chaotic world

"Mu'an..." Du Yunfeng called out. He was wearing a suit on his shoulders, and a corner of his tie was protruding from the pocket of the suit. He was coming out of the dressing room. The two buttons on his collar were undone, and he was grinning slightly, with a bit of ruffian air.

He called Zhou Lan's name, but didn't look at Zhou Lan. He looked at Imanobu with a pair of eyes, and Yamashita Teruo in the darkness from the corner of his eyes. The other party had no weapons. This was his first reaction.

Jinxin nodded slightly: "I recognize you."

Du Yunfeng had already walked across from him, he was a little taller than him, standing close to him, he seemed threatening: "I know you too."

Yamashita Teruo stood up in the darkness, Imanobu moved his fingers slightly, and he sat back tensely.

"I'm here to apologize to Mr. Zhou." Jin Xin's attitude was neither humble nor uttered, always poised and calm, as if he had never been rude in his life.

Du Yunfeng didn't listen to what he said, and turned to look at Zhou Lan: "Are you all right?"

Zhou Lan walked around the table and stood beside Zhou Lan: "Yunfeng, I'm fine. Mr. Jinxin is a China hand, and he really came to apologize."

He looked Zhou Lan up and down, and he was sure he was a good man with a full beard and tail. Du Yunfeng's strings were a little loose, so he didn't even read the letter. He took a few steps to the hanger, took off Zhou Lan's suit, Turning his head at the door: "Mu An, let's go."

"Okay" Zhou Lan agreed, walked a few steps, turned around suddenly, and nodded politely: "Goodbye."

Jinxin smiled and nodded.

Putting the suit on Zhou Lan's body, Du Yunfeng took advantage of the situation and put his arms around Zhou Lan's shoulders, and went out the door.

Jinshin stared at Zhou Lan's back until he turned the corner and disappeared, his just-right smile gradually faded away and turned into full nostalgia.

Teruo Yamashita was already standing behind the officer, serious like a soldier, ready to be ordered at any time: "General, do you want me to get rid of Du Yunfeng?"

"No need" Jin Xin shook his head, he picked up the cue: "That kid is very good to him, keep it, it's useful".

There is an unfinished game on the table, only the black ball and the white ball are left alone looking at each other on the dark green table. Imanobu’s game skills are top-notch, and he just dawdled on purpose and refused to finish the game—the ball is medicine Yinzi, what he needs is time, to infuse the other party with ecstasy potion little by little.

After a crisp sound, the black ball went into the hole, and the game was really over. With a little fly in the ointment, the white ball followed.

In the rumbling sound, all the balls gathered under the table.

"Everything that should go back will go back sooner or later." Imanobu put down his club, and Ren Yamashita respectfully helped him put on his suit: "Yamashita-kun, don't you think so?"

Yamashita nodded solemnly, with a strange look in his eyes: "Master, he looks very similar to your photo when you were young, even taller on one side."

"No." Jinxin shook his head and continued: "He is more like his mother. Meizi has a spirit in the sky. I met the woman who took her son away. She is old, but I will not forget his appearance, yes My wife blesses our father and son to meet." After speaking, he walked to the table and picked up the half-pack of Hardmen left by Zhou Lan, and he carefully put it in his pocket. He thought this was the first time his son left him something. There will be more until the whole person stays.

Coincidentally, I have been searching for my lost son for the past 20 years. When I saw Zhou Lan for the first time that day, his heart groaned on the spot, because this young man was so "familiar" that he felt like he was looking in the mirror through time and space. , in the mirror is the young self, and Zhou Lan's gentle and clear eyes are very similar to Mei Fang, so that he was caught by heart when they met for the first time.

Yamashita Teruo followed for several days, and collected and summarized the Zhou family's information to Imanobu Yaqing. The appearance of the third concubine and Zhou Lan's age were all too suitable.

After leaving the French golf room, the sky was dark, Du Yunfeng looked displeased, and took Zhou Lan to the Paris Hotel without saying a word. Along the way, people came and went, with their arms around each other, looking like a coercion.

"Just playing ball, jealous?" Zhou Lan asked with a smile.Du Yunfeng squinted at him: "It's not jealousy with the Japanese, it's ethnic hatred."

Zhou Lan didn't take it seriously, whether he was jealous or not, Du Yunfeng was indeed a bit domineering, but he was only domineering with his brothers, and he was not too presumptuous in front of Zhou Lan.He used to be hostile towards Tang Junquan, even if the other party helped him.Zhou Lan was in a good mood. Today went smoothly, the business was negotiated, and he enjoyed fencing and billiards. He thought Yunfeng had the temper of a donkey, so let him be.

