his robbery

Ma Congrong's small western-style building is not a deep courtyard. Since it is said that Gu Chengxi is here, he must have already arrived at the gate of the courtyard, and he can enter the room after walking a few steps.Before he had time to worry about Huo Xiangzhen's hunger and fullness, Ma Congrong first ordered a bodyguard to quietly guard the second floor, then held his head high and walked towards the stairs with a smile all over his face.

When he reached the stairs, he took a breath, and logically speaking, he would say hello in advance with laughter and laughter, but although the small western-style building is well-crafted and well-planned, and the walls are thick enough, once he really makes a loud and clear voice, what will happen? Did it reach the ears of Huo Xiangzhen upstairs?Thinking of this, Ma Congrong exhaled the breath he had taken in.Calling Gu Chengxi brothers and sisters in front of Huo Xiangzhen is too outrageous, almost digging his own grave.

After going down the stairs and walking a few more steps, he exited the building door and walked all the way into the courtyard.Sure enough, Gu Chengxi had already got off the car and entered the gate of the courtyard. The two sides walked head-to-head on the concrete road. Ma Congrong took a look and found that Gu Chengxi was dressed in a suit, so he walked away and joked: "Hey! Commander Gu, welcome! Welcome. How do you dress like a new son-in-law today? Pretty!"

After saying a word, he also came in front of Gu Chengxi.Gu Chengxi tightened up the loose bones of his body, and he was exactly a figure with broad shoulders and long legs. When he stood up straight, he was like a tall clothes rack, and he wore a suit with edges, corners and lines.Ma Congrong gained the upper hand as soon as he opened his mouth, and he was almost a little embarrassed when he said: "This place is very modern, Secretary-General. I don't want to wear foreign clothes, so I am ashamed to enter your door!"

Ma Congrong shook his hand with one hand, and slapped his arm with the other: "This is nonsense! With my small house and courtyard, Commander Gu's willingness to come over is already giving me face. To be honest, I have lost my official position and power, and I only have to sit and eat. Once the gate is closed, it will be a day, and none of the old friends will come. This time I have really seen what it means to be warm and cold. Gu Jun Chang is now a person who is doing big things, so he must be busy. When he is not busy, he will walk around more often. I don’t have any other people. I can afford a cup of tea and a meal. Come on, there are mosquitoes outside, please come in.”

If it was placed earlier, Gu Chengxi would have to rack his brains to exchange a word or two with him to show his warmth and politeness.But now it is not what it used to be, he walked forward calmly, letting Ma Congrong talk and laugh to himself.Come on, laugh, that is to say, Ma Congrong still has some influence in the concession, otherwise he would start to tie up this slender little white face.Ma Congrong didn't feel sorry for him, but when he saw Ma Congrong, his teeth itch, and he always wanted to clean up this guy.It doesn't have to be fatal, but at least give him a little bit of pain - maybe after hearing that Huo Xiangzhen blocked a shot for Ma Congrong, he has been faintly jealous.At the same time, he was not angry: blocking Ma Congrong's gun and shooting himself was unreasonable.

After entering the living room, Ma Congrong ordered someone to turn on the electric fan, cut the watermelon, brought iced sherbet, and asked Gu Chengxi if he had dinner.Gu Chengxi answered perfunctorily while grunting, and at the same time saw a pile of glass candy wrappers on the coffee table, and beside the candy wrappers was an empty teacup with a bit of chocolate on the cup.Suddenly he sniffed the air subconsciously, he didn't know what he was going to sniff, anyway, he turned into a hound like a conditioned reflex, always feeling that there were some hidden clues in this building.

Ma Congrong had another two handfuls of snow-white towels twisted.Passing a towel to Gu Chengxi, he also sat down, wiped his face, and asked the servants to clean up the tea table.The servant, a spirited young man in a short-sleeved shirt, came to collect the sugar wrappers and teacups.Gu Chengxi wiped his hands with a towel, then stared at the young man's back and asked, "This kid looks familiar!"

Ma Congrong put down the towel, and said with a smile: "You should see that he looks familiar. He was an employee of our office back then."

After he finished speaking, he felt awkward, thinking that next time he would pay attention, the word "our office" was really inappropriate.

Gu Chengxi didn't pay attention to his words, and continued: "You have a problem in your family."

Ma Congrong looked at him with a smile: "Oh? What's the problem?"

