above the point of the knife

Chapter 38

30 yuan is not a small amount for Zhou Sen. If it is about cash, it is not impossible for him to take it out.

At home, the banknotes, gold bars, and bank deposits in the safe in Father Anthony's study were converted into full coins, and there must be such a number.

If you count the equity, bonds, securities, etc. of Papa Anthony's company, it will naturally far exceed this number.

These things are worthless in their own hands now, once the news of Papa Anthony's death spreads.

Even if these things are in his own hands, they are useless, and there is another Ivanovic watching him.

Otherwise, take this opportunity to revitalize this asset?
"I want to see Bai Yulan." Zhou Sen wouldn't decide to lend the money out immediately, it was a lot of money, and a night's sleep wasn't worth it.

"You want to see Sister Lan?" Ah Xiang asked with wide-eyed eyes.

"Of course, can you, a little girl, decide on such a big matter?" Zhou Sen said with a smile, "Or, if you dare to take back 30 yuan by yourself, how can you explain to her where the money came from?"

"I……"

Ah Xiang was speechless when asked all of a sudden.

"You said you're just a little girl, worrying about your boss's business, so could it be that you're her own daughter?"

"What nonsense, Sister Lan is ten years older than me, how can she be my mother!" Ah Xiang retorted vigorously.

"It's true, then why are you so caring?" Zhou Sen asked with a chuckle, scratching his head.

"Sister Lan treats me like my own sister. If she has something to do, I won't have a good life as a little girl. Of course I will try my best to help Sister Lan." Ah Xiang explained.

"You girl, you know how to repay your kindness."

"Master Zhou, although I am young, I understand a lot of truths." Ah Xiang said.

"Then tell me, I'm not familiar with Bai Yulan, why did you come to ask me for help?" Zhou Sen asked.

"Sister Lan has found all the people she can find, and everyone knows their dirty thoughts, but I can only find you." Ah Xiang thought for a while and said.

"Don't you think I don't have that kind of nasty thoughts?" Zhou Sen asked curiously. After all, his relationship with Bai Yulan is somewhat special. He is also a man, and his reputation doesn't seem to be very good.

"If you had such an idea, you would have already publicized your relationship with Sister Lan to the world," Ah Xiang said.

"Maybe I'm also using this as a threat?" Zhou Sen said with a chuckle.

Ah Xiang's face froze, not knowing how to answer it.

"You have been out for so long, Bai Yulan is already very anxious, let's go back together." Zhou Sen stopped teasing her, got up and said.

"Wuen, you stay in the warehouse. If the sixth child comes back, if I haven't come back, you can let him go back first, and you go back too. If there is anything, we will talk about it tomorrow."

"Yes, brother." Wu En nodded, Ye San'er was not there, there was another Suzanne at the hotel, and someone had to stay behind.

……

In the Heyuan Dojo, the four Japanese ronin warriors woke up one by one. They also wondered why they woke up in their own dojo after being knocked out.

The four were immediately called to Kawara Shingoro.

After listening to the explanation of the four people, Shingoro Kawahara was furious: "Baga, the four of you were obviously drunk and passed out on the side of the road, and you talked nonsense whether you were knocked out by someone or by someone, do you think I am Fool?"

The four knelt in front of Shingoro Kawara, not daring to take a breath. Obviously, they got the wrong script.

"I've already understood this matter. You four are usually lazy, just think about it!" Kawahara Shingoro scolded angrily. Of course, he believed in his senior brother even more. What's more, a Manchurian policeman beat four big Japanese samurai. No matter how it sounds, it sounds like a fantasy!
The four ronin warriors were wronged, they had to be punished even though they were beaten, how do you explain this?
……

"Miss Axiang, what color does Yulan like, and what are her hobbies?" Zhou Sen hailed a carriage and went to Huifangli outside the road together with Axiang.

Ah Xiang gave Zhou Sen a weird look. Could it be that Master Zhou really likes his boss this week and wants to pursue him?
However, Bai Yulan had said early on that she despised Zhou Sen.

As for Zhou Sen's question, Ah Xiang didn't know how to answer it. If you say it, it would be tantamount to betraying Bai Yulan. If you don't say it, the only person who can save the Ningxiang Pavilion and help Bai Yulan is Zhou Sen, a rich family. son.

