Chapter 37 second quarter

"Where did the wound on your face come from?" "I went to the Town God's Temple to wait for the freshly released crab roe steamed buns, but they were so crowded that I fell down and got trampled on my head and body. That's why it happened." "Then why did you get trampled on?" "I rushed too far ahead, and I was not prepared. Not only did I not eat the steamed buns, but my wallet was stolen. I would not let it go, so I chased the thief all the way, but I didn't want the thief to turn around and punch me. broke the root of the tooth." "You never had a wallet, and the money was all scattered in your pockets."

"I... I just bought a purse on a whim, and I was targeted by thieves, and I was in bad luck!" "But you were robbed of your money, why did you bring back a hundred oceans?" "Your mother, do you want to eat the lotus paste I brought back?" In the past few days, Du Chunxiao and Xia Bing have had the most frequent conversations about these things. One is chasing and knocking fiercely, while the other is refusing to make any moves. It is a joy to guess and evade like this until she speaks in an angry tone Stop his doubts. Apart from asking about Du Chunxiao's injuries, Xia Bing's busiest thing now is to find Xing Zhigang's whereabouts together with Xiaosi.After Xing Zhigang sent Bi Xiaoqing's fingers to the Qin Mansion, there was no movement for three days. On the fourth day, there was another line of address written in white paint for no reason on the inside of the mailbox of the Qin Mansion: No. 381, Yunjiang Road.

Xia Bing and Du Chunxiao then rushed to Yunjiang Road, which is not far from Songjiang Wharf. It is the only way for foreigners to go to the agency to find a job after landing in Shanghai by boat.Therefore, fish and dragons are mixed and extremely unstable. As soon as you step into the block, you can feel the vulgarity that is different from the bustling world of flowers and flowers.However, these two people seem to be used to mixing with low-class people, and their clothing and temperament still have distinct characteristics of outsiders, so they don't catch the eye.Du Chunxiao even bought a pack of melon seeds and ate them as he walked, while Ren Xiabing alone was paying attention to the house numbers that were either blocked by the signboards on the storefronts or were already mottled.

After walking three times, there was no number 381. "Could it be that you wrote it to trick us?" A blister formed on the sole of Xia Bing's right foot, and he began to lose his breath. "Say, should we find another job? Your detective agency and my bookstore are empty. Before long, you will have to sit back and go back to your hometown in Qingyun Town to plant mulberry and silkworms. If you don't want to Ashamed of this, I should find some other jobs first, and earn the money to buy a house and land..." Du Chunxiao seemed to be serious about what he said, and he kept looking at the posters posted on the wall along the way. Recruitment notice.

Xia Bing also became a little confused about her reaction, and said angrily: "You don't need to provoke me, I am the one who wants to go back in the end, you are so capable, how can there be any reason to go back?" Knowing that he had a temper, she stood in front of a rolled-up recruitment notice and said with a smile: "You said if this job is done well, can we gain a foothold in Shanghai?" Xia Bing followed her gaze and saw that it was a notice to recruit restaurant waiters. He was annoyed and smiled again: "You are fascinated by Stephen? Babaer wants to go to the restaurant to serve dishes!"

"I don't want to serve dishes...but I want to make money." Du Chunxiao pointed to the big "381" painted with a black brush on the recruitment notice, with a rather smug expression on his face. The recruitment paper was peeled off, and on the back was written: At three o'clock in the morning, at Wusongkou Wharf, put the gold bars under the third stone pier.Don't forget! "Look." Du Chunxiao took the recruitment notice in his hand and read it over and over again, "I just said, the time has come for us to make a fortune." As Xiao Si said, ordinary people should not approach Wusongkou at night, because it is the territory where the "little stereotyped party" and the "big stereotyped party" compete for red soil.Fortunately, Qin Yazhe made a turnaround in private and promised that nothing would happen that night, but how could these two indifferent people push eighty gold bars with a cart?Xia Bing was worrying, but Du Chunxiao seemed to have figured it out, and said with a smile: "The transportation of these gold bars must be by water. Xing Zhigang has a clear idea, knowing that Master Qin's business is done on the ship, I think it is this way The second time he had to capsize in the gutter, that’s why he was so well chosen.”

