Mahjong

Chapter 74

Xu Bicheng smiled at Li Xiaonan, "Planting flowers. When I was at home, grandma used to use stone troughs and stone mills to plant flowers. I always think that simplicity and roughness are also a kind of beauty."

Li Xiaonan couldn't help but enviously said: "After all, she is a lady from a rich family, she knows a lot."

Xu Bicheng was a little embarrassed, "No way, they are all unrealistic things."

After the workers finished moving the items, Xu Bicheng handed over a few banknotes, and said politely and politely.After the workers left, Xu Bicheng looked at Li Xiaonan and said, "Little man, thank you for shopping with me today. I'll make eight-treasure tea for you."

Li Xiaonan asked in surprise: "I have only eaten eight-treasure rice, what is eight-treasure tea?"

Li Xiaonan's question was quickly answered.In the living room, Li Xiaonan was holding a cup of eight-treasure tea, and she stretched out her fingers to count the eight treasures in the tea, and said one after the other: "Chrysanthemum, jasmine, Luo Han Guo, licorice, wolfberry, red dates, raisins... and ginseng. "

At this time, Xu Bicheng came out of the kitchen with a wooden tray and said, "That's American ginseng."

Li Xiaonan exclaimed, "There are really eight treasures."

Xu Bicheng smiled, "If there is a chance to go to Chongqing in the future, I will invite you to drink authentic Sichuan Babao tea in a teahouse."

Li Xiaonan took a sip of tea and said, "You can also drink tea with flowers, it's really special."

Xu Bicheng took out a plum blossom box from the tray and put it on the tea table.Li Xiaonan looked at the gray porcelain plum blossom box, and saw that in the six plum blossom-shaped holes, there was a two-inch white disk in each hole, and delicate snacks were placed on the disk.

Li Xiaonan was a little envious again, "Why do these ordinary things make you look appetizing?"

Xu Bicheng lit a stick of incense in the corner of the coffee table, and said in a daze: "When I was young, my family was not in the middle of nowhere, and my family still paid attention to these things."

Li Xiaonan looked at Xu Bicheng with his chin in admiration, "No wonder my family Chen Shen always dislikes me. Bicheng, compared with you, I'm so rough that I don't look like a woman."

Xu Bicheng was a little embarrassed, "Don't say that, they are all useless hobbies. Women are like flowers, each with its own fragrance and charm, and you are also very good."

Li Xiaonan looked at himself up and down and said, "I'm not like a flower, but at most a vegetable."

Xu Bicheng smiled, "The dishes also have the style of dishes. Look at the hot pepper, the lotus root is transparent, and the cabbage also has layers of flavor."

Li Xiaonan seemed inexplicably frustrated, "But I'm just a radish, in one word, straight."

Just when the two were talking happily, Tang Shanhai went to Zhihu Bookstore.He stood at the door, looked around casually, and then walked into the study.There are only a few customers in the store flipping through books.The bookstore owner Tao Dachun pretended to see Tang Shanhai entering and greeted him warmly.Tang Shanhai followed Tao Dachun into the inner room on the grounds of taking books to settle the bill.As soon as he entered the inner room, Tao Dachun immediately locked the door cautiously.

Tang Shanhai took off his hat and sat down and said, "I never thought that this temporary bookstore would come in handy."

Tao Dachun said: "This place is also temporary. I have asked people to look for a new stronghold."

Tang Shanhai nodded and said in agreement: "Bi Zhongliang has been here, maybe he will send someone to follow me, you should go to settle down elsewhere as soon as possible."

Tao Dachun nodded and changed the subject, "Lü Ming is finally dead, you are still safe for the time being."

Tang Shanhai shook his head, and said in a deep voice: "Bi Zhongliang's investigation will not stop. The leak of this matter has become a fact, and we still need someone to be responsible for it, so that we can really get rid of the suspicion. There is a man named Fatty Yu, who is from Caohejing Prison. A secret agent. This person likes to gamble, enjoy cars, and is a good woman. He owes a lot of debts. Since his second uncle is someone close to Wang Jingwei, he borrowed a lot of public funds from Caohejing to squander. This time, He is also one of the suspects. I want you to try to create the illusion that this person absconded and committed suicide."

Tao Dachun understood it clearly, "This is to let Fatty Yu take the blame." He thought for a while and said, "Okay, I'll do it."

Tang Shanhai looked at Tao Dachun, moved his mouth, and finally said after several times: "The group of people transferred to Tilan Bridge, including Zhou Li, were all executed by shooting yesterday. If we can find the daughters of Lu Ming and Zhou Li, try to get them to Take care of this child."

Tao Dachun nodded silently.It wasn't until nightfall that Tang Shanhai left Zhihu Bookstore and returned home.When he walked into the house, he saw that the house was brightly lit, there were newly purchased oil paintings on the walls, the curtains were changed, no one could be seen in the house, the lights were on on the balcony, and there was some movement.Tang Shanhai walked to the balcony and saw Xu Bicheng wearing an apron with his sleeves rolled up, planting flowers in the stone trough.Her long curly hair was tied loosely behind her head, and she looked very charming.

