The Jade of the Republic of China

Shen Yutong saw Meng Liansheng standing on the stairs almost as soon as he entered the Lanxiang Pavilion.

He stood there alone, like a lost person who inadvertently broke in, and was divided into two parts with the world of the hall.

He suddenly realized that every time he met Meng Liansheng, there always seemed to be a little unexpected - in the wilderness in the early morning, his father's birthday banquet, and now he was standing alone in the middle of the stairs of the brothel.

The innocent and simple boy seemed to become mysterious and weird at this moment.

While Shen Yutong was in a daze, Meng Liansheng had already gone downstairs, walked up to him, and greeted him politely: "Second Young Master."

This gentle and polite voice brought Shen Yutong back to reality.And the mysterious and strange feeling that the other party gave him just now, like an illusion, disappeared in an instant.

The person in front of him was still wearing the white Luo gown that he wore at his father's birthday banquet last time, and his expression was still honest and kind.He smiled slightly in surprise and asked, "Xiao Meng, why are you here?"

Meng Liansheng replied, "Boss Sun brought us here for a drink."

Shen Yutong thought for a while, and then remembered that the boss Sun he mentioned should be Lixin's second boss, Sun Zhidong.

It's not that he doesn't recognize this person, but the other party's reputation in Shanghai is not small, and the Shen family's salt transportation is inseparable from Lixin Wharf, so he is no stranger to Sun Zhidong's name.He smiled and nodded, although he felt that Meng Liansheng looked more out of place here, but if he was working with Sun Zhidong, it would not be surprising if he went to places of various religions and high-ranking schools, he was a well-known libertine.

"It turns out that Xiao Meng also drinks flower wine."

He was joking casually, but Meng Liansheng was obviously afraid of being misunderstood by him, so he hurriedly said: "I just came to drink and eat, they are still playing, I am going back."

Although Shen Yutong was only joking, she was relieved to see him explain in such a hurry. Obviously, the child did not agree with the prostitution.

He still has important things to do right now, so he can't talk to him more, just about to say goodbye to him and then go upstairs, when he suddenly remembered the matter of inviting him to dinner, he hurriedly said: "Didn't I say I wanted to invite you to dinner earlier? I called the Bai mansion for two days, but you were not there, and I happened to meet you tonight, when do you think you will be free? Let's set a time."

Meng Liansheng saw that he was in a hurry, and said, "I can do it anytime, just talk to the boss."

Shen Yutong smiled: "Okay, how about tomorrow evening?"

"no problem."

"Well, see you tomorrow, I have something else to say, so I won't say more." Shen Yutong walked past him, took a step, and then turned around as if thinking of something, "By the way, you are going back to the Bai mansion now. ?one person?"

Meng Liansheng nodded.

"Then wait for a while, I will call Xiaolong down, and you can go back in my car."

"no need……"

Shen Yutong patted him on the shoulder: "Xiao Meng, don't always be so polite to me. Wait a moment, I'll be right there."

Without waiting for the other party's response, he had already taken a step forward, trotting upstairs with a Gui Gong who was leading the way.

Meng Liansheng stood where he was, looking at his back with a beautiful tree facing the wind, and the corners of his mouth involuntarily curved up, until the other party disappeared into the shadow of the stairs, and then looked away reluctantly.

When Shen Yutong was hastily led to Long Jialin's room by Mr. Gui, the room was already in a mess, with broken dishes and teacups everywhere, and Master Long was holding a horsewhip and whipping a half-legged The girl on the ground.

This girl's name is Cuiyu, and she is considered a popular lady in the Lanxiang Pavilion. She was originally born with a beautiful face, but now her temples are messy, her face covered with tears and messy makeup is faintly visible under the messy hair, and the gouache gown on her body is messy. Open it, revealing a section of scarred snow-white chest.

She crawled on the ground, frantically trying to avoid Long Jialin's whip, but no matter where she climbed, the whip could always land on her accurately, in exchange for painful and pitiful cries.

