The two hid under the eaves and talked without a ride, and I don't know how long it took, Xiao Zhenlei found that someone came in front of him, and he was pulling the car, it was a rickshaw, so late that there was a rickshaw coming to this wilderness? What are you here for? He hurriedly signaled Ma Xiaoshuang not to speak, and the two slowly got up and hid behind to prevent the coachman from seeing.

Sure enough, the rickshaw driver's sneaky appearance made Xiao Zhenlei suspicious, and after the rickshaw driver stopped, a person got out of the car, and both of them were dressed in short and capable clothes.

"Ergouzi, the time should be almost there, right?" The stout driver who pulled the cart asked the tall and thin man who got off the rickshaw.

The tall and thin man replied while wearing a coat and hat: "The time should be almost up, let's go, let's go to the river and wait, take a flashlight and a hook!" After saying that, he had already put on his coat and hat, and walked from the embankment to the beach, and the short and stout coachman behind him agreed, and took a hook made of a long bamboo pole and a flashlight from the rickshaw and followed.

When the two of them walked away, Xiao Zhenlei tugged at Ma Xiaoshuang's sleeve and said in a low voice: "Let's go over and see what they are going to do, and don't make a noise no matter what you see later, you know?" ”

Ma Xiaoshuang promised: "Got it, brother!" ”

Behind the tall and short, Xiao Zhenlei and Ma Xiaoshuang were very careful, and they didn't stop until they reached the edge of the river beach, and the two of them found a big tree on the side of the river beach and climbed up to observe the tall and short two people.

At this time, the two of them were squatting by the river with their arms crossed, both of them were wearing robes and hats, they didn't know what they were waiting for, and when they were bored, they each lit a cigarette and smoked.

The light rain was still dripping, Xiao Zhenlei and Ma Xiaoshuang were sitting on the branches, with a canopy covering their heads, and they could also block some rain, but there were only a few drops on their bodies.

After another half an hour or so, just when Xiao Zhenlei and Ma Xiaoshuang were about to lose their hold, a huge figure suddenly appeared on the river, it was a large cargo ship, which should have a displacement of three or four thousand tons.

After seeing the big freighter, Xiao Zhenlei and Ma Xiaoshuang both vaguely heard the words of one of the people squatting by the river: "It's coming, it's coming!" ”

Xiao Zhenlei and Ma Xiaoshuang didn't know what it meant, but judging by the situation, it should have been a critical moment, so they could only grit their teeth and insist, and continue to sit on the branches and wait.

At this time, Xiao Zhenlei found that the flashlight flashed on the side chord of the freighter facing the river bank, and it stopped after flashing three times in a row, and the thin and tall man on the shore immediately used the flashlight to light it, and also flashed the flashlight three times in a row.

Seeing this, Xiao Zhenlei vaguely understood that this must be a joint code, and couldn't help but wonder in his heart, what are they doing here? Could it be that after the joint code, the freighter will not be able to dock here? No, how can you dock without a pier? Aren't you afraid of running aground?

After a few minutes, the large freighter passed, but the lights of the flashlight began to flicker again from the side chords of the large freighter, and the light joints were also lit up by the river a kilometer away.

About a quarter of an hour later, Xiao Zhenlei noticed that something was floating from the river to the shore, and when the item was close, the tall thin man squatting on the river stretched out a hook to hook the thing that floated on the river, although the light at night was not very good, but from the light of the thin and tall flashlight, he still saw the hooked thing, it turned out to be a bulging **bag, and he didn't know what was in the **bag.

What is going to get off the ship in such a way? Do you have to let someone pick up by the river? Is it bad to drop off directly at the dock? How much trouble this is.

Just thinking about it, the tall and the short two people have already turned around, the thin and tall one walks in front with a flashlight and a bamboo pole hook, and the short one walks behind with the wet sack, no matter what the sack contains, the weight is not light after soaking in water for so long, and the short one carrying it is easy to follow behind the thin and tall one, and it seems that he also has a lot of strength.

