Chapter 122: The Nouveau riche
"Of course I'll go out to sea, otherwise it's called a 'cruise party'.
Didn’t I tell you that the party will run from afternoon to late at night. We have to spend the night on the boat. Why did you forget to ask for leave from your family?”
"No," Zhang Lisheng looked out the window and found that everything was already normal in the bright sunshine. He thought for a while and said, "You know, I rarely attend the parties so I asked casually."
Tina showed a puzzled expression on her face, but knew that she would not say much even if she asked the thin boy in front of her, "It would be better if this is the case.
Well, Li Sheng, we are going to go down quickly. The party is about to begin, and it's time for us to make an appearance."
Zhang Lisheng nodded silently and took Tina's arm.
After the waiter in the lobby on the two floors of the steamer finally tidied up the dresses of several VIP guests, the "Three Sisters of Fertanley" and their respective male companions began to descend to the first floor with the popular American music "She is my eternal treasure".
I abandoned the tradition and walked down the stairs paved with the red carpet gracefully while accepting the blessings of relatives and friends, naturally to take care of Walter, who was inconvenient to his legs and feet.
However, as the colorful fireworks used for the day soared from the patio and the three beautiful girls slowly descended from the transparent viewing elevator, the people attending the party still made deafening cheers without hesitation, and the lively and joyful atmosphere did not diminish at all.
Among the male companions of the three party protagonists, Zhang Lisheng, who is short, thin and yellow-skinned, should be the most eye-catching.
But now, because of the embellishment of the beauty practitioner, his appearance has been glorious. Although Walter tried his best to hide it, his feet were crooked when he walked out of the elevator and his mouth kept twitching was too strange. In contrast, the boy stood beside Tina and became less noticeable.
The vast majority of guests who were not sure of this all cast a very clever and astonishing look upon Walter.
With the guests' surprise attitude, the party continued, and three beautiful girls who appeared in the sparkling fireworks began to accept their parents' adult gifts. Since it was the most important adult life for a girl in the traditional sense of the United States, all three valuable parents took action very extraordinary.
Tina gets a top-notch apartment in Boston;
Shelia’s gift is a brand new luxury yacht;
Cuixi received an antique cross that was priceless and engraved with diamonds with the "Nothing is better than the heaven, and nothing is better than the Lord."
After the girl accepted the gift from her father of the "Previous Life Lovers", their male companions in this life presented birthday gifts one after another. Walter gave a RNDO (Radar) lady diving watch. Although it was a bit shabby, based on his financial strength, he had done his best.
Dubin, who was close to the corner, generously gave a Cartier diamond bracelet, which was quite appropriate in this occasion.
In the end, Zhang Lisheng, who didn't understand the market, gave a pendant, which was directly a necklace with a thorough pink diamond of more than five carats. This way, you can tell at a glance that it was either fake jewelry or a jewelry that had its own name that could be truly passed down from generation to generation. As soon as the appearance of the jewelry, the young people at the party exclaimed a burst of exclamation.
"It's not fake, but looking at the luster, it should be authentic.
Hell, this red luo is the behavior of the nouveau riche, which is even more embarrassing. "When even Dolby's face was surprised when he saw this gift, "But this kid's move was really generous..."
"Yes, a legendary story may be passed down for many years with a necklace worth millions of meters.
As for the nouveau riche, my dear, this is New York where 'money never stops', instead of Paris where only grace and taste are left, we are all descendants of the nouveau riche, aren't we?"
Hearing his wife's words, Durby curled her lips disdainfully, but didn't say anything else.
While his father was speechless, Tina was whispering to remind Zhang Lisheng that he didn't know what to do after revealing the necklace. "Lisheng, put the necklace on me quickly. How much did it cost to buy it?"
"Ninety-seven thousand meters."
"God, you are simply crazy. How could you buy me such an expensive gift!"
"Your family is so rich, of course my gifts cannot be shabby and look down upon. And didn't your dad give you a top-notch apartment in Boston? It would cost millions...
"Damn it, what kind of adult gift my dad gave me? What does it have to do with you?
On such occasions, it would be quite appropriate to buy a gift worth thousands or tens of thousands of meters."
"Is that true?" Zhang Lisheng was stunned for a moment, "but I am a Chinese and I pay the most attention to etiquette and exchanges.
According to our custom, the gift I gave should be with your father... Forget it and you don't understand, but in short, I'll give you a gift and you'll just accept it."
At this time the dance music started, and Tina, who was one of the protagonists of the birthday party, started dancing with her male companion, "Li Sheng, I don't mean to complain about you. I was also very moved to receive such a valuable gift from you, especially now when you are in urgent need of money to expand your career.
