The Jade of the Republic of China

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There was a wrong chapter before, so I reposted this chapter.

It rained continuously for two days and two nights.

The Chen family brothers are the leaders, and the sudden disappearance of the two of them is not a trivial matter for the entire wharf. If the merchants want to assign work, and if the porters want to go to work, they have to go through the hands of the two.

This cruise terminal belongs to the public lease area, and the Chen family brothers' subordinates went to the police station after they failed to find anyone for two days.

In fact, on the second day after the Chen brothers disappeared, there were already several versions of rumors at the pier. Some said that they had offended the big shots and were secretly captured and killed, and some said that they owed gambling debts and ran away at night. After all, they all acted like they usually do. Arrogance cannot escape.

When the officers from the police station came to investigate the shed, it was after eight o’clock in the evening. Because there was no work assigned for two days in a row, the workers rarely had nothing to do. Many people were huddling together on the beds, smoking, gambling, and the whole shed was filled with smog.

The first patrolman was a Chinese with a Chinese character and a mustache on his face. The men behind him, except for the two Chinese next to him, were short, with dark cheeks and wearing a rattan shell cap. They were probably Vietnamese. .

"The patrol room investigates the case, everyone stands in line!" the police officer with a Chinese character face took out his gun and shouted loudly.

The traffickers and pawns were naturally afraid of these uniformed and armed patrols. With this loud shout, two waves of card players in the room immediately dropped their poker cards and stood up in unison to form two rows.

Xiao Dacheng was so courageous that when he saw the gun in Guozilian's hand, he almost sifted through his legs in fright. He pulled up Meng Liansheng who was lying on the bed reading the newspaper, and stood behind the line like a quail.

The Chinese character face can enjoy it. Seeing people stand upright, they ordered their subordinates to move a stool, sit down and raise their legs, and then asked the workers to come forward in groups of two to ask questions in order.

All asked the same question.

When and where was the last time you saw the Chen brothers?

With whom?

Do you know who the two have had an affair with recently?

However, after asking around, the answers were similar, and no one could be suspected.

The square face gradually showed impatience, wondering if he also had the habit of eating opium, and started rubbing his nose and yawning.

Finally it was the turn of Meng Liansheng and Xiao Dacheng in the back row.

The square face raised his eyelids and glanced at the two, seeing that they were two honest children, he didn't even bother to look at their faces, he just waved his hands to let his subordinates hurry up to ask questions.

"When and where was the last time you two saw Chen Da and Chen Er?"

Xiao Dacheng looked at Meng Liansheng timidly, and tremblingly said: "When I got off work the evening before yesterday, I was at the pier."

Meng Liansheng echoed quietly: "Me too."

"Who are they with?"

Xiao Dacheng: "Chen Da is paying the workers, and Chen Er is holding a bong and doesn't know where to go."

Meng Liansheng still said, "Me too."

Xiao Dacheng glanced at him subconsciously, it was obvious that he had lied, but the other party's expression was erratic, as if he was just mechanically perfunctory.

Before he had time to think about why Meng Liansheng lied, the policeman continued to ask the last question: "Do you know who the two have had conflicts with recently?"

Xiao Dacheng whispered: "Not sure."

Meng Liansheng also shook his head.

Seeing these two honest children who looked useless at first glance, it was a waste of time to ask them, so he yawned impatiently, and waved them away.

Afterwards, the patrolmen went through the motions and asked the remaining few people, and then walked away.

The men in the work shed made several piles, some played cards, some chatted.

The content of the chat was naturally to be curious about what happened to Chen Da and Chen Er.

Xiao Dacheng pricked up his ears, and listened to the crowd for a while, but what he heard was nothing more than all kinds of guesses before, so he had no choice but to promise to sleep on his own bed.

He looked around, crawled to Meng Liansheng who was sitting on the pillow and read the newspaper by the oil lamp, and asked in a low voice, "Liansheng, you went to ask Chen Er for a scarf the other day, where did you meet him?"

Meng Liansheng replied without raising his head, "It's near the pier."

Xiao Dacheng: "You asked him for a scarf, where did you see him go?"

Meng Liansheng shook his head: "I don't know."

Xiao Dacheng pursed his lower lip, and asked tentatively, "You went out for a long time that night, what did you do?"

Meng Liansheng raised his eyelids and looked at him calmly, and wrote lightly: "I went to eat a bowl of noodles, and then it rained, and I will come back when the rain subsides."

Xiao Dacheng nodded: "Yes, it rained heavily that evening, and you were all wet when you came back."

