20 years of the Republic of China

Chapter 292 Shanfangtang

After finishing the rumors about the big thief Wen Tingge, everyone finally let out a sigh of relief.

Jiang Lianheng took the lead in clinking glasses with everyone and praised: "Ms. Yuan, you are so eloquent. If you don't go to Kun Library to tell stories, you are really undermining your talent!"

"Hey! What's the matter? We don't know how to play clappers and minor tunes. If you like to listen, I'll show you my skills."

As the old lady spoke, she started to chop with her chopsticks, which shocked everyone and quickly advised her to use her magical powers.

Jiang Lianheng changed the topic and looked at Yuan Xinfa, but asked: "Brother Yuan, talking about thieves, I just want to inquire about something. I work on the railway and am familiar with the station. I don't know about you. Have you ever heard that there was a theft case on a freight trip?"

Yuan Xinfa frowned with a crack, and replied angrily: "It seems so."

As mentioned before, these are troubled times, and freight shortages are not the norm, but they are by no means uncommon. Especially when working on the railway, you can always hear complaints from merchants every now and then, and no one is in the mood to ask in detail.

"Brother Yuan, think about it again." Jiang Lianheng reminded, "This theft case is not a small number, but an entire carriage of goods has been lost. It is the order of shopkeeper Liang of Shanfangtang in the north of the city."

Yuan Xinfa hesitated and said: "I think I heard someone say it, but I'm not sure about the details. We don't talk much to the unloaders."

Aunt Yuan interrupted and scolded: "You idiot! You are acting like a boring gourd every day. Who can tell you anything? When you go to work tomorrow, hurry up and ask for help."

"Well, I got it."

"Then I'll bother Brother Yuan." Jiang Lianheng nodded, and murmured to himself, "However, such a big thing didn't make a fuss? I thought the whole city was already in trouble! What about Shopkeeper Liang? Report to the official?"

He knew that Shopkeeper Liang had reported the matter to the Southern Railway's affairs department, but he didn't know whether he had reported it to the police station.

"I haven't heard about any cases that the patrol police are investigating recently?" Aunt Yuan curled her lips and said: "Besides, what can the reporting officer do? Nowadays, those stinking street patrols are too busy and don't care about anything. If you want to blame them, you can only blame them. We are not foreigners."

"How do you say this?" Jiang Lianheng asked.

"Why do you need to ask?" Aunt Yuan said angrily, "If you catch a foreigner and lose money or a bag, the patrol policemen will immediately run away and run very diligently; when it comes to us ordinary people, , I can push as much as I can and drag as much as I can!”

Everyone knew that what she said was true, so they all smiled bitterly.

Aunt Yuan saw the opportunity and asked with a smile: "My child, are you in the medicine business now? How about that, is it profitable? If it's not difficult for me to calculate, you can take your brother with us from now on. Let him fool around with you and make money for two years."

Don’t blame the old lady for nagging, this is also the normal state of the world.

Whenever a person makes a decent living and returns to his hometown in fine clothes, his relatives and friends will flock to him and beg him to take his children with him to go out and see him for a long time.

If you encounter something like this, you must hide if you can.

Otherwise, if they make money, they all think it is their own ability; if they don’t make money, they will always complain.

Jiang Lianheng knew this well, so he quickly waved his hands and complained: "Auntie, what kind of money do you make? Didn't you hear me that I just lost a truckload of goods? If you can make do without compensation, then you are lucky! You meet someone like this When collecting debts, it's like running for my life. Otherwise, why would I bring so many brothers with me? It would be scary! Your son can come if he wants, just to help me build up my momentum and save me from being attacked by bears."

When Aunt Yuan heard this, her face turned pale and she hurriedly said, "No need, my son can't handle the matter!"

Everyone was suppressing laughter in their hearts.

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At nightfall, the seats disperse.

Yuan Xinfa and his wife packed up their things and followed Aunt Yuan back to the opposite door to rest.

Jiang Lianheng and Hu Xiaoyan took their two close brothers Dongfeng and Beifeng with them and slept at noon; Liu Yansheng and Han Xinyuan took the remaining five brothers and crowded on the small earthen kang in the west room. It was more difficult to accompany Brother Dao to remember the hardships. Think sweet.

The brothers were tired from traveling all the way and blew out the lights. After a while, they were snoring like thunder.

Seeing that Dong Feng and Bei Feng were both fast asleep, Hu Xiaoyan raised her hand and pushed Jiang Lianheng, and asked in a low voice: "Hey? How much do you believe about Wen Tingge?"

The group of people all opened their eyes and knew in their hearts that the so-called Jianghu deeds were mostly made up of rumors and rumors. They should not be believed at all, nor should they be believed gullibly, nor should they be disbelieved.

Jiang Lianheng put his arms under the back of his head, looked at the beams on the roof, and muttered: "To be honest, it's not very credible. I'm also half of the Rong family. How can there be such a powerful 'Gaobai' in the world? , are all bullshit. If you ask me, this Wen Tingge is probably not the same person."

I think back then, when Sixth Master Guan Wei robbed the prince's house in Nancheng at night and took away a pair of emerald thumb rings under the eyes of the public guards, he also had to throw Jiang Lianheng into the courtyard as meat bait; he also sneaked into the Changfeng Escort Bureau and stole a pair of jade fingers. He dared to take action while he was in the dark.

