Republic of China small businessman

There were quite a lot of people in the front hall, and finally the steward came and covered the iron guys with a thick canvas, ordered a few guys to be on duty at night, and sent the others to disperse.

Kou Peifeng just moved the machine out, and when he was pulled by Xie Jing, his face was still full of excitement. Before Xie Jing could ask, he said, "Hey, do you know what the man from the provincial government is planning to do when he comes to us this time?"

Xie Jing said: "Buy a machine?"

Kou Peifeng looked around and said excitedly in a low voice: "I heard that a factory is going to be built—"

Xie Jing froze for a moment, "What factory?"

"Hey, what else can it be, winery!"

Xie Jing thought about it and did not dig out any details about building a winery from his previous memories. He didn't remember Jiuye building a large-scale construction project in the Heihe area. If there is any factory, it must be in Qinghe County.He remembered that Bai Mingyu was transferred by Master Jiu to work at that time, because he wanted to pay homage to Grandma Kou, so he also came with him, and that was the last time he came back here.

Kou Peifeng was still immersed in the excitement of doing something big, and he dragged Xie Jing and said: "You said we were the first batch of people to come here, and I heard from the people around the young master that this factory needs more than 100 people to build a factory. At that time, can we also play a role as a small steward?"

Before answering, I heard someone shouting loudly in front: "Xie Jing!"

Xie Jing raised his head first, Kou Peifeng reacted slowly, and then he reacted after being bumped by Xie Jing's arm, and trotted over in response.

Xie Jing went back and didn't sleep well all night. She turned over several times at night and stood by the window to watch. She was always suspicious of hearing the sound of horseshoes, thinking that Master Jiu and his party had returned.

After waiting for a whole day the next day, Master Jiu and the others did not come back. Xie Jing couldn't help but ask, "Eldest Young Master and the others, why haven't they come back yet? Could something have happened?"

Bai Mingyu tossed peanuts into his mouth lazily, and ate them one by one, chewing while saying, "Why, my elder brother has a good hand!"

"Adept?"

"Yeah, there were about a dozen people recruited by the nursing home last year, and their skills are really good!" Bai Mingyu said and gave Xie Jing a set of moves, very proud, "Look, the master of the nursing home taught me, Li Not Powerful?"

Xie Jing: "..."

Xie Jing felt that she could beat Bai Mingyu and the others down.

Second Young Master Bai still had some abilities before, why was he so unsteady when he was young?He looked as if he was spoiled and raised in a blessed nest, he almost didn't know this person at all.

In a few days, the news of building a winery became more and more real. Hearing that it was a big deal worth hundreds of thousands of silver dollars, almost everyone in the Heihe company was excited.

Only Xie Jing didn't respond, she still followed Bai Mingyu to copy and write, and only ran to make two ice lanterns in the evening.

After going back and forth for a few days, Xie Jing's eyes turned blue.

Bai Mingyu himself doesn't like to study, he only thinks that he has worked hard in writing, and when his elder brother is away for the past two days, he secretly rode out to play for a while, and brought some delicious food for the little companion who stayed in the room. In Xie Jing's arms, he proudly said, "I'll eat it for you!"

Xie Jing took it and put it aside, bowed her head and started copying again.

Bai Mingyu said: "What did you copy again today, yo, why did you paint it?"

"The map given by the steward isn't just talking about setting up a winery these days. You must know the location of the winery." Xie Jing asked the steward specifically to take precautions, just to fool Bai Mingyu.

Bai Mingyu watched him draw the blueprints for a while, and felt bored, so he ran to the front yard to look at the machine, and after a while, the steward was yelled at, but he didn't dare to just take care of the second young master, and just begged him.

That night, when Xie Jing got up again, he finally saw Master Jiu and his party come back, and Xie Jing was relieved to see the familiar carriage. He waited until the courtyard was quiet before returning to the bed. After a few days of heavy pressure on my heart, I let go of my strength, and tiredness and drowsiness surged up.

Teenagers are growing up, and they are most prone to lethargy. Xie Jing was extremely tired, wrapped in a thick cotton robe and curled up on the bed to sleep.

Probably because he thought about it day by day and dreamed about it at night, he dreamed about what happened many years ago.

That was when he returned to Qinghe County.

He came back with Master Jiu, and it was rumored that Master Jiu loved him and came back specially for him, but Xie Jing knew that Master Jiu came back to meet another person.

Xie Jing paid homage to Grandma Kou, and returned to the residence smelling of incense, but stood at the door but dared not go in.

The summer is hot, the carved wooden door is open, only a bamboo curtain hangs down on the ground, and the twisted tassels are swaying with a slight wind.

The bamboo curtain barely separates the figure, but it does not isolate the sound.