He seemed to let go of his heart, leaned close to the other party, leaned against him, and whispered: "Some people say that Chen Da and Chen Er were killed and thrown into the sea to feed the fish."

"is it?"

Xiao Dacheng muttered in a low voice: "If this is the case, then it can be regarded as evil people get evil rewards."

Meng Liansheng let him lean on him, his eyes fell on the small print on the newspaper, and he said "um" calmly.

The patrol house searched around the pier for several days, but they gave up without finding even a hair of the Chen brothers.

Chen Da and Chen Er are considered figures in this pier, but looking at the entire Shili Yangchang, they are just unknown people who can't make it to the stage.The pier wouldn't stop functioning without them.After a few days of chaos, someone soon took the opportunity to take the place of the two of them and became the new leader.

Newbies will still bully the weak, and will still withhold the hard-earned money of the porters, no different from the Chen brothers.

Of course, all of this had nothing to do with Meng Liansheng. He worked as his shoe shiner at the pier, earning a meager [-] or [-] cents a day, and lived a peaceful life without eating well but without going hungry.

Half a month later, this morning, an ocean-going cruise ship was about to leave the port, and passengers who were about to go on a long journey continued to enter the port to board the ship. Relatives and friends who were seeing off gathered at the pier to say goodbye reluctantly.

Several shoe shiners around, every time they saw the target, they rushed up to attract customers. Only Meng Liansheng sat on his pony as always, waiting for the guests to come by themselves.

And his habit of observing people made him quickly notice a man wearing a black wool coat and black leather shoes standing a dozen meters away from him.

This man was quite tall, and his figure could be considered burly, so he was very conspicuous in the crowd.However, all the shoe shiners who solicited customers seemed to turn a blind eye to such a huge goal, and none of them stepped forward to solicit him as a guest.

Meng Liansheng looked at this man curiously. He looked like he was in his thirties. In addition to his tall stature, he also had a cold square face with a thick beard on his mouth and an old scar at the end of his eyes. It looks quite sinister.

With his hands in his pockets and a cigar in his mouth, he was followed by a follower in black bunt.

Meng Liansheng has been in the dock for the past few months, because he observed the people coming and going every day, and he was basically able to judge the identity of the other party from the clothes and behavior.

Students, businessmen, noble sons, and rogue tycoons who emerged after the opening of Shanghai Bund.

He quickly realized that the shoe shiners didn't turn a blind eye to this man, but they didn't dare to approach such a man casually.

He watched silently for a moment, and was about to turn his eyes away when he suddenly caught a glimpse of two young men with sneaky looks standing not far away, with their hands on their waists, and their eyes were staring at the man like torches.

Meng Liansheng pursed his lips, hesitated for a while, stood up, walked up to the man, and said in a low voice, "Sir, your shoes are a bit dirty, do you want to shine them?"

Bai Qinghe had just said goodbye to his friends who had gone abroad, and was about to smoke a cigar before leaving, when suddenly a shoe shiner walked up to him.He subconsciously lowered his head and glanced at the instep of his feet, there was really a trace of stain on it.

"Okay." He raised his eyebrows, followed Meng Liansheng to his shoe-shine booth, sat down on the horse with a big horse golden knife, and put a big foot on the shoe box.

Meng Liansheng, who was sitting opposite him, picked up the shoe brush and shoe polish, lowered his head and worked with ease. He only had a pair of eyes, but they didn't put them on the leather shoes in front of him. Instead, he paid attention to the two men just now.

His heart was beating a little too fast.

It's the middle of winter now, he usually only wears a thin cotton jacket, which can't resist the biting cold wind, but in the cold, there is faint sweat gushing out from his forehead.

A shoe had just been polished and before it could be waxed, the two men suddenly walked over quickly. When they reached behind Bai Qinghe, they each pulled out a shiny and sharp machete from their waists like lightning, and pointed at the black head in front. cut off.

Because the accident happened so fast, not to mention Bai Qinghe, who had his back to the two killers, or even Chang An, the skilled entourage who was waiting beside him. He tried to stop him, but those two people came clearly prepared, and the division of labor clearly defined that one would block him, and the other would continue to cut Bai Qinghe.

Seeing that another machete was about to fall on Bai Qinghe's head, it cut that head in half on the spot.In the blink of an eye, the little shoe shiner in front of him with his head bowed suddenly got up and hugged him, and rolled hard on the ground next to him.

The machete barely brushed past Bai Qinghe's head, only slashing the arm that stretched out to hug Bai Qinghe.

