On the bustling street, pedestrians come and go.
After finally putting aside his companion Dashan, he looked at a silver house across the street with some hesitation.
Dashan is illiterate, but he is not mindless. He specially copied the largest word in the line on the ticket with something, and asked a letter writer on the street.
This line is written in big characters is Shenghong ticket number. He also asked someone. The Shenghong ticket number was on this street. He looked at the sign for a long time and determined that the Shenghong ticket number was opposite.
Every time the people of the Red Gang went ashore to do business, they would dress up in disguise. Dashan considered himself and ordinary people no doubt, but he was still nervous. It is probably because they have been away from the crowd for a long time. Even if these pirates pretend to be more alike, they will still feel guilty when they see many people.
This kind of guilty conscience is uncontrollable, like a thief who stole something, swaying on the street.
No matter how hesitant, he still wants to go. If he continues to hesitate, it will only delay time.
Dashan squeezed the paper in his hand and forced himself to go to the ticket line.
After entering, there were no people inside, only a tall counter, and a person sat behind the counter.
Probably out of fear of someone robbing things, the counter and the area behind it were all surrounded by wooden fences, with only a small window exposed.
"I'm here to exchange money." Dashan lowered his voice.
"Give me the ticket," said the man in the hexagonal hat behind the counter.
Dashan will hand over the ticket, and he is apprehensive. The other party checked with the ticket and asked him to wait, while he went in and didn't know what to do.
After a while, a guy walked out from the inside, and with a smile on his face, he invited Dashan to the living room inside to sit for a while.
Dashan was very nervous, and thought it was a clue. After the guy's explanation, I learned that it turned out that the exchange of tickets for the money had to wait, and the shopkeeper had already gone to prepare the money.
Hearing this sentence of preparing money, Dashan's heart finally relaxed.
He had always been afraid that there might be some trap behind the ticket, or that the official's wife was deliberately deceiving. Judging from the current situation, the other party did not deceive them.
The guy also served Dashan with tea, and carefully held Dashan, who drank the tea, and even couldn't help but imagine that after he got the money, he redeemed Hua Ni, how will the two live in the future, whether to have a marriage or something.
Just as he was thinking about it, he suddenly lost consciousness and fell on the chair.
Seeing him fall, the guy in charge of entertaining him wiped away a cold sweat, raised his voice, and took a rope to tie up the mountain.
Dashan did not know that each different mark on the ticket had a certain meaning. Some tickets are exchanged at designated places, while others are exchanged anywhere.
The one he brought is to be exchanged regardless of the place, as long as it is a ticket number that has reached a cooperation agreement. And each ticket has a secret deposit, which is intricate and may be a mixed use of more than a dozen schemes. And only the invoice party and the ticket receiver know the secret key.
The ticket that Zhao'er gave to Lan Niu was the first batch of tickets issued by the Tailong ticket number. Xue Tingxiang knew her habit, so she notified the ticket numbers of various places very early. After discovering the meeting ticket, she detained the person holding the meeting ticket.
So this guy came out to greet Dashan before, just to stabilize him, but also to wait for this cup of tea with ingredients.
"Go and inform the people of the Tailong ticket number."
As soon as February passed, Dinghai County became lively again.
People come and go on the street, and there is an endless stream of motorcades coming and going from the city gate, a scene of prosperity.
A blue-veiled carriage brought more than ten entourages on horses into the city gate. If it was said that there were very few convoys like this in the past, but since Dinghai opened to Fu, there were too many people traveling from south to north, and it did not attract much attention.
The carriage moved slowly all the way and stopped in front of the Shibo Division.
One of the squires got off his horse, went to the carriage to get a word, and then went to the Shibo Division.
"My lord, the person from Hongchang ticket number is here."
Xue Tingxiang, who was writing something at his desk, put down the pen in his hand: "Come here?"
He pinched the bridge of his nose, and then smiled inexplicably: "Please come in."
Not long after, someone led two people in.
It is one old and one young.
One is a girl's house, but dressed as a man. This dress is too suffocating, I am afraid you can see it with eyes. On the contrary, the old man behind the girl looked a bit inscrutable.
What surprised Xue Tingxiang was that the woman was actually Wu Wanqiong.
"Sit down and serve tea." He said calmly.
The two sat down below, Wu Wanqiong seemed to want to say something, but held back for some unknown reason.
"The two are from Hongchang ticket numbers?"
"Are you the male boss?"
Two voices sounded at the same time, one was Xue Tingxiang and the other was Wu Wanqiong.
"You are?"
"Male owner, I'm Wan Qiong, Wan Qiong who used to work in Sister Zhao'er's shop!" Wu Wanqiong looked surprised, happy, and panicked.
A dark look flashed in Xue Tingxiang's eyes, and he said with a smile, "So you are Wan Qiong?"
