Chapter 16 16. Treasures of old foreigners

Yu Changchun knocked on the door before dawn, telling Ding Shaomei to be dissatisfied with him. He was staying in the home of a servant who made a fortune, so it would be too ignorant to cause trouble for them.However, what he said was really disturbing, and it was no wonder he was so anxious.Whether Zuo Yinglong's matter is big or small, who can help?I have been away from my hometown for 3 years, and things have changed. "I've heard of him, he's a bad guy, but the file is in the hands of old Giggs." Yu Nong wrapped the dressing gown tightly around his petite body.Ding Shaomei called out without washing up, her expression was a little shy.

Ding Shaomei only told about the cheated money, but didn't say what it was used for. He didn't even mention Yu Changchun, he just asked about Zuo Yinglong.Yu Nong is a polite and considerate girl, she will never ask rashly to embarrass him.He firmly believed in this, unless it was related to Fan Xiaoqing. "I don't know much," she said. "He is the leader of a gang, but he can't remember whether it is the Qing Gang, the Hong Gang, or something else. His fleet covers the whole city and its suburbs. It seems that Beijing, Baoding, and Cangzhou also have industries. He has everything that a bad guy should have, but It is worth noting that he was a dutiful son, and he was very famous for that."

"How old is he? Where are his parents? Where?" "His mother is still there, but no one knows who his father is. The old lady is now living in Sock Alley, enjoying a happy life." Ding Shaomei was overjoyed and thanked repeatedly.The information provided by Yu Nong is very useful.Although the 5,000 yuan is not much, but for him now, it is anti-Japanese funds and cannot be cheated for nothing.On the other hand, when it comes to fighting against Japan, people from the Jianghu are much more useful than students and brothers, and it doesn’t matter if you make friends with them.

"It's not that I want to care about you, I just want to say one more thing." Yunong has the responsibility to let him know his situation. "Since you came back, first Ziggs, then Yu Changchun, and now you have to contact the leader of the gang. Old Ziggs came to you, and I have no objection. You have to do something to relieve boredom. But those two people But they are all extremely dangerous, they may implicate you, and even risk your life, you have to think about it clearly. Then Zuo Yinglong has killed countless people in his life, are you going to drag him to resist the Japanese?"

"Sister Yu, I have a sense of proportion." He stretched out his hand to hold Yunong's upper arm, shook it gently, and clearly felt her body temperature, with a bright and lovely little brother's expression on his face. "Just the file?" "I'll let daddy figure out a way later." "No, since it's in the hands of the old Giggs, I'll go find him myself." You should walk around with the old Giggs and dig out more things from him.This old boy has something to do! Old Ziggs' house is a monster of a Tudor palace mixed with a Baroque bell tower. From the outside, it looks like a four-story mansion. There is a staircase from the ground floor to the second floor, which is quite decent, but, Going up, something went wrong. The floors inside are staggered up and down. There are more than a dozen narrow spiral staircases, and the corridors are hidden in unexpected places. Countless secret rooms, walls, and secret doors have created more Confusing corners, some people even think that this building is actually seven floors.This is a product of the Gengzi period. At that time, foreigners were frightened by Yihequan, so they turned their houses into a maze.Of course, the old Giggs himself, who has lived here for more than 20 years, sometimes gets lost, and he doesn't know how many rooms there are.

The files are stored on the third floor, but Fan Xiaoqing insists that this is the fourth floor. "This is Zuo Yinglong's file. There are not too many materials." Fan Xiaoqing pushed a large manila envelope along the table. The mother-of-pearl nail polish was shining, and the nails were trimmed round and round. "Please give me a cup of tea." Ding Shaomei prepared the pad and ink pen, but the chair is not very comfortable. I don't know if it is a high-back chair hundreds of years ago, as hard as a stone. Fan Xiaoqing pulled the rope on the wall, and a bell rang in the distance.She has a very new leather swivel chair, and a small desk with a roller shutter is on the side of Ding Shaomei.

"My dad likes big tables and big chairs, but that chair is horrible, it can bite your ass." She threw him a cushion, and took out a large stack of papers and began to classify and register. "This is my only job. I manage the files for my dad, and I get paid every month." "You must know a lot." This was a pleasant surprise. "Who will read these things? Just glance at the title and give them a big face." A pot of black tea was brought up, and the condensed milk and sugar were all high-quality goods. "You have to drink it yourself." Fan Xiaoqing didn't want to spoil her boyfriend into a Japanese-style "grandfather".

The content in the file is indeed not much, and the person who wrote the background material by hand, seemed to be holding a piece of hot tofu in his mouth, vaguely afraid to draw conclusions.If Zuo Yinglong is helping, there is no mention of his sect here, let alone which sect or branch; if he is not helping, he has opened more than ten mountain gates in the past five or six years, and has recruited no less than a hundred apprentices.The last time the mountain gate was opened was the day when the second dragon raised its head in the second month of the lunar calendar this year, and only one closed disciple——Er Bao was accepted.

If he is not helping, is he a bastard?But bastards don't open the mountain gate! These materials are useful, but not very useful for what he is about to do.What Ding Shaomei wants most is to find a gap in this person so that he can use means to subdue him. Of course, Ding Shaomei has another idea deep in her heart: since even bullies and gangsters have special files, then his father should have files even more, maybe his own files are hidden somewhere in the building corner.If you find Dad's files, you may be able to find clues to the murderer, at least you can find out what kind of relationship he has with Old Ziggs. There must be secrets here.