After leaving the French golf room, the sky was dark, Du Yunfeng looked displeased, and took Zhou Lan to the Paris Hotel without saying a word. Along the way, people came and went, with their arms around each other, looking like a coercion.

"Just playing ball, jealous?" Zhou Lan asked with a smile.Du Yunfeng squinted at him: "It's not jealousy with the Japanese, it's ethnic hatred."

Zhou Lan didn't take it seriously, whether he was jealous or not, Du Yunfeng was indeed a bit domineering, but he was only domineering with his brothers, and he wouldn't be like this often in front of Zhou Lan.He had been hostile towards Tang Junquan before, and the other party helped him.

Zhou Lan was in a good mood. Today went smoothly, the business was negotiated, and he enjoyed fencing and billiards. He thought Yunfeng had the temper of a donkey, so let him be.

In the middle of the night, the two sneaked back to the Zhou family compound, tiptoed into the room and closed the door.Shumei was silent at the corner with her coat on. She had been sleeping restlessly. These days, she had intuited that Zhou Lan and Du Yunfeng were together, until she saw with her own eyes that the two of them entered a threshold with the lights turned off silently. She was finally sure.She has heard about the old problems of the Zhou family, but she has a little hope that Zhou Lan is not from the blood of the Zhou family, so it may not be the case, but now, it is impossible to admit it or not, as a person with no name and no distinction The girl in the house, she can't turn the sky or make waves.

Before dawn, Zhou Lan returned to her room with a yawn. Shumei fell asleep close to the bed, occupying only a small space. There was a large space outside the bed, which was enough for a person to roll around in sleep.He stared at the bed for a while, then sat down, discussed and said, "Shumei, I'll lie next to you, I'm very tired and want to sleep."

Shumei turned around slowly, facing inwards, holding her face with one hand, a big teardrop silently dripped onto the pillow, and instantly sucked into the cloth without a trace.Seeing that she was not clingy, Zhou Lan felt relieved. She lay down in her pajamas, pulled up her coat and covered it, with her side facing outwards, in a back-to-back position. Afraid that the two of them would be suspected when they came out of the same room at dawn, so he had to go back to his own room.

To the people behind him, he felt a little guilty, not for anything else, just because this girl was kind to his mother, and he could give her nothing, watching the other party live the life of a little widow without complaining, if there is no Du Yunfeng, Zhou Lan can take her in as a small house and let her enshrine her mother until she is old. She is willing in her heart, and his body is also happy. Isn't that what the housekeeper does?

But he has Yunfeng, and the ring is firmly in his hand.

After a while, Zhou Lan turned over, patted Shumei's shoulder lightly, closed her eyes and said, "Don't cry", his hands were very regular, and after patting, he helped the other party to press the quilt, and his face was half buried in the other party's long hair , a little prickly and a little itchy, a little bored in my heart, I couldn't bear it, I raised my hand to brush the other person's hair, and put it down again: "Just be a girl, brother, you don't lose you, don't cry, I will definitely give you a good way out in the future."

In the following days of waiting for the goods, Zhou Lan and Du Yunfeng were not idle. They went out every day, looked at foreign-style buildings, went to the bank, and collected the money on the account, excluding the large sum of money needed for business turnover and the twenty or thirty dollars in the Fengtian compound. Kouzi's food and drink expenses, the rest of the money is really not that spectacular. This year's squandering almost wiped out the Cheng family's little gold mountain.Fortunately, there was still half a room full of opium cream in the warehouse of Cheng's family. Li Bonian had already started to sell opium cream in Fengtian, and finally started to make some money.

In the Tianjin Wei Nine Kingdoms Concession, Du Yunfeng directly rejected the Japanese Concession. The two of them went around to inquire about the Eight Kingdoms Concession, and they actually met the seller. I will not go back to Tianjin anymore. I have a house in the Belgian Concession to sell. The price is very good. Zhou Lan hesitated for a while. It is different from other concessions. Although the environment is good, it is the smallest place and the only one in the nine-nation concession. Those who do not have their own garrisons always make people feel less at ease.But for a while, there were no other houses to sell. Zhou Lan hated that this place was not outside the customs, and kept saying that these small western-style buildings were beautiful and attractive. Du Yunfeng said, why are you wilder than me now? After the argument, the two decided that instead of continuing to be thieves in the Zhou family compound, it is better to move out immediately and buy another house when there is a more suitable house.

