The white-faced fat man's face changed, and he said: "Lu Jianzhang is the enemy of our Blue Dragon Society, the assassination of Yuan Datou at the end of last year was obviously done by the Southern Rebellion Party, but he arrested many people of our Blue Dragon Society and the Royalist Party, and also robbed a lot of property in the name of raiding the house, I really want to touch him." ”

The girl said, "Godfather! Now the most lucrative industries on the market are casinos, green houses, tobacco houses and munitions, how much money can a small restaurant make? Why bother to let the brothers fight hard with Lu's 'butcher', I think forget it! As long as we get more customers in the big smoke house below, the income will come up. ”

The pock-faced man also persuaded: "Boss! The third lady has a point, now our main opponent in the west of the city is the Ghost Shadow Gang, and the territory in the east of the city has been suppressed by the Flying Knife Party very much, so we can't make a strong enemy again! ”

The white-faced fat man sighed and said, "You are a bunch of cowards, it seems that you can only endure it first." ”

The white-faced fat man is Guan Rongting, the president of the Blue Dragon Society, who is a Manchu.

Although it was already the third month of the lunar calendar, the weather in the morning was still very cold, Di Xiong put on a silver-gray fur coat before daring to leave the house, this is the new coat that Bai Xiuling bought for him, it cost ten silver dollars, just arrived at the alley, there was a dilapidated rickshaw parked in front of him, the ragged coachman asked cautiously: "Is Mr. in the car?" Within three miles, only three copper plates. ”

Di Xiong was about to get into the car, when he suddenly stared at the coachman twice, and said in surprise: "Aren't you Brother Li Fei?" How did you become a coachman? ”

The former patrol officer Li Fei looked very haggard, his face was dark and thin, and a person in his twenties looked like he was in his forties, and he obviously mixed badly after leaving the police station.

Li Fei said: "Because of Liang Mazi's matter, I was fired, and if I don't have an errand, my wife and children always have to eat!" I had to rent a foreign car to run, thank you Boss Di for calling me big brother, my colleagues in the patrol team pretended not to know me when they saw me. You're still amazing! was fired on the same day as me, but he has already become a big boss, and people just can't be compared! ”

Di Xiong smiled: "Since you know that I have opened a company, why don't you go to me?" ”

Li Fei said with a painful expression: "In order to find an errand, I have already suffered from the cold face of many relatives and friends, and I have eaten a lot of closed-door soup, and I don't want to eat anymore." ”

Speaking of which, he was expelled completely by Di Xiong's involvement, and Di Xiong felt that he couldn't stand him.

Di Xiong stretched out his hand and took out all the dozens of silver dollars on his body, handed them to Li Fei and said: "I can see that you are not having a good time, you can use this money first, don't pull this rickshaw, my company lacks security guards, you come to me to be a security guard, ten yuan a month." ”

Li Fei held a bunch of silver dollars, tears flowed down, you know, he pulled the yellow car for a month, and he earned less than two silver dollars!

Li Fei's family lives in the poorest shantytown in the west of the city, where garbage is everywhere, and all kinds of paper and sundries are flying all over the sky when the wind blows. In two thatched huts made of wood, five-year-old Li Xiaofei is playing in the mud at the door, and due to malnutrition, Li Xiaofei looks only three years old, with a yellow face and thin muscles. Li's wife, Fu, who was washing clothes, also had a yellow and black face, was very thin, and her hair was unkempt.

Li Xiaofei suddenly said to Fu Shi: "Mother! I am hungry. ”

Fu Shi lied to him: "Your father went to buy vegetables, and when your father comes back, he will eat." ”

At this time, Li Xiaofei smelled a smell of meat, turned around and saw that it was Li Fei who was back, smiling, carrying a bag of cooked braised pork in his hand, he hurriedly ran over to reach out to take it, and was lightly slapped by Li Fei: "Go wash your hands and eat again." ”

Li Xiaofei ran into the house to wash his hands, came back and grabbed a few pieces of meat and devoured them.

Fu Shi pulled Li Fei into the house and asked, "Who asked you to buy cooked meat?" Cooked meat is three times more expensive than raw meat, huh? How much does this amount of meat cost? ”

Li Fei proudly took out a pack of silver dollars and said, "We have money, you can take the more than 20 yuan first." ”

Fu Shi was shocked and said, "Where did you get so many oceans?" It can't be from London, right? ”

Li Fei said: "It was given by Boss Di, it is the detective Di Xiong I told you, he is now the big boss, and he also told me not to pull the rickshaw and go to work in his company, and he gave me a high-paying job." ”

Fu said: "I heard that he is nominally a hotel owner, but in fact he is a gang leader, he gave you money because he wanted you to give him his life!" Can this go? ”

Li Fei said: "Do you think my life is worth much?" The old man Li who pulled the car next door was Li Laoshi's father, who was sick and had no money to treat, he died of pain, and his death was worthless. ”

"Big brother! Spring Thunder has a letter! Look! This is Chunlei's letter! ”

As soon as Di Xiong arrived at the hotel office, Bai Xiuling ran over with a letter and handed it to Di Xiong. After Di Xiong and Bai Xiuling pierced the layer of window paper that night, they slept together. Bai Xiuling is like living in the days of honey mixed with sugar, very happy, her eyes are always bright, her face is a little more charming of a young woman, her breasts and buttocks have become fuller, outlining a wonderful body curve. Di Xiong took it apart, looked at it for a long time before reading it, and said: "It's been a month since Wu Chunlei arrived at the reserve army, and I should visit Battalion Commander Feng in the camp." ”

Bai Xiuling asked, "What is written in the letter?" ”