But you should really search online for ‘what gift should your girlfriend give on her 18th birthday’. Even if the prefix is added with ‘family is a Wall Street super financial family’, you won’t find any information that will give you a diamond necklace worth millions.”
"Are you sure?" Zhang Lisheng said with a strange look.
"Oh, baby, you're reading a teasing post."
"You Americans are really hypocritical. Although we Chinese have a beautiful talk about "giving goose feathers thousands of miles away, giving them lightly, affectionately", it refers to the friendship between gentlemen, which is the so-called interaction between real gentlemen in the West..."
"Okay, baby, stop talking. What we are talking about is not the same thing at all. I was wrong. In fact, as long as you are willing to give me such a valuable gift, even if you are a little vain and ignorant, I should only be moved..."
"Tina, if you admit your mistake, apologize sincerely and don't say anything about 'the original intention is a little vain and ignorance'."
"OK baby, I sincerely apologize. Don't step on my feet anymore, okay?" Tina said with a smile.
After an elegant social dance music, the party music immediately changed to a fast-paced fashionable dance music. Hearing this signal, the older guests smiled helplessly, and only a few who thought they were young stayed, twisting their bodies violently inappropriately.
Others either walked out of the first floor lobby with tactility or went straight to the higher-rise cabin of the cruise ship, and spent this day of leisure at sea in a way that suits their age.
"We only danced one song and changed the music to drive us away. Nowadays, young people really don't know what they are thinking. The DJ at the party is too... "
"Dear, you said first that you have something to do and can't go out to sea with her."
"It's all about Styby. Who knew that he suddenly agreed to sell the minerals in South Africa. This person had a bad mind. I was worried that things would change after a long time..." Dubidi argued stubbornly, but when he saw his wife's smiling face, he sighed softly, "You said Lulu. This matter was indeed wrong first, and I shouldn't complain about anything."
As he said that, he and his wife followed the departure of the crowd and walked up the slake of the "Elizabeth Holiday" and got off the boat in shame.
After all the guests who had no time to stay at sea for a night due to various reasons left the ship, the cruise ship quietly raised the anchor, 'Woooo..." and slowly left New York Harbor, sailing smoothly into the ocean.
At this time, in the cab on the top floor of the cruise ship, a middle-aged mate wearing a white uniform, a white wide-brimmed hat, and a muscle-filled middle-aged captain, holding the rudder next to him and a serious expression reported: "Hissergeant, the 'Elizabeth Holiday' has sailed away from New York Harbor.
Now we are moving at a constant arc at a speed of thirty nautical miles per hour and are expected to return to New York Harbor in twenty-four hours."
"Harry, it's been almost a year since you've been promoted to first mate. I'm going to let you complete this voyage alone. What do you think?"
"Your Excellency, I, I am very willing." The first mate was stunned and replied in surprise.
Once an ocean-going ship goes to sea, the captain will automatically hold the highest right to command the ship. In Western law, the captain of the ocean-going ship and the fire commander in the fire even have the so-called "temporary legislative power". In an emergency, the "free-heart proof" can be used to moderately damage the legal rights of others to avoid greater dangers.
The grades of the first mate and the captain seem to be only one level apart, but in fact they are far different, and most people will never be able to overcome them in their entire lives.
"Then do it well." The old captain's tense face smiled rarely, and turned around and walked out of the cab.
"Stable speed and report abnormalities at any time." He turned around and looked at the old captain's back disappearing outside the door, holding the rudder, and first tasted the captain's authority, Harry raised his voice and ordered.
"Yes, your lord." The navigator and the wheelers replied loudly.
After changing the helmsman, the "Elizabeth Holiday" slowly advanced in the ocean without any difference from before. In fact, modern large tankers have been able to cruise automatically. In the past, they had to remember the long routes, be familiar with the changes in the currents of the year, understand the astrological signs and astronomical signs, and now they only need to know how to look at the navigator to be competent;
The wheelman who used to help the captain and the first mate holder now has simply become an EEG programmer. After setting up the route, he no longer has nothing to do. It can be said that driving a modern ocean liner is no longer much more difficult than playing simulation games.
But even so, Harry was intoxicated by the feeling of sailing in the Atlantic Ocean with a huge ship with a draught of nearly 100,000 tons. He stood at the helmman's position and looked at the open sea in front of him for a while. He felt refreshed for a while, and suddenly he heard a familiar voice in his ear, "Harry, what are you doing?"
Chapter completed!