It was almost noon when Cheng Fengtai came back, with a tired and depressed face, he took off his straw hat, let out a long and depressed sigh, and drank a glass of cold beer to calm himself down. Shang Xirui sat on the coffee table, put his feet on Cheng Fengtai's knees, looked at him face to face. Just as Cheng Fengtai was about to speak, he saw Mother Zhao's nanny Xiaolai, three women, old, middle and young, hugging Feng Yi, all dressed neatly, their hair combed smooth and tightly tied, and holding a few large bundles in their hands.
Cheng Fengtai asked in surprise: "What are you doing?"
Zhao's mother said: "It's Boss Shang's idea. In case soldiers enter the city and we women can't run fast, we might as well hide in the basement first, eat dry food for a few days, and avoid the limelight." Zhao's mother patted the burden: "No, I baked pancakes overnight and boiled eggs."
Cheng Fengtai looked at Shang Xirui: "You are quite experienced."
Shang Xirui raised his chin: "That's right! Young master has crossed more bridges than you have traveled."
Cheng Fengtai smiled and said to the women: "Don't worry, this is Embassy Street, if there is a real war, you can't come here." He grabbed Shang Xirui's feet and said: "Follow me back to the room."
Shang Xirui was stunned, and immediately yelled in embarrassment: "What room do you go back to in broad daylight! If you have something to say, you have to fart! It's almost a war, you still have the mind to do it?!"
Cheng Fengtai was stunned, and didn't understand what he was talking about for a while, but after a while, he was so angry that he grabbed his legs and put them on the ground, and patted the dirty footprints on his pants: "I have nothing to say to you! My heart is too dirty !" Cheng Fengtai stood up, the women were still staring at him in a daze, Cheng Fengtai waved his hand at them: "Don't look at me, what should you do, the sky won't fall."
Having said that, when he returned to the bedroom, Cheng Fengtai was sitting by the bed smoking a cigarette, his hair was messed up, his eyes were half-closed by the smoke, and his breath was bleak. Running around non-stop all night, the rice never sticks to his teeth, Zhao Ma served a bowl of noodles, while Cheng Fengtai ate, he asked Shang Xirui to close the door tightly, and talked to him about what happened last night.
Last night at Cao's mansion, when Cheng Fengtai arrived there, three or four cars were parked at the gate, and more than a hundred soldiers were armed with live ammunition, ready for battle, needless to say, they knew that something big was going to happen. Cheng Fengtai frowned, looking at the soldiers thoughtfully. An adjutant trotted over to invite him: "Second Master Cheng, come in quickly, the commander and madam are waiting impatiently!" Cheng Fengtai stepped up the steps in three steps, the adjutant pushed open the door for him, and announced. The strange thing is that the lights in the house are dimly lit, and there are no servants in front or behind. Cheng Meixin wore heavy makeup, red lips, pointed eyebrows, a full set of jewelry, and a cheongsam inlaid with tulle. The two young masters wore small suits and bow ties. The whole family seemed to be going to a photo studio to take a family portrait. Commander Cao said goodbye.
Hearing this, Shang Xirui said smartly: "Commander Cao must be going out of the city to meet the enemy, now we have nothing to fear!"
Cheng Fengtai stopped his chopsticks, fell silent for a moment, and ate the last mouthful of noodles: "It's really like this, it's good!"
In order to loosen the vigilance of the Nanjing government, Commander Cao has always stationed a large force at the junction of Shandong and Jiangsu, led by Cao Guixiu, and rested in Beiping after his illness. If the Japanese side took serious action, Peiping would be hard to save. The only way out for his poor commander was to flee overnight, which is also common practice in military affairs. But before yesterday, Cheng Fengtai never knew that Commander Cao actually had contact with the Japanese, it's hard to say how far he came into contact, just because he wants to keep his wife and children in Beiping, it's shocking. When Cheng Fengtai heard that his brother-in-law was going to leave his sister behind, his expression changed drastically, and he was about to raise objections on the spot. Commander Cao grabbed his arm first, pulled him into his arms, and patted his arms and back, which was an intimate gesture of farewell between men.