Di Xiong said: "Wu Chunlei has become a squad leader, the training and life of the reserve army are very hard, three meals a day are wotou vegetable soup, occasionally eat a cabbage stewed tofu, I think it is the best delicacy, there is a serious lack of logistics supply, there are no cotton hats, gloves, cotton shoes, many soldiers suffer from frostbite on their hands, feet and ears. ”

Bai Xiuling said: "When Chunlei went, Chen Xianglian bought him two pairs of ear-covered cotton shoes, he shouldn't get frostbitten, right?" ”

Di Xiong smiled bitterly: "The problem is that when he is a squad leader, he can't help but care about the suffering of his soldiers, he gave his ear covers and cotton shoes to the two soldiers with the most frostbite, and as a result, he got chilblains." ”

Bai Xiuling punched him in the chest and said angrily: "It's all your fault, you villain, you have to send him to the barracks, Chunlei has suffered so much in the Flying Eagle Gang, and just a few days later, you let him suffer again." No wonder Chen Xianglian cried like tears after reading the letter just now, Chunlei also wrote a letter to her, and after she read it, she cried and took out five oceans of salary to send to Chunlei. ”

Di Xiong smiled: "It turns out that Wu Chunlei, this kid, already has a girlfriend, that is, Chen Xianglian, isn't Chen Xianglian's salary used to subsidize his parents?" This girl has a man in her heart, and she doesn't even care about her parents. ”

Bai Xiuling said angrily: "What nonsense are you talking about, have you forgotten?" Last month, Chen Xianglian booby-trapped Liang Mazi, and was promoted to foreman by you because of her merits, and her salary rose to ten yuan, and now she just took out half of the money and sent it to Chunlei. ”

Di Xiong said: "Tell Chen Xianglian not to send it, it's useless for Wu Chunlei to receive money, recruits are strictly forbidden to go out of the camp to buy things, tomorrow I will go to the Nanyuan camp, and each of Camp Commander Feng's subordinates will get a pair of ear covers, cotton shoes and gloves." ”

The gray-yellow wall, the blue-black brick house, and the gray-white and flat training ground are the former camp of the reserve army on the left side of Nanyuan. As soon as Di Xiong and Wu Chunfeng got down from the carriage, the two sentries at the door raised their rifles and pointed them at them, and three carriages came at once, which were also full of goods, which could not but attract the attention of the sentries. The two sentinels had thin faces and black yellow and yellow, but they were very energetic and agile. Dichon noticed that they were thinly dressed, and their ears and hands really had chilblains.

One of the sentries asked aloud, "Who are you, the barracks are heavy, and you are not allowed to trespass!" ”

Di Xiong said: "Please tell Battalion Commander Feng that the old man Di Xiong is coming to visit!" ”

The sentry was stunned for a moment, whispered a few words to another sentry, and then said to Di Xiong: "Please sir, wait a minute, I'll report!" ”

Di Xiong said: "It's okay, just go!" We wait slowly. ”

Wu Chunfeng also noticed the sentry's thin military uniform, looked at the brand-new sheepskin coat on his body, and sighed: "I didn't expect the Beiyang Reserve Army to be so poor, and the soldiers didn't even have cotton clothes." ”

Di Xiong said: "The Beiyang government is not poor, they levy more taxes on the common people than the Manchu Qing Dynasty, President Yuan and his senior officials are very rich, let's just say President Yuan, not only married a wife and nine concubines, but also raised many female actors and 'goddaughters' in the house for him to play, a total of more than 100 women, their monthly expenses are as high as hundreds of thousands of oceans." There are too many corrupt officials in the government, and in the case of the War Department alone, the officials under the head of the War Department are exploiting and taking kickbacks at all levels, and the materials that should be distributed to the reserve army are gone. ”

A loud singing voice came out of the barracks: "In the year of Guangxu Gengzi in the former Qing Dynasty, Lao Maozi committed the north of the nine roads, forcibly occupied the forests and grasslands, killed people and set fire to the fire, and robbed money, Hailan soaked in the fire and reflected the red sky, and the blood of tens of thousands of people stained the river ......."

Wu Chunfeng said: "The lyrics of this song are somewhat similar to the "Song of Justice" created by the boss, and they are all about the loss of land in the north of the Manchu Dynasty. ”

Di Xiong said: "Wu Chunlei said in the letter that this is the "National Shame Song" written by Camp Commander Feng! ”

Wu Chunfeng said: "No wonder you and Battalion Commander Feng can become friends, you both remember the lost land in the north." ”

Di Xiong said solemnly: "Every Chinese should not forget the northern lost land of Vladivostok and Hailanpao!" ”

Before he could finish speaking, he heard a deep voice say, "Well said! If all Chinese had such an idea as Brother Di, why not regain the lost territory in the north. ”

A tall man walked out of the camp gate, Di Xiong recognized it as Feng Jishan, what he said just now, he was like an ordinary soldier, wearing a thin coarse cloth military uniform, with two patches on the gray cloth military uniform, and his face was black and red. He's a little thinner than he was two months ago, but he's more energetic.

Di Xiong hugged his fists and said, "Big brother! It's been a long time, I have wanted to come to see you for a long time, I have been busy, I haven't found time, I heard that you have become the commander of the garrison battalion, I should come to congratulate. ”

Feng Jishan smiled: "You seem to be more able to speak than before, no wonder you have become a big boss." What are you bringing so much stuff for today? To sell goods? ”

Di Xiong said: "No, I heard that the eldest brother is living in poverty here and lacks materials, and the younger brother came to comfort the army as a businessman, I brought six hundred and fifty sets of ear covers, cotton shoes and gloves, as well as three fat pigs and one hundred catties of mutton, all of which are given for free, not a copper." ”