The sound of teacups being smashed inside the door was clearly heard. It was the first time Xie Jing saw Master Jiu get so angry, and he sat there and scolded, "Don't dare to talk nonsense again, beware of being hit by the board!"

At that time, Bai Mingyu, who had become the big shopkeeper, knelt there with his neck bent, still with the temper of his youth: "Master, if you want to hit me, you will admit it. My father used to use family law to beat me. Today is just the right time to beat me." If you beat me up, you have the right to teach me a lesson for my father."

Master Jiu said something in a low voice, and Bai Mingyu, the unscrupulous little overlord, said again: "I don't recognize them. My father used to call them uncles and uncles at me, but something happened. What about them? With my family’s last little money, everyone now knows that I’ve made a fortune by your side, that I’m capable, and want to admit me back? There’s no way!”

"You are always from the Bai family in Qinghe County."

"From now on it won't be!"

As Bai Mingyu said, he kowtowed to the people in the main seat, and said in a muffled voice: "I don't recognize them, I only recognize you! Ninth Master, if you insist on letting me recognize my ancestors, then I will recognize you as my father... ..."

Master Jiu was laughed angrily by him, Xie Jing stood outside the door and didn't hold back, his footsteps swayed and touched the bamboo curtain.

Bai Mingyu looked back suddenly, the bamboo curtain was shaking, but he couldn't see his face clearly.

……

Xie Jing woke up, squinted his eyes and raised his hand to cover his forehead. He suddenly remembered something.

Bai Mingyu's father and brother died young, and they were adopted by Master Jiu, so they were loyal to Master Jiu, so the master of the Bai family and the young master...could it have happened at this time?

A fine layer of cold sweat broke out on Xie Jing's forehead, figured out the key, and sat up suddenly.

He can't remember all the things in the past very clearly, and he always forgets some things, so he was too careful, and instead became obsessed.He stayed by Bai Mingyu's side for the past two days and also had the idea of ​​staring at other people in the Heihe firm. The people around the young master of the Bai family took so many bullets, he first became suspicious of the young master Bai Mingzhe in his heart, but now thinking about it, What if the young master himself doesn't know about it?

Xie Jing couldn't sit still, so he got up and went to the front yard to look for someone. He still had the Mauser bullet in his arms, trying to avoid the Eldest Young Master, and went to talk to Master Jiu, even if he just gave him something to make him pay attention. .

In the front yard, Master Jiu's carriage and horses were not there. After some inquiries, he only said that Master Jiu had gone out early in the morning with a German engineer.

In the front yard, there is only the young master Bai Mingzhe. He hastily explained the items that the company needs to turn over the goods today. He is biting a piece of pancake and pouring tea. He looks very hungry, but he is very energetic, gearing up, and very motivated. .

Xie Jing hesitated for a moment, and took two steps forward, wanting to talk to the young master.

Before he approached, he was stopped by the guard beside Bai Mingzhe, who scolded: "Which room is it? What are you doing in the front yard!"

Xie Jing said: "Those who work around the young master have something they want to tell the young master."

The nurse glanced at him and said: "Go to the motorcade at the corner gate on the right and wait. The young master will go out again later, so I will give you a few words. I don't have much time to talk to you."

Xie Jing was stopped and couldn't get through, so she agreed and went to wait.

But after waiting at the corner gate for a while, no one came from the left or right. After a while, I heard the sound of carriages and horses passing away from the front. I just raised my head to look, but suddenly I was caught by the collar with a hand and slammed into the red. Brick wall!

Xie Jing was suddenly challenged, coughed, and before he could speak, someone strangled his neck again. The man was so strong that he almost lifted him up: "You are Kou Peifeng?!"

Xie Jing raised his eyes to look at the other party. Unexpectedly, the other party was a man in his thirties, not tall, and looked honest and friendly, like a common countryman. If he was not only 13 years old, he would not be considered tall. He lifted it up, but he was able to carry someone with one hand, this man was not weak.Xie Jing looked at the other person, and felt that this person looked simple and honest, but his eyes were delicate, and he didn't seem to be a complete rough person. He thought about it and said in a hoarse voice: "Yes."

The man loosened his strength, but still held his collar, looked at Xie Jing for a while and suddenly asked: "Half a month ago, you helped the young master carry the box and smashed one, do you remember?"

Xie Jing had already asked Kou Peifeng about the whole story, so she pretended to be confused and said: "No, I can't, I have never touched such a valuable thing before, and you asked me to move it. Say give me two oceans..."

The other party pulled his collar, and his eyes were warning: "Did you see it? Otherwise, how would you know it's a valuable thing!"

Xie Jing widened her eyes on purpose and said, "What do you want? The big deal is that I don't want to tell it, but it's just reselling some broken copper. It's not like I haven't seen it before. Brother, why don't you take me to make a fortune too?" I still have a few silver dollars on me, so I can take them together."

