317. The Pyramid of Power

After sending Huang Shilang away, after Chu Mufeng opened the leather bag, he found that it contained brand-new dollars with a faint ink fragrance, not to mention tens of thousands.

But think about it, those businessmen who were caught are quite wealthy, as long as they don't suffer anymore, who dares not to spend this money if they can or in the early stage?

"Lao Wang!"

After Chu Mufeng put away some of the money, he went directly outside to call someone.

"Section Chief! What's the matter? Wang Gezhi, who heard the greeting, walked over quickly.

"Call Shangdongchang, Lao Song, Lao Huang and a few of them, let's go eat shabu mutton tonight, I'll have a treat!" Chu Mufeng knew that these captains had been holding a string all this time, and now that the case had been completely handled, it was natural to relax and relax.

"Okay!"

After hearing that Chu Mufeng was going to treat him to eat shabu mutton, the captains were naturally full of laughter, they didn't care what they ate, they cared about who they ate with.

There is an opportunity to get closer to Chu Mufeng and have a good relationship, how can you miss it?

Donglaishun restaurant.

As the leading mutton shabu restaurant in Beiping City, as long as the weather is cold, Donglaishun's business is quite hot, although the price is expensive, but the diners who come here to shabu mutton are still endless.

The lamb slices here are cut to the top.

Thin as paper, even as crystals, as good as a line, beautiful as a flower, thrown into the copper pot boiling with charcoal fire sea rice mushroom soup is cooked immediately, it tastes fragrant and tender, not greasy.

In a private room in a lamb restaurant.

The positive and negative captains of the first section of the Criminal Investigation Department were present, and they were gathering around a table of eight immortals at the moment, raising their glasses to toast to Chu Mufeng in the steaming mist.

"Don't worry, we have time tonight, eat slowly, drink slowly."

After Chu Mufeng drained the wine in the cup in one gulp, he beckoned the big guys to sit down, then pointed to the mutton slices in front of him, and said with a smile: "Do you know where Donglaishun's mutton is used?" ”

"Isn't it from Beiping City?" Su Tianyou blinked.

"Of course not, Captain Su, Donglaishun's mutton is from the Inner Mongolia grassland, and all of them are castrated high-quality small-tailed sheep, and the mutton slices here are only selected from the five parts of this sheep's upper brain, big three forks, small three forks, grinding stalls and cucumber strips, section chief, I'm right." Song Dabao said with a smile.

"Well, it looks like you're a glutton, too." Chu Mufeng raised his chopsticks and pointed and said with a smile.

"It's really exquisite!" Su Tianyou also nodded.

"Of course, the meat slices cut out in the hands of experienced masters are known for their thinness, uniformity, Qi and beauty, and half a kilogram of mutton can be cut out of 180 pieces of meat, the slices are folded in half, the texture is clear, and the size and weight are consistent."

"Tsk, this knife is amazing, you can go to our interrogation room to be a knife man." Huang Shuo laughed.

"Speaking of which, let's talk about Ding Deshan, the old shopkeeper of Donglaishun, this person is very particular about doing things, and his mind is also very lively. Have you ever heard of the three theaters of Jixiang Theater, Dangui Tea Garden and Chinese Stage? Song Dabao raised three fingers and said.

"Of course I've heard of it!"

As a native of Beiping City, Huang Dafeng put down his wine glass and said: "These three theaters were all opened in Dong'an Market at that time, and because of these three theaters, in the past few years, Dong'an Market has become very prosperous and lively, and the dignitaries and nobles of the two inner cities in the east and west will come to patronize. ”

"Right!"

Song Dabao nodded and said: "Lao Huang is right, there was once a rumor to describe it, that is, 'The theater is open on three sides, and Haozhu mistakenly uses silk to listen to a song; If you want to know the gold swayer, but look at the few young people in the audience. At that time, it was very prosperous and lively, and Ding Deshan saw this situation, and with word of mouth and popularity, the mutton trade became stronger and bigger step by step. ”

"Not only is the mutton authentic here, but the condiments are also very particular, like the sauce we eat now, there are sesame paste, sauce tofu, pickled leek flowers, marinated shrimp oil and other options, bringing together fragrant, salty, spicy, marinated, bad, fresh and other flavors, if you add Donglaishun's homemade white skin sugar garlic and sesame baked cakes, it tastes mellow and beautiful, and you will not get tired of eating!"