Soon after the decision was made, the whole family moved away, so they only took away some valuable small pieces of antique jade. The furniture and daily utensils in the house were almost unchanged, so they were all given away.With the new "office building", the two of them could justifiably not go home, moved there impatiently, and hastily hired cooks and servants.

The attached garden is not big, and there are small trees and lawns, reflecting the small two-story red brick western-style building.In the old house of the Zhou family, apart from Shumei who knows the inside story, other women think that men should do things like this when they work outside. Everyone is moving into the bigger bungalows.

Yun Hai has already attended Beiyang University, and he always goes to Xiaoyang Building on weekends. He has been kissing his two elder brothers, and both elder brothers love him, especially when he has money, he will give him whatever he wants and what he doesn't want.Money has always been stuffed with a lot of money, and I don’t ask him how a student can spend so much money.

But he spent it, and he spent it quite quickly.

Zhou Lan didn't ask him, and he would give it anyway if he needed it. Tianjin is so big, and half a child is just recklessly exploring the world. How can he do without money? He and Yunfeng couldn't afford entertainment before. If he's guilty, he can enjoy it as he likes, as long as he doesn't abuse himself by smoking opium, even if he raises two women, Zhou Lan will support him.

On weekends, Du Yunhai came back early in the morning, sweating. When he entered the room, his two brothers were having breakfast, Zhou Lan was drinking tea with a saucer, and Du Yunfeng was still eating slices of bread.Yun Hai recklessly grabbed a piece of bread and stuffed it into his mouth: "Well, I'm starving to death, my stomach growled all night."

Zhou Lan pushed a cup of tea over: "Sit down and eat, why don't you look like your brother?"

Du Yunfeng was eating with his head down, as if he had been shot in the back, he was stunned, and immediately sat up straight and behaved more gracefully.

After eating bread and hot tea, Yunhai's bright eyes sparkled and he smiled crookedly.Zhou Lan asked the other party why he went, Beiyang University was quite far away: "Yunhai, call ahead next time you come over, I will let the car pick you up.".

"I went to the actress club. I worked all night. I'm exhausted. I need to sleep for a while."

Du Yunfeng almost spit out a mouthful of hot tea: "My brother is capable! Where is the actress club, is the girl pretty?" After speaking, he wiped his mouth and hands with a towel.

Zhou Lan blinked, always felt that this kid Yunhai was full of vigor, and he was not good enough to do this. It was not something he could do to be addicted to the Golden Cave, so he looked at the other party without saying a word.

"What!" Yun Hai put down his teacup: "It's a progressive group. My classmates and I joined it with great difficulty. There are many people in the school who want to join, but they are not qualified enough, so they are envious of us." Yun Hai puffed up his chest when he spoke Straight, proud like a little rooster, just short of crowing in a manly manner.

Zhou Lan smiled, picked up the newspaper and read it without raising her eyes: "Look at how excited you are, what have you been doing all night?"

"Write manuscripts and translate progressive articles."

"How much money can I make writing for a night?"

Yunhai's eyes widened: "Make money? If you don't make money, it's all compulsory, and you still have to donate money based on your own self-consciousness."

Zhou Lan frowned, put down the newspaper, and looked at the other party: "You give him back the money? That's like believing in a religion, working for the Lord, and dedicating to the Lord." He said, thinking of the time when he believed in God, Picking up the newspaper again: "It's all nonsense, Yunhai, just play around, don't torment yourself."

Yun Hai was about to jump, screaming, he hugged Zhou Lan's neck in the past, then ran to Du Yunfeng's back coquettishly, the two elder brothers usually looked shrewd and didn't know how to think progressively, he decided to print them out in the future Take the promotional materials home to open their eyes, don't only have money in their eyes.However, right now, he still wants money the most, and he stretched out his hand: "Five thousand."

Zhou Lan took out the check book and drew it up. Du Yunfeng stretched his arms and legs in the living room, turned his head and asked, "I just gave you [-] last week. Even if you raise all the female students in your class, it's not like this." Du Yunhai happily took the check, and gave Zhou Lan a hug: "Brother Mu An is happy!" After he turned and ran upstairs, Du Yunfeng yelled downstairs: "I'm asking you something", Yunhai didn't bother. Reply: "Don't worry about it, I didn't do anything bad, I'll sleep, don't disturb me!"

