his robbery

At the end of summer, Ma Congrong came.

He entered Huo's house in the evening, chatting and laughing in the house, and slipped into Huo Xiangzhen's bedroom after dark.The next morning, he didn't show up, and in the afternoon, he was still gone.When the sun was setting, he strolled out wearing a small coat, as if he had slept all day, his eyes were still tired, his face was pale, and even his lips were bleeding.Andre thought he was ill, and stared at him nervously.However, although his complexion was weak and his voice was low, he should talk and smile, and even ate a few slices of cold watermelon.As soon as the sun went down, he went back to the house.

At this time, the night is the coolest, and the orderlies have a busy day and go to bed early; the adjutants are idle, but they still stay outside to chat like night owls.Li Tianbao looked at the window of the bedroom from afar, and said with a low laugh: "The secretary-general has put his life on the line."

The rest of the people listened, and laughed along with sneering, laughing with peace of mind, because the Secretary-General's matter had long been an open secret;

After one night, Ma Congrong disappeared again.Andre went into the bedroom during the day, and saw Ma Congrong wrapped in a towel, rolling on the bed and sleeping in the dark, his shoulders and arms were all exposed, and his snow-white flesh was covered with bruises and bruises.

Andre looked at it, feeling terrified.

Ma Congrong came, but Shenlong didn't come out until the fourth night.The night was thick, and he was wearing a lake-colored robe. His clothes and person were so clean, he looked like a ghost fox appearing on stage.Huo Xiangzhen sat under a long corridor, looking up at the stars slightly; he also sat beside him, speaking in a very soft voice.The words are gossip, none of them are useful, and it seems to be a bit of a joke.Huo Xiangzhen couldn't bear to hear him chewing his tongue with such relish, but she didn't push him away.The anger accumulated for several months has been vented in the past few days. Huo Xiangzhen feels that she has become much calmer, and she can tolerate and listen to Ma Congrong's nonsense.

Ma Congrong didn't get out of bed seriously for several days, and Huo Xiangzhen repeatedly dismantled all the joints of his body several times, and finally reinstalled them today, but his body was so soft that he couldn't stand up and walk. All that is left is the strength to mobilize the lips and tongue.Slumped on the chair with half-closed eyes, he was almost smiling and talking to himself: "I didn't recognize her, she recognized me first, and asked me 'how is General Huo now', I looked at her in a daze After a long time, I finally remembered that this is the Miss Mo who came to our house to shoot a movie! Really, sir, I haven’t seen her in a few years, and she is even more beautiful. In the dance hall, what a guy, she looks like a moon. "

Having said that, he touched Huo Xiangzhen with his elbow.Huo Xiangzhen looked at the night sky, and said "um", indicating that she was listening.

Ma Congrong continued with a low smile and said: "I bought her a cup of coffee, but she didn't finish the cup of coffee, and she asked about you again. Only then did I understand, haha, sir, it turns out that people still miss you where!"

Huo Xiangzhen heard that he was not funny, so she turned her head and looked at him: "Is it funny that a woman misses me?"

Ma Congrong stopped talking, and smiled at him.

Huo Xiangzhen stared at him and said: "From what you mean, it seems that I am someone who no one likes. Am I so unpopular?"

Ma Congrong laughed softly: "I hope that the uncle will be unpopular and no one else wants it. Just leave it to me. I want it."

When Huo Xiangzhen heard this, she couldn't help but also smiled: "You don't need to flatter me. It's midnight, you go back to your room and sleep!"

Ma Congrong didn't sleep, and called the little orderly over to add a plate of mosquito repellent incense. He stretched out his hand and took Huo Xiangzhen's right hand.Interlocking his fingers, he dragged the hand all the way to his thigh.The other hand lightly stroked the back of Huo Xiangzhen's hand, and he was always on guard against Huo Xiangzhen to withdraw his hand; however, Huo Xiangzhen looked up at the sky, but there was no response.

