To the east of the racecourse in the south of Tianjin, there is an avenue leading to the British Concession, which is called Racecourse Road. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The owner of No. 2 Racecourse Road is none other than Pan Fu, who was promoted to finance minister of the Beiyang government two months ago. This person wanders among the warlords of the lineage, the Feng line, and the Anhui lineage, and has close contacts with all forces, and basically holds a dinner party at home every week, and the invitees are either a big boss or a Beiyang political dignitary.

After the headmaster officially swore in the Northern Expedition in the south, Pan Fu would become the link between the various factions in Beiyang, and was regarded as the supreme strategist under Zhang Zuolin.

That was next month, and now Pan Fu is still staying in Tianjin, holding parties every now and then to contact feelings.

"Didi!"

Chu Yupu's car drove into the gate, with the fifth aunt, Chu Nanxiang and Zhou Hexuan by his side.

"Oh, rare guests, Brother Yunshan, please come in!" Pan Fu personally stood at the door to greet him, and shook hands with Chu Yupu very warmly.

Zhou Hexuan was inconspicuous as a follower, and when he entered with Chu Dashuai, several people had already come inside. They are Zhang Zongchang and his aunt's wife, Li Jinglin and his aunt's wife, Yang Tingyu and his aunt's wife, all of whom belong to the Fengjun generals.

Zhou Hexuan was taken to the side hall by the people of the Pan Mansion, where the adjutants stayed in person. He didn't take a few steps before he heard Zhang Zongchang scolding: "Chu Yupu, you rotten brother-in-law, you dare to raise a bar with me, Lao Tzu will kill you today!" ”

When they met in the living room, there was a fight, and Zhang Zongchang, the general who "didn't know how much money there was, I didn't know how many soldiers, and how much my aunt's wife didn't know", flew up and kicked Chu Yupu over.

Chu Yupu hurriedly dodged away, it was not good to use force with the old boss in person, and shouted while hiding: "Dashuai, don't force me to fight back, you can't beat me!" ”

"Do you dare to fight back? There's no king's way! Zhang Zongchang was even more angry, and he was so angry that he directly pulled out the matching gun.

"There's something to say, there's something to say!"

Li Jinglin and Yang Tingyu hurriedly stepped forward to pull and persuade them, and finally Zhang Zongchang went back to sit down angrily, staring at Chu Yupu with round eyes and eager to eat Chu Yupu.

Since Chu Yupu was the governor of Zhili and the governor of Zhili, he became less and less concerned about Zhang Zongchang, and even installed people to annex Zhang Zongchang's small troops. The two had a stalemate some time ago because of the Red Gun Society incident, when the Shandong Red Gun Society was developing everywhere, and Wenshang County even gathered tens of thousands of Red Gun Society troops.

The Red Gun Society is a rural Taoist organization, whose purpose is to prevent bandits, bullies, officers and soldiers, and taxes. This thing made it very difficult for Zhang Zongchang to collect taxes, and he threatened to wash Wenshang County in blood.

Wenshang County is Chu Yupu's hometown, Chu Dashuai is a person who misses his hometown, and deliberately said loudly to his subordinates during military training: "If he dares to wash Wenshang County in blood, I will wash the county in a hundred miles in blood!" ”

Ye County is Zhang Zongchang's hometown, and Lao Zhang knew that Chu Yupu could do what he said, so he had no choice but to cancel the plan to wash Wenshang in blood. The people of Wenshang County were grateful to Chu Yupu, and they also set up a moral monument for Chu Dashuai, calling him "the second son of heaven out of Beijing".

It's funny to say, Chu Yupu, who is regarded as a beast by the people of Tianjin, is a good man in the eyes of his old family.

Zhou Hexuan sat down in the side hall and exchanged names with several other handsome entourage, even if everyone knew each other, there was a nonsense chatter without a word.

After a while, the atmosphere in the main hall had become harmonious. Zhang Zongchang and Chu Yupu, who were still fighting just now, actually hooked their shoulders and smoked together at this moment, and their friendship was as good as brothers.

