Yun Lian

"It was not embroidered by one person?" Yun Lian didn't understand what it meant, "What do you mean?"

Lian Renjun pointed to him over and over again the words embroidered on both sides of the purse: "You can see that the word cloud on the front is obviously more worn than the ligature on the back, and the thread used is different. In my opinion, the word 'cloud' embroidered The time should be much earlier than 'Lian'."

Yun Lian lost his mind again: "Could it be that my mother got this purse from Lian Hanlin, and later embroidered a hyphen on it?"

"I didn't know my father could embroider, haha." Lian Renjun added some worries to Yun Liantu by talking too much for a moment, and at this moment he regretted it, trying to laugh it off, but the latter suddenly became more serious.

"I always thought that this purse was made by my mother to put things related to Lian Hanlin, but it was actually given to her by Lian Hanlin... Heh, his cloud characters are embroidered quite nicely."

"Something related to Lian Hanlin?"

"A bead with a deer engraved on it."

"deer?"

"This is probably the only thing Lian Hanlin left to my mother, except me." Yun Lian chuckled and put the purse back into the box.

"Wait, you said there was a deer engraved on the beads?"

"It should be a deer, what's wrong?"

"No, nothing..." Lian Renjun remembered that there was nothing on the bead, but he couldn't say clearly that he had opened the purse, so he could only vaguely say, "I'm just curious, what's the meaning of this thing."

"I'm afraid only the two of them know about it." Yun Lian said while bending down to pick up a box, "But since my mother keeps it as a treasure, I can't lose it... this time thanks to Lu Chengzhang."

Lian Renjun recalled the appearance of the black round bead again, and confirmed that there was indeed nothing engraved on it. He vaguely felt that things were not what the man thought, and the purse embroidered with the word "cloud" was not left to Yunrong by Lian Hanlin.But more is worse than less, and it does them no good to think about these unsolvable questions.

At this time, Xiao Jin came out of the bathroom and shouted at Lian Renjun, "Second brother, do you have food? Let me eat for two!"

Ever since Lian Renjun entered the Yunzhai kitchen, he has never been free. When the cook is not around, he will start the fire by himself to ensure that Yunlian will not miss three meals a day when he is at home.After a few meals of noodles, Ah Shen and Xiao Jin discovered that as long as Lian Renjun was around, there would be hot meals for them, and they gradually became more polite to him, calling each other quickly.On the contrary, Yunlian is used to calling him by his first name, and he hasn't called him brother a few times throughout the year.

At this time, Yun Lian was carrying a wooden box to climb upstairs, and stopped when he heard Xiao Jin's words: "I'm hungry too, hey, go and get something to eat."

Only then did Lian Renjun think of the water that had just been boiled in the kitchen: "Ah, I almost forgot... Come down after cleaning up, I have prepared noodles for you."

The battle lasted for half a month.Unable to attack on the front line for a long time, the Japanese army changed commanders many times, but they still had no intention of stopping, and they went all out to increase troops to Wusongkou.

The medical hall in the concession and the medical staff who fled from the Chinese world formed several teams to treat the wounded in the rear, and even Renjun was called to go.Yun Lian completely gave up the shops and warehouses on Baoshan Road, and after counting the several batches of valuable goods that were rushed out, he began to think about new ways to make money.

In late February, Yun Lianru invited Lu Chengzhang to have dinner at the Huidong Hotel in the French Concession.

On the round stage in the center of the hall, there was a French youth in suits and leather shoes playing the piano. Although Yun Lian didn't understand music, he couldn't help but be affected by his intoxicated appearance of shaking his head and tail, and temporarily forgot the irritability and depression caused by the war.

"I heard that the manager of Dazhong Hotel had someone slap his face two days ago, did you do it?" Lu Chengzhang raised his wine glass and shook Yunlian lightly.

Yun Lian glanced at him, then lowered his head and continued eating: "What's wrong?"

"Just asking, I see that you have been very popular recently, and your reputation has spread to the French Concession."

"Don't make sarcastic remarks here. It's not like you don't know about Dazhong Hotel taking advantage of the chaos to snatch Wanbaotang's business. Wanbaotang gives me a monthly commission. I can't take this money for nothing."

"I don't dare to speak sarcasticly, I don't know about your Boss Yun's methods..." Lu Chengzhang wanted to have a good chat with Yun Lian, but the other party didn't look sideways and only focused on eating. After waiting for a long time, he couldn't bear it anymore. "I said, can you rest for a while? How can anyone come to this kind of place to eat fried rice desperately?"

"I didn't eat breakfast, I'm hungry."

"breakfast?"

"Lian Renjun is not at home these days, the cook is sick, and there is no one to cook."

"You're used to this. I used to skip breakfast every day, and I haven't seen you so hungry." Lu Chengzhang put down his glass disapprovingly, wiped his lips with a napkin: "By the way, your second brother seems to be very prejudiced against me. ah."

Yun Lian stopped his chopsticks: "Don't provoke him all the time."

"I didn't provoke him, but he didn't like me."

"Let him go, are there still few people who don't like you?"

"Why do you talk to him all the time." Lu Chengzhang raised the corners of his mouth with a half-smile, "I found that you really care about the second brother of the Lian family."

"Why do you keep mentioning him?" Yun Lian put down his chopsticks and raised his head.

"I would rather pay a high price to temporarily rent a warehouse than ship the things home first, because I am afraid that Lian Renjun will see it?"

"what do you want to say in the end?"

"Why are you looking at me like that? I'm not an outsider." Lu Chengzhang raised his hand and patted Yun Lian on the shoulder, "The goods on Hualun Road are smoked soil, right?"

The latter was silent for a while and then lowered his head and picked up the chopsticks, which was a tacit agreement.

"Didn't you say you didn't want to do this? Why did you suddenly change your mind?"

"Fast money."

"Lack of money?"

"That's not true." Yun Lian frowned slightly, "At the end of last year, Yao Bainian had a batch of smoke soil from the mainland robbed in the public concession. I heard from the people in the patrol room that some of the people who were caught confessed that I ordered them to do it. of……"

"I know this. Isn't Yao Bainian your old club?"

"No matter how greedy I am for money, I won't do such a stupid thing that ruins my reputation. The tobacco dealers turn to rob the owner. After the news gets out, who would dare to ask me to cooperate? I suspect that someone is deliberately using my name to make trouble. "

"You are called a big tree attracting wind, haha!" Lu Chengzhang seemed to have heard something funny, grinning behind his ears, "Then what are you going to do next?"

"Return to the old business." Yun Lian glanced at Lu Chengzhang's gloating face, with a cold air, "Any smoke and soil that wants to enter the concession must pass through my hands first, and you can tell where there is something tricky. Anyway, it can't be washed. Clean, this money is not earned in vain."

"The one with the surname Yao...?"

"Yao Bainian has done a lot of business in the past two years. If I want to continue this business, I will inevitably cooperate with him. I have already talked to someone with him a while ago, and they mean that they will give things to me in the future. ,only……"

"Just what?"

"Old stuff is driving down prices."