The two walked to the river embankment one after the other, just under the big tree where Xiao Zhenlei and Ma Xiaoshuang were hiding, at this moment, Xiao Zhenlei suddenly flew down, and a hand knife cut into the neck of the thin and tall man, and before the short man could react, his right foot kicked him in the temple, and the two fell to the ground almost at the same time without moving.

Ma Xiaoshuang on the tree didn't expect Xiao Zhenlei to suddenly attack the tall and short people, and when these two people fell and didn't move, he quickly slipped down from the tree and said a little worried: "Brother, you, you killed them?" ”

"No, they just fainted!" Xiao Zhenlei said casually, and then squatted on the ground to unwrap the twine sewn at the mouth of the sack.

"Xiaoshuang, take a flashlight and shine it on me, I can't see it!" Xiao Zhenlei didn't open it for a while, picked up the flashlight that was still lit on the ground and handed it to Ma Xiaoshuang, who took it and shone it on the sack.

This time, Xiao Zhenlei quickly opened the mouth of the sack, opened the mouth of the sack with his hand and took a look, only to see that there was a dark red thing the size of half a brick, which looked very much like a sugar rice cake, Ma Xiaoshuang couldn't help but say: "Brother, what is this?" ”

Xiao Zhenlei didn't know what this thing was, so he let these tall and short people squat here for so long, and asked the people on the big freighter to make a secret joint to confirm that the shore was his own person, and then threw down such a bag of things from the big freighter along the riverside.

took out a piece from the sack, under the light of the flashlight, Xiao Zhenlei carefully observed this thing, he really didn't know it, he leaned under his nose and smelled it, when a somewhat familiar poppy smell rushed into his nostrils, Xiao Zhenlei finally understood what this thing was, it turned out to be his ** cigarette.

Smoke has many names in this era, the most common of which is "red soil", and some people call it "**", most of which are from India across the ocean. A piece of such ** can be sold for two hundred to three hundred yuan in this era, it is an absolutely valuable thing, more expensive than gold, and later in the early days of the Republic of China, many warlords regarded ** as money to buy arms, which can be worth hard currency, and has purchasing power more than money.

What does it taste like to suck? Why does it make the country provoked, and tens of millions of people are willing to risk their lives, but still flock to it? It does have a very sweet taste, without the spiciness, so many people are addicted to it after only one smoke. After addiction, not only is it difficult to quit for life, and it must not be left lightly, but also the addiction will gradually deepen, and the addict will stay on the bed for a long time, swallowing clouds and spitting fog, depressed morale, and weaker physique, especially the mental depletion, so death comes in advance.

The early production areas are all abroad, and they are transported into China by sea, and India is the bulk of the goods. There are two kinds of tobacco soil in India, which are called "small soil" planted by the Indian government, also known as "white skin", "small foreign medicine", and "pimple in the pimple", each box is 100 catties, about 160 to 200 pieces. All the official British varieties are called "big soil", "red soil", "big foreign medicine", or "public class", "thorn class", "aunt", each box is forty pieces, weighing 120 catties. The rest of the Persian producers are called "New Bahr". "Red meat", known as "golden flower" in Turkey.

"It's a**!" Xiao Zhenlei said and threw the ** cigarette in his hand into the sack, opened the mouth of the sack and estimated that there were about forty pieces.

Even if it is sold for 200 oceans at the lowest price, this sack** is worth 8,000 yuan, which is definitely not a small amount.

“**？” Ma Xiaoshuang said angrily when he heard this: "These bastards are actually trafficking here? God damn bastards, I'll kill them".

Ma Xiaoshuang's uncle turned out to be the richest landlord in the town, and he lost his family property because of smoking, and the family was ruined.

"Wait!" Xiao Zhenlei hurriedly stopped Ma Xiaoshuang, who was about to kill, and said: "Xiaoshuang, these bastards really deserve to die, it's not too late to kill them when I ask clearly, you tie them up first."