There were many people in the Heihe shop, and the corner gate couldn't stay for long, so the watchman whistled softly.

The man stared at Xie Jing for a while, and saw that he was so stupid that he couldn't wait to join the group and share the money. He slowly loosened his collar with his hands, and said with a grin: "You are right, but you can't share your money in vain." , It just so happens that there are several boxes of soju here, help me move them to the car."

"Kou Peifeng" rolled up his sleeves and went to carry the shochu, but his hands and feet were rough. Wearing an ill-fitting and heavy cotton robe, he slammed the box of shochu into the cargo box of the carriage. The catcher was extremely impatient, so he raised his hand and whipped him: "Idiot, watch carefully before letting go!"

I don't know if it was a coincidence, "Kou Peifeng" withdrew his hand, and the whip just landed on the thick cotton robe, and no one was hurt at all.

The short man kept staring at the young man in front of him, and waited until the lookout trotted over. It was the bearded man who had asked the name "Kou Peifeng" in Qinghe County to interrogate him.

The bearded man said in a low voice: "Brother, I asked, this person is Kou Peifeng, what do you think?"

"Have you seen the third child?"

"No, the third brother is staring at the winery and hasn't come back yet, but I asked around, and it's Kou Peifeng."

The short man asked again: "Is everything ready?"

"It's all right, it's too close to Fangshi, it's not easy to let the brothers come in during the day, after all, there are still some officers and soldiers guarding, waiting for the 'pinching the lanterns' (it's dark)." The bearded man showed a trace of excitement, "I didn't expect that the first young master and the second young master of the Bai family are here. After taking over these two 'Gods of Wealth', we can have a good year. It's not in vain for our brothers to spend a year in ambush in Qinghe County!"

"Take Kou Peifeng, and let him 'sleep' (kill him) in the woods ahead, don't make any trouble!"

"Yes!"

The bearded man obeyed the order, and quickly walked forward with a few guards around him. Just as he was about to arrest someone, he heard a brother waiting in the carriage jump down screaming, followed by a group of Flames shot out from behind him, burning the man's clothes and the carriage hood!

The nurse who jumped out of the car didn't care about anything, and was burned to the ground and rolled back and forth in the snow.

The horse pulling the cart was frightened, and when it raised its hoof, it neighed "咴咴"!It couldn't move, and several boxes of soju in the carriage clanged and smashed to pieces, and it didn't know what was ignited, and the flames suddenly shot up to the sky!The thick canvas awning was covered with a layer of waterproof oil, and now black smoke was burning out, carrying an unpleasant smell straight into the air.The boy standing in the middle of the circle of fire was quick, and took out a dagger from his pocket. Without saying a word, he broke the rope on the carriage, and while pulling the nearby horse, he turned over and shouted: "Heihe Baijia Company , the water is gone! The water is gone——!”

The shouts and the smell of burning alarmed many people, and many apprentices trotted over with their coats on.

The incident happened suddenly, and a series of things happened in the blink of an eye. Not to mention that the short man on the side didn't react, even the bearded man who stepped forward to grab someone was stunned. As soon as they came out, the other party had already rushed out on horseback, and shouted "Heihe Baijia Company is running away" all the way from the side door. It was too late for them to cross the fire to chase after them!

The crowd gathered more and more, and many people came with buckets.

The bearded man wanted to chase him back, but the short man turned blue and scolded in a low voice: "Come back!"

"But brother, that Kou Peifeng..."

"Who cares about Kou Peifeng, let's go first!"

Xie Jing bent down and lowered her body, pulled the reins to make the horse run faster, and shouted around the whole Heihe town. There are few people here, but there are always more people when the market is open during the day, and there are many officers and soldiers around , A piece of his clothes were burned, he was very embarrassed, and half of the horse's tail was burned by the flames. After running around like this, many people soon started to go to the Baijia shop.

Xie Jing didn't stop walking, recognized the direction of the winery, and galloped on horseback.

He had seen clearly in the carriage just now that the beer bottle contained not only wine, but also kerosene!

Those people didn't want to enrich their own pockets at all, but gangsters who went down the mountain to rob—all this made sense. When he knew Bai Mingyu, he only knew that he was the big shopkeeper himself, and he had never heard him mention his father and brother, like It's a lone wolf, and no one believes in it except Master Jiu.

Master Jiu's left leg hurts in the cold winter, and the wound is hideous. He had two Western doctors for surgery. The people in the mansion only said it was an old disease, and no one had ever explained the reason.

……

Xie Jing was small, and he was holding the reins desperately, leaning on the horse's back and running, almost running with his arms around the horse's neck. The wind made his face hurt, but at this moment he couldn't feel anything, his heart was beating loudly I want to fly fast, I just wish I could put on my wings and go faster, and then go faster.