Liu Sisheng really didn't expect that the young master in front of him, dressed in a dress, would be a detective, the word "detective" was still very unfamiliar to the ordinary Chinese people at that time, for Liu Sisheng, he only learned about the name of a private detective from a piece of news in an expired newspaper picked up from the vegetable market not long ago, the news said that an Englishman opened a private detective agency in the Shanghai Concession to deal with cases that the police and patrols could not solve, and he was well-known in the concession. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info A case that can't even be solved by the yamen, but a foreigner can solve it, what a great ability! At that time, Liu Xiaoge's mind moved slightly, and he thought, "If I can do something like the foreigner in the newspaper one day, it will not be in vain what I have learned!" However, that passion was soon extinguished by the reality of life, and now his livelihood is in question, and all thoughts can only be extravagant. But he never expected that the young tenant who came to the door today claimed to be a detective, which made Liu Sisheng stunned for a moment.

Zhang Jizu didn't know the inside story, and when he saw this little landlord, he seemed to be a little muttered, thinking, "Is what you said a little big, but people are suspicious?" So Zhang Jizu smiled again and said: "This, please rest assured, we are definitely good people, and the rent is guaranteed to not be a penny." Saying that, Zhang Jizu took out the only five-yuan bill from his pocket, put it on the table, and said, "Look, I have brought all the money, what else can I do?" ”

When Liu Sisheng saw Zhang Jizu's move, he hurriedly put his thoughts back and explained: "You misunderstood, I just thought of some other things, not that I don't believe you. No, but ......"

"But what? Do you have something to worry about? Zhang Jizu saw that the landlord was always talking hesitantly, and he was worried that he would regret it, so he asked.

"Oh, can you, can you pay me a month's rent first, because I really need it right now!" "Money" is the biggest problem in front of Liu Sisheng, but how did he know that Zhang Jizu is now also a big head, he only has these five yuan left in his pocket, Zhang Jizu heard the request made by the landlord, and scolded himself in his heart, "It's stupid, I originally wanted to stabilize the landlord first, at most give him one or two yuan to deal with for a period of time, I blame myself for being too reckless, now everyone has opened their mouths, what should I do?" ”

"You don't have to worry, if you don't live for a month, I will definitely return all the extra money to you at that time, and I can also make a note, how about it, this will be the case, right?" Liu Sisheng saw that Zhang Jizu was silent, and then said again.

"Huh? Where, can I still take it to heart for just five dollars, and give it to you. Zhang Jizu couldn't change his love for being strong at all, and was provoked by Liu Sisheng's words, so he pushed five yuan in front of Liu Sisheng. It's just that I feel uncomfortable, and that's true, so in the already small room, the atmosphere suddenly became a little awkward.

"I seem to smell the porridge." Ali suddenly burst out of nowhere.

"Oh, haven't you eaten yet, I just boiled some vegetable porridge, if you don't dislike it, drink a bowl together!" Liu Sisheng's mood improved at this time.

If it weren't for Ali to say, Zhang Jizu really forgot that they were still hungry now, but he was afraid of losing his identity, so he covered up and said: "Okay, now it's dark, and it's really inconvenient to go out again, so let's just drink a bowl of porridge!" ”

"Okay, please wait a minute." Liu Sisheng simply responded, then turned around to give Zhang Jizu and Ali Sheng porridge, before leaving, he didn't forget to pick up the five yuan on the table, Zhang Jizu pretended to be expressionless, but his eyes stared at the banknote until it entered Liu Sisheng's pocket.

Liu Sisheng was frightened by the eating appearance of the two in front of him, and he talked decently just now, and the reserved son, how could he eat vegetable porridge so exaggeratedly, Liu Sisheng didn't boil much, and planned to save some for tomorrow's breakfast, but he didn't expect that the half-pot vegetable porridge would be divided up by Zhang Jizu and Ali You and I would divide it up in a quarter of an hour, and it seemed that the eldest young master was still a little unhappy.

"I didn't expect that your craftsmanship is so good, little brother, but the simple vegetable porridge can be made so delicious, which is not inferior to the shark fin soup in those big restaurants." Zhang Jizu swallowed the last mouthful of porridge into his stomach and said praisefully.

"Ah, is it? It's over, it's over. Liu Sisheng's eyes widened, staring at the empty casserole and said, "I haven't eaten it yet, why don't you leave me a little?" ”。

Then Zhang Jizu stood up and stretched, looked around the hut again, and said, "For so long, I don't know what you call it, little brother?" ”

"Oh, my surname is Liu, and my name is Liu Sisheng." Liu Sisheng replied.

"Oh! What a name! Sisheng, Sisheng, it seems that the little brother is also from a scholarly family. Zhang Jizu is full now, and he talks more.

"Sir, I just read some books, it's nothing." Liu Sisheng now wants to clean up the small black room next door and rest as soon as possible, so as not to delay the things in the market tomorrow morning, so he said a little absent-mindedly.

Zhang Jizu didn't care, paced a few more steps in the house, saw the small bamboo basket at the door, and then curiously bent down to look inside, and asked, "Huh?" What are these things? ”

Seeing this, Liu Sisheng immediately stepped forward and picked up the small bamboo basket, put it behind him, and said: "This is just a tool for my work, it's not a big deal, sir, I see that it's getting late, you two better rest early, I won't bother." After Liu Sisheng finished speaking, he picked up a pair of futons on the bed and turned his head out of the room.

"Huh? This person is really strange, how to say it well, in the blink of an eye, it seems to be a little unhappy. What is so mysterious about what is hidden in that little bamboo basket? After Liu Sisheng left, Zhang Jizu stood on the ground and said to himself.

"Young master, he's a pig killer, what's so strange!" After licking the last grain of rice at the bottom of the bowl, Ali said with a little disdain.

"What? How did you know about killing pigs, Ali? Zhang Jizu asked in a little surprise.

"Oh, my young master, don't you smell something strange in this room? Aliko smelled it as soon as he entered the house. Ali touched his stomach and said again.

"Taste, what taste? But if you say this, it seems that there is such a fishy smell, is it just this smell that you can say that he killed pigs? Zhang Jizu still didn't believe it, and asked again.

"Yes, that's the smell, Ali is too familiar, it used to be that our family had to go to the Yang butcher's house in the town every day to get meat, his house is this smell, it won't be bad, as for the small bamboo basket that must be the guy he killed pigs, because the Yang butcher also has a small bamboo basket similar to him." Ali replied in the affirmative.