Republic of China small businessman

Xie Jing took the money, turned around and left.

Li Yuan hurriedly followed, guarding behind him, cautiously.

The people at the door stared at them, but they only looked at them and didn't stop them.

As if stuck, a black car stopped at the gate of the casino, the driver got down and opened the door for Xie Jing and the others, and after they got up, he turned back and drove away.

Waiting until the black car drove a certain distance, the people at the gate of the casino bent over and trotted back to report to the owner.

In the black car.

Bai Mingyu was counting the silver bills there, just as seriously as Xie Jing counted just now. After counting, he took out one and handed it to Xie Jing. He put the rest in his arms with a smile on his face and said, "This time the railway freight is all paid. , plus the previous ones, we just scraped together [-] silver dollars, so we don’t need to go to the store to cash the check.”

Xie Jing took it, and passed it to Li Yuan: "Take it, this part of the money is for you."

Li Yuan sat at the side and waved his hands, and declined a few words in a low voice, Bai Mingyu said: "I'll take it for you, but it's only a thousand dollars, you take it, go back and buy a house and land or open a big restaurant for grandma, what's wrong with it? I’ve never seen anyone who didn’t even ask for money.”

Li Yuan just took it and put it next to him.

It has been two months since he followed Xie Jing to Nanfang. At first, Grandma Kou was worried about letting him come and have a look. After coming here, Xie Jing was really busy here, and found that he was talented in gambling, so she left him to do things by her side.Li Yuan is good at mental arithmetic, and he is especially keen in numbers. He can't make mistakes easily at the casino table, unless some casinos cheat, then he can't handle it, but when he encounters more disciplined casinos, he can often win a grand slam.

The casino they went to tonight was pretty decent.

Xie Jing sat in the car and looked out through the window. Street lights were repaired along the way. From time to time, there was a "jingle" bell on the railway to remind the vehicles. This place is very different from before.

It has been nearly a year since he and Bai Er came to Nanfang.

Xie Jing was in a daze when Bai Mingyu coughed and suddenly took out an envelope from his pocket.

Xie Jing's eyes fell on the letter, she sat up straight, and asked, "Has Master Jiu sent you a letter?"

Bai Mingyu said: "No, it's a letter from the old man of the provincial government."

Xie Jing was not very interested, and turned her head to look outside the street again.

Bai Mingyu said to him: "The old man said that Lord Nine is going back to China in the near future, and the fleet has already left one after another. It is estimated that they will arrive in less than half a month..." Before he finished speaking, Xie Jing stretched out his hand and asked him for a letter. Bai Er didn't dare to tease him about it, so he handed it over and said, "I really didn't lie to you, if you don't believe me, see for yourself."

Xie Jing opened the ten lines at a glance, read it quickly, and his eyes lit up after confirming the message that Master Jiu was coming back, he stared at the time of signing and said: "The letter came ten days ago, and Master Jiu is coming back, that's just a few days ago. "

Bai Mingyu shrugged his shoulders and said: "That's not certain, Master Jiu has made such a big battle outside, so he has to go to the Governor's Mansion first when he comes back, even if he wants to come to Nanfang, it will be half a month later, and he still needs to rest for a few days My God, I didn't recover from my illness a while ago—" He kept silent halfway through the sentence, but it was too late, Xie Jing frowned and asked, "Master, is he sick?"

Bai Mingyu scratched his head: "It's not too serious. I heard it's a cold. After taking a few doses of medicine, it doesn't help. Maybe it's too cold over there. Just come back and rest for a while." He glanced at Xie Jing, afraid that he might find him Counting himself, he added, "I won't tell you, and you're in Nanfang, so it's useless even if you're in a hurry."

Xie Jing didn't say anything more.

He read the letter carefully again, put the letter back in the envelope, and returned it to Bai Mingyu.

Bai Mingyu looked at him carefully: "Xiao Xie, are you angry?"

Xie Jing shook her head and said softly, "No."

What Bai Er said is right, he really can't do anything in Nanfang.

Xie Jing was in a bad mood, and Bai Mingyu didn't dare to talk much along the way. His young master's temper was at best used outside, and he was useless in the East Courtyard when he came back. No one in the East Courtyard was afraid of him.

Not only that, but for some reason after nearly a year of contact, Bai Er always felt that he was inexplicably afraid of Xie Jing when they were alone together - that feeling was like Master Jiu pointed out someone to take care of him , Xie Jing is now more and more like Master Jiu, regardless of his temper, character or work.

