Chapter 45: The Bloody Ballroom (1)
Lihua Ballroom is the property of the Four Seas Gang, where there are not only many guests who come here to have fun and dancers who rely on the dance hall to make a living, but also many people from the Four Seas Gang who watch the scene here. Tang Cheng had just reached the staircase, but he was stopped by two cold-faced Four Seas Gang, and Tang Cheng, who pretended to be looking for a toilet, had no choice but to turn around and leave. Tang Cheng, who had not been able to make it up to the second floor and walked around the ballroom, sat down at the bar again. As time passed, the Lihua Ballroom became more and more lively, but Tang Cheng's mood became more and more impatient.
Looking down at his watch, he found that it had been more than an hour since he entered the Lihua Ballroom, and Tang Cheng, who was sitting at the bar, decided not to wait any longer. The two black-clothed men guarding the staircase obviously had short knives or daggers hidden in their waists, although Tang Cheng was not afraid of opponents who used cold weapons, there were at least six or seven black-clothed men in the same costume as them in the dance hall. Tang Cheng slowly narrowed his eyes, and quickly calculated in his mind, and quickly looked around in the dance hall, Tang Cheng finally thought of a solution.
Tang Cheng reached out and took out a big ocean from his pocket, and took advantage of the gap between the bands in the dance hall to change their tracks, just when the various sounds in the dance hall were mixed together, Tang Cheng suddenly raised his hand, and a silver light came out of his hand, hitting the back of the head of a middle-aged man on the dance floor. "Oops!" A cry of pain sounded, and the middle-aged man who was hit in the back of the head by the ocean reached out to cover his head and turned around, but there were people in front of him and behind him, and he couldn't find out who hit him for a while.
found that it was actually an ocean that hit his head, and the middle-aged man who was holding his head immediately jumped on the dance floor and made a fuss, Tang Cheng, who was sitting at the bar, smiled and said nothing, like other guests and dancers, just watching the monkey show performed by the middle-aged man. The Four Seas Gang watched in the Lihua Ballroom and the two of them soon came over, seeing the two black-clothed men smiling at the middle-aged man, the middle-aged man selected by Tang Cheng was obviously not an ordinary person.
Tang Cheng's purpose is to make the Lihua dance hall chaotic, so that he can have a chance to fish in troubled waters, if the riot in the dance hall can lure Sun Baohua out on the second floor, it will be even better. The middle-aged man who was smashed in the head by the ocean is not an ordinary person, and the two spectators of the Four Seas Gang have been accompanied by smiling faces, but the middle-aged man has been unrelenting, and the scolding has become louder and louder.
"I won't tell you, tell Sun Baohua to come out, he must give me an explanation for this matter." The middle-aged man's right hand covering his head was covered with blood, which made him even more annoyed. If you want to find out the person who attacked you in the dance hall, you have to get the help of the four seas gang, but although the other two have been with them, they have no intention of finding someone at all, which obviously wants to settle the matter and don't want to make things bigger.
The originally lively dance hall had quieted down, and the band on the stage had no order to rest, but seeing the commotion on the dance floor, the band could only stop playing. "Captain Zhang, this is not to give Sun Baohua face! That Sun Baohua is not easy to provoke, it seems that there will be a good show to watch. Among the many guests, who knew the middle-aged man, whispered around the dance floor, and when he heard someone say that the middle-aged man was a captain of the city's anti-smuggling department, Tang Cheng's face couldn't help but show a smile.
Although the Lihua Ballroom is in the French Concession, and that Captain Zhang is an action captain subordinate to the Anti-Smuggling Department of the Shanghai Municipal Government, the Four Seas Gang has been secretly operating a tobacco business, and if this Captain Zhang intends to go to the tobacco business of the Four Seas Gang, it will definitely be the Four Seas Gang who will suffer in the end. After all, most of the tobacco soil that entered Shanghai was transported through the Guotong area, and as long as this Captain Zhang made it bad, the Four Seas Gang might not be able to transport a piece of tobacco soil into the concession.
The two black-clothed men guarding the staircase immediately separated one and went up the stairs to the second floor, and after a short time, the man in the long shirt that Tang Cheng had seen at the door of the dance hall came down from the second floor. "Captain Zhang, what kind of trouble are you making here? Could it be that you are complaining that your brother did not come to toast you? Come on, let's talk upstairs, just to introduce you to a friend. The man in the long shirt was obviously very familiar with Captain Zhang, and after just a few jokes, he half-pulled and half-dragged the angry Captain Zhang up to the second floor.
Between the two of them, Tang Cheng, who was sitting at the bar, saw the left hand of the man in the long shirt, and sure enough, the left hand of the man in the long shirt was missing a little finger. This person is Sun Baohua, Tang Cheng reached out and picked up the wine glass from the bar, but his eyes kept paying attention to the man in the long robe. Seeing that the two of them had gone up to the second floor along the stairs, Tang Cheng immediately put down his wine glass and threw a few bills to the bartender at random, Tang Cheng immediately got up and left the Lihua Ballroom.
