At first, Hong Xiaoguang didn't know that this person was Boss Li who ran the Crescent Cafe. He only thought that this person had something wrong with his brain, but when the other party made a big deal, he directly replaced his outfit, took him to have a haircut, and rented a house for him. When No. 36, Xiahengtong Road was used as an apartment, Hong Xiaoguang began to believe his words.
Although the apartment at No. 36 Hengtong Road is not high-end, it is already the best place Hong Xiaoguang has ever lived. The walls are clean and the room is bright, with a canopy bed and wardrobe.
In the past, when it rained, the old house he lived in even leaked, and it couldn't be repaired. He could only take a washbasin and put it on the bed. He fell asleep listening to the tick of rain at night, and when he woke up, he might even find an extra wound on his arm. , that was bitten by a mouse at night.
Such nightmarish memories, compared to what Boss Li arranged for him, is like hell to heaven.
Hong Xiaoguang didn't say anything, and he didn't want to go back to the past.
But then, Boss Li was in no hurry to let him meet Du Yuning.
He began to let Hong Xiaoguang learn etiquette and read and write.
Hong Xiaoguang can recognize a few words, which he learned when he was a newsboy. He is a little smart, and his brain responds quickly. He can learn many things after teaching them, and he can infer other things. Boss Li is very satisfied with his vision.
Boss Li hired a teacher, one to teach literacy and the other to teach etiquette. The former mainly focused on poetry and songs, while the latter taught him Western etiquette, how to eat Western food correctly, and how to treat women gracefully. Boss Li told him that many upper-class women, especially those who have attended the new school, especially eat this way.
Finally, after a period of time, Boss Li told Hong Xiaoguang that he had basically started his apprenticeship now, but he couldn't go to Du Yuning right away. He arranged an experimental subject for him.
"Is it Alan?"
Hearing this, Ling Shu had already vaguely guessed it.
Hong Xiaoguang nodded weakly: "Can you give me some water?"
Ling Shu: "Where did the water come from here?"
Hong Xiaoguang: "There is some food in the next room, as well as a few bottles of kvass and brandy."
Ling Shuxin said that if you are drinking now, you must not be too drunk, so can you explain things
But he got up without a word and walked to the next door.
Sure enough, there were some parcels piled up in the corner, which were opened with a dagger, filled with some dry food, and a few bottles of wine beside them.
Ling Shu picked up two bottles and returned.
Hong Xiaoguang was already on the verge of dying, but Yue Dingtang didn't get any better.
Ling Shu opened a bottle of strong wine and poured a little on his wound. Yue Dingtang shuddered and suddenly opened his eyes to stare at him.
"Disinfection." Ling Shu handed him the wine, "Do it yourself?"
The corner of Yue Dingtang's mouth twitched twice, perhaps to save his strength, he didn't say anything.
Ling Shu secretly snorted twice before throwing another bottle of Kvass to Hong Xiaoguang.
Hong Xiaoguang struggled to open the bottle, and as soon as he took a sip, the bottle was snatched away.
"Hurry up and say it!" Ling Shu tapped him with a gun, looking like a rascal and hooligan.
Hong Xiaoguang: …
He had to lick his lips and speak again.
Hong Xiaoguang felt that Boss Li must have been observing Du Yunning for a long time.
He even knew that there was a dumb maid by Du Yuning's side, and even that maid's going out cycle.
Alan doesn't go out every day. She goes out at least once a month, sometimes even two months. She can't speak, she has low self-esteem and is sensitive, and doesn't want to be pointed at by others, so she always goes to the same store to buy things.
But once, she met Hong Xiaoguang in a cloth shop she often went to.
She accidentally knocked the thing in Hong Xiaoguang's hand to the ground. Instead of being impatient, the other party spoke softly to her. After knowing that she couldn't speak, he took the initiative to help her ask the boss, and finally chose some suitable for Alan. The small steps of embroidery also gave the boss a discount.
