"Otherwise, why do all these errand boys want to be detectives? A little detective can make a profit for two years, and the pension money is enough. But the position of the detective is also a turnip and a pit, it doesn't matter if you don't have money, you don't have to think about it.

Ah Sheng is also lucky, there is an uncle who treats him as his son-in-law, and in just a few years, he has crossed from an ordinary police officer to a senior detective, for him, Chen Qichang retired early, otherwise Ah Sheng could have sat in the position of inspector at a young age. ”

Sanjiangshui said energetically, Li An secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and his face was not obvious.

He pulled his senior brother to the empty table on the side and continued to ask:

"What about Li Zhengtao? I remember that there doesn't seem to be a detective in Sheung Wan? ”

"The former inspector of Sheung Wan Cha Guan is called Lu Yu, who has just retired for half a year, so it is still empty. Li Zhengtao and Cheng Jian are senior detectives, and further are detectives. For this vacant position of detective, the two fought openly and secretly and competed with each other. As for the ghosts, one by one they are insatiable, and they sit on the ground and raise the price, so to speak, it is to see which one of the benefits is more satisfactory to the ghost guys. ”

Coming to the table, Sanjiangshui pulled out a chair and sat down.

A waiter with a tray passed by, and Ang Lee took two glasses of red wine.

Sanjiangshui took the wine glass, took a sip of the crimson wine, raised his eyes to look at Li An, and said with interest.

"I've asked too, now it's time to tell me what you have to do with that guy named Hua Man, right?"

He smiled on his face: "Having said that, I didn't expect you to like this style." But that's right, a bewitching woman is charming enough for an ignorant person of your age, and it's normal to not be able to hold it. ”

In the end, Sanjiangshui teased in a mocking tone.

Li An spread his hands, looking innocent:

"Senior brother, don't think too much, what can I have to do with her, didn't I meet when I watched the boxing match that day?"

"Are you sure?"

Sanjiangshui glanced at Li An and smiled.

Li An opened his mouth to make a reason, but was interrupted by Sanjiangshui raising his hand. He said in the tone of a passerby:

"Actually, Senior Brother also cares about you so he chats with you more. You can do your own thing, and you don't have to talk to me too much. ”

Li An looked confused, this question was also asked by you, and you finished speaking, why don't you tell me too much in the end? Grasp the measure? Isn't it thinking too much?

However, Sanjiangshui did not ask, which was exactly what he wanted. Ang Lee took a sip of his wine glass.

But what he didn't expect was that the other party's next sentence almost made him squirt out the wine in his mouth.

"I almost forgot to remind you that since you've found another woman outside, don't provoke Zhao Di when you go back. You get along with Zhao Di every day and night, and it's hard to guarantee that you won't have some thoughts. She has had a hard life since she was a child, and she has a strong personality, so don't look for me when you cause trouble yourself. ”

Lin Zhaodi?

Li An's eyes widened, he dared to guarantee that if Sanjiangshui hadn't mentioned Lin Zhaodi today, he would never have thought of it.

Speechless, he muttered quietly:

"It's not normal to talk nonsense, it's not normal for senior sisters and younger brothers to practice boxing together."

Sanjiangshui's eyes widened: "What did you just say?" ”

"Nothing."

Li An coughed, and picked up the goblet as usual.

"Senior brother, drink."

"Humph!"

Sanjiang snorted coldly.

Pretending to be angry, he stared at Ang Lee, but happened to see an acquaintance on the other wine table on Ang Lee's right, and stopped joking and touched Ang Lee's shoulder.

"Let's go, I'll introduce you to a friend."

Sanjiangshui pulled Li An past and walked to the wine table on the side.

"This is Yau Ma Tei Lan Jiang, Inspector Lan. is kind and easy to speak, but he has a bad memory, so the people in the rivers and lakes gave him a headless flower name. ”

Sanjiangshui's tone was teasing.

The man with a good appearance didn't care, just smiled. Turning his head to look at Li An for a while, he stretched out his right hand.

"Blue River."

"Hello, Inspector Blue." Li An shook Lan Jiang's hand and responded neither humbly nor arrogantly.

"My junior brother, Ang Lee." Sanjiangshui said with a smile.

Lan Jiang seemed to be a little serious on his face, which made people feel that he was not easy to speak. But a mouth, as Sanjiangshui said, is obviously a 'very' talkative person.

"Wow, you didn't introduce it sooner. Two days ago, Ferranch was killed in the boxing ring, and your junior brother is a boxer in the boxing ring, so he made a misunderstanding and asked my men to bring him to the gym, and Zhou Sheng came to guarantee him out. I happened to be away again, and I just came back and heard about it. ”

Li An was a little embarrassed, but he hid his boxing from Sanjiangshui.

was as embarrassed as him, Zhang Yichuan who was next to Lan Jiang, the Zhang sir who took Li An to the errand hall.

