Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 2480 Second Meeting

Gao Chongjiu had many friends and was the most informed, and he helped Li Ziyu find a house not long after.

"Originally it was the property of a master in the Ming Dynasty, but because it was involved in the witchcraft case, it was confiscated as reverse property. Now the owner is a city-owned company." He took out the blueprint as he spoke.

The mansion is a courtyard with three entrances, which is suitable in size and well-built, with basic furniture inside.The surrounding environment is not bad.Li Ziyu still shook his head: "Ninth brother, how can I get this house for a hundred yuan? At least three to five hundred yuan!"

"Although you can't buy it, you can pawn it. The period is seven years, which is exactly [-] yuan. There is also a stamp duty of [-] yuan."

Li Ziyu told his uncle the news, and the uncle went with his aunt again. Feeling quite satisfied, he went to the city capital company to sign a contract and mortgage the house.

After mortgaged the house, Zhang Shizhong was in a hurry to move, Li Ziyu simply sent Agui to handle it - anyway, he couldn't help much with the investigation.After working for more than a week, Zhang's family moved into a new house, and Agui was too busy.On this day, my uncle invited me to housewarming wine.Li Ziyu went to eat wine and said some auspicious words, and the yellow crane also came to say goodbye.

"Farewell? Where are you planning to go, can you make a living?" Li Ziyu asked because of his professional sensitivity.

"The little one has already found a job in Lingao." Huang He took out a piece of "recruitment notice".It was issued by Lingao Jiangnan Leather Company, "I will report to Lingao soon."

"Tannery?" Li Ziyu didn't know much about this business, "Do you know how to make leather?"

"Small tanning is not good, but in the past in Tianjin, it was also a leather business, and it was considered a professional."

"That's great, I have a secure job and live a good life in Lingao!"

"Thank you so much!"

Huang He said a few more auspicious words and left.Li Ziyu didn't take it to heart, after all, he was still busy with the things in front of him.There are innumerable people from the north like Huang He, like crucian carp crossing the river.

When Li Ziyu and Gao Chongjiu were busy investigating the case, just outside the east gate of Guangzhou, the guys in a tea house were busy.Although this is neither a downtown area nor a wharf and boat port, the geographical location of the tea house is still quite superior—the two roads entering the city converge at the entrance of the tea house, forming a not-so-wide T-shaped intersection.Opposite the intersection is the Songluo Tea House where the little guy Hu Qi makes tea and pours water every day.

There is a stone bridge to the west of the tea house. You can see Yongtai Temple within a mile of walking across the bridge.Even though the Songluo Tea House is not very eye-catching, it is the only decent resting place in this area.Pedestrians passing by, tired from walking, come in for a cup of tea; people who have something to go far away, meet and say goodbye to relatives and friends who are seeing them off.

Songluo Tea House has two courtyards, the first one is on the side of the road, but it is an open courtyard.As soon as you enter the small courtyard at the back, there is a miscellaneous courtyard where water is burned, firewood is piled up, and the guys live.If there are merchants who don't have time to enter the city at night, if they don't think it's too simple, they can also stay here and wait until dawn before entering the city.

Yesterday someone greeted the shopkeeper of the tea house: "Today our master wants you to meet guests here! Keep your main room and don't let idle people wait in. Our master wants to entertain distinguished guests!" Before leaving, he stayed fixed money.

So early this morning, the little guy was dragged out of the warm bed by the shopkeeper, lit a fire, boiled water, prepared tea,... Finally got a break, and was called to buy tea and food.

Buying tea and food can go to the big world, and Hu Qi was also happy to take a break from his busy schedule to go to the big world to play for a long time, and immediately took the money and set off.

The shopkeeper saw the sun slowly drifting over the treetops, and the tea customers in the east and west halls came and went, and when they came, several groups of people had already passed by.The "honored guest" that the housekeeper spoke of never showed up.

It wasn't until noon, when Hu Qi came back with the walnut cakes, that he saw two porters carrying a green bamboo cloth sedan chair coming from afar.Sitting on the open-topped sedan chair was a somewhat wealthy official, dressed as a scholar, the two of them were wearing newly made blue cloth blouses, and a blue soft hat...they were dressed as servants of a rich family People, following the footsteps of the bearers, follow behind unhurriedly.

While Hu Qi was still in a daze, the shopkeeper had already rushed a few steps and greeted him from a distance: "Master, you are here!"

Hao Erye watched the butler come forward to negotiate with the shopkeeper, and waved to the bearer to put down the sedan chair.With his hands behind his back, he walked slowly in square steps, and walked towards this tea house facing the river and water.

On the side of the official road, there is a big word "tea" written on the cloth cover, and a plaque of "Songluo Tea House" is hung above the main entrance.This tea house has a long history. When he was a child and came to Yongtai Temple with his mother, his mother took him here.The shopkeeper back then was also the grandfather of the present shopkeeper.

Looking back on the past, it was more than 40 years ago.At that time, the world was peaceful and the people were happy.There is neither Donglu nor Nankun, and a businessman like him lives happily and happily.