Du Yunfeng stood downstairs with his hips akimbo. Except for Zhou Lan, he had no choice but to have Du Yunhai. When he was young, Yunhai was obedient and listened to what he said. When he was young, he had his own ideas and temper, and he didn't know how to be mysterious every day. What are you up to.Du Yunfeng scratched his head, held back for a long time, and shouted: "The guest room is on the first floor, why are you running upstairs!"

"I don't sleep in the guest room, I want to sleep in your and Brother Mu'ang's room." With the sound of the door closing, Yun Hai entered the upstairs bedroom.

Du Yunfeng looked back at Zhou Lan, staring blankly, and pointed upstairs: "You said he—?"

Zhou Lan sucked her lips: "Nine out of ten I know."

The bedroom was still as it was in the morning, and the servants hadn't gone up to clean it up yet. Du Yunfeng and Zhou Lan's pajamas were thrown randomly on the big copper bed, and there was still half a tank of water in the bathroom. Pick up the towel on the shelf to wipe clean, undress and jump into bed.

He has already seen the relationship between his brother and Zhou Lan. One of them has a ring on his ring finger. He noticed it the first day he came back from Fengtian. The people in his family are uncivilized and don't understand what these Western etiquette mean. He does understand. He is the most educated and advanced person in the Zhou family's big courtyard.

Just like Yunhai needs a lot of money, Zhou Lan also needs more money. Only when he has money can he keep a good life for himself and the people around him, and then he can buy everything he likes effortlessly, and then he can do whatever he wants and get a sense of security.

A month later, Indian cigarettes arrived in Tianjin across the ocean, and this stuff must be kept out of the eye.According to Lu Baiyu's original plan, when the big steamer first entered Bohai Bay, it would unload at sea, and change to a few small steamers to enter Tianjin. The target is small and scattered, so that it can bypass Tanggu Wharf, where the Japanese are powerful and prone to accidents. .The small steamers can go directly up the river and land at the Haihe Wharf in the French Concession. Lu Baiyu is a foreign comprador, and he has a lot of face in front of the British, French and foreigners.But Zhou Lan had his own plan. He listened to half of Lu Baiyu's suggestion, and the other half he and Du Yunfeng made up their own minds after careful consideration. This was their first trip, and they were not familiar with the road, so they couldn't put all the eggs in case of mistakes. In one basket, the other half of the goods did not enter the Haihe River, and were transported directly to the Sanchakou Wharf without touching the soil on the shore, and directly boarded another freighter without stopping, and hurriedly headed into the vast ocean.

The goods at the Haihe Wharf entered the pre-rented warehouse in the French Concession. Fengtian came to the smart and capable brothers, and they were transported to the customs in two batches. Get on the big mule cart, stuff the bundles of cotton bales with smoke bricks, and the two teams set off separately.

Originally, Zhou Lan and Du Yunfeng were going to follow a team, but when Du Yunfeng saw that Zhou Lan's eyes were wrong when he was loading the goods, he thought that if he got addicted on the way, no one would dare to stop him, so he simply asked the little brother to lead a team , he tied Zhou Lan by his side, butler Li was in a half-deposit state, and he had to use his old connections along the way.Out of Tianjin, into Rehe, all the way to Chengde, Shanhaiguan, into the borders of Manchuria, spent a lot of money, without any risk, the Japanese are also open to money, they also transport opium to make money, passing by for nothing, why not not for.

After more than half a month, the group returned to the Cheng family's compound smoothly. The boys were excited, and if there is one, there will be two. This is not only a fortune, but also a way to make money. Rolling, the future is great.What is more gratifying than this is that the cargo from the sea also arrived. Zhou Lan and Du Yunfeng asked Li Bonian to go to Dandong early on. The cargo went up the Yalu River and went ashore at night. What should be hidden, what should be used to make money, everything went surprisingly smoothly.

Their goods are good, and the price is several times higher than the black smoke soil that the Japanese specialize in. It has become a hot commodity in Fengtian smoke halls. Now Li Bonian has hooked up with all the big smoke halls, and the supply is simply in short supply.