At the beginning of the lanterns, the big Shanghai has also reached the most lively time, the Lihua Ballroom is still full of people outside, out of the Lihua Ballroom Tang Cheng sat down in a small food stall on the opposite street. As long as the business content of the snack stall is thin-skinned wontons, perhaps because the opposite side is the Lihua Ballroom, there are a few small dishes on this snack stall. Tang Cheng also followed the trend, and like the other two diners, he asked for a bowl of wontons, a plate of lo-mei and three taels of rice wine.
The taste of the wontons is very good, and the marinade is also very good, but Tang Cheng has not touched the three taels of rice wine. After a short time, Tang Cheng, who was sitting in the corner of the food stall, saw a few people coming out of the Lihua Ballroom, led by Sun Baohua and Captain Zhang. Sun Baohua and the Captain Zhang talked in a low voice as they walked, obviously Sun Baohua sent the Captain Zhang away, Tang Cheng immediately left two oceans on the small table, and immediately got up and left the snack stall.
The car borrowed from Hans was parked on the side of the street not far away, and after getting into the car, Tang Cheng didn't have to turn around at all, just started the car and stepped on the accelerator, and the black car drove towards the Lihua Ballroom not far ahead. As Tang Cheng deduced, Sun Baohua was indeed here to see off that Captain Zhang, don't look at the two of them just like brothers, the car carrying Captain Zhang left the door of the dance hall, and Sun Baohua, who was originally smiling, instantly turned cold.
"This Zhang Chuan is getting more and more excessive, find a few brothers who are at ease, and find a chance to get him. took so much of our money, but he was still so greedy, he really took our Four Seas Gang as his family's bank. Stretched out his hand to take the cigarette handed by his cronies, and when Sun Baohua tilted his head and lit a cigarette, he did not forget to tell his cronies around him to find an opportunity to teach Captain Zhang who had just left a lesson.
If it was Sun Baohua half a year ago, he wouldn't dare to deal with that Captain Zhang, but now it's different, the Four Seas Gang has already got in touch with the Japanese, and Sun Baohua doesn't believe that Captain Zhang can be the opponent of the Japanese. Thinking of the Japanese, Sun Baohua suddenly remembered the incident a few days ago, and immediately turned his head to ask his cronies beside him. "Old Seven, did the special high class say whether that incident will continue? The underground party is not easy to deal with, so I told the brothers to be careful during this time. ”
As an eyeliner in the concession for the special high class, this was proposed by Sun Baohua on his own initiative, for no other reason, as long as he could get in touch with the Japanese, the Four Seas Gang would no longer worry about being stuck in the neck of the concession patrol room. The incident a few days ago came too suddenly, and less than half of the more than 20 people lent by the Four Seas Gang to the special high school class, and in the end, less than half of them came back, Sun Baohua said that he was not distressed, it was a lie.
It's just that he is distressed, but Sun Baohua didn't show anything, because he knew that if he wanted to really get in touch with the Japanese, he had to pay a certain amount of money. "The special high school hasn't replied yet, but it just said that we want to find out the news of the underground party as much as possible, and if we can find out, we will immediately contact their people in the concession." Sun Baohua's cronies have been following him for many years, and Sun Baohua has become accustomed to handing over many things to this cronie to do.
"That's good, since the Japanese have already said it, let's explain it clearly to my brothers and be careful when doing things." Hearing this, Sun Baohua threw away the cigarette that was only half left in his hand, and was about to turn around and return to the dance hall. At this time, the black car driven by Tang Cheng happened to be less than 10 meters away from the entrance of the dance hall, and seeing that Sun Baohua seemed to be returning to the dance hall, Tang Cheng in the car stepped on the accelerator suddenly, and at the same time raised his right hand holding the pistol in the car.
The car that stepped on the accelerator made a lot of roars, and Sun Baohua, who was half-turning at the door of the dance hall, couldn't help but raise his eyes to look at the car. At a distance of less than ten meters, Tang Cheng in the sedan stepped on the accelerator again, and in the blink of an eye, the black sedan driven by Tang Cheng drove to Sun Baohua's side. "Big brother, be careful..."Xiao Qi, who had been standing beside Sun Baohua, was the first to notice that the situation was wrong, and then shouted angrily and reached out to push Sun Baohua.
"Poof!" The bullet shot out of the right window of the car that had long been rolled down the glass, and it shot a ball of blood on Xiao Qi's right arm. Before Xiao Qi's scream came out of his mouth, Tang Cheng in the car had already stepped on the brakes, and at the same time pulled the trigger of the pistol again. "Poof!" The second blood flower at the door of the dance hall appeared, but it was a pity that the second bullet fired by Tang Cheng still did not hit Sun Baohua. It was a member of the Four Seas Gang who blocked the second shot for Sun Baohua, who was hit in the back by a bullet and fell to the ground without firing.
"Damn it!" Even two shots failed to hit Sun Baohua, Tang Cheng, who had already stopped the car, immediately scolded in a low voice, then reached out and pushed the car door, and then jumped out of the car to bypass the front of the car, and rushed straight to the headlights at the entrance of the dance hall. "Sun Baohua, today is your death date, don't be a traitor in the next life!" Tang Cheng, who was masked with a black cloth, shouted, and the barge gun in his left hand sprayed a barrage at Sun Baohua and others at the door of the dance hall, while the ** pistol in his right hand quickly and accurately shot the two black-clothed men who pulled out the guns to the ground.