20 years of the Republic of China

Chapter 69 Speculation
The moon hangs in the west, the night is deep, and the wind is cold.

In Jiang Chenghai's house, all the brothers gathered together.Whenever we get together late at night and encounter this situation, there must be "dirty work" to be done.

Everyone sat down everywhere, with different expressions on their faces.

Jiang Chenghai sat cross-legged on the edge of the kang, staring at the shoes on the ground, smoking a dry cigarette in his mouth, not talking much.Li Tianwei leaned on the cabinet and picked his ears, Sun Chengmo read the "Shengjing Times" by an oil lamp, Jin Xiaoyi kept tapping his shoulders and twisting his neck, seemingly uncomfortable, and Shen Guoliang sat there clicking his fingers with nothing to do. Guan Wei came in and went out for a while. Gong Baonan was lying on the kang, looking at Erlang's legs, wanting to sleep but not daring to sleep.

After a few years, the three brothers have gradually shown their age. The fourth and fifth brothers are almost in their prime, and the sixth and seventh brothers are still young in their thirties. However, one is too lively and the other is too lazy. I always feel that they are almost mean.

Guan Wei went in and out and wandered around for several times. He couldn't help but mutter loudly on purpose: "Why aren't Xiaodao coming back? Nothing can happen, right? How about I go out to greet him?"

After saying that, he took a sneak peek at his elder brother's reaction, but Jiang Chenghai was as steady as a mountain and turned a deaf ear.

"Oh, you should have a rest!" Gong Baonan said impatiently, "You guys have been grinding the trail for four or five years, and you still don't understand the whole loophole? Besides, it's not his first time working. Do you need to worry so much?"

Guan Wei is indeed a worry-taker: "If you want Xiaodao to directly insert that hole, then I'm not worried, but if you want to deliberately leave a way for others to survive, it's not easy to deal with, and it's easy to leave a tail, in case someone remembers it It’s over!”

As soon as he finished speaking, his second brother Li Tianwei cursed: "Fuck you!"

Hearing the sound, everyone looked towards him.

Li Tianwei tilted his head and said to Jiang Chenghai, "Brother, do you really plan to work as a swordsman for Zhou Yunfu for the rest of your life?"

"Then what else do you want?"

"Let's just do the opposite!" Li Tianwei said without hesitation, "The rules on the road have changed! What kind of bear has Zhou Yunfu been turned into in the past few years? Seeing Bai Baochen and the boy from the Su family get up, he has the same idea. Is that so? You don’t even fart anymore, and you’re still yelling at us and doing whatever we’re told. Are you really treating our brothers like dogs?”

Jiang Chenghai remained silent, and everyone looked at each other in confusion.

Li Tianwei thought for a while, softened his tone a little, and then said: "Brother, I know, there is justice in the world! The three of us brothers all owe Zhou Yunfu a favor. When we came down from the mountain, we were no longer beards. It was him who helped us speak. We have been cleared of wanted arrests by the government, but that was more than 20 years ago, so we should repay this favor, right?"

The fifth child, Shen Guoliang, was also born with a beard, and immediately echoed: "It doesn't matter if you work for Zhou Yunfu, but we have done so much dirty work for him, so we have to do something!"

Jin Xiaoyi nodded: "The business of the gambling house was given to Chen Wantang, which I can accept. After all, he was originally in that business, and he said he was worshiping Zhou Yunfu, which is actually a joint effort. The business of the prostitute was given to Sister Hong, the eldest brother. Third sister, I have nothing to say. But the business of tobacco and soil has always been handled by his nephew, so he should share it with us, right?"

Li Tianwei snorted and laughed at himself: "What is our business? Teahouse! Restaurant! Clear soup with little water! What do you mean?"

At this time, Sun Chengmo suddenly turned over a page of the newspaper and murmured: "There are advantages and disadvantages. Just talking about business, we have some advantages, clean! Otherwise, there will be no place for us in the Chamber of Commerce."

It is interesting to say that although Zhou Yunfu was boycotted by the Chamber of Commerce, Jiang Chenghai's business was included in it.

This was actually Bai Baochen's secret plan to deliberately drive a wedge between Zhou Yunfu and Jiang Chenghai.

Shen Guoliang continued: "Third brother, aren't you trying to find a way for yourself? What is the purpose of the Chamber of Commerce apart from holding meetings every day to flatter others?"

Li Tianwei agreed: "Lao San, you have been in the city for a long time, and you really think of yourself as a businessman? What do we do? We are bandits! We are thieves! If it weren't for our brothers' Man'er who was there to control us. , How can those two shabby teahouses and restaurants last for such a long time? They should have been run over by the damn people!" "Second brother is right!" Shen Guoliang said again, "I think Zhou Yunfu has been on his feet in a few days, let's just go Let’s seize Han Ce’s business!”

"It's late!"

Jiang Chenghai suddenly spoke up and banged his pipe into the spittoon, both to knock out the ashes and to stop the argument.

Although the eldest brother is old, his majesty is still there. With the two "bang bang" sounds, no matter how angry everyone is, they can only hold it in at this moment.

In fact, all these complaints are by no means a temporary whim, but have been dissatisfied for many years.

At the beginning, Li Tianwei and others discussed this matter in Wang Guihe's village.

However, at that time, Zhou Yunfu was very powerful. Although he did not give them any money-making business, the three major businesses of prostitution, gambling, and opium, distributed a lot of dividends to the brothers every year, and there were no complaints. So I endured it.

But in recent years, Zhao and Xu have been in charge of Fengtian, which not only made the old man breathless, but also made him lose a lot of money. The Bai and Su families took advantage of the situation, and Zhou Yunfu's power was inevitably squeezed.

With less dividends, of course the brothers started to get angry.

After all, traveling in the world is for fame and fortune.At present, the brothers have long been worried. The money is not in place, so they rely solely on the word "loyalty". How many hearts can they tie up by hanging there?

Jiang Chenghai "pulled out the incense sticks" and withdrew from the green forest. The reason why he worshiped Zhou Yunfu was to eliminate the wanted wanted by the court.

He worked for the old man through life and death. In his early years, he did it for nothing but four words - repaying kindness!
But as the number of enemies increases and the road becomes narrower, Jiang Chenghai has been tied up by Zhou Yunfu like a grasshopper on a rope without even realizing it.

Lao Jianghu will not understand the principle of lips dying and teeth falling cold, and of course the brothers are the same, but they just can’t swallow this breath!
Li Tianwei couldn't help but sigh: "Oh! Brother, to be honest, we might as well have stayed on the top of the mountain in Guihe and never come back!"

The other brothers did not have the status of the second brother and did not dare to support him outright. They just pretended to talk about it unintentionally.

"I heard that that kid Guihe used his experience in fighting in the past few years to get the best of both worlds. Later, he cooperated with the Japanese to fight against others and took advantage of the situation to become bigger. Now there are about [-] people on the mountain!"

"Wang Guihe is a person. Brother, should we stop contacting him? If Zhou Yunfu really falls, we will have a way out then."

"Lao Wu is right, brother, I think we should stop working so hard for the old man, right?"

Everyone was chatting and quarreling again, while Jiang Chenghai just frowned in deep thought.

At this moment, a voice came from the door: "How can that be done!"

Everyone looked at the sound and saw Jiang Xiaodao kicking open the door, striding into the house, and loudly saying: "Why do you guys become my uncles? Do you still have any sense of justice in the world? If Zhou Yunfu falls, I, Jiang, will Xiaodao was the first to refuse!"

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