The iced sherbet was served in a large glass with a straw in it, the style in a western restaurant.Gu Chengxi picked up the large glass with a layer of dew, bit the straw and took a sip: "Except for you, it's all work."

Ma Congrong laughed heartily: "You can see it too? I have long said that my house is like a military officer's dormitory. Look, the people who come out and go in are all young men!" Then he slightly restrained his smile, and his voice also He lowered his voice a little: "Hey, these are the people who have been following me to serve me. Now that the government office is gone, their jobs are gone. It's so easy to find other errands to make a living? So, I'll tell you They, those who are willing to follow me, will go. I can't afford anything else, and I won't treat you badly. As a result, you see, a large group of people came here. I'll think about it. When everyone reaches their age, do I still have to marry them, have children and start a family?"

After saying this, he slapped his legs and laughed again.Gu Chengxi also laughed, and with a smile, he twitched his nose and sniffed again.Seeing him, Ma Congrong immediately asked, "Commander Gu, what's the matter? Is your nose uncomfortable?"

Gu Chengxi hesitantly picked up the large glass and took another sip of sherbet: "No, I had a cold a few days ago, but I'm fine now."

Then he cleared his throat vigorously, because he was not very good at talking and laughing like Ma Congrong, so relying on himself as a pure martial artist, he said straight to the point: "Secretary-General——"

Ma Congrong waved his hand: "Stop, you shouldn't call me the secretary-general anymore, my secretary-general has come to an end."

Gu Chengxi noticed that Ma Congrong talked a lot of nonsense, so he smiled calmly, and he asked back: "Then what should I call you? I see, there is nothing wrong with calling you the third master."

Ma Congrong just wanted to disassociate himself from the former government office, so he smiled slightly at this moment: "It's up to you. In short, I really dare not be the secretary-general."

Gu Chengxi licked his lips, and continued the words just now: "Third Master, I want to ask you, is that business, do you still want to do it?"

Ma Congrong was stunned for a moment, and then realized: "I want to do it, but I can't do it alone, I don't have that much ability. If there is no one to protect, the caravan is halfway, and the bandits will have to snatch one. It's not clean."

At this point, he stopped talking and waited quietly for Gu Chengxi's next words.There is no one who does not love money, he thought, including Gu Chengxi.Gu Chengxi has people, and he has a way.The cooperation between the two of them is necessary to restore the tobacco and soil business that was previously interrupted.Suddenly realizing it, he slapped his thigh again. He smiled and offered a cigarette to Gu Chengxi, and at the same time, he said another gossip: "Try the taste of this cigarette, the real foreign product, I think it's too aggressive, Commander Gu, come here Try one!"

Gu Chengxi knew that Ma Congrong was used to wrapping business in gossip, so he took out a cigarette without worrying about it.

At the same time, Huo Xiangzhen upstairs lightly opened the spring lock on the door and tiptoed out.Seeing this, the bodyguard guarding the corridor was startled, but at the same time, he raised his head and raised his hand involuntarily, silently saluted him, opened his mouth, and almost yelled "Big!" Character.

Huo Xiangzhen was already hungry, her stomach was quiet, but her legs were shaking.Holding the gun in one hand and holding his breath, he walked forward slowly while leaning on the wall.According to his intention, he really wanted to go downstairs and shoot Gu Chengxi; but he couldn't do it blindly - he didn't want to be buried with Gu Chengxi, after all, there were tens of thousands of his troops in the east.

So he walked slowly step by step, not wanting to disturb anyone, just wanting to listen to the movement downstairs, and play by ear.

The bodyguard panicked and stopped him in front with open arms.He took a step, the bodyguard took a step back, and begged silently: "Marshal, please go back to your room..."

Huo Xiangzhen waved his hand sullenly, feeling that this kid was in the way.As expected, the bodyguard turned slightly sideways, as if to make way for him, but he still had his senses, and he didn't dare to let him go as much as he wanted.The two sides moved forward one by one and retreated, and they finally reached the stairs slowly.The stairs are not straight up and down, with a corner.As Huo Xiangzhen walked down, he heard the high-spirited conversations in the living room - he knew that Ma Congrong was naturally lively and could become a family with anyone, but he never thought that at this moment, he could still be laughing and joking with Gu Chengxi.

