Chapter 8: Life for Life (Part I)
When Li Qingxiang took out the treasure, Yi Mochen almost didn't laugh, because it was a mud ball.
Li Qingxiang carefully placed the mud ball on the table and asked, "Brother Yi, do you know what this is?" ”
Yi Mochen smiled: "Master Xiang, are you teasing me again?" Isn't this just a lump of mud? You can't tell me that this lump of mud was taken out of the dragon's den, can you? ”
Li Qingxiang smiled lightly, took out a knife, and carefully scraped the mud ball layer by layer, and when he was about to finish, Yi Mochen saw what silver-white light was flickering in it, he immediately understood, and blurted out: "Silver snow clam!?" ”
Li Qingxiang put down the knife: "You know the goods." ”
Yi Mochen approached the mud ball that was about to be scraped, looked at the silver snow clam through the shallow soil on the surface, smelled the burst of fragrance coming from it, and finally a satisfied smile appeared on his face.
Yi Mochen asked, "Master Xiang, where did you get the silver snow clams?" As far as I know, the last time the silver snow clam was found was more than 300 years ago. ”
Li Qingxiang didn't speak, just drank tea, and looked proud.
Yi Mochen said again: "This is priceless, and it is still alive, not dry goods." ”
At this time, the door opened, Li Yunfan pushed the door in, carrying the kettle and carefully pouring water.
Yi Mochen hurriedly protected the mud ball with his hand and complained to Li Yunfan: "Don't you know how to take the cup and pour it?" Boiling water hurts the silver clams, even if it's a little hot, this thing will die, and if it dies, it won't be worth much! ”
Li Yunfan looked at Yi Mochen with hatred, and asked him with his eyes: Have you forgotten what you are here for?
Yi Mochen turned a blind eye to Li Yunfan's eyes, because his attention was now all on this silver snow clam, because this thing was indeed a treasure, a real treasure. In the history of the Northeast, there have been five well-documented.
The snow clam is the forest frog, and this silver snow clam is different, the ordinary forest frog can hibernate for five months, and the silver snow clam comes out to be active for a month a year, and the rest of the time is all slept in the soil, and the sleeping place must be next to the ginseng, so the probability of finding the silver snow clam will be a little greater.
Silver snow clam is divided into two kinds of dry and work, dry is to dig out and die, no way can only be dried on the spot, after drying can be directly into the medicine, the treatment of tuberculosis has a miraculous effect, almost the medicine to the disease, it can also be ground into powder and added to the herbs to burn, made into incense, used to treat bronchitis.
The live silver snow clam is even more precious, the mucus secreted from the body can treat burns, detoxify snake venom, and smell the fragrance every day, calm the breath and prolong life. If it is boiled directly, it can treat eye diseases, which is what Western medicine calls cataracts.
Yi Mochen looked at it for a long time, raised his eyes and asked with a smile: "Master Xiang, how did this thing come about?" ”
Li Qingxiang drank tea and said with a smile: "Brother Yi, you know the rules." ”
"Yes, I understand." Yi Mochen returned to his usual appearance, bringing a businessman's smile, "Master Xiang, you make a price." ”
Li Yunfan couldn't help it, coughed, and kicked Yi Mochen: "Are you not saving Tang Qianlin's son?" ”
Before Yi Mochen could speak, Li Qingxiang asked first: "What do you mean?" Whose son? What's wrong? ”
Faced with Li Qingxiang's series of questions, Li Yunfan did not answer, but still said to Yi Mochen: "Your friend, and it happened in your family, you can explain it yourself." ”
Yi Mochen looked at Li Qingxiang's questioning eyes, and told him the ins and outs of the future.
After Li Qingxiang listened, he looked at Li Yunfan: "The sun came out in the west?" Have the traitors learned to save people? ”
In the face of his father's sarcasm, Li Yunfan did not argue, because on the premise of not knowing his identity, no matter how he explained it, it was meaningless.
