Chapter 20: A Gathering of Patrols and Hooligans
I have to say that although Xie Xiaoshu's vision of marrying is not very accurate, her vision for choosing a concubine is first-class, Sun Wei, who has just emerged in the capture house, was quickly promoted with the support of her money, and also established his own power in the gang, and became the underground king of the public concession in just four years.
Xie Xiaoshu naturally benefited a lot from helping Sun Wei at the same time, first of all, those prodigal sons and bandits who peeked into her property no longer dared to show their heads, and secondly, those relatives of her husband's family, even though these people had the laws and social norms of the government as a basis, but before Xie Xiaoshu really married Sun Wei as a child, she still did not deprive her of the right to inherit her husband's inheritance, and at the same time, with Sun Wei as a support, they did not even dare to take advantage of the previous small advantages.
Because of Sun Wei's matter, although Xie Xiaoshu's husband's family died down, but her mother's family had a turmoil, the Shanghai Public Concession and Pudong are just a river away, and the news in the concession will not take long to reach Pudong, and this kind of high-ranking person's affairs are even worse, so the old man of her mother's family broke off the relationship with this daughter in anger, and at the same time, the other children of the Xie family have any contact with Xie Xiaoshu.
Xie Xiaoshu's relationship with her mother's family finally had the hope of breaking the ice after Xie Yunpeng was sentenced by the imperial court to never be hired, and her second brother begged her door for the sake of her son's future, risking being kicked out of the house by the old man this time, which made Xie Xiaoshu, who had always wanted to ease the relationship with her family, overjoyed, and naturally very concerned about what the second brother wanted.
Although Sun Wei is a young man educated in the new era, he was born in the countryside and still retains a lot of feudal bad habits, which also makes him trust his family more psychologically, in his previous life he was just a poor student with nothing, this psychology is naturally not reflected, but now he has great power and wealth in the public concession, and he is naturally more inclined to his family in the management of these rights and wealth.
Sun Wei also knows that nepotism has great shortcomings, and only capable people like Gu Yecheng can make their own power have greater development, just like Du Yuesheng and Huang Jinrong in the French Concession, but this nominal master-apprentice relationship in Shanghai is extremely unreliable, and there is only one Du Yuesheng in the entire Shanghai Tang in the past hundred years, but there are countless apprentices who have taken the position of master and replaced him.
Sun Wei has been occupying this body for more than half a month, and he has a certain understanding of the family background of these bodies in conversations with his family and friends.
Among them, Sun Wei's father-in-law fled to Shanghai with his family, and his relatives and friends in his hometown are now in contact, and it is still unknown whether he can survive after so many years, so it can naturally be regarded as a single family, plus his father-in-law Wang Huairen himself is jealous and hateful, not to mention helping, and not looking for trouble, he has already given his daughter's face very much.
Like his father-in-law, Sun Wei also fled to Shanghai, although he can't be said to be alone, but there is only one Sun Li who is brave and less intelligent, and only God knows the situation in his hometown.
Before and after thinking about it, the only thing Sun Wei could trust was his concubine Xie Xiaoshu and her family.
Xie Xiaoshuzhi and Sun Wei can be regarded as confidantes from the end of Weimo, before the relationship between the two broke down, even though this woman had her own little abacus, most of them would be based on the premise of safeguarding Sun Wei's interests, so there are some important things that Sun Wei can't talk about with his wife whose thoughts are like a blank piece of paper, but he can discuss them with Xie Xiaoshu.
The reason why Sun Wei spoke deeply at the first meeting with Xie Xu and his son, on the one hand, through the conversation with Xie Xiaoshu, had a preliminary understanding of Xie Xu's father and son, and it can be seen from some things in the past that they are not tricky and treacherous people, on the other hand, his words actually do not have much substance, especially those rebellious remarks, even if the two fathers and sons report themselves, they can be pushed clean, and they can even countersue Xie who already has the stain of Xie Yunpeng. The most important point is that his simple words can give the Xie father and son a feeling of great importance, which allows them to better work for themselves.
The first meeting between Sun Wei and Xie's father and son was just to get to know each other, and then the four of them talked about the location of the orphanage and the preliminary management and left, although Xie Xu did not change his name like Xie Yunpeng, who had been convinced, but he was a lot more cordial during the conversation, and psychologically accepted Sun Wei, a cheap brother-in-law with no name.
After leaving the hotel, Sun Wei did not go back to the theater with Xie Xiaoshu, but asked one of his bodyguards to protect her back, while he rushed to the Huafeng Hotel under his name with another bodyguard.
