Lucky Records

The warm winter sun shines into the floor-to-ceiling windows with solid wood frames, and the light and shadow of the square grid are drawn long, casting on the upholstered leather sofa has the taste of old times.

In the large living room with a ceiling height of three meters, boiling water was boiling on the porcelain electric stove, and soon there was the sound of boiling water in the kettle.

The aunt who was still cleaning hurried over and turned off the switch, and shouted upstairs: "Sir, the water is boiling."

The door of the study was creaked open, and Xiao Xia came out from inside. He walked in a hurry, and went downstairs in three or two steps.The wooden stairs couldn't bear his jumping and jumping, and they creaked several times.

He murmured: "What a broken building, it's too weak, and it's not durable."

The cleaning aunt smiled at him, said nothing, turned her head and continued to dust the dust over there with a feather duster.

Xiao Xia hummed in her heart, she was really stimulated by her aunt's arrogant expression.

He murmured in his heart: Isn't it just a small dilapidated building?Is it that amazing?It's not as comfortable as a hotel.There is nothing in the small bungalow, and I have been busy buying things in it these few days. Even the aunt was newly hired later, and I don't know any rules.Seventh brother is also true, he has a sudden whim, and he moved here when he said he moved to a place where he didn't live all the year round.

My aunt is from Shanghai, so she knows the rules very well.She used to work as a room service in a state hotel, and she has laid more beds for domestic and foreign leaders than Xiao Xia has slept in in her life. The look in her eyes just now was actually just a joke about Xiao Xia's youth and ignorance, and there was no malicious intent.

However, Shanghai aunts have the demeanor of Shanghai aunts, who can understand clearly, know what to say and do, and who is the boss who really pays her salary.

Xiaoxia has been busy for a total of three days, and the place has been turned into what it is now.

There are many small western-style buildings along Anfu Road, most of which have a long history.Because Shanghai used to be a colony before liberation, and it was the largest city in the Far East at that time, Western-style buildings abound, but such well-preserved and single-family houses within the urban area are rare.

Most of the bungalows are either confiscated or shared by several families. This is a problem left over from history. It is not surprising that there are 72 tenants in the building with few buildings.

Lu Xiang came to Shanghai on business many years ago, and he lived there for a long time. He spent half a month wandering around the city.

Different from Beijing's graceful atmosphere, many things in Shanghai are exquisite and petty bourgeoisie. He just retired from the army at that time, and he especially liked this kind of life that integrates Chinese and Western cultures.So I found someone who wanted to buy a building with a unique charm of the times to live in.

He now lives in the building he bought back then.It is said that it was built by Russian nobles. It has three floors and an attic.

The original owner is a family of overseas Chinese living overseas all the year round. Because they will not return to China when they are old, they entrust a friend here to sell the house because there is no one to take care of it.Lu Xiang didn't need a loan, and paid all the money at once, but he went to Tibet before staying for a few days.

So, this is his second time back here.

Xiao Xia was still making tea, the doorbell of the living room door rang a few times, Auntie went to open the door, no need to guess that it should be Master Liu.

Auntie spoke a few words to Master in Shanghai dialect, Master smiled and looked at Xiao Xia: "Young Master Xia, aren't you used to living here?"

"It's not that I'm not used to it. The wood on this floor is too brittle, and I dare not walk on it. Once I step on it, it's soft and creaking." Xiao Xia didn't dare to choke Liu Xingguo, after all, the principle of respecting the elderly is not enough. I understand, I also know that Mr. Liu is a friend introduced by the third brother to the seventh brother in the Beijing courtyard. He is the best at reading people, so he has respected the master a lot these days.

Liu Xingguo laughed more happily, and told him patiently, "This is called a spring floor, and it is made of some high-quality nanmu. In the past, in Shanghai, only people with a certain family (with status and money) could lay it. It creaked and creaked. It’s because the two layers may be loose at the interface. But the two layers are more elastic. Back then, Russian ladies danced on it when they held dance parties on weekends. Russians are so big, how could this floor be brittle, right? ?”

Xiao Xia fell silent, and muttered, "Russians are so troublesome. It's okay to dance."

This time even the aunt didn't hold back, and just laughed out loud.

The three of them were still standing there talking, the door of the upstairs study opened again, this time it was Lu Xiang who came out from inside.

"Mr. Lu."

"Seventh brother."

Three people greeted him one after another.

Lu Xiang stood by the railing of the stairs on the second floor and nodded to them, then asked the master to go up and talk.

When Master Liu entered the study and closed the door, Lu Xiang asked him directly: "I asked you to inquire, how did you inquire?"

Master Liu stood by the desk, lowered his head and was about to speak when Lu Xiang asked him to sit down.He picked out a sofa for one person, and as soon as he sat down, he said, "Last time, I checked the children in Dongjiadu. They are ordinary people, their parents are divorced, and they don't have any special background."

"Well, you go on."

"However, his father is in prison, and he is the only one at the head of the family."

Lu Xiang's hands paused, and he looked up at the master, his eyes were a little unpredictable.

"What reason did you enter?"

"Abuse of power, accepting bribes."

What the master inquired about was indeed Song Yifei's crime, but the fact that he took the blame for others was done secretly, and almost no one knew about it, so after so many years, the matter has already been sunk into the ground, and no one will Think back to that big case back then.

Lu Xiang's brows frowned even tighter, and he always felt that something was wrong. Those who live alone without their parents around are more likely to become desperadoes after all. Because they have no ties, they dare to act recklessly.

