After being hit by the pie falling from the sky in the morning, Ying Guixin has been humming a song, he stayed in the yamen for a while, and then carried two thousand taels of silver tickets to the sedan chair when he came, he wanted to go to the big smoke house, but when he arrived at the five roads, he poked his head out and let the sedan chair man change to Renheli, Renheli just turned the corner, and saw the three words "Qifengyu" through the guò sedan curtain, he just got off the sedan chair and entered the door, a subordinate person saw it, ran over to greet, and hurriedly shouted to the intersection: "Master Ying is here." ”

As soon as the voice of the subordinate shouted, the aunt inside came out with a feigned smile, greeted him into the inner door, and waited for him to walk into the hall, if he came out to meet Guifeng, but there was no shadow, he sat on the chair, as if asking Guifeng if he was out, and the aunt here began to speak, "Master Ying is good, where did you go to make a fortune?" Our husband hasn't seen my lord for a few months, and we all thought that my lord had gone back to Ningbo. ”

Ying Guixin knew that Guifeng's aunt was very powerful, and she was very sarcastic when she talked about people with a sharp mouth, so she had to say: "Some time ago, Lord Daotai Yuan asked me to run an errand and went to Yangzhou, but I was in a hurry, and I really couldn't say hello to your husband." No, as soon as I went back to Shanghai, I found hemp. ”

"Master Ying went to Yangzhou, a few days ago Changfu said that he saw Master Ying in the big smoke house on the back road, it's not that he was wrong, the world is really exactly the same."

Ying Guixin lied and didn't tell the circle, so she had to pretend not to hear it, took the hookah handed over by her servant and smoked it, and after smoking it, he asked, "What about Guifeng, is she out?" ”

"Our husband, since Master Ying left, I don't think about tea and food, so I have the heart to go out. If you don't believe it, you can flip through the accounts and see what I said......"

As Aunt Niang was talking, Guifeng came out of the inner room, and she had already heard the shouts of the people outside. As soon as he said that Master Ying was coming, he immediately wanted to go out, but when he came to the door, he stopped and hid inside for half a sound before coming out.

Ying Guixin watched Guifeng come out, she was overjoyed, she only felt that she hadn't seen her for two months, she seemed to look better, and said at the moment: "A few months ago, Lord Yuan of Daotai arranged for me to go to Yangzhou, and I was in a hurry at that time. Now, I'll come back to see you," Ying Guixin looked at Guifeng's expression as she spoke, only to see that she didn't look at herself at all and said, "When you leave." It's still quite cold, but it's getting hot now. You're wearing too thick a garment. Wait a minute, I'll take you to the West Road to buy some clothes and jewelry. ”

Hearing that he was going to buy clothes and jewelry for himself, Guifeng pretended to be tense and couldn't help but smile, his expression was not as heavy as before, but his aunt said beside him: "Our husband, since Master Ying left, I don't want to do anything." I didn't go out of the game, and I was beaten by my mother several times. Master Ying, you have to buy more beautiful clothes for Mr. this time, and win back Mr.'s face. ”

Aunt Niang knocked on the side. Ying Guixin pretended to be indignant when she heard this: "Your mother still dares to beat someone? I'll call someone to come and get justice for you. You've helped her do business for many years, and if you don't get out of the game for a few months, she's going to beat someone?! She spent a hundred taels when she bought you, and now you earn at least five thousand taels a year for her......

Ying Guixin said loudly, and the aunt next to her wanted to say something but was stopped by Guifeng, Guifeng sat on the chair, holding a big smoking gun, and said while loading cigarettes: "Last time, you brought Master Qi here before." ”

"Master Qi?!" Ying Guixin was a little panicked, after Fan Gaotou died, he secretly went to a lot of big tobacco houses to collect the previous foreign medicine accounts by using his former name, and more than a dozen families also got three or four thousand taels, but he didn't know where to spend the money for a long time.

"yes. He also asked me if I had seen you, and I said no, so he didn't. Guifeng knows that Ying Guixin is a person in the gang, but she is not afraid, but many times she has to please Ying Guixin, some of the bureaus that Ying Guixin does not let her go to, she will not go, she is now twenty-six, the hour starts from two or three, the hall, the third long, and has been sitting in the study, so many years of this line is tired of doing it, just thinking that there is a backer to come forward to redeem herself, and then with the silver money and jewelry she has accumulated over the years, go out to find an honest man to marry and live. It's just that my mother has been calculating her private money, and last time she said that she would redeem herself, and when she opened her mouth, it was six thousand taels, and if this price came out, then she would be penniless when she went out.