"Section Chief, I'm not wrong!" Song Dabao said as he set his eyes on Chu Mufeng.

"Not bad, yes, I'll explain to you, come, Lao Song, I'll give you a drink!" Chu Mufeng raised his glass and said with a smile.

"Thank you, section chief, I did it, you are free!" Song Dabao hurriedly picked up the wine cup and answered.

Of course, in addition to the must-order mutton shabu, there are also many signature stir-fried dishes on the table, such as dry fried mutton, fried coriander tenderloin, roast lamb shank, white soup offal, hand-grabbed lamb and fried lamb tail.

Don't think it's too much, and don't look at the people sitting here, all of them are fierce men, and they have a good appetite when they eat.

"Old Su, how's it going, how do you feel?" In the midst of the staggered mines, Chu Mufeng asked at Su Tianyou.

"Very good!"

Su Tianyou also said with a lot of emotion: "Section Chief, before today, I never thought that I would eat meat and drink wine with everyone like this, but now I feel very happy to eat and drink like this with my brothers." ”

"Well, it's not a good habit to put on a shelf and be high."

Chu Mufeng admires Su Tianyou very much, this child of this family does not have that kind of arrogance, he is also very reliable in doing things, and he can get along with Wang Gezhi and them, so he wants to say a few more words.

Otherwise, if you change to a gentleman with ordinary eyes above the top, don't expect to get Chu Mufeng's sideways attention.

"Actually, you can guess your identity, of course, you don't have to say, really, if you say it now, it's not interesting, what I want to say is that you have to be grounded, and it is difficult for you to become a big tool if you are not grounded."

"Yes, Chief, I see what you mean."

Su Tianyou raised the wine glass in front of him and said in a deep voice to the people around him: "Everyone, I didn't tell everyone about my identity at the beginning, because I didn't want to cause any unnecessary trouble to our relationship because of my identity. It turns out that we are in real feelings, and they have nothing to do with those so-called identities. I was also very happy and comfortable in our department. ”

"It's my blessing to know a boss like the section chief, and it's my luck to know your brothers. Okay, I won't say much about those sensational words, come, everything is in the wine, I'm dry with this glass of wine! ”

"!"

The big guys raised their glasses and killed them.

"Alright, here's something I want to announce to you." After Chu Mufeng finished saying this, the room suddenly fell silent, and only the sound of gurgling in the soup pot could be heard.

"Lao Wang, God bless your appointment has come down! In other words, from now on, you will be the deputy head of our first section! ”

As soon as Chu Mufeng's words landed, a look of joy appeared on Wang Gezhi and Su Tianyou's faces, and the rest of the people did not mean to be jealous, and they all shouted like coaxing.

"Lao Wang, you can drink more tonight."

"Lao Su, don't you want to escape, why don't you hurry up and give a glass to the section chief!"

"Two deputy section chiefs, two more meals of wine to drink!"

This is a great thing.

Everyone knows the roots, and they all know that if Wang Gezhi and Su Tianyou talk about the upper position, it will be good for them.

Besides, this promotion of Chu Mufeng had already set the tone in advance, so everyone knew it in their hearts, and the current commotion was purely from the heart, and they really wanted to celebrate the promotion of the two.

Wang Gezhi naturally immediately raised his wine glass, stood up and bowed deeply at Chu Mufeng, and said gratefully: "Section Chief, thank you!" If it weren't for your promotion, I, Wang Gezhi, probably wouldn't have wanted to be this deputy section chief for the rest of my life. In the past, let alone the deputy section chief, even the deputy captain I didn't think about it. You brought me hope and brought me to where I am now. ”

"I'm stupid, I understand a lot of truths, but I just can't say it, but what I want to say at this moment is that you are my direction in the future, section chief, and I will hit wherever you point, and there is no other word. I salute you with this glass of wine! ”

"Goo-dong!"

