Old Shadow of the Republic of China 21

The feeling of axe brand three-star brandy that costs six yuan per bottle is paired with Chinese food is actually a bit strange. Look at the thick kalik cigarettes held by these men during the drinking period, and this feeling is even more obvious. However, at the moment, the reward of a table of 200 yuan can be exchanged for a table of cubes, which proves that this is a top-notch cube.

As he was talking, the door of the box was pushed open. A thin man in a robe with a civilized stick walked in and looked at Chen Ting and bowed: "Oh! I'm late, I'm late. Brother Chen, don't blame me."

Chen Ting's face instantly bloomed and stood up to greet him: "If you can come, just give me a look. I'm going to ask someone to reorganize the face." It was very embarrassing.

The man waved his hand and said, "To be honest, I couldn't get rid of it today. I came here after having dinner with a friend. Your brother posted a post and said he had to go there anyway." He was very polite, but Lin Yutong probably understood the meaning of the night. He had to give Chen Ting a face, but he didn't want to socialize with other guests this time, so he avoided the late time and the banquet, and was here now.

Sure enough, Chen Ting laughed and asked this person to go to the narrow kang on the other side. This narrow kang was called Lin Yutong's thought that the narrow kang was called. In fact, he had an exclusive name called Yankang.

Chen Ting didn't know what he said to the man there, so both of them looked at the Fourth Master. Chen Ting waved to the Fourth Master over. The Fourth Master got up, but pressed Lin Yutong's hand and gestured a few more times. Lin Yutong nodded slightly, picked up food and ate with chopsticks, but his eyes paid attention to that side.

Seeing Chen Ting pulling the Fourth Master to work on the smoke kang, the Fourth Master waved his hand and sat on the chair on one side. Chen Ting was standing on the smoke kang, and the man was standing across from him. In a short while, several girls who looked eleven or 12 years old came into the private room. Lin Yutong thought he was the little girl serving him before, but then he felt something was wrong. These children's walking posture to the expressions on their faces were not what ordinary girls should have. When they saw them crawling beside the guest with a smile, like a group of monkeys entangled, some knocked on their backs, some punched their legs, and some pinched their feet. The crisp laughter and the laughter of men kept coming. Lin Yutong

I knew that these little girls were young men in the book house, or young prostitutes. She was disgusted and looked at this person. She didn't know who she was, but looking at his clothes carefully, he should be considered a rich man. He saw that his coat outside was taken off at some point, only a plaid silk top and bottom, a diamond ring on his right finger, and a jade ring on his left finger. This dress looked really familiar. After closer inspection, Chen Ting and the guests behind him also had rings on his hands, but the color was different. Then she realized that this dress was also a symbol of identity and value.

"I haven't been here, have you?" Huamei's voice came. I don't know when she sat next to her quietly. Lin Yutong ignored her and just smiled embarrassedly. This woman's methods were really amazing. She saw that Ma Xiang was still awake just now. After a while, she got Ma Xiang drunk.

When Huamei saw him paying attention to the opposite side, she smiled and said, "You don't know that guest, she is a regular guest here."

Lin Yutong turned her head and asked, "Then why don't you go over to serve?"

"Feng Gaosan only likes younger people. Do you know this?" Huamei said, then covered her mouth and laughed.

Lin Yutong looked at the little girls and naturally understood what she meant. But she pretended to be stupid: "What is Gao Shen? Is it a name?"

Huamei smiled again: "The high sect is the staff member, the master"

"Whose master is so powerful?" Lin Yutong pretended to be stupid and asked again.

The thrush was about to speak, but it seemed to remember something inappropriate. He smiled and took the wine pot to pour wine for Lin Yutong: "I really don't know this."

She is inconvenient to say it.

The Fourth Master had revealed that he would get rid of Chen Ting's intention. When he left just now, he told me not to worry first. Does that mean that he also wanted to figure out the origin of this person?

Now that I know that this person is a regular visitor here, this is easy to deal with.

She picked up the wine glass and drank the wine, and ignored the awkward feeling of pouring the whiskey from the kettle into the wine glass, then turned her head and asked Huamei: "I want to go out and make it easier, do you want to go downstairs?"