Guifeng's words suddenly reassured Ying Guixin, he took the cigarette gun that Guifeng helped him install, took a puff, and the worries in his heart suddenly disappeared. He was smoking here, and the people outside shouted again: "Zhufeng is out." ”

He couldn't help asking, "Zhufeng is also out?" ”

Guifeng nodded and said: "Cuifeng has redeemed herself, and my side has not been out for several months, so my mother had to let Zhufeng come out to do business." After that, she rolled her eyes, and said: "Last time my mother said about my redemption......" Speaking of which, Guifeng found that Ying Guixin had closed her eyes, she sighed in her heart, the handkerchief in her hand was tightened, and she couldn't say anything for a while.

Ying Guixin finished smoking an opium cigarette, and then fell asleep in a daze, only dreaming that he caught the leader of the Fuxing Society, Mr. Cheng, and then the imperial court rewarded, let him do the Shanghai Taoist platform, dressed in a four-grade official robe, and hugged him in front of the back is not majestic, just dreaming of a critical place, upstairs suddenly came a pipa sound, immediately woke him up, Ying Guixin was immediately annoyed, a tea cup on the table swept to the ground, scolded: "Lack of West, that person is playing the pipa, and he can't play well, disturbing people's dreams." ”

As soon as he woke up, Guifeng knew, and when he saw that he swept down the teacup, he didn't hurry, and while calling his aunt to clean up, he said, "Pull three." Last winter, my mother bought it on the street, and the baby was amazing, so she invited a lot of masters to teach her, just thinking about her as a cash cow in the future. ”

"Bought on the street? Just pull a random person on the street to make a book? Your mom's brain is in water! Ying Guixin was not annoyed after she was angry, but was very curious about buying people on the street.

"Just an old man who sings is dead, this little girl has no money to bury and can only sell herself to bury her father. Mom saw that she was pitiful and bought it. ”

"Oh, when did your mother become a Bodhisattva, and the little girl on the street wanted to?"

"Of course, I was only nine years old when I bought it, and I raised it for several years before I started business, this little girl is fourteen or fifteen years old, and she can do business in a year or two after she buys it, do you really think she is pitiful to others." She saw that this little girl was good-looking. Although Guifeng didn't like the little girl who was more than ten years younger than her in her bones, she didn't want to talk more about this person, so she changed her words and said: "Last time my mother said about my redemption, she said that she wanted six thousand taels of silver. You're going to have to help people figure it out. ”

Guifeng was tired of being coquettish on Ying Guixin as she spoke, and Ying Guixin had no way to be entangled by her, so she said, "Six thousand taels is too much, you have been in business for so many years, and your mother must always count less." ”

"Then you can help me talk about it, it's really not good." Guifeng said in a low voice, "Your friends can come and help." ”

Ying Guixin's group of friends had long wanted to ask him for an account, but now he has no friends in Shanghai, and when he saw Guifeng begging at this time, it was not good to tell her what was going on. He said: "Now I'm busy with a big thing, if I really do a good job." Then it's ......."

When it comes to redemption, who knows, he says that he wants to do great things. Guifeng immediately turned his back, not wanting to talk to Ying Guixin. Seeing that she was angry, Ying Guixin had no choice but to take out the stack of freshly heated silver tickets from her arms and said, "I'm not coaxing you, you see, this is the two thousand taels of silver tickets given by Lord Yuan of Daotai." He wants me to do a big thing, if this thing is done, you don't have to spend a penny on the redemption here. ”

The sound of a stack of silver medals shaking made Guifeng turn around again, and his eyes stared at the stack of silver tickets and said. "My lord asked you to go to Yangzhou on an errand again?"

"Not this time. Just run an errand in Shanghai. Do you know the revolutionary party in Shanghai? Ying Guixin asked mysteriously.

