Chapter 14: The Ruffian

As soon as he went out, he saw a girl wearing a thick aqua blue winter coat, standing at the staircase on the third floor, waiting for him.

"Becky?" Wang Maoru exclaimed in surprise.

"Sir is back?" Tang Baoqi pouted and said, "If you don't inform me anything, I'm still worried that my husband will suffer abroad." ”

Wang Maoru shook his head and said that he didn't suffer much abroad, but he didn't adapt to the dilapidated means of transportation in this era. smiled and said: "It's good to see you, I'm too busy when I come back, before and after, I wanted to look for you after I returned to the building a hundred times, but I didn't expect ...... What a coincidence. ”

"If it weren't for my companion who said that there was a free library in Beijing and invited me to come with me, I wouldn't have known that my husband would have returned." Tang Baoqi seemed to be lying coquettishly.

"It's my fault, it's my fault, why don't you eat hot pot and compensate?" Wang Maoru said.

"Well, if it tastes good, Miss Ben will forgive you." Tang Baoqi suddenly joked boldly and boldly.

"Okay, let's eat, let's eat." Wang Maoru was happy in his heart.

In the early years of the Republic of China, the warlord melee in China had just ended, bandits, hooligans, ruffians, and gangs flourished. Moreover, the Kuomintang of Sun Yat-sen and others initially relied on gangs, which also gradually legalized some gangs, such as the Qinggang and Hongmen.

Although Wang Maoru's Baihui Building is a free library, it is not that no one has hit its idea, Beicheng Liu Laohu is such a person, he took a fancy to this white five-story building, and said that this location is good, if it is a kiln or a big smoke house, it must be a daily income. Especially when Liu Laohu saw the female students coming in and out, his eyes were even more golden, and the faces of those female students were red and fluttering, and they could be blown and broken.

Liu Laohu participated in the Boxer Rebellion in his early years, but he was not a leader, and after the Eight-Nation Coalition Army entered Beijing to clean up the Boxers, he immediately took refuge in the foreigners. Since having foreigners as backers, Liu Laohu has become majestic, and his subordinates have attracted 100 people, and have also opened four kiln halls and three big tobacco houses in Bada Hutong. Unfortunately, Baihuilou is in the north city, although it is not the most prosperous street, but since the Baihuilou was built, the surrounding shops have been booming.

"Have you found out, who is behind the 100-way building?" Liu Laohu asked his subordinates with slanted eyes.

Because of his slanted eyes since he was a child, he has always been called squinted by everyone, so that when he grew up, others didn't know about his big name, but he only knew that he was called slanted eye Zhang. He said: "Master Hu, I inquired about it, the owner of this hundred times is called Wang Xiusheng, who has written a few broken books, and has been a professor in the university for a few days. After returning at the beginning of this year, he opened two factories, one for foreign fires and the other for oil lamps, and the business was booming. Maybe this kid has a hard habit of reading, and instead of doing other things when he makes money, he opens this free library. ”

"It's just an outbreak." Liu Laohu's subordinates on the side said disdainfully, "Master Tiger, there is a way to deal with these nouveau riche." ”

"Tell me."

Lian Simao immediately said: "This kind of person is the most difficult to keep when he gets rich, let's tempt him to smoke big cigarettes and borrow money to gamble, how about it?" ”

Liu Laohu gave him a kick and scolded: "What trick did I make at that time, I wouldn't have thought of this trick?" What do you want to do with this waste, you can't understand some brains? ”

"What the tiger master taught me a lesson."

"Simao, you went to find the owner of this Baihui Building, it's been open for two months, and I don't see any entry, this is looking down on me Liu Laohu, I don't know who is covering the north of Beijing?"

"Gotta Tiger Master."

When the invitation of the tiger master was sent to Wang Maoru, it also gave Wang Maoru a headache, it seemed that the desire to open a library quietly was in vain, but the first wave of nuisance was not the police and bandits.

"Xiusheng, don't worry, I'll take care of this." Pu Jida stabbed it and said: "Liu Laohu and our Eight Banners don't interfere with the river water, if he dares to provoke you, he will provoke our Eight Banners, see if I find someone to clean him up." ”

Wang Maoru couldn't cry or laugh, okay, to open a library, he had to leave the old and the young to help him, but seeing that Pu Ji was so enthusiastic to help, he nodded and agreed.

