On the 16th, Wu Xiangzhen's troops were defeated, the northern army was heavily damaged, and on the 18th, the Wuchang support army arrived, and the southern two sides began a tug-of-war on the battlefield in Hunan Province, and snowflake-like information was transmitted from the front to the rear.

On the same day, several Shanghai merchants appeared in Jiuzimi City, buying grain on a large scale at a price higher than the market price, stockpiling grain on the spot, and the grain from Jing, Hunan, and Chaohu areas was bought out, and there were also Shanghai merchants buying grain in Wuxi Rice Market, and thieves frequently appeared in the Yangtze River section from Gushu to Jinling, and the route was blocked, and there were ships capsized in the section from Jingkou to Shanghai.

Several major gangs in Shanghai began to empty the street grain stores, they not only forced to buy grain, all the necessities of life are among the forced to buy, only one day later, the situation suddenly went wrong, the people of Shanghai suddenly found that the price of grain on the market, slowly rising, salt, oil and other daily necessities prices also rose with the tide, for a time, the whole Shanghai market people panicked, formed a rush to buy.

After Li Yu participated in the banquet, after coming back, he has been frowning, never going out again, has been nesting at home, entertaining guests, and never talking about the events of that day, He Qi wanted to ask several times, but Li Yu deliberately diverted the words.

Li Li has also disappeared in the past few days.

He Qi was physically inconvenient to go out and didn't know the outside situation, but after Qian Xuan and Brother Xun went out to find Cheng Zhongpu, when they came back, the two were worried, and their faces were full of things.

At the dinner table that night, the grumpy Qian Xuan had a gloomy face, drank alone, and soon got drunk, unable to control himself, and didn't even accept Li Yu's toast, and said a few words in succession to scold Huai, which was pulled away by Brother Xun in time, otherwise the next scene would be a little embarrassing.

After dinner, Xu Shoutang, Shen Qiuming, and Qiming went to another room to rest, and Qian Xuan stayed, vomiting while babbling to go back to Beiping, and Brother Xun was taking care of it.

He Qi found Li Juan, and it is estimated that he could only ask Li Juan to come forward, and after being helped back into the house, he lay on the bed, anxiously waiting for Li Yu to appear.

After a while, Li Yu stepped on the dim light, came with two cups of tea, his face was as usual, he was not angry because of Qian Xuan's attack, put a cup of tea on the bedside table, and then moved a chair, sat in front of He Qi, and drank tea slowly.

Since Li Yu is willing to come, then he will definitely say something, He Qi suddenly stopped in a hurry, picked up the hot tea on the bedside table, took a sip, Li Juan closed the door, lay on the railing, and secretly made an OK gesture to Brother Xun downstairs.

Brother Xun also nodded secretly, breathed a long sigh of relief, went to the front yard, lit a cigarette, and smiled at Qian Xuan vomiting.

In the room, Qian Xuan's vomiting sound could be faintly heard, Li Yu walked to the side of the bed and looked down, and couldn't help laughing: "After so many years, Deqian is still like this, and the amount of alcohol is still so poor." ”

"More than ten years ago, Deqian came to Shanghai for the first time, only less than 20 years, at that time our family still lived along the Suzhou Creek, surrounded by shacks, opposite is the enamel rental area, one in the sky, one in the ground, Deqian this cultural person is very uncomfortable, crepe, the summer heat died of a person, the clothes are sweaty, he is still wearing a long shirt, I am really afraid that he is hot, so I drank with him, and then drunk him, and the clothes were stripped off."

When He Qi heard this, he couldn't help but be amused, and continued: "He is still wearing that dress!" The temper is very stubborn, and if you don't get drunk at night, I'm afraid I'm going to fight you to the end. ”

Li Yu smiled knowingly, then closed the window, and couldn't hear Qian Xuan's vomiting, he sat back on the chair in front of the bed, took out a cigarette from his pocket, and lit it with a foreign fire.