"Cut. It's the ones who scolded the emperor the year before last. How don't I know? ”

"Now there is a revolutionary party in the prison of the Ministry of Industry who has died, and they falsely accuse the court of poisoning. And I heard that their leader, Mr. Cheng, is Shanghai, if this person is caught......" Speaking of this, Ying Guixin's voice became louder, and he seemed to feel that he was wearing a four-grade official robe again.

"Yo, it's you who caught the revolutionary party, and the credit is not yours. The adults above are not trying to take away all the benefits. "Guifeng has been in business all these years, and she is very proficient in officialdom and shopping malls, she sees that Ying Guixin is completely bluffing herself, and she is going to be unhappy again.

Ying Guixin hurriedly said, "Not this time." Do you know that the emperor's brother-in-law is here in Shanghai? ”

Guifeng shook his head.

Ying Guixin said again, "When I went to see Lord Daotai in the morning, I inquired around again, saying that this matter was originally handled by the emperor's brother-in-law, but no one was caught last night, which is a pity." If I catch this revolutionary party, then go to this Zhida, and then ...... When the time comes, it's not just me, it's your redemption or a small thing. ”

"Then why don't you go to your friends for help?"

"I ......" Ying Guixin saw her mention Fan Gaotou's gang of people again, and her heart was very sullen, he couldn't sue her, he had nothing to do with those gangs, right? The leader of the thieves is in the concession, and those friends have committed crimes in the concession before, so it is difficult to come in. Now hemp, didn't you take over a few Qing Gang guests before, I want you to help me introduce it, and everyone will get things done together, and everyone will have a share in the benefits. ”

Speaking of which, it turned out that this old man Ying wanted to help himself, but he didn't help with his own help, he would have made up his mind. Guifeng thought of this and snatched the silver ticket in Ying Guixin's hand, and said, "I'll help, then I also have a share, put the money here first, and then you have to use it." ”

Ying Guixin was accidentally snatched by her as soon as she accidentally snatched the silver ticket, and finally got back a thousand taels after begging for a lot. However, although half of the money was gone, Guifeng immediately found him a person who could speak loudly in the concession gang - Xu Fusheng, a subordinate of Huang Jinrong, a big empty man in the French Concession. The empty man means that he is not a person in the gang, and there is no seniority in the rivers and lakes, but this Huang Jinrong relies on the support of the French, and he is dressed in a tiger skin, and he is very edible in the concession.

The two met politely, and in the sound of silk and bamboo, they talked about this serious matter while eating. After Xu Fusheng heard what he said, he said, "Brother Ying, your matter is not too easy to handle. Now the main thing is Wu Gongzi, you can't move. He also said that the person you want to arrest is in the British Concession, and although Britain and France are adjacent to each other, they do not interact with each other as if they were two countries. ”

Ying Guixin also knew that this matter was very difficult, and the conversation just now made him know that Xu Fusheng was a subordinate of Ma Pi Jin Rong, and this Huang Jinrong was now just a small leader of the patrol house in the French Concession, and he would only be entangled with a group of little red guys to do some small work, and he couldn't get on the table at all, but for him. Even the small boss is a lifesaver, he said, "Brother Xu, I won't tell you, this matter is not only arranged by the Shanghai Daotai, but an errand assigned by the military aircraft adults in Beijing. You think, the year before last it was said that it was going to extradite the revolutionary party, but it was not extradited, and now it is finally dead, but in the end, the revolutionary party has to fight a lawsuit again, in case this matter leaks out. Where is the face of the imperial court? I am afraid that the revolutionary parties everywhere will make trouble again. "Ying Guixin doesn't know if this Zou Rong was poisoned by the Manchu Qing Dynasty who bought a foreign doctor, but he can only say it now, and then take the chicken feathers as an arrow, fooling this Xu Fusheng to help him do things." If Brother Xu helps to get this done, then the court will have a heavy reward. ”

Xu Fusheng was fooled by him. Still a little moved in his heart, he asked, "If it is done." What benefits can the imperial court give? ”

"This..."Ying Guixin herself didn't know what good it would be to do her errand. How could you answer him? Fortunately, he has done a lot of tricks and tricks, and it is not impossible to fool him again. "The meaning of the court is that this matter should still be kept secret, even if it is rewarded, it must be secretly rewarded, otherwise it will be known by those newspaper reporters, and it will be full of trouble. You old men have already done head hunting in the French Concession, and it will be boring to come out again. At that time, Brother Xu can go out to the Chinese world to be a patrol, so that it will be convenient to buy and sell foreign medicines in the future. ”

