After speaking, a very gentlemanly stretched out his hand.

Wanchun ignored his kindness, avoided his support, got out of the car by himself, raised his head and subconsciously looked around.

She grew up in Shanghai in her previous life, and knew that the old alleys in Shanghai were generally Shikumen buildings, which originated during the Taiping Rebellion, when the war forced wealthy merchants, landlords, and gentry in Jiangsu and Zhejiang to flock to the concession to seek refuge, and foreign real estate developers took the opportunity to build a large number of residences. Until now, the enclosure is still the main feature of Shanghai residences, but no longer pay attention to carving, but the pursuit of simplicity, multi-entry to single-entry, the combination of Chinese and Western Shikumen residences came into being. This kind of building absorbs a large number of the style of Jiangnan dwellings, with stone as the door frame and black lacquer solid thick wood as the door leaf, so it is named "Shikumen".

Shikumen has the form of a three-story courtyard or a quadrangle courtyard in the traditional two-storey building in the south of the Yangtze River, generally entering the door is a small patio, the patio is the living room behind the patio, and then it is a day well, the back patio is the stove and the back door, the patio and the living room are the left and right wings on both sides, the stove room on the first floor is the "pavilion room", and then the upper is the sundeck. In general, the townhouse layout is derived from Europe, and the details of the exterior walls have carved patterns of Western architecture, and the triangular or arc door head decoration on the door is also mostly Western-style patterns.

The one in front of you is known at first glance as an old-fashioned shikumen residence, and when you enter the door, it is a long horizontal patio, with left and right wings on both sides, and a guest hall with long windows on the floor. The guest hall is five or six meters long and three or four meters wide, which is a place for receiving guests and banquets. The living room is flanked by secondary rooms, behind which there is a wooden escalator leading to the second floor, and then there is a rear patio, which is only half as deep as the front patio. There is a well. Behind the rear patio is a single-storey sloping annex, which is generally used as a kitchen, utility house and storage room. There are entrances and exits at the front and back of the entire house. The front façade is composed of a patio wall and a wing gable, and the center is the "Shikumen". Stone as the door frame, with black lacquered thick wood door leaf; The rear wall is about the same height as the front wall, forming a nearly enclosed façade. Therefore, although it is in the middle of the city, there is still a little benefit of high walls and deep courtyards, and it can be seen that Du Jiu and his people are very careful to enjoy it.

There was Du Jiu in front of Wanchun, and a wolf in the back, surrounded by the two of them, and went up to the second floor from the wooden staircase. The briquette stove that used to be placed at the top of the staircase. This is gone. In late autumn, the days are short and the nights are long, and at five o'clock you can see that twilight is coming, and at this moment it is already full of stars, and it should be six or seven o'clock.

From the corner of the stairs, there was a faint smell of food, Wan Chun followed Du Jiu and them for almost a day, only in the morning when he had a breakfast with Bo Alcohol, and he never ate again. At this time, let the fragrance flutter, and wake up the gluttonous worms in the stomach. Grunt twice.

She suddenly felt that her face was hot, probably red to the root of her ears, and she felt a little annoyed that she was not angry.

Du Jiu lowered his head and must have heard it, and glanced at the wolf silently. The wolf stood in the patio and shouted into a small house, "Mom, we're back, let's take the trouble to cook and send it upstairs." ”

Someone in the small house groaned. Promised to reply. Wan Chun realized that this was not just the base of the Qing Gang, but more likely to be Du Jiu's private residence.

She had a mind. Silently, he followed Du Jiu upstairs. Upstairs were several rooms lined up, and Du Jiuxin pushed open the outermost one. The moment the door opened. Wan Chun immediately saw a figure standing under the long window in the room.

Du Jiu stopped his steps and couldn't help but ask by the door: "Is it you?" What are you here to do? ”

The man turned around with a smile, Wan Chun's eyes suddenly widened, and she didn't expect this person to be the pillar of Shanghai Grand Paradise, the queen of sweet songs, Miss Mei Ruolan.

Mei Ruolan didn't seem to expect Wanchun to follow Du Jiu's side, and her smile suddenly closed, and against the backdrop of the wall lamp covered by the green lampshade, a melon seed face was bleak, as if she had seen a ghost. After a long time, he replied in a daze: "Ninth Master...... I...... I'm just coming to take a look, you didn't go to the Great Paradise this afternoon, and Yujun's funeral hasn't been taken care of yet, I thought...... Thought you ......"

"What do you think I'm doing?" Du Jiu interrupted her impatiently, waved his hand, and said, "When will you have to ask about my business?" I have entrusted Yujun's future affairs to Ah Xing, you can go back first if there is nothing to do. ”

Mei Ruolan was still standing under the window in a daze, her face becoming more and more gloomy. Li Yujun, as the pillar of Shanghai Grand Paradise, suddenly suffered an unwarranted disaster and died, I thought that Du Jiu would come to the scene and bury her, but I didn't want to see Du Jiu all afternoon, she was a good sister of Yujun before her death, and the celebrity on the scene of the Great Paradise had to help him entertain and mourn the guests.

