Chapter 4 The Wife's Living Room

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The Fu family’s poker game usually takes place in a small three-story western building on the west side. This is the place where Mrs. Fu used to open the salon. After the passing of Mrs. Fu, the interior is the same as before. Keep the look that everyone remembers.

The two entered the door one after the other, and as soon as they passed through the screen, they heard a coquettish smile wrapped in a fragrant wind: "Look, look, what did I say?"

Xu Anqi was lying on Fu Junshou's shoulder, holding a feather fan in her hand. The fan and her evening clothes were decorated with white down feathers sprinkled with crystal powder, making her whole person look like a pearly white phoenix and black chicken.

"There is no overnight feud between young people, let alone—Commander Lu is generous." She beckoned to Fu Jiusi, "Adi come and sit, he is as naughty as he was when he was a child, and it's really just one night when he is so old. They don't show their faces."

Fu Junshou shared his Cuban cigar with Lu Mincheng. The light blue smoke made the glazed light even more bizarre.

As soon as Fu Jiusi put the bird on the jacquard shelf at the door, he heard Fu Junshou laugh: "You ruined the good marriage between our two families, and it's also a shame that you are a kid. If you are a girl, I will pay you to Commander Lu's family as a daughter-in-law. ."

Only then did Fu Jiusi know that the person beside him was Lu Mincheng, Lu Ruozuo's useless eldest brother.

He was not too surprised, after all, people will meet sooner or later; he just didn't expect that he borrowed a fire from someone, and the two of them even started talking about it.

Just when he was stunned for a while, his shoulders suddenly became heavy, he was pushed to the card table, and then he was pressed down and sat down.

Commander Lu looked kind: "If a gentleman speaks, it is difficult for a horse to chase."

Fu Jiusi: "..."

He didn't want to blame him. There was a reason for beating Lu Ruozuo before, and there was a reason for making an appointment with Lu Mincheng today - after all, there was no deep hatred between the two of them.

Lu Mincheng followed and stood in front of the poker table, pointing at the man opposite Fu Jiusi: "Don't run away."

Xu Anya said happily: "Yo! This is the confidence! I said why you urinated, but it didn't make a difference. It turned out to be to move rescue soldiers." After speaking, she slapped the back of Fu Jiusi's hand, "Turn your elbows out! "

Fu Jiusi gave him a strange look: "You don't say how much you owe me, but you blame me."

Xu Anya drew the card: "Isn't that you are rich, and you can eat scraps for a year. How can you be so embarrassed to ask me for a debt?"

Fu Jiusi's gaze slipped from his sapphire collar to the handmade gold pocket watch imported from Switzerland: "Are you a sugar rooster?"

Xu Anya didn't understand: "What sugar rooster? If you want to scold me, shouldn't you scold the iron rooster?"

Lu Mincheng snarled: "The iron cock of a man is 'not plucking a hair', and Xu Ershao is not only 'not plucking', but also 'sticky'!"

Everyone in the room was happy, Xu Anya pointed at Fu Jiusi and laughed until he gritted his teeth: "You!"

After laughing and continuing to play cards, suddenly, the man in the east knocked on the table: "Put it down."

Xu Anya rubbed his hands: "Brother Lian has such a good look!" As he spoke, he revealed a card that was hidden just now without anyone noticing.

Song Lian rubbed the card flower with his fingertips: "You might as well ask, Commander Lu knows his craftsmanship, and deliberately took care of you and me."

Lu Mincheng was curious: "What craft?"

Xu Anya held a card with his fingertips and turned around: "Ninth brother is very good at playing cards. As long as he comes to the table, we will only lose money."

Lu Mincheng smiled: "It's not that I can't afford to lose this money. The big deal is to put a thousand oceans here first, and then we will remove it directly from it later!"

Xu Anya snorted: "You two have lost your way."

The woman in the west blushed when she saw Lu Mincheng, clasped a card with her slender fingers, and played it out without even looking at it.

