At the table, it was unusually quiet.

Du Huancheng sat on the main seat and ate, there was nothing else except the sound of chewing, Du Qilin sat on his lower seat, opposite Chu Xia, and the rest of the aunts and wives sat on Chu Xia's side, and Du Qing did not have the opportunity to sit because of his young age.

Du Qilin always felt that the atmosphere of eating was not very good, and he didn't want to delve into why, just eating quietly, anyway, no one spoke, so he wouldn't find something to intervene himself.

"How long have you been out and you've forgotten the rules?" After Du Huancheng finished eating, he was wiping his mouth when he saw Du Qilin, who was eating and glancing at him from time to time, and he was extremely dissatisfied.

Du Qilin looked up at Du Huancheng, making sure that the other party was talking about himself, nodded and lowered his head to eat.

"Okay, don't talk about him at the dinner table, have you forgotten the rules passed down by your ancestors?" Chu Xia did not show weakness to help Du Qilin speak, and even took chopsticks to pick up some dishes for Du Qilin, and said: "It shouldn't be good to eat outside, eat more, tell Aunt Chen what you want to eat in the future, and let her cook it for you." ”

Du Qilin looked at his eyes and nodded silently: "Got it, Aunt Chu." ”

Du Huancheng is known as a handsome, but thanks to Chu Xia's help over the years, he is also afraid of her, and if Chu Xia doesn't come back for a long time, Du Huancheng will not lose her face.

"Come to the study after eating, I have something to say to you." Du Huancheng, who was not flattering, got angry when he thought about it, threw down the dining cloth and walked towards the study.

Du Qilin didn't dare to let Du Huancheng wait too long, so he hurriedly picked up two mouthfuls of food and walked to the study, as soon as the two of them left, Chu Xia was not in the mood to eat, so he let the servant push her away.

The remaining three aunts and wives, you look at me and I look at you, a rare agreement was reached, and the meal was over.

Du Huancheng's addiction to smoking was very heavy, and he was angry with Chu Xia again, Du Qilin smelled the strong smell of tobacco as soon as he arrived in the study, and his brows frowned imperceptibly.

"Dad, are you calling me something?"

Du Huancheng took the cigarette holder in his mouth, sat on the chair, and asked with a scrutinizing gaze, "Are you really repentant or just talk about it?" ”

"I listen to Daddy." Du Qilin said very respectfully.

"Listen to me? What do you mean to listen to me? Du Huancheng hated men Wen Tun the most, thinking that Du Qilin was still as ignorant as before, and his anger came up again in an instant.

Du Qilin looked at Du Huancheng cautiously, and said tentatively: "If my father asks me to enter the army, I will enter the army, if my father wants me to enter politics, I will enter politics, if you let me do business, I will do business, that's what it means." ”

"Really?"

"Absolutely." Du Qilin nodded and said, "But..."

"But what?"

"The person who wants my life, I want to know who is behind my back to kill me, Dad, as soon as I come back, I will suffer such a thing, you will not stand idly by, right?"

Du Huancheng: "Everyone is dead, the concession is shirking responsibility, I just don't stand idly by, and I can't find the culprit to avenge you." ”

"No clues?"

"Nope."

Du Huancheng said it too firmly, Du Qilin was a little unconvinced, who was the person who could make Du Huancheng refuse, and what kind of background did he have?

"Dad, do you really care about me?"

"It's not that I don't care, it's over." Du Huancheng said impatiently: "Don't talk about this, you have a good rest these days, familiarize yourself with the situation in Shanghai, and go out for a walk when you have time. ”

Du Qilin said sullenly: "Got it." ”

"You go back first, and we'll talk about the rest later."

"Oh."

After Du Qilin left, Du Huancheng sighed, feeling tired.

"Feeling tired, aren't you?" Chu Xia didn't know when he appeared at the door, and his expression was obscure: "In the future, it will be the world of young people, you really should give way." ”

Du Huancheng looked up at Chu Xia and said helplessly: "I also want to give way, but Du Qilin is like this, how can I give way?" How can I let him ruin the world I have worked so hard to fight? ”

"I don't know if he will destroy it, I only know that if you continue like this, you will ruin Shanghai." Chu Xia said calmly, regardless of Du Huancheng's reaction, he left the door of the study alone.

Du Qilin was lying on the bed, thinking about it for a long time, he didn't think about what was going on, Du Huancheng was not a kind person, let alone his own son, how could he not even care about his son's life or death because of an outsider?

In other words, what kind of background can make Du Huancheng so afraid, the gang Bai Ye in the French Concession? Or someone else?

He didn't think clearly, his mind couldn't turn around at all, he sat up irritably, turned on the wall lamp, got up from the bed, walked to the bookcase, picked a book at random, sat on the ground and read it.

Du Qilin's book list is very strange, very miscellaneous and biased, and there are even a few books about Buddhism, Du Qilin picked a normal collection of prose poems, intending to cultivate sentiment.

However, judging from the poetry collection, Du Qilin himself is also a very negative person, looking at many poems, Du Qilin feels a chill in his back.