Li Qingxiang took his contemptuous eyes away from his son's face, and asked Yi Mochen again: "The Tang Qianlin you are talking about, is it really a catch?" ”
Yi Mochen nodded: "It's true." ”
Li Qingxiang thought for a while, and then asked Li Yunfan: "Hey, what is that secret search class for?" ”
Li Yunfan said: "According to the Japanese, it is to investigate all kinds of mysterious and unsolved events. ”
Li Qingxiang said: "Isn't that similar to what the hunt did?" ”
"Maybe, so I recommended Tang Qianlin, but the secret search class has just been established and is in urgent need of manpower, and the Japanese don't seem to be interested in Tang Qianlin, because they don't know what the hell is in the hunt." Li Yunfan stood on the side and explained, "As I said just now, the person that the Japanese value the most is you. ”
Li Qingxiang's brain reacted extremely quickly: "I understand what you mean, even if Tang Qianlin becomes a member of the secret search class, the Japanese may not be able to take out a seed of bacteria to save his son." ”
Yi Mochen nodded and said, "If Master Xiang, you join the secret search class as a consultant in exchange for a type of fungus, the Japanese will definitely agree." ”
Li Qingxiang sneered: "Do you really think the Japanese are stupid? Wouldn't they be suspicious of what we were going to do with the alphabet? The two of you, one is the head of the investigation section of the Security Bureau, and the other is a well-known foreign businessman in the rivers and lakes, how can your brains be so simple. ”
How could Li Yunfan and Yi Mochen not think of this? This was originally a play deliberately performed by the two, Li Yunfan knew his father's character too well, arrogant and unsightly, so he had to put the "stupidity" in front of him clearly and let him solve this problem.
Yi Mochen said: "Master Xiang, then what do you say?" Human lives are at stake. ”
Li Qingxiang drank the tea slowly, and finally put down the cup after a long time, the expression on his face seemed to have made a very important decision, and then looked at Li Yunfan and said: "You go back and tell your section leader, just say that although I am willing to be your advisor, I am sick, and I am inexplicably sick." ”
Li Yunfan was stunned: "Then what?" ”
Li Qingxiang said coldly: "Then? Then you use your brain, get out of here, and go and reply to the Japanese. ”
Li Yunfan nodded and glanced at Yi Mochen: "Okay, I know." ”
After Li Yunfan left, Yi Mochen asked, "Master Xiang, what do you want to do?" Pretending to be sick is not an option. ”
Li Qingxiang sat there and looked at the door: "You just said that human life is at stake, just a few days, we must race against time, not to mention that it is still a child, and children are the future of our China." ”
Yi Mochen nodded, but still wondered what Li Qingxiang wanted to do.
Li Qingxiang looked at Yi Mochen: "Brother Yi, I'll go to your place first and meet that Tang Qianlin." ”
Yi Mochen, who was confused, had no choice but to nod: "Okay, let's leave now." ”
When he came to the cellar of Yi Mochen's mansion, Li Qingxiang changed his previous cynicism, looked at Tang Qianlin who was holding his son with scrutinizing eyes, and said after a while: "Your Excellency is Tang Qianlin?" ”
Tang Qianlin nodded: "Didn't you ask this big brother?" ”
It stands to reason that Tang Qianlin should call Li Qingxiang a senior, but Li Qingxiang's appearance, where is a bit of a senior's elder? Totally a middle-aged playboy.
