Rebirth 79: I opened a bank in the United States

Accompanying everyone, I strolled on the streets of Atlanta. I also accompanied them into several stores with recruitment notices. After a brief consultation, night was about to fall.

"Hey, do you want to go to a nightclub tonight? There's nothing to do if you go back to the hotel so early."

At the dinner table, a boy put down the knife and fork in his hand and suggested excitedly. Children from small cities who come to Atlanta, one of the largest megacities in the United States, are not much different from those from rural areas who come to the city. Naturally, there is no big difference between them.

I am happy to waste my rare city time in boring hotel rooms.

If there is any difference, it may be that they adapt to life in Atlanta faster. For young people, the alcohol and hormones in nightclubs are what they pursue.

What's more, I still have a female companion with me. After playing around, having some kind of super-friendship relationship is simply too normal and common in America at this time.

Licoris and the others had no hope. With the way she behaved this day, anyone with a discerning eye knew that this girl was eyeing Carter. But without Licoris, there wouldn’t be Beatrice and Alice beside her.

, shredded kelp, shredded radish or something?

Girls who can join the cheerleading team these days, let’s not talk about their appearance, but at least their figure is definitely good! After all, the group of muscle-minded people on the school team don’t want a group of “fat guys” to come up and show off during halftime, right? Then, right?

It's so embarrassing...

"Nightclub? Can I buy alcohol?"

Carter was a little stunned when he heard this. Didn't it mean that people under the age of 21 are prohibited from drinking in the United States? Do you need to check your ID when buying alcohol?

I have drunk alcohol before, but once at a Sichuan restaurant, the wine was brewed by the owner. It was not registered with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Tobacco and Explosives, and generally no one came to check this. And another time, it was

At Cui Fali's repair shop, you didn't buy the wine yourself, did you?

So when he heard this boy excitedly proposing to go to a nightclub, Carter was startled subconsciously. Could it be that today he would be able to witness the operation of American teenagers stealing IDs to buy alcohol?

"Yes, why not? There is no prohibition on alcohol now, this is not the 1920s and 1930s. What do you think, do you want to go?"

After replying to Carter in slight surprise, the boy looked straight at Carter. As long as Carter nodded, Lycoris would definitely follow. With these two centers of influence gone, there would be no objections from the others.

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"Well, I have no objection. Find a quieter place, forget about disco or something, it's too noisy!"

Carter, who liked to go to folk taverns in his previous life, did not object. Just like what he just said, he returned to the hotel early and sat there boredly. Motels in these days were not in ordinary motel rooms.

A TV will be prepared for you.

Instead of watching TV, why don't you watch Licolis? Hey...it doesn't seem impossible, huh?

"Okay, let's check out and set off!"

Just as she was thinking about Licoris, the girl spoke. Everything was as the boy expected. Licoris would not object to Carter's opinion at all...

This dog-licking behavior made the two boys not only excited to go to the nightclub, but also reminded them of the days when they used to lick Li Kelis, and a small resentment suddenly appeared in their hearts...

About half an hour later, when Carter and his party arrived at a slow bar, night had already enveloped the earth. Atlanta’s bar street at night was very similar to Shanghai’s Hengshan Road, Guangzhou’s Taikoo Cang, or Ningbo’s Old Bund, which Carter had visited in his previous life.

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On both sides of the narrow street, neon signs lit up one after another. In front of some stores, iron pipes or wood were used to enclose small outdoor spaces.

Even though it was not yet seven o'clock, there were already more and more people on the street, and these people had one common characteristic: they were all young people... and many of them had tattoos.

"Carter, what do you want? And girls, what about you?"

Looking at the crowd around him, Carter followed them into one of the bars. While he was looking around at the decoration and layout of this tavern, and mentally comparing it with the folk taverns of later generations, questions from the boys in front of him suddenly rang in his ears.

"A glass of whiskey, thank you."

After thanking him casually, Carter's eyes turned to the wine cabinet behind the bartender at the bar. In his previous life, Carter drank whiskey, more of Solvay and Japanese whiskey, but less or almost none produced in the United States. In his impression, there seems to be only one person who can be called the number one.

A wine called "Jack Daniel's", and coincidentally, he found traces of Jack Daniel's on the wine cabinet.

However, I don’t know whether it was good luck or bad luck, but Carter’s glass of wine was not poured from the “Jack Daniel’s” bottle, which forced Carter to experience a wave of authentic American whiskey.

But the bad luck is also because of this. The raw materials of whiskey produced in the United States are mainly corn. For example, the famous bourbon whiskey. According to the provisions of the American liquor law, the proportion of corn in the raw materials must account for more than 51%.

Bourbon is allowed.

This felt extremely awkward for Carter, who was accustomed to drinking whiskey made from barley. His first experience in a tavern in the United States in the late 1970s did not start well...

"Carter, what's wrong with you? Are you not used to drinking? Why don't you try this cocktail of mine, the alcohol is not high..."

Lycoris, who had been paying attention to Carter, saw Carter's suddenly weird and twisted expression, and immediately came up with a plan. She picked up the wine glass in front of her, leaned towards Carter, and gently raised the glass to

The position between the two.

If Carter agrees, then if he wants to hold the straw, he must also lean towards himself. Then...

"Thank you. I'm a bit tired of bourbon."

Carter, a senior whiskey lover who had been in folk taverns for several years in his previous life, was thinking about the wine. He couldn't care less about Li Kelis's charm, so he raised his hand to call the waiter very straight.

"gentlemen?"

"Do you have any whiskey made in Scotland? Or maybe one made from barley. I can't drink this."

"I'm sorry, sir. There is some whiskey produced in Scotland, but the price is relatively high. It is no longer available for retail. If you want a whole bottle, it is available. It is sold in single cups. It is only made from rye. Is this okay?

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The waiter bowed slightly and looked apologetic.

Scotch whiskey is no longer retailed?! And from what the waiter said, it turned out that they were retailing, but they just started to cancel it now.

After Carter heard this, he frowned subconsciously. He immediately asked for a bottle of Solvay, and after sending the waiter away and asking him to go to the warehouse to get the wine, Carter thought about it secretly.

It is normal for some wines in pubs not to be sold by the glass. In his previous life, Carter also visited many pubs. Glenfiddich, Chivas Regal, etc. were all sold in single glasses. The only exceptions were some, such as Hibiki 17, Hakushu, etc.

Whiskeys of higher value will not be opened randomly.

Either meet a high-roller like Carter and take one bottle at a time, or save it and organize some activities such as "wine tasting". Before the event, collect the number of people who are willing to try the wine in advance, and then collect the wine in advance.

After the entire bottle of wine has been paid for, it will be opened and the wine will be distributed equally to each customer participating in the event. To put it bluntly, it is crowdfunding to buy wine...

But those are relatively high-value wines, so they do this! Ordinary whiskey cannot reach that level. In other words, in Atlanta now, a bottle of ordinary Scotch whiskey is already

Is it a relatively high burden?

Thinking about the premium price of drinks sold in the pub, and then looking at the lively young men and women around him, Carter touched his chin, and two words suddenly popped into his mind:

Pay cut!