I thought that he had stumbled on something important, and he couldn't leave for a while so he couldn't get to the Great Paradise in time, but I didn't think that he was just trying to ...... For the sake of this young lady?

Moreover, he had never scolded her like this before, even if she came to him three or five times a day, he would never say a word about her. This is also for this young lady, so you want to drive her away? She sang so many New Year's operas, and the master often told her that those who eat this line of food only hear the newcomers laughing, and don't see the old people crying. She thought she would be the exception, and now, was it her turn to be the old man so soon?

Mei Ruolan only felt that the weather was getting colder and colder recently, almost cold to people's hearts, making your teeth and tongue tips and even body limbs shiver involuntarily. However, after all, she has been in the wind and moon field for a long time, and she has been accustomed to restraining all her true emotions and facing the public with the most considerate and appropriate expression, so she cheered up at this time, bowed to Wan Chun with a slight smile: "Hello, we meet again." ”

Wanchun nodded, and bowed back to her.

Mei Ruolan looked at her, her heart was only like a knife, and she seemed to be numb to the end, but she still smiled and said to her: "I don't know if you are here, I still invited you to listen to the play last time, but unfortunately I didn't get my wish." ”

Wanchun felt that she didn't have much friendship with Mei Ruolan, but seeing that she was amiable and extremely pleasant, she said: "Last time, because I had something to do, I left in a hurry, if I have the opportunity, I will go to Boss Mei again." ”

"You don't have to be so polite, just call me Ruolan." Mei Ruolan smiled silently, her eyes wandered, she looked at Du Jiu, and saw that he was already very unhappy to stay any longer, so she held back the sourness in her heart, and said to Wanchun, "Since you still have something to do, Ruolan won't bother, this young lady, we'll meet another day, I hope Ruolan can sing for you at that time." ”

As he spoke, his eyes turned red unexpectedly as soon as he lowered his head, and he was about to walk out as soon as he started.

Wan Chun kept an eye on it, there are several people here, Du Jiu is the most difficult to speak, in order to use himself to blackmail the Li family, he will definitely not relax his vigilance against her. A wolf is Du Jiu's henchman, and everything is bound to have Du Jiu's voice, only this Mei Ruolan, not to mention that the two are both women, can pity each other. And when she looked at her, she clearly had some feelings for Du Jiu's daughter's family, and women looked at women's thoughts most accurately, looking at her looking at her expression, nine times out of ten she misunderstood her relationship with Du Jiu. She can start from this and persuade Mei Ruolan to let her go, of course, the premise is that Mei Ruolan must be left with her.

Wan Chun's face was silent, but he said in his mouth: "Wait, Boss Mei, since you said that you will sing it another day, then it is better to choose a day than to hit the day, just sing a play today." I'm going back to Jiujing in a few days, and I don't know when I'll be there next time. ”

Mei Ruolan's delicate body was shocked, and she stopped in an instant, looking at Wanchun in confusion. Wan Chun smiled softly, and said to Du Jiu again: "How about it, Du Jiuye, it's okay for me to invite your pillars to sing a play for me, right?" ”

Du Jiu's eyes were deep, he looked at her and then at Mei Ruolan, and only after a moment did he smile and said, "Of course you can, Ruolan can sing for your Miss Li Si, which is her blessing." Then he turned around and looked at the steps downstairs, and said, "This is not a good place to sing, the patio downstairs is open, I asked someone to light the lamp, set up a stage to come out, and sing two songs to the fourth lady?" ”

"It doesn't have to be that much trouble."

Wan Chun waved his hand, and said with an indifferent smile: "I'm just listening to the play alone, there's no need to put on such a big battle, according to my meaning, it's better to ask Boss Mei to sing for me in this room." Jiu Ye has been around for an afternoon, and he should be tired when he thinks about it, please go back and rest. ”

She obviously gave an eviction order, Ah Wolf was stunned, but he didn't want to let people out of his own territory with his boss, he couldn't help glaring at the closed door, and said to Du Jiu: "This fourth young lady is so majestic!" We can't be so used to her, wouldn't it make people laugh at our Green Gang being teased by a little girl? ”

"What's the point of teasing?" Du Jiu snorted coldly, kicked the door frame lightly with his toes, shook his head with a smile for a long time, and instructed Ah Wolf, "Don't underestimate the little girl in your mouth, she has a lot of ideas." You watch here, watch the movement inside the door, and don't ask her to play us tricks. ”

"Hey." Ah Wolf nodded, seeing that Du Jiu looked like he was going out, and hurriedly asked him, "Ninth Master, where are you going to go now?" Don't you find someone to follow? ”

Du Jiu waved his hand and thanked him for his kindness: "No need to find someone to follow, the second master is back, I'll go find him for a drink." With that, he took off a large black-brimmed hat hanging next to the door frame, put it on his head, and went downstairs.

Wan Chun clinged to the door, and heard the sound of footsteps on the wooden stairs, as if someone had gone downstairs, and his chest couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

Mei Ruolan was puzzled and stood behind her, it was a bit rare and strange for such a young lady to do such a gaffe, and she asked unconsciously: "Miss, do you still want to listen to the play?" (To be continued.) )