It happened to be raining outside, Hong Xiaoguang gave her his umbrella, called a rickshaw for her, and took her to the door of Yuan's house. At that time, the Yuan family was quite strange, why Alan, who has always been frugal, was willing to hire a rickshaw this time.
With borrowed umbrellas, umbrellas will naturally be returned. All this is arranged, the bridge is not afraid of getting old, as long as you are willing to take the bait.
In the ten or twenty years of Alan's life, he has never met a man like Hong Xiaoguang, who did not despise and ridicule her, treated her with tenderness, and was even a scholar.
She soon fell, and Alan kept this thought in his heart, and did not dare to reveal it, but how could Hong Xiaoguang not see it
Through Alan, Hong Xiaoguang mastered Du Yuning's detailed work and rest. When Du Yuning went to the bookstore, Hong Xiaoguang used an out-of-print poetry collection that Boss Li collected for him to attract the other party's attention, and then started to chat with the other party.
Hong Xiaoguang, who had already memorized the collection of poems by heart, not only did not reveal his secrets, but instead talked with Du Yunning, which made Du Yunning's eyes shine.
Du Yuning never expected that the well-dressed and courteous gentleman in front of him was actually a rickshaw driver who she didn't even look at not long ago.
At that time, Hong Xiaoguang could never have predicted that the unreachable goddess in his mind would often lie in his arms in silk suspender pajamas, and pear flowers and rain would cry to him about his husband's various neglect.
The huge vanity of conquering the beauty captured him for a while, Hong Xiaoguang couldn't help falling into the trap he had woven, and he really fell in love with Du Yunning. The two cheated on Yuan Bing and everyone in the Yuan family. Gained the thrill of excitement.
What's more, Hong Xiaoguang doesn't have to worry about money, his own boss Li keeps sending funds to him, so that he can buy various items for Du Yunning generously, which makes Du Yunning more and more convinced that he has met a real lover.
But the good times didn't last long. Boss Li approached Hong Xiaoguang and told him that he had to fulfill his agreement.
In Boss Li's plan, the Yuan Mansion must be obtained. Yuan Bing and Du Yunning have no children or daughters. As long as they are gone, the Yuan Mansion will naturally be taken back by the government and re-auctioned, and it will be easy to operate at that time.
Yuan Bing is a big smoker, looking for fun and terminally ill. It is not difficult to make him disappear. The difficulty is that on Du Yuning's side, although she is empty and lonely, she has no bad hobbies.
On the other hand, Du Yuning and Hong Xiaoguang's relationship became stronger and stronger, and even under the temptation of Hong Xiaoguang, she became addicted to smoking. She was more obedient and dependent on Hong Xiaoguang, and told Hong Xiaoguang all the grievances she had received from Yuan Bing, eager for his comfort. .
She began to talk to Hong Xiaoguang about her past, how she grew up in the Du family, how she met Ling Shu, how she broke off the engagement with the Ling family, and married Yuan Bing.
The goddess walked down from the altar and untied her veil. Hong Xiaoguang found that Du Yunning was not as ignorant as he imagined. She was weak in character. She liked Ling Shu but did not dare to rebel against her family. Rich and noble, who always hate smokers, but can't help sinking into the abyss.
Weak willpower is the sad song of her life.
The name Ling Shu came into Boss Li's sight along with Du Yuning's dictation.
"Du Yuning asked you out to meet a few times, but it was actually Boss Li's idea. He asked me to encourage Du Yuning to run away, and then wait for an opportunity to kill her, others will naturally think of you, so they can push you on your head without knowing it. ."
At the same time, Du Yuning, who had a deep-rooted love for Hong Xiaoguang, also told him a secret, that is, Yuan Bingdao hid the gold underground in the Yuan family, and the key to the secret vault was on her.
In order to convince Hong Xiaoguang that he was not lying, Du Yunning personally took him to the underground vault.
On the next floor of the cellar, Hong Xiaoguang saw with his own eyes that boxes of gold were displayed, filling his sight all at once.
In his lifetime, why has Hong Xiaoguang ever seen so much gold
Not to mention Hong Xiaoguang, he believed that Boss Li would never have seen him.