Li Qingxiang hugged his fists and said: "Under Li Qingxiang." ”
When Tang Qianlin heard this, he immediately put down Tang Zicheng, although he knew that it was rude, he still looked Li Qingxiang up and down carefully, and then said: "Senior, you are the predecessor of Li Qingxiang, the well-known cargo chaser in Kanto?" ”
Li Qingxiang smiled and said, "What? Not convinced? ”
Yi Mochen said coldly beside him at this time: "He is also Li Yunfan's father." ”
Tang Qianlin immediately hugged his fists and said: "In Xia Tang Qianlin, I have seen my predecessors, but I didn't know that I was a senior before, and I was offended by my words." ”
Li Qingxiang nodded, smiled at Tang Zicheng who was standing beside Tang Qianlin, and then turned to Yi Mochen and said, "Didn't you say that there are still some things to do?" Go ahead and talk to Oda-kun. ”
Yi Mochen nodded helplessly and said to Tang Qianlin: "Let's go, I'll take you to see He Chenxue." ”
Tang Qianlin didn't know the intention of Li Qingxiang to appear here, so he had to say goodbye to Li Qingxiang and lead Tang Zicheng and Yi Mochen away.
After the three of them left the cellar, Li Qingxiang walked up to Xiao Tianjun, who was still consulting at the desk, knocked on the table with his hand, and after attracting his attention, he said: "Let me ask you, if you are infected with that kind of bacteria, do you only have five days to live?" ”
Xiao Tianjun looked at Li Qingxiang and nodded silently.
Li Qingxiang smiled: "Five days, that's enough." ”
Xiao Tianjun looked puzzled, not understanding what Li Qingxiang was going to do.
Tang Qianlin and Tang Zicheng sat in Yi Mochen's car, Tang Zicheng was very interested in everything in the car, touching this from time to time, taking a closer look at that, not nervous at all, only five days to live.
Suddenly, Tang Zicheng coughed, and Tang Qianlin asked nervously, "Where are you uncomfortable?" ”
Tang Zicheng pointed to his throat and said for a long time: "Dad, I'm just choking on saliva." ”
Tang Qianlin hugged Tang Zicheng and said, "You have to remember, don't be so curious in the future, most of the time curiosity will kill people." ”
Tang Zicheng looked at his father suspiciously and asked, "Dad, didn't you say that curiosity is the driving force for seeking answers?" ”
Tang Qianlin smiled bitterly and said, "Time-sharing." ”
After speaking, Tang Qianlin asked again: "Where are we going now?" ”
Yi Mochen, who was driving, looked at Tang Qianlin from the rearview mirror: "Racecourse." ”
Tang Qianlin asked, "He Chenxue is in the racecourse?" ”
"Since the Japanese established Manchukuo, they began to operate racecourses in Harbin, Mukden, Anshan, Fushun, Andong and Yingkou in the form of folk clubs, and later formulated and promulgated the "Horse Racing Law" and classified the racecourse as the state of Manchukuo." Yi Mochen, who drove the car, explained in detail, "At the beginning, in order to quickly spread the horse racing industry, the Japanese asked Manchukuo to come forward and find gangs in the rivers and lakes to support the horse racing industry, and selected to find the Baxiangmen, which was not strong at that time, it was just a small sect after the reform of the dart game, but it gradually grew ......through the racecourse."
At that time, Ma Tong, the head of the Baxiangmen, was a good friend of General Ma Zhanshan, and like General Ma, he was forced to cooperate with the Japanese and privately strengthen the anti-Japanese forces due to the situation. But when General Ma left Qiqihar with his men and horses and re-raised the banner of resistance against Japan, the Japanese were not worried about Ma Tong, and instigated Liu Mouzheng, the military division of Baxiangmen, to assassinate him, and supported Liu Mouzheng to become the second leader.
"Although Liu Mouzheng is said to be a military advisor and has a smart brain, he is not decisive in his work, so the Japanese were very disappointed in him, and gradually took back the management rights of the racecourse from the Eight Phases Gate, and the Eight Phases Gate began to decline." Yi Mochen continued, "It wasn't until two years ago that He Chenxue married into the Baxiangmen, and the Baxiangmen began to decline into prosperity, so the outside world called He Chenxue the real military advisor of the Baxiangmen. ”
Tang Qianlin listened silently, and He Chenxue's appearance gradually appeared in his mind.
To this day, he still doesn't know, what does this woman do? Why did you approach yourself in the first place?