"Boxing?" Sanjiangshui was taken aback and turned his head to glare at Li An.

"A'an, how much else are you hiding from me?"

"Didn't Inspector Lan just talk about it? Just this one, I just watched the boxing match that day, and I just got in the ring and fought twice. Ang Lee replied a little embarrassed.

"Ma Yusheng, that one who hit the street and knew that you were my junior brother, still dared to let you go on stage?"

Sanjiangshui scolded.

"Come, sit down and talk."

As soon as Lan Jiang saw Sanjiangshui's reaction, he knew that he had said the wrong thing, and he hurriedly started a round.

After the two of them pulled out their chairs and sat down, Lan Jiang said to Li An:

"I'm an old acquaintance with your senior brother, I joined the police force late, and it's a coincidence that I met your senior brother. At that time, I was still a little detective, and I was thanks to your brother's help when I caught a robber, otherwise I would have been injured that time. You are his junior brother, we are our own people, if you have time, you can find me for tea. ”

"If you have time, you must bother." Ang Lee responded politely.

Sanjiangshui asked with some curiosity:

"Lan Jiang, you just said that Ferranch was killed, who did it?"

"Inspector Yan!"

"Officer Yan!"

Suddenly there was a commotion in the hall!

Chen Qichang, who had gray sideburns, glanced at the voice, turned his head to Chen Xinyi and said:

"Xinyi, you will accompany your friend and father to receive guests first."

"Uncle Chen, you go get busy first, and I'll just talk to Sister Xinyi."

Cordelia looked well-behaved.

Long Chenghu sat alone not far from her, looking at her.

"Hmm."

Chen Qichang's arm touched Zhou Sheng, who was talking to the guest.

"Today you are the protagonist, did you see Yan Tong coming? Come with me to greet you. ”

"Oh, okay."

Zhou Sheng answered with a sentence in his mouth. Rubbing his stiff cheeks, with a smile on his face, he walked over briskly with Chen Qichang.

As soon as they met, Chen Qichang said enthusiastically:

"Welcome, welcome!"

"Uncle Chang, if you retire, you will be able to enjoy two more years of blessings. I'm miserable, and I can't envy it! ”

"Where does this start, Inspector Yan is in the prime of life, and he can go further. I'm different, I'm old, it's not interesting to rely on it anymore, and it's time to retreat bravely, just enough to give young people more opportunities. Chen Qichang snorted.

"Uncle Chang is when he is old and strong."

Yan Tong smiled on his face. He was wearing a black suit with short hair, not much worse than a bald head.

Zhou Sheng stretched out his hand and signaled: "Inspector Yan, please!" ”

Yan Tong moved his gaze to Zhou Sheng, looked him up and down, and said with a smile:

"You are Zhou Sheng? We're going to work together in the future. By the way, I heard that you are known as the Iron Mask Detective on Boundary Street? ”

"How can Zhou Sheng compare with Inspector Yan, Inspector Yan has the reputation of a hot hand detective many years ago." Chen Qichang hurriedly made a sound and diluted the mud.

"Yes, Inspector Chen is right. The gang of robbers who robbed the gold shop in Tsim Sha Tsui last week, Inspector Yan arrested the gang of robbers in less than three days, which is even more powerful than Sherlock Holmes. "There are plainclothes flattering people next to him.

Yan Tong didn't speak, but the smile on his face was obviously worse, and it was obviously still useful.

"Let's go, you can't stand here, it just so happens that Inspector Lan is also here, and Inspector Han is also here, and a few of us will push Pai Gow." Chen Qichang said.

Hearing the name Lan Jiang, Yan Tong's face darkened, but he still nodded with a smile:

"Okay, let's play first."

Fat Zichao followed behind him, quietly glanced around the hall, and when he saw Hua Man sitting alone in the corner, his eyes lit up.

"Inspector Zhou, this is a gift for you."

He handed the gift in his hand to Zhou Sheng, and walked quickly towards Hua Man. sat next to Hua Man, bowed his head and said something to Hua Man.

Zhou Sheng frowned imperceptibly.

"Ah Sheng, you go and invite Inspector Lan over."

Chen Qichang, who was next to him, patted his arm, explained in a low voice, and walked in with Yan Tong talking and laughing.

"Okay, uncle."

Zhou Sheng responded and withdrew his gaze from Fat Zichao.

Sanjiang Shui listened to it with relish, and when Lan Jiang finished speaking, he smiled:

"The townsfolk association is quite bold, and the ghosts dare to kill them."

