I didn't watch her go away, but stared at the empty bowl.

Two hundred yuan was enough to pay for the meal, and for the owner of the stall, these two bills were enough to make him smile. However, 200 yuan is not even a drop in the bucket for big people like Lian Chengbi, King Qin, Yue Buqun, and Bai Xiaosheng.

This is the difference between the big man and the little man, throughout his life, the stall owner can't reach the life circle of the big man, he can only look at it from afar, envy and admire.

I thought to myself again, if I calculated purely intellectually, Bai Xiaosheng was much stronger than me.

He took the battle of Sakura Villa as a chess game, dispatched left and right, advanced and retreated freely, strategized, and had no last resort. And I am just a pawn in the chess game, whether I am a rook or a pawn crossing the river, I am just a chess piece, and I can't decide my own fate, nor can I decide the outcome of the whole game of chess.

It's ridiculous that I once took the success or failure of this game on my shoulders, trying to save the lives of Lian Chengbi and the gunners on my own.

"Don't you know, I'm going to die?" I asked in my heart.

Suddenly, my vision was blurred by the dampness in my eyes, and I couldn't see the bowl and the bills at the bottom of it.

I would have turned my heart to the bright moon, but the bright moon shone on the ditch.

If it weren't for Yue Buqun's mercy, I might have been killed in the "Immortal Bird" formation. Even if King Qin shot with the Thunder Crazy Car and the Overlord Divine Spear in the end, he couldn't eliminate Yue Buqun, and the other party still had the strength to kill me.

Yue Buqun cherishes talents, so that I can escape from the Jedi.

If his thoughts changed slightly, maybe I would be the first to be splashed with blood in the predicament.

I was betrayed, and I was the last to know the truth, and I almost had to swear an alliance with the people who betrayed me.

"Sir, may I ask—" The girl's voice came from my side.

I turned around, and my vision blurred in my eagerness, and I couldn't see her clearly.

"Sir, I just overheard you talking to your friend, it's really presumptuous, I want to ask you, have you seen any of the beggars? I know that the beggars are gathering here tonight, and there is a very big action - don't get me wrong, I'm not a member of the beggar gang, but my friend is inside, and I have to stop my friend from participating in the action tonight, so ...... If you have anything to do with tonight's events, can you tell me where the beggars are?" she frowned, and said so much in a sincere, incoherent tone, but in a very childish way.

The beggar gang is the largest gang in the rivers and lakes, and if they make a move, they will definitely be extremely secretive, rather than making a big splash on the long street and making it known to passers-by.

I shook my head: "I'm sorry, I don't know where the beggars are." ”

The girl looked at me, raised her beautiful eyebrows slightly, and asked another, more childish question: "So, aren't you also a beggar? Your appearance, your dress, your hair...... Also, isn't it just a beggar who comes to eat in such a place, and if you're not a beggar, where are you?"

I couldn't help but pause and look down at my clothes and shoes.

Actually, I was dressed like a "normal person", definitely not a tattered beggar image. According to this girl's logic, the people who can't afford to eat big meals and can only eat small stalls are all members of the beggar gang, so at least three-fifths of the people in Jinan City belong to the largest gang in the world.

"Am I saying something wrong?" the girl was a little uneasy.

I looked at her childish appearance, the qi in my chest dissipated, and patiently explained: "Not all people who are dressed and poorly fed belong to the beggar gang, it is a big gang, and if you want to join, you have to go through a very strict test." If something happens to the beggars, it must be a major event in the rivers and lakes, and people like you who don't understand the rules of the rivers and lakes had better not ask indiscriminately, so as not to take their own lives. Things on the rivers and lakes are not child's play, once the fight starts, it will really kill people. ”

The girl seriously defended: "Of course I knew that there would be death, so I hurried back from Spain, and I must find my friend as soon as possible." Jianghu is a big dye vat, even if a good person falls into it, it will become unrecognizable, what do you say?"

I smiled wryly and nodded: "That's right, the rivers and lakes are a big dye vat, this is the absolute truth." ”

The girl sighed, "If you will help me find my friend, I will definitely reward you heavily." It's been five years since I left Jinan, and many places have changed a lot, it's so unfamiliar, I need your help, can you help me?"

I don't care about the other party's reward, but she can fly back from faraway Spain to prevent her friends from participating in the war, and she can be regarded as a person of temperament. So, if it's just a gesture, I'm happy to help her with that.

Coincidentally, before coming to Sakura Villa, I happened to have an intersection with the big man of the beggar gang, and a phone call could solve the problem of the girl in front of me.

"I'll help you. I said.

The girl bit her lip in surprise and smiled: "Really? That's great, in fact, when I just walked over, I could see at a glance that you were a good person." ”

Actually, I don't care if I'm a good person or not, but if there is such a girl who cares, her friend should feel lucky.