Wen Tingge's deeds were too mysterious. Before he went to bed or before the lights were turned off, he could take money from the air with great fanfare. At the end, he had to shout and leave his name - this is not a thief, he is a fairy!

The most likely thing is that Wen Tingge bribed the caretaker of the house in advance and carried out the theft by cooperating inside and outside.

The so-called Jianghu nickname is not necessarily exclusive to a certain person.

Take dad Jiang Chenghai as an example. Everyone knows his nickname "Owl".

But the dirty work done by "Owl" cannot be completed by one person.

In other words, a single thread does not make a thread, and a single tree does not make a forest. "Owl" is both a person and a group of people. And the big thief Wen Tingge, or "dark under the lamp", is probably the same way.

Hu Xiaoyan nodded in the darkness and agreed: "Not to mention anything else, just talking about the goods in that carriage, it is impossible for one person to move them without anyone noticing. Moreover, shopkeeper Liang has not reported to the official."

"You mean, he and Wen Tingge worked together to defraud insurance companies?" Jiang Lianheng asked.

"I don't know, anything could happen."

Jiang Lianheng sighed and said, "Hey! Everything you say now is nonsense. We will find out when Yan Sheng and I go to Shanfang Hall early tomorrow morning."

"Well, keep your temper, after all, we are doing this for business."

"Don't worry! Didn't I handle the matter in Yingkou smoothly? I'll call Yuan Xinfa's wife here tomorrow morning to chat with you."

Hu Xiaoyan stopped talking and rubbed the pitted surface of the kang with her hand, and asked in a soft voice: "Have you lived here before?"

Jiang Lianheng smiled: "Yes! My mother died where you were lying before."

Hu Xiaoyan was speechless, it was such a disgrace to the scenery!

Jiang Lianheng seemed to have remembered something, so he suddenly stood up, stepped over Dong Feng and Bei Feng, came to the top of the kang, and groped around.

"What are you doing?" Hu Xiaoyan called him softly.

"Eh? Where did that brick go? I used to hide a hairy dog ​​head under the edge of this kang." Jiang Lian returned to his wife and lay down next to him angrily, "Oh! I guess it was because of those two people. Fill it in! Now it’s gone, it’s just like a dream.”

Hu Xiaoyan held his hand, her eyes wandering in the darkness, "Xiaodao, I feel that it would be great if we could live here for the rest of our lives."

"Ha! Then you can live here, I have to go back and enjoy my life!"

"It's boring!" Hu Xiaoyan was quiet for a while, "Trail?"

"What's wrong again?"

"Where are my parents-in-law's graves? It's hard to come back from this trip. Do I have to pay my respects?"

"Why are you so pretentious? You're pregnant with a child. Don't go to a place like that!" Jiang Lianheng yawned, rubbed his eyes and asked, "By the way, where are your parents' graves?"

"I don't know." Hu Xiaoyan shook her head sadly, "They may not be dead yet! In fact, I don't even know if I am from Liaoyang, but it is here that I have the deepest impression and stayed the longest. Before the old lady, I seemed to have been beaten several times, but fortunately... Xiaodao?... Xiaodao..."

Jiang Lianheng had fallen into a deep sleep.

Hu Xiaoyan pulled the quilt for him, then turned sideways and stared blankly at his face in the darkness, with a smile on her lips and affection in her eyes...

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Early the next morning, accompanied by a "ding-ding-ding-ding" sound of washing, Jiang Lianheng had breakfast and got ready to go.

First, he knocked on the opposite door and heard that Yuan Xinfa had already gone to work, so he asked Yingzi to come over to talk to Xiaoyan and help out when necessary. Thinking that the work would not be in vain, he proposed to pay her as a part-time worker.

But Yingzi knew the rules and knew that he had lived in the Jiang family's house for free for several years, so he refused to accept the money.

After everything was properly arranged, Jiang Lianheng took Liu Yansheng and his two younger brothers to go out. Beifeng had been nagging him for a long time, and finally followed as he wished. The remaining brothers all stayed at home to protect his sister-in-law Xiaoyan. Safety.

Because I was in my hometown, I explored the road this time and went straight to my goal.

After crossing the Southern Railway Annex near the White Tower, Jiang Lianheng and others turned into a street. They didn't go far before they found Liang Bolin's store.

I saw that the shop front was more than two feet long, with a black plaque and gold characters, and the three characters "shanfangtang" in running script. It was simple and unique, and the fragrance of medicine was fragrant.

Jiang Lianheng was wearing a black gown. When he looked up, he still looked the same as before, unchanged at all.

The older the signboard of the drug store becomes, the more valuable it becomes. Before I even get closer, I can see an endless stream of customers coming and going at the door.

Without any hesitation, Jiang Lianheng took Liu Yansheng and Zhao Zhengbei into the old medicine shop and asked his two remaining brothers to wait outside.

The three or two guys on the counter who were picking up medicine were all very diligent. When they saw the visitor, they asked enthusiastically: "Guys, what medicine do you want to grab?"

Liu Yansheng stepped forward with a smile and explained: "If you don't take the medicine, we will come to your shopkeeper. Please inform us and tell us that it is someone from Zongheng Cargo Insurance Company and come to investigate the situation."

When the waiter heard this, he didn't dare to neglect. He quickly asked everyone to sit down and turned back to the inner hall.

Shaoqing saw a middle-aged man with a mustache in his forties, wearing a maroon gown, walking into the front hall. He kept muttering: "Here he comes, he comes, who is from Zongheng Company?" ?”

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