It is not uncommon to meet such and such guests in the hall, as long as they can afford the money and don't go too far, the old bustler will make the waiters bear it.The name of the fireworks girl is like a mustard, and with Long Jialin's status, how he wants to treat the waiter, let alone the waiter himself, even the old bustard dare not say anything.

But looking at Young Master Long who was completely drunk, he was afraid that someone would die, so the bustard could only call his horse to stop him.

However, Ma Bian not only didn't stop him, but also took several whips from his young master. In desperation, Ma Bian had an idea and ran to call Shen Yutong for help.

Shen Yutong hurried over and saw this scene.

Seeing that the girl on the ground was in so much pain that she didn't even have the strength to crawl, he hurried forward, grabbed Long Jialin's whip, and shouted: "Xiaolong, why are you crazy?"

Seeing that his weapon had been taken away, Long Jialin's insolent face stained with alcohol immediately revealed a violent look, and he raised his fist as big as a sand bowl, and was about to swing at the intruder.

Fortunately, Ma Bian beside him reacted in time, hugged him tightly, and shouted: "Master, it's the second son..."

When Long Jialin heard the words "Second Young Master", his fists were stuck in the air, and he raised his drunken eyelids and looked at Shen Yutong who was in front of him with a sullen face, as if he was not sure for a moment, he blinked and looked over again.This time he finally recognized the person, he pushed away the horse that bound him, opened his arms and rushed towards Shen Yutong, and said in a long voice: "Xiao...feng...it's you!"

Shen Yutong took a step back a little, leaving him empty-handed.

Long Jia staggered and fell to his knees on the ground, but he didn't give up. His two outstretched arms simply hugged the leg of the person in front of him.

He is so big, leaning on his lap like a big dog at this moment, it is really embarrassing.Shen Yutong sighed, and said to the two horses who were sweating profusely, "Hurry up and help your young master to the car."

Because the two horses had just eaten their young master's whip several times, they felt lingering fear at this moment, and hesitated to move forward, even the tortoise thought it was slow.

It's not their fault, it's really the young master who started drinking mad, like a wild dog, they were terrified of anyone who caught and bit him.

I don't know if Long Jialin's wine madness has already happened, or because of Shen Yutong's arrival.This time when the two horses bumped into him, he didn't resist at all.

The two felt relieved, quickly helped him up, and walked out cautiously.

Shen Yutong took out a silver dollar note, handed it to the sobbing waiter, and said softly: "Girl, my brother did something stupid, I'm really sorry, you should quickly find a doctor to come and take a look." wounds on the body."

This woman was whipped by Long Jialin for half an hour, her whole body was not well, she gasped in pain, she felt that she had already lost half her life.But at the moment when he took the silver dollar note from Shen Yutong and saw the touching amount on it, he felt that half his life was taken back, so he stopped crying and bowed to thank him.

Shen Yutong sighed lowly, then turned to follow Long Jialin who was being helped out.

He looked at Long Jialin's swaying back, thinking of his behavior just now, he frowned worriedly.

People will grow up, and Xiaolong is naturally not the Xiaolong he used to be, but he doesn't understand why Xiaolong, who was afraid of killing chickens when he was a child, now only drinks two cups of cat urine, and even bullies the prostitute who has no strength to restrain the chicken .

Long Jialin was a big, burly man, now he was drunk to the point of mud, his body kept falling, two poor horses tried their best to hold him up.

Seeing the stairs, Shen Yutong was afraid that the two of them would not be able to restrain this beast, and the three of them would roll down together and fall to something bad, so he hurried forward to help support them together.

"Does your young master often do this?" he asked.

"Did the second son talk about the young master's drinking?"

"I mean hit people casually after drinking?"

"Master... there is something wrong with it." Ma Bian replied in a low voice, but felt that he seemed to have said something wrong, so he quickly added, "But it's not always, it's just that it happens occasionally when you're drunk."

