Speaking of the feeling of being pursued by others, Bai Yi has experienced it a lot, both men and women. When he was in school, the way of pursuit was simple. It was nothing more than inviting him to eat together, or saying that he had two movie tickets. I understand.

After being born in society, suitors are generally more restrained, and at most they just try to find out what he means in chat tools.

Bo Yi didn't meet many real stalkers.

Everyone is afraid of getting hurt, why bother?

Later on, chasing people seems to have become a shameful thing. If you chase people too enthusiastically, you may be scolded and licked by the people around you.

Everyone seems to agree that pursuing others is abusing themselves, and no one likes self-torture.

So Bai Yi thought that Bai Er's pursuit of him was nothing more than inviting him to a few meals, preparing a few movie tickets, or giving him some expensive and luxurious gifts. These were not important to Bai Yi, let alone impress him.

"It can be seen that Second Master Bai really regards our eldest brother as a friend." Bai Meiru looked at the gifts brought in by the servants, and the brows of her smile were full of joy, "This is a good tea with a couple of dollars , Said it was for Dad."

"And this, this satin looks like the old tribute satin, damn it."

Bai Meiru smiled and said, "I have it too."

Bai Mingqiu stuck out his head: "What do you have? Do I have any?"

Bai Meiru: "This pistol is for me. I practiced in France before, but my father didn't give me a gun when I came back. I didn't expect Erye Bai to give it to me."

Bai Mingqiu was extremely anxious: "I am me!"

Bai Meiru: "This seems to be for the second brother."

Bai Mingqiu couldn't help it, and pushed Bai Meiru away under control, and said pleasantly: "This watch is precious! I wanted it before, but unfortunately I don't have enough money!"

The whole family has benefited from Bai Er, and it is not a particularly expensive thing. There are no special gifts such as jade Buddhas and elephants. It is so-called doing what they like, and it is difficult for anyone to feel bad for him if he is at Bai Er's level. .

Only Bai Yi didn't get anything, only an envelope with a ticket to the opera house inside.

Bai Yi: "..."

It can be seen that this man is very scheming, he has sent so many gifts, and only asked him to go to the opera, how can he not be satisfied?

And the person who gave the gift was Bai Er. Now he dares to ask someone to carry these things back. His parents are the first to refuse. He can have a relationship with Bai Er, or a close relationship. Also willing to change with his family.

Especially now that they still have to wait for the batch of penicillin on the second hand.

Bai Er sold it to them at half the market price.

It is said to be for sale, but in fact it is not the Bai family who bought the house, but General He. Father Bai tried his best to buy penicillin from Bai Er just to help him. This is also the reason why the family came to SIPG.

After all, even though they couldn't stay in the capital, they were allowed to choose other places.

General He is a rough man, he pulled up a soldier with two kitchen knives, and gnawed off a lot of hard bones. It stands to reason that Father Bai would never touch such a person who has never read a book.

Ke Bai's father met with the other party under the recommendation of a friend, and he highly respected General He.

"Although he is rough, he is still a hero." Bai's father stroked his beard and said to Bai Yi at that time, "Nowadays, who has a gun in his hand, who is not fighting for fame and fortune? Although General He is a rough man with no serious background, he Dedicated to the poor people, such a friend, you can make it."

They were a little wronged, but they could save the lives of countless soldiers, and this deal was a good deal.

Bai Yi felt that Father Bai's thinking was not wrong, at least his father's ideological awareness was high.

He is able to send all four children abroad so that they can accept advanced ideas, and is willing to use money to support people of insight. Father Bai is considered to be at the forefront of the times.

Sure enough, as soon as the gift was delivered, Bai Er's call came, and he asked Bai Yi to answer it by name.

"Do you still like this gift?" Bai Er's voice could not hear any emotion, as if he was just asking about today's weather.

Bai Yi said with a good attitude: "My family likes it very much."

Bai Er: "I'm asking if you like it."

