10:15 p.m.

The damn snow is getting heavier and heavier, and it used to be just a few sporadic drifts, but now it's so overwhelming that you can't see the road clearly when you walk or walk through the door.

Not to mention those streets that are deserted during the day, at this moment, even those places that are extremely prosperous during the day are now empty, not to mention people, not even a dog.

Braving the goose feathers and heavy snow, He Qiang rode a bicycle and came to the place where Niu Hongqi played cards on Meixi Street.

Why did He Qiang come here to find Niu Hongqi, the reason is very simple, borrow soldiers.

Although Chen Tianlang used stratagem, he dispersed part of Liu Weidong's troops. But Liu Weidong is deeply rooted in Nandu, coupled with his fierce generals, Chen Tianlang is surrounded by some hairy boys who have just come out of school, and the two gangs of people PK down to make judgments.

Chen Tianlang is not the kind of person who has no one in his eyes, let alone the kind of person who is brainless. In his opinion, if you want to completely solve Liu Weidong this time, the best way is to borrow troops, with the help of Niu Hongqi, Ding Qi, and Bai Gang, the power of old bigwigs, to join Wu to fight against Cao.

As the saying goes, a skinny camel is bigger than a horse, although the current Niu Hongqi, Ding Qi and Bai Gang are not as majestic as before, and their power is not as great as before.

However, this did not prevent Chen Tianlang from calculating to tie them up to tonight's chariot. The reason is very simple, they also have a share of the money for the purchase of coal, and if the ship sinks, everyone will finish up together, and no one will make any money; if the ship sets sail smoothly, everyone will be happy when the time comes, and everyone will get a share.

Don't keep thinking about staying on the sidelines and getting paid for anything you don't have to do.

There is no such good thing in this world.

Chen Tianlang just wants to tell them that if they want money, they have to do it, and if they want to share more money, they have to fight for their lives.

As Chen Tianlang's spokesperson, He Qiang was assigned the task of coming to persuade the bull boss. In the past, He Qiang sold briquettes and developed a good mouth, constantly walking the streets and alleys, pulling briquette carts to persuade those old and young masters, aunts and aunts, to take out money from his pocket to buy briquettes he had; now he wants to use his mouth to persuade Niu Hongqi that he must send troops to help Chen Tianlang stick to the coal mountain.

Thinking about his heavy task, He Qiang felt a little nervous in his heart, and after the nervousness, he was a little excited, feeling like Zhuge Liang who went to Dongwu to borrow troops in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", but Zhuge Liang was a lupine scarf, drifting in a small boat;

Compared with the ancients, he seems to be a little less coquettish.

……

This is a big pomp, since Niu Hongqi's game hall was snatched away by Chen Tianlang, Niu Hongqi had to move his place to play cards from the middle of the game hall to this relatively messy place.

Because of the heavy snow, there are almost no customers at the food stalls, not to mention that it is now past ten o'clock, and it stands to reason that the food stalls should have closed long ago.

But what is very troublesome is that Niu Hongqi is still playing cards in the small private room of this food stall, as the male boss of the food stall, he can only wait in front very hard, looking at the white snow, praying that the guests at the table can at least save the electricity bill.

He Qiang came over on a bicycle, and the thick snow buried half of the bicycle's wheels.

He Qiang tied up the car and entered the food stall. The boss, who was watching the snow scene, saw someone coming, and hurriedly got up and greeted: "Friend, do you want to eat noodles or drink?"

He Qiang smiled, and pulled the snow on his head with his hand, and the snowflakes suddenly shook off his head, and at this moment he was covered by snow, bloated, like Santa Claus.

Looking at the shopkeeper with a hopeful face, He Qiang handed over a cigarette, "I neither eat noodles nor drink, I'm looking for Boss Niu!"

"Oh, you're looking for Brother Niu, he's playing cards in the private room. The shopkeeper glanced at He Qiang with some disappointment.

He Qiang was about to go in, when he suddenly remembered something, and said to the shopkeeper: "You warm a pot of rice wine for me first, I need it urgently." ”

Rice wine is easy to warm, as long as you carry the teapot and put it on the coal stove so hot, it will immediately bubble.

However, warm rice wine is very particular, generally add ginger and rock sugar, which can make the rice wine more warm and taste good.

After warming the rice wine, He Qiang paid the money, then took the disposable plastic cup, carried the rice wine jug, and walked slowly towards the small private room inside.

……

In the small private room, Niu Hongqi Niu was playing cards with a woman.

There is no way, in such a ghost weather, his old partners Ding Qi and Bai Gang will not come out, Niu Hongqi had to retreat and find three female clothing store owners who like to rub hemp to play a friendly match.

These women are all playing tricks, and they can't do it. In the card room, his eyes flew around, if it weren't for his good concentration, he would have pressed down one and dragged him to the toilet to correct the law on the spot.