When he reached the corner of the stairs, he held on to the railing and stopped.If the two people in the living room were whispering, he might not be able to hear anything, but Gu Chengxi didn't know how to be polite, his tone fluctuated wildly, and his lips opened and closed; He raised his voice.The bodyguard following Huo Xiangzhen was so anxious that his face was full of eyebrows, and he wanted to catch someone to report the news in the living room, but standing at a small corner, he couldn't even see a single person, and he didn't dare to leave Huo Xiangzhen to go downstairs by himself, so he could only It was listening to the sound of the conversation coming up, clear and vague—these two people talked about everything!

Huo Xiangzhen listened quietly, with no expression on her face.Others are all secrets and sparse, but he is very secretive about Ma Congrong, and he is hard to guard against.

He was preparing to fight Gu Chengxi to the death in the mountains, and Ma Congrong was planning to cooperate with Gu Chengxi to make a fortune in Tianjinwei.Huo Xiangzhen suddenly couldn't understand what Ma Congrong had done, just like he couldn't understand why Bai Mani hid in a restaurant and told him to smoke opium - he was worthy of them, and gave everything he could, but why didn't they even have a little? Loyalty also refuses to say?

He seemed to have fallen into heavy snow, and was cold from head to toe.His breathing became more and more rapid, he coughed unbearably, then raised his hand to cover his mouth, turned around and walked upstairs quickly.

Huo Xiangzhen's cough was very low, and it was short.Ma Congrong vaguely heard it, and his heart turned somersaults in his chest, but the expression on his face remained unchanged.Gu Chengxi just delivered a high-level lecture, and at the moment he is holding a large glass and sipping sherbet.Jaw clenched, he felt as if he heard Huo Xiangzhen's voice.

He let go of the straw and raised his head, he asked straightforwardly, "Who?"

Ma Congrong acted confused: "Who? What who?"

Gu Chengxi put down the big glass, worked his legs hard, and wished he could jump up: "Who coughed just now?"

Ma Congrong raised his legs up dumbfoundingly: "Cough, it's not thunder, why does it seem to scare you? There are so many people in the house, how do I know who is coughing—someone coughed just now?"

Gu Chengxi stared at his face: "I listen, it sounds like a handsome man."

Ma Congrong became more and more dumbfounded: "My good fellow, you have become the ear of the wind. The commander is hundreds of miles away from us. He may have just coughed, but you can't hear it either!"

Gu Chengxi didn't see any flaws in his face, and he couldn't forcibly search his home.He knocked on the coffee table unconsciously with his fingers, and he suddenly changed the subject: "Have you got in touch with the commander in chief? Don't hide it from me. I am fighting with the commander in chief now. It is only following orders. There is no way. I know that I was sorry for the commander in chief." Shuai, if possible, I would like to help the handsome in private."

Ma Congrong smiled sourly: "Where is there any contact? I don't know how to fight. Why do they contact me? Are you asking me to be the secretary-general on the battlefield?"

Gu Chengxi looked into his eyes and said: "As far as I know, the new government is about to issue a warrant for the commander in chief."

Ma Congrong showed a little sad face: "Ah? Really? Oh! What should I do!"

Gu Chengxi always felt that Ma Congrong would not be as detached as he said, so he put pressure on him one sentence after another: "The young commander in the northeast has long since wanted to fight, and sooner or later he has to cooperate with the new government. The commander continues to resist so stubbornly." , to be honest, it’s boring, and there’s no way out.”

Hearing this, Ma Congrong was genuinely worried: "Ah...is that right? Sigh...what should I do?"

Gu Chengxi said: "If you have a way to talk to the commander-in-chief, you can persuade him well. As long as he is willing to surrender, I dare not say anything else. Anyway, I can definitely protect his safety and property."

Ma Congrong nodded again and again, feeling a little uncomfortable in his heart, thinking that if you are so majestic, we have to use you to protect him!

Gu Chengxi sat still, always wanting to pry Ma Congrong's mouth open.However, Ma Congrong always smiled slightly, and sank comfortably into the sofa, he could sit still more than Gu Chengxi.

It wasn't until it was completely dark outside that Gu Chengxi got up and said goodbye with nothing.Ma Congrong walked out with him, and stood at the gate of the courtyard again, watching his car go away.

