Chapter 13 Thirteen

Tang Shenqing wanted to "open a room" to have fun, but was unsuccessful; but his father, the boss Zi Jiaer, was already comfortably living in one of the most luxurious rooms in the Railway Hotel outside the city.It was eight o'clock that night. The two waiters were very busy cleaning up a table of leftover banquets.The fire wine under the hot pot has long been burnt out, but the big pot of "good soup" is still steaming hot, and smells like the three kinds of smoke in the room - cigarettes, cigars, opium, plus everyone The smell of alcohol coming out of the husband's mouth mixed into a strange smell.

On a small round table in the corner by the window, there was an exquisite sparrow box.Jin Futian sat beside the round table, as if his belly was too full, and he leaned lazily on the back of the chair, holding the small colored round chips used as "chips" in his hand. Boss Tang Zijia was lying next to the opium lamp on the copper bed, with his eyes closed, letting the shark's fin, chicken, duck, etc. in his stomach digest; Cigars for money. He took a deep breath of the cigar, mechanically turned the diamond ring on the middle finger with the thumb of his right hand, and then—slowly puffed out the smoke, slowly half-opened his eyelids, and looked at the lying face opposite him. people said:

"What a joke! You came to my door! - I planned to come to Qingqing to spend a quiet year, but I didn't expect this kind of thing to happen! - In Shanghai, although it's a bit troublesome, it's not so bad How embarrassing!—Oh, Fang Weng, I want to take the express train back to Shanghai at 9:46?" The person lying opposite Boss Tang Er was Qian Fangxing, the manager of the largest and richest Baoyuan Bank in the city.The second boss came to this "old friend"'s house after he climbed the wall at home, and hurriedly called the Public Security Bureau to ask for a "brigade to maintain order", and came to open the room with Qian Fangxing.The second boss was not willing to "alarm" his friends too much, but how could Qian Fangxing be willing?After all, I called a few times and made an appointment with two or three "confidantes" to talk about it.

The table of wine just now belonged to Qian Fangxing; he was supposed to "receive the wind" for the second boss, but now he was going to "see him off". At that moment, Qian Fangxing heard that the second boss said that he was going to catch the special express train at 9:46, so he slightly raised his thin eyebrows, and he hadn't finished smoking a tube of cigarettes in his mouth; As soon as he put the pipe away, he took a sip of the hot, thick black tea and said with a smile: "Why are you in such a hurry! After playing 24 rounds of mahjong, you take advantage of the night express train from Nanjing and leave, aren't you very calm? --- Hey, Chen Jingweng!..." Qian Fangxing turned his head and walked towards the man who was not far from the copper bed. The big sofa took a look. "Oh, where did Chen Jingweng go? - Hey, even Xiao Taohong is gone! Haha! Tao Leweng and the others are also hiding from us! Haha!"

After saying that, Qian Fangxing sat up. Although Jin Futian over there is too full.A little lazily, but still able to "look around and listen to all directions".Hearing that Qian Fangxing was looking for Tao Leweng and the others, he hurried over, grinning and grimacing and said: "Tao Leweng? I opened another room there, and Baby Flower went with me. ..." "Hahaha!" Qian Fangxing laughed until the fat on his face trembled. The second boss also laughed, but his smile was still a little unnatural, and he still couldn't forget the "hateful" of those people who "came to the door", and what he couldn't "relieve" in particular was "that group of people" After the commotion, the news of his "return" must have been known all over the city. Then, the creditors of the Lida pawnshop and many other sporadic small households may actually come to some kind of "creditor syndicate" and come to trouble; The "maybe" behind this is the main reason that forced him to return to Shanghai immediately.

"So, where is Chen Jingweng? Are you going to open a room too? Haha!" Qian Fangxing asked again, his eyes were so tight that it was almost impossible to see the gap. "Hehe!" Jin Futian laughed even more strangely. "I'm afraid—I'm afraid I went to the back room for a little solution!" Qian Fangxing jumped up suddenly, slapped the second boss's thigh hard, and said with a giggle like a glutton who heard a strange smell: "Hey, Ziweng! Amazing! Chen Jingweng's calculations are getting more and more sophisticated! It really penetrates into every hole! Wow, haha!—It really penetrates into every hole!"

The second boss couldn't help laughing haha.This time I laughed very hard.He called Jin Futian and said: "Hey, Futian! Look at Qian Fangweng's saliva dripping down, why don't you hurry up and make a phone call to urge the fifth child to come soon! - How can you turn a round and it's not over yet! - Haha, Fang Weng..." "Oh——Zi Weng, you don't know anyone well, let me introduce you to one, so that you don't—" "Forget it, forget it! Fang Weng! Come back to Zhu Runweng, I have something to talk to him about." "It's okay!—Are you afraid of being left out in the cold, I'll greet you; haha, besides, Brother Futian!"