Du Yuning gradually accepted the proposal of elopement, and began to plan the future for the two of them wholeheartedly. In her opinion, it is impossible to move all this gold out. Half a lifetime is enough for food and clothing.
All this, as Du Yuning's personal maid, Alan must know.
Du Yuning did not avoid Alan, and even arranged a way out after taking her away.
But Du Yunning didn't know that Alan also liked Hong Xiaoguang.
The kind of love that slowly ferments in the heart, dare not appeal to others, and can't see the light.
Hong Xiaoguang regretted it.
He didn't want to kill people in the first place. After hearing Du Yunning's secret, he just wanted to take the wealth and beauty to fly away, not to be found by the Yuan family, nor to be found by Boss Li. From then on, he was happy.
Although at the beginning, he was only approaching Du Yunning with the idea of revenge and the bright future built for him by Boss Li, but after getting along for a long time, he gradually developed some feelings, although this feeling is unknown to the beauty , or the pursuit of gold.
But how did the fledgling cub escape the cunning hunter
"Boss Li somehow found out that I wanted to take Du Yuning away. He threatened me that if I dared to escape his control, he would hand me over to the Yuan family. I just found out that the three subordinates of the Yuan family, It's also his eyeliner, and my every move is under his watch."
"So you killed Du Yunning?"
"I can't do it! I can't do it... I was forced by him. If I don't do it, he will kill me, you know!"
Hong Xiaoguang showed pain on his face. He stared at the wine bottle in Yue Dingtang's hand, wishing he could grab it and get drunk, and completely forget the troubles of the world.
"That day, Du Yuning gave me the key to the secret vault, and that night, Boss Li asked me to do it. It was the first time I, I killed someone, watching her struggling in my hands, she lost her breath a little bit, I really didn't want to kill her, But Boss Li and Sancai are right next to me..."
Ling Shu: "Alan also witnessed all this?"
Hong Xiaoguang nodded indiscriminately: "Sancai originally wanted to get rid of Alan, but was stopped by Boss Li, saying that too many people died, but it was difficult to explain. He asked me to stabilize Alan first and tempt her with money. Alan also agreed. Absolutely not. leak out."
Ling Shu: "Then why did Alan die later and Boss Li regretted it?"
Hong Xiaoguang: "After that, Alan always felt that his wife was dead and suspicious, and you were just investigating this case. Boss Li was afraid that she would leak the news, so he didn't do it again and again, and let Sancai kill people."
Ling Shu: "Did you kill Lao Xiao, the owner of the noodle shop? And that night when we talked about the ruins of the noodle shop, you were the one who wanted to kill us, right?"
Hong Xiaoguang: "When the boss made up his mind to blame Du Yuning's death on you, he had already figured out your whereabouts... I, ahem, I was also ordered to act. That night, he led you there, Ben. He wants me and Sancai to kill your companion and push it on you. He said that the family surnamed Yue has a background, and if you die, you will not be able to escape completely. No matter what you do, it won't attract the attention of others... I ended up messing it up, I can't shoot well, and I really can't shoot, I don't want to kill... Let me go, I really can't help myself!"
Ling Shu ignored his plea and collapsed.
"What is the origin of Boss Li?"
This was the question he most wanted to know the answer to.
Ordinary people, even if they have bad intentions and plot the wealth of the Yuan family, will not raise a well-trained professional killer like Sancai. Sancai is hidden in the Yuan family, and no one has even discovered it for a long time.
Ling Shu had also told Yue Dingtang long ago that if it was Sancai and not Hong Xiaoguang who made the move that night, Yue Dingtang would have cooled down long ago.
"I don't know... I don't even know his real name, all I know is that he is ruthless and will never let anyone who is disobedient or dares to betray him. If I had known, I shouldn't have been on this pirate ship! "
Hong Xiaoguang burst into tears.
His handsome face was now wrinkled and weak and hypocritical, like a perfectly packaged peacock plucked from its colorful feathers to discover that it was really just a bald bird.