Ma Congrong stayed for more than a week, during which he didn't speak a few serious words with Huo Xiangzhen.Huo Xiangzhen had been haggling with Nanjing, Xue Bing and Sun Wenxiong all rushed over, and the air in Tai'an was a little tense for a while.Ma Congrong couldn't intervene in business matters, so he could only wander around and watch. Fortunately, Huo Xiangzhen didn't guard against him, he occasionally sat with these people, and he could hear a lot of inside stories.

Sun Wenxiong had no idea, and Huo Xiangzhen was the only one to see everything.Li Kechen advocates steady and steady action, while Xuebing prefers to be aggressive.The meeting of the four lasted for three consecutive days. Xuebing was a taciturn person, Li Kechen was also friendly, and only Sun Wenxiong was good at debating, but at the moment he was at a loss and had nothing to say.

On the fourth day, Huo Xiangzhen felt that this would only turn into a pool of stagnant water if it continued to open, so he stood in the middle of the room and said to the three people in front of him: "Negotiate with the Nanjing government. To be honest, we don't have that yet. Capital; but sitting in Taijing and waiting for orders is too negative. The chief of staff should write a reply letter, saying that we have soldiers but no land, and hope that when possible in the future, we can obtain a province in order to raise our own wages. Hebei , Shandong can be.”

Li Kechen agreed, and Huo Xiangzhen instructed again: "You should think carefully about what you say, and don't let Nanjing think that we don't know how to be good or bad, and when we get a chance, we will speak loudly."

Xue Bing nodded and agreed: "The commander-in-chief did the right thing. Let them know what we mean first. If they want to transfer us in the future, they have to weigh the conditions in advance."

Li Kechen ordered the secretary to spread out the pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and started working in front of Huo Xiangzhen.Writing this letter was difficult, and it took a long time to finish the work.Huo Xiangzhen read the letter again, and asked Xue Bing to read it as well.Xue Bing didn't pick out any faults, Huo Xiangzhen also nodded and said: "The chief of staff is really good at this pen."

Li Kechen breathed a sigh of relief, and smiled while wiping off his sweat.

Ma Congrong combined the few words he had heard, and he understood a little bit in his heart. At the same time, he was a little ashamed. What chance is there to be the provincial chairman?Don't care if you can really get the title in the end, at least you can touch the side of the provincial chairman now. Compared with the idle apartment in the concession, there is a world of difference.

At night, Ma Congrong asked Huo Xiangzhen when no one was around, "Master, do you still need me to be the secretary general in the future?"

Huo Xiangzhen looked at him expressionlessly, her eyes were almost half-opened, with a blank expression on her face.Sitting firmly like a wooden sculpture made of clay, he didn't speak for a while.Ma Congrong thought that he had lost his mind again, and was about to push him, but he suddenly spoke, his tone was almost desolate: "You..."

With half-opened eyes drooping, Huo Xiangzhen rested both elbows on the armrests of the chair, and said in a low voice seriously: "This thing of yours is not enough to succeed, but more than to fail, you better get the hell out of here and go back to Tianjin!"

Hearing this, Ma Congrong was suddenly moved: "Master..."

Before he could say anything, Huo Xiangzhen spoke again: "Don't worry, whether I use you or not, you are still part of my family. I don't care about you if you have money now; if you have difficulties someday in the future, you can come back Come home, I will support you for the rest of your life."

Ma Congrong reached out and grabbed Huo Xiangzhen's shirt sleeves, his hands were cold, and his lips trembled: "Master..."

Huo Xiangzhen pulled his hand away, pressed the arm of the chair and stood up: "Okay, put away your narrow-mindedness. You are also in your thirties, and you have nothing serious in your mind, just pretend to be these trivial things." Thoughts. Get the hell out of me tomorrow, I don’t know if I’ll go out one day, you think I’ve made myself the provincial chairman, and you’ve been living in Tai’an ever since?”

Ma Congrong also stood up accordingly: "Master, tonight...shall I serve you for another night?"

Immediately afterwards, he added with a smile: "It doesn't matter when I come back next time."

When Huo Xiangzhen heard this, he hesitated for a moment.When Ma Congrong saw this, he immediately turned around while the iron was hot, and began to make the bed.Huo Xiangzhen looked at his busy back, and finally said nothing.