The words awakened the dreamer, Xia Bing couldn't help but feel anxious, and felt that it was impossible to get things done so quickly tonight, and Xing Zhigang had to send a big boat to take away all the gold bars at once.However, it was cold and windy that night, and the black-topped boats were all moored, and there were very few large barges on the voyage.However, the flickering of the lights is very low-key, and even the sound of the motor is as subtle as a mosquito, deliberately moving very slowly and secretly, like a ghost on the river. The gold bars were placed in wooden boxes and placed in the cabin. The hull of the boat was extremely heavy. Du Chunxiao squatted in the bow, the cold wind made her nose red and her eyes watery.The oil lamp was hung on the corner of the canopy, and the flames collided with the glass cover constantly, which was a bit ghostly.

"It's not time yet, why don't you go in and sit down?" Xia Bing tightly wrapped himself in the short padded jacket, grinning from the cold. "I said—" Du Chunxiao took a puff of smoke, and the smoke quickly melted into the vast night. The air seemed to be condensed, and his breathing was very heavy, with white mist spraying from his nostrils, "I'm afraid we won't see each other tonight." It's Mrs. Fifth." "Why do you know that?" Xia Bing knew that she never said anything unreasonable, but she also became suspicious.Qin Yazhe had ambushed men and horses within ten miles along the shore of the pier. As soon as the opponent appeared and touched the gold bar, thirty people would immediately surround him, and it would be easy to chop it into meat on the spot.

"Because the boat is going a little too fast." Du Chunxiao stood up and patted the soot that had blown back on her skirt. The swelling of the broken teeth had not completely subsided, so there was always a strange feeling in the mouth that the food was not cleaned.She shrank her neck, tied the scarf into a knot, and still stood at the bow. "Going fast? I don't think it's too slow! With such a heavy thing, I don't know if I can make it to the pier at three o'clock." Xia Bing suddenly missed Tang Hui. Not so anxious. "I'm afraid I can't." Du Chunxiao took a puff of cigarette slowly and flicked the remaining cigarette end into the river.

"Don't you still think the boat is going fast? Why do you say you can't make it?" Just as Du Chunxiao was about to answer, the boat boss yelled, "Get out of the way!" "Why?" Xia Bing asked him immediately. The captain of the boat raised his hand and pointed out that there was a barge coming towards them. The sound of the motor was very soft, like a low whimper.Du Chunxiao took out another cigarette, lit it, pointed at the opposite boat and said with a smile, "That's why we couldn't get there." Sure enough, the black-covered boat had not moved to one side, it was already fixed there, because the opponent was moving too fast, it rushed to the front, and the water splashed the boss of the boat.Before they can see clearly, a walking board has been set up on the bow of the boat, and several groups of people come by in twos and threes.