"I see. Miss Jing Qing is looking at Jiusi's face. It's no wonder that I have been losing before, so I should have invited him earlier." Lu Mincheng leaned on the back of Fu Jiusi's chair and took his cards for granted. as one's own.

Song Jingqing blushed: "I didn't notice it just now, come again."

Lu Mincheng kept his mouth open and said, "Miss Jing Qing is so smart and beautiful, has she ever gotten married?"

Before Song Jingqing could speak, Xu Anqi smiled and said, "What's the matter? Just pushed the marriage with our second sister. Is Commander Lu going to be a matchmaker for his brother again?"

Lu Mincheng leaned over and shook the ashtray in the ashtray on Fu Jiusi's left hand. Fu Jiusi smelled a chilly scent wrapped in the scent of cigars, like pine in the snow.

"How can you do that?" Lu Mincheng shook his head, "My poor boy, Miss Wuyou and Miss Jing Qing, whoever he is, he has climbed high, so that won't work."

"What's that? Is it possible that you want to be the matchmaker for yourself?" Xu Anqi covered her mouth with a fan, "I want to tell you that my cousin is beautiful and intelligent, and she has a good family background, talent and morals, Commander Lu. If you are interested, I can help you."

"Cousin-sister-in-law!" Song Jingqing was embarrassed and annoyed, glanced at Lu Mincheng who was smiling, and pushed the card table, "I'll go see my cousin."

Xu Anqi pointed: "Quickly catch her!"

Xu Anya stretched out his hand and just grabbed the soft weed: "Good sister, ignore them and finish this game with us first."

So keep playing.

Although this round was a substitute, Fu Jiusi was lucky. After a few laps, he had already grabbed a slip of cards, and only one North and one East would be enough to make up the fourth best.

Lu Mincheng started again: "Although I can't, but I know that there is someone worthy of Miss Jing Qing."

Xu Anya asked, "Who is it?"

"The fifth young master of the Sun family, Sun Yao."

Xu Anya thought thoughtfully: "The son of Sun Shou Stork, that's really not bad. Has he ever been engaged?"

"Guaranteed never!" Lu Mincheng laughed and said nonsense, "He has no other advantages, that is, he values ​​love and righteousness. It is good to be kind, and sometimes he is so kind to others that he has misunderstood people, and it is easy to provoke them. Some so-called romantic debts - but I can guarantee that they are all in vain!"

"It sounds like Commander Lu is very familiar with Fifth Master Sun? Even his romantic debts are clear." Fu Jiusi buried his head and played cards, but inserted a sentence at this moment.

"That's right, our friendship started from..." Lu Mincheng bit the word "Jifangshe" and turned the corner abruptly, "...it was formed when we were classmates back then. ."

"But as far as I know, the fifth grandfather Sun is only twenty-four this year," Fu Jiusi smiled, "You just said that you went to the same window with him?"

"The same school is also considered a classmate," Lu Mincheng did not change his face, "I think back in the Dazhong Public School in Peiping, he went in just after I graduated!"

Hearing this, Xu Anqi also became interested: "Another day to invite him to play cards - Commander Lu, you must be here, so let's see Jing Qing first."

"That's not a problem." Lu Mincheng agreed.

Song Jingqing was reluctant: "If you talk about me again, I'm really gone!"

So this article is turned over first.

Lu Mincheng savoured the aroma of the cigar while chasing the faint scent of herbs on the tip of his nose. His eyes wandered around the room for a long time, and finally fell on Fu Jiusi who was in front of him. Only then did he realize that there was a small child around his waist. sachet.

Immediately, he secretly sneered: The young master wrapped in the gold dust piles, learns from others to play fierce and ruthless, in fact, I am afraid that he has never even touched a gun.

"This cigar is good, I'm afraid there is no more mellow taste than this in Shanghai." He asked Fu Junshou, "Could Secretary Fu reveal where such a good cigar came from, and I'll get a batch another day. You don’t have to wait until you’re greedy and scratch your head to think.”

