Story of JW500 Coffee Shop in Lion City

JW500 Cafe in the west of Lion Island is not a coffee shop that attracts customers by delicious food. It is busy every night because the beer girls here are all beautiful. Beer girls of different brands wear different color uniforms, including blue and white, cyan, yellow, black and Chinese style. They held up a bottle of beer and swirled among the drinkers like butterflies.

I didn't drink beer, so I held a cup of hot coffee in my hand and looked at the beer girls. Their looks, their smiles, their voices, and the coffee in my hands were half cold. When a beer girl walks past me, I will feel her hot and thoughtful eyes; her fashionable and bright figure makes people feel like their first love.

On such nights and happy hours, loyal drinkers living in nearby ancestral houses come out of the side doors of life and flock to the JW500 Cafe to enjoy the night with the smell of wine.

The old drinkers who come to JW500 Cafe to drink beer are getting older and richer. Some of the old drinkers have retired, some are still on the job, and the spare money in their trouser pockets makes them addicted to alcohol and makes them admire the beauty of beer girls. As soon as the old drinker sat down, the beer girls of different brands knew who their drinkers were and shouted enthusiastically, "Godfather, here you are. How about six bottles first?" The old drinker, who was called the godfather, had already melted his smirk smile on his daughter's heart. According to the rules, the beer girl will order the wine first, but there are also a few old drinkers who drink a certain brand of beer. No matter what brand of beer he drinks, as long as he hears the sweet sound of the beer sister calling her godfather, the old drinker is happy to open his big, toothless mouth, but his soul is already out of his body before he gets drunk.

The drinker at the open-air table, there was a man named Jiuqi, who had been drinking here for 20 years, always unwilling to be lonely every night, inviting eight or nine wine friends to drink "Casper" beer. That Jiuqi, who said that he was 62 years old, had worked in the government when he was young and called himself a "government man". Now that he is retired, he has a pension and has money to spend without having to work. He has two sons, the eldest son is a company manager, and the second son is in a government department, with high salaries. The two sons give him 300 to 500 yuan a month to drink and buy horse tickets, so Jiuqi has a lot of money. Every night in the coffee shop, as long as anyone can talk to him, Jiuqi will not be stingy to buy him a beer. Over the years, Jiuqi became famous and popular in JW500, and the beer girl wanted to rely on him to sell more beer, and the coffee girl also wanted to earn more tea money based on his friendship. Those wine and meat friends who are "predestined to know each other" would like to share the table with him, eat and drink for free, and enjoy the happiness of wine and food.

Wine Seven came to JW500 not to watch TV shows, nor to watch European games with friends, but for beautiful young beer girls. The idea in his mind is that as long as he buys various brands of beer, he will have a chance to chat up all the beer girls, flirt with each other and accept them as "goddaughters."

Over the years, Jiuqi has been a vegetarian in his life, and he likes to show off how many goddaughters he has. Every goddaughter said that he was the best of the old Uncle because he was willing to sacrifice the money in his trouser pocket for them.

Beer does not make people drunk, but it makes people rational blurred. Jiuqi's habit of drinking beer has changed slightly recently. on the same night, he can drink beer in two or three coffee shops in a row, so as to "pursue" other beer girls. Jiuqi, an old cow with sweet flowers, instigated a beer girl to stir up the girl's vanity, so that he could collect a lot of dry daughters like a scavenger collecting beverage cans. No wonder Jiuqi shows a sunny state of mind recently, because wherever he goes, beer girls ask him to be his godfather. Old heart, beer inflated the sweetness of youth! Some people laugh at the fact that there are so many "daughters" that they will one day drink beer until they "get on the bus", and they are not afraid that they will die without a filial daughter. Some people ridicule Jiuqi for having so many dry daughters that they don't know how much money they have to spend every night, but in the end, before they do, their wallets are dry!

That night, a beer girl with a new face, named Yuanyuan, came to JW500. Her black eyes were full of water and were generous in front of the drinkers, attracting everyone's enthusiastic attention.

When Jiuqi saw that Yuanyuan was full of color, he waved colourfully, revealing his mouth full of rotten yellow teeth and said to Yuanyuan, "you are so beautiful, newcomer?" Well, the skin is white and tender, the face is round, the eyes are round, and the chest is also round. You can see that it is an ice-skinned white lotus paste moon cake. It's beautiful... What's the name of the beer you sell... Oh, dear! I don't know how to write red hair, so please give me two bottles to try first. Oh, tonight is the promotion period. Order two bottles and get one free, right? "

"Yes, order two bottles and get one free. This new beer is very delicious." Yuanyuan answered casually.

"good, there are buy and get free, you bring it first." Jiuqi stumbled and talked a lot. Yuanyuan's face was full of smiles, but she seemed to float on her face as if she were blue and white. When she brought three bottles of beer, Jiuqi's color eyes scanned her hair, face and feet for a while, and then said, "Yuanyuan, your phone is too old. I'll buy you a new one tomorrow."

Yuanyuan immediately refused: "No, I'm sorry!"

"it's my drinking rule. It doesn't matter if I buy a new one." Jiuqi said with the smell of alcohol, "I must take care of the new beer girl." The kind I bought is called 3G mobile phone, I can see you, you can see mine. However, my old man's family is sometimes very confused, and I will call you in the shower. If you see me naked, don't scream! I'm embarrassed myself, hee hee. "

After Yuanyuan came to JW500, many old Uncle took a fancy to her, which aroused the jealousy of other beer girls. The jealousy burned for several nights, and then I heard that a coffee girl named Lili got involved in the incident and quarreled with the drinkers and was fired by the boss. Several "heavyweight" old Uncle came forward to negotiate with the boss, but they all became good people in vain and acted in a play that was hard to tell whether it was true or not.

