Looking up at the stars in 1946

Not long after Feng Xin hung out in the kiln, he met Wang Yuandao as expected.With a flick of his wallet, he paid for Wang Yuandao's food, drink and entertainment.

Wang Yuandao was so drunk that his two little mung bean eyes narrowed into a line, and he said to Feng Xin, "Young Master Feng, have you lost your temper recently?"

Feng Xin laughed a few times, and complimented: "How can you compare to Director Wang, who can speak in front of Morita Dalang. The county magistrate has to give you three points of face."

Wang Yuandao glanced at Feng Xin and said, "What's wrong? You want to intercede with Qi Si?"

Feng Xin laughed and said, "Isn't it because I'm a kid? I don't feel at ease if I don't help a few words."

Wang Yuandao let out a "hum" from his nasal cavity, and said forcefully: "Master Feng, we Ming people don't speak dark words, this time I am determined to make Qi Si suffer!"

Feng Xin was taken aback. He didn't know why Wang Yuandao had so much resentment towards Qi Si, but he still said with a playful smile on his face, "This is strange. Could it be that Qi Si offended Director Wang?"

Wang Yuandao sneered, and said, "That's really not the case, I just don't like his arrogant look! Raising a wild man can be a treasure, it's a shame for us men."

Feng Xin really wanted to give Wang Yuandao two supercilious glances, thinking that someone raised a man to do your shit, are you his father or his mother?But he said in his mouth: "So this is the matter! It's not easy. I'll ask Qi Si to accompany Director Wang to accompany the crime tomorrow. Is this okay?"

"You think lightly." Wang Yuandao said.

Feng Xin's heart was moved when he heard it, and he thought that he was finally going to let go, so he quickly added fire, and said in a low voice: "Director Wang, what do you think, what's the point of putting Qisi in prison? You have to pay him It’s better to let him out and let him be your cow or horse than to give him food and drink.”

Wang Yuandao's eyes lit up, he stroked the two mustaches, and said, "There is some truth in what you said."

"Hey, I heard what you said, why don't you come here to plead with Qi Si, but to trick him?"

Feng Xin hurriedly toasted Wang Yuandao with a glass of wine, and said, "Director Wang, you can't talk nonsense. If it gets out, where will I, Feng Xin, face it? Why don't everyone scold me for having a son with no asshole and no conscience?" ?”

Wang Yuandao was amused by Feng Xin, he took the drink he offered and drank it in one gulp, saying, "That's a good point, I just like unconscionable young master Feng!"

Feng Xin also laughed a few times, and said, "Then let's see the same thing as heroes?"

Wang Yuandao slowly closed his smile, glanced at Feng Xin, and said, "That's not necessarily the case, do you know who the person Qi Si let go?"

"You know, it's really a guerrilla?" Feng Xin said hesitantly.

"Oh! Not only from the guerrillas, but also related to Yang Jingyu!" Wang Yuandao suddenly changed his tone, and said sharply: "You also know how much benefit you can get in Japan by capturing Yang Jingyu! Qi Si is so light Qingqiao cut off my fortune, how can you let me swallow this breath!"

Feng Xin's smile froze immediately, but he had seen people speak human words all year round, and he would speak nonsense when he saw ghosts. He just got a sip of wine in his head, and immediately returned to his foolish look, and toasted Wang Yuandao again with his hands and feet. .

"Director Wang, calm down, don't get so angry. I've always been a helper and not a relative. It's really Qi Si's dishonesty. He deserves to be locked up for a year or so. !"

After a few words, Wang Yuandao calmed down a lot, and finally he was relieved, and said: "This matter is not too big, and it is not too small. I, Wang Yuandao, are not a stingy person. As long as you let Qi Si gave up the business of the big fireworks... I'm not hard to talk about."

Feng Xin clicked his tongue when he heard it, thinking that if you dare to say something like this kind of lion, you won't be afraid of accidentally holding it to death! ?

"Hey, isn't it just a few big fireworks business? If there's any difficulty, I'll go and persuade Qi Si to go. The custodian agrees."

Wang Yuandao raised his eyebrows, and said, "Young Master Feng, don't talk too early, I don't think Qi Si will agree to this matter."

