Chapter 6 Section 6: Trading Fingers with "Yi Qi"

After entering the Huang mansion, Du Yuesheng seemed to be a different person. He was silent and alert, careful in everything, and usually stayed at home except for errands.For a long time, he didn't touch two things, prostitution and gambling.He is always thinking about his goals in life. Several months later, looking around and listening to all directions, he finally found out that it was not Huang Jinrong, but his wife Lin Guisheng, who held the power of the Huang Zhai. This important discovery made Du Yuesheng understand that only by embracing the teacher's wife's thick legs and winning her favor can he have hope of being reused and promoted.From then on, he worked hard on his wife, starting from every detail of life, to please her.After every meal of Lin Guisheng, Du Yuesheng would send pears or apples that were peeled round and white; when Lin Guisheng smoked opium, he would make smoke bubbles that were not big, not small, not long or round; when Lin Guisheng played mahjong, he would give ideas and winks , handed a towel to wipe his face.Even after Lin Guisheng washed his feet, he would hug the little feet to do toenails and apply toenail polish... But these can only be done when the master is not at home.

Day after day, the sky paid off, and after half a year, Du Yuesheng finally won the favor of his teacher and wife.Lin Guisheng felt that this little bachelor was both loyal and flexible, so he began to send out errands, asking him to go to the "Common Stage" opened by Huang Jinrong to collect the money. The fruit is placed for the audience to enjoy, and you have to pay for whether you eat or not, and the price is expensive. This is a good income, which is called plate money in jargon. Then, Lin Guisheng sent him to the brothel to get the monthly money, and went to the casino to "hold the platform".

After Du Yuesheng received the money, he immediately went back to Huang's house and handed over the money to his teacher's wife, exactly.After a period of trials, Lin Guisheng regarded him as his confidant, and let him put his private money into "prints" --- usury, and let him join the team of "grabbing soil". Once, Huang Jinrong told Lin Guisheng the news he found out: a large Nanjing businessman bought 5,000 taels of Indian land from the foreign concession, packed it in 10 large packages, and planned to board a boat from Zhoujiadu in Longhua and smuggle it to Jiaxing from the waterway of the Huangpu River. .

Lin Guisheng immediately sent people out to grab the tobacco.Of course, Du Yuesheng was also included. It was a pitch black night, and there were no pedestrians around Xujiahui.A horse-drawn carriage was coming quickly, and the horse's hooves made a sound of "get, get, get" on the gravel road.The carriage turned around and came to Caohejing, a few hundred meters away from Zhou's ferry, a few rotten logs crossed and crossed in the middle of the road. The coachman cursed "Fucking mother" and was about to tell the people in the seat to come out and move away, when the words just fell, there was a "hula", the coachman put a rope around his neck, and then pulled him, Get out of the car.

The people in the carriage were about to move when several pistols and daggers were aimed at them. It was Du Yuesheng who put on the rope.Back in the day, he followed "Fusheng" to "throw the top palace" -- grab other people's hats, and learned the skill of throwing hats with one hand.This kung fu is similar to throwing rope circles, he will master it after a while, and now he has finally used it. The leader of the robbery this time is a leader called "Crooked Neck A Guang". With crooked neck, Ah Guang and his subordinates hurriedly tied up the four escorted men and the coachman, then rolled down a few wine jars from the cart, smashed them one by one, took out the bags of cigarettes, and put them in sacks for each of them. , carried it on his shoulders, whistled, and fled.

Half an hour later, they gathered in a hut in Xujiahui, and there were two packs of cigarettes and soil. A Guang rolled his eyes, pulled out the dagger from the sock tube, cut the two packs of cigarette soil into eight pieces, and asked everyone to take one.Du Yuesheng stayed aside and didn't dare to take it. He tilted his neck and said ruthlessly: "The boss and the lady boss want us to grab 10 bags. These two bags are extra money. Brothers have worked hard, share some fragrant hands. 'Laiyang pears' what are you afraid of, take it!" While talking, A Guang with a crooked neck wrapped the remaining piece of cigarette soil in paper and stuffed it into Du Yuesheng's hand, and then said: "I do things fairly and reasonably, and each person has one. If someone goes to the master to make a small report , I will give him another 'three knives and six holes'."

When the group of land grabbers returned to Huang's mansion, Lin Guisheng had ordered food and drinks to be set up in the kitchen, and she herself sat at a dining table and waited.Then, Lin Guisheng asked everyone to take out the soot from the sacks and put the bags on the table for her to count and look over.She was very satisfied, and while inviting everyone to sit down and eat and drink, she picked out a packet of tobacco soil and opened the paper packet, asking Du Yuesheng to cut it into several portions.She whimpered at some pieces of soot and said: "This business is well done, let's each get one. Ah Guang has two, rest after eating.——Yue Sheng, send the goods to my room."

