The Huangpu River is surging eastward, and the people living on both sides of the Pujiang River are running around every day for firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea. The occasional low whistle of the various boats passing on the river reminds the passing boats to hurry up and avoid them.

This kind of Western iron ship, often hung with a variety of flags, high erected chimneys with billowing smoke, rampage to set off layers of waves, so that those boatmen on the small sampan often need to exert 12 points of strength to prevent the ship from being overturned by the waves.

Among the steamers, there are also a few ships with the five-color flag of the Republic of China, which is the ship of the steamship China Merchants operated by Sheng Xuanhuai. However, compared with the large number of foreign company ships, the number of ships of China Merchants Steamship is significantly smaller, and it is also much more down. Since Sheng Xuanhuai's death last year, the huge family business has been managed by Mrs. Zhuang. Even if Mrs. Zhuang herself tried her best to take care of it, she was a woman in the end, and her energy and connections were incomparable to Sheng Xuanhuai, which was also the reason why the steamship China Merchants was getting worse.

After waiting for twenty minutes, a small steamer finally approached the dock just as a large number of new ships arrived. This is a ferry ship belonging to the steamship China Merchants Bureau, which goes back and forth with the river and the sea, and picks up the guests on the sea boats who cannot enter the Huangpu River because of the ship's draft.

The rickshaw drivers, who had been waiting near the pier for a long time, saw that there was new business, swept away their slumber, stretched their necks, and shouted hoarsely. The passengers who got off the small steamer carried large bags and small bags and bargained with the rickshaw drivers. After reaching a price that was satisfactory to both parties, the rickshaw sped along the newly built road in front of the pier.

A heroic young man in a white suit, wearing gold-rimmed glasses, thick eyebrows, big eyes, and fair skin, slowly walked down from the gangplank, carrying a delicate rattan box in his hand. A few drivers who didn't pull the passengers suddenly surrounded them again, and said in a gossipy voice: "Childe, take my car, look at you alone, it's cheaper for you!" ”

"Childe, at first glance, you are a rich and noble person, and you will not miss those two coppers. My car is spacious and clean, comfortable to sit in, let's get in my car! ”

A man in black wearing a wide-brimmed top hat with an open waist squeezed through from behind the crowd, stretched out his hand to push the coachmen away, and shouted, "Go away, go away!" Our son-in-law is a dignified doctor in the United States, how can he surrender his identity and take your kind of car? ”

When the coachmen saw that someone had come to pick them up, and that they were fierce people, they knew that they could not afford to provoke them, so they scattered in a hurry, waiting for the next wave of steamers to dock. The man approached the bespectacled young man, nodded and said, "Young Master Ziwen, I'm Song Wu, Master Jiashu sent me to pick you and the third miss!" ”

After finishing speaking, this person named Song Wu looked around and asked cautiously: "Young Master, the master said that the third lady came back by boat with you, why didn't you see her?" ”

The young man named Ziwen pursed his mouth behind him and whispered: "Xiaomei has always been grinding, and she won't show up until the last moment!" ”

Before the words fell, a girl's voice like a yellow oriole sounded behind her.

"Brother Ziwen, saying bad things about me behind my back is probably not in line with your identity as a doctor, right? What's more, where am I grinding, isn't it because I don't want to get off the boat with so many stinky people? You see how good it is now, just me, I can go as I want! ”

From the gangplank set up on the boat, a girl with bright eyes and bright teeth, hair like clouds, and a small strand of bangs covering the middle of her forehead, looked unusually playful. She was wearing the costumes of traditional Chinese women, but instead of looking rustic, she wore a lively and lovely side.

"Hello Third Miss, I'm the driver Song Wu, and Master Jiashu sent me to pick you and the eldest young master!"

Song Wu bowed here, and Xiaomei said impatiently: "Okay, okay, don't make all this red tape, come and help me carry my suitcase to the car." This trip back to China, I was adrift at sea for more than ten days, and I was already exhausted. All I need now is to go home, lie down on my silk bed, and sleep soundly! ”

"Yes, yes, what Miss San said is, I'll help you put your luggage, and we'll drive off immediately."

After a few thick puffs of black smoke came out of the black car, he suddenly carried the two Song brothers and sisters out of the dock and drove in the direction of Xiafei Road. The girl named Xiaomei looked out of the car window, and suddenly said loudly: "Brother, brother, look! How cute is the little child sitting in the carriage over there? And kiss me with a kiss! How naughty! But it's the first time I've seen a seven or eight-year-old kid play a knife so neatly! What do these people do? Oh, Gu Jiaban, it turned out to be a circus class. If they have a show, brother, you must accompany me to see it! ”

Wang Mengxiong looked at the speeding car, and his heart was full of frustration. No one could have imagined that a seven or eight-year-old child would have such a mature soul in his body. Just now, he also saw a girl who could be regarded as a beauty in the future life in the open car window, and couldn't help but send a flying kiss. Who knew that the girl didn't care, and completely regarded him as a child's prank, and sure enough, this body restrained the overflowing feelings, so that the flirtatious girl had no pleasure.

"When will the little brother grow up? Five years or ten years? It's a pity that there are so many beauties in Shanghai, and I have to bother you to wait for me for ten years! ”

Wang Mengxiong thought narcissistically, and the flying knife in his hand flashed, hidden in the cuffs. What he didn't expect was that the girl who passed by staggered ended up to become a relative and elder, and even the wife of the top boss, so that every time he saw her, he was always frightened, for fear that she would hold on to this experience again. However, at that time, Wang Mengxiong had grown up, and the girl had already married, so this fear was not very strong, but because this little braid was respectful every time, so that the third lady blew the pillow wind in front of her husband many times, saying that he was humble and would become a great weapon, and it was an accident to get the opportunity to be promoted one after another.

After Gu Jiaban hastily settled down, Gu Chuanbiao took two entourages to meet the big boss who invited them this time. Speaking of which, this big boss is famous and powerful, and he is a well-known person in Shanghai.

At first, Wang Mengxiong heard Gu Chuanbiao talk about the big boss's surname Huang, and he preconceived that it was the famous Inspector Huang, but he didn't know that he didn't show off his historical knowledge when he inquired later. It turned out that although this tycoon surnamed Huang was also surnamed Huang, his name was Huang Chujiu. This person was originally from selling homemade herbal pills near the City God Temple, but later he seized the opportunity to sell a potion for the brain, called Ai Luo to replenish the brain. The name Arrow sounds like a foreign product, but it is essentially the English pronunciation of his surname Huang. However, the common people don't understand this, they think that it is a foreign product, and it is packaged in glass bottles, which is simple and beautiful compared to traditional Chinese medicine supplements, so they bought them one after another, making this Huang Chujiu famous and making a windfall. Later, the business became bigger and bigger, and he partnered to open the first amusement park in the nature of a new world. Later, the partner was not particular and kicked him out. Boss Huang was furious, and opened another big world next to the new world. Ask Gu Jiaban to come to warm up the big world, boost popularity, and work against the original New World playground.

Waited until the evening when Gu Chuanbiao came back with a shake of the step, and took everyone directly to the big world. This area, which covers a wide area and several performance venues are connected by corridors, has become the place where the Gu family class settled for more than half a year.

When the gongs and drums beat and the loudspeakers played passionate music, Gu Jiaban's first performance in the big world officially began. Wang Mengxiong also started his debut as a miscellaneous worker in Shanghai, and was the assistant on the target when Gu Chuanbiao performed a blindfolded flying knife. In the past, this work was done by Gu Chuanqi. Now that Wang Mengxiong wants to learn other people's housekeeping skills, he has to risk his life to be this prop man.