Huamei smiled twice: "Yes! Go to the backyard downstairs." That was where the people went. In fact, behind the screen there was a toilet, with a bucket inside, and a dedicated person to handle it. But this young man was rustic, and she helped the people out with just one word.

This is exactly what I want.

Lin Yutong stood up, and the Fourth Master looked over. She gestured to the Fourth Master, and saw that the Fourth Master nodded, then got up and went out. Obviously, Chen Ting was very cautious. He wanted to tell the Fourth Master to know the deep background behind him, and he didn't want to ask the Fourth Master to climb over him and finally throw him away. Therefore, he must have not introduced this person to the Fourth Master, which shows how good his defense is.

After coming out of the house, I felt that the air was fresh. Standing in the aisle on the second floor, you could see the situation in the lobby on the first floor. Three or five people were sitting on the square table, each sitting next to him or leaning against a woman. It is now early spring and it is still a bit cold. This woman did not hold a round fan, but everyone was holding a handkerchief in her hand, all kinds of colors. Whenever she waved, it seemed that there was a faint fragrance floating. No wonder men liked it. The atmosphere here was really easy to forget their worries.

She was about to go downstairs and asked someone for a casual inquiries about the so-called regular customer. As soon as she raised her legs and was about to leave, she saw someone coming up the stairs. It was Xiao Hong.

She looked like she moved and took out two dollars. People came and went to the hall, the guests in and out, and there were women who were rushing to the venue. Lin Yutong stood here, and people thought it was the servant brought by someone, so no one cared about it. When Xiao Hong passed by Lin Yutong, Lin Yutong bent down and wanted to pick up the money to death, "Sister Ah, your money has been lost."

As he said that, he stood up and handed over the money.

Xiao Hong turned around inertially, and she didn't know who the elder sister was calling. But when she saw Lin Yutong holding two dollars in her hand, she was a little shocked. She definitely wouldn't bring money in her own hall. She said that she didn't pick up customers tonight and didn't make a penny. Where would the money fall? She looked around and hurriedly grabbed Lin Yutong's hand and didn't tell the money to reveal it: "Little brother, you can't be too honest in life. This money is what you picked up, it's yours. Don't say that you didn't see the donor, even if you saw who lost money, you just picked it up and don't say it. In this world, you are good people and you are stupid."

Lin Yutong said in his heart, don’t this girl understand all the time?

But before she could speak, the short and fat woman in the room came out. Seeing the two holding hands, her eyebrows stood up and walked over in three or two steps, her face was annoyed, but she could suppress her temper and said to Lin Yutong: "Brother, there is no reason for this girl to accompany her in this place. Even if she says something, hold a hand." When she looked at the hands of the two, her hint was very obvious, "That's all for money."

Lin Yutong broke free and revealed two dollars.

The book owner immediately smiled. As soon as he reached out to take it, Xiao Hong blocked it, "Mom, this guy wants me to accompany her. I am really unstimulated and told him to come another day." As he said that, he signaled Lin Yutong to put the money away quickly.

"You fart" and called the Chuang family also changed the nature of the madam. She lowered her voice and was afraid of disturbing other guests. The words seemed to be exposed from the gaps in her teeth, with a bit of gritting teeth: "How long has it been since you picked up customers? I feel uncomfortable today and I am not energetic tomorrow. I will tell you that I am not in vain to support people."

Lin Yutong quickly stuffed the money: "Okay, this sister is back to me tonight."

The fat man showed a sunflower-like smile on his face, "Okay! OK!" He grabbed the money and then threatened Xiao Hong with his eyes, "If I can't serve you, I will peel you."

Xiao Hong held her handkerchief tightly and reluctantly took Lin Yu to her room. This room was a big bed, pink curtain, a dressing table next to the bed, and a washbasin stand on the other side. There was a round table and a round stool, and a set of tea sets on the round table, and nothing else was left.

Seeing Lin Yutong looking blankly, Xiao Hong unbuttoned her clothes, without any expression on her face, as if she had suddenly become a walking corpse. Lin Yutong waved her hand, "Sister, what are you doing? I'm just talking to you."

Xiao Hong was stunned, "Don't you go to bed?"

