It was dark at five o'clock, Carotta took Hu Wenkai out of the company, and the two of them did not drive home as long as the weather was fine, Hu Wenkai liked to walk on the streets of Shanghai.

"Wen Kai, you're a little absent-minded today." Carrotta wears a tweed coat and a bell hat.

"Huh? How can I see that I am absent-minded. ”

"Usually when you pass by the grocery store just now, you always have to comment on the dress of the proprietress and the fact that you didn't touch the mailbox on the corner today." Carrotta nudged him with her arm.

"My dear, you are quite careful, today my husband is thinking about the company's year-end financial statements."

"Wen Kai, you like to learn from the ancient Chinese now, and you can make it seem like your husband doesn't know about our relationship at every turn." Carrotta snorted.

"The husband is originally Chinese, you are a Chinese daughter-in-law, you must learn three from four virtues."

"You want to be beautiful, according to your Chinese set I am your little slave, what you want is to marry your husband, the four virtues I was originally a model of the four virtues."

"Ah, our Carrotta even knows three from four." Hu Wenkai was surprised.

"You don't know, I've lived in China for almost ten years, and I don't understand it? You're underestimating people. "Carrotta held her head high like Desheng's rooster.

Hu Wenkai and Carrotta reached a strange level of spirituality during this period, completely different from any of his previous experiences. He had never met a girl like Carrotta, so charming, so plump, so intellectual, and so full of subtle intuition.

She would soon grasp what he meant. Her own thoughts and emotions are very provocative about him. He walked around Carrota's shoulder, his skin tingling with the cold evening breeze and her gloved hand over her cheek.

Returning to her home at No. 3, Lane 181, Taicang Road, Carrota went upstairs to change out of her coat, put on a floral cotton jacket, and went to the dining room to busy hot dishes. Hu Wenkai re-read the draft of the speech on the long table, picked up a pen, and revised a few places.

A piano concerto was played on the phonograph in the living room, and the scent of sandalwood emanated from the incense burner. After Carrotta finished the kitchen, she made a cup of tea for Hu Wenkai and sent it over, and sat on the agarwood to watch Hu Wenkai revise his speech.

At this moment, Carrotta's heart is very quiet, quietly staying by the side of the man she loves, watching his every move.

December 31 was destined to be a chaotic and busy day, and last night I spent the whole night in the study drawing of the steelmaking waste slag cement plant.

In the morning, Carrotta pushed open the door and smelled the pungent smell of smoke, knowing that Hu Wenkai had stayed up late again, Hu Wenkai was lying on the bed rubbing his eyes, and next to him sat Carrota who pouted.

Carrotta also knew that no matter what she said, it was useless for him, and as soon as she left in the evening, Hu Wenkai stayed up late in the study. Seeing that Carrotta was angry, he grabbed his head in embarrassment and got out of bed.

"If you want to stay up late, stay up late at least open the window, you can smell the smell of this room and stay in it and sleep." You pig, get up and take your cold shower, your hair smells of smoke. ”

"Okay, baby piggy, I'll pay attention next time."

"You sleep again, I'll go down and ask Mother Liu and Mother Wang to boil water, and when the water is boiled, tell you to come down and take a bath." Carrotta hung her bag on the head of her bed and went downstairs.

Hehe, still care about me, don't let me take a cold shower, he thought proudly. After getting up and playing with the rings on the balcony for a while, drag them down to take a shower in the Carrotta. Mother Liu smiled and said, "Young master, the bath water that Miss helped you boil." ”

"Mother Liu, you can smoke people to death by smelling the smoke on his body." Carrotta said, holding his change of clothes in her hand and pointing to his hair.

The bathroom is foggy, this winter is very cold, there was an air conditioner at home before, but I don't think the weather is cold, and the winter in Shanghai has been cold since the beginning of the record.

Lying in the bathtub and thinking about whether to install a small heating boiler outside the bathroom wall, it didn't matter if he was strong, but Carrotta was prone to catching a cold in such an environment.

A bath towel wiped his damp hair, and Carrotta helped him apply lotion to his face. patted Carrotta's cold red face and said to Liu's mother: "Liu's mother is going to order more food today, there must be a lot of foodies coming at noon." ”

"Okay, the young master has already taken care of it just now."

When Hu Wenkai and Carrotta left No. 3 Lane 181, more than 40 bandits from Pei County in Lizhuang, near Hexing Township, more than 30 kilometers from Tianfen Township, were nested under the earthen walls and thatched houses in the courtyard of their companion Zhang Yongfu's house.