Once the money was in hand, Du Yunfeng was so beautiful that the room was full and he couldn't sit still. Zhou Lan looked through a pile of ledgers, and the shaking figure made him dizzy, so he couldn't help but look up: "Can't you sit down? "

Hey hey, Du Yunfeng jumped up and down, squatted on the opposite side of the desk, put his elbows on the tabletop, and put his chin together: "You look the best when you read." After he finished speaking, he turned and sat on the desk, his buttocks Pressed onto a pile of ledgers, lying flat and leaning back, rubbing her head into Zhou Lan's arms, the girl acted like a baby: "Xiao Mu'an, give me a kiss, I wanted to kiss you when you were reading when you were young." The ledger was pressed tightly by him. Yan Shishi, Zhou Lan frowned, but still slapped the other party's upside-down face, and then impatiently pointed the back of his head: "Get up, I haven't finished watching yet."Du Yunfeng didn't move, just looked up and hummed: "Master, is the account book prettier than mine?" As he said that, he turned over and lay on the table, condescendingly facing Zhou Lan who was sitting on the chair: "I haven't kissed enough yet. Hey," she moved her mouth forward, Zhou Lan leaned back, her face turned to one side: "In broad daylight, what kind of flirting are you making?"

Du Yunfeng couldn't catch the other party's mouth, so he simply crawled across the desk, grabbed the handle of the grand teacher's chair and squatted up, then cheekily sat on Zhou Lan's lap, put his hands on the back of the chair, just People surrounded him: "Still hiding?" Zhou Lan was confused by him, so he could only put his arms around the other's waist, raised his head and kissed him a few times, and patted the other's butt: "Stop making trouble, I have to check the account again, it's too messy."

Du Yunfeng agreed, but he didn't stand up, he untied the opponent's clothes and belt, and asked perfunctorily, "How messy is it?"

Zhou Lan followed him to make trouble, reached out to take the account book from his armpit, flipped through the page he just read, and muttered: "Where did you see it?".Du Yunfeng had already slipped down to the ground, said: "Here!" opened his mouth and sucked it.

Then, Zhou Lan's hands froze and he couldn't turn the pages. He looked down at the other person's movements, his breathing was disordered, and when he was picked up and pressed on the desk, all the books he had just sorted out were all messed up and completely messed up.

It's autumn, and in previous years, it would be the time for Du Yunfeng to go down the mountain to beat the autumn wind, but now there is no need to do these small jobs, the Cheng family compound is simply a cornucopia, a golden nest.After a few deals, the land transportation was smooth, the sea transportation was smooth, Zhou Lan's appetite was getting bigger and bigger, and the goods increased from hundreds of thousands of orders to millions. He and Du Yunfeng returned to Tianjin and Fengtian, and they never tired of it. After becoming the God of Wealth, they not only had a lot of business contacts, but also became enthusiastic in private. The matchmakers made them meet many high-level social figures. Living and hiding in the concession, the intricate gang circles each have their own forces.

Zhou and Du are rising stars, they spend a lot of money, one is a bad face and the other is a bad face, they bought a large warehouse, bought the power of the wharf gang, their eyes became clearer and their ears heard farther and farther—always It really took root in this flamboyant world.

Not only do they have a place in Tianjin, but they can also be called heavyweights, because they have a mysterious armed force outside the customs. Many things that Tianjin local snakes are inconvenient to do, they recruit troops and guns from outside the customs. They are all professional soldiers. If you hit, you will fight, and if you fight, you will leave, becoming a mysterious terrorist force.

Even the position of Hou Daichen, the director of the Tianjin Police Department, was helped by the two of them, one overtly canvassing votes and the other secretly threatening.

That Hou Daichen also has a younger brother named Hou Daiying, who is a very local influence, and admires Zhou and Du's style of conduct quite a lot, and they have become close friends.

Zhou and Du were in the limelight in Tianjin for a while.

This is the happy life that Zhou Lan wants most. He is the only one who bullies others and no one bullies him. Yunfeng protects him and has gold and silver behind him. The original template is maintained, and the corners and corners cannot be out of shape.

So when he met Imanobu Yaqing by chance again, Zhou Lan turned his head away, avoided her and left, promising Yunfeng that he would do what he wanted.

Zhou Lan disappeared from sight. In the crowd, Jinxin stood there for a long time. He didn't chase or shout, he just thought—this wasn't the first time Zhou Lan avoided him. The several "encounters" he carefully planned all failed. It was obvious that the other party was hiding from him on purpose. It wasn't like this when we played billiards together last time. Something must have happened.As the chief of staff of the headquarters of the Tianjin Garrison Commander, he has Japanese soldiers and ronin under him, as well as a large number of hooligans, traitors and lackeys who are willing to work for him. He knows Zhou Lan's every move.

Since it is impossible to meet by chance, it seems too abrupt to go directly to the door. His son must be smart. If he notices something, it will be more difficult to deal with in the future. Jinxin Wei raised his head, turned his eyes left and right a few times, and turned his head to lead the mountain down. Zhao Nan got into the car, Shan Xia asked him what to do, he looked calm: "I will let him come to me."