After one night, Ma Congrong set off. Before leaving, he shook his head and smiled, and rewarded the adjutant on a large scale, which made Li Tianbao and others smile, wishing they could worship the secretary-general.Andre sent him to the train station. Ma Congrong kept talking all the way, talking and laughing at Andre, because seeing that Andre didn't even have a decent watch, he put himself on the train again before boarding the train. He took off his pocket watch and stuffed it into Andre's hand.Andre flushed with embarrassment, and refused to take it, so Ma Congrong almost tore with him all the way to the train door.In the end, relying on his slender stature, Ma Congrong climbed up and forced himself into the carriage through the gap between Andre's arms.As soon as he opened the window after entering the box, he smiled at Andre on the platform: "You little old man, you've learned to be stubborn after following the commander in chief! I'll take it for you, and you won't listen to what the secretary-general says? "

After the voice fell, the train started, rumbling and speeding forward.Andre stood where he was, blushing, and waved desperately at Ma Congrong in the car window: "Miao Zhang, have a good journey!"

Ma Congrong waved his hand with a smile, then closed the car window and retreated into the box.

Ma Congrong had only left Tai'an for more than a day, and he sent a telegram back from Tianjin.Huo Xiangzhen thought he wanted to report his safety, so he only glanced at the telegram absently.However, after glancing at it, he froze for a moment, and then read the telegram again.

In the telegram, Ma Congrong told him that he saw an old staff officer of Lian Yi's subordinates at Jinan Railway Station.

Huo Xiangzhen knew that Ma Congrong was a character who was "brothers all over the world", had the most friends, and it was not uncommon for him to know everyone.As for the old staff officer—although neither Lian Yi's staff officer nor Lian Yi himself violated the law by appearing at Jinan Railway Station, but in this extraordinary period, we are not afraid of ten thousand, just in case, and everything has to go to the worst Intend.The ambitious deputy commander-in-chief is strong and strong, how dare the equally ambitious commander-in-chief not be on guard?

Huo Xiangzhen muttered, but before he could figure it out, the Nanjing side suddenly issued a new letter of appointment.As soon as this letter of appointment was received, everyone from Huo Xiangzhen to Xuebing was shocked—the Nanjing government appointed him as the chairman of the Anhui Provincial Government!

Huo Xiangzhen and others were going crazy thinking about the territory, but they never expected that the Nanjing government would assign Anhui to them.In Huo Xiangzhen's mind, the best choice is Hebei, Hebei is not successful, Shandong is also very good, Henan is a bit inferior, but it is okay.Further west and further south, it is a bit like a foreign country, and it is not considered at all.However, the territory he was interested in did not belong to him at all; the former chairman of the Anhui Provincial Government failed to oppose Chiang Kai-shek and fled, leaving a vacant seat for him.

Xuebing, Sun Wenxiong, Li Kechen and Huo Xiangzhen, the four gathered together, staring at each other.For them, Anhui is regarded as the "south side". Is it possible to take such a mere tens of thousands of people to the "south side"?If Gu Chengxi's army is included, the strength is doubled, which seems to be a little more sure, but Gu Chengxi is a thorn in his own right. Will he follow Huo Jun to Anhui?When he arrives in Anhui, will he come from behind and make trouble?

Because the three cronies and subordinates were all dumb, Huo Xiangzhen gained peace and could think in an orderly manner.Gu Chengxi is a friend or an enemy, so he must not stay in Shandong, he must be controlled, but how to control him?This person is frank and obscene and shameless, which can be regarded as a type of invulnerability.

Huo Xiangzhen thought for a long time, and finally came up with a dangerous idea.As soon as this idea came out, he sneered happily in his heart, then looked around the three people in front of him, and said, "I have a few words to tell you. Sun Wenxiong, go out and have a look first, don't let Even the guards are not allowed to approach the house."

Sun Wenxiong immediately got up and went out, and asked the guards outside to walk five steps forward together, and surrounded the entire conference room with full armor.