Cao Jianping announced on the phone that the meeting time was half past two. Sun Daeyong and his three men took a taxi to Shinichichicho in Edogawa Ward and got off at the entrance of the shopping street in I-chome, just after two o'clock.

The second-hand store opened by Cao Jianping's family is in the middle of this shopping street. The venue for today's meeting is located in his shop.

After the four of them walked along the street to the door of a small Japanese-style building with a "Cao's" signboard hanging at the door, Sun Dayong asked his subordinates to wait outside, and pushed open the door of the store by himself and walked in.

It is probably because there are too many goods in the store, and the light in the store is more than ten square meters. Walking in from the bright noon sun, Sun Dayong stood at the door and let his eyes adjust for a while before he could see the situation in the store clearly.

Cao Jianping's shop, Sun Dayong has been to it twice before. Every time he visits, the furnishings in this store will make him feel a little breathtaking.

The structure of the store is a little narrow rectangle, and the walls on both sides of the door are two shelves up to the ceiling, the open shelves on the left side are full of rice cookers, stereos, microwave ovens and other household appliances, and the other side of the shelves with glass doors are densely packed with small valuables such as watches and leather bags.

In the middle of the storefront is a long hanger that divides the open space into two aisles. The hangers are full of clothes for men and women, from winter to summer. And the most exaggerated thing is that there are two clotheslines longitudinally under the ceiling of the house, like a laundry. Two rows of clothes hung in the air on a rope.

These two rows of clothes hung like hanged ghosts are the culprits in the dimly lit store. Not only is the sunlight outside blocked so that it can only cramped a small piece in front of the store, but even the light from the fluorescent lamps on the ceiling is blocked a lot. When Sun Dayong saw this scene for the first time, he was a little puzzled, how could those customers who came to the door find their favorite style from these hanging clothes?

Sun Dayong knew that the second-hand store opened by Cao Jianping was actually a den specializing in selling stolen goods. Many members of Nu Luoquan rely on petty theft to make a living on weekdays, and Cao Jianping opened such a shop, not only to make money himself, but also to prevent these people under his command from being exploited too hard by stolen goods sellers outside.

The store is now full of goods. Most of them are the "fruits of labor" of Nu Luo Quan's members. Maybe it's because it's a thief. It's so careless. Sun Dayong glanced at it casually, and saw a coat hung crookedly on the hanger, and the logo on it was actually Burberry's classic black shield-wielding knight.

He walked down the aisle separated by hangers toward the store, where at the bottom of the hall was a long checkout counter. According to the experience of Sun Dayong's first two visits. Generally, it is Cao Jianping's wife who sits behind the counter and is responsible for collecting money. And usually there should be a clerk in charge of inspection and service in the store.

Today is probably because there is a party in the store. Sun Dayong did not see the clerk in the store. And at the moment, the cash register is empty.

He hesitated. Still did not directly open the curtain behind the cash register to enter the back hall, but stood in front of the counter and waited. When he entered the door just now, the tinkling sound of the doorbell was not small. I believe that people in the back hall should be able to hear.

Sure enough, he stood for less than half a minute when the door curtain was lifted, and a middle-aged woman in her 30s walked out from behind. When the woman saw Sun Dayong in front of the counter, she first shook her head, and then greeted her very affectionately: "Yo, it turns out that Brother Dayong is here, why don't you go in directly, why are you so polite when you come to your sister-in-law?" Your big brother Jianping is waiting for you upstairs. ”

"Hello sister-in-law." Sun Dayong said hello stiffly, and seemed a little uncomfortable with the enthusiasm of the woman.

This woman with a northeastern accent is Cao Jianping's wife. After marrying Cao Jianping in China, she followed him to Japan. Sun Dayong had only met her twice, and he only knew that her surname was Sun, but he didn't know what her name was.

The woman lifted the lid on the counter and let Sun Dayong in. After looking him up and down, he praised him loudly: "Ouch, the young man is really handsome today!" Look at the material of this coat, pure cashmere, right? At first glance, you can tell that it is a high-end product. ”

After complimenting, she changed her complaining tone and said, "Dayong, sister-in-law, I heard that you made a fortune by opening a store in Shinjuku." But you're so rich, why don't you think about taking care of your sister-in-law's business? ”

"Look at you, this suit and coat were bought in a Japanese department store, and they must be expensive. Next time, don't go out to waste money, if you want to buy clothes, come to your sister-in-law. The same material, the same brand, sister-in-law here is much cheaper than outside! ”

Sun Dayong was a little stunned by the woman's self-familiar energy, he agreed a few words, and hurriedly opened the curtain and walked into the back hall.

Behind the curtain is a long, narrow corridor, and on the left side of the corridor is the slab wall that leads to the second floor. Cao Jianping probably heard the two people downstairs talking, and shouted at the top of the staircase.