"It's me, my boss. It's all my fault. Back then, when I was suddenly brought back by my uncle, I left without saying hello to Zhao'er. Is Zhao'er worried? It's all my fault..." She As he spoke, he sobbed and seemed very remorseful.
Amber next to him comforted: "Girl, this is not what you want to do. If you are in a hurry, you will not have time to say goodbye."
"But no matter what, I was the one who left without saying goodbye."
Xue Tingxiang watched the two people act in front of him with interest. In order to find out what they wanted to do, he pushed the boat along the way: "Zhao'er is really anxious, and I went to your house to find it, but since it happened for a reason, I don't blame you."
"It's good that the male boss doesn't blame me, otherwise I'll be embarrassed."
Xue Tingxiang hid the shadow in his eyes and asked, "Then I don't know if you are here? Why did the people below report that the person from the Hongchang ticket number was here? Did they mislead?"
He pretended to raise his voice to call people, but was interrupted by Wu Wanqiong: "Master, we are the people from Hongchang Tickets."
"So you are the people from Hongchang ticket number? Then I don't know—"
"We are here this time for the cooperation with the Tailong ticket number. The contract has been signed, but I have never seen anyone here to discuss the details, so I came here to ask." Amber stood up and gave a very good reason.
"Then you—" Xue Tingxiang glanced at Wu Wanqiong and asked.
Amber said: "This is the niece of our big boss. Because the big boss has no time to spare, this time negotiating with the Tailong ticket number is hosted by Miss Wan Qiong."
"So it is." Xue Tingxiang nodded and was about to say something when Zhao Zhi suddenly hurried in from outside.
"Sir." Seeing someone in the room, he looked a little anxious.
"Is something wrong?"
Xue Tingxiang looked at Wu Wanqiong and said, "In this way, this official still has some things to do. I will let you go down first, and I will see you when things are done."
Zhao Zhi went out and called someone to lead Wu Wanqiong down, and Xue Tingxiang frowned.
"Sir, Madam's ticket has been found. In Fuzhou, that person also caught it and is sending it here."
Xue Tingxiang stood up immediately: "Really?"
He also realized that he was a little rude, took two steps back and forth, and said, "Send someone to come over, make sure to get this person back." After a pause, he said, "You go in person."
If Hu San was there, Xue Tingxiang planned to let Hu San go, but Hu San obeyed his orders and worked outside.
"Yes, my lord."
After Zhao Zhi went down, Xue Tingxiang took a few steps back and forth in the house, thinking about Wu Wanqiong's purpose as he walked.
He had suspected that Zhao'er's accident had something to do with the Hongchang ticket number and the Wu family.
It's true that there is a way to heaven, you don't go, and there is no door to hell, you break in!
Wu Wanqiong came here to cooperate with Tailong Tickets.
From what they said, the reason why Wu Wanqiong went out to do business with her daughter was also because Wu Wanqiong's uncle, Xiang Qingshan, the big boss of Hongchang Bank, had no son, so she was only a niece, so she specially cultivated her.
First, it is for the successor, and secondly, it is also to recruit Wu Wanqiong in the future. The husband and wife also have something in common.
How do these two people make up, anyway, Xue Tingxiang just listened.
When it comes to discussing cooperation, he asked Gao Sheng to come forward and talk to them, but he never showed up again.
In fact, it stands to reason that even if the Hongchang ticket number is here for cooperation, it should not be in front of Xue Tingxiang, but the Hongchang ticket number.
Of course, it can also be understood that in order to find out whether Xue Tingxiang is standing behind the Tailong ticket number, the other party will have a trip to the Shibo Division, but who knows.
However, Wu Wanqiong had repeatedly made excuses to see Xue Tingxiang, but unfortunately Xue Tingxiang never saw her.
After the two parties negotiated the details, the person from the Hongchang ticket number should leave.
But Wu Wanqiong didn't leave, citing the initial cooperation between the two companies. If there were any omissions in the middle, she could stay and make up for it. He also said that he hadn't seen Zhao'er and Hong'er for a long time, and wanted to see them.
As for Zhao'er, if Zhao'er was out of town for business, Wu Wanqiong said that it's okay to look at Hong'er.
On another day, Wu Wanqiong changed into women's clothes and came to visit Xue Mansion.
The excuse is naturally to visit Honger.
Wu Wanqiong still remembered that Hong'er liked her very much. If Hong'er wanted to see her, no one could stop her.
Hong'er was very surprised to see her, and the Xue Mansion also treated her with the courtesy of a distinguished guest.
But that's how it is. Xue Tingxiang is busy at home and abroad, and Hong'er is accompanied by brother Wei. He has to go to study in the study every day.
On this day, Wu Wanqiong came again, and brought a lot of snacks and gadgets that Hong'er liked to eat every day.
It's a pity that this time, Hong'er changed her cute appearance earlier.
When Wu Wanqiong came in, no matter how kindly she smiled, Hong'er looked at her with that strange look.