The murder knife was naturally extremely sharp. The knife cut through the sleeve of Meng Liansheng's padded jacket, reaching his flesh and blood. The gushing blood instantly dyed his gray padded jacket sleeve dark red.

Seeing that a knife missed, the killer wanted to rush up quickly to make up the knife.

At this time, Chang An had fully reacted, and when the machete was raised, he kicked the knife off the man's hand, and the other killer who was about to pounce on him was also quickly kicked by his sharp hand for more than ten feet.

The two killers obviously understood the gap in skill with Bai Qinghe, the bodyguard. Once the sneak attack failed, there would be no chance. The two fell to the ground, looked at each other, quickly got up and separated to escape.

Chang An wanted to catch up, but was stopped by Bai Qinghe: "Stop chasing! This little brother is injured, take him to the hospital first."

After he finished speaking, he helped Meng Liansheng up and sat down.

Because of the pain, the young man sweated profusely on his cheeks, and the blood gushed out between his fingers covering his injured arm, which showed that the injury was not serious.

Bai Qinghe looked at the surging blood on his arm, and breathed a sigh of relief with lingering fear, thinking that if the little shoe shiner hadn't reacted quickly and pushed him away in time, the head on his neck might be the one that was bleeding right now.

What a close call.

It's also his fate.

"How are you, little brother?" he asked.

Meng Liansheng lowered his eyes and shook his head.

Seeing that the child seemed to be frightened, Bai Qinghe comforted him as softly as possible: "Don't be afraid, I'll take you to the hospital right away."

Meng Liansheng raised a pair of dark eyes to look at him and nodded, looking terrified and helpless.

This was the second time Meng Liansheng got in a car.

The severe pain in his arm gradually became numb. He was not afraid of pain in the first place, but he was not very old. When he encountered this kind of situation for the first time, he was somewhat at a loss and worried about being seen through, so he went to the hospital for a short period of time. Lu, he kept his head down and said nothing.

Bai Qinghe only thought of him as a child because he was frightened, so he didn't want to ask any more questions.

When he arrived at the hospital, Meng Liansheng was quickly taken by two doctors and nurses in white coats to treat the wound.

His injury was indeed not light, with a long incision of more than three inches, blood and flesh flying, the wound was so deep that bloody bones could be seen faintly.But fortunately in the misfortune, probably because of the cushioning of the thin cotton jacket, the bone was only injured a little, and no disability was left.

Hearing what the doctor said, Bai Qinghe breathed a sigh of relief.

He sat down beside the hospital bed and looked at the young man who was half lying on the bed resting after the wound was treated.

Probably due to excessive blood loss, the young man's face was pale, even his lips lost color, his black eyes were wide open, as if he was still in panic.

Bai Qinghe tried his best to put on a pleasant face, and said softly: "Little brother, don't worry, the doctor said that you are fine, but you have lost too much blood, and you will have to be transfused in the hospital for two days. I will send someone to inform you where your family is. them."

Meng Liansheng lowered his eyes and whispered back, "I have no family."

Bai Qinghe recognized his foreign accent, nodded clearly, and said, "It's okay, I will let someone take care of you for the next two days."

Meng Liansheng said, "Thank you sir."

Bai Qinghe smiled: "I should be the one who said thank you. If it wasn't for you, little brother, who blocked the knife for me today, I'm afraid I would have died at the pier. I, Bo, will definitely repay the little brother's life-saving grace."

Meng Lian glanced at him timidly, bit his lower lip, and did not speak.

His eyes are dark and his eyelashes are thick and long. Because of his pale face, he not only looks innocent and innocent, but also looks pitiful.

Bai Qinghe thought that he had cultivated a heart of stone in Shanghai for more than ten years, but now seeing this child, he couldn't help feeling a long-lost compassion and love. He thought for a while and said: "Little brother, how old are you and where are you from?"

Meng Liansheng said truthfully, "Eighteen years old, from Huizhou."

Bai Qinghe nodded, and asked again: "Come to Shanghai alone?"

Meng Liansheng said: "I originally came here with my cousin. He got a cold and passed away a few days ago."

Bai Qinghe's heart was touched again, and he said: "So you are now alone at the dock to make a living by shining shoes?"

Meng Liansheng nodded silently.

Bai Qinghe looked at him, he had a general understanding of the child's situation in his heart, and couldn't help but think of himself when he first came to Shanghai and had nothing.

He sighed secretly and didn't ask any more questions.