The entertainment tycoon of the Republic of China

As soon as Xie Yan and Wen Heng returned to Wen's house, they were invited by people sent by Wen Jiulou to the workshop next to the Wen's compound.

Xie Yan originally thought that the Wen family's workshop was just a place for the core members of the Wen family to live, but it was only after entering the gate that she discovered the clues.

The entire workshop is built along the river, covering an area of ​​about tens of acres of land, surrounded by high walls. When you first enter the door, you will see rows of ordinary bungalows. There are clothes to dry in front of the house, which is very lifelike; go back The building turned into a small courtyard with all internal organs, connected by brick and stone paths in the middle, and many flowers and trees were planted, but only dead branches could be seen because of the winter.

"The buddies who just arrived usually live in the single room in the front, and after a long time they get married, or when a few brothers come together, they will be assigned the yard." Wen Heng explained to Xie Yan.

"It's like a small community." Xie Yan nodded in admiration. It's no wonder that the Wen family has such a status in Hankou and has controlled the shipping in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River for many years. Just by looking at the number and treatment of these core employees, you can understand why so many people are willing to do so. Died for him.

"Walk northeast and next to the wall is the cafeteria of the workshop. The core staff who want convenience can eat three meals directly in it. If you become a family, you want to make it yourself. The Wen family will also subsidize rice, flour, grain and oil every month." Wen Heng raised his finger. one time.

"Then where are we going now?"

"Go to the real core in the middle."

As Wen Heng said, Xie Yan had already walked through the living area in front with Xie Yan. Only then did Xie Yan discover that there was a compound with a higher wall in the middle of the huge workshop. It was guarded by several armed men.

"This is... a prison?" Xie Yan speculated in surprise.

"You can put it this way, a place where people are temporarily locked up." Wen Heng stepped forward and nodded, and the guys consciously moved out of the way.

Xie Yan already knew that the Wen family could stand a foothold in this troubled world, and they were definitely not ordinary businessmen, but seeing such a big deal, she still felt that she had underestimated the family before.

"The matter here...is it supported by patrolling?"

"Yes, my elder brother made some things after he returned to China." Wen Heng nodded, "Sometimes it is not convenient for the inspection officials to do it, so I will leave it to him and the Wen family."

"Yeah." Xie Yan nodded, didn't ask any more questions, and followed Wen Heng into the iron gate.

The architectural style inside the iron gate was not much different from the outside, it was still a row of flat bungalows, Xie Yan followed Wen Heng into it, and was surprised to find that Mrs. Wen was already inside.

"Heng'er, Mr. Xie." Mrs. Wen nodded to the two of them.

"Hi Ma'am." Xie Yan saw that Mrs. Wen was still wearing the clothes she wore when she left Wen's house in the morning, except that there was a long and thin cowhide whip around her waist.

Xie Yan said hello and looked around. The interior decoration of this room is very simple, except for Mrs. Wen and a few guys who accompanied her, there is no one else, and there is nothing out of the ordinary.

"Does Mr. Xie want to go with us?" Mrs. Wen asked with a smile seeing Xie Yan's doubts.

"If it's convenient, I'll trouble Madam." Xie Yan didn't shirk.

"Come with me." Madam Wen smiled, signaling Wen Heng and Xie Yan to follow her.

Xie Yan followed Mrs. Wen and walked all the way to the back room of the room. She watched as the clerk stepped forward and removed a huge hanging picture on the wall of the room, revealing a small door behind.

"Secret way?" Xie Yan showed some interest.

"The place below is where people are locked up. It's a bit dark, so be careful." Wen Heng stretched out his hand to Xie Yan naturally while speaking.

Xie Yan subconsciously glanced at Mrs. Wen, and found that the other party had already walked into the secret passage first, so she held Wen Heng's hand with a guilty conscience.

The inside of the secret passage was really dark, and a staircase that curved back and forth extended about ten meters long. Xie Yan couldn't see the road ahead, and walked step by step under the guidance of Wen Heng, feeling the warm palms and heartbeats of the other party. One sound was clearly heard in the empty tunnel.