Maybe it's because of one man fighting three women, Niu Hongqi is full of yang energy, and his luck is also very good, so he played seven or eight rounds and has won almost five hundred yuan.

For Niu Hongqi, this money is a small amount, but for a woman in the clothing business, this money is not easy to earn, and it is too distressing to lose it like this.

"Brother Niu, your luck looks pretty good today!" said a bewitching woman in her thirties with heavy makeup on the opposite side.

Niu Hongqi deliberately touched his somewhat sore neck, and then took out his thick gold chain from his neck, on which hung an egg-sized ice-bottom jade Guanyin, and kissed it casually and said: "It's all up to this Guanyin Bodhisattva to bless, otherwise I won't be able to do it so smoothly." ”

"Oh, this Jade Guanyin looks very valuable, not long ago I saw a jade shop similar to yours, the asking price is a hundred yuan!" said a curly-haired woman in the oblique seat.

When Niu Hongqi heard this, he scoffed, "A hundred? You can only touch a hundred yuan! This is an authentic Burmese jade, the bottom of the old pit, and the green material at the bottom of the ice! Look at this emerald green, how pure, how translucent!"

Niu Hongqi playfully took the Jade Guanyin to the lamp and showed off.

Looking at the jade Guanyin shining in the light, the curly-haired woman secretly pouted, showing something, saving others from not knowing that you have money.

After showing off his jade Guanyin, Niu Hongqi smashed his mouth again and said: "It's a pity, men wear Guanyin and women wear Buddha, if I come across a pendant that sells Maitreya Buddha in the future, I will give you one." After speaking, he deliberately glanced at the bewitching woman opposite. Obviously, Lao Niu is interested in this.

How could the bewitching woman not understand the meaning of this, so she giggled and said: "That's a good feeling, when you really buy me one back, I'll invite you to dinner!"

"What's delicious to eat?" Niu Hongqi pouted and deliberately said, "I want to eat you...... Oh no, eat what you cooked!"

"Oh, Brother Niu, you are so bad!" the bewitching woman immediately snorted.

"Men are not bad, women are not loved!"

Suddenly the whole table ****.

"By the way, Brother Niu, I heard that you used to be very good when you were mixed on the road, why did you quit the rivers and lakes now?"

Facing the bewitching woman's question, Niu Hongqi Niu sighed softly, and said in a somewhat deep tone: "This is called the loneliness of the rivers and lakes." Have you seen the 85-year-old version of "The Moon Knife at the End of the World" in Hong Kong? Fu Hongxue starring Pan Zhiwen...... I'm just like Fu Hongxue inside, when I was mixing on the road, I was going to see blood as soon as I got out of the knife, which made everyone afraid of me, as long as I mentioned my name, I was scared and trembled--- it's not me bragging, now if I stand outside and shout, 'My old cow is here', I can scare the cow ghosts and snake gods in the entire southern city." ”

Anyway, there is no tax on bragging rights, and the old cow blows wildly in front of the women.

"Oh, my brother Niu, I didn't expect you to be so powerful!" the bewitching woman's eyes were about to drip water.

The two women next to him also lost no time in complimenting:

"Brother Niu, you are a hero enough!"

"Yes, the sky is not afraid, the earth is not afraid, it's too manly!"

Niu Hongqi was held by three ** people, and his mouth couldn't close the floodgates, and he bragged: "You don't believe it, you know no, this scar on my stomach, as well as this and this one, are all left by me when I fought with others." I'll tell you a few big names, I used to fight with the leprosy in Nanguan and the old military leader in Beiguan. ”

Seeing the three women looking confused, Niu Hongqi said again: "Also, these two people are big names in the early years, I guess you haven't heard of them...... I'll tell you about a recent highlight, the Liu Weidong who sells coal, have you always heard of it? When he was not in the stream, he once bumped into me while eating skewers at a casserole stall and accidentally stepped on my foot. But this kid was a prickly head at that time, he didn't say anything, and he swore and scolded with his neck, what do you think I can do? Of course, it was a few slaps and slaps, and this kid was honest on the spot. ”

"So, some people can't fight if they don't fight, and when they do, they will wilt, be honest. Niu Hongqi took out a red plum cigarette, put it in his mouth, and said with high spirits.

"Brother Niu, you are so majestic! Even that Liu Weidong dared to slap him. I heard that he is very powerful now, and he has killed people and been in prison before!" the bewitching woman hurriedly leaned over, shook her big chest, and took a lighter to light a cigarette for Niu Hongqi.

The cigarette was lit, Niu Hongqi glanced at the other party's big breasts, and secretly scratched the palm of the bewitching woman twice with his fingers, and said in his mouth: "What is there to brag about if you have been in prison, I have also been in prison, have I blown it......?"

Just when Niu Hongqi was about to continue to brag about his heroic deeds back then, the door opened, and He Qiang came in with rice wine.