Commander Cao whispered in Cheng Fengtai's ear: "The land here is not clean, don't ask too many questions." Then he held his shoulders, shook him, and said loudly: "Xiao Fenger, your sister and two nephews, I I entrusted it to you, if anything goes wrong, you are the only one to ask!" Cheng Fengtai didn't speak, but was shocked, and turned to look at Cheng Meixin. Cheng Meixin was very calm, with no emotion on her face, she looked graceful. Wearing snow-white gloves, Commander Cao stretched out an index finger and nodded in front of Cheng Fengtai: "You have to remember, in a war, the cheapest thing is human life, and the most expensive thing is human life. It was bought by peddlers all these years. You don’t have to guard that bit of wealth, keeping yourself and your family’s lives is the most important thing! There’s no shame in dissipating the wealth! Don’t be obsessed with money!”
Cheng Fengtai couldn't help but straightened his spine, nodded and said: "Don't worry, brother-in-law, I understand the principle of saving money and saving one's life."
Commander Cao should have a lot to say, but due to the current situation, he couldn't elaborate, and these few words seemed to contain a lot of deep meaning, Cheng Fengtai didn't have time to delve into them. The adjutant urged, and Commander Cao hurriedly handed over the key to the study and the password of the safe to Cheng Fengtai, and asked him to "handle" it overnight. Cheng Fengtai understood. Commander Cao pressed down on the brim of his hat, his eyes cast heavily on Cheng Meixin and the child, and he turned and went out the door. Cheng Meixin and the two children followed each other without saying a word, until Commander Cao got into the car, started the car, and set off slowly. Cheng Meixin suddenly ran forward a few steps, stretched one arm into the car window, and fished at Commander Cao thoughtlessly. At the same time, Commander Cao reached out to hold her. Stop, drive straight away. Cheng Fengtai called his sister to help Cheng Meixin. Cheng Meixin's body was heavy and weak, her teeth were clenched, and there were two crystal clear tears in her eyes, as if she was enduring the pain. Cheng Fengtai felt extremely uncomfortable, looked down, Cheng Meixin's five fingers were tightly curled up and grasped a white glove, which belonged to Commander Cao. It can be seen how affectionate the two were when they shook hands just now!
Rao Shang Xirui and Cheng Meixin have always been at odds, and in the face of life and death, he couldn't say gloating words at this moment, so he had to admit: "I've seen for a long time that your sister and Commander Cao have real feelings, your sister only treats you well." He has a conscience."
"It's also the first time I've seen my sister like this... like this..." Cheng Fengtai couldn't find the words to describe it, but felt very sad and emotional. When Cheng Meixin met Commander Cao, her reputation was already very bad, and no man with a little family background would consider marrying her. She followed Commander Cao to fight in the south and north, and the child in her belly was exhausted on the way, and she fell ill and could not bear children. She was originally a personality with the supremacy of power and wealth, and since then she has been more focused on earning private money and turning around people, and her wrists are turning over and over, which is hot and raw. Cheng Fengtai used to think that her gentle maintenance of Commander Cao also had a very utilitarian heart in it. After seeing it yesterday, his sister was completely different from what he thought, and his sister actually loved Commander Cao sincerely. With this little heart alone, this sister instantly changed in Cheng Fengtai's heart, becoming a different person.
