Two days later, Bai Qihong invited Cai Bingrong to come to his house for lunch.

Of course, Chen Shu was also invited.

Don't look at Bai Qihong at the dinner table with a smile on his face, although he said thank you, he had long wanted to dismantle Cai Bingrong in front of him, including his daughter Huating.

It seems that the appearance of Hua Ting made him have to get closer and closer to Cai Bingrong, originally he planned to have no feelings or interests with this former friend, but because of Hua Ting, he had to sit at the same table with him again. It's just that it's not what it used to be, no matter how close the two of them are now, how happy they are drinking, it's just symbolic acting, you see Bai Qihong's smile, he is just pulling his facial nerves, not really laughing.

But at least you can see a little human touch from Cai Bingrong's face, maybe he really wants to rebuild the old friendship with Bai Qihong, but in this relationship, there are already too many interests.

In short, to sum it up in a hypocritical sentence, that is: those times, we can never go back.

Seeing enough of the hypocrisy on Bai Qihong's face, Hua Ting set his eyes on Chen Shu, and found that he was also looking at her.

To be able to follow Cai Bingrong to do things, there must be a lot of unclean blood on his hands, although there is no murderous aura and hatred in this handsome face, but the inadvertent light in his eyes is really not to be underestimated.

Chen Shu, if he is upright, he will definitely do something in the future.

It's up to him to choose the right path.

The night before, Bai Qihong sat in his study all night, thinking that the opium business would face too many uncertainties in the future, so it was better to cooperate with Cai Bingrong first, (of course, only temporarily), and lend him the dock, on the condition that he must take a stake in his arms business.

Cai Bingrong only hesitated a little after hearing this and agreed, after all, the most important thing in doing business is to have channels, and being able to join forces with a figure like Bai Qihong means that there is a huge force behind him, and the business will definitely go more and more smoothly, so why not?

After the two reached an agreement, they began to raise their glasses.

The atmosphere at the dinner table gradually became harmonious.

Hua Ting winked at Chen Shu a few times, and when she saw that he was unmoved, she used her own tricks to sell cuteness, squeezing her eyebrows and pouting, but the other party still had a calm poker face, she felt bored, rolled her eyes at the ceiling, and smiled when she didn't expect him.

His smile made Hua Ting laugh too, it turns out that men of this era have a very strange laugh?

Bai Qihong glanced at her dissatisfiedly, coughed a few times with his fist in his mouth, reminded her to pay attention to the form, and then picked up the wine glass and expressed his gratitude to Chen Shu opposite.

Bai Qihong toasted, and if it was another little minion, he would have been out of order, but Chen Shu was different, he stood up unhurriedly, holding the cup in his right hand, holding the bottom of the cup in his left hand, looking at him calmly with a smile, and deliberately lowering his own cup to him when toasting, as a sign of respect.

Bai Qihong nodded at him with a smile on the corner of his mouth, and a hint of appreciation flashed in his eyes.

Because Cai Bingrong was in a good mood, he drank until 4 p.m. before getting up and leaving.

Then, the housekeeper Lao Liu brought another guest to appear in the hall on the first floor. Oh no, it's Ding Sicheng.

Wouldn't it be over if someone sent him a sum of money? Need to be specially invited to your home? This Bai Qihong's approach, she is becoming more and more incomprehensible.

Ding Sicheng waved his pocket with one hand and the other hand in the air, looking very much like Ding Yaoyi, who always met her in the commissary for ten minutes between classes, he always dangled in the air with a cola bottle in one hand and the other, which was regarded as greeting her.

Hanging eyes narrowed into a bridge.

Hua Ting looked at him with some distraction.

Until Bai Qihong's voice sounded, "You are Ding Sicheng?" ”

He nodded, standing as if he were in the same position as ever.

"Please come with me."

actually welcomed him into the study, what the hell is this old man doing?