Hearing what Qian Fangxing said, Jin Futian also salivated and smiled. At this time, there were a few soft coughs from behind the bed.Chen Jingweng staggered out like a normal person.This man is over forty and under fifty. His pair of owl eyes are very famous among his friends. When Qian Fangxing saw him, he suddenly stopped smiling, put on a very sincere look, and said to him: "Hey! Jing Weng, we are talking about you! We said, you Jing Weng is worthy of being one of the best rice shop bosses—that, that, 'square inch', you can't let it go, not for a moment. Ken waste!"

"Where, where," Chen Jingweng was polite at first, but the owl's eyes suddenly turned, "Oh!—haha! How unreasonable! Fang Weng, how unreasonable! Haha!" Everyone laughed happily. As soon as Chen Jingweng lay down on the bed, he picked up his bong and filled a huge pipe.Qian Fangxing wrote a note to the second boss to "introduce one", and asked Jin Futian to call. While Chen Jingweng was loading a cigarette, he chatted with the second boss about business matters.The second boss seemed to be very emotional and said: "It's so weird these days! How many 'businesses' there are—how many merchants and factories are unable to turn over, and they are frozen there; however, the banking industry also says that they have too many cash flow, and they are also frozen there——they want to expand Die! When I talked to Qian Fangweng just now, he also said: If the market does not turn around next year, he will have to die of swelling! Hey hey!"

"That's not it!" Chen Jingweng was passing the cigarette stick through his eyes.He threw away the cigarette stick, looked energetically at the face of the second boss with his owl eyes, and continued, "However, if they are afraid of dying from swelling, let's put it away, ha ha! When there is any disturbance in the market, It’s not for fun to fall down a somersault! This time, Yufeng and Taichang are only short of 30,000 to 40,000 silver, the problem is that they were too careless after the Mid-Autumn Festival!" Chen Jingweng turned the bong forward, wanted to smoke, but let it go again, and added with confidence:

"If it's another year like this next year, everyone will have no business to do!" "—However, your business is good this year!" "Where, it's just mediocre!" Chen Jingweng began to smoke. "Well," the second boss nodded and said, "Although it is a drought, the price of rice cannot afford to rise." So he suddenly became excited. "Hey, Chen Jingweng! When it comes to the price of rice, it's so infuriating! We people who lease the land, after collecting the rent and finishing the grain, actually want to pay for it! Thousands of acres of land don't make you profit, but cost you Jing Weng, this is all because too much foreign rice has come in. In recent years, foreign rice worth 300 to 40 million yuan has been imported every year, so it’s no wonder that the people are running out of money.” "Haha!" Chen Jingweng couldn't wait to take a puff of cigarette to feel comfortable, so he cried out with a smile.But he choked, he fired his pipe, took a sip of his hot tea, laughed again and said loudly: "Oh! Ziweng! Since when did you learn the tune of being a newspaper editor! Is there enough rice in the country? Without foreign rice, everyone will starve to death!" "That—that's not entirely true..." The second boss was a little unwilling to admit defeat, and at this moment he suddenly became "concerned about the country and the people".However, he couldn't say "why" at the moment, and there was no time for him to speak slowly. Xiao Taohong had already come out from the back room, and suddenly stood in front of her, and twisted Chen Jingweng's thigh as soon as she made a move.At the same time, there was a crackling sound on the square table over there, the mahjong cards were poured out of the box, and Qian Fangxing was yelling, "Zi Weng! Jing Weng! Come—" "I still want to smoke one or two tubes of cigarettes!" Chen Jingweng also replied loudly, but then said to Xiao Taohong, "Old Ba, go and get a few more first." Then he shouted loudly to Qian Fangxing, "I'll come ! Just come!" The second boss walked to the card table and asked, "Ah! Where's Tao Leweng?" "I've called! I'll be here soon!" Qian Fangxing happily shuffled the cards. "Brother Futian, let's make a few copies for him first." After confirming the seat, the second boss remembered why Zhu Runshen hadn't come yet.But he immediately had no time to think about it, and his hand was a rare good style. The second boss made two sets in a row, and gradually he felt that there was an iron working very carefully in his internal organs. At that time, Tao Leweng also came with Hua Baobao; Qian Fangxing's fifth child and the one introduced to the second boss also sat next to each of them; Chen Jingweng had already had enough of his addiction, the room was full of cigarettes and powder Incense, the room is full of laughter and cards ringing.The waiter was busy serving in and out, and Jin Futian was also busy. However, at the beginning of the second round, the style of the second boss's cards went bad.The second boss gradually felt that the "iron" in his stomach had stopped working.He asked his "that one" to replace him for a few pairs, then pulled Jin Futian aside and said: "Why hasn't Zhu Runshen come yet? Go and find him. I came from Nanjing very early on the four o'clock night express train,—maybe late tomorrow night train. I must settle the matter on his side. Yes, you brought Lao Hu here as well. I have a few more words to tell him!" "Ah! Three lifts! It's a slam! It's a slam!" Suddenly there was such a cry on the card table over there. "Whose third move? Whose third move?" The second boss asked loudly, leaving Jin Futian aside, and hurried to the card table.