"Sister Lan likes white, but she usually wears black and purple most of the time, and her favorite food is Lao Dingfeng's pastries..." Ah Xiang finally spoke.

"At this time, it's too late to go to Lao Dingfeng to buy pastries and rush back to Ningxiang Restaurant. Next time, I won't bring anything to the door today." Zhou Sen said to himself.

After hearing this, Ah Xiang glanced at him strangely. Bai Yulan seemed to never eat what others bought her.

Whoever sent it, she either distributed it to the people under her hand, or just threw it away.

The Ningxiang Restaurant has been closed and temporarily closed. Naturally, you can't go through the front door, so you can only enter through the back door. Anyway, Zhou Sen doesn't mind.

This is not the first time through the back door.

Not knowing when he would be able to come out, Zhou Sen paid the fare directly and asked the coachman to drive the carriage and leave first.

In his impression, at night, when the lights are on, the Ningxiang Hall is the busiest. Even though it is freezing outside, the inside is brightly lit and full of people.

But now, what he saw was a cold, lifeless big house, carved with beams and jade, antique, but only a few rooms were still lit.

The sudden closure of the Ningxiang Restaurant not only surprised Zhou Sen, but many people found it inconceivable. Although the business of the Ningxiang Restaurant continued to decline, it was not to the point where it could not continue.

Moreover, the new year is approaching, and it is the time when the passenger flow is the largest. Closing business at this time is tantamount to pushing money out.

It can make Bai Yulan ruthless to temporarily close the Ningxiang Pavilion, which is enough to show that the hurdle she is facing right now is really serious.

Bai Yulan usually lives in the Ningxiang Pavilion, and she regards the Ningxiang Pavilion as her home.

Of course, she lived in the best room of the Ningxiang Pavilion, and also the highest attic. Standing on the attic, she could overlook the entire Ningxiang Pavilion.

This building, which focuses on pavilions and courtyards, covers an area of ​​more than 2000 square meters, with courtyards, attics, and a large performance hall.

In Huifang, the Ningxiang Pavilion is in the best location, the most prosperous street is directly opposite the gate.

This was originally a guild hall. After Bai Yulan's deceased husband Lao Ma bought it, he bought the nearby houses, knocked them down, rebuilt and expanded them, and formed the scale it is today.

When the Ningxiang Hall is the largest, it can accommodate thousands of people, and there are as many as hundreds of girls, if you count Gui Gong, maids, Xiaosi, musicians, and cooks.

The entire Ningxiang Pavilion can feed four to five hundred people.

But now, the entire Ningxiang Pavilion, including cats and dogs, will not exceed one hundred.

"Ah Xiang, Boss Bai has been looking for you all afternoon. Where have you been?" A middle-aged woman in a crimson double-breasted skirt and a white cloak, holding a copper stove in her hand, stopped Zhou Sen and A. Fragrant way to go.

"Sister Yan."

Zhou Sen naturally knew that the half-aged woman in front of him was the steward of the Ningxiang Pavilion, commonly known as the old bustard: Sister Yan.

Normally, Bai Yulan would not see her at all, unless she had guests of sufficient status, she would come out to socialize. Most of the time, it was Sister Yan who would host and greet the guests.

"This is Police Officer Zhou from Nangang Police Station. Our Ningxiang Restaurant is closed today. What are you doing here?" Seeing Zhou Sen, Sister Yan frowned slightly and asked.

"Oh, Sister Yan, last time I was drinking at the Ningxiang Restaurant, I lost a lighter. Today I just ran into Miss Axiang. She said she found it, so I'll come with her to get it." Zhou Sen explained with a heck.

"A lighter, let Axiang find time to deliver it to you, and let you come and pick it up in person?"

"Didn't I drop by to do some errands, so I came here with Miss Lao Axiang." Zhou Sen said with a smile.

"Oh, that's right, I'm neglecting you!" Sister Yan glanced at Ah Xiang, and walked past the two of them.

"Master Zhou, why did you lie to Sister Yan just now?"

"Lie, where did I lie?" Zhou Sen chuckled, not admitting what he just said at all.