After speaking, Wang Gezhi raised his neck and drank it all.

"Lao Wang, everything is in the wine." Chu Mufeng smiled and accompanied him with a glass of wine.

"Now it's my turn!"

Su Tianyou naturally got up, and when he raised his wine glass, an expression full of emotion appeared on his face.

"Section chief, Lao Wang just said that he can't speak, but I feel that he said it very well. He said everything I wanted to say, and his words were what I meant. I, Su Tianyou, will definitely look forward to you in the future! This glass of wine, I'm dry! ”

"!"

Of course, Chu Mufeng is not the kind of person who likes to take a big deal, and the people who can sit here are all his own brothers, and he doesn't need to see anything at all.

After the two of them finished toasting separately, it was Song Dabao's turn to start toasting.

It's the deputy section chief!

You have to celebrate.

Seeing such a lively and jubilant picture, Chu Mufeng was full of joy, watching and eating at the same time, enjoying himself.

The relationship between superiors and subordinates in a department is so harmonious, and situations like this rarely occur in other departments.

Those section chiefs will position themselves in a high position, not to mention eating and drinking like this, even if they usually meet and say a few words, they have to raise their heads and keep a straight face, as if this is not enough to show their awesomeness.

"Lao Hua, let's detective team five, you said that if you become the captain, who is the most suitable to take your place?" Su Tianyou drank a little too much, his face was red and hot, and he asked.

"I'm the captain?"

Hua Rong drank a little too much, and chatted with Su Tianyou, if this was normal, although the two of them said that they were very close, they would never make such an action.

"yes, what? Think it's impossible? You see that I am now the deputy section chief, so this captain must be you. If you are also in the position, the vice-captain under the ass will always have to be handed over, let's talk about it, if there is a suitable candidate, I will see if it is the same as I think. ”

"What you want me to say."

Hua Rong hesitated slightly, and then said very happily: "I think Huang Jiuling's kid is good, he is clever enough, but he is very cautious and thoughtful, plus he has a relative of a weasel, serving as the deputy captain is only good and not bad for our detective team, what do you think?" ”

"Just what I want!"

Su Tianyou laughed, turned his head to Chu Mufeng and said, "Section Chief, are you saying that what we said is right?" Did Huang Jiuling's kid also fall into your eyes? ”

"Huang Jiuling?"

After Chu Mufeng ate a hot slice of mutton with chopsticks, he nodded and said: "Jiuling is indeed good, that kid is smart enough, but you can make your own ideas about this matter, if there are people worth cultivating, you can cultivate them well, and they will be useful talents in the future." ”

"Yes!"

This is equivalent to decentralization.

Chu Mufeng never thought of grasping everyone in the palm of his hand, as long as he could control the group of people in front of him, as for the people below, he had to rely on the people in front of him to master.

This is the most perfect pyramid of power, and blindly grasping all the power in one's own hands is actually not conducive to winning people's hearts and doing things.

Of course, Chu Mufeng and others are not the only ones who come to eat shabu mutton this season, the restaurant is full of diners, full of all kinds of sounds.

In one of the boxes, Jiang Yi and Bai Yinshuang were seated.

Jiang Yi has Han Yan, a classmate who works in Xihua Hospital, and Bai Yinshuang, a best friend who teaches in the slum school, and if she is idle, she will ask the two of them out to relax and eat.

"Han Yan is almost here, let's start eating." Facing a table of dishes, Jiang Yi said with a little appetite, anyway, they are all their own people, so they don't have to see outside.

"Then let's wait together!" Bai Yinshuang looked outside the door and said.

"Okay, listen to you!"

Jiang Yi put down her chopsticks and chatted with Bai Yinshuang, and after about five minutes, Han Yan came in, took off her coat and began to apologize, saying that there was a traffic jam on the road.