"Is Dayong coming? Let's go upstairs when you come. ”

Sun Dayong said yes loudly and went up the stairs to the second floor. The door of the first room at the top of the staircase was ajar, and there was a humming sound from inside, and it seemed that there were quite a few people.

He pushed open the door and walked in, and inside was a Japanese-style room about 20 square meters in size. At this moment, there were about seven or eight people sitting around the hearth in the middle on the tatami mats in the room.

Before Sun Dayong could carefully look at the people who were sitting, he heard a strange voice from inside.

"Yo, Boss Sun is finally here! Tsk, this big boss's style is different. Our group of old and young, together with Boss Cao, are waiting for you! ”

Sun Dayong heard the sound and looked over, and it was really Zhang Rongxing who spoke.

Zhang Rongxing's appearance is very distinctive. It's the kind of genre that can be unforgettable at first sight. If you look at it from the facial features alone, he still looks very good. Thick eyebrows, big eyes, and a Chinese face, a typical look of the positive characters of our army in film and television dramas.

But the magic is that he can talk and behave through guò, and even have to raise his eyebrows and lower when he is silent, and show a perverse expression on his face at all times, so that others can see from his Li Xiangyang's appearance. (Li Xiangyang: Captain of the Armed Forces Behind Enemy Lines, a famous positive character in the TV series.) ）

Sun Dayong and Zhang Rongxing didn't meet many times, but they saw him every time. Sun Dayong will sigh in his heart. This person is probably born a bad seed as the old people used to say.

"Boss Cao explained to me on the phone that the meeting time was half past two." Sun Dayong raised his hand and looked at his watch, and continued: "It's only 2:25 now, although I arrived a little later than everyone else. But I'm not late. When is it wrong not to be late. Is this your new rule, Brother Xing? ”

For Zhang Rongxing's provocation. Sun Dayong just retorted casually, but did not explain too much. In his opinion, this kind of provocative trick to take people for fools. Obviously, it can't be put on the table.

At this time, the buzzing in the room had disappeared, and everyone else in the room stopped talking and turned to look at Sun Dayong who was standing at the door. Cao Jianping, who was sitting at the top, ignored the quarrel between the two, he beckoned to Sun Dayong, and pointed to an empty cushion on the tatami mat, and said in a harmonious voice: "Dayong, since you are here, sit down first." Just try this pot of tea I just brewed together. ”

Sun Dayong took off his coat, hung it on a hook on the wall, and walked towards the empty seat. At the same time, he was also looking at the people sitting in the room.

Sun Dayong, the seven people present, all know each other, in addition to the eldest Cao Jianping and the second Zhang Rongxing, sitting on Cao Jianping's right hand at the moment is Li Guolin, the third master of Nu Luoquan. And the remaining four are all middle-level cadres in Nu Luoquan.

Sun Dayong sat cross-legged on the cushion and muttered in his heart. Today's situation seems to be a little bad, the middle-level and above cadres in Nu Luoquan have actually arrived, it seems that Boss Cao attaches great importance to this matter.

Cao Jianping handed over a large white porcelain cup, Sun Dayong brought it in front of him and opened the lid, and suddenly a unique medicinal fragrance of ginseng came to his nose.

No wonder he always felt that there was a faint smell of medicine in this room after entering the house, it turned out that Cao Jianping was cooking ginseng tea.

"Before the Spring Festival, my old family just sent me an old mallet, saying that it was to make winter supplements. Dayong, you taste it, this tea is brewed from the whiskers of the old mallet. Cao Jianping said politely to Sun Dayong, then picked up the teacup in front of him and took a big sip, smacking his lips and savoring it for a while, before he spoke:

"I'm calling everyone over here today for two things. This is the first one, that is, our brothers are busy with their own things on weekdays, and we haven't seen each other for several months. Today, let's drink tea and talk about business in the afternoon, and drink and talk about gossip in the evening, which can be regarded as a lively gathering together. ”

"This second thing is what Rong Xing mentioned to me, the recent recruitment of little brother Dayong." Speaking of this, Cao Jianping raised his head and looked at Sun Dayong, but the words in his mouth did not continue. It seems to be brewing language, and it seems to be observing Sun Dayong's reaction.

Sun Dayong's expression was calm, and he looked back at Cao Jianping's gaze without fear. The two looked at each other for a moment, Cao Jianping took the initiative to withdraw his gaze, turned his head to look at Zhang Rongxing, who was sitting on his left, and continued:

"Brother Rongxing's words are more strict. He told me that there are only more than 200 brothers in Nuluoquan, and now more than 100 people have been recruited by Dayong. He asked me, Dayong pulled so many people away, did he plan to pull the flag alone in Shinjuku, and prepare to be the boss himself? ”

As soon as Cao Jianping's words came out, the faces of everyone in the room revealed their different feelings, some were surprised, some were proud, and some were gloating. Moreover, all these faces with different expressions looked towards Sun Dayong at this moment.