After Commander Cao left, Cheng Meixin blinked her eyes, quickly dried up her tears, and went to the study with Cheng Fengtai to burn letters, materials and account books. They were not sure whether they should keep them or not. In order to prevent bugs, the siblings communicated with each other through gestures and eyes. There is another secret compartment in the study, the mechanism is designed miraculously, and it took a lot of effort for two people and four hands to open it. I don't know what terrible documents are stored in it, Cheng Meixin didn't take it apart, just threw it into the brazier, and watched it turn into ashes with her own eyes. When the matter was over, the sky was a little brighter, and only some gold, silver and jewels were left. Cheng Meixin weighed two gold bars and put them in Cheng Fengtai's hands and said, "Thank you for your hard work tonight." Cheng Fengtai didn't speak, and secretly pressed the gold bars onto an open calendar. Cheng Meixin saw it, but didn't speak.
The siblings had been busy all night, and they wanted to disperse the smoke from their bodies. They walked side by side in the garden in the early morning and whispered. Having glanced at the top-secret information just now, Cheng Fengtai's previous guess is basically confirmed now. Cheng Fengtai looked at Cheng Meixin's face, and said in his native dialect: "Brother-in-law and Nanjing have always had a lot of conflicts, and the relationship is weak. This time, it's not because of the Japanese?"
Cheng Meixin's eyes were straight ahead, and she whispered in her throat: "Political matters, what do you know! Don't think about it!"
Cheng Fengtai said: "How can I not want to! People who do business all rely on the faces of the big bosses above to get rich. They stomp their feet and check the goods. How much copper cash will I make less in a business trip? My brother-in-law leaves, I feel in my heart." It's really bottomless."
Cheng Meixin smiled: "I just promised your brother-in-law that he won't be obsessed with money, but now, his mouth is still full of money."
At dawn, several servants were busy ahead, Cheng Meixin paused, and said very cautiously: "Come on, let's go to the pond to enjoy the cool breeze." Cheng Fengtai came to the Commander's Mansion a few months ago, and the atmosphere has not been so tense yet Such a field. Although it was a half-open secret that Nanjing placed surveillance around Commander Cao, as it is now, with the addition of the Japanese and maybe the Communist Party, the Cao family was surrounded by spies.
Strolling to the edge of the pond, Cheng Fengtai took off his suit and vest and put it on the stone bench, and then let Cheng Meixin sit, he said: "Sister, come home with me to live, mine is very spacious, it's not safe here."
Cheng Meixin smiled and said: "Looking at Beiping City, there is no safer place than this now! When the war starts later, you can bring your siblings and children to live here!"
Cheng Fengtai really admires her, just now when he sent her husband away, he was so stimulated that he trembled all over, and he could laugh again when he turned his head, as if he had the winning ticket in his hands. But having said that, if she is not such a tough woman, she cannot be valued by Commander Cao. Cheng Fengtai tapped his fingers on the table twice, and asked her seriously: "What's the matter with brother-in-law and the Japanese? See what brother-in-law means, he wants me to stay in Peiping to accompany him. I'm risking my life, sister, Anyway, let me have a count in my heart, right?"
Cheng Meixin glanced at him, her eyes were cold, she looked so arrogant. Seeing her expression, Cheng Fengtai knew that she would not tell the truth. Cheng Meixin really said: "I don't want you to know, it's for your own good! Don't worry about it, you won't be able to help! If you're happy to stay, stay, and if you're not, take your siblings and children to hide abroad. Life and death are at stake, as a big sister Do not blame you."
Cheng Fengtai laughed at himself and said: "I rely on the windfall made by my brother-in-law, and when I am in trouble, I pat my ass and fly away. When he comes back one day, why not kill me with one shot?" Cheng Meixin also smiled. Cheng Fengtai patted the back of Cheng Meixin's hand, and said in a low voice: "What's more, we are direct siblings... unless my sister is willing to go to England with me. It doesn't matter if I don't take my private house away, I will share half of the property with you to settle down. From now on, everyone If I earn a share, my sister will have a share!"