Hua Ting kept up with the footsteps, but he turned him away, in order to prevent her from eavesdropping, he also specially opened the door of the study, as long as she moved a little closer, the shadow would hit the door frame, despite this, Hua Ting, who was standing three meters away from the door of the study, still pricked up her ears.

stood for more than half an hour, although she couldn't hear it clearly, but she understood it, in fact, she didn't need to eavesdrop at all, and she could guess it, isn't it that Bai Qihong wants to find Ding Sicheng as an inside line, so as to facilitate smuggling in the future, and Ding Sicheng, who saw the money, just thought about it with his toes, where to find such a lucrative errand? Don't hurry up and say yes!

Scold! A pot of rat! Hua Ting walked away boredly.

But in this way, the inspector is safe, and Bai Qihong will not kill him for the time being, but even if Bai Qihong will not, what about the others? Although there will be no one in this area who is more courageous than Bai Qihong, there will always be a case, coupled with the upright nature of the inspector, which has invisibly provoked too many unscrupulous businessmen to regard him as a thorn in the side, although he has a foreign head behind him, but the enemy is also accumulating over time, and he may be assassinated one day.

Although the inspector is not her grandfather, he has too many similarities with her grandfather, plus he is upright, and he appreciates him!

So worry about him too.

In the next few days, Bai Qihong was in a good mood, not only taking their mother and daughter out of the restaurant, but also going to the lively Sifang Pavilion to listen to the play.

Madame Bai was happy, but Hua Ting still couldn't arouse her interest.

Going out to play with Bai Qihong is no different from shopping in a prisoner car, and if you are not allowed to eat this time or touch that, it is better to stay at home and play mahjong. After all, Jane hadn't come to her for a few days, and she didn't know what she was doing for the Japanese. Since the kidnapping incident, Bai Qihong has set a new rule, unless Jian Yi personally picks up people at the Bai Mansion, Hua Tingxiu wants to take half a step out of the house.

Therefore, although Hua Ting doesn't like him, she also looks forward to his appearance.

Three days later, Jane finally appeared in the lobby on the first floor of her house.

Hua Ting saw him as if he was seeing a savior, picked up his bag and rushed downstairs.

"Sister Hua, take you to the movies?" Jane also opened her arms, but hugged the air.

"What else would you do besides watching movies?" Hua Ting passed by him and walked straight towards the gate.

"It's up to you to do whatever you say." Jane followed behind her.

"Let's talk about it later."

After the car drove away from the Bai Mansion a kilometer away, Hua Ting gave him a grateful look and said, "Thank you for taking me out, and then we can play our own games." ”

"Do you think I'll will?" He suddenly smiled.

Hua Ting shook his hand and said, "It's very boring to play with rich kids like you." ”

Besides, she is not suitable for Jian Yi, a man like him who dresses like a groom every day should find a lady with a strong temperament, drink coffee and watch movies or eat Western food or something every day, isn't it good?

"Wherever you want to go, listen to you, and I'll follow." He lowered his head slightly to check the wound on Hua Ting's neck, "It's so fast, it's good that there is no scar." ”

Hua Ting tilted his head and didn't look at him.

Jian Yi is really a difficult guy to shake off, but for the sake of going out in the future, he can only rely on him......

"Where does Sister Flower want to go?"

"Find someone."

She wanted to go to Ding Sicheng.

She wanted to know if Ding Sicheng was Ding Yaoyi, she wanted to know why he became like this, why he was in the same league with Bai Qihong, for him, Hua Ting had a lot of unsolved mysteries, and another reason was that she wanted to see him.

"Male or female?" Jian Yi suddenly came out of nowhere.

"What?"

"Is the person you're looking for a man or a woman?"

"Of course it's a man."

"Male?" Jane also looked surprised, "Who is he?" ”

"It's a handsome guy."

At four o'clock in the afternoon, a citizen street four kilometers away from the police station was full of all kinds of food stalls, some trinkets and gadgets endowed with a strong ethnic flavor, and the rock sugar gourd she loved to eat when she was a child.

