Seeing Chun Niang laughing and trembling, Simao knocked on the melon seeds, and watched quietly on the side, until Chun Niang felt a little embarrassed and stopped laughing, Simao lowered her voice and said: "Sister just let me have something to say, there is a fart, and now the fart is over, but I haven't said it yet." ”

Chun Niang, who didn't listen to the story, immediately regained the appearance of the sophisticated and shrewd shopkeeper, she twisted a melon seed and knocked it, and at the same time lowered her voice and said: "You won a gang of Jianglong on the day of the Wanderer Lane, but you showed your face, what's the matter, is it remembered?" As he spoke, his eyes glanced at the direction of the small house that Xu Sandao had rented for a long time on the second floor, as if intentionally or unintentionally.

"You are my own sister, Simao has a reluctant request, sister, you must help me." Simao put down the expression of the hippie smile and said solemnly.

Chun Niang's pretty face couldn't see anything famous, and her eyes turned around Simao's face twice, as if she wanted to guess what thoughts were hidden in his heart, but Simao's face was a rare serious, frank and unscrupulous look, and she couldn't figure it out. Chun Niang said lightly: "You talk about it first, can you help the first two." ”

"The third brother of Cheng can afford to accept me as a brother, but after the enemy came to the door that day, I promised my mother that I would not gamble for the rest of my life. In the future, Qianmen's bowl of rice will have nothing to do with me, so naturally I won't be able to follow the third brother. That's what the third brother and I talked about just now, I explained the cause and effect to Pan, he didn't say anything on the surface, but I smacked that this matter was not over. ”

"Can you really quit gambling?" Chunniang didn't follow Simao's words, but threw out a question.

Simao nodded seriously: "I have to listen to my mother's words, from now on, I won't touch it if I starve to death." ”

Chun Niang was stunned for a long time, and suddenly said slowly: "You want me to make peace with Xu San?" ”

Simao shook his head very firmly, with determination in his eyes: "The hand is on me, it's a big deal to chop it, there are strong buyers and sellers in this world, how can there be strong gambling?" Everything that is set is willing, and no one else is to blame. Therefore, I don't rely on others to help me in this matter, I have to rely on myself. I'm worried about my father, he is in the field all day long, and I can't follow, at that time he is a wild horse with a halter, and it is a matter of time before something happens........." Speaking of this, Simao looked at Chunniang with a hint of expectation.

"Are you worried that your father will be tricked and use him to beat you again?" Chun Niang is so shrewd, although what Simao said is implicit but not revealed, but the meaning has been revealed, Xu Sandao's temperament is clear to her, she is definitely a sworn not to give up until the goal is achieved, and he is the unscrupulous master, not to mention that Simao splashed his face, he can't swallow this breath. And Simao's father Lao Zhang has been in the casino for a long time, and he doesn't have Simao's ability and qualitativeness, if Xu Sandao wants to be his cage, wouldn't it be easy. After adding Simao to quit gambling, it is impossible to follow Lao Zhang to watch him, but to make Lao Zhang consciously not go to the casino and not participate in gambling, even Chunniang understands that it is a fool's dream. In this way, according to Xu Sandao's shrewdness and scoundrel, Lao Zhang's weakness of the four hairs, he is holding the handle. After figuring out this truth, Chun Niang couldn't help but secretly applaud Simao's vision, if she didn't win, she would lose first, and she would be invincible first, which was the foundation for victory: "I understand what you mean, you are afraid that he will make a fuss about Lao Zhang, but what can I help you?" I can't kick Lao Zhang out and not let him in, right? ”

"That's right, as long as Sister Chunniang you say a word, tell the guys, don't let my father enter the door of the Chunniang Teahouse, it will help me a lot, with Sister Chunniang's reputation and prestige, my father will not dare to break in. Simao must keep her sister's goodness in mind. ”

When Chun Niang heard this, she suddenly smiled: "Why did you come to beg me, don't you know that Xu San is my father's apprentice, we follow the rules of the door, or are we senior brothers and sisters?" ”

Simao shook his head meaningfully: "Sister Chunniang, you are not all the way, Xu San is the Zhang San, you are the Li Si." ”

Hearing this metaphor, Chun Niang couldn't help but take a sip, but after tasting it again, it was really a bit like that, and she immediately asked with a smile: "What about you?" What are you? ”

Simao grabbed a handful of melon seeds, arched his hand at Chunniang to say goodbye and thanks, and then turned around and left, saying as he walked: "My Zhang Simao is just a little loach in the ditch." ”

Simao wandered all the way, and unconsciously walked to the riverside wharf, looking at the bustling, noisy and complicated flow of people and sails, and when he was in a daze, a voice broke his fugue.

"Simao, Simao, Zhang Simao......."

Simao raised his head in shock, a small boat docked, the boat had not yet stopped, and a person jumped down from the bow with an arrow step, with thin eyebrows and fine eyes, and his face was still upright, but a wide mouth was extremely uncoordinated. A green cloth trouser gown, a cyan robe on his arm, a tattoo on his hand, a moon-white belt around his waist, a pair of flower shoes, a very thick braid not on the back, but hanging down on the chest, and a jasmine flower on the braid, waving his hand to himself from afar. Simao couldn't help laughing, this person was a friend he met in the market, his surname was Ma Qinghu, and he got a nickname called Ma Catfish because of his broad mouth.

Ma Qinghu's dress is also exquisite, called flower shoes and big braids, and if there is no big braid, use a wig to thicken it, which is worn from Tianjin Wei, just like the tattoo and thick gold chain in later generations, the standard dress of the underworld.

This Ma Qinghu is not a native of Weikou, his ancestors were originally boatmen who took the waterway with the Shaanxi grain ships, because of the increasing prosperity of Weikou, many Shaanxi shipwrights and businessmen have migrated to the local area, and Ma Qinghu is already the third generation here. After the mouth took root, with the population reproduction and the growth of the ethnic group, gradually there was a certain power, and in the end, it has become one of the local snakes in the mouth, they occupy the wharf, first specialized in the past to come to the boat to make a living, as long as the younger generation of the children of the clan do not succeed in studying, and do not do their jobs, they are all mixed in this business. In addition, it absorbed a lot of outsiders to join, and finally became the climate, occupying dozens of large and small ports, and began to upgrade its business, not engaging in a single extortion, but managing laborers and some warehouses, monopolizing the business of handling and warehousing, and was called the Shaanxi Gang. They demarcated the boundary with the Cao Gang in Chukou Town, and the sphere of influence on the water belonged to the Cao Gang, and the sphere of influence on the shore dock belonged to the Shaanxi Gang.

And this Ma Qinghu is a son of the Shaanxi Gang, because his uncle is an old gangster in the gang, so he did the errand of the small boss on the dock, since he met Simao, he admires Simao very much, listens to his words, and has a good relationship.

"Simao, I've lost a lot of luck these days, I'm looking for you to help me take revenge, it's a coincidence, Zhao Heizi in the grain depot in front of them is opening a treasure game, go with me, I'll pay the capital, lose it and count it as mine, win half a point......." Ma Qinghu was very righteous, but Simao shook his head: "Don't go." ”