"It's pretty good." Du Qilin said to himself, Du Qilin likes self-annotation, especially the poems he likes very much, and he will annotate them next to him and write his own opinions.

Even if it is a negative idea, Du Qilin can still see that the humanities literacy of writing is very high, not only that, Du Qilin is also very concerned about current affairs, and in some annotations, there are even a lot of ideas about the awakening of youth, which makes the current Du Qilin very shocked.

"The awakening of the nation is the youth, when the youth are blindfolded, when the body is trapped by temptation, when the mind is bound by Confucianism, when our nation is no longer us, the country will be annihilated. Get up, if we don't rise up and resist, we will lose the yellow earth we love. ”

The French Concession is considered a pure land in Shanghai, and in the past, Meng Qian only needed to manage the Chinese in that small area and not break the law and discipline, but this is also the case, he has seen too many massacres and killings.

But he is a detective, there is no way to help, he leads by example with the laws of the French Concession to restrain the Chinese, and some laws are climbed up with the blood of the Chinese.

Du Qilin put the poetry collection back on the bookcase, looking at the bookcase full of books, Du Qilin lowered his head guiltily.

In the next two or three days, Du Qilin nested in his room every day to read Du Qilin's books, and he even fell in love with Du Qilin's annotations, and sometimes read them out to think, always feeling that this was a kind of spiritual subsidy, which could allow him to get more food.

However, the Marshal's Mansion has to receive more guests and visitors every day than before, and they all come to visit the injured young marshal, in fact, to find out who will be in charge of the warlord in the future.

However, the marshal's mansion refused with the fact that Du Shaoshuai was unwell, and claimed that when the young marshal recovered, he would naturally visit him in person, which was of course what Du Huancheng meant.

On the third night after returning to the Marshal's Mansion, Du Qilin said to his family after dinner that he planned to go to Paramount to play.

Paramount is the largest entertainment venue in Shanghai, Du Qilin has not been here before, Meng Qian has been here a few times in the past but felt bored and left, this time he changed his identity, Du Qilin felt much more interesting.

Because it was decided on an ad hoc basis, Du Qilin sat alone in the hall drinking and listening to songs, and no one else came to disturb him.

However, it didn't be quiet for long, and I don't know where the news leaked, the boss of Paramount appeared in front of Du Qilin with a smile.

Paramount is the property of the Du family, and the boss is a subordinate of Du Huancheng, Du Huancheng saw that he was still quite smooth, so he let him take care of it.

"Young marshal, are you still satisfied with today's song? Is the service considerate? If you are not satisfied, just say it, I will let them change it immediately! "This boss is dressed in a robe and a horse coat, with a simple appearance and a round figure, which also looks compatible.

Du Qilin said suspiciously: "How do you know that I am here?" ”

"The young marshal is heroic, of course..."The boss of Paramount was about to pat himself when he saw Du Qilin's displeasure, and hurriedly changed his words: "I just saw the handsome driver at the door, thinking that the handsome man was coming, he hurriedly came to greet him, but there was no shadow of the handsome man, and the people who could mobilize the driver of the Marshal's Mansion were found in addition to the marshal, who was also the young marshal, and this was found." ”

"You're clever." Du Qilin patted the position next to him: "Sit down, I want to ask you something." ”

"Eh, what do you command?"

When Du Qilin saw that he didn't sit or force him, he only said, "When are you the most people here?" ”

"After 9 p.m., business in Shanghai is always better at night."

"Are there more sons in the family or more businessmen?"

"This..."The boss was a little asked: "I didn't pay attention to this, but Paramount is basically still played by the sons of the family, and businessmen are not here to do business, this is at most a place for negotiation." ”

"That's what you say." Du Qilin played with the wine glass in his hand and chuckled: "You know, I have been away from Shanghai for five years, and my father's meaning is to let me know a few more people and make plans for the future." The good place I can think of is Paramount, and I still have to rely on the boss to help me with more eyes in the future. ”

"Ah, young marshal, what are you talking about!" The boss listened to Du Qilin's words, and said excitedly: "Isn't this what you ordered?" Whatever the young marshal says in the future, we will naturally follow what to do. Don't worry, I'll help you look at the dots! ”

Du Qilin knows very well in his heart, he is a newcomer, he can know very little, and he can rely on even less, he doesn't know how to talk about the world, what can be befriended and which can't, he has no way to know at once, what he can rely on is the owner of Paramount who has been on the battlefield for a long time but will not betray himself.

"Then I'll thank the boss in advance..."

"It's good for the young marshal to call me Lao Wu, it is the cultivation of the big marshal that can make me where I am today, the kindness of the big handsome, Lao Wu will never dare to forget."

"Okay, my body hasn't recovered yet, I guess I'll leave first when someone comes." Du Qilin wants to leave first when his goal is achieved today, since the news has leaked, it is better to leave now if there are more people who stick to it, so as to save trouble.

Lao Wu hurriedly smiled and sent Du Qilin to the door, Du Qilin thought about it before getting into the car: "There is one more thing, if Lao Wu is not troublesome, help me keep an eye on it?" ”