Xiaobai's phone suddenly broke the original tranquility, and Scorpion hurriedly picked up the phone. After listening to the contents of the phone call under the watchful eyes of Yuan Hanlin and me, his face changed drastically, and he obviously received a disturbing news.

"Xiaobai, Brother Feng has told me not to act rashly, I will inform Brother Feng now, don't mess around."

Seeing the scorpion's anxious look, I squinted, and it was all just as I had planned. Xiaobai must be sitting on pins and needles now, so I specially left him behind, just to make some noise.

Although there were some deviations along the way, everything went according to my plan.

"What's wrong? I'm scorched, what's going on? I asked deliberately.

The scorpion had a tacit understanding with me, and when he saw me acting, he immediately understood what I meant and followed the performance.

"Brother Feng, our moon cake stall over there in East Lake has been occupied, and it is from Mingyue Restaurant, and they have had some quarrels with our brothers." The scorpion said weakly.

"Could it be a mistake? I remember the stall at East Lake, we just paid a deposit of more than 1,000 last night. said that he was going to sign the contract today, Wu Guangyuan, the person in charge of the East Lake West District, wouldn't go back on his word, right? "When I mentioned Wu Guangyuan's name, I specially raised it by a few decibels.

The scorpion shook his head like a rattle: "Make no mistake, that Wu Guangyuan killed a thousand knives, he gave up our stall to others." It's reached a point where there's nothing to talk about, and it's better to pay us liquidated damages. ”

"This ......," I looked at Yuan Hanlin with an embarrassed expression.

Yuan Hanlin naturally heard our conversation, but he didn't say anything.

This old fellow, I've talked about it, don't you understand what I mean? Obviously, Yuan Hanlin clearly wanted me to deal with it myself, if he couldn't even deal with this little thing, then he would take it as a blind eye.

The scorpion hung up the phone and looked at me with a heavy face: "Brother Feng, what should I do now, something happened over there in East Lake, but it is related to our livelihood." That Mingyue Restaurant also deceived people too much, and even threatened us, saying that it was for you to get out of East Lake quickly, obviously because you wanted to be dominant. ”

My brow furrowed when I heard the news. looked at Yuan Hanlin again, but the bad old man was still silent.

Every time I make a move with Yuan Hanlin, I feel like I am in a big game of chess.

I looked at Yuan Hanlin with an uncomfortable expression and said, "Elder Yuan, it seems that what I just promised you may have to be postponed a little. As you can hear, there is something wrong with my business at East Lake, and I urgently need to go back to East Lake to see what happened. After all, it's about our livelihoods. ”

Yuan Hanlin didn't care about it originally, but when he heard that I was going to postpone his exhibition, he looked at me in amazement, and he was afraid that he would scold me a hundred times in his heart.

"Hmmm! It's okay, but what is the name of the person in charge of the East Lake booth you just mentioned? Yuan Hanlin said seriously.

"Wu Guangyuan!" The scorpion rushed to answer.

"It turned out to be Xiao Wu......" Yuan Hanlin nodded when he heard this, pretending to have some impression of Wu Guangyuan.

"Could it be that Elder Yuan knows this person in charge?" I clichéd, but there is a bit of a sense of agitation.

As soon as Yuan Hanlin heard what I said, if it was an ordinary person, he would definitely refute it directly, how could he not know it. But Yuan Hanlin was an old fritter after all, so he waved his hand unhurriedly.

"Xiao Wu doesn't have much contact, but his father Wu Hansheng has met a few times, and he was promoted by me at the beginning, so he has today's achievements." After Yuan Hanlin finished speaking, he walked slowly on the gallery without looking back.

"Damn, you're still good at pretending!" I cursed in my heart.

"I see, so to speak, today is really a mistake, and it turned out to be my own family after a long time. I really don't know each other anymore. I laughed.

When Yuan Hanlin heard my words, his face darkened, what kind of family member, who is with you as your own family.

"Well, you kid has a few roundworms in his stomach, don't think I'm going to know. Don't sweep my Yaxing for this kind of trivial matter, you have that matter. I'll give you a call later. As for you, give me a good preparation for the exhibition during this time, and make it a beautiful one for me. Yuan Hanlin said.

"I really can't hide anything from your eyes, and the junior will definitely do his best."

I complimented me, then looked at the scorpion, and it seemed that it was done.

On the side, Wang Ma watched me fight with Yuan Hanlin, and couldn't help laughing out loud, and then looked at me with joy.

"Let's go, let's go to the garden with the old man, and the fake fox and tiger painted today will be regarded as a gift to you." Yuan Hanlin said meaningfully.

I scolded in my heart: "You just give me a half-finished product, what a lot of care......"