Ah Xiang rolled her eyes, and was about to speak up to refute, but after thinking about it, she didn't say anything now, and she really couldn't leak the news.

"Sister Lan..."

"Damn girl, where have you been all afternoon, do you know how worried I am about you?" Bai Yulan rushed over aggressively in a long loose nightgown, angry and angry, a little bit disregarding her own image.

Bai Yulan with this appearance was something no man would have the chance to see.

"Zhou Sen, why are you here?" Bai Yulan was taken aback by the sudden meeting of her eyes, then her phoenix eyes widened and she asked.

"Miss Axiang said that you are in some trouble, let me come and help you!" Zhou Sen chuckled. When a beauty is angry, it is very beautiful. Of course, it depends on the mood of the person.

"Ashanti?!"

"Ah, Sister Lan, I'll go to the kitchen and see what I'm having for dinner..." Ah Xiang also knew that if she stayed, she would definitely end badly, so she might as well avoid it for the time being to protect herself.

"It's not good to talk like this, why don't you go in and talk?" Zhou Sen pointed to the room, in case someone saw it, the gossip would be bad.

Bai Yulan frowned slightly, even though she didn't want to have anything to do with Zhou Sen, but she was standing at the door, if she didn't let him in, it seemed that she was too unreasonable.

"come in."

Zhou Sen nodded and followed Bai Yulan into the room.

In the familiar room, Zhou Sen went straight to the sofa and sat down, and Bai Yulan finally sat down in front of him.

"I don't care what Ah Xiang said to you, my business has nothing to do with you." Bai Yulan took out the cigarette case on the coffee table, took out a cigarette, and said between the index finger and middle finger of her right hand.

"Do you dare to say that it had nothing to do with you that night?" Zhou Sen didn't treat himself as an outsider, he smoked a cigarette from the cigarette case without lighting it, and asked back.

"what do you want?"

"You were tricked into pulling me in, and you said you had nothing to do with me?" Zhou Sen said, "Or, among the guests that night, I was the only one you liked."

"Zhou Sen, what exactly do you want?" Bai Yulan's voice became sharper, obviously she had reached the point where she couldn't bear it anymore.

"You want to keep the Ningxiang Hall, you want to control your own destiny, and you don't want to become someone else's plaything, but you are a woman, a young and beautiful woman who has a huge amount of wealth. In this troubled world, she is like a huge Everyone wants to swallow you up, you have no backer, and those who are willing to be your backer, there is no one who is not a man-eating jackal. You want to have both sides, but the jackals have teamed up, and they want to push you into a desperate situation , and then wait for you to give up all resistance before deciding how to share the meat, am I right?" Zhou Sen looked at Bai Yulan and said slowly, all of this is because he got the relevant information from Ah Xiang's mouth, and then based on the derived from their own analysis.

Bai Yulan seemed a little moved, and said with a sad smile: "Even if that's the case, how can you, a rich and dissolute son, help me? Can you fight those wolves?"

"I'm also a wolf, but I'm a male wolf and you are a female wolf. We don't have a pack of wolves, we are alone wolves, only ourselves. If we unite, we will naturally be able to overcome the difficulties in front of us. Of course, I The situation is better than yours, at least, I am not their target right now."

"Master Zhou, your appetite is bigger than those people, and you have no shame!" Bai Yulan stood up and shouted angrily, "Get out of here, get out of here immediately!"

"I offered 30 yuan to invest in Ningxiang Pavilion. As long as you hold [-]% of the shares in Ningxiang Pavilion, you will continue to control Ningxiang Pavilion. I will not interfere with any operation of Ningxiang Pavilion. What do you want to turn Ningxiang Pavilion into? It doesn't matter, there is only one condition, don't give up your original ideal!" Zhou Sen stood up and said, "If you don't object, I will take it as your consent."

"Zhou Sen, what do you mean, you want to help me just because I slept with you all night, am I that kind of lowly woman?" Bai Yulan asked.

Zhou Sen stared at Bai Yulan, walked over step by step, bent down, eyes, nose, very close, could hear the other person's heartbeat.

"If you don't mind, I can sleep a few more nights."

"You, bastard..." Bai Yulan was furious and was molested again.

(End of this chapter)