Pu Ji was not ambiguous, and immediately found a few familiar sons, and went to the appointment with a bird cage, Liu Laohu saw that it was Pu Ji, and knew that this Pu Sanshao had a lot to do with foreigners, and it seemed that the owner of the Baihui Mansion was mixed with Pu Sanshao. However, this hundred buildings are built on his territory, and the protection fee cannot be ignored, otherwise how will these four or nine cities look at him Liu Laohu in the future. Pu Ji was still holding the shelf of the former Qing nobles, and he disdained these people who used to be slaves for him, and talked about it, but Liu Laohu was anxious, and said: "Twenty taels of silver a month, Pu Sanshao, this is my face for you, if this condition is unacceptable, then why don't you talk about it." ”

"Don't talk about it?" Pu Sanshao sneered, "Wow, don't give you face, Liu Laohu, let's see, in the future, your kiln business in the four major alleys, the big smoke house business, if there is a flag person to take care of it, I Pu Sanshao will go backwards in the future." After that, he stood up and said to the left and right brothers: "Send a convening order, saying that this Beicheng Liu Laohu looks down on our banner people, and in the future, if our banner people dare to go to his family's property, I will demolish his house tiles." ”

"Wait a minute, wait a minute." Hearing him threaten like this, Liu Laohu was scared in his heart, although the kiln business even if the flag people did not go, this Han rich family also lingered, and there was no one to worry about, but the main guests of this big smoke house were flag people, if the flag people did not come to his big smoke house, their income would be reduced by half, so he stood up and said: "Young Master Pu San is really short-tempered, everything is easy to discuss." He added: "Pu Sanshao is so trying his best to ensure that he returns to the building, but he pays attention to the business?" If this is the case, I, Liu Laohu, will give Pu San less face, and I will hand over this hundred times to you. ”

Pu Ji sneered: "I need to do this hundred times to do something, tell you the truth, the owner of the hundred times is my brother, and tell you the truth, this matter is also handed over to me, if my brother makes a move, you will have to suffer a little." ”

Speaking of this, I can't talk about it for the time being, Liu Laohu was resentful in his heart, and sent Squinted Eyes Zhang to lead people to make trouble. When Wang Maoru learned the news, he asked Suo and Ergen to tie up those who came to make trouble and take them out of the city overnight. He tied them to a pillar, put apples on their heads, and said, "Brothers, they practice marksmanship, and they only shoot apples, and if they kill someone, they are unlucky." Squint Zhang saw this formation, and was so frightened that the feces and urine came out, and as soon as he fired a shot, Slanting Eye Zhang fainted.

In the middle of the night, Squint Zhang and the others were let back, and after going home and talking to Liu Laohu, they couldn't afford to be seriously ill. This Liu Laohu was furious, you Wang Xiusheng is not particular about things, and the matter of Sijiu City is drawn out in 4466, but you are unreasonable and start a gun. I didn't expect to hug the concubine in the middle of the night, but I felt that the nest was sticky and wet, and when I turned on the light, I was so scared that the concubine fainted, and it turned out that the black dog in his yard was cut off and stuffed into his bed. The dog's head was put on the table and stared at him, Liu Laohu choked enough, and the concubine also fell ill because of this, and had to ask the Taoist priest to practice at home for three days to exorcise evil spirits.

How could this Liu Laohu suffer this loss, he gathered people and horses, and prepared to set fire to Baihui Building, but learned that his only son was abducted when he was playing in the inner house. Now I had to give up the revenge of looking for a hundred back buildings, find someone on the road, and ask who robbed his only son. The people on the road didn't know who it was, and at this moment, his young son was released again, and the people who let him back also said nothing.

Now Liu Laohu understands that the co-author is a person who has returned to the building to warn him, why is Wang Maoru, the owner of the Baihui Building, also a teacher at Peking University? How to be more bandit than bandit, more ruffian than ruffian? He knew that this person did not play cards according to common sense, and it seemed that he had offended the wrong person, so he had to write a letter of apology. Wang Maoru was also generous, but the invitation to the banquet was exempted, he didn't look down on Liu Laohu, but wanted to date Tang Baoqi. So he asked his subordinates to give Liu Laohu ten taels of silver and a purebred German black-backed military dog, saying that it was to compensate for the loss of the tiger master, ten taels of silver was the diagnosis of the shock, and the German black-backed dog was to compensate his family's native dog.

This purebred German ** dog, one is a hundred taels of silver on the market, Wang Maoru's means of doing this thing are a little darker, but he did not kill him, and gave Liu Laohu enough face, so that this Liu Laohu had a step under his hands.

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