"Okay, brother, you ask!" Ma Xiaoshuang pulled out the belt of his trousers and tied one tall and one short together, and then stepped back to the side in a huff.

Xiao Zhenlei dragged the tall and thin man aside and slapped him a few times, the tall and thin man woke up, and after seeing Xiao Zhenlei in front of him clearly, he was shocked and angry: "Who are you?" Why stun us? I tell you, get acquainted and let us go, otherwise, hum! ”

"Yo, it's still so hard at this time, okay, it seems that it won't work if I don't give you a little color!" Xiao Zhenlei said, grabbed the thin and tall man's left hand, and broke one finger hard.

I only heard a click, and then the tall and thin man let out a miserable scream: "Ahhh

"How's that, it's cool, isn't it? Hey, let's do it again! Xiao Zhenlei said and broke one of the thin man's fingers, and the thin man let out a miserable scream again.

After being broken three fingers in a row, the thin and tall man couldn't stand it anymore, and begged for mercy: "Don't break it, master, uncle, hero, I really can't stand it, please spare the little one, right?" ”

Xiao Zhenlei withdrew his hand and lit a cigarette, spitting out the smoke and said, "Say, what's your name?" What's this guy's name? Who is your boss? Where is the warehouse? Say this riverside hook hook 1510, if there is a trick that is not explained, then next time it will not be as simple as worshipping fingers, I will put the meat on your body one by one and put it in the hot pot! As he spoke, he shook the dagger he had found from him.

The thin and tall man turned pale with fright, and said continuously: "Yes, yes, hero, I said, I said, my name is Wang Ergou, his name is Ding Si, we are the family of Master Lu Jiasheng Lu in Zhabei, and our Master Lu's tobacco and soil warehouse is Hongtai Warehouse on Xinkaihe Road!" These ** are trafficked from India, because ** is contraband in the concession, from Wusongkou to the concession wharf there are many military police, checkpoints, in order to avoid being detected by the military police, these ** must be unloaded first, our old man Lu calculated the time of the high tide and low tide of the Huangpu River every night, and threw these "soil sacks" from the steamer one by one. When the tide recedes, the water is poured back, or picked up by the sampan, or by the good hand who is lying on the shore using the bamboo pole to scratch the hook and then fish it up one by one and transport it away, the trick is like this, the hero, I know everything I have said, you just let me go as a fart! ”

"It's really a good means, smuggling is so technical, it's really rare in this year, I have to say that your master Lu is really a talent in this area, admire and admire!" After Xiao Zhenlei finished speaking, he knocked him unconscious again without waiting for the thin and tall man to react.

Then Xiao Zhenlei woke up the short Ding Si again, and interrogated him according to the gourd painting scoop, Ding Si explained that it was similar to what the thin and tall Wang Ergou said, he didn't know as much as Wang Ergou, and after asking, Xiao Zhenlei knocked him out.

Those rich people who made a fortune by trafficking tobacco have been thinking about what good way to avoid the investigation of many checkpoints, and some people have come up with such a method of using the high tide and low tide to transport tobacco and soil ashore, and no one has found it for a long time, and it was not until the early days of the Republic of China in history that this method of smuggling tobacco and soil was discovered.

Because the local merchants who are the best at drilling loopholes, they themselves have huge loopholes, and Lu Jiasheng Lu of Zhabei is such a local businessman. In the early days of the Republic of China, this method of smuggling was discovered, and some Jiangyang thieves and Haoqiang learned the secret, and immediately concocted the same, driving the sampan of the sampan, making the hook of the hook, and going to the soil in the same way. As soon as you catch it or hook it, drag it off the shore and load it on the car and run, the river is wide, the area is vast, the British realm, the legal realm and the Chinese realm are intricate, each with its own sphere of influence. The local merchants obviously suffered a big loss, but they did not dare to chase after them and shout for help. This is the code word on the rivers and lakes, called "scratching the hook". This is the origin of the "land grabbing" case that has been in trouble in Shanghai for several years and has made old Shanghai smell and change.

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