Lili's dismissal made headlines in JW500, but it was forgotten when she returned to Johor New Hill.

The "legend" in the coffee shop is like this. It comes and goes as quickly as typhoon showers.

Jiuqi encounters Yuanyuan and gets drunk in JW500 every night. He often shows off his past history of glory to Yuanyuan, saying that when he was young, he had had dinner with so-and-so "strongman" and had escorted a high-ranking official to visit abroad. The most "easy to practice" (proud) is that he knows many "court secrets" that are not known to outsiders, but because he is a "member of the government", he must not disclose it, otherwise he will be caught eating "black bean rice" (in prison).

The drinkers all booed when they heard Jiuqi's story: "Don't be immortal!" (don't brag) some also asked questioningly, "is there a shadow?" (really?)

Ah Wei, a 10-year-old brother who was sitting at another table eating fish fillet and chips, laughed and played with the birds hanging in the birdcage on the branches. He is the little grandson of Jiuqi and a troublemaker. The drinker at the same table teased Ah Wei: "Little grandson, you are playing with Grandpa's bird. Be careful that Grandpa's bird is played to death by you!" The drinkers laughed until they spurted all the wine out of their mouths. The wine stared and shouted, "Don't spoil my grandson!"

Jiuqi often said that he won the 4D second prize last Wednesday, accidentally won the finalist prize on Saturday, and won the 4D consolation prize again yesterday Sunday. Medium 4D seems to be a piece of cake, and if you buy it, you will win. If someone asked him whether he was "won the money" or "ate", he broke into foul language.

Many people know that a huge sum of 50,000 yuan was taken away by the beer girl six months ago, and he still doesn't want to talk about it. Some people say that it is because he is having an affair with the beer girl. In order to save face, Jiuqi boasted that the huge sum of money was given to the Malaysian beer girl named Anne's birthday red packet. Who believes the nonsense of Jiuqi? If you get shot, you still want to save face. What a wasted life!

Tonight, everyone saw Jiuqi suddenly push a new bicycle to see what happened. Someone sneered at him: "are you too old to walk?" Still play too much, weak legs, have to ride a bike to drink. Be careful not to ride into the ditch! " The wine was so angry that he cursed foul language.

Someone asked Jiuqi, which goddaughter is the bike for? Jiuqi was so angry that he was upset and confessed: "it is the birthday of Mona Lisa, a star beer girl, in two days. She asked me to buy this bike for her." Why, can't the godfather give a present to his goddaughter? "

"Yes, it's good to be happy!" The crowd said in a tone of envy.

White-haired wine seven, there is really too much money to spare. In addition to paying for drinks, beer girls are often invited to eat chili crabs or more expensive dishes such as roast fish, fish stove and curry fish head. Wine seven thinks that this is a painful daughter, cheap economic Fried rice noodles, Indian pancakes, mixed vegetable rice, can only be used as breakfast, absolutely can not invite beer girls to eat.

Among so many beer girls, Xiang Xiang is more thoughtful. She thinks that everything is the same, life has its ups and downs, sometimes she eats light food, sometimes she enjoys delicious food.

Once after work time, Jiuqi invited her to drink beer and eat midnight snacks. Xiang Xiang enjoyed local seafood such as roast fish and grilled Su Dong very much, and after drinking, she also revealed what was on her mind:

Xiang Xiang married a young man from the same village in rural Shandong at the age of 18. But my husband was so brave that after only three months of marriage, he was arrested and jailed by the police after robbing a state-run bank with a murder weapon with several outlaws. Xiang Xiang is without a husband. A year later, under the persuasion of a friend, he flew to Singapore to make a living. Xiang Xiang was very lucky. Before she could find a job, she found a Singaporean husband, Ah Shun, and became the wife of Lion City. Xiang Xiang thought she had found a new happiness, but she didn't know that the Singaporean husband was futile. It was a small matter for an alcoholic. The most unbearable thing was that the intermediary did not tell her that Ah Shun was suffering from severe depression and could not see anything normally. When she had an attack, she seemed to be a 3-year-old child, asking Xiang Xiang to accompany him every minute and forbid her to go out. Xiang Xiang went out for work. Every once in a while, A Shun called her cell phone or sent SMS to tell her to go home early, or else she would roar and break things all day. This is not the way. Xiang Xiang secretly entrusts a lawyer to go through the divorce formalities, but in the end, Ah Shun must know. Ah Shun, because his family concealed Xiang Xiang beforehand, they had to let Ah Shun go back to his old nest.

The story of fragrant incense has become the most popular "legend" of JW500 between the wine glass and the lips, but the pitiful experience has been mercilessly exploited by the drinkers into a cheap love story.

What is the meaning of life for an old man like Jiuqi, who is always soaked in the rouge smell of beer girls and instigates his meat friends to drink more and talk more? In fact, JW500 drinkers come here every night to drink, talk about wine and listen to other people's stories, just for fun. Those who speak are not respected; those who listen are just happy to take a piss with laughter.

(the writer is a Chinese writer in Singapore and author of a collection of essays, "going back to my hometown for a cup of tea", etc.)

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