"What are you doing?" The boss of the boat yelled fiercely, relying on his background, but he was punched immediately, blood spurting from the mouth and nose.Just as Xia Bing was about to go forward, he was held back by Du Chunxiao. Only then did he see that every head of the visitor was covered with a black cloth, with only two holes cut out to reveal his eyes. Du Chunxiao said to one of them, who was wearing a gold necklace with his collar open, "Brothers, this ship doesn't have the goods you want." "Whether the goods are available or not, it doesn't matter if you talk about it, we have to see it. Okay?" The man wearing the gold chain spoke slowly, but he was not fierce. "Honestly speaking," she said with a smile, "there are some things, but not many, the elder brother will go in and get them. But the things are the second in charge of the Hong gang, how cool is the elder brother?" Dai Jinlian was stunned for a moment, then suddenly turned his head up and laughed a few times, then turned his head and said to a few people: "Brothers, did you hear this clearly? Today we have become the second head of the Hong Gang, good luck!" The voice of the man It was very weird, like the tongue was rolled into a ball, but it seemed familiar, which made Du Chunxiao very entangled. After finishing speaking, those people happily went forward and tied up Du Chunxiao, Xia Bing and the boss of the boat. As soon as the bodyguards in the cabin ran out, they got a few sticks on their heads and fell down on the deck sullenly. superior. "Today we may die." Du Chunxiao rolled to Xia Bing's side and whispered a heart-pounding sentence in his ear. "You won't die, I will try my best to save you!" He thought she was afraid, so he comforted her.But as soon as the words came out of his mouth, he was a little discouraged, because he had never saved her since he was a child, and she never seemed to regard him as a reliance.Therefore, what she said to him now is probably just the truth, and she didn't mean to ask him to save him. "Have you seen it?" She suddenly changed the subject. "See, what's the matter?" "The water bandits in the book always ask those unlucky ghosts whether they want to eat 'bandao noodles' or 'wontons'. 'Bandao noodles' are cut into the water one by one, and 'wontons' are jumped into the water by themselves. In the end, everyone chooses Eat 'wonton'. Shall we try it today?" Only then did Xia Bing understand her intentions, but at the same time she also rejected the suggestion to eat "wontons".Firstly, they were all tied up, making it impossible to dive, and secondly, the padded jackets they were wearing sank as soon as they drank water, and jumping in would be equivalent to drowning themselves in the river, so he replied firmly: "No! You will die sooner! " "But after a while they pry open the box and take the things, they will beat us to death with wooden sticks, and then throw us into the water. I don't want to die so bloody and bloody, the corpse must look better anyway! " After finishing speaking, before Xia Bing could react, she had already rolled to the edge of the boat, took a deep breath, and "plopped" into the water; in his desperation, he closed his eyes and rolled in the same direction. Immediately, he flew into the air, his whole body lost weight, and soon the skin on his face shrank sharply, and the water flowed violently from his mouth and nose.He struggled to poke his head out, some water entered the lung cavity, making his mouth sore, but he still seized the time to take a breath, and sank down hastily. This time when I went into the water, for some reason, my head hit a hard object like a rock.Although the icy water made his whole body numb and he had lost the pain, Xia Bing couldn't help being pleasantly surprised, thinking that he could touch the shore.Unexpectedly, when she opened her eyes, she realized that it was Du Chunxiao's head that she had bumped into. She also looked at him with a painful expression, as if she was saying her final farewell. "Chunxiao!" He screamed from the bottom of his heart, hoping that his woman would be able to return to heaven. At this moment, he found that he was still relying on her instead of saving her. Afterwards, Xia Bing felt a force behind him hugging him up. He was holding his breath and was almost out of control. Every bone in his body seemed to be broken into ashes, and he couldn't support the weight of his body no matter what.But there was something miraculous that made his bound hands loose, so he saw hope, and desperately broke free from the rope. When his hands were free, before he had time to take a breath, he went downstream and picked up the sinking boat. Du Chunxiao... When Xia Bing woke up, his hair was covered in fine pieces of ice, and it was extremely difficult to twist his neck. Finally, he turned his head and looked around, only to realize that he had been carried under a bridge hole at some point.A few dirty tarpaulin tents were set up around them, and there was still a fire burning around the tents, but the flames were too shallow to keep warm at all.Fortunately, he saw Du Chunxiao lying motionless beside the fire, his face green and his lips white, as if he was half dead.He sat up and took off the ragged felt blanket that covered him. There was an unpleasant rusty smell on the blanket. "Come on, have a drink." Someone handed Xia Bing half a bottle of shochu wine, his body was somewhat asymmetrical, and after careful identification, he found that the other party was actually Xiao Si.