Xu Bicheng looked back at Tang Shanhai, "Are you back? Have you eaten yet?"

Tang Shanhai watched Xu Bicheng busy himself, planted a evergreen tree into the soil, and said with a smile: "I ate it. But today the family has changed a lot."

Xu Bicheng turned around and smiled brightly, "I also want to make this place a real home."

Xu Bicheng buried his head in planting flowers, and accidentally got a little mud on his fair face, but it looked even more delicate and charming.

Tang Shanhai stepped forward and said, "Let me help you."

Xu Bicheng shook his head, "No, don't get your hands dirty, I'll be fine in a while."

Tang Shanhai knelt down, looked at Xu Bicheng and said, "Men should do those dirty jobs."

Xu Bicheng burst out laughing and said, "The kitchen work should be done by women, but our family is reversed. Don't rob anyone, okay?"

Tang Shanhai smiled, "Our family?"

Xu Bicheng blushed suddenly.She avoided Tang Shanhai's enthusiastic gaze, and her tone became a little cold, "You go in first, don't squeeze me."

Tang Shanhai tactfully got up and left with a smile on his face.He took two steps and then stopped, looking back at Xu Bicheng who was busy with his head down, he refused to move any further.

There are countless large and small casinos on the beach, and they are all making noise in the dark night without exception.Fatty Yu was so jealous of losing at the poker table in the casino that he didn't realize that Tao Dachun and several military commanders were among the onlookers, watching him all the time. Even his opponents were disguised as military commanders.

Fatty Yu was holding two stacked cards and was checking the last hole card.Judging from the cards on the table, Fatty Yu does not have the advantage.He looked nervous, while the man in black opposite him was confident.The last card was turned over, and Fatty Yu lost as expected.He slapped the table in frustration and watched as all the chips on the table were transferred to the winner on the opposite side.

The opponent sneered and said, "Fatty Yu, you've lost so much that you only have a pair of pants left, stop."

Fatty Yu was unwilling, and shouted in a high-pitched voice: "Who will lend me the money. I'll give you five cents!"

The gamblers were boiling.Seeing this, the casino boy persuaded him: "Brother Yu, it's not that they don't want to earn your interest, it's that you already owe a lot of debt. If you borrow again, what will you use to pay it back?"

Fatty Yu slapped his gun on the table and said, "I will pay you back with my life!"

Everyone was a little scared.At this time, Tao Dachun's voice sounded from the crowd: "I will lend it to you."

Fatty Yu was overjoyed, as if a drowning man had grasped a life-saving straw.It's just that Fatty Yu never expected that this life-saving straw was actually a water plant that entangled him, dragged him tightly, and tried to kill him.

In the dark room, only a light above was on.Fatty Yu's head was pressed on the table by a member of the military command, and the light made him unable to open his eyes.On the chair beside the table, Tao Dachun sat calmly. He put several IOUs with Yu Fatty's fingerprints on Fatty Yu's face and asked, "It's 200 yuan including principal and interest. What do you have to pay back?"

Fatty Yu screamed in horror: "Why do you have all these IOUs?"

Tao Dachun patted Fatty Yu's face with the IOU, "I heard that you have a relative who is a high-ranking official in Nanjing. You must have money to pay off the debt, right?"

Fatty Yu couldn't stop trembling and asked, "What do you want?"

Tao Dachun smiled, "I'm a loan shark, of course I only want money. But if you play tricks with me, I'll have to ask for both money and life."

Fatty Yu quickly said, "Don't kill me, don't kill me. I'll pay it back...I'll definitely pay it back."

Tao Dachun stuffed bullets into his revolver, leaving only one bullet hole unfilled.Then he held his gun against Fatty Yu's head, his voice was as cold as ice, "You only have one day, after one day..."

Fatty Yu yelled, "I must pay it back! I will definitely pay it back!"

Having said that, Fatty Yu knew that he couldn't pay back the money at all.He walked in the alley in front of his house in a daze, not knowing what to do.Not far away, two pseudo-spies of Wang followed Fatty.Fatty Yu obviously noticed the stalking. He ran forward in fear, but he tripped over a stone on the road and nearly fell.He rushed into his house, and when he slammed the door shut, he found that he almost peed his pants.

In a room on the second floor opposite Fatty's house, a Hurricane team member held up a telescope to observe.After Tao Dachun learned that the people from Operation No. 76 were also staring at Fatty Yu, he decided to cancel the plan to do it at Fatty Yu's house.He wants to force him to leave his home.

Fatty Yu rummaged through boxes and cabinets at home for a long time, but only found a few scattered banknotes.He sat on the bed helpless.

Suddenly a stone smashed the window glass of his house, and the broken glass splashed all over the ground, some glass even splashed on the fat man's face.When Fatty Yu touched the blood on his face, he was terrified.He desperately shouted "Killer, help me".

(End of this chapter)