"What kind of traffic jam, being late is being late, and you will be punished for an extra drink in a while!" Jiang Yi said with a smile.

"Drinking again!"

Han Yan frowned, with a memorable look on her face, and said with a slight embarrassment: "Can we stop drinking, I have a big head now when I hear you say drinking." ”

Jiang Yi can drink it, forget it, who wants Bai Yinshuang not to look at Jiao Didi, then it is very fierce to drink, compared to them, Han Yan's small amount of alcohol is not enough to see at all.

"It's okay, it's okay to drink a few more times, the amount of alcohol is practiced."

"yes, drink less, it's okay."

"Okay, okay, then I'll only drink three glasses, and I'll have three drinks when I say it's okay."

"Okay, let's drink three cups first, come on, hurry up and eat mutton first!"

While the girls were eating and chatting, there was a knock on the door outside the box, and before they could make a move, the door was slammed open from the outside, and several figures walked in.

When he saw who the leader was, Bai Yinshuang's face suddenly changed.

"Who are you, do we know each other?" After Han Yan saw this situation, she put down the chopsticks held in the air and asked indifferently.

"Hehe, it doesn't matter if you don't know you, just know it. Besides, you and I don't know each other, but I know her very well, right, Yinshuang? ”

The leader was a middle-aged man who was quite handsome, in a suit and leather shoes, and after he came in, his eyes greedily swept over Jiang Yi and Han Yan, and finally fell on Bai Yinshuang.

"Xiaobai, do you know each other?" Jiang Yi turned his head and asked.

"It's more than acquaintance!"

The man in the suit held a cigar between his fingers, took a puff and said with a wicked smile: "Yinshuang, aren't you going to introduce me to your friends?" Why don't you introduce me to your friends? ”

"Zhou Wall Wind, don't go too far!"

Although Bai Yinshuang was still sitting on the chair, her hands were firmly grasping the corner of the table, and she said with a frosty face: "You are not welcome here, you let me out!" ”

"Get out?"

Being coldly greeted by such horizontal eyebrows, Zhou Wallfeng grinned, and his eyes scanned over like a wolf in heat.

"I finally met you, how can I just say it. Yinshuang, don't forget, the two of us once had a relationship, you can't deny it. ”

"Huh?"

Jiang Yi and Han Yan couldn't help but be stunned when they heard this, they asked themselves that they had known Bai Yinshuang for a long time, and they knew a lot about her, but it was the first time they had heard of it.

Could it be that the ex-boyfriend in front of him is really Bai Yinshuang's ex-boyfriend, and the two of them have also had a mountain alliance and a sea oath? But it doesn't look like it, this person called Zhou Wall Wind is so frivolous, and he doesn't seem to be young, how can he be worthy of the well-informed Bai Yinshuang?

"Xiaobai, really?" Jiang Yi said in surprise.

"Yes, there we've had it, but we've broken up a long time ago, in fact, we haven't been together for a long time, but it's only been a month, and in this month, I have completely recognized how ugly his face is, so I don't want to see him again at all."

Obviously, it was a sad thing to be poked, and Bai Yinshuang didn't mean to explain more.

"I see!"

Jiang Yi, who had guessed one or two from Bai Yinshuang's expression, suddenly knew it in his heart.

What if the two of them were really lovers before? Now Bai Yinshuang doesn't want to see you again, so you can quickly disappear for us.

"Sir, this is our box, and you are not welcome, so please leave now and disappear from our sight." Jiang Yi said coldly.

"Disappear? Haha, you made me disappear? ”

Zhou Wallfeng, who heard this, couldn't help but burst into a burst of laughter: "Just a little girl like you, you dare to say such things to me Zhou Wallfeng, it's quite big!" ”

"Well, yes, yes, my brother likes girls with personalities and tempers, so let's do it, or you and Yinshuang will obey me, how about I promise to let you live a comfortable life as a young grandmother?"

"You're so shameless!"