Bai Yi: "Second Master, I have said this before, I don't know how many times."

Bai Er is very bachelor: "Then don't tell me, I'll send a car to pick you up in the afternoon, foreign opera troupes, although they don't understand, are lively."

Bai Er was not taken seriously when he was a child, and the tutor he hired only taught Chinese studies, so his English probably stayed at the level of "Hello, thank you". As for "I'm sorry", Bai Er probably never learned it.

At four o'clock in the afternoon, the Bai family's car arrived. The driver used to be a soldier, but now he works for Bai Er. In addition to being a driver, he is also sometimes responsible for security work. There are many people who want Bai Er's life, so he can be by Bai Er's side. Those who work for a long time are not idlers.

When Bai Yi got into the car, the driver was still at the front and said, "Master Bai, there is hot water in the thermos next to you. If you are thirsty, just drink it. The newly bought cup is clean."

On the way to the opera house, Bai Yi was bored and chatted with the driver.

"I was driving for Commander Zhou earlier." The driver smiled, "But when Commander Zhou ran away, we soldiers had nowhere to go. Although there are recruits everywhere, in SIPG, it is not as good as serving as a soldier anywhere. It is safe to do things under the hands of the second master."

Bai Yi: "That's not easy."

Driver: "As you said, it's not easy to make a living anywhere nowadays."

Bai Yi nodded: "You are right."

The driver talked a lot: "I used to think it was easy for a big family, but after following the second master, I found that it is not easy for a big family."

There are not many big families who still have money, most of them have swollen faces to pretend to be fat, and some spend three oceans for one ocean. Many young ladies and young masters can't bear the hardship, so they look for money outside, and they end up looking for it and throwing their own money. went in.

Ladies are okay, there is still a way out of getting married.

Many of the young masters have become addicted to gambling or opium, and it seems that they are so ruined.

Bai Yi thought of his second brother, although it was absurd, it was better than those who were addicted to gambling or opium, especially opium, although smoking was banned in all parts of the country, but it was repeatedly banned, and the rich felt that they were rich , Affordable, the result is getting deeper and deeper, let alone money, the body is ruined first.

Many former rich families are now down and down, but they can't accept the reality of their downfall, so they can do all kinds of absurd things. The young masters of the two families fight for an actor, or for a courtesan to spend a lot of money.

The opera house is in the center of the city, and there are many people who come to see the opera, but most of them can't understand it. After all, the people who come here to perform are all foreigners, and they all sing in English. As Bai Er said, it's just for fun.

No one even knows what it's playing.

Boyi hasn't seen the performance tonight either—he has heard a few concerts in modern times, but he hasn't seen an opera.

He doesn't know much, and he can understand English, but he doesn't know much about music, and he doesn't know how to appreciate it.

For example, he didn't feel that the concert he listened to was much better than the music played on the player.

All in all, he has no accomplishments in this area, and he can't appreciate it. He is no different from others, and he is just watching for fun.

In the entire Bai family, only Meiru could appreciate it.

As soon as Bai Yi got out of the car, he saw Bai Er standing on the side of the street. Bai Er was wearing a black coat and a suit inside. The temperature began to drop. After dark, it made people shiver with cold. In the western restaurant, they came early, so naturally they had to go to the opera after dinner.

"Why are you wearing so little?" Bai Er took off his coat, and put it on Bai Yi's shoulders before Bai Yi refused.

Bai Yi: "..."

From the way we both look, it's pretty obvious who needs this coat, right?

Bai Er: "You came to SIPG three months ago. I don't know the weather in SIPG. It's very cold at night at this time of year."

Bai Yi: "It's only a few steps away, and if you stay indoors, you won't suffer from freezing even if it's cold."

Bai Yi wanted to take off his coat, but Bai Er grabbed his wrist.

There was a smile in Bai Er's eyes: "What's the matter? Do you care about me?"

"If you care about me, why don't you treat me to dinner tonight?"