If Du Yuning saw him now, he might slap himself twice, regretting being obsessed.
But it was too late. From the moment she stepped into the game set up by Boss Li, she was destined to become a sacrifice.
Compared to Du Yuning, Hong Xiaoguang is not much better.
These two people are pawns in the hands of Boss Li.
What about Boss Li
Is he a chess player
Or, whose pawn is he
"wrong."
Yue Dingtang suddenly spoke up.
"The surnamed Li should not have known the existence of the golden vault, so why did he plot against the Yuan family?"
"He's for..."
Hong Xiaoguang's breathing became rapid.
"Something under the golden vault!"
An amazing word.
Ling Shu couldn't help but glance at Yue Dingtang.
The latter's face showed the same surprise as his.
Does Yuan Bingdao know that there is something under the golden secret vault? Is that what he has hidden again
Ling Shu was about to ask again, but Hong Xiaoguang had lost too much blood and passed out.
The breath was weak, but not dead.
Ling Shu retracted his fingers and walked towards Yue Ding Tang.
"Let's meet up with Shen Renjie first, and then go out..."
boom!
Ling Shu was interrupted by a gunshot!
Both were shocked.
…
Shen Renjie felt that he encountered more accidents tonight than in the past few years combined.
He is just an ordinary patrolman, why should he suffer such a crime
If it weren't for the blood rushing up tonight and the brain flooding for a while, I wouldn't have followed Yue Dingtang here.
The latter will not be encountered.
Shen Renjie thought with a heart full of heartache, looking back on his short and ordinary half life.
He used to be ashamed of his mediocrity and always wanted to find a chance to fight again, but only when it came to the end did he realize that it was better to be mediocre.
Peace is a blessing!
"Boss, the car is ready, waiting outside."
The voice pulled Shen Renjie back from his wild thoughts.
He saw Sancai walking to the man in the gown.
The latter nodded, and his eyes under the round hat fell on Shen Renjie, making him feel like he was being stared at by a poisonous snake.
"This, this dear friend, I was temporarily arrested as an official. I don't know anything, and I don't want to know. Otherwise, you go first, leave me alone, and leave me here, I will never say anything. Yes, your great kindness, I will definitely repay it!"
Shen Renjie's tongue was knotted, and he was incoherent after speaking, not knowing what he was talking about.
"Take him in the car and wait, I want to meet them."
San Cai nodded, grabbed Shen Renjie roughly and walked outside.
boom!
Shen Renjie heard a gunshot.
His legs were half weak.
But then, he found that he felt no pain, the gun didn't hit him at all.
On the other side, Boss Li and Sancai had already started a shootout in the room.
Two people who were originally accomplices suddenly became infighting.
What is this drama
Shen Renjie was stunned, rolled to the side subconsciously, and crawled to hide behind the shelf.
"The dog I raised with my own hands wants to kill me now." Shen Renjie heard Boss Li mournfully say.
"Teacher, don't blame me. This is an order from above. The above clearly states that you want gold, but you have a different idea and want to swallow the gold alone. Naturally, the above is not happy." Sancai replied.
Shen Renjie and Sancai met several times. At that time, this person was timid, asked three questions and answered one question. He looked like a countryman who had never seen the world. He was honest and cowardly, timid and cowardly. The three talents who are not soft-handed are like two different people.
He couldn't help shrinking his body into the corner, hoping that the two plague gods could kill each other, and it would be better if they both lost, so that he could still get a little life back.
"I worked hard for them, and I found what they wanted. I just wanted a little gold, and they wanted to kill me, not because I knew too much. Sancai, have you ever thought about it? Someday you will end up like this?" Boss Li sneered.
"I won't." Sancai's voice was calm, "If you are not my race, your heart will be different."
Shen Renjie didn't have much reaction to this sentence, but Boss Li had a great reaction.
"It turns out that you - well!"
He said three good words in a row, and suddenly became quiet.
boom! boom! boom!
After several shots were fired, the lights above all went out!
In front of Shen Renjie's eyes, he suddenly fell into darkness where he could not see his fingers.