Xie Yan felt that the time in the darkness was so long, he followed Wen Heng for an unknown amount of time, and finally stopped, and a light appeared in front of him.

"Are we still in the workshop?" Xie Yan asked.

"Guess" Wen Heng whispered in his ear, his voice was like a soft feather brushing against his ear, bringing a little itchiness.

"..." Xie Yan shuddered for a moment, not daring to ask any more, but faintly heard a few low-pitched laughter from Wen Heng.

"It's still in the workshop, but it's not under the houses in the middle." Seeing that Xie Yan didn't ask, Wen Heng honestly told the truth.

Although Xie Yan really wanted to complain about Wen Heng, but the current situation was really not suitable, so she could only give him a glaring look, wondering if Wen Heng saw it in the dark.

During the time they were talking, they had already walked to the bright light. Next to a dim electric light was a small iron door integrated with the wall. There was a faint voice coming from the iron door.

Mrs. Wen walked in the front, stepped forward and knocked on the door three times in order, and soon the iron door was pulled open from the inside. Xie Yan looked up, and it was the Ship King Wen Jiulou who opened the door.

"Shuang Xia, you are here." Wen Jiulou nodded to Mrs. Wen, then looked at Xie Yan and Wen Heng who were behind.

"Heng'er is here too, is Mr. Xie?"

"Master Wen, I'm here to hear about Fu Yunhai." Xie Yan stepped forward and explained to Wen Jiulou.

"Okay, let's all come in." Wen Jiulou and Mrs. Wen looked at each other without saying anything.

Wen Jiulou gave way to the inside, and Xie Yan followed Mrs. Wen and Wen Heng into the small door.

The decoration inside the door is not much different from the cell that Xie Yan’s later generations saw in the spy war drama. The indoor area is about seven or eight square meters, separated by an iron fence integrated with the beam in the middle, and a prison cell is locked inside. The half-dead person lying on the ground should be Fu Yunhai. Outside, besides Wen Jiulou, there were two waiters standing beside some instruments of torture.

"Almost all recruited." Wen Jiulou shook his hand, it seemed that an interrogation had just ended before they arrived.

"I haven't done it myself for several years, and some hands are raw." Wen Jiulou rubbed the back of his neck and complained.

"Do you still want me to do it?" Mrs. Wen gave him a sideways look.

"Cough, haha." Wen Jiulou sneered, "Of course not, how can you make Madam tired?"

"Tell me what you found out during the interrogation. Baba told us to come here." Mrs. Wen ignored him.

When it came to business, Wen Jiulou's expression suddenly became serious, "Fu Yunhai has worked under Li Tianwei for many years and knows a lot of secrets. After the torture just now, some of them recruited a lot. You checked the thank you notes a few days ago. He has already made it clear about Mi Xing, leaving this aside, the real big problem is that big smoke."

"What did he say?" Mrs. Wen asked.

"Fu Yunhai said that Li Tianwei's big cigarettes were given to him by a Japanese named Ichiro Sakurai who he had a good relationship with. As for where Sakurai Ichiro came from, he didn't know."

"Sakurai Ichiro?" Mrs. Wen thought for a moment, "What was the name of that businessman from Shanghai before? Chen Gongsong... He conspired to plot whether our Sakurai Trading Company had something to do with this Sakurai Ichiro."

"It's them." Wen Jiulou said with a sullen face. Fortunately, the Wen family had a lot of eyeliners and patrol reminders that time, so they didn't get their way. The old steamer of the new ship will definitely not be the slightest blow to the Wen family.

Wen Jiulou originally thought that the power of Sakurai Trading Co., Ltd. was concentrated in Shanghai, so he used Chen Gongsong to try to get involved in the Wen family's Hankou business. Unexpectedly, the other party had already planted a hidden nail in Hankou. Home.

"That is to say, the source of this smoke is the Japanese?"

