there are bandits

On March 1940, 3, there was no wind, and the sun was not too strong. It was a beautiful and sunny day. The important thing was that I was not afraid of blowing my hat off.Yu Manli was wearing a red fedora hat standing on the Joffre Road where the sycamores stood guard. Her long permed hair was scattered on her shoulders. The fluffy piece is just right, and it adds a little coquettishness.She seemed to be a little unaccustomed to the hat, and would stop from time to time to take a look in front of the window, hold it up with her hand, and then smugly twitched the corners of her mouth, causing passers-by behind her to look at her twice.

Xiafei Road belongs to the French Concession and is the most beautiful and flavorful road in Shanghai.Speaking of beauty, of course, apart from the sycamore trees, there are also the scenery in the windows of this dazzling department store.Talking about the taste, what can’t be escaped is the vague coffee aroma wafting out from the small glass doors that are pushed open one by one, mixed with the greasy smell of cake cream.

The most fragrant on this road is a cafe called DDS opened by a Belarusian.It was a two-story facade, with a large western restaurant underneath, and two slot machines in the corner.Upstairs is a circle of cafes, and there is an open space in the middle for singing, dancing and music performances.The place is not too big, but the atmosphere of Western style is very strong.There are often gatherings of people from the cultural circles there, and it is said that both Xu Zhimo and Lu Xiaoman once fell in love there.

Yu Manli was standing across the street from DDS, holding her small leather bag with one hand and pressing down on her little red hat with the other.It looks like waiting for someone to come and hold her hand, or help her cover the wind, hold down the hat, and then lead her across the road, then open the door of DDS and have a drink Coffee, preferably with a flower.

She stood thinking, then laughed, and stood like this for more than 5 minutes, and it was almost the same.After whetting the appetite, he turned his head, glanced at the 5th sycamore tree on the opposite side of the road, turned around and entered a store on the right hand side, the store sign read: Mingshi Jewelry Store.

Minglou said that the earrings repaired don't cost money.

Yu Manli took out her "sexual evil" wrapped in a handkerchief in the small leather bag, and opened it layer by layer in front of the shop assistant.Inside the white handkerchief lay Bicui's earrings, the faint red in the middle corresponded to the vermilion Danko on her pale fingers.It is pleasing to the eye, like the pink jade lotus on the green lotus leaf.

The clerk, surnamed Zhu, loves to eat, and other colleagues like to call her Xiaozhu on weekdays.Xiao Zhu and Xiao Zhu are homophonic. She has a gentle personality, which may be the case for people who like to eat. She never cares about it, but thinks it is kind.At this moment, her nose suddenly wrinkled, and from the lotus leaf that flashed in her mind just now, she thought of the glutinous rice chicken wrapped in lotus leaf.Subconsciously, she wanted to wax her lips. When she looked up at Yu Manli, who had a small face and big eyes, her face should have been powdered and rouged, and there was a faint layer of it. If you rub this white handkerchief on your face, nothing will come out.The parted lips were talking, and Xiao Zhu felt that the color of her lips was the same as the tip of her tongue when she licked her lower lip, and it was sweet and pleasant.

She still wanted to use her association ability again, but the door was pushed open again.This time, the woman with black eyebrows, eyes and lips and red lips made Xiao Zhu take a glance, then she looked back, bowed her head, almost turned herself out of the counter, and pointed at Yu Manli's hand solicitously. The pendant: "It's easy to repair the forehead, just adjust a pair of hooks. Some foreheads are only brittle when they are old. I will ask Naijuan to wrap her head in the sea next time, in case it is crushed so badly." How can I do it, put it in a box."

Yu Manli was stunned by her babbling in Shanghai, and couldn't react for a while.

"What did you say?"

"She meant to put it in a box in the future. The handkerchief is not stable and easy to break."

Yu Manli turned her head, she was smiling "kindly" at Wang Manchun, and carefully placed a square and flat box on the counter.

"Big..." A sister-in-law was about to blurt out.

Wang Manchun tilted her head slightly, and her curly hair was meticulously arranged, unlike Yu Manli's casual looseness on her shoulders.She seemed to be waiting for this call, but Manli suddenly stopped talking.

"No, no, I made a mistake last time, so don't be angry. I'll follow Mingtai's name, Manchun..." She still paused for the word 'sister'.She realized how reluctant she would be when she said the word "sister" by herself, and if she didn't say it willingly, there would always be some clues of her own thoughts.So she lowered her head and curled the corners of her mouth hesitantly. This action looked like a shy little girl to others, and Wang Manchun narrowed her eyes.

At this moment, little Zhu Qia called out bluntly: "Director Wang".She wanted to avoid the one who didn't greet a female devil like Wang Manchun, but she didn't expect someone to come here directly.

Director Wang's voice just saved Yu Manli's embarrassment, so she simply swallowed the word sister.Turning his face to look forward to, he asked Xiaozhu excitedly: "Then it can be repaired, how long will it take?"

"It's only two days at most, but there is a manual fee."

"Minglou said it's free! He asked me to come here." Yu Manli raised her voice a little, and the two words Minglou carried a slight emphasis and an intimacy that was easy to understand.Anyone who said it out of their mouths would have no taste.

"Brother?"

Wang Manchun and Xiao Zhu raised their eyes at the same time.Before Xiao Zhu had time to respond, Wang Manchun had already opened the box she put on the counter, and inside was a string of pearl necklaces, each full of pearls.