Attached to Zuo Yinglong's file are some newspaper clippings and a few small reports about who he killed recently, which are not of much value.It's just that the two big announcements published in "Game News" and "Yong Bao" at the end of last spring are somewhat interesting. These are the information lists of Zuo Yinglong's birthday concert for his old mother, and there are many corners on it.Although this is a means of "flying posts to hit the net" by gangsters, there are some ways to find it.Ding Shaomei realized that it would be no harm to walk the path that Yunong mentioned earlier.Regardless of whether he is a filial son or not, having his wife around can be regarded as giving him a chance.

But there is a section, how to deal with gangs and gangsters, he is not sure.Looking for a book to read?Learning should be the right way, students!I remember reading a book about gangsters when I was young, called "Putting on Heroes", and the book of storytelling was about the "heroic" deeds of gangsters in Tianjin during the Xianfeng and Tongzhi years. It was very interesting. "Go up the stairs at the back and turn left, the third door is the library." Fan Xiaoqing chased away the smoke from Ding Shaomei with his hands, and said. "My dad spent decades searching everywhere for information about Beijing and Tianjin. I'm afraid no one has more information than him." "Is there "Selling Heroes"?" "Who knows? I won't go through that door." She was thinking, it's already past 8 o'clock in the evening, if Ding Shaomei reads until the middle of the night, he might stay here, and it would be a pleasure to talk together. They came up from the left, the second floor is the bedroom and study of their father and daughter, then the guest room, and the back staircase is on the right. Just now when Fan Xiaoqing took the file, Ding Shaomei heard her walk 16 steps in the corridor, then the door opened, and when she came back, she took 18 steps to the door.The file storage place should be the third door on the right hand side. Fan Xiaoqing lowered his head and was still wrestling with the new information, looking very impatient, the headband was pulled off, and the watch was thrown aside.Ding Shaomei stood by the door and judged visually. From here to the back stairs, he took about 20 steps. He walked through the third door for seven or eight steps before turning around and walking back, step by step lightly. There was no lock on the door, and there was a two-meter-wide aisle inside. There were two rows of tall wooden cabinets lined up against the wall. There were more than 30 of them. Each cabinet had 12 small doors, and there were no locks.Is the old Giggs too careless, or these things don't matter? It's not easy to find Dad's files here, but fortunately each small door is marked with a letter number, what he lacks now is a file catalog or index.Looking around, the first small door starts with A1. There is no counter with catalogs, so it must not be here.Open a door at random, and the files inside are full of various contents. There was no time to take a closer look, and the bell for the servant came from outside again.The index should be in Fan Xiaoqing's hands, obviously she is managing these things.There should be a way to get it, don't worry, there is absolutely no rush.When he walked upstairs lightly, he was very proud. The upstairs library consists of three connected small rooms, which are quite clean, as if someone is cleaning them frequently, and the ceiling is no more than half a foot away from his scalp.Which lunatic built this building, not only are the rooms of different sizes, but also the heights vary widely, no wonder there is no way to tell how many floors there are.The collection of books here is really impressive. At a cursory glance, there are hundreds of memoirs of the Gengzi Incident published abroad, mainly in Chinese, English, French, German, and Japanese. "Tianjin Miscellaneous Notes", "Tianjin County Annals", everything from recent travel notes of Europeans to local novels being serialized in newspapers. "Put on Heroes" is a lithographed version, which is very rough.He picked out another scrapbook, in which was the serialized novel "Tianjin Yanji", the author is known as the drunkard of Daliang. Street survival skills and stories written by literati are two different things. It is ridiculous to rely on this to convince an old bastard.He thought his idea was very interesting, but it wouldn't hurt to know more, who let himself be a student. The door slammed loudly.He did it on purpose so that Fan Xiaoqing below could hear it, but a neatly folded note came down from the door.He will also do this trick, which can let the master know if someone sneaked in when he was not around.This is the old Ryan Giggs trick.He opened the note for a few glances, then folded it and put it back in its original place. When he thought it was wrong, he took it off and threw it on the ground. "It's time for me to go back. Take these two books back and study them." Ding Shaomei put the books on Fan Xiaoqing's desk, and deliberately turned his back to drink tea. There was a sound of flipping papers behind him. It was obvious that Fan Xiaoqing was checking the two books. "How about staying here for one night and calling Yunong." Fan Xiaoqing also came over to drink tea. "Let's go back. I'll choose a seat. It's not good to sleep in another place." This excuse is good. "Don't come next time." Fan Xiaoqing slapped him on the back as he was sent out the gate.There was a bit of pettiness in the tone of voice, but the slap was really affectionate. Ding Shaomei was walking on the street with the beauty's handprint on his back, and suddenly came to his senses, the note on the top of the door revealed a big secret.The note was in Chinese, and it said, "At 3:00 p.m., arrive at the Prime Minister's Office, and send 5 Bayeux scriptures and a volume of scriptures written by Tang people." The date of betting was March 9, 25th year of the Republic of China.This day was the last birthday his father celebrated for him, and he was going to study abroad soon. On that afternoon, his father sent a batch of antiques to Jin Yunpeng, the former prime minister of Haofo, which seemed to be written by Tang people.He could remember it all right. Old Ziggs, you cunning old fellow, you have a lot of treasures hidden in your hands.If there is my father's file, there must be files of other important people.He patted his forehead, sighed by the way, and said to himself: I should stay there for the night, but I am afraid that I will be sorry for Yunong.How can a man be like a mother-in-law? If the old Ziggs' archives are as rich as Yu Nong said, whether it is resistance to Japan or revenge, it must be of great help, not to mention making a fortune from it.But if it's really that great, how could daddy go bankrupt?There must be a reason for this.There are too many things to solve, and they must not be overwhelmed. Perhaps, Yu Changchun was not as useful as he had imagined, but the bombing of the warehouse was so exciting that he had to help him.A great hero can't do great things if his subordinates are full of half-assed and fake warriors. Ding Shaomei decided to focus more on people like Old Ziggs and Zuo Yinglong.