Cheng Meixin was taken aback. Ever since she was a child, she ate too much, was domineering, and bullied Cheng Fengtai a lot. When encountering disasters, this younger brother was the first person she grabbed onto the back of the mat. Unexpectedly, at the time of life and death, Cheng Fengtai's blood was thicker than water, and he was willing to make sacrifices for her . Cheng Mei felt a little guilty, not just because she didn't treat Cheng Fengtai well. In those years, if it wasn't for her own ambition, Cheng Fengtai might not have become rich, but he wanted to marry Zhao Yuanzhen. comfortable. How can it be like now, the wife at home is not suitable, so he was seduced by Shang Xirui outside, and the good young man was humiliated by a dirty actor.
Cheng Meixin sighed, firmly grasped her younger brother's hand and put it on her knee, showing a rare tenderness: "I'm leaving, what should the commander do, and someone will suspect him and embarrass him! What about you, listen to my sister's persuasion, In the present season, it is said that war is war, so don't play around outside, and the opera singers are clear and refreshing, go home early. About the children, I will convince my younger brothers and sisters." Cheng Fengtai smiled nonchalantly, trying to fool the past, Cheng Meixin stopped him: "Whether the opera singer is sincere or not to you, I won't talk about it. Just think about it. In the future, when there is a war, there will always be a day when you leave. Whether it's going back to Shanghai or going to England, he is willing to leave it behind." Fame and status with you? For singing that song, he even gave up his life! Can you help your wife and children and spend the rest of your life with him in Beiping?"
Cheng Meixin's words had already been thought over in Cheng Fengtai's mind eighty times, and there was no answer even if his heart was broken, and he had to make a choice when things came to an end. Cheng Fengtai was thinking about money, about his family, about Shang Xirui, about the Silk Road he paved with money, with a heavy heart, he was about to leave resentfully. Cheng Meixin left him sitting in the living room, quickly changed clothes, washed his face and put on makeup, preparing for a ride. Now Cheng Fengtai sees everyone as a spy, and he dare not talk to the servants, so he doesn't eat the tea and snacks brought to him, so he grabs a morning newspaper and reads. The headlines on the front page reported in detail yesterday's bombardment of Wanping, and the national army will resist it with all its strength. Cheng Fengtai has been in the arms business for ten years. He probably knows better than many officials and masters who are in office whether the military strength of China and Japan is higher or lower. He is still very pessimistic about it.
Cheng Meixin put on a little makeup and changed into a simple and elegant dress, without any color on her body, Shi Shiran went downstairs to hold Cheng Fengtai's arm. As soon as they took two steps out of the gate of the mansion, the soldiers trotted over to escort them. Commander Cao left a team of 30 people here to protect his wife and children, Cheng Fengtai recognized that the leader was his familiar Squad Leader Tang, now the company commander, the one he had sent to Shang Xirui's new theater in the early years A team of soldiers. Cheng Meixin waved her hand not to teach them to follow, and whispered to Cheng Fengtai: "People outside know the commander's license plate number." She bent down and got into the car, took a small powder mirror to look at her face again and again on the way, then picked up the corner of the handkerchief, and put it on Wipe off a layer of lipstick. She has always shown off her delicate makeup, but today, Cheng Fengtai looked fresh: "Where are you going, sister?"
Cheng Meixin said: "Does Vice Elder He's family know each other?"
Cheng Fengtai glanced at her in the rearview mirror: "Don't go meet your lover as soon as brother-in-law leaves, I want to make a small report."
Cheng Meixin scolded him and laughed angrily: "Pull it down! I'll just find a concubine and a young man! Old He's hair is bald! He has smoky yellow teeth!"
Cheng Fengtai smiled: "It's going to be a little bit of a journey, miss, squint for a while." Cheng Meixin snapped the powder box on, leaned back in the chair, sighed, and closed her eyes: "The sad days are coming!"
When Shang Xirui heard this, he snorted twice: "She also said that she fought with Commander Cao, I really didn't see it! The Japanese soldiers frightened her like this before they entered the city! I have been there How many enemy-occupied areas have passed under the noses of Japanese soldiers, have I ever been afraid? You two sisters are so useless!"