Shen Yutong didn't speak, but turned her head to look at the man with flushed cheeks, shook her head and let out a faint sigh.

Although Long Jialin didn't open his eyes, he seemed to be able to feel him, and called "Xiaofeng" twice in his mouth, and his body cooperated a lot.

The three big men finally helped the drunk man to the first floor safe and sound. Not only the two Ma Bian who contributed the most, but also Shen Yutong who was doing auxiliary work were sweating.

Meng Liansheng was still waiting in the distance, when he saw a few people coming down, he stepped forward to say hello, "Second Young Master."

Shen Yutong nodded, glanced at Long Jialin who was muttering his name, was really annoyed by his drunken appearance, and slapped him twice on the face angrily.

Because these two slaps took a lot of force, the sound of slapping was almost like a slap across the face, the faces of the two horses were so frightened that they faltered and said: "Second...Second Young Master."

After being slapped, Long Jialin finally regained consciousness a little bit, opened his eyes, and said inarticulately, "Who... who hit me?"

Shen Yutong said in a deep voice: "Xiaolong, wake me up quickly!"

Long Jialin looked at him with blurred eyes, and grinned a big smile: "So it's Xiaofeng, it doesn't matter if you hit me, I'll let you hit me." As he spoke, he pushed his head forward like a sneer .

Seeing him like this, Shen Yutong probably wouldn't be able to wake up for a while, so she didn't force her anymore and asked Ma Bian to continue to help him out.

Meng Liansheng asked in a low voice, "Second Young Master, do you need my help?"

Shen Yutong shook her head: "No need, the car is parked outside."

Meng Liansheng hummed and followed him silently.

After exhausting their efforts, the two horsemen finally pushed Long Jialin into the back seat of the Shen family's car, Shen Yutong followed, and Meng Liansheng came in.

There were three big men sitting in the back seat, and it was really crowded. Meng Liansheng consciously pressed himself against the door, giving room to the two people next to him.

Seeing this, Shen Yutong shook his head amusingly, and leaned against the drunk beside him.

Long Jialin smelled of alcohol all over his body, and the air in the car was soon polluted by him, so it didn't smell very good.Shen Yutong wanted to invite Meng Liansheng to ride in the car, but let him smell the smell of alcohol. He felt a little sorry, and said, "Xiao Meng, the smell in the car is a bit strong. Please bear with it a little bit. This side is not far from the Bai mansion, and it will be gone soon." arrive."

Meng Liansheng had been in the shed on the dock for four months, smelling of sweat, alcohol, and feet. Now, the smell in the car was nothing to him. He shook his head and said, "It's fine with the windows open. Second Young Master, do you want to sit by the window?"

Shen Yutong appreciated his kindness, and said with a smile: "I don't care, I have to watch this drunk."

Seeing that the people in the back seat had sat down, the driver ignited and started the car.

Unexpectedly, just as the car body trembled, Long Jialin, who had been completely drunk, suddenly sat up straight and muttered in a low voice: "Xiaofeng, I feel bad—"

As soon as Shen Yutong saw him like this, he knew it was wrong, maybe he was going to vomit, so he quickly pushed open the car door on his side, kicked and dragged him out of the car, and as soon as he dragged him to the maple tree by the roadside, Long Jialin burst into tears. With a wow sound like swallowing mountains and rivers, he vomited hotly.

Shen Yutong's tears were almost smoked out, and she squeezed her nose to fetch water from the car and handed it to him.

After throwing up this meal, Long Jialin finally became sober for six or seven minutes, and after taking a few sips of water, he woke up for another two minutes. Apart from the weakness of his body, his head was almost clear, and he naturally remembered that he committed a murder by drinking tonight. What did you do.

He didn't feel that he had done anything evil, and the violent venting after drinking filled him with pleasure.Just being looked at by Shen Yutong is not a good thing.