He Qi was very surprised, in his impression, Li Yucha did not leave his hand, and he had never seen Li Yu smoke for a long time.

Li Yu spit out the smoke and muttered: "I've always smoked, I carry a pack with me, I used to go out to see people and send one, but I'm old, and I don't let me smoke it, but I always have to put a pack of cigarettes in my pocket, and I always feel that something is missing if I don't put a cigarette." ”

Then he asked, "Do you smoke it?" ”

He Qi said: "I don't smoke, and after returning to China, I fell in love with drinking tea, but I can't drink what good tea is?" I have a friend in Beiping, speaking of which, you should know, his name is Liu Aiguo, nicknamed Liu Laowu, Liu Yanwang, and the chief of the Beiping Garrison Department. At that time, not long after I returned to Beiping, I was involved in the 'church case' and was invited by him to have tea. He is a strange person, and his office is different from ordinary people, half of it is an interrogation room, and it is usually a place for guests. He invited me to drink Monkey Kui at that time, saying that he had won the Panama Gold Medal tea, and I sat there, and I couldn't taste any good tea, and I only felt bitter at that time. ”

Li Yu was silent for a while, and then said: "I know him, if he wants to do something in Beiping, he can't get around him." But he has a sentence right, Monkey Kui is indeed a good tea, there is also it at home, Ming'er I give it to Ling, and his Monkey Kui, produced in the same place, I don't drink much, I always feel that there is an orchid fragrance, not a cultural person, drinking it will make people say that it is vassal, you are very suitable for this orchid fragrance. ”

He Qi was stunned, and was shocked for a while, and a terrifying thought suddenly popped up in his heart, Ju Chang was very familiar with Li Yu, and even Ju Chang's monkey kui was given by Li Yu, and Ju Chang's later taking care of himself was also related to Li Yu.

Thinking of this, He Qi suddenly remembered what Li Juan had said to Li Yu: "Don't you know how we came back?" ”

Yes!

Because Li Yu and Ju Chang are very familiar, Li Yu knows those things in Beiping very well.

Otherwise, He Qi was attacked, life and death were uncertain, Chinese New Year's Eve, how could Li Yu dare to let Li Qi a girl go to Beiping alone?

So here's the problem?

Does Li Juan know that his father knows Ju Chang?

He Qi thought that Li Juan should have known that Li Yu had a relationship in Beiping, but he didn't know that it was Ju Chang, so Ju Chang came to visit that night and said that he had killed a southern rebel party, and Li Ju was frightened.

After a series of thoughts, He Qi came to a conclusion that Li Yu is more complicated than he imagined, it is really not simple, no wonder a few days ago, several major families in Shanghai asked him to discuss matters.

"Ahem." After not smoking for a long time, Li Yu was choked and coughed twice, then extinguished the cigarette, lowered his head and took a sip of tea, and after calming down, he wandered: "It's almost twenty years younger, his appearance has changed, he can't be fat, when he first came to Shanghai, he didn't have to eat, he was thin like a monkey." However, he is a good hand in fighting, and he doesn't want to die, so he rushes back to the front, and we all call him 'Desperate Goro'. ”

In this way, Ju Chang used to be Li Yu's younger brother.

Li Yu took another sip of tea, pulled his thoughts back from twenty years ago, and continued: "Don't talk about him, let's talk about Deqian, you told him about it, right?" ”

He Qi does not deny it.

Li Yudao: "So, you did it on purpose? ”

He Qi shook his head: "I didn't think about it that much at the time. ”

Li Yu thought about it, and said lightly: "I'll teach you one thing, who you meet in the future, what kind of words you say, like Deqian's temper, don't talk to him about this, unless you can have a better solution." When I was young, because of this, I suffered a lot of losses, and I also offended a lot of people, and sometimes, I often offended people because of my speech, and I didn't know it. Therefore, speech is a science, and every word you say to others must be carefully considered. ”

(End of chapter)