I took out my phone and searched for a phone number in my head.

That night at Redsleeves' home, I saw several phone numbers on the memo on the side of the bookcase, one of which had a "2016 New Number" mark on the back. If you guess correctly, it's the new number used by the Red Sleeve Move.

I dialed that number, then put my phone to my ear and waited quietly for the other person to answer the call.

The girl had long forgotten the beef noodles in front of her, and her eyes were staring at me without blinking, as if she had pinned all her hopes on me.

Unfortunately, that number went unanswered.

I thought about it and went ahead and dialed the second number.

There were four numbers on the memo, and except for the first one, the other three were not marked.

When I called all four numbers, I couldn't help but be a little disappointed because all four numbers went unanswered.

"How's that?" the girl asked hopefully.

"Maybe my friend is sleeping so hard that he can't answer any calls, so wait a minute—" As soon as I said this, my phone rang, and the screen showed the first number I had just dialed.

I answered the phone, and the voice was very vigilant: "Which one?"

It wasn't the voice of the Red Sleeves, but an extremely hoarse man's voice.

I replied calmly: "My surname is Xia, please find my friend, who is the owner of this call, to listen to the call." ”

The man roared impatiently: "You are insane, in the middle of the night, I don't care if your surname is Xia or Dong! Get away, and if you call and disturb the people, I will call the police!"

I couldn't help but smile because it was clear that the other person was using a phone voice changer. You must know that this kind of voice changer can only subtly change the voice in short sentences and short words, and once it encounters long sentences, it will be overwhelmed, and a third of each sentence will always reveal a flaw.

"My surname is Xia, I just met at your house yesterday, and we had dinner together. Today, I asked you to find someone, without malice, and with a reward. "I put it bluntly.

The other party was stunned, and there were two snorts in the earpiece, presumably removing the voice changer.

"Mr. Xia, the call at night must be urgent. Then don't blame me for opening my lion's mouth, 10,000 yuan in consulting fees, and no one less is exempt. This time, the voice of Redsleeve himself came out of the earpiece.

As long as it can be done with money, it is not a big deal, and since the red sleeves ask for a price, this matter is half the battle.

"Find someone, this person's name—" I realized that the girl hadn't named her friend.

"Ni Hongxue, my friend's name, Ni Hongxue. "The girl was very clever and immediately reported her name.

I repeated into the microphone: "Ni Hongxue, the person I'm looking for is called Ni Hongxue." If you find this person, call me, I'm in the ghost market north of the intersection of Jingshi Road and Shanda Road. ”

The red sleeve on the other end of the phone suddenly fell silent, and he didn't make a sound for more than half a minute.

"Hey, are you still listening? Find this person, I'll transfer you 10,000 yuan. I said.

Red Sleeves spoke again: "I'm still here, but you have to tell me first, who is looking for Ni Hongxue?"

I whispered to the girl, "Tell me your name." ”

The girl immediately replied: "My surname is also Ni, Ni Bing'er." ”

I realized that "Ni Hongxue and Ni Bing'er" must be a family, and the two are likely to be sisters.

"If you find that person, tell her that Ni Bing'er is looking for her. I said into the phone.

The voice of the red sleeve became extremely strange: "Mr. Xia, you wait, within half an hour, I will take Ni Hongxue to the ghost market to find you." Remember, we're dating to the death. ”

I promised: "Death date, waiting for you." ”

After hanging up the phone, I told the girl: "Miss Ni, be patient and wait, your friend will come over within half an hour." ”

The sadness on the girl's face had been swept away, and she nodded again and again: "Thank you, Mr. Xia, and thank you for your friend." ”

For the red sleeve move, I only have sympathy and pity. If it weren't for the unspeakable secrets, who would have done the next three things? I asked her to help find someone and pay her, which could be regarded as indirectly helping her make money.

"Miss Ni, let's eat noodles first, if you don't eat it, it will be cold. I said.

"Just call me Bing'er, please. She said happily, then lowered her head and ate the noodles.

Strangely, in the next ten minutes, seven or eight people came over one after another, scattered in front of several stalls, and each ordered food.

The ghost market is lively, but my heart is becoming more and more solemn.

Obviously, these are not ordinary people, but people with different purposes.

I've only told Red Sleeves their location on the phone, and if the news leaks, it will only be related to Red Sleeves. In other words, these people are all from the beggars.

Redsleeves said she would arrive in half an hour, but only fifteen minutes later, she appeared in front of me.

"Mr. Xia, it was really beyond my expectations that we would have the opportunity to meet again so soon. Tell me, what the hell is your purpose?" Redsleeves sat down unceremoniously across from me, his hands in the pockets of his trench coat, the outside of which protruded in the shape of a short gun.

If you forget what she did in the past and just look at the current makeup, she is still a very beautiful and lovely girl. Jianghu is indeed a big dye vat, and the red sleeves are people from the beggar gang, so they will deeply integrate into this complex society and become unrecognizable.