The car drove into rows of small Russian-style buildings and stopped at one of the bungalows with a garden.

Bai Mingyu got out of the car. This is their residence in Nanfang. It is safe and private. There are also two bodyguards at the door, who are on duty day and night.Bai Mingyu lives on the second floor, Xie Jing and Li Yuan live in two rooms on the top floor, and usually invites an old lady to cook, the food tastes average, and a group of boys don't pay much attention to these things, as long as they have something to eat and a place to sleep.

After Bai Mingyu pushed open the door, he found an uninvited guest sitting on the sofa in the living room.

The girl with curly hair was sitting there in a foreign dress, with an ermine shawl draped over the arm of the sofa next to her. Seeing them coming in, she glared angrily: "Bai Mingyu, you still know how to come back!"

When Bai Mingyu was yelled at by her, his momentum weakened by three points at first, but he quickly shouted back with confidence: "Why can't I come back, this is my residence, but you, Bai Hongqi, you, a girl, came to me at night What are you doing!"

Bai Hong raised her chest up and down a few times, and was laughed angrily by him. She patted the sofa and stood up: "You still have the guts to ask, I was fine at the embassy ball, but I suddenly answered the phone to clean up the mess, you know, Sanjin bet Who opened the workshop?"

Xie Jing walked behind, and when she came in, she just heard Bai Hongqi's words, so she paused.

The Three Gold Casino is where they won a fortune tonight.

"It's just a two-way bet..."

"Is that two? You have been betting for two days!"

Bai Mingyu rubbed the tip of his nose, stood there and hummed: "I don't have enough money for the time being, I'm not too lazy to go back to the provincial government to get money, do you want to 'take' some money temporarily?"

Bai Hongqi was angry: "There are so many casinos in Nanfang, you can't catch one of them and try your best! You can't, can't you change to another one to withdraw money!"

Bai Er was a little unhappy when she told her all about it. He stood in front of Bai Hongqi and said, "I knew it a long time ago. When we went to other houses to win money a few days ago, you never said much. Oh, what's changed?" The Sanjin Gambling House won’t work? The young owner of the house—he was the one who sent you back last time, right! Let me advise you, don’t mess with these people, especially that Zhu Xin, you What a good person he is, he has a lot of concubines, be careful to be arrested and become the third concubine!"

"you--!"

The two shopkeepers of the Bai family were imposing outside, and when they returned home, they were jumping around, chirping and yelling, and they were about to quarrel after talking for a long time.

Bai Mingyu felt that this "aunt" in front of him was really out of character, and she got mixed up with that young master's family, which made him gasp in his chest when he thought about it.

Bai Hongqi was really irritated by his few words, she felt that Bai Er was just a messy little bastard.

Xie Jing stood there and listened for a while, and after hearing that there was nothing serious, she went upstairs.

The two downstairs didn't deal with each other from the moment they met, it's been almost a year, and he's already used to it.

If one day you see them sitting together peacefully, it will be the sun that really came out from the west.

Xie Jing went back to the room, he didn't buy much here, only two or three pieces of clothes, only one leather suitcase was brought from the east courtyard.

Even after closing the door, I could hear a few vague words of quarrel downstairs. Normally, Xie Jing would have closed her eyes and gone to sleep, but today she couldn't fall asleep anyway.

He opened the suitcase, and it was mostly empty, except for a few odds and ends. There was a stack of papers full of words, an inkstone, and a good pineapple wood paperweight. Under the paperweight were a few thin letters.

Xie Jing took out a letter and read every word on it carefully.

Master Jiu was far away from home, so it was extremely inconvenient to write letters, and few of them could be delivered to him. Most of them were written in Mandarin, asking them how everything was okay.

Xie Jing's fingers brushed over the handwriting, the handwriting was clear and meaningful, as if seeing people through the words.

A person who misses day by day.

What was written in the letter, he memorized it backwards, put the letter paper on his chest, slowly closed his eyes and closed his clothes, and fell asleep.

For two days in a row, Xie Jing didn't go out, just stayed in a shop in Nanfang, and didn't even have any interest in going to the gambling house.

Bai Mingyu encouraged him a few times, Xie Jing just lowered his head and fiddled with the abacus, and responded without moving, and hurriedly said: "I've been a little tired in the past few days, I think I'm tired, and I'm afraid that my luck will be bad and I'll lose money." .”

Bai Mingyu didn't want to make money either, he just looked at the young owner of Sanjin Gambling House as an eyesore, sat there and asked Xie Jing, "Xiao Xie, are you really not going? The person surnamed Zhu met me yesterday and let me go, Say let's just go ahead."