Fu Junshou smiled generously: "It's rare for you to like it, you'll take my box with you later, and I'll ask someone to pack a new batch for you—you're asking the point, it's not my Fu Mou. People boast, pure Cuban cigars, except for these in my hands, the rest of Shanghai is probably on the way to the north."

Lu Mincheng took a deep breath, and the aroma of the cigar filled his heart immediately: "That's natural. I heard that in Shanghai's ports today, except for those under the 'Red Pavilion', the rest are all surnamed 'Fu'."

Fu Junshou smiled slightly: "... Commander Lu exalted, my old ports are not as powerful as Du Siye's rising star." He paused, "However, listening to you, I also want to draw a line. Territory?"

Lu Mincheng's eyes were clear: "I didn't think it would change the name of this site in Shanghai, but it's just—"

"Secretary Fu can't hide such a good cigar. Everyone wants fresh products, and I also want to take this opportunity to make a little money. I can't wait for the war to end. Brothers follow me to death. In the end, only I can eat free wages. I wonder if Deputy Chief Fu will let me get a share of it too?"

Fu Junshou's expression didn't show anything: "It's a good thing that Commander Lu wants to do business, and it's also a good thing for the brothers to eat well and dress well - why don't you say Commander Lu is righteous?"

He paused for a moment: "It's just that I have always put a lot of thought into running this land. The most feared thing in my life is to be told that I, Jun Fu, have defeated the ancestral foundation. Now that Commander Lu wants a share of the pie, I must have some benefits, right?"

Lu Mincheng's expression loosened, and he smiled again: "It's natural! Secretary Fu is a cheerful person, and I, Lu, can't 'wipe my ass with wheat bran'. In the future, whether it's opium or morphine, as long as I make money, I'll be fine. Let Li Fu's second chief become thirty percent—doesn't Brother Jun Shou think I'm stingy?"

30% profit...

Fu Junshou's eyes darkened, this was not "stingy", but too "generous".

The smoke gradually burned to the end, but his hand still kept that position, letting the ash stained the white collar: "...It's true to avoid the results. It's just that I don't understand something. If you want to seek cooperation, why don't you think about it first. What about Master Du?"

"It's Du Chunqiu!" After the business was over, Lu Mincheng returned to his arrogant attitude, leaning on the back of Fu Jiusi's chair to read the card, "I had some disagreements with him before, and if we couldn't get along, we wouldn't be able to talk about business."

Xu Anya was curious: "What's that?"

Before Lu Mincheng could speak, he heard Fu Jiusi in front of him saying, "Commander Lu shot and killed one of Du Chunqiu's subordinates as soon as he came to Shanghai, which is so embarrassing—you don't know about this?"

"Oh? What else?"

In fact, it was Fu Jiusi who happened to meet him that day.

About a month ago, he came back from racing outside the city and just arrived at Xiaonanmen when he happened to be collecting the corpse, the bullet passed between his eyebrows, and the ground was red and white, so disgusting.

He rushed into the city and saw a black car in front of him. Just after starting, the tires kicked up a cloud of dirt on the ground.

He covered his face and frowned, pulled his horse back in place and waited for a while before leaving, and at this moment he heard the whispers of passers-by.

"...See? The Northwest Emperor, 'Yan Wanglu'! What is Du Si?!"

"You can make it with this mouth, Du Siye is not a thing? One day I will let you jump into the Huangpu River to feed the fish, how dare you not make a sound!"

...

Fu Jiusi stared at the back of the car, which was gradually receding, and pulled the reins with force.

In fact, he didn't see Lu Mincheng that day, but he remembered the blood and brains on the ground.

Song Lian suddenly interjected at this time: "So, Jiusi and Commander Lu have the same hatred."

Lu Mincheng was interested: "How do you say this?"

Song Lian said: "You ask him."