In fact, even if she wasn't hungry, she would shout to stop.

How can a fragrant street like this not attract her?

For these street foods that look a little unhygienic, Jian Yi resisted at first, and then sat down with Hua Ting to gobble up, presumably a rich second generation like him who was born with a golden key, has not tasted what is the real authentic Shanghai flavor, right?

Jian also finished eating the last wonton and wiped her mouth with paper, looking still a little unsatisfied.

"It turns out that Sister Hua likes to eat these, I know."

"How?" Hua Ting drank the wonton soup to the point that there was not a drop left.

"Yes, I'll bring you if you want to eat it in the future." There were a few drops of light brown stains on the collar of Jian Yi's shirt, which was probably stained by the potsticker vinegar just now, but he didn't care very much.

"What are you busy with on weekdays? What to do for the Japanese? ”

"If I don't tell you, you won't understand."

Unexpectedly, she took the initiative to open the topic, and he actually sold Guanzi.

"Did you listen to what I said that day?" Flower listened to it and got angry.

Jian Yi took out his pocket watch from his pocket and looked at the time, and wittily changed the topic: "You've been eating for almost two hours, didn't you say you were looking for someone?" ”

"Oh yes!" Hua Ting patted his head, "Look at my memory!" The patrol room is going to be off work, right!? ”

As soon as she stood up, she noticed that the atmosphere around her was wrong.

Some of the nearby vendors began to stir.

A few aunts neatly put away the stalls, pushed up the cart and ran to the other end of the street.

A few stalls are larger, and the oil soup in the pot is hot, so there is no way and no time to run, so I have to continue to solicit business with a sad face.

Hua Ting snatched the pocket watch in Jian Yi's hand and looked at the time, it was just after 5 o'clock. "All the stalls in this area are closed so early?"

Jane shrugged her shoulders, indicating that she didn't know.

But judging from the expressions of the owner of the vendors, this is not just as simple as closing the stalls earlier, their posture is clearly running, running for their lives, like the street stalls in today's society meet the appearance of the chengguan, I can't wait to install hot wheels on the soles of my feet, and I am afraid that it will be too late if I don't escape.

"Uncle, what's wrong with you?" Hua Ting turned her head and asked an old man from a tea and egg stall behind her, who was also packing his baggage.

After all, when you are older, you move more slowly than others.

The old man didn't raise his head and said, "Oh, the harvest is here, if you don't run, this week's business will be in vain!" ”

"Harvest rules? What do you mean? ”

The old man ignored her and was busy tying hemp rope to his sack.

"What kind of harvest is it?" Hua Ting asked again.

Jian also explained: "Closing rules is a common saying in Hong Kong, which only became popular in Shanghai a few years ago, and you are in the United States, so naturally you don't know it." He stepped forward to help the old man with a hand, "In fact, it means that he is used to taking bribes." ”

Habitual bribery? Hua listened to it and understood. "In other words, what do you mean by collecting protection money on a regular basis?"

"yes!" The old man stepped on his little tricycle, "Thank you, young man!" ”

The speed of escape is very fast.

Although a few aunts on the side didn't have time to run, they were also busy packing up their money bags and discussing how much money they should give to the collector later.

How capable is this harvest? Look at this one by one......

As soon as Hua Ting turned around, he saw Ding Sicheng.

He stood in front of the wonton stall five meters away, with his hands in his pockets and a lazy smile in the corner of his eyes, just waiting for the stall owner to pay for it.

The stall owner reluctantly tapped the banknotes in the money bag, and because the movement was too slow, the two little followers behind Ding Sicheng impatiently snatched the money bag in his hand, and pulled out a stack casually, and said, "That's all, the rest will be yours." With that, he threw the purse back into his hand.

Ding Sicheng glanced at the number of banknotes, nodded with satisfaction, and went to the next stall.

Is he what everyone calls "harvest rules"?

Hua Ting clenched his fists.

"Sister Hua, should you ...... again?"