He himself never thought that one day he would witness the "change of dynasty" with his own eyes-of course, the Kun bandits have not proclaimed emperor yet, let alone entered the capital, but it is obvious that Guangdong has "changed the sky".

He looked at the Songluo Tea House, and now he has followed suit and learned the "Australian style" by inlaying expensive glass on the windows.There are many potted flowers in the open courtyard -- many varieties were brought by Australians.The weather in Guangzhou has turned warm in February, and all kinds of flowers are competing to bloom.

"Second Lord! Everything is ready inside," Hao Ping said in a low voice.

Second Master Hao ordered in a low voice: "Go tell Hao An and wait by the side of the road." After speaking, he walked up the steps and entered the spacious and bright main hall.There are more than 20 sets of tables and chairs in the main hall, which are neatly tidied up; on the curved counter, there are more than a dozen transparent "Australian style" glass tea boxes, and you can see at a glance that there are new tea leaves of this year inside.Usually, it is always full of passing merchants and outing tourists, and it is very lively.Today, because he has booked the place, it looks empty.

There is an ear room in the east and west of the main hall.The west ear room is where the accounting room is located, while the east ear room is a box.Hao Erye said that it is a private room, but in fact, the tea customers can only fill this side room.

The shopkeeper personally led the way and led him into the ear room.This side room is not big, but it is more than enough to seat a dozen people.Facing south is a small courtyard, where a magnolia that has been planted for decades.Because of the patio, although the side room is surrounded by walls on three sides, it is full of light.

It's a good place for a hidden conversation.It is more ideal than Yongtai Temple.

The ear room is so clean that there is nothing else, only a tea table and a long case with enough paper and inkstones are placed in the middle.There are eight-color fine porcelain dried and fresh fruit spots on the table.

"I heard that you also have special Australian tea here? Remember to prepare it." Hao Ping ordered.

The shopkeeper's face was full of smiles, "Yes, yes! I told the buddy to go to the city to buy it early in the morning!" Then he went out to prepare, but saw Hu Qi still carrying a bag of refreshments, poking his head and looking around, went straight up and went It was a mouthful, cursing, "Where did you die?! Buy a snack for a long time! Hurry up and put it on the plate!"

It is common for apprentices to get slapped in the mouth. Hu Qi covered his face and went to the counter, took a plate and began to pack various refreshments bought from Zhang Ji.A large plate was full.Carefully carried it over.

Hu Qi served tea, and within a few minutes of returning to the counter, he was turned around again, fetching things, washing, and calling for boiling water.Too busy to go around.

And the guests of Mr. Hao also came one after another.Every guest is led by the Hao family's servants and taken to the ear room.Hu Qi has been working in the teahouse for more than two years, and he has also developed a little bit of ability to check people and look at sex.

The group of guests invited by Mr. Hao is really rare, although all of them are well-dressed.But judging from their appearance and behavior, most of them are rough people.When pouring tea and water for them, it is very obvious that one is smelling of coal smoke, the other is full of calluses, and the third is full of dust and dirt under the nails... these people At first glance, he is not a decent person.

Seeing that everyone had arrived, Second Master Hao winked, and Hao Ping drove out all the shopkeepers and shopkeepers, and ordered: "Don't come in if you don't say hello." After that, he still guarded the door of the anteroom.

Hao Erye picked up the teacup first, and said a few polite words.Then it got to the point.

Most of the people who came were the participants of the "Yongtai Temple Conference".Some of them were too old to come and replaced them with younger nephews and nephews.There is another one, but it is the first time to participate in the meeting.This person's surname is He, and he is a person from the rivers and lakes.It was active outside Guangzhou many years ago.It's a worthless business.Later, he accumulated some family business and started other activities.He and Hao Erye are old acquaintances and business partners.

"...Right now, the silver coins and treasure banknotes of the Kun thief are widely circulated in the market. We used to plan to take advantage of the unstable foothold of the Kun thief and preemptively create a batch of fake silver coins and counterfeit banknotes to disrupt the market. It won’t work anymore! The banknotes are easy to talk about, even though they are sold at different prices, they can still fool the country people. Those silver pancakes really can’t be made..."

Boss He is also a hero who has traveled the rivers and lakes, and he has committed many crimes in the early years.Most of the various counterfeit coins produced by Mr. Hao are also distributed through his channels.Hearing Erye Hao's words now, it seems that he has grown up his ambition and destroyed his own prestige. The most important thing is that he took such a huge risk and got all the promotion and wealth he promised, so he was originally unhappy.After taking a sip of tea, the choking sound was just coughing, "Cough! I said Hao Renyuan, you were a well-known man in the Jianghu back then. How come you have become so timid after not seeing you for a few years? Isn't it just printing counterfeit banknotes and minting money?" Fake money, you think you’re printing real money, it’s not like that, you think you’re in charge of the Baoquan Bureau for the gangsters!” Boss He looked at the few strangers present, and didn’t say much later Say.

(End of this chapter)