Chapter 71: Teach a Man to Fish
Zhou Yu saw Tommy wearing a tyrannical hat and a tweed coat at a glance, as well as his two brothers.
This is where the Razor Party is coming.
"Hi ~ My dear Tommy, Arthur, John, thank you for coming to the opening ceremony, how about it? Would you like to take care of our business and learn a little bit of Chinese Kung Fu? ”
Zhou Yu jumped off the table and hugged Tommy, Arthur and John one by one.
"Mr. Zhou, don't you say that I want to do it too, kung fu, it sounds amazing, and the Chinese medicine hall, the medicinal powder prepared by Ma Daochang impresses me."
Tommy's words were a pun, of course Zhou Yu knew what he was hinting at, and said with a smile on the surface: "Let's go, go in and sit down and have a cup of tea." ”
Zhou Yu handed over the task of entertaining the neighbors outside to Lu Xiucai and the others, while he accompanied Tommy into the Chinese medicine hall and sat opposite each other in a small hall filled with the aroma of herbs.
"The taste here is very fresh and refreshing, and it's very different from the rich tobacco smell we have here."
Tommy looked left and right at the all-Chinese hall and medicine cabinet, and nodded.
Zhou Yu saw that Tommy had left Arthur and John outside, and knew that he had something to say, so he greeted Ma Daochang with a smile, and the latter also exited the medical hall with interest and closed the door.
"Well, have you been doing well in the North End since that incident?"
Zhou Yu asked as he lifted the teapot and poured seven points full of tea to the small teacup in front of Tommy.
Tommy was not polite either, pinching the teacup with two fingers and drinking it with a grunt, with a confident smile on his face.
"Thanks to the magic powder prepared by Mr. Zhou and Ma Daochang, we have made a lot of money in this horse gambling incident, although we have offended some bigwigs in the horse gambling circle, but I have already settled it, and now the entire North District, no, it should be said that the horse gambling business in the whole London is the largest share of our razor, Mr. Zhou, are you interested in interfering?"
Zhou Yu also drank the small cup of tea in front of him in one gulp, picked up the teapot and poured it for both of them, shook his head and said: "No, no, no, you just have fun, the identity of Huagong is more special, and we have just won some basic benefits for ourselves, so that the surrounding neighbors have a better look, and we must not touch similar gambling businesses again."
Of course, you can't touch the cigarette, this is the rule I set for them, I don't know how many people have died in this Chinese camp because of quitting smoking, but this is like a person with rotten sores on his body, if you want to live, you must endure the pain and cut the sores with a knife, and we are now going through this process. ”
Tommy put away his smile with undisguised admiration on his face.
"Mr. Zhou, I have to say that your courage is admirable, but there are more than 50,000 Chinese workers here, and it is too difficult to support them with just one medical hall and one martial arts hall."
"Of course, two stores can't feed more than 50,000 people, and I don't have the energy and obligation to feed them. There is an old saying in our hometown, it is better to teach people to fish than to teach them to fish, I want to teach them a method, an attitude to life, to pull them up from the abyss, as for the future of course, they have to rely on their own to walk. ”
"Yes, after all, Mr. Zhou will have to leave sooner or later."
Tommy mentioned this matter intentionally or unintentionally, Zhou Yu raised his eyelids slightly and glanced at him, knowing it in his heart.
Although this guy is still the British soldier who longs for a young man on the surface, he is actually the ruler of the Shelby family, and hundreds of his younger brothers have to take care of their food, drink and Lazar.
And arms, smuggling, and horse gambling, no matter which one is a dance on the tip of a knife, Tommy is talking about whether Zhou Yu will take root in London for a long time.
"Hehe, it's always been my dream to leave for the New World, and it won't change, but I have to make proper arrangements for my compatriots here. By the way, this time the Clay brothers suffered a big loss through the mine incident, their revenge may be late, but they will never be absent, you should be careful on your side, then the brothers are mad dogs. ”
Tommy didn't get Zhou Yu's affirmative answer, but he didn't ask any more questions, but followed the other party's topic: "We have made corresponding arrangements, and bought off a few outlaws to pretend to be people from the Richardson Brotherhood to deliberately provoke the Clay Brotherhood, but those two brothers have been quite low-key lately, like bears hiding and hibernating." ”
"If you are not afraid of the enemy's madness, you are afraid that the enemy will be calm." Zhou Yu sighed lightly and said.
At this time, Tommy took the initiative to pick up the teapot and poured a full cup of tea for himself and Zhou Yu, and did not stop until the tea overflowed the teacup.
"Hehehe, Tommy, in our hometown, this kind of practice of yours is to drive the guests away, as the so-called tea is seven meals and eight, and the tea for entertaining people is only poured seven points full, understand?"
Tommy was stunned, looked at the tea at the level and was significantly higher than the mouth of the cup, and laughed.
"So I'm going to drive myself away, Mr. Zhou, a little meaning is not respectful, not only thank you for saving our brother on the battlefield before, but also thank you for your important help in this horse betting incident."
Tommy said as he took out a stack of coins from the inner pocket of his coat and put it on the table, and gently pushed it forward, Zhou Yu only glanced at it and knew in his heart that the stack of coins was almost five thousand pounds.
In fact, Tommy had already given him a lot of money before, but today he came to give the five thousand pounds, which is not too much, and I don't know what he means.
Zhou Yu took the stack of pounds and pulled it with his thumb, making an intoxicated expression.
"The aroma of this ink is really pleasant~~ Thank you, Tommy, if you have anything to contact at any time."
Tommy stood up, buckled his newsboy hat to his head, and bowed slightly, before opening the door to the infirmary, whistling, and beckoning all the Razor Gang members who were dressed like him to leave the festive scene.
"Mr. Zhou, they just left, don't they stay to eat?"
Liu Banxian, a fortune teller, looked at the backs of Tommy and the others, and walked in with some doubts and asked.
"Their identities are more sensitive, if they stay, the neighbors are afraid that they will all have to leave, why don't you wait outside and invite guests to come in?"
The fortune teller smiled, stirred his hands back and forth together for a moment, and said embarrassedly: "Mr. Zhou, what, do you remember that there is a young man in our C13 team, named Xie Sancong." ”
"Xie Sancong? Of course I remember him, quite a spirited young man, what's wrong with him? ”
The fortune teller twisted and pinched: "That kid and the little daughter of the coat shop frowned, the two seem to have gotten together, and I only found out in the last two days, no, Xiao Xie is thin-skinned and doesn't dare to come to see you, so he asked me to come, thinking if I can advance some wages, after all, ...... If you want to talk about marriage, you have to prepare some bride price, no. ”
"Oh?" Zhou Yu asked with a little surprise: "This kid is okay, the youngest daughter of the cloakshop owner is not yet eighteen years old, right?" But they can talk about it first, and then talk about getting married when they are old enough, well......"
Zhou Yu thought for a moment, clapped his hands and said: "We will buy a small house in the suburbs of London and use it as their wedding room, of course, if the two of them can really achieve positive results."
If you tell him, just say that I Zhou Yu promised, and I will never break my promise! Also, bring him the 10 pounds to buy some gifts for the girl.
Now we can also go to the streets, let's go to the theater to see the opera or something, don't let Xie Sancong mix with Mu Dezhu all day long, or his brain will become stupid sooner or later. ”
The fortune teller took 10 pounds in cash and nodded happily and agreed: "Hey, hey~~ I'll go and tell him, Mr. Zhou is the atmosphere, this kid is really a blessing from his previous life~!" ”