He didn't know anything about the political situation, Cheng Fengtai didn't intend to explain it to him at all, he nodded and said along the way: "Yes, Boss Shang is very courageous."
Shang Xirui then interrogated: "I just came back at this point, where did I go after that?"
Cheng Fengtai remembered something, and took out a red wedding invitation from his trousers pocket. It says that Xue Qianshan and Yang Jin are married, and Cheng Fengtai and Shang Xirui are sincerely invited to come. Shang Xirui slapped the wedding invitation in the palm of his hand, and said with a smile: "Xue Qianshan is more courageous than you! At this time, you are still in the mood to get married!"
Cheng Fengtai sneered: "He is not brave, he is a cheap man, playing bachelor! He ran to Fan Lian's early in the morning to ask for advice, fearing that the factory would lose money in a war, so when he met me, he insisted on trying to save face! Pretend to be reassuring!" He opened the wedding invitation from Shang Xirui and looked at it, the wedding invitation was written in a hurry, with a trail of ink at the end of the words: "But this wedding invitation is really well written, sensible! I have to give him a seal Big red envelope!" The second grandmother in his family only showed up at the weddings and funerals of her natal family, other than that, she disappeared from the social circle. Cheng Fengtai didn't realize he was married until he got home, and when he left home, he was just like single, living alone. Xue Qianshan did this, and Cheng Fengtai was subtly flattered by him.
Shang Xirui is also quite satisfied with this: "I want to seal a big red envelope for him too." Cheng Fengtai said with a smile: "Whoever invites a couple and gives the red envelopes separately, isn't it tearing down the house!" Shang Xirui Rui nodded and said: "Then will he and Fan Lian stay? Or should they go?" Cheng Fengtai said: "They can't go, the business in hand is too late to withdraw, there are old and young at home, and they can't take care of them on the road. Especially Fan Lian, a family of more than forty people, went to Qingdao from outside the customs. An uncle and an old aunt died on the way; from Qingdao to Peiping, two uncles and grandmothers died. The elders in the family did not agree."
Shang Xirui also asked casually, but there was no response. Cheng Fengtai took the opportunity to ask him: "Boss Shang, can you go and sing in a place where there is no war?"
Shang Xirui suddenly became a sensible person again at this time, and said something very clear: "Where is Beiping, the capital of the five dynasties, there is a dragon's veins! This will be lost one day, I don't think it's useless to go anywhere, so hurry up." Then the whole country fell, and there was no place where there was no war. How else could I escape to a foreign country? Sing Beijing opera to foreign devils?" Shang Xirui waved his hand: "Nonsense! I won't go! A businessman is afraid of losing money, so he should become an official I'm afraid of losing my life, what am I afraid of? The Japanese are full of food and are panicking, embarrassing me as a performer? At most, it's all about paying extra taxes!" He didn't know that these words were similar to the second grandma's, and Cheng Fengtai felt like I was taken aback. At the end of the day, Cheng Fengtai went home to report an emergency, but the Second Mistress didn't even let him in through the door of the inner room, she also said such a thing, and sent him away. Both Shang Xirui and Second Grandma grew up in the north, they have experienced war and are used to displacement and death, the little movement yesterday did not scare them.
In fact, until the Japanese army entered Beiping City, the Liyuan area in Beiping also stood still and no one fled. Xue Qianshan still takes concubines; Du Qi still eats big meals, dances, and parties; Fan Jinling will graduate this year, and is busy looking for a tailor to make engagement clothes and order new jewelry from abroad. Beiping became the world of the Japanese. People were panicked and supplies were blocked. Japanese soldiers broke into people's homes at will to arrest and question citizens. Rich people live the same way behind closed doors, but always differently. At Xue Qianshan's wedding banquet, after eating, drinking, and seeing the bride, based on the experience of the previous two times, Du Qizhun had to sharpen his knives and invent many sensational ways to make trouble in the bridal chamber, but this time everyone didn't play cards or listen to dramas. A group of men and a group of women were secretly discussing something there. For the country's unpredictable future, there is indeed a lot to discuss.
