissed her hand and said, "Your husband is a dishonest man. He did not tell the truth. I am just one of the most talented novelists, and he is the second."
"Hahaha……"
Everyone laughed when they heard this.
Yuan Yanshu also looked at the young and beautiful couple with a smile, but sighed in her heart.
Fitzgerald's novels are really like a prophecy of his own destiny. All the protagonists in his books are young people in their prime, full of vigor and ambition, but as the plot develops, these young people's passionate personal struggles fail to achieve the success and wealth they dream of. They are all teased by fate, and often after experiencing the impact of cruel and false reality, they completely lose themselves and eventually step by step go to the road of destruction.
The couple in front of us should be a microcosm of the twenty years from the 1920s to World War II in the United States.
At this moment, our Master Yuan suddenly felt a surge of jealousy. Why could the Golden Age of America have such writers who could reflect the changes of the times, while the Golden Age of Seres did not have a writer who could write The Great Gatsby? !
Oh, and we have a disabled but strong-willed best-selling novelist and hit film director.
Oh, yes, we have a Peking University film and television doctor who wrote, directed, acted in and even wrote the theme song..
Oh, yes, yes, yes, we also have a professor from the Chinese Department of Peking University who conferred the title of "a greater online writer than Jin Yong"”.
Maybe... just maybe, the era I traveled through was even more absurd than the one I live in.
"Neo? Neo!"
"Ah..." Yuan Yan came back to her senses and asked embarrassedly, "Sorry, I was distracted. Where were you talking about?"