"Don't come here in the future, my aunt said, it's not good for you to always come to my house as a widow. My mother is not at home, and my father is a big man, although you can't meet in the day, but it is always spread out. It doesn't sound good, and it doesn't make you gossip."
Wu Wanqiong didn't expect Hong'er, who had always been affectionate with her, to say this, and was stunned on the spot.
"Besides, my mother is jealous, so let people know that there is a woman who comes to the house every day, and it's time to make trouble with my father when she comes back. Don't think that my father was an official before him, very majestic, but it's actually scary for my mother. ." Hong'er said seriously.
Wu Wanqiong smiled stiffly: "Hong'er, I just want to come and see you. You also know that Aunt Wan has no children, so she treats you as her own. Your aunt said that Aunt Wan is treating the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain. Well, Aunt Wan doesn't mean anything else."
"I can't be your son. I'm the son of my father and my mother. My mother gave birth to me in October. You treat me as a son. What should my mother do? If you want a child, you should be your own son. Your own child, not random recognition of other people's children." Hong'er said with a frown.
Wu Wanqiong also wanted to explain: "Hong'er, you misunderstood Aunt Wan, but in fact I..."
Hong'er interrupted her: "Actually, who you treat as a son has nothing to do with not coming to my house in the future. Don't talk about it. I won't be shaken. I can't make my mother angry."
"Don't you know that your mother has, has..."
"What happened to my mother?" Hong'er looked over.
"No, nothing! Hong'er, since you don't want Aunt Wan to come, it's better for Aunt Wan to come less in the future, but you must know that Aunt Wan has no other intentions."
Hong'er was too lazy to listen to her anymore, so she called to see the guest, and the servants outside the door came in to see the guest. Wu Wanqiong could only reluctantly leave, looking extremely aggrieved before leaving.
Brother Wei ran in from outside and said, "You drove her away?"
Hong'er nodded: "Why didn't I find her so disgusting before? I think she has bad intentions towards my father and wants to be my mother, so I hurt her."
The seven-year-old Hong Er has grown into a little beautiful man. He has gathered all the advantages of his parents, with red lips and white teeth, and delicate facial features. It can be seen that when he grows up, he will be able to dump many girls' homes.
Brother Wei is no worse than him. If Hong'er looks like a little boy at first glance, Brother Wei is a little bit indistinguishable, looking like a little girl wearing boy's clothes.
"I'll just say what my mother said is right? This woman didn't have a good idea. To use what my mother said, this woman's eyes are lewd, either a rape or a thief, her intentions are evil, and she has ulterior motives." And talk.
Hong'er laughed at him: "Aunt can't say such a thing, did you make it up for your aunt?"
Brother Wei became angry: "You can understand what it means, don't worry, you have to care about these unnecessary things!"
The two little ones laughed for a while, and Hong'er remembered Wu Wanqiong's words just now, a flash of doubt and hatred flashed in his eyes.
It's just that this hatred really doesn't match his age. Even if someone sees it, I'm afraid they will think it's an illusion.
But in any case, all of this did not affect the cooperation between the two ticket numbers. The tickets issued by the Tailong ticket number can be redeemed on the Hongchang ticket number, but they have received praise from many businessmen in the south of the Yangtze River.
As the weather turns hot, Dinghai has also ushered in the peak period of merchants. Every day, countless conference tickets are exchanged at various semicolons in Hongchang ticket number, and there are often escort escorts here in Dinghai to go to Hongchang ticket number Suzhou general office. No.
At the same time, incidents occurred frequently in the areas of Fujian and Guangdong. The main reason was that a group of pirates had emerged from nowhere.
This group of pirate ships are sharp, well-equipped, and elusive, and they have repeatedly robbed merchants who went out to sea.
The key is that no one can snatch its edge. The few pirates who had been wandering in the South China Sea earlier seemed to have disappeared, leaving only this group of people to dominate.
They not only robbed the marine merchants, but also the Red Gang. The marine merchants who knew the inside story wished that the Red Gang would come forward and destroy them, so that they would not pay two protection fees. It's a pity that the Red Gang was cowardly this time, and they fought against each other a few times, but they couldn't bite the hard bone.
Since then, those sea merchants have finally realized that the Red Gang is good. Even if the Red Gang collects protection fees, it is still better than this group of people who swallow their bones and meat.
The business of the maritime merchants in Fujian and Guangzhou was damaged.
They usually have a lot of filial piety.
Since it is a pirate, then the government will come forward to encircle and suppress it, and Shao Kai is under pressure to send navies from the two places to come forward to encircle and suppress it. It is a pity that even the sailors were frustrated in front of this group of pirates.
The two sides exchanged fire, not only the ships were inferior to others, but also the guns were inferior. The Fujian and Guangzhou navies were all defeated.
When the news came back, there was an uproar.