Sun Wei's invitation this time was not only those colleagues who patrolled the room, but also those middle and senior disciples who managed the affairs and industries of the gang for themselves, and these people together were almost a hundred and ten people, so when he inspected the hotel, he directly ordered the largest banquet hall on the first floor.
When Sun Wei arrived at the Huafeng Hotel, it was already more than seven o'clock in the evening, and the entire hall was already full of people, and some people even set up a temporary casino on the table.
"The Inspector is here!"
"The boss is here!"
"Hello Detective!"
"Hello boss!"
"Hello master!"
When Sun Wei walked into the hall, those with sharper eyes began to greet the people around him, and then as Sun Wei walked all the way to the main seat, the people around him began to bow their heads to Sun Wei in turn, and the gang members called "boss" and "master", and the people who captured the house called the detective.
The big boss came to eat naturally attracted the attention of the whole hotel, and the moment Sun Wei walked into the banquet hall, there was a notice to the manager who was greeting the guests, and when Sun Wei walked to the main seat to beckon everyone to sit down, the hotel manager had already trotted to Sun Wei's side.
"Boss, do you think it's time to serve the food now?" The hotel manager calmed his breath a little, and then bent down in front of Sun Wei and asked.
"It's time to serve, after the food is served, you can leave a few runners here to greet you, you go about your own business." Sun Wei nodded and ordered.
"Yes, boss!" The manager of the hotel was a specially invited professional manager, and he belonged to the middle class and above in Shanghai Tang, and was somewhat out of step with the detectives and gang members in the banquet hall.
Maybe Sun Wei's predecessor was used to drinking with these people, and after the initial toast and greetings, they were very open, and they couldn't tell which one was the detective and which was Sun Wei's disciple.
Sun Wei crossed over and did not carry such anti-heaven skills as not forgetting, during the banquet, he only focused on remembering the names of the two tables around him, and through one-to-one conversations, he somewhat learned a little about the family background of these people, so as to facilitate future affairs.
The party lasted for almost four hours, and according to the previous habit, there should be a midnight party at this time, but Sun Wei, who was injured, just told Gu Yecheng to help him pay the expenses for these people to transfer to the brothel afterwards, and he went home in the rickshaw.
At this time, although Shanghai is known as the city that never sleeps, it is only in those prosperous sections, like the alley where Sun Wei now lives, it is difficult to see people after ten o'clock at night, and the rickshaw walking on such a street looks particularly empty.
"Bang bang...... After paying for the rickshaw and getting out of the car, without Sun Wei doing it himself, the bodyguard behind him knocked on the door of the house first.
"Wait a minute, I'll be right away!" The one who answered the door was Uncle Wu, that is, Wu's mother's husband, their family was a fugitive left by Wang Huairen, and there was originally a son and a daughter who were servants and maids for Wang Huairen and his wife respectively, but after they grew older, they all got married one after another, and their son and son-in-law were also working for Sun Wei.
"Uncle, Miss is waiting for you in the small living room." Uncle Wu opened the door to let Sun Wei in, and then whispered.
"Oh, I see." Sun Wei nodded in response, and then said to the bodyguard who had been following him, "Ah Hua, you should also go and rest." ”
"Yes, boss!" Although Ah Hua bowed his head and agreed, he didn't really go to rest, but didn't greet Uncle Wu until Sun Wei disappeared into the corridor of the living room and entered the room specially prepared for bodyguards.
The small living room is located on the east side of the second floor, connecting the east and west corridors and the east wing room on the second floor, and is specially used to meet close friends or female relatives.
Maybe it's because the wooden staircase cross talk is bigger, when Sun Wei walked up to the second floor, Wang Qian had already walked out of the small living room, and the lighting of the corridor was also turned on by her.
"Why did you come back so late, and you still got drunk, do you know that you are injured and can't drink?" Wang Qian saw that Sun Wei had gone upstairs, so she walked up and took off the suit on his body for him, but he was smoked by the smell of tobacco and alcohol on the suit, so he complained.
"It's all the smell of alcohol on other people's bodies, I haven't touched a drop of wine today, I don't believe you ask." Sun Wei looked at his wife with a sleepy face, put his hands around him, and as he spoke, he still sighed at her face, as he said, there was not the slightest smell of alcohol.
"I don't smell it without drinking, it stinks to death, so don't go brush your teeth quickly!" Wang Qian held Sun Wei's suit with one hand, and wanted to push Sun Wei's face away with the other.