Jiang Yi's face turned red suddenly, he didn't expect to meet such a shameless scoundrel. I really don't know how Bai Yinshuang had a relationship with him back then.

"I'm a doctor at Xihua Hospital, and I don't want to threaten you with this, I just want to tell you that this is our private meeting place, and if you continue to pestering here, I will call the police."

"You said that if the police came, would they help you thugs, or would they side with me, the attending doctor?" Han Yan glanced at the other party and said indifferently.

"Yo, that's interesting!"

Zhou Wallfeng's eyes became hot, and there was a hint of greed in his gaze towards Han Yan.

"Yinshuang, the quality of the friends you've made now is quite high. Well, they're your friends, and they're my friends. If the big guys are all friends, then the rest will be easy to say. ”

"What's the matter?" Jiang Yi raised his eyebrows and asked.

"Pay back!"

As soon as Zhou Wallfeng said this, Bai Yinshuang's chest rose and fell in anger, and he said urgently: "Who owes you money?" Zhou Wallfeng, if you dare to make trouble here again and talk nonsense, I will really call the police! ”

"Who owes me money?"

Zhou Wallfeng smiled, and said with a fierce look in his eyes: "Who do you say owes me money?" Of course, it's the money your family owes me. ”

"Don't forget your damn brother, if it wasn't for the medical bills I paid in advance, he would have died a long time ago? Although it is said that he still met Lord Yama in the end, but it was his bad life, didn't he have to pay back the money if he died? ”

"You bastard, you still have the face to mention my brother!"

Hearing the word "brother", Bai Yinshuang, who had been trying his best to control the mood, suddenly burst out, with an undisguised resentment and viciousness in his wide eyes.

"I know the truth back then, do you dare to say that the money is your money? How can you speak with such a clear conscience? Zhou Wallfeng, are you worthy of those dead companions by doing this? Aren't you afraid that they will come to you when you sleep at night? Aren't you afraid of going to the underworld after death? Around the wall, you can't be so unscrupulous and have no bottom line. ”

Jiang Yi and Han Yan were already starting to feel that something was wrong, the two of them knew that Bai Yinshuang had an older brother, but this brother seemed to have died of illness a long time ago.

But now that she heard the conversation between the two of them, it seemed that there was still something inside to this matter, which could make Bai Yinshuang, who had always been very calm and humble, become like this, presumably her brother's death had a great impact on her.

"Hey, hey!"

Zhou Wallfeng's expression was very indifferent, without the slightest intention of panic and fear, and he shook his head and said, "What dare I not face him, isn't it just a dead man?" What's so scary, what do you say about the Netherworld, a person as good as me is going to go to the Western Elysium after death, you know! ”

"You! Shameless! ”

In the face of an unreasonable person, no matter how much truth he says, it will be in vain.

There are only two ways to do: either be tougher than him and directly suppress the arrogance of the other party, or swallow your anger and silently endure such provocations.

"Yinshuang, I heard that you are teaching in a slum school now, you see how boring you are, what is the future of playing with such a group of poor children, it is better to follow me. You don't know what I'm doing now, do you? Let me tell you, I'm now working for the French, doing things for them, I'm a comprador! ”

"Then, since I met it today, I can settle the old score. Now there are only two paths in front of you, either pay back the money or follow me. ”

"Great choice, huh? You come with me, you can eat and drink spicy food, you don't have to pay back the money, not to mention that I have to give you my own money, what a simple multiple-choice question, if I were you, I would definitely choose the second one. Yinshuang, what do you say? ”

Zhou Wallfeng smoked a cigar, and a look of arrogance rippled between his eyebrows, as if what he said was the truth, and what he was doing was to save Bai Yinshuang from the dire situation.

"Yinshuang, don't be afraid!"

Jiang Yi stretched out his hand to grab Bai Yinshuang's hand, and said with a firm and calm look in his eyes: "With me and Han Yan here, he won't let him hurt you, isn't it just to pay back the money?" We're still there! ”

"Can't pay it back!" Bai Yinshuang shook his head decisively and said with a look of hatred.