In the man's room, everyone held a cigarette, so that mosquitoes would not dare to come. Shang Xirui stood by the window avoiding the smell of smoke, a few theater fans showed Shang Xirui the cigarette cards they had collected, their lung leaves were black from smoking, and they were still missing something, Shang Xirui spread his hands: "Yes I can’t help everyone, I don’t have a complete set.” Amber leaned over and said in that set, “The flowers in my garden outside the city will bloom in two days, and the buds are so big! The color is also right! When will you sing again? The goddess scattered flowers? I'll twist them all for you." It turned out that Shang Xirui used real flowers for his opera props. Fans in the audience get one or two flowers and pin them on the sideburns and collars, which is a very fashionable and elegant taste. Shang Xirui smiled at the corner of his mouth, no hum no ha. Amber knew that he had raped Zhou Xiangyun a few times before, and Shang Xirui was not happy, but in Amber's interpretation, Shang Xirui's reluctance seemed vaguely jealous. Immediately, his bones became light and his flesh itched, so he wanted to say something nonsense, saying: "If you weren't taken over by Cheng Fengtai and refused to get close to me, I could go to Zhou Xiangyun? What's so interesting about that child! I'm still It's about to end!" Shang Xirui stared wide-eyed and looked around for fear of being overheard, lowered his voice, gritted his teeth and said: "Second Master didn't occupy me, we are what you want, Lord Belle, don't say such a thing !" Amber couldn't believe it: "Commander Cao has run away without a trace, he is now an empty temple that has run away from the Bodhisattva! Why do you care about him! In terms of appearance and wealth, where can I go next to him? It's only a few years younger than Datian! Men still care about age?" Shang Xirui said sternly: "So far, please forgive me for being disrespectful. You are just a little less romantic than the second master!" Anbeile listened , blowing his beard and staring unconvinced. He thinks that there is still room for improvement in all aspects of learning, virtue, economics and society, except for romanticism, which can be said to be unique in the world.
Shang Xirui opened up: "On the matter of Xiao Zhouzi, you have to admit that you are not in style! If you want to get close to Xiao Zhouzi, there is nothing wrong with it. Rely on fame, rely on charm, do what he likes, soft-hearted , that’s all right! You have money and power, and there are many ways to make him willing to be with you. Now, Saiguo is stealing wallets at temple fairs, taking advantage of people’s unpreparedness, and taking advantage of them once. , the cow does not drink water and forcefully presses its head, how can this be called romantic?" This must be called obscene! Shang Xirui added silently in his heart.
Amber was scorned by Shang Xirui, his face changed from embarrassment to anger. If the person standing in front of him was not Shang Xirui, but anyone else, he would make his head bleed! Because it was Shang Xirui, he was so in love that he fell into cowardice, and sneered: "Okay, he's flirtatious, don't be too flirtatious! Zhou Xiangyun and I were doing business, and he yelled at the door outside What's the matter with trying to get caught? Boss Shang, don't catch fire in the backyard, you've missed someone!" The two glared at each other angrily, and Amber walked away with a flick of his sleeve. Shang Xirui sat down on the armrest of Cheng Fengtai's sofa, feeling a little depressed, how can any good man resist this high-level yamen-style bastard! Shang Xirui's fists itch!
Cheng Fengtai was having a good time talking with someone, when he saw him coming, he snuffed out the cigarette in the ashtray, put his smoking hand on his knee. Shang Xirui looked at Cheng Fengtai's smiling side face, his ears tingling, his Adam's apple rising and falling when he spoke, and the slight sweat on the tip of his nose, his mood slowly calmed down, and he returned to a soft and dull look. Fan Lian and Xue Qianshan have a good friendship, so in other people's scenes, they have no scruples, talking loudly: "Everyone agrees, right? I have suffered from the Japanese! These hungry wolves have entered Beiping, and there will be a day to leave? I can’t see it! We have beautiful mountains and rivers, we have everything we need to grow in the fields, birds and animals. They live a good life here for two days, like a mouse falling into a rice bowl! Cannons can’t go away!”
