Chapter 12: The Wrath of the Skins

Jubao Tea House is a relatively famous place in the French Concession, and there are both clean "elegant seats" and quiet "quiet rooms" inside the tea house. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

Because the teahouse is spacious, there is also a small stage in the middle of the hall, where local opera artists are invited to rap regularly. There are those who sing Dongxiang tunes, those who speak Pudong words, and those who sing small hot faints or miscellaneous songs.

The tea guests who come to sit and drink tea make a pot of fragrant tea, listen to various songs, broaden their minds, chat about their mood, and have fun. The artist's rap income is proposed to the owner of the teahouse according to the amount of tea sold. In Shanghai, there are ordinary teahouses with the footprints of poor artists. With the cooperation of this group of artists, the business of Jubao Tea House is very prosperous.

But disaster fell from the sky, because this Jubao Tea House was close to the Mailan Fishing House, and Huang Jinrong, who was transferred to the Mailan Fishing House, took a fancy to this place, and often came to the Jubao Tea House in the afternoon and rested in the private seat. Not only that, but he also often convenes a group of fox friends and dogs, where they share the spoils and set up a table to gamble; And in the secluded room, they swallowed clouds and spitted fog, smoked big x cigarettes, and made a lot of noise about the "elegant seat", the "secluded room" was not secluded, the ghosts danced and the devil sang, and the screams were loud, and it was noisy.

The owner of the teahouse is surnamed Shi, a native of Shanghai, who used to regard this elegant seat and secluded room as a cash cow, but now he has fallen out of thin air with these five mourning gods and seven evil ghosts, forcibly occupied these two small teahouses, and put a group of honest old tea customers in the past out of the door.

But Boss Shi also knows that if there are theaters, bathhouses, teahouses and hostels in Shanghai, the streets will not be able to open if there are no well-known rows and hard-tied backstage. This Huang Jinrong is not only the chief of Huazhu, but also has the power of the underworld, but he can't afford to mess with him. Therefore, he had no choice but to swallow the bitter water and pray that Huang Jinrong would not have the heart to occupy the teahouse.

Smack, smack...... The sound of smashing things suddenly sounded in the elegant room, which startled Boss Shi, and then what came into his ears was Huang Jinrong's rough scolding, Boss Shi grinned, not daring to go in, so as not to touch the moldy head.

"A bold son surnamed Cao, a pigeon who dares to release his master." In the elegant room, Huang Jinrong jumped like thunder, and the pockmarks on his face seemed to bulge out, "Find him, the master will do him." Also, who dared to break ground on Tai Sui's head and dare to take over the theater? ”

"Master, I inquired clearly, the surname who took over the opera garden was Zhang, who turned out to be in Nanshi, and he was a disciple of the Green Gang who was not in the stream. He must not know what is going on, and he was deceived by the surname Cao. Chen Sanlin hurriedly reported.

Huang Jinrong snorted, he felt that it was the same, if it was the French Concession, who would dare not take his words seriously, and who would dare to take over Cao Axing's opera garden? It's just that in this way, it's a little troublesome. Cao Axing ran away, the opera garden has changed owners, even if Cao Axing is found and killed, it is just to vent his anger.

Speaking of this drama garden, it is true that someone is provoking him to occupy it. And Huang Jinrong was moved, and felt that with a little means, the opera garden would be able to fall into his hands steadily. Then, with him coming forward, who would dare to come to see the white opera? If there is no troublemaker, a good drama troupe will come uninvited. Spending a small amount of money and taking a big profit, he can be a ready-made boss and earn a lot of money.

"What now, do you want to force this newcomer again?" Huang Jinrong rolled his swollen eyes and asked Chen Sanlin.

"That's not a big deal." Chen Sanlin patted his chest and packed the ticket, "In this French Concession, he is an outsider, how dare he go against the master?" I'll go to him and tell him to understand, this opera garden is your favorite, give him a little money to send him out. ”

"Well, well, that's up to you." Huang Jinrong's face turned slightly pale, and he sat back on the couch.

Huang Jinrong, this guy, was originally rough and frivolous, and broke into the world with brute force and ruthlessness, if you want to talk about literacy and strategy, it was slowly honed in his later career. And his marriage to Lin Guisheng can be regarded as a new start in life, because Lin Guisheng's family has a relatively powerful background and is also very shrewd, so it can be said that he is the wise man and staff of Huang Ronghe.

And Huang Jinrong is far from being as sophisticated as he was in the middle of the day a few decades later, as can be seen from the fact that he opened the mountain hall to accept disciples. Although he has long been in collusion with gang figures, such as "Signing Fusheng" Chen Shichang, "Can't Kill Ah San" and so on. Moreover, Huang Jinrong was a fast catcher in Shanghai Yamen in his early years, and soon he entered the French fishing room to do patrolling, so that he has now been promoted to the chief of Huayu Detective, these are all errands that can suppress people, so the people in the gang do not associate with him because he does not join the gang.

But he felt that "Lao Tzu is the best in the world", and he didn't want to join the gang, let alone bow down to people to kowtow to the teacher, but he claimed to be the Green Gang and opened the mountain to accept apprentices, but in fact he committed a taboo. In fact, this mistake did cost him, but it was decades later in history. But now, Chen Wenqiang and others took advantage of this and tricked him, but he didn't know it.

Of course, Huang Jinrong also has some arrogant capital. First, he is very favored in front of the French, and Inspector Hua is also very powerful; The second is that his power has developed rapidly, although it has not yet reached the heyday of history (the "36 Shares Party" on the dock, the "Eight Shares Party" in the concession, and the "One Hundred and Eight Generals" under his command), but it is enough for him to be arrogant.

In addition, the Chaozhou local merchants who originally operated opium in the British Concession in Shanghai were stinged and dormant because of frequent blows, but there were also a few who were unwilling to give up this road to fortune and secretly asked someone to contact Huang Jinrong, hoping to transfer to the French Concession to continue to operate. Undoubtedly, this will bring a huge source of wealth to Huang Jinrong, and it will also become his more arrogant capital.

Chen Sanlin, as Huang Jinrong's close disciple, is still happy and neat, but the return is also very fast. It's very simple, and it's also very unexpected, the boss surnamed Zhang, who took over the theater, is not hard, relying on himself to be a member of the Green Gang, and he doesn't sell Huang Jinrong's face.

"Mother's x, a little red guy who doesn't enter the stream, dares to be arrogant in the master's land." Huang Jinrong was angry, he didn't care about who belonged to the same family, anyway, he relied on the Green Gang for his own selfish purposes, and he didn't really think of himself as a member of the Green Gang at all.

"Master, don't worry, this matter is on the apprentice, and this little red guy will kneel down and beg the master, and obediently play the garden with both hands." Chen Sanlin also felt very embarrassed, gritted his teeth and was ruthless, "Don't be ashamed to give face, dare to say anything, I'd rather not open the garden than give it easily." If you don't inquire about anything, you are the master in the French Concession. ”

"Today you are too single, tomorrow I will add five, Sanlin, and you will be responsible for this matter. Even though I let it go, I carried it around when something happened. Huang Rongma's face flushed, and he was teased by Chen Sanlin to be even more angry.

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