The master didn't know what Lu Xiang was thinking, and said there: "I also inquired, there is no newly opened entertainment city called Emgrand in Shanghai Bund, and there is only one recently opened on a large scale, called Yuma Club."

"The Royal Horse Club?"

"Yes. I asked a friend to find out. It's only been three months since the industrial and commercial registration, two months of renovation, and it just opened for business a month ago. The legal representative is not the Yu Junyan you mentioned, Mr. Lu. If Mr. Lu wants to go, I can arrange it. But..."

"But what?"

"But that place is all for women, it's actually..."

"It's a domestic duck, right?" Lu Xiang finished what he was embarrassed to say for Master Liu who was hesitating.

Yumahui, Yumahui.It's really lucky that the boss figured it out, a family of ducks, and it mainly entertains women, that kid Yu Junyan should not be so perverted.

Lu Xiang leaned back in his chair, turned his head to look at the sky outside the window.The air in Shanghai is better than that in Beijing, and it is a sunny day. Looking out, my heart feels better.

He was thinking about something, but Xiao Xia didn't notice it when he came in. He didn't recover until Xiao Xia called him.

Xiao Xia put the tea made for him on his desk, gave the teacher another cup, and then simply stood in the room and did not go out.

Lu Xiang glanced at Xiao Xia, and didn't chase her away. After drinking tea, he said to the master, "I'm going to invite some leaders these few days. Let's see where we have a banquet. I'm born in Shanghai. You are more familiar."

The master took the order and drank tea with a smile.

Xiao Xia couldn't figure it out, and didn't know what Seventh Brother and Master were talking about before, and couldn't get started, and couldn't get their words in.

Perhaps Lu Xiang could see his anxiety, and turned to him and said, "I have to live in Shanghai for a long time, you have to put away your previous rusticity, and be more tolerant in your thinking, don't use Beijing's way to make up for it." Haibi. I'll ask the master to take you around in a while, and see and see."

Seeing that Xiaoxia pouted disapprovingly, he said again: "If you can't get used to staying here, you can go back to Beijing first. After the Chinese New Year, I'll find someone else to follow me."

Now Xiaoxia panicked, stood up abruptly, and said to Lu Xiang, "I'm used to staying here, I really like Shanghai." Turning around, she said to Liu Xingguo, "Master, have you finished your tea? Leave quickly after you're done." Let’s go. I’m looking forward to visiting Greater Shanghai!”

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Outside the building at the old wharf on the South Bund, several cars were parked along the street, and the people who got off the cars were in a hurry, and walked into the building in a group.

This group of people has a unique temperament, arrogant and hard to get close to. When people who work in the business building next to them saw them, they all slowed down and asked them to take the elevator up first.

The elevator stopped on the sixth floor, the top floor. As soon as they got out, they let go of the posture just now, and they didn't dare to step on it very loudly.

A person inside couldn't help saying: "Cena (damn), Datou Donggeji (this time) is big, Persian carpet shop, look at the Huangpu River, eat coffee (drink), knead festivals Come on (have a good day)."

Someone next to him yelled at him: "Don't you Huang Mao be a scalper? How can you come here?" (Huang Mao, aren't you a scalper? Why are you here!)

"No way? Allah (I) came to see the world and see the scenery of the Huangpu River."

They were still talking, when someone came out and yelled at them: "Why are you arguing, Brother Dong and Boss Wang are talking about something, you guys go sit there and wait."

They saw that the one yelling at them was Xu Changdong's most powerful assistant, the door god Ali.

They had heard that he was from the Northeast, would fight and was ruthless.

Ali glared at these people, and drove them all to the conference room before leaving.

As soon as he left, someone went to close the door, and then several people began to discuss in private again.

"Does any of you know what it is that called us here? Huangmao, you have a good relationship with Datoudong, do you know that?"

"How could I know that Datoudong is now engaged in serious business, so he must have asked us to make a fortune together."

"I heard that he met someone from Beijing recently, and it seems that he is going to do something big."

Huang Mao laughed loudly when he heard this, "There are many liars who can speak well in Beijing, Yi (he) be careful not to (don't) be deceived."

"You guys are being stupid?"

A few people were still talking, and someone knocked on the door at the other end, and the few people stopped talking again, and followed that person into another room.

These few people are the gangster leaders in various districts in Shanghai.He usually speculates and spends his time playing with women to live his life.Datoudong is Xuchangdong. In the past, there were many bad things in Zhabei, such as fighting, drinking and running casinos. After two years in there, he changed after he came out and brought a group of people to start a business.Open a restaurant, open a chess and card room, and help people collect debts.

These few people have a lot of contacts with him. Although everyone is dissatisfied with each other, they are making money, and they are quite united to make money together.

Datoudong invited them here today for nothing, but to let them join the new company together, and introduce them to the new nobleman Wang Zheng by the way.

Unexpectedly, Wang Zheng didn't bother to know those people at all, and left directly after chatting with Xu Changdong about the demolition.

Xu Changdong felt a little embarrassing, and when the group of people entered the office, he still had a straight face.The office was so dark that it was overwhelming and people couldn't breathe.

Everyone was wondering what was wrong, so he threw the teacup, and the lid of the teacup accidentally hit the yellow-haired leg closest to him.

Huang Mao pouted and yelled: "Fuck, Da Tou Dong Nong has something wrong with his brain! Damn it, his brain is flooded, isn't it!"

A few other people were afraid that they would fight, so they went up to stop them.

Xu Changdong gritted his teeth and said to him: "If you are like this, no wonder you can't get on the stage and enter the mainstream. You guys want to make a fortune in the future, so let me keep some of it."