After speaking, she went upstairs. Lin Guisheng lives on the second floor, and only Du Yuesheng can enter her room, except for her maid.Du Yuesheng moved the smoke and soil into the room, locked it in a large iron box, walked up to Lin Guisheng, took out two packs of smoke and soil from his arms, and presented them to Lin Guisheng with both hands, and then quietly talked about the private distribution of the smoke and soil in the Xujiahui hut. When Lin Guisheng heard this, his brows stood on end, and he was furious. He slapped the table, wanting to ask for guilt with his neck twisted. Du Yuesheng hurriedly cupped his hands to persuade her, and then whispered in her ear for a while.

Lin Guisheng nodded, and then he withdrew and went downstairs to eat and drink as usual. On the second night, Lin Guisheng and Huang Jinrong were in the dining room, surrounded by Jin Jiuling, Gu Zhangsheng, Jin Tingsun, Ma Xiangsheng and other apprentices. Jinrong raised his chin: "It's called crooked neck." Gu Zhangsheng ran to the door and waved, and Ah Guang, who was waiting outside the door with a crooked neck, came in.Lin Guisheng saw that there were still four or five people standing outside the door, so he said: "Let them in too!" The six people, headed by A Guang with a crooked neck, stood respectfully in front of Huang Jinrong and his wife with their heads bowed and hands down.

Jin Ronghu turned pockmarked and said: "Crooked neck, you cheating master and ancestor, you dropped the flower gun in front of me! I only knew 10 packs of cigarettes, but there were 12 packs reported by the patrol room in the morning. You really know how to take advantage of the loopholes and use your hands and feet to touch my head. Are you tired of living?" With a crooked neck, Ah Guang fell to his knees with a plop, trembling all over. With a sound of "bang", Huang Jinrong slapped the coffee table and shouted: "Family has family laws, and gang rules. Drag it out and slaughter it!"