There are patrols in the concession, and the Huajie side sees that the patrol management in the concession is good, and they are also preparing to run the police on a whim. However, after all, this police is a foreigner's thing, and now only two batches have completed their studies, and two bureaus in the west and south of the city have been opened, but this Chinese realm is so big, it is not enough to rely on two bureaus, so this police will still have to expand in the future. Xu Fusheng has been with Huang Jinrong for many years, and knows that the old man can have today, in addition to having a powerful concubine, more thanks to his status in the patrol room. If I can also have a half-official position in the Huajie Police Department, then ......

Xu Fusheng was a little moved, but his eyes were also hot, so he suppressed this impulse, and he asked, "Brother Ying, what is your position in the county government in Shanghai now?" ”

Ying Guixin knew that he was moved and began to bottom up, so he said: "I don't have any official position now, I just help Master Zhi run errands, and it's very hard." ”

"Chi-sama?" Xu Fusheng only knew that the surname of Daotai was Yuan, and the county order was surnamed Wang, but he had not heard of the surname Zhi.

"Lord Zhi, ......" Ying Guixin pulled the tone, and then said: "He used to be a pen post, and he is the brother-in-law of today's son, although he resigned and lived in Shanghai temporarily, but no matter how he said it, he was also a relative of the emperor, not to mention that this matter was a matter of Manchu's own family, if he really preserved the reputation of the imperial court, then this reward was not small." ”

Ying Guixin said it was reasonable, Xu Fusheng suddenly pondered, and after a while, he said again: "What does Lord Zhi mean that no matter whether or not the anti-thief leader is arrested, as long as this case is not tried?" ”

"That's right. It's best if you can't get a lawsuit. If you can catch people, that's even better. ”

"Hmm. You also said that Wu Gongzi, who was in charge, couldn't touch it, but the bitter master lived in Wu Gongzi's house. And the lawyer is also a foreigner. Xu Fusheng asked again.

"That's true, Wu Gongzi can't move. Can you move, foreigners? Ying Guixin couldn't find a way, so she had to hope that Xu Fusheng could get rid of the foreign lawyer.

"Who dares to touch foreigners?" Xu Fusheng glared at him, but he continued, "However, these living people can't be touched, but the dead can." He laughed when he said this, but it was very ugly.

"Can a dead man touch it?" Ying Guixin didn't understand what he thought of, and said hurriedly for a while.

"Huh. This ......" This time it was his turn to hang Ying Guixin's appetite, Ying Guixin hurriedly asked, this Xu Fusheng said: "It's not good to stop the mortuary in the concession, but if you put the dead in the Huajie Revolutionary Party, I'm afraid you won't dare." In this way, there is only one place in Shanghai where the mortuary can be found. ”

Although Ying Guixin has been in Shanghai for many years, she doesn't know anything about the morgue, so Xu Fusheng still looked confused after saying it, and Xu Fusheng saw that he was confused and didn't have an appetite, so he said: "If you don't let go of the British Concession and the Chinese Territory, the dead man can only be placed in Siming Mansion." ”

After Xu Fusheng finished speaking, Ying Guixin was still stunned for a while, finally, he remembered some things a few years ago, and immediately fully understood the joints in it, and immediately laughed, he stood up excitedly, made a gesture towards Xu Fusheng, and then said: "Brother Xu's strategy is really high!" The little brother is ashamed of himself. ”

Xu Fusheng also laughed, he only felt that he had done the job, and he was made a chief arrester of the Chinese world by the imperial court, and then co-authored with the old man of the French Concession to smuggle foreign medicine unscrupulously, the silver......

The night in Renheli is thick, in the laughter of the two men, an erhu sounded desolately, at the beginning of the song stumbled, but after a while, it seemed to find a rhythm, the whole song was as smooth as a river into the sea, the song was agitated, vicissitudes, but with some tactfulness, people want to listen to it again, but the voice of singing with the tune is too immature, and the original charm of the lyrics cannot be sung at all, but even so, there are still many people who hum softly along with the tune:

The waves are running, the waves are flowing, and the waves are endless

It's exhausted, the world's affairs, and the chaos is a trend

…… (To be continued......)