Although I was a little helpless in my heart, I still nodded and smiled: "Thank you so much Elder Yuan, your appreciation is really a great honor for me." ”

Yuan Hanlin smiled, tapped my head with his finger, and led us to the garden. One afternoon, I had a very happy conversation with Yuan Hanlin, not only talked about calligraphy and painting, but also shared a lot of life philosophy and artistic concepts with me, and I could only nod my head vigorously to indicate that I had learned.

Time passed quickly, and soon it was getting dark, Yuan Hanlin invited us to stay and have dinner, but considering the matter of East Lake, I politely declined, and in the name of opening a calligraphy and painting exhibition, I said that I would go back as soon as possible to deal with it.

Yuan Hanlin nodded, once again emphasizing the importance of preparing for the exhibition, and expressed his full support for me.

When saying goodbye, I thanked Yuan Hanlin gratefully, and Wang's mother also asked me to go over to drink soup when I was free.

I left Yuan Hanlin's villa with the scorpion, and only then did I breathe a sigh of relief and feel very happy.

"Brother Feng, this Yuan Hanlin is really hidden, I can't interject when I listen to your conversation."

"I'm also afraid of saying the wrong thing. What you see is too one-sided, this old and unserious thing, giving me this painting is beating me. I smiled wryly.

"What do you mean, I look like it's just an ordinary painting." The scorpion wondered.

I looked back at the villa and whispered, "On the way back, be careful that the wall has ears." ”

With that, I left Half Moon Bay with the scorpion, stopped a taxi, and only then opened the painting that Yuan Hanlin gave me, and then analyzed it for the scorpion.

"If you look closely at this painting, the tiger is lying in the mountains, and the birds and beasts are all around the foxes and fake tigers. is like Yuan Hanlin's current situation, his state of mind says that although he is a fierce tiger, he is old, and he needs to be afraid of these menacing jackal beasts. I analyzed.

"It's really a tiger falling in Pingyang and being bullied by dogs, if the tiger comes out of the mountain, it will definitely lose both. But if the tiger does not come out of the mountain, the group of jackals will be in the name of the tiger all day long. The meaning is intriguing. ”

The scorpion didn't seem to understand, and scratched his head: "You mean, this group of jackals refers to the people around Yuan Hanlin?" ”

"Hmm." I nodded and continued: "I'm afraid that Yuan Hanlin will retire, on the one hand, because of his advanced age, and on the other hand, there is something unspeakable, even if he doesn't abdicate, those jackals around him will force him to abdicate, so that he can dominate one side." ”

"I really didn't expect the Yuan Hanlin family to be so complicated, let's not make this trip." The scorpion worried.

"These wolves are all vying for power, and if they enter this wolf's den, I'm afraid they will all be eaten up. It depends on whether Yuan Hanlin will let himself go, it seems that it is a little difficult to ...... today" I sighed, what kind of calculation is this old guy doing.

"Their family is so powerful, we are just outsiders, he won't pull you into the water." Scorpion said.

"I wish he thought so, but now the whole Jiangcheng knows that the rabbit is a big catfish, so he likes to muddy the water. Who knows if that old and unserious guy will think of throwing me into the stagnant pool of the Yuan family, waiting for me to stir it up. ”

I said helplessly, closing the scroll and throwing it aside.

Along the way, I recalled that these days when I came to Jiangcheng, it was really a trick. This is special, why did you form a bond with the Yuan family, Yuan Yingchun has not done this woman yet, and now there is another Yuan Hanlin.

The car drove slowly all the way to East Lake, even if it was already evening, as soon as I got out of the car, I saw Xiaobai and a group of people fighting against Jiang Daqing, just looking at it, the shop of Mingyue Restaurant was about to be set up.

"Stop them, don't put the goods, as long as the yamen dares to put the goods, they won't be able to do business!" Xiaobai shouted angrily.

"Damn, if you make trouble again, believe it or not, I'll call someone over immediately!" Jiang Daqing pointed at Xiaobai and scolded.

Seeing that the two gangs are gearing up, they will fight at any time. As soon as I got out of the car, I walked quickly with the scorpion.

"Xiaobai, don't make trouble."

"Brother Scorpion, Brother Feng."

When Xiaobai saw that we were back, he came up to me angrily to complain, saying that the group of people in the Moon Restaurant were too deceitful. And when Jiang Daqing saw this, he was even more red.

"Ah, you guys came back just in time, hurry up and take your people away, don't get in the way of our business, if our Mingyue Restaurant has any losses, you can't afford it!" Jiang Daqing pointed at me arrogantly and said.

Looking at this arrogant appearance, I also want to slap him twice.

But after thinking about it for a while, he just said two words coldly: "Withdraw." ”

"What?"

When Xiaobai heard my words, he jumped up in a hurry, thinking that I had been busy all day, and finally had to withdraw my troops, which was a great humiliation. If it spreads, everyone won't have to mix in Jiangcheng in the future.