Bai Yi didn't refuse either: "It's natural, please spend your money."

There are not many people in the western restaurant on the second floor. Western food is always associated with "expensive". It is normal to eat more than a dozen western dishes for a meal.

But for ordinary families, a dozen oceans are enough for them to live for half a year.

The folks also have imitation Western food, which is cheap and tastes good. Most students go there to eat instead of authentic Western restaurants.

Boyi doesn't like Western food very much in modern times, he likes to cook Chinese food by himself.

The taste is richer and more appetizing.

The waiters in the restaurant were all wearing shirts and vests, with leather shoes on their feet, all of them were slender and handsome.

Bai Yi and Bai Er sat by the window, Bai Er ordered appetizers, main meals and desserts, and Bai Yi didn't ask for anything.

"Master, you often eat this abroad." Bai Er asked suddenly.

Bai Yi shook his head: "Mostly it's bread to eat. After all, you always have to save a little when you're out alone."

Bai Er: "It's a pity."

Bai Yi asked, "What's the pity?"

Bai Er smiled and said: "If I knew Eldest Young Master at that time, I would not let Eldest Young Master suffer like that."

"Bai Er is not talented, and has no other skills, except that he still has some money."

Bai Yi: "It has nothing to do with how much money you have. The students who go out together, regardless of their family background, are part-time students. Going out to study is to endure hardship. If you enjoy happiness, it will run counter to the original purpose. Why go abroad? You can also do well in China. enjoy."

Bai Er cut a piece of steak: "I'm taking the liberty. After all, I, Bai Er, have never been abroad, and I don't have a diploma. I'm illiterate."

Bai Yi: "Second Master hired a tutor, not a school, so naturally he didn't have a diploma, so he used this as a joke to me."

Second Master Bai didn't continue this topic, but changed the topic and said: "The shipment has already been shipped away. A whole ship of penicillin was traded at sea. The people who came back said that the person who picked up the goods looked like a soldier."

This cannot be hidden, and Bai Yi is not prepared to hide it. From the moment he sent this shipment of medicine, Bai Er and their Bai family have become grasshoppers on the same rope, unless Bai Er sells them, but Bai Er is like this. People who are used to being local emperors in SIPG are proud of themselves, and the possibility of betraying them is very low.

If I said it earlier, Bai Er would find a way to deal with it instead.

"The batch of medicine is what General He wants." Bai Yi lowered his voice, "In addition to General He's people, General Ye also needs to use it."

Bai Erye: "The two of them are not in the same party... It seems that Lao Jiang will have a headache this time."

Bai Yi raised his head: "Second Master is not angry with me?"

Bai Er glanced at him, and unexpectedly glanced at the infinitely charming posture: "Why am I angry with you? Do I think that your Bai family really needs this batch of medicine? Such a large amount, your Bai family dare to take it out." selling?"

"Besides, I'm a businessman, and what I sell is medicine, not weapons. Even if someone wants to ask me to blame him, there's no reason for it. Do you want to blame me for selling the medicine?"

Bai Yi lowered his head and had to admit that Bai Er had a good appearance.

This kind of appearance is really rare. If it wasn't born on the second young master of the Bai family, the second master of the Bai family would probably have disappeared a long time ago.

Sometimes a person's beauty is not his own.

Bai Er: "But young master, you have to tell me the truth next time."

"If I don't know and someone comes to the door, then I will get angry."

"I think, the young master doesn't want to see me get angry." Bai Er, "No one in SIPG wants to see it."

Bai Yi raised his wine glass: "I will apologize to the second master."

Bai Er smiled: "I don't care about you this time, and next time, I'm afraid it won't be as simple as a glass of wine."

"As for the surname He, he is a well-known rough man, how could he have anything to do with a scholarly family like the Bai family?"

Bai Yi ate the last bite of steak: "It's just a coincidence. My father said that although General He is a bit rough, it is because of his low background that he is willing to uphold justice for the poor. The people he killed were all people who caused disasters." .”