Niu Baiwen stammered and asked: "No... I didn't say that Dongshan Province has been occupied by them. It's quite a large area, isn't it enough?"
Fan Lian looked at Amber and walked away, and said: "What's the use of occupying the north! Why did the Manchus go south in the first place? What they fancy is the land of fish and rice, calm and calm! The Japanese are greedy!"
Xue Qianshan crossed his legs, smoked shredded tobacco into the pipe, squinted his eyes behind the smoke and stared at Du Qi, smiling silently. Du Qi looked down at Xue Qianshan's collection of pipes in the glass cabinet. Without realizing it, he shook his head and said, "Master Niu doesn't understand geography. Japan's long and narrow pipes are all fucking embedded in the earthquake zone. It's not ruined at all. You can't change it." Are you afraid? During the Taiping period, there will be three earthquakes every day, and one day God will stomp their feet, and they will all become water ghosts!"
Shang Xirui answered here: "So when the Japanese call, it means that the water ghost is looking for a substitute!"
Everyone laughed: "Boss Shang is so playful!" Du Qi also laughed: "That's what he said!"
Xue Qianshan waved his pipe and said: "I don't care why they come, I just want to know when they will leave! The war is in turmoil, which year will be the end! All of us here are rich people, it is not easy to save this property, I can't afford to lose! I escaped the warlord and escaped the tax, don't end up in the hands of the little Japan like the Huang family, making it easier for outsiders! That's so embarrassing!"
Everyone here thinks the same way, only Du Qi is a living god, who can do whatever he wants, and can throw his life away, so he immediately ridiculed him: "Are you afraid? If you are afraid, take your little wife and run away! Second Master Xue's concubine just happens to be able to form A strike team!"
Du Qi was always prone to offend when speaking, and everyone didn't find it strange. Xue Qianshan was silent, looked at Du Qi and said with a smile: "My small team still lacks a leader. When will the captain be in place? When will I run away?"
Everyone laughed at him for half-heartedness, and the bride was going to be angry when she heard it. Du Qi gritted his teeth with a straight face, and snapped the glass cabinet shut. Afterwards, when Xue Qianshan said something and Du Qiding said something, Niu Baiwen felt that their meaning was wrong, so he interrupted and said, "Mr. Qi has many uncles and brothers who work in the yamen. Please give us news. What did the yamen say? Like in the Year of the Gengzi, spend some money to coax them away?"
Du Qi said: "Yamen—don't mention the Yamen! Poor those soldiers! Take your life and force it! Erye Fan also has officials in his family. Ask him what the Yamen plans!"
Fan Lian shook his head straightly: "The officials in my family are all in charge of the economy. During the war, I still have to ask Second Master Cheng." He said with a wicked smile: "Don't think he is silent, in fact, the more wars are fought, the happier he is. Why are you happy, I won't say."
Cheng Fengtai was talking to Shang Xirui with his head tilted, when he was suddenly called on by name, he pretended to be stupid and said, "Ask me? What are you asking me for?" Everyone fixed their eyes on him, everyone knew his arms business , It depends on what he expresses. Cheng Fengtai's city government, of course, would not make such remarks in public, so he patted his thigh and said with a smile: "Let me just say one thing, in half an hour there will be a curfew on the street, and we all have to squeeze into the bridal chamber It's been a night! I don't care! I'm afraid that Second Master Xue won't agree!" Everyone knew that he didn't want to talk about these things, so they didn't ask questions, and the meeting ended after a joke. Cheng Fengtai walked behind and suddenly strangled Fan Lian's neck, and asked him viciously: "Tell me, why the more I fight, the happier I am? En? I'm a bitch, right?" Fan Lian rolled his eyes from being strangled: "I'm a bitch! It's me who is a bitch! Ouch brother-in-law!"