When the car disappeared, he asked the bodyguard to close the gate of the courtyard.He let out a long breath as if exhausted, and looked up upstairs, anxious for a while—this time, the uncle has been repaired severely, except for one breakfast, the uncle has been hungry for a whole day.Fortunately, the kitchen is always in charge, and since he's been back for so long, he must have already prepared dinner.He ordered the bodyguard to pass the dinner in the kitchen, and he ran and jumped all the way into the building.Lifting the corner of the robe with one hand, he jumped upstairs in three steps.Panting, he pushed the door open and entered the bedroom. He smiled wryly at Huo Xiangzhen: "Master, are you hungry? Let's go, the supper downstairs is served. You can sleep when you are full."

Huo Xiangzhen sat on the edge of the bed without moving, just looked up at Ma Congrong steadfastly.His eyebrows and eyelashes were all black, and his slightly plump cheeks became thinner in an instant. He became a statue chopped with a knife and an axe.His face was stiff, but his eyes were a little dazed and distressed, as if he was a naive person who had been deceived by the sky.

Ma Congrong felt guilty when he saw him, and the smile on his face was flickering too hard to maintain: "Master, what are you looking at?"

Huo Xiangzhen finally opened his mouth: "You and Gu Chengxi are in the tobacco business?"

Ma Congrong licked his lips: "I..."

Before he could answer, Huo Xiangzhen continued to ask: "How many years have you been doing this?"

Ma Congrong smiled fearfully: "Grandpa, it was Lu Yongming who was doing it, and I just joined in. At that time, Gu Chengxi just arrived in Shandong, and Lu Yongming..."

Huo Xiangzhen raised her face and questioned him: "Can Lu Yongming dispatch Gu Chengxi? You did a good job finding a scapegoat. There is no proof of Lu Yongming's death, and he has rotted into a bone."

His voice was weak and hoarse, and he looked exhausted.Staring straight at Ma Congrong, he almost looked pitiful: "Ma Congrong, don't you have enough money?"

Ma Congrong has always been eloquent, but facing Huo Xiangzhen at this moment, he stuttered in tears: "Master... I, I have no bad intentions, I just want to get as much money as possible. In the future It's long... the uncle is young, and I am also young, let's..."

When Huo Xiangzhen heard that he was still obsessed with obsession, and was still confident, a ball of anger burst into his heart.Breaking out in sweat, he kicked Ma Congrong somersault.Panting and shaking, he roared desperately: "Then Gu Chengxi is my enemy!"

Ma Congrong was caught off guard and fell to the ground, the back of his head just hit the wall, with a "boom", the pain made him dizzy.Standing up with his hand on the heating pipe, he also felt aggrieved: "Master, do you think I love dealing with Gu Chengxi? You don't know how expensive you are if you are not in charge, but can I be a shopkeeper like you? When we are prosperous It's already passed, and the days to come can only be based on our laurels. No matter how much we earn, we can't bear it for the rest of our lives! I don't interfere with your keeping the rules at home, but can you also stop me from doing business to make money? ? Do you think you can do tobacco and soil business as an individual? This is my skill!"

He covered the back of his head with one hand, and rubbed his kicked heart with the other.He had just played charades with Gu Chengxi all night, and he was also exhausted.Seeing Huo Xiangzhen glaring at him viciously, he subconsciously took a step back towards the door, for fear that he would be beaten violently.

Huo Xiangzhen's breathing was messed up, and there was a hissing sound between his breaths: "You mean, I have no right to control you?"

Ma Congrong also felt that he was being too reasonable just now, so he tried his best to say back: "No, I misunderstood."

Huo Xiangzhen swallowed with difficulty: "You mean, you have the ability to do business and support me. My good times are over, and I can only sit at home and eat my money, and it's still yours, yes wrong?"

Ma Congrong suddenly saw the desolate autumn look on his face, and couldn't help feeling regretful: "Master..."

Taking a step forward, he said softly: "Master, I was in a hurry just now... I didn't mean that... If you get angry, you can beat me up. After the beating, let's go downstairs and sleep when we are full. .”

Huo Xiangzhen put his hand on Ma Congrong's shoulder, without saying a word, pushed him all the way to the door, then raised his hand to close the door.

He dragged his two legs to the edge of the bed and sat down. The wind and rain were blowing in his mind, and the wind and rain were blowing on his face.He is the most shameless person, he didn't expect that he would lose all qualifications just after living in Ma Congrong's house for a few days, and he would become a "revenue".