Bai Er: "Unexpectedly, Mr. Bai still has the heart to be a knight."

"If the old man is like this, we young people naturally can't be at a disadvantage." Bai Er tapped the table with his fingertips, "I don't know if General He will return the military funds, but I have a sum of money here. I originally wanted to make an investment, but At present, there are no good projects, if I invest in General He, I don't know how much profit it will bring me."

Bai Yi didn't coax him either: "I don't think there's much profit, and it's notoriously poor over there."

In the earliest days, the workers were the main body there, and later the farmers were the main body, and today the workers are still the main body.

Unlike the other side, it relies on the elite class, who are all rich and never short of money.

"Looks like I'm going to do a charity." Bai Er sighed, "I've lived so long, I've only made money from it, but I've never given it away. For the sake of the young and old, I'm I'm going to be a money-spreading boy."

Bai Yi: "Second Master was joking, you really have nothing to do with the boy."

Bai Er laughed out loud: "Why doesn't it matter?"

He smiled ambiguously, and Bai Yi instantly realized that this "boy" was not that "boy".

Bai Yi: "...Second Master is so free-minded, he still joked with me like this."

Bai Er: "I have always guarded myself like a jade, if the young master follows me, I will definitely not suffer."

"As for the young and the young, I heard that foreign countries are open, but I don't care about this, so don't tell me the young and the young."

This person's ability to talk to himself has improved again, and Bai Yi has nothing to say. Bai Yi doesn't need to pay in cash, he just needs to put it in the account of Bai's family, and then ask someone to go to Bai's house to collect it. After all, Bai Yi is now well-known in SIPG thanks to Bai Er's blessing.

Their seats are in a small private room in the opera house, so they don't have to be crowded with people outside, and the seats are high, so they can have a panoramic view of the stage.

Bai Er sat on the sofa, with wine in hand, he didn't drink foreign wine most of the time, he preferred domestic baijiu, Bai Yi didn't pick anything, he was fine.

As soon as the opera started, Bai Yi fell asleep—he did the same thing when he was listening to the concert, he fell asleep halfway through the concert.

Seeing that Bai Yi was not very energetic, Bai Er asked, "Are you sleepy?"

Bai Yi stretched out his hand to cover his mouth, and yawned: "It's really because I don't have high taste."

Bai Er: "It seems that I have one more thing in common with the young master. I don't like this opera either, but there are many people who like it. You have to look gregarious to have some taste."

"What did the young master learn in Russia?" Bai Er asked.

Bai Yi: "The studies are not very good, and most of the time is spent lounging around."

In fact, he almost forgot what he was studying. During the years of studying abroad, he followed the teacher around, took classes, listened to speeches, and listened to the reasons for the victory of the Bolsheviks.

I knew that he should study modern history more carefully in modern times.

He doesn't know much about modern history, only some famous historical events.

Bai Er: "I had a hard time in those few years."

For some reason, he suddenly chatted with Bai Yi about the past: "My elder brother has a heart as high as the sky. He is barely a child prodigy, but the older he gets, the more useless he is. He only knows how to talk. He is not good at business and can read books." Became a half-baked guy, relying on his tricks, he actually wanted to do business with warlords."

"The business failed, but it cost me my life, and the Bai family lost most of their property in vain."

Bai Er shook his head, but he obviously didn't think it was a pity: "At that time, I was ready to do something, but because of this incident, all the previous preparations were in vain."

"Nowadays many people think that I killed eldest brother." Bai Er sighed, "If he really died by my hands, it can be regarded as a compliment."

How weak he was at that time, if he really killed his elder brother with his small size, it would be considered his great achievement.

"As for my dad." Bai Er smiled and said: "He may think that the eldest brother is his son in the family and can inherit the legacy. After the death of the eldest brother, he becomes a useless person. He can only lie in bed and breathe every day. He has more than ten aunts and wives. , As a result, a week before his death, another door was made."