"It looks like this at the moment." Wen Jiulou nodded, "But we don't have evidence now, and even Mr. Patrol can't just rely on a few confessions to attack the Japanese."

"How about sending more people to watch the group of people in the Japanese consulate?" Mrs. Wen frowned.

"That's for sure, but I don't think it will be of much use." Wen Jiulou shook his head, "All the foreigner consulates in Hankou are patrolling with people following them. Since they didn't find any clues before, they probably won't now."

"Fu Yunhai really doesn't know anything anymore?"

"Everyone who can be recruited."

"It seems that we have to start with Li Tianwei." Mrs. Wen frowned deeper and deeper, "After I learned about Xie Ji Mi Xing, I found an excuse to stop doing business with the Li family. The informant said they would find him right away." An Dongyang steamship company was hired to transport coal instead of the Wen family, and the shipping price is unknown, but judging from what we know about Li Tianwei's relationship with the Japanese today, it should be cheaper than the market price."

"Foreigners can't afford it without profit. Every profit Li Tianwei got from them has to be paid back doubled from other places. He is just seeking skin from a tiger."

"The Li family doesn't know that Xie Ji Mixing's young mistress is in the Wen family, nor does it know that Fu Yunhai is in our hands. At least for now, both of us are in the dark. If we rashly attack Li Tianwei at this time, we are afraid that we will startle the snake. "Mrs. Wen paced back and forth.

"Tell Mr. Patrol these things first, and ask him to make a decision." Wen Jiulou suddenly looked at Wen Heng while speaking, "Heng'er, you go."

"Me?" A moment of doubt flashed in Wen Heng's eyes, and he immediately understood, "I see."

Xie Yan stood aside calmly, trying to understand what Wen Jiulou meant earlier than Wen Heng.

The status of the Wen family in Hankou is inseparable from their relationship with Fang Qingming. One prospers and the other loses. Wen Jiulou, Mrs. Wen and Fang Qingming have known each other for many years. Naturally, there is no problem with each other, but the Wen family is almost 50 years old. It is the age to gradually hand over the things in hand to the next generation.

After Wen Rui returned from studying in the UK, he went directly to Fang Qingming's military training and acted as a bridge between the Wen family and the patrol mansion. In the past two years, Fang Qingming has appreciated and reused him. Even if the Wen family and his wife are gone one day, His relationship with the inspectorate will not be weakened either.

Wen Heng, who had just returned from the United States, obviously did not have the same treatment as his elder brother. Wen Jiulou gave Wen Heng the opportunity to find Fang Qingming to report the opium incident, hoping that Wen Heng could use this to show his face in front of Fang Qingming.

"Heng'er, you said last night that you can research the antidote to this kind of opium, how sure are you?" Mrs. Wen confirmed again.

"I made a preliminary analysis with the equipment at home last night. Although this powder drug is called opium, it is actually not the same thing as real opium. Although it is highly addictive and the symptoms are severe after addiction, but It's not as hard to eradicate as smoking, give me some time, I can study it thoroughly."

"That's good, this matter can't be sloppy, you tell the inspector truthfully, if there is anything missing, just get the medicine, if we really can't find out the place where the medicine was produced and how it was circulated, researching the antidote is the only way to get rid of it." way."

"En." Wen Heng nodded, and looked at Xie Yan before leaving the dark room, "Ayan, is there anything else you want to ask Fu Yunhai? I don't know when I will come next time."

What Wen Jiulou and Mrs. Wen talked about before was too serious. Xie Yan stood aside, and it was always difficult to interrupt and ask what he wanted to ask. He originally wanted to forget it this time, but Wen Heng kept remembering it. Looking at myself, I can't help feeling warm in my heart.

"Master Wen, may I ask what Fu Yunhai said just now about my master Bai Luoqiu?" Xie Yan briefly talked about the sudden visit of the Li family to Bai Luoqiu's mansion yesterday morning.