Feng Xin said carelessly: "I'll find out if I'm willing or not." Then he rang the bell and called two fair and beautiful kiln sisters to come in to serve him, and then he greeted Wang Yuandao and left.

Wang Yuandao looked at Feng Xin's back, squinted his eyes, and thought that all the people in Qisi were really capable.If it wasn't for Jiang being old and spicy, maybe he really got involved.

When Feng Xin saw Qi Si, his eyes almost popped out.

Is the bearded Laza in front of him, with a chicken coop on his head and dressed in rags, really the Qi Si he knows who combs his hair meticulously all the year round and wears a white silk shirt all the year round?

Seeing Feng Xin, Qi Si was a little excited, he quickly stood up from the pile of straw, and asked, "Why did you come in?"

The light in the cell was dim, and Qi Si's face was dark. Feng Xin couldn't see his face clearly, and said, "I'll get you out."

"You have a solution?" Qi Si walked up to Feng Xin in a few steps, with a pungent smell.

"Yes, Wang Yuandao let go of that lump." Feng Xin said in a low voice, taking a few steps back quietly.

Qi Si sensed Feng Xin's movement, felt a little uncomfortable on his face, and stepped back a few steps.

"What conditions did he raise?" Qi Si asked.

"He wants the big fireworks business." Feng Xin said, "Si, it's important for us to save our lives at this time. After the business..."

"Okay!" Before Feng Xin could finish speaking, Qi Si replied decisively.

Feng Xin was dumbfounded, he had prepared a lot of comforting words for Qi Si, and swallowed them all after saying a few words.

"Why are you so straightforward?" Feng Xin said, "Isn't business your lifeblood?"

Qi Si said: "That was all a few years ago. I have been doing money-losing business since the Japanese came, and I don't want to do it for a long time. If Wang Yuandao really wants to take over, I can give it to him for nothing!"

Feng Xin was dumbfounded, and said, "I thought your family would have piled up mountains of gold and silver by relying on that big fireworks business."

Qi Si was a little helpless, and said: "You think too much. Although the Japanese buy my big fireworks every year, they keep the price so low. After deducting the wages of the long-term workers, I even paid for food and clothing for the family for three months. It’s not even worth it, and a lot of energy was wasted.”

When Feng Xin heard that Qi Si had suffered such a big loss, he suddenly felt a little guilty when he remembered the money he had cheated Qi Si of before.

Feng Xin looked around, saw no one was there, approached the prison door and said to Qi Si: "You must not tell about this, it would be bad if Wang Yuandao thinks that this business is not profitable and changes his mind."

"I know that, you don't have to worry." Qi Si said.

The two were silent for a while, and Feng Xin didn't know what to think of, and asked, "Is all the money in your family in Han Yan's hands?"

Qi Si was taken aback for a moment, and said, "He always manages my money, but my mother and Feng Niang are still in charge of the family."

Feng Xin was so startled that his jaw almost fell to the ground, he clicked his tongue and said, "Si, you are so big-hearted, if you put all the money in Han Yan's hands like this, you won't be afraid that he will take your money and run away."

Qi Si did not speak, but glanced at Feng Xin's shoes, and said, "Did Han Yan look for you?"

"I found it." Feng Xin said, not hiding it, and said directly: "I also sent hundreds of oceans."

Qi Si said: "Then it's over, if I know I can ask you for help, I can still make things right."

Feng Xin thought about it in a blink of an eye, and it was true, but thinking of Wang Yuandao's words, he still told Qi Sidao seriously: "Stop showing off in front of Wang Yuandao in the future, I think he has been displeased with you and Han Yan for a long time."

Qi Si frowned, thinking that this was really a dick thing, Han Yan and I had also disliked him for a long time, so we said, "Okay, I'll make a note, and when I see the surnamed Wang when I go out, I'll take a detour. "

Feng Xin gave Qi Si a few more instructions, gave the guards some money, and asked them to take care of Qi Si, and then left in a hurry.