Bai Er's father is a well-known romantic man, but at the same time he is also very ruthless. He has many concubines, but he will not protect them after entering the door, so Mrs. Bai tried every means to punish him, the second son except the elder and younger. Master, so everyone turned a blind eye.

Including his father.

Even Bai Er's mother was sold by his wife after giving birth to Bai Er.

Although Bai's father disliked the lack of culture of the peasant girl at the time, he didn't understand Yuhua, but he also loved her figure and appearance. After finding out that his favorite concubine was sold by his wife, he lost his temper, but after the anger, he went to bed again. As if nothing happened.

After all, his wife is from the Chen family, rich and powerful. At that time, Mr. Chen, Mrs. Bai's elder brother, was in a period of trouble, and the whole SIPG wanted to give him face, so when treating his wife, Bai's father mostly turned a blind eye. only eye.

After all, Bai Er had never taught him, so father Bai would naturally not place any hope on this sick and weak son who was handed over by his tutor.

Bai Er still remembered the scene where Bai's father was lying on the hospital bed and Mrs. Bai was under house arrest by him.

At that time, everyone thought that the Bai family would be decided by Mrs. Bai, but it turned out that the second young master, the most inconspicuous of the Bai family, stepped forward.

He put Mrs. Bai under house arrest, and Bai's father couldn't get out of bed again. The brothers and sisters of the Bai family didn't know when they would only follow him.

The whole Bai family suddenly united unprecedentedly.

If it weren't for Bai Er, whether the Bai family is still here or not is a problem.

Bai Er recalled the past and sighed: "It would be great if my eldest brother died a little later. I don't want him to die earlier than anyone else."

"He's dead, how can I defeat a dead man?"

"You have already done it." Bai Yi said involuntarily, "Whether it was when Mr. Bai was around or when Uncle Bai was around, the Bai family was not as respectable as it is now."

Bai Er: "That's true."

Bai Yi: "May I take the liberty to ask, what happened to Mrs. Bai in the end?"

There are more rumors about Mrs. Bai. Some say that she is still alive and locked up in the old house of the Bai family. Some say that she has died a long time ago. It's just that Bai Er didn't mourn for him because he was afraid that the Chen family would make trouble for him.

But according to Bai Yi, even if Bai Er doesn't mourn, it's not because he's afraid of the Chen family.

After all, the Chen family was down and out, otherwise Mr. Chen would not have flown to the United States with all the children of his family, and it seemed that he was not planning to come back. He probably offended some important person.

Bai Er: "She? She's still in the old house."

"She always feels that my elder brother is not dead yet. If she says that she is not dead if she is alive but not dead."

Bai Yi asked strangely, "My lord doesn't have a dead body?"

Bai Er smiled brightly: "After all, the corpses were dismembered and thrown into the sea in the high seas. How could there be still corpses? Even if there were, I'm afraid they have already entered the shark's stomach."

Bai Yi: "...Second Lord knows really well."

Bai Er nodded: "After all, the person who kidnapped him borrowed my boat."

Bai Er still said with a smile on his face: "If I knew that they borrowed the boat to tie up my elder brother, I would never borrow it no matter what. For a person like my elder brother, let him live a few more years, let him know that he has The more useless it is, the more it makes him sad."

Bai Yi: "It seems that the uncle is not a very good person."

Bai Er: "Aside from being a little stupid, there is nothing wrong with him, but as the successor of the Bai family, being stupid is the biggest fault."

"Look, I'm smarter than him, more resourceful than him, and more tolerant than him." Bai Er rested his chin on his hands and narrowed his eyes slightly, "So how can I let him get the Bai family and be on top of me forever? ?”

"I've never liked looking up at people."

"I just like people looking up at me."

Bai Er: "People outside said I was cruel, I just took back what should belong to me, and I shouldn't be called cruel by any means, what do you think?"...,,

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