"Both my master and I feel that they are coming here in a bad manner, but we can't figure out what the purpose of this move is. Fu Yunhai is Li Tianwei's confidant, so maybe he knows something."

Wen Jiulou didn't hear any information related to this from Fu Yunhai's mouth. After thinking for a while, he waved to a guy beside him, "Yong'an, go and ask."

Hearing this, the man with a fleshy body picked up a short whip on the ground, unlocked the iron fence a few times, went to Fu Yunhai and kicked it, "Don't pretend to be dead! Get up and ask you a few more words!"

The interrogation process was naturally bloody, but fortunately, Fu Yunhai was already frightened by the beating, so it didn't take much effort. He begged his grandpa to sue his grandma and almost asked what to say.

Xie Yan listened to the mournful howling sound echoing in the dark room, subconsciously felt a little unbearable, but when he thought of how many unconscionable things Fu Yunhai had done with Li Tianwei in these years, and the innocent Xie Ji father and son who died tragically, and even more There are many victims who don't even know their names, and this unbearable feeling quickly dissipated without a trace.

People are doing what the sky is watching, Xie Yan doesn't believe in fate, but he believes in heaven, law, reincarnation and retribution.

Fu Yunhai had been at odds with Li Tianwei these days, and was squeezed out of the core position. He had been helping Li Tianwei look at his private house at the racetrack. Suddenly, the Li family went to the white house to make trouble. After Yongan asked for a long time, Fu Yunhai almost died After confirming it, I kept insisting that I really didn't know what was going on.

"Master, do you see this?" Yong'an asked for instructions.

Wen Jiulou didn't speak, and signaled Yong'an to listen to Xie Yan.

"You really don't know why the Li family went to see Bai Luoqiu yesterday morning?" Xie Yan took two steps closer and asked Fu Yunhai through the iron fence.

"I don't know, I really don't know." Fu Yunhai couldn't tell who was asking him the question, so he huddled on the ground and answered reflexively.

"Then do you know what happened between Bai Luoqiu and the Li family?" Xie Yan thought for a while, then changed the way of asking, "As long as it is related to them, tell them all."

"Bai, Bai Luoqiu?" Fu Yunhai shuddered suddenly, recalling deliriously.

"Say it!" Yong'an kicked Fu Yunhai.

"Don't hit, don't hit, I say! I say!" Fu Yunhai put his arms around his head and shouted loudly, "I know about Bai Luoqiu and Li Tianwei, I'll tell you right away!"

Yong'an looked at Fu Yunhai who was shaking into chaff on the ground with disgust, and put down the raised whip.

Yongan was born in a rural area, and there was a younger sister in the family. Thinking of Fu Yunhai’s confession just now, in order to snatch a boy, they directly set fire to the other’s family’s wheat field of more than ten acres, and even stuffed the younger sister who was chasing the boy into a water tank. Regarding the matter of death, Yong'an could only wish to have his cramps and peel him off, but the boss hadn't finished asking, even if he wanted to crush Fu Yunhai in his heart, Yong'an could only stop for the time being.

"What do you know? I'm not in a hurry, I'll explain everything clearly." Xie Yan looked at Fu Yunhai, his brain spinning rapidly.

"I, my father used to be the second housekeeper of the Li family. I worked with him since I was a child. I saw what happened to Li Tianwei and Bai Luoqiu with my own eyes. My father is dead. If you ask anyone else, I can't know for sure! " Fu Yunhai said in a hurry, wanting to show his importance.

"You finish first, and then I'll judge clearly." Xie Yan was unmoved.

"I'll say it, I'll say it right away." Fu Yunhai eagerly raised his hand to find that dusty memory from the depths of his memory, "I remember that it was a winter more than ten years ago. Li Tianwei and I were both seventeen or eighteen years old. The Chinese New Year is coming soon, Li Tianwei went to the capital to take the exam and leave relatives, but he never came back."

"One very cold morning, my father suddenly pulled me up from the bed, saying that my boss had explained something urgent and asked us to go to Beijing right away."