These words and the groans from the next door on both sides were really ambiguous. Lin Yutong didn't want to waste time, she just wanted to quickly get what she wanted to know, so she said, "The money is not mine. If you ask my sister to live a better life these two dollars, it will be worth it. If you feel that you can't get through, I'll have something to ask you for information."

"You said." Xiao Hong buttoned the button and pointed outside, "There is nothing I don't know about this hall."

Lin Yutong laughed: "I just heard someone called Gao Shen, but in a blink of an eye, no one was seen. I wanted to ask if there was a fellow villager named Gao Shen. He has been out for many years and there has been no news about him at home. His mother was crying and just looking forward to her son going back. I wanted to ask, what if so."

"Little brother is really kind-hearted." Xiao Hong relaxed suddenly, "The high sect you mentioned is not called Gao Shen. He is an aide to Commander Liu of the Military Department. He has been in the capital for the past six months. I don't know what business is going on. He is similar to the official title, and he means a senior staff officer."

Commander Liu of the Military Department.

Lin Yutong wrote down his name. He didn't speak, but listened to Xiao Hong, "Feng Gaosan comes every one or two days. He likes those little girls. He doesn't ask the girls in the hall to serve him at any time. Unless he wants to entertain guests, he doesn't like drinking, but smoking is not good cigarettes. It would be even better if there is horseshoe cigarette. Here we usually get any cigarettes, so she often comes."

The so-called "horse hoof soil" means that the shape is like a horse's foot hoof, which is the best opium produced in India. The current price is about one or two horse's hoof soil equals five taels of silver. If it is not a rich man, it will definitely not be affordable. Moreover, there are not many products, and the price is rare. This value is just raised.

She was curious about this thing in Shanghai before, and she had inquired about it specifically. After all, the book is not so detailed. In addition, many literati and scholars are now sucked, and opium is also sold publicly because it is not prohibited. Lin Yutong does not know about this thing in Beijing. She only knows that the most famous opium wholesale merchant in Shanghai is "Zheng Qiaji", and the largest retail scale is a "Lao Yanling" on the stone road. The shop of this shop is as wide as a bank, with a large mahogany counter at the door.

Of course, there are one or two small retail shops on each street, and the most sold is Yanxia smoke. At that time, each small can was 2 cents, and the net weight of the opium inside was one cent. Another type is "public cigarette" from Xiangjiang, which is made of brass. Each box is also 2 cents in small boxes, with the same price, but the weight is only half a cent. Some literati gather together, and the seats are full of guests every night, and several boxes of them have to be burned out on a bowl. However, compared with horse hoof soil, the price is really very common.

Although the prices in the two places are different, I think it can’t make a big deal. This Xianle Building strives for the best in everything, no wonder the guest is like Yunlai.

After talking for a while, he inquired about all the things he could find out, and then he got up, "Then I won't disturb you."

You have to leave as soon as you say it.

Xiao Hong was embarrassed: "Don't spend money next time, if you want to talk to me, come over."

Lin Yutong responded and came out of the room. When she returned to the private room there, she saw Chen Ting pulling Feng Gaosan and saying something to the Fourth Master.

When the Fourth Master saw Lin Yutong coming back, he blinked slightly, saying that if he had the chance, he could do it.

If these two people die, they cannot be infected with themselves, and they cannot be killed on the spot. This still requires some skills.

Xu Lihua, who died inexplicably, was already eye-catching enough. She could not tell the death of these two people that were similar to that of the woman. Therefore, this medicine must be used with caution.

Seeing that no one was paying attention to her, Lin Yutong stepped back. Seeing that two girls were holding cigarettes and other objects to enter the room, she felt aroused and reached out to stop her: "What are you doing?"

The girl in front rolled her eyes and said, "You're blind?"

Lin Yutong looked on the tray: "It's not good, we master don't need it."

"Good horseshoe cigarette, look." The girl behind her snorted, "Have you seen you?"

Lin Yutong opened the small lid, flicked her fingernails in, and then covered it again, "It's really a good thing. Go in."

As he said that, he let the two girls in and followed him in and nodded to the Fourth Master.