Zhang Yongfu was a local farmer in his early forties, and Zhang Yongfu, who was honest in the eyes of his neighbors, went out to join Zhang Xun's Wuding Army in his teens. Bandits in Shandong are plagued by bandits, and the bandit family claims to have 200,000 bandits. The leader of these more than 40 people is a sentry officer of the former Wuding Army, nicknamed Liu Cannon, who has good marksmanship and ruthlessness.

This group of bandits has long been engaged in the kidnapping business at the junction of Sulu, Henan and Anhui, and in 1920, the victims of the great drought in Shandong lost their ticket sources. Zhang Yongfu left the bandits' nest and returned to his home in Hexing Town, Nantong, and was introduced to the Tianfen construction site to work.

When Zhang Yongfu was at the construction site, he found that there were a lot of materials on the construction site, except for a few managers with pistols, there were almost no guards, and only a few dozen members of the militia were equipped with wooden sticks. Liu Dacang and his bandits thought that there must be a lot of money on such a large construction site, and organized a team of more than 40 people to go to Rudong from Lianyungang by wooden boat.

Liu Dacang did not dare to take the dry road, and there were fewer bandits in Jiangsu's generation, and the goal of the team of more than 40 people was easy to discover. When Rudong dispersed and gathered at Liu Yongfu's house, Liu Dacang was a bold and careful person, and did not act rashly, but arranged for two bandits and Liu Yongfu to go to the Tianfen construction site for a few days, and found that the Tianfen construction site had become a Tianfen factory, and there were guards.

Liu Dacang, who was originally going to give up the robbery, got a party held by Xingye Industry today, and many key employees returned to Shanghai in the afternoon to attend the party, thinking that the opportunity was coming, so he arranged for his subordinates to be divided into two groups, one to rob the factory and the other to rob the township government.

When Yang Siliang boarded the chartered passenger ship with a team of more than 20 employees, he repeatedly told Jiang Qiuming, who was left behind in Tianfen Township, to pay attention to safety and not be careless, and the militia wanted half of its personnel to be on duty and half to be on standby at home.

Jiang Qiuming said with a smile: "Don't worry, in addition to the militia group, we still have more than 20 people in Tianfen, I let them keep their guns on their bodies, and the factory area is not allowed to pass without documents after dark." ”

Yang Siliang, who got into the cabin, stretched out his head and shouted: "You still forgot one thing, the gunboat wants to take out the gangplank crew in the warehouse." ”

"Got it, you can go with peace of mind and take me to say hello to the boss." Jiang Qiuming replied angrily, and took a group of people left behind to the headquarters to arrange for the night duty.

At noon, No. 3, Lane 181, Taicang Road was very lively, and a group of people gathered in the living room to swallow the clouds. At this time, Hu Wenkai was still talking with Wang Changrong in the company's conference room, and in Hu Wenkai's words, this conversation is called putting aside the body and talking about the soul.

Wang Changrong is too utopian, and from his words, Hu Wenkai can feel that the ideal he is fighting for is a completely British-style parliamentary regime, and his good wish is to implement democracy and elections from the top down. In Hu Wenkai's view, this is no different from the angry youth of later generations, how can he go far if he has a solid foundation.

Looking at Wang Changrong, who was wearing a dark plaid suit, wearing gold-rimmed glasses, his hair was twisted into three or seven, and his skin was white and talking, he secretly decided in his heart that this son could not be reused in the future, and that he would bring disaster to the country and the people. Hu Wenkai was a little worried about whether Wang Changrong would be qualified to be the governor of Nantong County, so as not to mess up Nantong.

"Brother Changrong, how many people are you going to bring with you when you go to Nantong?"

"Oh, Wen Kai, you said that I don't have any team, and besides, I will go to Nantong to take care of you according to Governor Wang Shan's wishes, Hu Wenkai and I have brought my name, you won't let me go to the post of Commander Bare." Wang Changrong was a little anxious.

"Brother Changrong, can you see if you can do this, you will start to serve as the deputy general manager of Xingye Industrial in Tianfen Industrial Base today, and I will serve as the general manager and chairman of the board of directors over there, and this appointment will not be announced to the outside world, only to the middle management. The Nantong team will wait for me to come back before the Spring Festival to help you set it up, your main thing in the past few months is to repair the railway, and I will explain the logistics arrangements to you in person when Yang Siliang comes. ”

"Is that okay? Wen Kai: I didn't have any input, so I was asked to be the deputy general manager. Wang Changrong was visibly surprised by this unexpected appointment.

"There is nothing that is impossible, there is a position and an obligation. In the future, I will participate in the management of the company, and everything will be said when I come back. I left for the United States on the 3rd, and it was too late, ah! It's eleven o'clock, Lao Yi, they must be waiting for us to eat, let's go to my place for dinner, and it has been arranged. Hu Wenkai got up and greeted Wang Changrong.