"Fortunately, Ferranch is just an ordinary businessman, and he is engaged in a shady side business such as an underground boxing stadium. The ghost guy above was also worried that the matter would make a big fuss and slap them in the face and damage their face, so the case was hastily closed. ”

After a pause, Lan Jiang suppressed his anger: "However, these fellow villagers are indeed bold. Relying on the fact that we have no law enforcement power in the walled city, every time we finish doing something and hide in the walled city, everything will be fine. ”

"No matter how much the fellow townsmen association talks about it, it is only a community, where can you be arrogant if you are bold?"

Sanjiang Shui glanced at his mouth and pointed to the essence:

"Speaking of which, it's just that the status of the dead ghost guy is not high enough, and Ferranche is just a ghost businessman who makes a profit.

It doesn't matter what to do in private, but it definitely won't work when it comes to the open. The ghost guy also wants to be embarrassed, not to mention that the citizens have a lot of resentment against them, and the matter is big, and the first thing the ghost guy thinks about is to cover up. If the dead ghost guy was a senior police superintendent, the ghost guy's army would have marched into the city and forcibly swept away the townspeople's association. ”

"But they also have to take into account the influence over there." The blue river point stops.

Then he shook his head and said, "In short, this walled city and the townsfolk association are indeed a trouble. ”

The two made small talk

Ang Lee, like that Zhang sir, did not mean to express his opinion at all. Listen quietly while playing with the goblet in your hand.

In fact, the walled city in the mouths of the two, although this legendary Sanzhi area is chaotic, but for the community, it is not a place to fight now.

In the final analysis, the city is inhabited by some new immigrants who have just crossed the sea, as well as some bitter aborigines, proper slums.

Anyway, those who are out of the way can open the door and do business openly.

A slum, how can there be Yau Tsim Wang, Wan Chai. These oily and water areas make money.

When there is real chaos, it is necessary to wait until the establishment of the Independent Commission Against Corruption, and the partial business cannot be placed on the bright side, so as to reflect the advantages of the three regardless of the region.

At this time, Zhou Sheng walked over.

"Inspector Lan, Yan Tong is here, just a few detectives are interested, please go and play Pai Gow."

Lan Jiang is not easy to refuse, and smiles heartily:

"Good! Just a pastime. ”

"Sanjiangshui, you finally came to Kowloon, don't be in a hurry to leave later."

"No problem."

"Let's go, Yan Tong is interested, then play with him."

Lan Jiang got up, and Zhang Sir followed behind him.

Seeing the two of them leave, Zhou Sheng let out a long breath and rubbed his cheeks.

Li An smiled at him:

"Tired, huh?"

Zhou Sheng nodded: "I have always disliked the things that these people came to send. ”

"But human feelings are invisible rules in life, involving all aspects of interpersonal communication and communication, and it is also a common sense in the daily life of Chinese. Your uncle came forward to arrange this banquet for you, and the detective invited almost all of them over, also to make you show your face and transfer his interpersonal relationships to you. ”

Seeing that Zhou Sheng's face was slightly tired, Li An took a glass of wine and put it in front of him.

"Drink?"

"Hmm."

Zhou Sheng took the wine glass and drank it all, his face flushed with wine.

Li An suddenly pointed to his right hand and asked knowingly:

"Who's that?"

Zhou Sheng looked in the direction of Li An's finger.

It was a man with oily hair, a blue jacket, a high nose, and a well-looking appearance. Beside him sat a fat white man in a blue striped shirt, and the two whispered something.

When he saw Zhou Shengwang coming, he nodded and smiled.

"His name is Lei Luo, Inspector of Dustpan Bay. Just like me, just a little detective. We also look at the jurisdiction as a detective, and there is a lot of oil and water in the jurisdiction, and there are people who flatter the black and white, so the reputation is naturally greater. I'm fine, at least it's close to Kai Tak Airport, there's not much oil and water but it's not a lot, but it's a dustpan bay."

Dustpan Bay is located east of Quarry Bay and west of Chai Wan. Because the water area is very round and resembles a dustpan, it is named.

The external transportation around Dustpan Bay is very backward, and in the early days, it relied on extremely sparse sampans to and from Central. Even though trams have already been laid today, there is only a one-way track from Causeway Bay to Dustpan Bay.

When the tram comes to Dustpan Bay, if another train comes from Causeway Bay, the tram on the other side of Dustpan Bay will have to wait.

There is also a saying that the hero is trapped in Dustpan Bay, and he doesn't know when he will arrive in Central! to describe the inconvenience of transportation in that area. Naturally, there is not much oil and water to fish.

"Brother Sheng, I see that the guests sitting around him seem to be deliberately alienating him."

Ang Lee asked casually.

But Zhou Sheng obviously felt that Li An seemed to be interested in Lei Luo. He replied:

"On Yan Tong's birthday last month, Lei Luo beat a ghost named Henry at Yan Tong's birthday banquet, and was slapped by Yan Tong and swept out of the house. And most of the guests here are police officers, and they are afraid of Yan Tong, so they are naturally very distant from him. ”

(End of chapter)