"Young marshal!"

Suddenly, everyone stood up and stepped forward to greet Zhang Xueliang, who was belated.

Zhang Xueliang also brought his aunt's wife (the original partner is still there), which is his second wife Gu Ruiyu. Gu Ruiyu has often accompanied Zhang Xueliang in recent years, and even takes the war with him, so he is also known as the wife of the army.

Last year, because Guo Songling rebelled, Zhang Xueliang lost sleep overnight, and Yang Tingyu encouraged him to smoke a lot to relieve fatigue, so he became addicted to opium. Gu Ruiyu was not dissuaded, and the Zhang family was very dissatisfied with her, but the relationship between the two was still very stable.

It wasn't until later that the young marshal met Miss Zhao Si......

Zhang Xueliang, Pan Fu, Yang Tingyu, Zhang Zongchang, Chu Yupu, and Li Jinglin sat down, and their aunts and wives also stayed by their side, surrounding a table or pushing pai gow.

The room was soon filled with smoke, Zhang Xueliang had a cigarette in his mouth, rubbed the dominoes with both hands, and then began to open slowly with his empty eyes, and kept chanting in his mouth: "Double Heaven, Double Heaven, Double Heaven...... Mom, it's a, it's bursting, it's deflated! ”

Everyone stretched their necks to take a look, only to see that Zhang Shaoshuai's card turned out to be a heavenly bar, and he basically lost, unless the dealer was more unlucky.

"I'm sorry," Yang Tingyu spread out his cards and said with a smile, "Young marshal, I'm a pair of tall feet." ”

"Take it, take it," Zhang Xueliang pushed over a stack of oceans, and said angrily, "I always lose when I play cards recently, so I still don't believe in that evil." The cards are shuffled for me, and I will make the banker! ”

Pan Fu patted his ass and said: "The casino is frustrated, the officialdom is proud, and the young marshal is going to be promoted again!" ”

"Yes, yes, I wish the young marshal to rise step by step." Others chimed in.

Zhang Xueliang was in a slightly happier mood, and after shuffling the cards quickly, he covered his cards and said: "You show the cards first, and mine will open the last!" ”

Everyone did not dare to refuse, and each turned over the cards. The cards from large to small are: Zhang Zongchang's double bench, Pan Fu's double axe, Li Jinglin's Zajiu, Chu Yupu's Tianwang, and Yang Tingyu's ground bar.

Zhang Xueliang also turned over the first card, which was a tie card. He rubbed the two cards together, then slowly pulled them apart again, first with a white dot, and then with two more dots.

"There's a play!"

Zhang Xueliang didn't grind anymore, and directly pulled the card to the end, and there was only a red dot on the bottom half. He laughed and slapped the cards: "Hahaha, double goose, kill all!" Give me the silver. ”

"It's still a young marshal."

"The young marshal is so lucky!"

"Next time, you can't play cards with the young marshal, he's an expert."

“……”

Everyone patted each other, and Zhang Xueliang smiled happily.

Playing cards until the evening, Zhang Xueliang, who has been sitting in the village, has won thousands of oceans, and the maid of Pan Fu's family came over and said: "Master, ladies and gentlemen, you can have dinner." ”

Zhang Xueliang was in a good mood, put down Pai Gow and said: "Eat first, and then play at night." ”

Everyone immediately gathered around Zhang Xueliang to go to the dining room, and the handsome men and his aunt sat at a table each. When he was serving the food and pouring the wine, Zhang Xueliang suddenly remembered something and asked Chu Yupu: "By the way, the Zhou Hexuan I mentioned last time, did you bring someone here?" ”

"Brought it, wait in the side hall." Chu Yupu hurriedly responded.

Zhang Xueliang waved his hand and said: "Call him over for dinner together, the old man is very optimistic about him, let me come to Tianjin to ask for more advice." ”

"That's his blessing." Chu Yupu hurriedly got up and ran to the side hall to call people in person.