"It's boring, what's there to talk about." Fu Jiusi's voice could not hear emotions, but for some reason, Lu Mincheng somehow sensed a trace of displeasure.

Xu Anqi still smiled, but her eyes were slightly cold: "A-di, this is embarrassing. If you want me to say, it's not impossible for young people to go out to socialize normally, get to know more beautiful and talented Misses, and make a serious girlfriend from the middle. What would Jun Shou and I say? But A-Di can’t stay with that kind of woman all the time, and speaking out will not only lose face, but also our family’s face.”

Fu Junshou frowned lightly. Although Xu Anqi said this to Fu Jiusi, when he heard it, he always felt yin and yang were weird and didn't mean anything.

He glanced at Song Lian, who was still playing cards on his own, as if he just opened his mouth just on a whim.

"Speaking of which, it's not a big deal," he returned to his senses, and he smiled slightly, "Last year, a little girl with Du Chunqiu died, Jiusi, this child has a quick temper, and had a few encounters with that person at dinner parties before. Fate, I choked Du Chunqiu a few words at that time. Du Chunqiu didn't say anything, but there were a few people in his subordinates who were dishonest, and Jiusi taught him a lesson."

"Oh, I still think it's a big deal!" Lu Mincheng stretched out his finger from behind, but was blocked by Fu Jiusi.

He wasn't angry, he turned his head and put out the cigarette in the crystal ashtray: "Young man loves romance, I love listening to the story of this talented and beautiful woman."

Fu Junshou said: "It's rare that you are interested, so I don't care about any domestic shame - have you ever heard of Xiaoyulian in Shuangquelou?"

"Shuangquelou, I know, there's a Huadan in it who sings the song "Little Shang Graves" very well. It's called—what's it called?"

"Moyulan."

"Yes, it's called this."

"That's Xiao Yulian's master. Xiao Yulian asked Du Chunqiu to take a fancy to him before she could leave the apprenticeship. This should be left to ordinary people. Who would dare not let Du Fourth Master want someone? But who told him to meet Mo Yulan by accident— -To say that this person's stubborn temper is exactly the same as his master - all in all, the matter was not discussed for a while."

Xu Anqi slowly peeled off the gold foil paper on the outside of the chocolate: "You guys are just shallow eyelids, people want to greet you, but you refuse to let them go. How much money was wasted, Zhenzhener is someone who was sold and helped to count the money."

"It happened at this moment. Fourth Master Du wanted someone, and Shuangquelou didn't let go. Xiao Yulian came to the stage with Dou Da's mind on her head. She was unstable on the stilts and fell directly from the top."

Lu Mincheng was curious: "How high can the stage be, is it possible to fall to death?"

Xu Anya's voice came from behind the poker table: "Commander Lu doesn't understand, that little guy has goods in his stomach!"

"Oh, this is really..." Lu Mincheng clicked his tongue, feeling regretful too.

"She was originally the daughter of a good family, but she ended up getting into this inferior doorway without saying anything, and she took her life on the line." This is a joke, Fu Jiusi got up and asked for a cup of coffee, and leaned against the window sill while drinking it. Not only did Du Chunqiu refuse to recognize the child in her belly, but she was also reluctant to put down a coffin board, which shows that she was really heartless."

"Oh?" Lu Mincheng's eyes involuntarily caught up to the window sill, "How do you know she is the daughter of a good family?"

He just asked casually, but Fu Jiusi said lightly, "Commander Lu is used to being romantic, so he must not believe these words."

Lu Mincheng smiled and said, "I believe it—why don't you believe it? You should talk about it."

Fu Jiusi then said: "Fufeng was originally a village surnamed Li. In the ten years of the Republic of China, there was a famine in northern Shaanxi, and many people fled to the south."

"Presumably that little Yulian came from here?"

"Her family name is Li, her original name is Li Qinglian."

Hearing this, Lu Mincheng, who was originally contented, suddenly froze: "What do you say her name is?!"