Feeling guilty for a while, he continued to pretend to be drunk like a fool, leaned on the other person's shoulder and followed him back to the car, and complained that he was uncomfortable, telling the driver not to drive immediately.

Shen Yutong was afraid that he would vomit again, so she could only sit with him in the car, and then opened the door and let the night breeze blow to sober him up.

Because he couldn't leave for a while, he had to apologize to Meng Liansheng who was still sitting in the car: "Xiao Meng, I'm sorry, I didn't expect Xiaolong to be so drunk. I'll ask the driver to call you a rickshaw."

Meng Liansheng said: "It doesn't matter, I'm not in a hurry to go back."

Shen Yutong wanted to say something, but Long Jialin suddenly hugged him hard, rubbed his shoulders, and said coquettishly: "Xiaofeng, I feel so uncomfortable."

Shen Yutong patted him on the back: "Who told you to drink so much?"

Long Jialin groaned and said: "I was wrong, Xiaofeng, I just thought that I would be separated from you to go to the military camp tomorrow morning, and I felt uncomfortable, so I couldn't help but drink a few more glasses, you can hit me."

"Why should I hit you?"

"I'm disobedient, I should call."

Meng Liansheng silently looked at the two men who were embracing each other, curled up his fingers on the side of the car window, and turned his head calmly to look at the side of the road ahead.

There, under the dark light, stood a woman, maybe she was not in good health, her back was slightly bent, and the gown on her body was very old, almost blending into the shadow.

Two men who looked like peddlers walked up to her and said something to her, probably because the price was not agreed upon, the men pushed her hard, pushed her to the ground, and kicked her again. A few feet, and then swaggered away.

The woman didn't say anything, she stood up slowly and patted the dust off her body, straightened her slightly messy bun, and continued to stand by the roadside waiting for the guests.

At this time, the night was getting dark, and it was probably difficult to wait any longer.

Meng Liansheng opened the car door silently, got out of the car and walked over to the woman, took out a silver dollar from his pocket and handed it to her.

The shiny ocean was shining in the dark light. The woman's eyes lit up. She took the money and was about to take Meng Liansheng's hand and take it into the dark alley behind her. null.

When the woman looked up, her dark eyes froze for a moment, because the man in front of her was too young, well-born, and well-dressed, definitely not the type who would look for prostitutes on the side of the road.

Meng Liansheng said calmly, "It's getting late, you should go home and rest."

The woman stared at him blankly, as if suddenly realizing something, her eyes wet, she bowed vigorously, and stumbled away.

When Meng Liansheng returned to the car, the two men who were hugging each other had already separated.

Shen Yutong, who watched his movements the whole time, frowned and asked in a low voice: "Do you know her?"

Meng Liansheng shook his head, and said softly, "I think she is so pitiful, maybe I can't wait for a business all night, so I will give her a dollar to go home early."

He said it calmly and sincerely.

In the colorful world, such sincerity is really hard to find, and Shen Yutong couldn't help being touched.He was about to say something, but was interrupted by Long Jialin, who was leaning against the car window and blowing the wind, with a chuckle: "Actors are ruthless and ruthless, what's so pitiful about a prostitute?"

Meng Liansheng said: "Maybe her family is seriously ill, or she has a child waiting for her to take care of. If it's not that life is difficult, no one is willing to do such a thing."

Across Shen Yutong, Long Jialin tilted his head to look at him, and sneered: "Well...you are Bai Qinghe's subordinate last time, right? Bai Qinghe still has such a stupid subordinate like you?"

Shen Yutong frowned, took out his pocket watch to check the time, and said coldly, "Xiaolong, are you okay? Let Uncle Zhang drive if you're okay." Then he turned to Meng Liansheng and said, "Xiao Meng, we will see you off first. go back."

"Thank you, Second Young Master." Meng Liansheng nodded. When he said this, his eyes fell curiously on the pocket watch in Shen Yutong's hand, and he didn't move away until the other party put the watch in his arms.

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You may not believe it when you say it, Xiaolong is a straight man