Chapter 14: The thugs

As soon as I went out, I saw a girl wearing a thick water-blue winter dress, standing at the entrance of the stairs on the third floor waiting for him.

"Baoqi?" Wang Maoru shouted in surprise.

"Sir is back?" Tang Baoqi said with a pout, "I didn't inform me anyway. I'm still worried that Mr. will suffer abroad."

Wang Maoru shook his head and said that he had not suffered much abroad, but he was not adapting to the destruction of transportation in this era. He spent most of his time on a global trip. He smiled and said, "It's great to see you. I'm too busy with my back. I thought I would find you after I became a hundred times. I didn't expect... It was a coincidence."

"If my companion had not said that a free library was opened in the capital and invited me to come with me, I wouldn't have known that the husband would be back." Tang Baoqi seemed to be saying coquettishly.

"It's my fault, it's my fault. How about the compensation for treating you to hot pot?" Wang Maoru said.

"Okay, Rushi tastes good, I will forgive you." Tang Baoqi suddenly joked boldly.

"Okay, let's eat together, let's eat together." Wang Maoru became happy.

In the early years of the Republic of China, the warlords in China had just ended, and bandits, hooligans, gangsters and gangs flourished. At first, everyone naturally protected themselves in order to build a circle, but over time, they became a gang. Moreover, the Kuomintang's initial dependence on gangs also gradually legalized some gangs, such as the Qing Gang, Hongmen, etc.

Although Wang Maoru's Baihui Building is a free library, not no one has any idea. Liu Laohu, the North City, is the one. He took a fancy to this white five-story building and thought that this location was good. If a kiln or a big opium restaurant was opened, it would definitely make a fortune every day. Especially when Liu Laohu saw the female students coming in and out, his eyes were even more golden. The red faces of the female students were blowing, and they were really a person in seconds. If they were married home, they wouldn't be too many.

Liu Laohu participated in the Yihequan boxing in his early years, but he was not a big shot. After the Eight-Nation Alliance entered Beijing and wiped out the Boxer Regiment, he was very active and immediately defected to foreigners. Since he had foreigners as his backers, Liu Laohu became more powerful. He won over 100 people, opened four kiln halls in the Eight Great Hutongs, and opened three opium dens. His subordinates still collected protection fees at home in Beicheng. The amount was not large, but the price was long-lasting. Unfortunately, Baihui Tower was in Beicheng. Although it was not the most prosperous street, since Baihui Tower was built, the shops around him were popular.

"Have you found out clearly? Who is covering the back of the Hundred Climbs?" Liu Laohu asked his subordinates and said with a squinted eyes.

Because he has been squinted since he was a child, he has been called squinted by everyone, so that when he grew up, no one knows that he only calls him squinted. He said, "Thu Ye, I found out that the owner of this hundred-time building is named Wang Xiusheng. He has written several broken books and worked as a professor in college for a few days. He has gone abroad without much money. After he came back at the beginning of this year, he opened two factories, one for foreign fire and the other for oil lamps, and his business is booming. Maybe this kid's scholar's habits are difficult to change. He made money and not only did not do other industries, but opened this free library."

"It's just an outbreak." Liu Laohu's subordinate Lian Simao said contemptuously, "Those who are young have a way to deal with these nouveau riche."

"Tell me."

Lian Simao immediately said: "It is the most difficult thing for such a person to keep rich. We tempt him to smoke cigarettes and borrow money to gamble, what about it?"

Liu Laohu kicked him and scolded, "What trick did I do at that time? I wouldn't think of this trick? What's the use of this waste? I can't understand some brains?"

"What Master Hu taught me is a lesson."

"Simao, you go and find the owner of this Baihui Building. It has been two months since you opened it and you haven't seen any investment. I look down on me, Liu Laohu. I wonder who is covering the north of Beijing City?"

"You have to let Master Tiger."

When Mr. Hu's invitation was delivered to Wang Maoru, it also gave Wang Maoru a headache. It seemed that his wish to open a library quietly failed, but the first wave of disturbing was not the police and gangsters.

"Xiusheng, don't worry, leave this to me." Uraji's great thrust bagged him and said, "Liu Laohu and our Eight Banners' children, Jingshui, will not violate the river. If he dares to provoke you, he will provoke us Eight Banners. I will find someone to deal with him to death."

