Chapter 30: The Feast of the Hung Gate

Liu Goat left the cloth bag containing gold and silver jewelry in the Fortune Casino, along with a rifle bullet, and Liu Goat believed that a woman like Xie Lan would not and would not dare to refuse his deal. "What if that woman goes to find Li Linge?" Liu Goat's bluff made Tang Cheng a little worried, although there were more than 30 of them now, only half of them might fight, not to mention that he was still inconvenient to walk, if there was a conflict with Li Linge, it would be difficult to distinguish the winner from the loser.

"Don't worry, neither that woman nor Li Linge dare to clash with us now." Liu Goat didn't explain much to Tang Cheng, who was sitting in the carriage, but only gave Tang Cheng a vague answer. Liu Goat didn't go out with Lao Xu just to sell things back, and with the help of Tian Kui, a native of Mengcheng, Liu Goat quickly figured out some things about Li Linge, just like Xie Lan, the proprietress of this Hongyun Casino today, is a concubine raised by Li Linge outside.

Liu Goat didn't want to have anything to do with Li Linge, but this old guy was secretly bad again and again, and Liu Goat, who couldn't swallow this breath, also planned to sprinkle a handful of sand in Li Linge's eyes, regardless of whether it made Li Linge's anger thunderous, and then he would talk about it first. At lunchtime, Xie Lan sent the first batch of things to the militia barracks, 20 Mauser rifles, 1 Czech light machine gun and a small amount of ammunition, but along with these weapons and ammunition, Liu Shange's butler Li Shun also appeared.

"Sir Liu, my lord went to the provincial capital a few days ago, didn't he just come back, my lord wants to invite Chief Liu to come over the house." Li Shun respectfully handed a palm-sized greeting post to Liu Goat, but Tang Cheng, who was sitting next to him, stretched out his hand to take it. Seeing that Liu Goat didn't mean to blame Tang Cheng at all, Li Shun was a little surprised, he didn't know that Lu Dao, a boy who looked sick and crooked, would be so valued by Liu Goat, could it really be Liu Goat's nephew?

Tang Cheng opened the post and looked at it a few times, and then whispered a few words to Liu Goat, Liu Goat is illiterate, and only after Tang Cheng has seen it can he tell him the meaning of the post. "Go back and tell President Lee that I'll be there on time." Without prevarication or superfluous words, Liu Goat agreed to Li Linge's invitation with a cold expression and decided to go to the Li Mansion for a banquet on time.

"Why did you just promise him? Li Linge is not a fuel-efficient lamp, what if this is a Hongmen banquet set up by him? We only have a dozen people who can hold guns now, and if we really fight him in Mengcheng, the newly formed 20th Division stationed here will definitely speak to Li Linge. Lu Yong, who learned of this, also objected, Liu Goat is now the backbone of their gang, in case Li Linge made a black hand to Liu Goat at the banquet, they will all fold in Mengcheng County.

"Oh, don't worry, I gave Li Linge three guts, and he didn't dare to attack me." Liu Goat reached out and patted the bundle of grenades on the table. This time he went to the Li Mansion for a banquet, Liu Goat still planned to use grenades as a means of threat, he didn't believe that people like Li Linge would be calm in the face of grenades. "I don't believe that he Li Linge is not afraid of death, if he is really not afraid of death, why don't you just bring someone in and send a housekeeper to the door, then it means that he Li Linge is afraid."

"Your methods may be able to deal with those little gangsters, but this Li Linge can force several county magistrates away in a row, which means that this person is definitely not a person without a city government." Lu Yong stared at Liu Goat in a hurry, "What if people don't do anything with you at the banquet and directly poison your wine?" Just put a little poison in that dish and wine, can you prevent it? Lu Yong talked about poisoning, and Tang Cheng, who had been listening to their conversation, understood the seriousness of the matter.

"Don't think I'm deliberately making things serious, you can't think of those methods on the rivers and lakes, even if you find someone to eat those drinks and dishes first, you can't prevent them from poisoning, and the person who tests the poison may take the antidote in advance to make you unable to prevent it." Lu Yong, the former Red Flag steward, explained in detail to Liu Shanyang the methods used by the Jianghu people, and Tang Cheng realized that he knew that those methods were not worth mentioning in front of Lu Yong, they were all pediatric things, maybe not even pediatrics.

"I'm afraid of a bird, I've already responded, why don't you go? Didn't that make Li Linge laugh at the people of our national army who were as timid as a needle? Don't worry, there will be no accident, maybe Li Linge is ready to win us over. Although Liu Goat said that he said it easily, he was educated by Lu Yong for a while, and he was actually a little apprehensive in his heart, if he really met Li Linge poisoning the banquet, he really couldn't prevent it.

