Early in the morning of May 21, Hu Wenkai checked out and rushed to No. 3, Lane 181, Taicang Road at 7 o'clock. Kobe had already packed his luggage and a small suitcase, and Kobe handed Hu Wenkai three keys: "Hu, now that this is all yours, look at me and take a small suitcase." ”

"Your box is full of dollar bills, beware of being robbed on the ship, the Chinese famous saying is not exposed."

Sent Kobe Bryant back to No. 3, Lane 181, Taicang Road, which belonged to him, walking upstairs and downstairs back and forth, this is his home in this time and space, and finally has a place to stay. On this day, Hu Wenkai bought a quilt cover on the bed, tea leaves, purple sand teacups, and a kettle for boiling water. Through James's introduction, he found a few workers and began to renovate the bathroom and dining room, and completed the secret room of the study by himself. Hu Wenkai redesigned the switch to open the secret room after opening the drawer at the bottom of the bookcase. Hu Wenkai changed all the door locks, and three days later, the renovation of the first floor was completed, basically meeting expectations. He moved a dozen cases of wine from the secret room to the corner of the dining room, and took out the computer, the Desheng radio, the M9 pistol, and the notes made by later generations from the bank safe.

In the secret room, the computer was turned on and the photos of the Shanghai Concession in 1927 were called up, and detailed sketches were made for each street and each alley, and the French Brossoe wrote "The French in Shanghai (1849-1949)" wrote that the land price of Nanjing Road rose fourfold between 1920 and 1923, and the land prices of Petain Road, Xiafei Road, Fuxi Road, Baylor Road, and Luban Road skyrocketed nearly three times.

Riding the bicycle left behind by Bryant, Hu Wenkai, wearing a straw hat in the May sun, drew a sketch of Pétain Road with a pencil under the shade of the trees on Pétain Road. As long as he put himself into work, Hu Wenkai did not listen to the outside window, and the people on Petain Road came and went, and sometimes someone stopped behind him to watch, and Hu Wenkai paused from time to time to measure the distance with his steps in the open space on the side of the road or in front of the old-fashioned houses.

Although there are a lot of commercial buildings on Petain Road, there are still a large number of houses on both sides of the road, and the old-fashioned houses look very dilapidated, which forms a strong contrast with the Western buildings on the other side of the road. Hu Wenkai was calculating in his heart that the funds needed to develop such a piece of land were too much for him to bear in his current economic situation, and the thought of fighting against the greedy concession merchants alone made him depressed. Falling from the scorching ideal to the cold reality, he rode his bicycle slowly on the way home by the setting sun. Bright lights illuminate the shop windows, people rush to the footsteps of the crackling, this is a great, wonderful Oriental metropolis. It is a world of hope and opportunity. He keeps cheering himself on and he's going to succeed, he's pretty sure of that.

In the past few days, James often comes over after work, Hu Wenkai's elegant conversation, just the right amount of humor, flashiness and elegance make this nineteenth-century junior brother feel that Hu Wenkai's charm makes him have a subtle admiration. In James's circle of friends, Hu Wenkai's name has long been known, James often quotes Hu Wenkai's words, oh my friend Hu Wenkai said that people are created to live with the goal of individual comfort, oh my friend Hu Wenkai said that the progress of society is the power of men to create wealth in order to please women, I will tell you a joke that my friend Hu Wenkai told me.

Many of the ideas of the 21st century were passed down to the upper class of Shanghai through the mouth of Hu Wenkai. Young people from the Board of Directors of the French Concession and the Ministry of Industry of the Public Concession gradually liked to chat with James at Hu Wenkai's house at night to discuss world current affairs and comment on interesting stories about the Shanghai Concession. As a businessman in later generations, Hu Wenkai knew the importance of relationships, although he was a small official, but he was not sloppy in his hospitality, wine, cigars, fine coffee, and exquisite pastries were provided openly, and when he left, he gave each person a small bag of gifts, a bottle of wine, and a box of pastries.

The former third-class secretary of the Russians, Ivanov, did not know who brought him as a guest, and he may have been forced by life to worry about eating and drinking, and the former third-class secretary completely ignored his identity and went to No. 3 of Lane 181 on time every day to report, and took the initiative to answer the phone for Hu Wenkai, record the content of the call, help clean up the messy living room of the party the night before, and entertain guests when Hu Wenkai was not at home. Ivanov was very good in nature, his parents were previously professors at the University of Petersburg, but after the October Revolution, his wife and daughter were secretly killed, which plunged his life into darkness. Hu Wenkai also acquiesced to his actions, but let him know that he could enjoy the stairs in the living room on the second floor.