Chapter 124: The Huang Family Garden
Dressed in a Chinese-style long gown, covered with brocade embroidered with the horse coat of the longevity group, the head of the board brush, the hair stands up at the roots, two-thirds of it is still black, the face is dark, and a pair of eyes are extraordinarily bright, although the waist is still straight when it is more than half a hundred years old, but it is not an exaggeration to say that he is in his early forties from this figure.
When he was young, he led a group of hooligans in Zhengjiamuqiao because of his great strength, or fought in groups, or disturbed the place.
Under the Zhengjiamu Bridge is a babbling pidgin, where farmers in the suburbs of Shanghai often swing small sampans down the river to sell all kinds of agricultural products, and it is also the boundary river between the British and American public concessions and the French concessions. As the saying goes, hooligans are not afraid to go all over the world if they have culture, Cheng Ziqing has studied in high school for a few years, which is a great talent in the hooligan pile, under his leadership, when they encounter the encirclement and suppression of the French Concession, they will cross the bridge to the public concession, and vice versa.
Such a group of people gave the foreign devils a headache, and at this moment, Huang Jinrong, who was the chief inspector of the French Concession patrol Fang Hua, was asked to solve this trouble.
So one early morning, Cheng Ziqing and several of his brothers were blocked at home, and when he saw the patrol who broke into the door with a gun, he was also single, raised his hands and surrendered, and then asked not to embarrass his brothers.
Unexpectedly, instead of handcuffing him and shackling him, the hemp skin that took the lead took him to the Jubaolou Tea House on Avenida Fada, saying that he would marry him.
Cheng Ziqing, who originally thought that he was going to be a prisoner and even be pulled out and shot, had a clear mind, and he didn't agree when he saw such a good thing, he knew that there was something to follow. Sure enough, Huang Hemp went on to say that he could be introduced to the patrol room after the bow.
But there is one condition, that is, he and his gang cannot rob homes and destroy the peace. When the hooligans also have to have an income, Huang Jinrong suggested that after he took in the hooligans under his command and rectified them, he collected protection money from various shopkeepers and vendors in the name of maintaining order.
The two hit it off, and when Huang Jinrong resigned from the post of chief inspector of Huazhu at the age of 60, he told the French that his friend Jin Jiuling or Cheng Ziqing could take over. Unexpectedly, the French devil crossed the river and drew the board, but instead mentioned Huang's opponent Shen Defu.
The angry Huang used a lot of means to get Shen down and let Cheng Ziqing take over the position. With these zigzag relationships, Cheng Ziqing and Huang Jinrong can almost be said to be one and two.
The father and son stepped forward to bow respectfully and congratulate, Cheng Ziqing was also easy to speak, and after saying two hard words, he asked the housekeeper to lead them to the performance venue.
The little housekeeper was quite enthusiastic, and introduced them to the Huang Family Garden along the way, but Qian Dingzhang frowned and asked, "Steward Chen, forgive me for taking the liberty of asking, why does the house seem to be a little... He didn't finish speaking, but just swept his eyes around.
Steward Chen smiled and said, "Mr. Xiao Qian, do you think that there is no red and green lanterns here today, and even the troupe has not been invited?" ”
Qian Dingzhang nodded.
The housekeeper Chen smiled and said, "You don't know this, Mrs. Cheng has believed in Jesus for almost ten years, and every week she goes to the church to listen to the priest's chatter, and she has a three-point foreign spirit when she does things. ”
"Oh" Qian Dingzhang gave a thumbs up, when this old Jiang has an absolute advantage, to protect the Communist Party and the leftists, this Cheng Ziqing's courage is not small.
"This time on his birthday, Mrs. Sun took a telegram and came over, think about how faced! Of course, if Mrs. Sun takes a fancy to him, there must be other people who don't like him, but what about it, Mrs. Cheng's application for joining the party reads "Charge d'affaires of Premier Sun", and there are banners written by Wang Jingwei and Hu Hanmin in the living room at home, and he can't be moved at all. These villains, if they can't do it, they will come to the dark, these years the old lady Cheng has not received a lot of threatening letters, and he has received a lot of bullets and blades, and he was also shot with a black gun in Xujiahui last year, but fortunately he didn't hit. If this time it is really a big deal, it will be easy to mess up when there are too many people, and God knows what will go wrong. ”
"There are still people who dare to shoot the black gun of the inspector general of China," Qian Dingzhang felt incredible
"Yes, it is estimated that it is the group of people from the Blue Coat Society, but we can't retaliate, after all, the protégé of the Son of Heaven is here" Steward Chen pouted, "So, this time the old lady said, just do it in his Huang family garden, here are surrounded by fields, a few people standing on a high place can have an unobstructed view, and then the main thing is to patrol the house and help the brothers to be lively, the disciples and grandchildren to kowtow, and the older generation to meet." said that Boss Du would come later. ”
With that, he took them to the performance venue, which turned out to be a side hall of a garden. It seems that the so-called birthday worship is an internal garden party of the Qinggang brothers, and it is easy to understand if you don't invite the troupe, a board is often a dozen or dozens of people, and it is difficult to guarantee that you will not take the opportunity to mix in a suspicious person.
In contrast, this bullet is too refreshing, with a maximum of two people in one block, can tell jokes and cause gimmicks, and can also tell stories seriously, and the style is not low.
After thanking Steward Chen for the two big heads, Steward Chen was even more polite, and hurriedly said that his friend had something to say and greeted him directly. The two sent it with a smile. glanced at each other, and understood in their hearts that Cheng Ziqing's birthday seemed to be not simple, at least Huang Jinrong did not retreat, most likely he wanted to take this opportunity to brush up his sense of existence and see if others still sold it?
Seeing that there were also three or three green gang people near the side hall coming to him, the father and son nodded, walked to the stage, and the strings and pipa jingled a few times, and sure enough, the people around gradually gathered around.
The housekeeper Chen just said clearly, they don't have to be two people on stage at the same time, they can keep people on stage for three quarters of an hour in an hour. The main thing is to create an atmosphere and liveliness. As for whether to tell the story or sing the beginning, it's up to them.
Besides, in the main hall, the people who came to visit at noon were Cheng Ziqing or Huang Jinrong's close protégés or friends, and there were not many guests who came to visit in the morning, so they gathered first to talk, and in the afternoon, a large number of birthday greetings came, and they all wanted to help accompany the guests to send off the guests.
At this moment, there are so many people sitting in the hall, this is a traditional Chinese-style guest hall, and when you step into the threshold, you can see a painting on the wall that reads "Wenxing Faithful", and Jiang Zhongzheng is signed. There are two Taishi chairs in the middle hall, Cheng Ziqing and Huang Jinrong are seated separately, and other close friends are scattered around, and everyone is talking and laughing with each other.
Lu Drunken Immortal He Ruoxi was also in the middle of it, and was meeting Zhou Yuquan at the moment. Calling people to sing at this kind of birthday banquet is to show that he can afford to invite a big horn on the one hand, and on the other hand, he can be regarded as befriending these famous artists, and it can also be used as a talking point in the future. As for singing, it is secondary, especially with beauties of the level of Lu Drunken Fairy He Ruoxi, instead of listening to them sing, it is better to sit together and chat and chat, which looks more eye-catching.
Two beauties, one mature and charming, the other young and lovely, none of the people here are good men and women, but this time none of them have been moved, although they have not read any books, but they still know the truth that they can be seen from a distance and cannot be blasphemed.
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A news popped up today, saying that Du Yuesheng's mansion was listed, with a price of 600 million.
By the way, this garden was built in the early thirties at a cost of 350w silver dollars.