Shang Xirui found it amusing to watch them fight, and laughed, the three of them walked across the rockery in the garden, a weak voice shouted in a low voice: "Master, master... Boss Shang!" The clever man with sharp eyes and ears also walked by carelessly at this time. But Cheng Fengtai heard it, let go of Fan Lian and turned his head, and there was a petite figure standing under the rockery, it was Er Yuehong. Er Yuehong is covered in silk and gold and silver all over her body, she is much fatter than when she was in Shuiyun Tower, she is a big girl. As soon as Shang Xirui saw her, his face dropped, he frowned, and stood there motionless. Cheng Fengtai saw the situation, Er Yuehong had something to say alone, so she whispered to Shang Xirui, and went to pick up the car with Fan Lian first. Shang Xirui still didn't move. When Er Yuehong saw him, she was terrified when she thought of how viciously he beat people, bit her lower lip and mustered up the courage to come forward and said, "Master, how have you been?" All right. What's your aunt doing?" Er Yuehong bowed her head in silence for a few seconds, Shang Xirui impatiently moved her steps, Er Yuehong hurriedly handed a handkerchief bag to Shang Xirui: "Here are some body parts I saved up. I beg the leader to bring me Layuehong. I beg the leader...to take care of him." An old lady called her from behind, and she didn't care, she wrapped the handkerchief into Shang Xirui's arms and put it in Shang Xirui's arms. Plug, turn around and leave. At this time, in order to avoid people's eyes and ears, Shang Xirui could only quickly hold the handkerchief bag in his hand, and Shi Shiran walked forward. Sitting in Cheng Fengtai's car, he didn't care about the privacy of his subordinates, and directly opened the handkerchief bag, which contained a roll of banknotes, a men's watch, and a pair of leather gloves. Cheng Fengtai glanced sideways, and said, "Er Yuehong respects you? You have a conscience!" Shang Xirui wrapped the handkerchief and said, "It's not for me." Xue Qianshan is newly married to his concubine, but Er Yuehong is here I miss my junior brother. Shang Xirui also knows what the family looks like for a nouveau riche like Xue Qianshan. Although Xue Qianshan would not treat Er Yuehong harshly, from the mother-in-law to the mother-in-law, several pairs of eyes are fixed on people. The jewelry is counted by a girl every day, and the monthly cases are also stored and arranged by a special person. It is tantamount to going to prison. It was not easy for Er Yuehong to save this little money in the past two years, and to pass it on was even more risky of being reprimanded and spreading rumors. Shang Xirui was a little depressed, a little wronged. Why do senior sisters from other people's family care so much about their junior brother? If God didn't give him an equally good Cheng Fengtai, he would be so jealous!
Cheng Fengtai was driving the car and suddenly braked sharply. A Japanese man in kimono in front of him was beating the hood, swearing and yelling, obviously drunk. After the Japanese Occupation, the number of such Japanese expatriates suddenly increased in the city of Peiping, perhaps not because of the increase in number, but because of their high arrogance and conspicuousness. There are often Japanese men who get drunk and cause trouble on the street for no reason. The Chinese who are bullied can only endure the humiliation. This is what it feels like to be a subjugated slave. Cheng Fengtai cursed a curse word, pulled back the handbrake, and said, "Boss Shang, sit down!" Then he stepped on the gas pedal hard, and was about to hit the Japanese! The Japanese was just going crazy with alcohol, he was not so drunk, he turned his body, was taken by the car and rolled on the ground twice, and the wine bottle shattered all over the floor.
When the figure was gone, Shang Xirui said: "Did we hit it just now?"
Cheng Fengtai took out that rascal tune: "You deserve it! Who saw that I did it?"
They didn't know whether it was a sigh of relief for Beiping City, but they didn't feel happy at all.