Chapter 711 Sailor Bar

"How about we go to another bar?" Xiao Peng felt embarrassed after entering the bar.

All the waiters in this bar are girls wearing translucent sexy lingerie - this is a 'fully licensed' bar, which means it provides erotic services.

Ellie Stone said, "What are you afraid of? You Orientals are so feudal. Isn't this normal? All the bars here are like this. You're a crew member! Why are you so surprised by this scene?"

Ellie Stone's words are not without reason.

Most of the port cities on this planet have a thriving sex industry. At night, you can find drunken sailors looking for women in any port city—including in China.

(Incidentally, Lao Yang's hometown is a port city. Because the country wasn't open yet, there was a special "Seamen's Club." As the name suggests, it was a place dedicated to hosting seamen from various countries. Lao Yang still remembers it clearly. Back then, the "Seamen's Club" was definitely the tallest building in the area, with a dance hall, game rooms, and other places. Going there was definitely a sign of "fashion" back then, as it was considered a high-end consumption venue. Every night, countless beautiful women would go in. At the time, Lao Yang was still young and didn't understand what those people were doing. Later, he realized—oh—they were doing something indescribable. What a thing. Even more amazing: the area around there is definitely the most thriving sex industry in Lao Yang's hometown. There are so-called "bars" all around, and everyone knows what they do. And at night, the area is always full of prostitutes and robbers, year-round and on holidays. About fifteen years ago, the area was completely renovated and the "bars" were demolished, but the prostitutes persisted until five years ago. Lao Yang's hometown is considered a "new first-tier city," and if the security is this bad, imagine how bad it is elsewhere. Cherish your good life. PS: Trust Lao Yang, he's never been there!

Crew members spend the majority of their time at sea and are almost exclusively men. With the exception of cruise ships, where women may be found, women are virtually invisible on cargo ships, fishing vessels, and oil tankers. While crew members earn a high salary, their lives are often dull and exhausting. Therefore, you've never heard of "female activists" protesting, "Why aren't we allowed to be crew members? This is sex discrimination!" Most of the time, these so-called "female activists" are simply seeking rights that allow them to enjoy a comfortable life.

A bunch of grown men crammed into a boat for months without being able to dock, staring at each other all day, there's really no romance in it. All that's left is boredom.

So the first thing many crew members did after getting off the ship was to drink and find women - this was the same for crew members all over the world, even there were such people on Xiao Peng's ship, and the number was not small.

Moreover, this thing is "contagious". People may feel embarrassed or want to keep themselves clean, but after a long time, they will have more fun than anyone else.

Just like Hua Chong, who used to laugh at the crew members looking for women all day long, he would manually enter "sage mode" before getting off the ship every time. As a result, after playing it a few times, he became more active than anyone else...

Chinese people are introverted, but not everyone can remain true to themselves in an unfamiliar environment.

It's not like Xiao Peng hasn't been to this kind of 'sailor bar' before, but he just felt it wasn't a good idea to go to such a place with a strange girl. Now that she didn't mind, why was he still shy?

Especially after a few drinks, they let loose: Don't assume that the fighting nation is the biggest drinker; in fact, the British can drink much more. In the world's per capita alcohol rankings, the UK is far ahead. According to their own statistics, 84% of Britons drink alcohol: This is a country full of alcoholics.

They put it best in their own words: If you meet a British person who doesn't drink, you've either met an alien or you're drunk.

Spend any time outside any pub in the UK and you'll see drunks – both men and women – passed out.

In the media, many people think that the British are very polite, well-mannered and gentlemanly. In fact, there are some such people, but the proportion is very small. And those gentlemen are usually the kind with eye sockets on the top of their foreheads.

However, Xiao Peng really likes the atmosphere of British pubs - to put it simply, it is relaxed, comfortable and enjoyable.

If you are not from the upper class, why should you change yourself to please others?

When he had no money, Xiao Peng fantasized every day about what his life would be like after he became rich. Perhaps because of his lack of imagination, all Xiao Peng could think of was: living in a mansion, driving a luxury car, wearing famous brands, enjoying delicacies from land and sea and being accompanied by beautiful women every day.

It wasn't surprising he thought this way. He was poor himself, and his only glimpse into the lives of the rich came through movies and TV. But there were no poor people in Chinese films and TV series—just look at the women on TV. Even ordinary working-class women could live in luxurious apartments in the city center, wearing designer clothes. Their lives were so refined—coffee in hand, a facial one day, a spa treatment the next…

I wonder if the screenwriters of these TV dramas have some misunderstanding of the word "poor." Consider Xiao Peng, who used to live on a small boat to save on rent and buy discounted bread and vegetables. That's supposed to be the life of a proper poor person, right?

When Xiao Peng had no money, he felt that as long as he could live the life of the "poor people" in Chinese film and television works, he would be satisfied.

But when Xiao Peng became rich and had all these things, he felt that he no longer cared about them. People are sometimes so contradictory.

If you ask Xiao Peng what the biggest difference between being rich and being poor is, it's simply having more choices.

While he could still act like Fan Wei on If You Are the One, there's really no need. For him, a life of freedom is the most satisfying. Eat whatever you want, drink whatever you want. Isn't freedom more refreshing than always being pretentious?

Fabian was completely drunk, and perhaps the girl accompanying him had provoked him into losing control, so he and the other girl went upstairs to the bar. They returned half a day later, and everyone knew what they were doing upstairs—it certainly wasn't to have the girl sing nursery rhymes to him, right?

"You guys are such ungentlemen!" Billy complained. "There are two beautiful women here, and Fabian is still hugging another girl and leaving."

Pascal said, "If it weren't for these two beauties here, Fabian might not have gone up! Look at Kalinda and Ellie, they're all fixated on Xiao! Don't be jealous. If Xiao Peng hadn't stepped forward today, maybe Kalinda and Ellie would have looked at us a little longer. But now? You can't compete, huh? Xiao, what are you looking at?"