However, after Han Yan met Feng Xin, he began to straighten out various trivial matters as soon as he returned to the Qi family compound.The first thing to do is to calculate the amount lost during the previous raids, repair the damaged things as much as possible, and do not buy the things that cannot be repaired unless they are urgently needed.Considering the heavy losses, and the fact that Qi Si was like a big hole, and there were too many places to spend money, Han Yan had to dismiss one-third of the servants in the compound, and even the family's daily expenses were reduced. a fifth.

Lu Fengniang and Li Xiaohua couldn't deny Han Yan's actions, but Sun Meiniang, relying on Qisi as her son, was critical of Han Yan's monopolistic approach.Every time Han Yan made an arrangement, she went to him to make a fuss.The first two times, Han Yan treated her as Qi Si's biological mother and endured it.I didn't want Sun Meiniang to push forward and scolded more and more badly, and accidentally even scolded Qi Si too.Han Yan became angry at this time, and he simply became a villain once, and got two servants to watch Sun Meiniang, and told her that if she dared to say another foul word, she would be thrown out of the Qi family compound.Sun Meiniang didn't dare to bully her, she honestly went to see her grandson.

In addition to managing all kinds of miscellaneous affairs in the compound, Han Yan also had to go to the field from time to time to check the side, raise money secretly, and find people to go to the county to inquire about news. lap.

Qi Jialin felt sorry for him, and deliberately went to him as soon as she arrived at the restaurant, and insisted on eating with him, otherwise the two of them would be hungry together.Han Yan had no choice but to sit on the kang to eat.

The weather in North Manchuria gradually turns cooler in September.

Han Yan woke up from the cold in the middle of the night, and when he got up to find the quilt, he thought of Qi Si in the prison, his nose was sore, and his chest began to hurt.

Just when Han Yan was about to go to the county town to find Feng Xin to inquire about Qi Si's news, Feng Xin came to him instead.

Seeing Feng Xin's complacent look, Han Yan felt much lighter.While welcoming Feng Xin to the hall, he ordered the maid to bring tea and water.

Feng Xin was also unambiguous, and explained Wang Yuandao's conditions to Han Yan clearly.

When Han Yan heard this, he responded without thinking, and asked Feng Xin when he and Wang Yuandao would deliver.

Feng Xin said: "You prepare the land deed first, and I will stop by the village palace later to see what Wang Yuandao means." Then he was about to go out.Han Yan hurriedly called Feng Xin to a stop, went into the back room, and came out with a heavy bag in his mouth after a while.

Han Yan handed the purse to Feng Xin, and said sincerely, "Young Master Feng is away from home, so it's always good to have more things by your side."

Feng Xin was carrying the heavy purse, smiling like a flower on his face, and without saying a word, he patted his chest and assured him: "Don't worry! As long as I, Feng Xin, can do anything! You just wait on the kang." Go with Ah Si."

Han Yan was a little embarrassed by his last words, but after only a moment, he straightened up his face and went out to send Feng Xin into the carriage in person.

Han Yanyuan thought that if he handed over the land deed of the 350 Balong fireworks, Qi Si would be able to come back.However, he really underestimated how shameless Wang Yuandao was.After the bastard got the title deed, he used the excuse that this season's big fireworks hadn't been produced yet. He was afraid of making a loss in the deal, so he wanted to delay until the big fireworks were ripe and harvested.People under the eaves had to bow their heads, Han Yan had to bear it, and endured it slowly for three months, harvesting the big fireworks and sending them to Wang Yuandao.

At this time, the end of the new year is approaching, the sky is cold, and it is the coldest season in North Manchuria.Although Han Yan dragged someone to send Qi Si a cotton coat and quilt, he was still afraid that he would get sick from the cold.However, no matter how Han Yan waited and waited, it was not until New Year's Eve that Wang Yuandao replied, saying that he was going to Pingding County for the New Year's Eve, and that the matter of Qisi would be discussed when he came back in the early spring of next year.

Han Yan was so angry that he trembled all over. After holding it for a long time, he didn't immediately go to Wang Yuandao with a knife to fight desperately. He just blamed himself even more, and went to bed early without eating the New Year's Eve dinner.

In this way, until the beginning of spring on the fifth day of the lunar new year, Qi Si was finally released.