Wang Maoru was so amused and crying. Well, when he opened a library, he had to help him with his elders and young masters. However, seeing Uraji's enthusiasm for help, he nodded and agreed.

Uraji was not vague and immediately found a few familiar young men and carried a bird cage to go to the appointment. When Liu Laohu saw that it was Uraji, he knew that this Uraji had a good relationship with foreigners. It seemed that the owner of the Baihui Tower was mixed with Uraji. However, this Baihui Tower was built on his territory, and the protection fee was required. Otherwise, what would you think of him in Sijiu City in the future? Uraji was still as an arrogance of the former Qing nobles, and he was disdainful of these people who used to be slaves for him. After talking about it, Liu Laohu was anxious and said, "Twenty taels of silver a month, Uraji, this is my gift for you. If this condition is not acceptable, why don't you have to talk about it?"

"No need to talk?" Pu San Shao sneered, "Okay, I won't give you a man's face. Liu Laohu, let's take a look. In the future, if there is a bannerman in your four major hutongs, I, Pu San Shao, will go backwards in the future." After that, he stood up and said to his brothers, "Issuing a convening order, saying that Liu Laohu in the North City looks down on our bannermen. Who dares to go to his property in the future? I will demolish his house tiles."

"Wait a minute, wait a minute." Liu Laohu was scared when he heard that his kiln business was so threatened. Although even if the bannermen did not go to the kiln business, the wealthy Han family would linger and not worry about no one, the main customer of the opium den is the bannermen. If the bannermen did not come to his opium den, his income would be half reduced. So he stood up and said, "Young Master Pu San is really anxious and everything is easy to discuss." He also said, "Young Master Pu San is so hard to protect Baihui Building, but if you buy it, you should pay attention to the operation? If so, I, Liu Laohu, give Pu San Shao a face, and leave this Baihui Building to you."

Uraji sneered: "I need to do something like this Baihui Tower. Let me tell you the truth. The Baihui Tower owner is my brother. I also tell you the truth. This matter is left to me. If my brother takes action, you must suffer some trouble."

Speaking of this, I can't continue to talk about it for the time being. Liu Laohu was resentful and sent Zhang to take people to make trouble. Wang Maoru heard the news, so he asked Shuo and Ergen to tie up the people who were making trouble and took them out of the city overnight. Lock tied these people to pillars, put apples on their heads, and said, "Brothers practice shooting skills, only shooting apples, killing people is considered bad luck." Zhang had never seen this situation, and was so scared that he was so scared that he had pissed out. As soon as Lock Zuo fired a shot, Zhang fainted.

In the middle of the night, Zhang and others were released. After talking to Liu Hu, they were seriously ill. Liu Hu was furious. Wang Xiusheng was not particular about his work. The Sijiu City was made in the road, but you were unreasonable and started a gun. Unexpectedly, in the middle of the night, he hugged the concubine, but felt that the quilt was so sticky and wet. When he looked on the light, the concubine was so scared that she fainted. It turned out that the black dog in his house guard was chopped off and his head was stuffed into his bed. The dog's head was placed on the table and stared at him. Liu Hu was so ill that his concubine was sick. She had to invite Taoist priests to do it at home for three days to exorcise evil spirits.

How could Liu Laohu suffer this loss? He summoned people and prepared to set fire to Baihuilou, but learned that his only son was kidnapped while playing in the inner house. He had to give up the revenge of finding Baihuilou, find the people on the Tao, and ask who kidnapped his only son. The people on the Tao did not know who it was. At this moment, his youngest son was released, and the person who put him back said nothing.

Now Liu Laohu understood, and it was the Baihuilou people who warned him that the Baihuilou owner Wang Maoru was once a teacher at Peking University? How could he do it even more than a bandit or a gangster? He knew that this man did not play according to common sense. It seemed that he had offended the wrong person, so he had to write a message to apologize. Wang Maoru was generous, but he was spared from the invitation to the banquet. He did not look down on Liu Laohu, but wanted to date Tang Baoqi. So he asked his subordinates to give Liu Laohu ten taels of silver and a purebred German black-backed military dog, saying that it was to compensate Tiger Master for his losses, and the ten taels of silver were shocked and the German black-backed dog was to compensate his native dog.

This purebred German dog is worth 100 taels of silver on the market. Wang Maoru's method of doing this was a bit bad, but he did not fail to do anything. He gave Liu Laohu enough face, which allowed this Liu Laohu to have a way under his command.
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