"Then I'll go with me, I'm a child, Li Linge will always be a little contemptuous, as long as I find that the signs are wrong, I will make trouble at Li's house, so that we can get out and come back in time." Tang Cheng said that he was very smooth when he was a child, but Liu Goat and Lu Yong looked at him with a thick smile, whose child can walk around with two guns like him, and the smell of blood on Tang Cheng's body is stronger than that of veterans from some countries, saying that he is still a child, Tang Cheng really dares to say.

After discussing for a long time, under Lu Yong's strong persuasion, Liu Goat finally agreed to take Tang Cheng and Zhang Yun to Li's house for a banquet. "What are you doing with so many guns? We are going to Li's house to eat big households, so we don't have to be so careful. Thinking that Tang Cheng's leg was not yet good, Liu Goat reached out and wanted to take off the flower stick, but Tang Cheng glared at him and refused.

"Chief Liu is here, and Li is welcome." As soon as Zhang Yun drove the carriage to the gate of Li Linge's house, Li Linge, who came out of it, greeted him with a few cronies, but the lame words in Li Linge's mouth made Tang Cheng, who had been strained all the time, accidentally laugh. Turning around and glaring at Tang Cheng fiercely, Liu Goat, who was also smiling, jumped out of the carriage, holding Li Linge's outstretched right hand tightly and shaking it up and down desperately.

It seems that Li Linge deliberately arranged it, and he didn't see too many people in the Li family's compound, except for a few maids who were in charge of serving tea and pouring water, Tang Cheng, who was looking around all the way, didn't see the imaginary ambush soldiers. "Sir Liu, the food and wine have been prepared, let's talk while eating." The three of Liu Goat were let into the hall, and there were already two round tables in the spacious hall, which were full of various dishes, but the dishes on the large round table were obviously richer than those on the small table.

"It's better not to divide the table, one of these two is my brother and the other is my nephew, let's sit together and have fun." Liu Goat took the throne directly, and pulled Tang Cheng and Zhang Yun to sit beside him, and the faces of the cronies under the angry Li Linge turned blue. "Sit, sit, sit." Liu Goat beckoned Li Linge and his subordinates to sit down like a master, and without waiting for Li Linge to speak, he poured a glass of wine into his mouth first, and praised the wine for being delicious.

Li Linge, who was also holding back his anger, motioned his cronies with his eyes to be calm, and then pushed the cup with Liu Goat as usual to drink. Zhang Yun kept in mind his duty as a guard, and the other party's toast was not drunk, Tang Cheng simply excused himself from drinking under the pretext that his injuries were not healed, and the few cronies under Li Linge couldn't say anything when they saw this, so they could only toast each other, and the atmosphere at the wine table did not look very good.

After drinking several glasses of wine with Li Linge, Liu Goat finally turned the wine glass in his hand upside down, "President Li, what is the matter, you can just say it, otherwise I won't be able to eat this meal today." Liu Goat's initiative made Li Linge stunned, he didn't expect this seemingly reckless guy to go straight to the point, and the somewhat passive Li Linge didn't know how to mention that incident for a while.

"Okay, Brother Liu is a happy person, so I'll just say it." Li Linge raised his head and poured the wine in the cup into his mouth, and then looked at Liu Goat, "Brother Liu, I invite you to discuss something important today, and I hope that your brother will do you a small favor for the elder brother, and there will be a heavy reward afterwards." Li Linge said that this was naturally not empty words, and at the same time as he said these words, several white flowers and flowers had been placed in front of Liu Goat.

"Here is 300 yuan, but this is only a fixed amount, as long as your brother Liu agrees to help my brother with this little favor, my Li family will also pay 1,000 yuan of oceans immediately." Li Linge said a lot of things in the clouds, and showed the money, but what kind of small favor was it, Li Linge never said it. Tang Cheng didn't care about this, he just lowered his head to deal with the pork knuckle in front of him, since this was him Li Linge begging, I believe that there is no problem with these dishes.

There was not much brewing in the atmosphere, Li Linge took out an envelope, Liu Goat didn't open it to look at it, but he didn't seem to care too much about pushing it to Tang Cheng, who was gnawing on the pig's knuckle beside him. Wiping the oil stains on his hands, Tang Cheng opened the envelope, and inside was a telegram, the content of the telegram was not much, only three short lines, less than sixty words, but in Tang Cheng's opinion, it was no less than a thousand words, this piece of paper was held in his hand, Tang Cheng felt that it was enough to weigh a thousand pounds. According to the telegram order, according to the Ministry of Military Affairs, the new 20th Division can go to Xuzhou to garrison, and it must be opened within two days and must arrive within five days. Commander of the Fifth Theater of the National Revolutionary Army, Li Zongren. January 8, 27th year of the Republic of China." Tang Cheng held the content of the telegram word by word in a somewhat dull voice, and Li Linge kept looking at Liu Shange's expression, trying to find out the answer he wanted, but unfortunately Liu Shange kept listening expressionlessly, which made Li Linge a little disappointed.