The other five also knelt down and begged for mercy.Ah Guang, with a crooked neck, panicked, crawled up to Lin Guisheng, dragged her legs and shouted, "Help me! This slave will not dare next time." Lin Guisheng, who sat quietly and watched coldly, began to interrogate: "Did you take these two packs of cigarettes and soil alone, or did you divide them privately?" "Give them one copy each, and I get three." "Is this your idea or someone else's?" "It was me who was infatuated for a while. I'm sorry, Master." Lin Guisheng sneered in his nostrils: "Crooked neck, you are not worthy of being a bachelor. I have missed you and Master for many years, so I let you go, and saved you from three knives and six holes. You go! One person does the work and the other is responsible. You all get up." The kneeling man got up after thanking his mother for her kindness, bent his neck and kowtowed to Huang Jinrong and his wife, and walked away dejectedly. There was deathly silence during the meal, and no one spoke. At this time, Huang Jinrong sucked a few mouthfuls of Luzon cigars, and swallowed them with a movement of his Adam's apple.After a while, he exhaled two long streams of green smoke from his nostrils, and then said slowly: "In the future, Gu Zhangsheng will be in charge of these matters." "Okay, let Yuesheng help." Lin Guisheng immediately followed up with the suggestion. Huang Jinrong looked at Du Yuesheng and said, "Okay. Yuesheng is quite capable. By the way, that son of a bitch with a crooked neck, if it weren't for your teacher's mother's bodhisattva heart, I would have chopped him up a long time ago. Now the death penalty is spared. , Execution is unavoidable. Yuesheng, go there and take off one of his fingers." "this……" "Why can't you do it, dare not go?" "No. I thought, this son of a bitch with a crooked neck must have escaped from Shanghai." Du Yuesheng immediately changed his mind when he saw Huang Jinrong's serious face. "This red guy is from Qingpu, Jiangsu. The last train leaves early, and the boat will wait until tomorrow. He can't escape for a while, so go right away." As he spoke, Huang Jinrong took out a hatchet from a corner , and handed it to the apprentice, "Just use this. Do you want to take a few people?" "Master, don't worry, you don't need to bring anyone with you, I will definitely be able to handle it well." Du Yuesheng took the ax, turned around and put it in a cattail bag, put on a jacket, and left in a hurry. The night is dark, the autumn wind is bleak, and the cold is blowing.Du Yuesheng shivered, and then sneezed.He turned into a delicatessen and bought the cooked dishes on the small table, and bought two bottles of sorghum shochu, put them in a cattail bag, and went to the riverside Gundilong hut where the neck was crooked. A Guang with a crooked neck was lying on the bed and sighing, the floor was covered with butts of Laodao brand cigarettes.When he saw Du Yuesheng push the door in, he jumped off the bed suddenly, with cold sweat on his head.He knew something was wrong. After entering the door, Du Yuesheng first opened the cooked food and spread it on the small table, then took out a bottle of white wine, and then turned on the oil lamp. A Guang stayed and watched, and after Du Yuesheng sat down on a bench, he went to look outside the door for a while.There are no other attendants, only Du Yuesheng is alone.He was relieved, bolted the door, moved a bench and sat down opposite Du Yuesheng. So, the two faced each other and drank boring wine. After drinking a few cups of Baigan, the eyeballs of both sides were covered with red veins.Du Yuesheng knew that the fire was coming, so he took out eight white silver coins from his waist, put them on the side of the pig's tongue, and said: "We are two senior brothers, today you are in trouble, I have nothing to give you, little brother, these few days I will send a piece of ocean to my elder brother as money..." After speaking, the voice broke into sobs. "This won't work...how embarrassing..." Ah Guang was also moved. "Brother, I can't give much money for a while. We two brothers, you don't think it's too little, right? You take it and buy a bowl of wine on the way." As he spoke, he pushed a stack of oceans to Ah with the back of his left hand. wide front. The crooked neck was so moved that he was speechless for a while. "Brother Yuesheng, Master and Master have treated you well, work hard, and have a bright future. When I set up my own family in the future, let me come and ask for food again." "Oh, don't talk about it! I am also a mud bodhisattva crossing the river, and I can't protect myself! Today is you, and tomorrow it may be me." "Why, brother also encountered a problem?" "I...forget it, let's not talk...let's have a drink!" Du Yuesheng raised the full glass of shochu in front of him to his lips, tilted his neck and gulped it all down, put down the wine glass, and twisted a duck with both hands The legs lowered their heads and gnawed. Ah Guang was puzzled.This fruity Yuesheng is usually quite forthright, speaks quickly and never ambiguously, so there must be a reason for hesitating like this. "Brother, you want me, Ah Guang, to be your own. What's the difficulty? As long as I, Ah Guang, can do it, there will be no excuses." "Brother Ah Guang, please leave me your hometown address. You know that I have no relatives. Maybe I will escape to you in a few days..." "What, did you commit a crime?" "Okay, let me just say it straight. Originally, I wanted to say goodbye to you after drinking this bowl of wine. Now, you insist on telling me, so I have no choice but to obey!" "Speak quickly, I, Ah Guang, will solve your problems." "To tell you the truth, an hour ago, Master insisted that I come and take a piece of your finger, saying that the rules in the gang should not be broken, and even handed me an ax." Slanted. "So it was for me..." "Brother Ah Guang, I've made up my mind on the road. You go your way, and I'll take care of the affairs here. At worst, pack up your bedding and find another pier." After speaking, Du Yuesheng picked up the cattail bag, took out another bottle of shochu from it, and handed it to him. To Ah Guang, "You take this bottle of wine with you to eat on the road." He crooked his neck but didn't go to pick up the wine, but took a step forward, grabbed the cattail bag, took out the gleaming sharp axe, and said: "Brother, you are a good buddy, and I will never make it difficult for you. My teacher said I am not worthy of being a bachelor, but I think I am a bachelor." Ah Guang turned around, stretched three fingers with his left hand, picked up a glass of wine, poured it down, and poured it down. He turned around and leaned against the corner of the table, gritted his teeth, lifted the sharp ax with a click, and chopped off a section of his ring finger. "You!" Du Yuesheng rushed to stop him, but it was too late. Ah Guang clenched his left hand into a fist, raised his right hand, and threw the ax on the ground, showing heroic spirit, his eyes turned to the bloody finger on the corner of the table: "Take it to work!" "Take care of yourself!" "There will be a period later." "After returning home, if you encounter difficulties, come to me." Hiro nods his neck.After Du Yuesheng retrieved the ring finger of the crooked neck, when he returned to Lin Guisheng's business, he didn't tell the story of what he did.At this time, Lin Guisheng was beaming with joy, she was satisfied with her eyesight, and believed that Du Yuesheng had a bright future, even surpassing her husband Huang Jinrong.But she didn't want to remove this hidden danger for her husband, but was secretly happy.Why? Thinking of this, Lin Guisheng's heart warmed up and said, "Yue Sheng, come upstairs with me." Two hours passed.Du Yuesheng came down from upstairs like a conqueror, although he was still humble and cautious in front of everyone.But he believed in himself, and one day he would surpass these people.These two hours let him know that there is nothing he cannot get.Even if it is the most impossible thing, it is the same, and it will definitely be obtained.