"Senior brother just returned to Shanghai and forgot the rules of their Ming family. Only jewelry bought at Ming family has the right to free maintenance, just like the necklace that senior brother gave me." Wang Manchun lowered her head and caressed the pearls of white Pearl, said to Xiao Zhu: "Remove the length of the three beads for me, the belt is a bit long."

When she gestured like this, Xiao Zhu didn't have the glamorous feeling that Yu Manli gave her just now, she just felt that each and every bead seemed to be the head harvested by Wang Manchun's men, and every finger that was touched would be cut off and killed.Especially when it came to removing three of them, she felt that her neck was getting cold.

"When did you send it off? Can I borrow some light to count it as being together?"

"When senior brother first came back last year, I was his dance partner at the new government's ball." Wang Manchun still remembered that senior brother hugged her from behind and said that he was safe.Now, is there a different woman who is still so beautiful in his mouth?

Yu Manli said "Oh" as if nothing had happened: "Last year, so I haven't been to Shanghai yet."

Xiao Zhu at the counter almost laughed, and quickly changed the subject and said: "Miss, the pearl earrings you brought today are from our family. I remember that Master Ah Cheng came to buy them some time ago. They are from the Ming family. After buying jewelry, the maintenance is naturally free."

Yu Manli touched her ears, and said with a smile: "It turns out that this is also from the Ming family. This Minglou knows too well that the fat and water will not flow into outsiders' fields."

"It's just that the rich and the water don't flow, it's because Ah Cheng is planning for him carefully. Mingtai always said that his elder brother is more stingy as he gets richer, but in fact he is the one who took the blame for Ah Cheng." A loud voice came from inside.There will be no dim intimacy between the Ming family members laughing and cursing in the words.

"Miss!"

"Chairman!"

Ah Cheng put the coffee that Minglou wanted on his right hand, and did not straighten his bowed waist, as if he was waiting for him to ask questions.

Minglou opened a new page of documents. This stack was not the government's economic situation strategy report plan, but the report on the recent arrest and monitoring of No. 76.Minglou reads this as seriously as he reads the economic figures, even though every word on them annoys him.But he had to look at it even more attentively than looking at the economy. These reports came from the hands of Liang and Wang.It's not the content that Minglou reads, it's fine to listen to the dictation.He was looking at their different words, analyzing their mentality between the lines, the tortuous, dark, despicable or egotistical psychology they acted on at this stage.He would even use these handwriting to imagine the face of that person when he was writing, such a beautiful woman, how can he be a thief!

"Say" Ming Lou's short word.He didn't have much time, he just wanted to filter out these reports as soon as possible to make a preparation for the next action plan.

"A good news, a bad news, which one do you want to hear first?"

It was rare for Ah Cheng to let go, and there was a secret lightness in his words.Minglou finally put down the pen in his hand and gave him a face.Picking up the coffee cup: "Good news. If the bad news is too bad, you don't have to say it."

"The good news is that Wang Manchun moved."

Minglou raised his eyelids, and the coffee cup swayed under his nose, smelling the unique bitter and fragrant smell, and looked at the calendar beside him. On the 29th, it has been 22 days since she saw the photo in the morning of the 7nd, and her patience is getting longer.

"Place"

"Xiafei Road, your jewelry store." Ah Cheng raised his eyebrows: "Don't worry, you sharp-tongued man, I really sympathize with Wang Manchun."

"Hey, what is my home, not yours?" Minglou took a sip of coffee, remembered something, put down the cup and pointed at Cheng: "Could it be that your pearl earrings and the pearl necklace you gave to Wang Manchun last time are the same set?" right"

Ah Cheng spread his hands innocently: "I don't know if it's a set, but it should be true that they are all pearls. The pearls are all the same, so it's a set?"

Minglou was so angry that he had nothing to say, "Where's the bad news?"

Ah Cheng smiled, leaning on the table and said, "The bad news is that my eldest sister happens to be in the jewelry store, and your trick of cheating will be exposed."

Minglou picked up the pen, sighed, his face was still relaxed: "Just wear it, now that you have acted, I don't think how long you can keep it a secret."

"Big Brother" Ah Cheng called out, looking at Minglou's side face with his head down and his pen ready to go back to work, hesitantly asked, "Are you really willing?"

Ming Lou's pen stopped at the last page of the report and did not move, did not raise his head, and did not answer Ah Cheng's words.

Ah Cheng waited for a while, knowing that there would be no answer for him.He turned around and walked out, and looked back when he passed the bow-shaped door frame and turned right.The person sitting in front of the desk was still in the same posture, his upper right arm looked tense, and the pen in his hand did not move.Ah Cheng knew that he should have finished reading that page of the report, and he should sign a reading before opening another one.

He is still a little bit reluctant, he thought.

Minglou's pen nib stopped for a long time and finally drew the first line of reading on the paper.Whether he is willing or not has to be determined by his personal feelings and judgments. When he has set his unswerving belief, he is already in the heart of Xu Jiaguo.How can there be willingness and reluctance?When the prosperity in a volume of history is gone, and the long street is full of slaughter and blood, all his reluctance is also buried under a handful of loess.

After writing the word "read" with a silver hook in the stylus, he sneered and picked up another report calmly.

read what?Is the mountains and rivers picturesque in the eyes of the past, or is the scenery like a song in the ears of the past?