Chapter 9 Boss Jade
She walked in front, followed by two men, one big and one small, and after the three of them walked into the vermilion gate, the little guy outside the door gently closed the door, and the ten red lights outside were instantly extinguished, and the six zhang red silk flew in the moonlight, making the magnificent Duangu Zhai faintly reveal three points of mystery. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
"Give us a pot of big red robes, a copy of Duangu Zhai's six views. That's all. ā
The woman replied and turned to leave the Ice Hall.
She and Lin Xie sat down on the exquisitely embroidered soft couch, there was an enamel bell on the table, behind the soft couch was a set of Suzhou embroidered screens, the mahogany floor was under the feet, the floor was covered with a thick and exquisite Persian carpet, two mahogany lanterns hung very high, the whole Bingjian Hall was very bright, there were a total of 12 halls on the second floor, long from north to south and wide from east to west, the Bingjian Office was facing south from north to south, and it was on the second floor that it was high, and here you could just see all the boxes on the second floor of the Bingjian Hall.
Few people care about who will come to the Bingjian Hall, although it is a box in the upper position, and the status of the people who enter this box is not much different from the people here, that is, they have to pay an extra 500 oceans.
They are all people who come to do business, and profit is the most important, who would spend such a large sum of money to ask for a useless position? It's good to show your strength just by shooting a little more.
Unless, for the people in the Ice Pavilion, it is far more important to show identity and status than to obtain benefits.
Lin Xie handed over a small telescope and whispered, "First floor, three o'clock." ā
Lu Hexi raised the binoculars, a dark corner on the first floor, the woman in the blue flag dress lowered her head gently, and said something to a man in a mink coat opposite, the man was fat, with a somewhat fierce look on his face, his beard trembled, his eyes widened, and he couldn't tell whether he was angry or afraid.
Lu Hexi put down the binoculars, looked at Lin Xie and asked, "This person is the Artillery King?" ā
"Not bad. He started by arms smuggling, and he used to be a comprador of a foreign company, relying on his connections with the Germans and a group of brothers who were in the market. ā
"Sounds like a turtle, I haven't seen this person back then, what does he have to do with the Lu family?"
Lin Xie didn't answer, there were two knocks on the door outside, and two waiters came in with tea cups and a large tray.
There are six plates of dim sum on the tray, which are black, white, turquoise, vermilion and light brown. Duangu Zhai has been open for more than 100 years, and since its opening, there is only this one dim sum, which is called "Six Views of Wenxiang".
After the waiter left, Lin Xie continued: "When the Lu family had an accident, he was just a small boss of Tianjin Wharf, and he was still smuggling sugar at that time, but his reputation for courage was quite famous in Tianjin Port. ā
"Is there anyone behind him?"
"I haven't found out yet, since the fall of the Lu family, it only took half a year for this person to change from a sugar trade to an arms deal, and at the beginning, he swept the five halls of the Jin family in Tianjin with strong armaments and force, and directly entered the Jin family's old house, so I don't need to talk about the next thing."
"The Jin family is defenseless, and there is no one left?"
"A lot of people died in the Jin family back then, and the artillery king suddenly had a combat power comparable to the army overnight, even if the Jin family has always been the leader in the business of dart and gun smuggling, there is no way to resist the strangulation of a regular army."
Lu Hexi took a small bite of a piece of vermilion pastry, the sudden fortune of the Artillery King is too doubtful, no wonder Lin Xie noticed this person first, his fortune can be described as the same as a legend, and the water behind this must not be shallow.
"Has anyone investigated this?"
"It's too secretive, almost no tail left, I went to listen to the wind Xiaozhu to buy news, and that's all they can give." Lin Xie smiled, "This old turtle is too flamboyant, it's like a chess piece deliberately released by someone, attracting everyone's stammering and hostility to him." ā
"But." Lu Hexi looked at the place on the first floor again, "Except for him, we don't have a place to start at all." ā
"Hmm."
They are not here to buy things and appreciate treasures, but just to see who the top celebrities in Beijing and Tianjin are now, and they know that they can survive a hundred battles. At that time, the Lu family died out overnight, and the pattern of Beijing and Tianjin can be described as a big change.
The beginning of the word "Duan" in Duangu Zhai is not obviously the industry of Duanwangfu, but that after the Lu family bought this place, they lost it to the old shopkeeper of Duangu Zhai, and the pattern and business here have not changed because of the change of owners. Now except for the old shopkeeper who is dizzy all day long in Duangu Zhai and a few masters of the Lu family, I am afraid that no one else knows that this place is the property of the Lu family.
She was dressed in tattered and sour-smelling clothes early this morning, with long hair mixed with mud and grass residue, and with a small black face, she ran into Duangu Zhai with a black box.
Throwing the box on the counter with a big grin, he shouted a word for money, and the little guy wearing white gloves took the box inside, and opened it to see that it was a phoenix hairpin with exquisite workmanship, a golden body, crystal clear gems of various colors, and a thin hairpin tail, faintly seeing a word.
The little guy looked at it seriously for a while, and there was no problem with the workmanship and materials, but when he saw that it was a dirty and smelly little beggar, he was a little suspicious, and he couldn't figure it out, so he could only go to the back and ask the master to come over and palm his eyes.
Lu Hexi blinked his big eyes and looked at the old man in front of him holding the phoenix hairpin, his hand trembling like words, and shouted: "Give money!" ā
The old man's hand shook, he carefully placed Feng Hai on the brocade cloth on the table, he took off his reading glasses, looked at the unkempt little beggar and asked, "Where did Xiaoyou get this thing?" ā
The little beggar didn't answer, but just asked for money. The old man's temper also came up, and he felt that this bear child was too disobedient, and even coaxed and deceived him to ask about the origin of Feng Hai, but Lu Hexi's eyes widened, and he cried out loudly, which attracted the attention of many people in the hall.
Duangu Zhai has always been an elegant and pure place, where can it tolerate such trouble, the master's face sank, and he hurriedly let the apprentice coax the little beggar into the inner room.
No one knows how the old and the young talked, but in the end, the little beggar hugged a basket of snacks when he left, and the little apprentice of the old master smiled like a flower and sent the little beggar away.
Can the little apprentice be unhappy, what does this little beggar know, such a beautiful thing is only 3 yuan, hehe, you can buy it for 300 yuan here!
How did he know that in the back hall, his master was trembling and holding a semi-circular hollow jade, the old tears were all over the place, and his withered and thin body was stiffly arched.
In the afternoon of the same day, the little apprentice went to the Donglin Hotel with a red sandalwood box, and respectfully handed the box to a black-haired and blue-eyed gentleman, he looked at the gentleman's exquisitely cut cashmere suit, and sighed in his heart, he really deserves to be a noble person who can get the invitation card of the Bingjian Hall, that is, he has an aura!
The artillery king Wang Tianhai straightened his fur coat, cleared his throat and entered his box.
It's the first time he's come to this kind of place, and on weekdays, a pair of brothers in the Jianghu gangs are used to being very aggressive, and he doesn't dare to think about how deep the water behind Duangu Zhai is, he is just a rough man who sells arms and sugar in Tianjin, and the most annoying thing on weekdays is the crooked appearance of the literati, Jinmen is a ruthless place, he is a ruthless person.
Therefore, he became more and more puzzled why he came here with the invitation with the name "Yunan" written on it.