He said one sentence, and Ma Congrong returned ten sentences to him.Would Ma Congrong dare to put it before?He didn't dare before, but now he dares, because now he can't do it, and his time is over.

Huo Xiangzhen sat by the bed, not moving for a long time.The door of the room was locked, and Ma Congrong knocked on the door lightly outside and begged in a low voice, but he couldn't hear the rumble in his ears at all.

He can't stand this.He would rather starve to death than eat the food given by his slaves.

After a long time, Ma Congrong couldn't stand it anymore, and didn't dare to pry the door lock to force his way in, so he went to the guest room to sleep in resentment.When he got up early the next morning, he knocked on the bedroom door again, but the door was closed tightly and there was still no movement.

He still has something to go out today, so there is no way to stay outside and fight a protracted war.He ordered the kitchen to carefully cook a few meals, washed and dressed himself, and went straight to his master's mansion by car.He thought it over, if he cooperated with Gu Chengxi, he still had to seize the initiative and let Gu Chengxi only be his bodyguard.Otherwise, Gu Chengxi is not easy to dismiss. If he doesn't suppress him, he will immediately throw himself on his back.And it's impossible for me to digest all the smoke and dirt, so I took the opportunity to bring in Master, so that everyone can get rich, and don't favor anyone.Besides, although Gu Chengxi is an expensive army commander, he may not dare to touch the old man on the ground.The old man has a way. Once he gets anxious, it will make it difficult for Commander Gu to move forward in Tianjin Guard.

Ma Congrong had a good plan, and when he met his master, he also lost his temper when talking about it.Just when the two sides were having a good time, a bodyguard of Ma Zhai entered the living room of the mansion panting, and bent over and whispered to Ma Congrong.Ma Congrong's expression changed, and he got up immediately.

The bodyguard came all the way from the horse house to report the news - Huo Xiangzhen took Adjutant Li away!

Ma Congrong panicked and rushed home like crazy.He rushed into the bedroom and saw that there were still marks of sitting and lying on the bed in the room.There were several untouched meals on the white lacquered table, and Huo Xiangzhen only took away a bottle of western medicine.

Gasping for tears, he turned his head and ran out, looking for people in all directions.The station is gone, so is the pier. The station pier is always full of cars and boats, and there are huge crowds of people. How can he find it?

When it was dark, Ma Congrong returned home with his back bent.Walking into the bedroom with his head down, his knees softened and he fell to the ground, then raised his hand and slapped himself hard on the mouth.Shaking like malaria, he remembered that when he coaxed Huo Xiangzhen back a few days ago, he once boasted on the boat: "I don't have the strategy to do big things; I'm sure I can think more carefully than anyone else when I do small things."

At that time, he was still complacent about it, but he didn't expect that this sentence was true, he was able to do all the small things, such as his tobacco and soil business; all the big things made him mess up, such as his uncle!How much effort did I take to bring the uncle home?In the end, for a business that could be done or not, the uncle left angrily!

He twitched his mouth one after another—he didn't hit him for three days, and he went to the house to expose the tile, he should hit him!

The uncle knew how dangerous it was outside, so he would rather die halfway in the hands of the revolutionary army than stay with him.

Ma Congrong put his hands on the ground, shaking so much that he was about to collapse.He wanted to slam his head against the wall to death, and he would be quiet.

At midnight, Huo Xiangzhen and Lieutenant Li got off the train at a small station.When I bought the ticket, I didn't have time to choose, so I only picked the train going east.Up and down within half a day, they have changed several times.He doesn't have the ability to find a boat to travel by sea, so he can only bite the bullet and squeeze the train. If he is lucky, no one will recognize him, and he can arrive at the station safely; if he is unlucky, he will have to wait to die.As An Rushan said, he died before leaving the teacher.It's a pity that this method of death is worse than death from illness.

He didn't have any money on him. Fortunately, Lieutenant Li still had a few banknotes, barely enough to cover the expenses on the road.At this moment, the two of them each took a leftover cold biscuit from the day, and walked out of the train station while eating.There was no train ahead to go on, and they had to go until dawn, and then hire a carriage and go up the mountain.After entering the mountain, you can't walk on the mountain road, there are checkpoints on the mountain road.They have to walk across the mountains and mountains, and if they don't fall into traps or encounter wild animals on the road, they can always walk back to their base camp alive.