Chen Ting enthusiastically asked the Fourth Master to smoke, and the Fourth Master stood up to say goodbye.

General Feng Shen was about to get up, but his pocket was jingling. When he took it out, Lin Yutong realized that this was a "spring watch", which was the famous watch for early years. Every hour, it would automatically report the time. This was the first time Lin Yutong saw this thing. Maybe Lin Yutong's gaze was too hot. General Feng Shen laughed and said with a slight silence: "Why, let me show you?" As he said that, he took the watch and handed it over. Lin Yutong glanced at the Fourth Master, and the Fourth Master shook his head, "A young man, I have no knowledge, I'm laughing."

"It's okay! It's okay!" The Feng surnamed looks at Lin Yutong: "Since you are happy, I'll give you even the jade stem."

What is a jade stem?

When I took it over and looked, I saw that there were two jade hangs under the watch, which were the watch brand, with the words on it carved on it, transliterated as "Hamilton". Lin Yutong heard Lei Yangyang say that this is the most famous watch now.

Giving such an expensive thing to the client? Obviously not! This person wants to win over the Fourth Master.

The Fourth Master waved his hands repeatedly: "You can't receive the reward without merit, and you will never dare to accept it."

"You and my brothers are so polite?" he smiled, "I'll post to my brother tomorrow."

The Fourth Master agreed and then took Lin Yutong out.

I looked at the table from downstairs. It was already ten o'clock in the evening. However, there were still customers coming in 66. There were many snack stalls parked outside. Rickshaw drivers stayed next to each other, and they should not starve to death.

Two rickshaws were directly pulled to the school gate. At this time, no one was allowed to be read except for the students reading under the street lights. The two passed by quietly and followed back to the Tongzi Building.

"Huh! The smell on the body." Lin Yutong raised her arm and smelled her sleeves, "Hurry off her clothes and take a shower."

As she spoke, she moved the big wooden barrel out and filled it with hot water. Then she went inside to take a shower. After changing her clothes, the Fourth Master had already washed and lay down on the bed. She packed the wooden barrel in and then got into the bed.

"Is it done?" The Fourth Master took the handkerchief from her and wiped her head dry.

Lin Yutong nodded: "I happened to meet two girls who were sending cigarettes. I gave some ingredients to the cooked opium to the maximum extent."

Raw cigarettes need to be boiled before they can be sucked, and after they come out, they become paste. Adding something can't be seen. It doesn't matter if you smoke a little, but after urging the drug, you will be poisoned. The consequence of excessive consumption is death. When people really die, who can you rely on? There are smokers who smoke to death every day, and there are still a lot of them.

The Fourth Master nodded: "That's good."

"What? Are these two people not right?" Lin Yutong asked hurriedly.

"These two people advised me to go to Liaodong, saying that the factories there are all ready-made and they can do it once they go." The Fourth Master sneered, "This is treating me as a nerd."

Yes! Liaodong is now the territory of Japan. Do you still don’t understand the meaning when you go there?

Death is worthy of death!

"I asked, and said that the surname Feng was a high-ranking officer of a commander Liu from the military headquarters. Could it be that this commander?" Lin Yutong shook her head immediately, "It shouldn't be."

"The man surnamed Feng has been in the capital for half a year and is not in Jinling. He said he has an errand, but how could someone with errand be in the hall and not come out? I can only say that he was evil by Commander Liu."

That's good!

After saying a few gossips, Lin Yutong asked about the ban on smoking again: "The ban on smoking in the late Qing Dynasty was still effective, but now, the momentum is getting stronger and stronger. Look, even teahouses and restaurants and bathhouses have special cigarette houses. It seems that there are cigarette houses in places with toilets, which is great. This has become a must-have in life. I went out a few times and saw beggars on the road, but I don't know why they have become addicts. You said that the slogans in this world are shouted loudly, but who really cares about it."

It's just that, the one who sells opium is caught, or they will be shot. But Huaizi is in the police station, and they know the matter best. Once they are caught, they will be put back, but the things are confiscated. Where did the confiscated things go? They were taken out by the people above and handed over to the opium restaurant. The head of the police station holds shares in these opium shops, and they are consuming real shares! This is all tacit matter for everyone.
To be continued...