"Sister—" Ni Bing'er beside me shouted.

I couldn't help but be stunned, but then I realized that the Red Sleeve Trick was not the other person's real name. It turned out that the other party used one of the "red" characters in his real name as his surname when the beggars were arguing about seniority.

"Bing'er, tell me, did he bully you?" Red Sleeves was still wary of me.

I shook my head and smiled bitterly: "Bully her? How can I have such idleness? If you didn't answer the phone, I would have handed her over to the police a long time ago." It's better for you to tell her a vague address, not even a phone number, and want her to live on the streets in the middle of the night. What would she have done if she hadn't met me?"

Since Red Sleeves and Ni Bing'er are sisters, the task that accidentally fell on me is completed.

"When the two sisters meet, there must be a lot of private things to say, so I won't bother much, goodbye. I stood up and reached for Red Sleeves.

"Wait, please be seated. The murderous aura in the eyes of the red sleeves gradually subsided.

I sat down slowly, looking around to the left and right.

Red Sleeves beckoned, raised his hand, and the seven or eight people who had just sat down immediately stood up and silently retreated into the darkness.

"We're actually family. Redsleeves smiled.

Ni Bing'er got up and wanted to sit down on the side of the red sleeve move.

"Bing'er, don't move, just sit next to Mr. Xia. Red Sleeves commanded.

"Yes, sister. Ni Bing'er was very well-behaved, dragged the small stool closer to me, and sat side by side with me.

I know that the Red Sleeves must have something to say.

Looking closely, the faces of the two sisters are somewhat similar, but Ni Bing'er is like a hollow valley orchid, she does not eat fireworks in the world, and her temperament is otherworldly, which can be compared with girls in the world.

"Pour the wine. Red Sleeves commanded.

Ni Bing'er agreed and picked up a bottle of wine, but she couldn't unscrew the lid, so she had to ask me for help.

I unscrewed the caps and filled both bowls with wine.

This time, we didn't use a casserole to burn the wine, nor did we use a lighter to burn the wine, but just two clean and plain bowls of two pots.

"After drinking this bowl, do you dare?" asked Red Sleeves.

"What's not to dare, as long as you give me a proper reason. I whispered in response.

"Drink this bowl of wine, I beg you something. Red Sleeves said.

"Is this what it looks like to ask for someone? At the very least, you should do it first. I said.

The red sleeves are too arrogant, and even when she says the word "beg", she seems to be on top.

In fact, she also said that the beggar gang has declined, and the former "No. 1 gang in the rivers and lakes" is only an empty shell, without any proud capital. She did this just to maintain that pitiful little bit of self-esteem.

Excessive self-esteem has become inferiority, for fear that others will look down on her.

"Okay, I'll do it first. Redsleeves nodded, picked up the wine bowl, drank it all, and then unscrewed another bottle of wine and filled it again.

"What do you want from me?" I asked faintly.

She was really refreshing, and pointed to Ni Bing'er: "She is my sister, I want to entrust her to you, from today on, she is your person." I know that a big man like Mr. Xia will definitely not lack a wealthy girl around him, and this matter is really embarrassing for you. But I have only one sister, and she is more precious than my eyes. If I had another way, I wouldn't have entrusted Mr. Xia with it. You can also think that there are no young talents in the beggar gang at all, and even if there are, I don't want Bing'er to have any contact with the beggar gang again. For so many years, I didn't even tell her I was in the beggar gang. In the past, the heroes of the world were proud to hand over the beggar gang, but those prosperous times have all passed, and who can afford to look down on the beggar gang today? If Mr. Xia can agree, my red sleeve move will be yours, and you will be driven by you whether you want to die or live. ”

This incident was really much beyond my expectations, but when Red Sleeves said this, it definitely showed me a brave loyalty. If I prevaricate again, it will really hurt her heart.

"Good. I picked up the bowl and drank it all.

"You agreed?" asked Redsleeves.

I nodded: "From now on, your sister is my sister, and whoever bullies her will bully me Xia Shi." ”

"Hehehehe...... It's really interesting, it's really interesting, are the two of you acting in a costume drama here? They actually use the old-fashioned method of drinking and supporting orphans...... It's a pity, it's a pity, this kind of bridge has long been outdated, why don't you two face up to the reality and use the realistic methods of the 21st century to solve the matter of 'trusting orphans'? It's really funny, it's funny...... "Bai Xiaosheng came very quickly, and when he opened his mouth, he should still be a hundred steps away. By the time the last few words fell, he was at our table.

It turned out that he was stepping on a miniature electric scooter, silent and galloping.

"You think we're old-fashioned? Only old-fashioned people can be trusted, don't you?" Red Sleeves gripped the bowl tightly, refusing to put it down for a long time.