Xie Jing lazily sat there with her chin on the abacus beads, her fingers had distinct joints, and her fingertips were as white as jade. When she flicked it up, she heard a crisp sound of the abacus beads, as if hitting the tip of a person's heart, and said softly: "No."

Bai Mingyu and him grew up together, so he was used to it, so he was taken aback for a while, and after he regained his composure, he looked away from his fingertips, scratched his head and said, "Oh, if you don't want to go, don't go, If you are tired, rest first."

Xie Jing looked up at him: "I feel a little uncomfortable."

Bai Mingyu was taken aback: "What's the matter, do you need a doctor?"

Xie Jing frowned slightly: "The doctors here can't cure me, I want to go back to the provincial capital."

Xie Jing's face is too deceptive. When I was young two years ago, it was very easy to let my heart down. Now, it has been a year since my eyebrows and eyes have opened, like a bud blown overnight, showing a kind of The thrilling beauty between a teenager and a young man is not only gorgeous, but the corners of his eyes and lips are also sharp. Because of this sharpness, people can recognize his gender at a glance and will never be confused.

If it was a female shopkeeper sitting opposite him, I'm afraid she would have nodded her head desperately.

But on the opposite side was Bai Er, a stupid goose, frowning, looked Xie Jing up and down, and said slowly: "I see that you are not sick, I just want to go back and be lazy."

Xie Jing leaned on the back of the wooden chair, looked at him and said, "Yes, I've been here for a year, and I'm bored, so I can go home to visit relatives, is it okay?"

It was rare for Bai Mingyu to persist, shaking his head and said: "No, Master Jiu said before leaving that we both have to stay here."

Xie Jing changed his rhetoric to discuss with him: "Then I'll go back for two days, and I'll be right back?"

"What's the matter, but what happened to the grandma at home? If so..."

Xie Jing wanted to go back, but she didn't want to use Grandma Kou as an excuse, so she interrupted him and said, "Grandma is in good health and nothing else is going on. Forget it, I'll see you later."

Just as they were talking, the clerk at the door greeted the distinguished guests loudly, shouting: "Treasurer Bai is here—"

Besides Bai Mingyu, the only one who can be called this way is Bai Hongqi.

Bai Hongqi changed into improved riding attire, top and bottom trousers, and walked in with a cloak on, saw the two of them walking straight past and said: "It's just right that you are here, so I don't need to make another trip to inform, tomorrow I will show you in the theater After the venue, I invited the bosses of several gambling houses to dinner and a show, and the companions have already been found, you just go to toast a glass of wine tomorrow." Seeing that Bai Mingyu was about to speak, she snorted coldly, and said with a smile: " Second Young Master, please don’t make me angry anymore. You really think I’m idle and have nothing to do. This is to set the stage for you. Nanfang is a mixed bag, and it’s not that easy to mess with. You just took tens of thousands of oceans from others, I advise you Keep your head down."

Xie Jing answered the call and asked, "What time is tomorrow?"

Bai Hongqi spoke slightly gentler to him, not as aggressive as before, took a post and handed it to him: "Tomorrow afternoon, we will listen to the opera first, and have wine in the evening. It is not convenient for me to come out, so I invited an elder from the clan Going with a few famous scholars, with them as your companions, you can get back anything you want, do business, there is no overnight enmity, right? What you did in the past two days was too much, especially at the Sanjin Gambling House , Bai Er and Zhu Xin don't deal with each other, so you toast him."

Xie Jing nodded in response.

Bai Hong was soft but not hard, Xie Jing was easy to talk, she also softened her attitude, and said with a smile: "I knew you were a sensible person, thanks to Master Jiu who asked you to follow Bai Er, if someone else is in charge, who can control it?" This monkey grandson."

Bai Mingyu: "..."

Bai Mingyu was awkward, and when he sent her out, he deliberately stood at the door and shouted "Auntie, walk slowly, be careful of the slippery road", the first two words were shouted loudly, like a little rascal, it made Miss Bai so angry that her face flushed.

Xie Jing flipped through the post, coincidentally, the person invited to sing the opera was also an acquaintance, and it was Shang Yulou.

Shang Yulou's opera singing is good, the momentum has grown in the past two years, and he has become very popular, and he has won the support of many opera fans. Bai Hongqi asked him to come and tried several favors, so he was able to arrange so quickly for Shang Yulou to come Play a show here.