Cao Jianping took another sip of the teacup, then raised his eyes and looked around the faces of several people in the room, then lowered his eyelids and said slowly:

"Rongxing's statement, I think it's a bit overdone. Dayong recruited people to work, which provided a stable income for our orphaned brothers. That's a good thing anyway. Moreover, he had done this before. They also said hello to me. ”

"But yes, Dayong." Cao Jianping looked up at Sun Dayong and asked softly, "I heard that you have opened a shop in Kabukicho Street now, right?" One store has to recruit more than 100 people, isn't it a bit too much? ”

"Of course, we coarse people don't understand your business, and we don't know what your part is all about. I think so, why don't you take advantage of this opportunity for everyone to tell us about your charter today? ”

Although Sun Dayong still maintained a calm expression on his face at this time, he was already turning over the river and the sea in his heart.

"What now? Zhang Rongxing's old man's mind is poisonous enough, and he actually deducted a crime of treason and self-reliance on Lao Tzu's head! According to the character of Boss Cao. If Lao Tzu can't come up with a reasonable explanation today. I'm afraid I won't be able to get out of this building! ”

Sun Dayong thought nervously in his mind, and the cold sweat on his back suddenly soaked the close-fitting vest.

At this time, he couldn't help but be nervous, and he had been mixed up in Nu Luoquan for more than a year, and he knew very well in his heart that Cao Jianping was the most righteous. But at the same time, he also hates the infighting and betrayal of his own people the most. In the rules of the Nu Luo Quan gang that he formulated. The punishment for betrayal of the gang is the severest.

Sun Dayong remembers. The punishment for betraying the gang, Cheng Dù's lightest level, will be picked off. And the heaviest. It was directly killed, put it in a sack and thrown into the sea. Sun Dayong had never seen the example of being thrown into the sea, but a few years ago, there was a person who was picked off and his tendons were broken, and he had seen the tragic situation of that person with his own eyes.

"What to do? Although Lao Tzu's purpose in recruiting people is indeed to be his own boss, this crime must not be admitted now. But the question is, what kind of lie do I have to make up to convince Boss Cao that I don't want to stand on my own? ”

Sun Dayong only hated that his brain didn't turn fast enough, but the more nervous he was, the more blank his mind became. Just when he was about to despair, he suddenly remembered what Li Guangzhi had said to him before.

When Li Guangzhi instructed himself on how to negotiate with the Yamaguchi-gumi, he once said that during the negotiation, if the other party's conditions are too ridiculous, or the questions raised poke at your weakness, you can't cope with it for a while. Then this is the time to find a way to suspend the negotiations and delay time.

One of the most effective ways to suspend negotiations is to find an excuse to pretend to be angry, and then either scold or pretend to be angry enough to do something to others, until the whole venue is disrupted, and then the negotiations can be suspended. This trick is called flipping the table.

"What I need most now is to stall so I can come up with a convincing lie, so I should find an excuse to get angry and flipped the table now."

"By the way, since I want to be self-reliant, I can't admit it, then it can only be Zhang Rongxing's forced to deliberately slander me! This is probably the best reason to flip the table. ”

"Oh, no! If you want to use this excuse to flip the table, you should have lifted it when Boss Cao relayed that guy's words before. Now Boss Cao is questioning me, and the timing is a little wrong, but it will seem that I am trying to cover up. Well, I'd better deal with Boss Cao's problem first, and then find a chance later. ”

This series of thoughts quickly flashed through Sun Dayong's mind, and then, he made a shocked and aggrieved expression and said to Cao Jianping: "Charter? My charter is simple, boss. I just looked at the income of the store and thought that I could let more orphaned brothers have a stable income. ”

"As for recruiting a lot of people. I did recruit more than 40 store assistants for training, but this was to prepare for the opening of a branch in the future. After all, this job is not something that can be done right away, and you have to train it in advance. ”

At this time, Zhang Rongxing, who was sitting on the side, raised his face and pointed his nostrils at Sun Dayong, and said triumphantly: "You don't fart there, you don't recruit more than forty, don't forget that you also pulled at least forty from my hands to beat it!" I've checked, and you now have hundreds of people under your hands! ”

After speaking, he turned to Cao Jianping and said, "Brother Cao, this kid Sun Dayong is fooling you." I see, this kid just made a few small bucks by shit luck, and then he didn't know that the sky was high and the earth was thick, and he was going to pull a vote to become the boss himself! ”

"Zhang Rongxing! I'll beat you old bastard! ”

Before Zhang Rongxing finished speaking, he heard an angry roar from Sun Dayong on the other side. Immediately after, a white object flew straight at his face. (To be continued......)