Findings at sea

At night, the saxophone is melodious.

He wandered from the dark and narrow hall to the beautiful and gilded mansion, and then fell suddenly from a god into Abi Purgatory.

But today he came back, with good hands and feet, powerful and powerful.

When Su Shaojiu came home from Chengtian Temple, Su Qi was happily throwing a banquet to wash away the dust, saying that he was finally willing to go home from that ruined temple, but he never thought that this meal would be his last meal before going to hell.A son, a long knife, the sharp blade chopped Su Qizheng into two pieces from the waist.

Huai Su meditated on Amitabha Buddha amidst the deep red. Su Shaojiu told him that the world is unfair if there is little mercy and little compassion. Bad people can become Buddhas instantly as long as they put down the butcher knife. , People's life is just a quick one, whoever owes him will pay back.

Su Shaoning is a cripple, now inheriting his father's career, Su Shaojiu suddenly became the Great Warlord in Shanghai and Zhejiang.

The first thing Su Shaojiu did when he took office was to seal down brothels, not even a single brothel was allowed to stay from Zhejiang to Shanghai.The supervisor told him that this was one of the important sources of government revenue, and it could not be sealed just because it was sealed. As a result, Su Shaojiu shot the supervisor and sealed it.He didn't want the power he had inherited to be eroded by others, and the new official took office several times to make an example of others in order to stand firm in the midst of other warlords' eagerness to move.

At this time, Su Shaojiu is in the colorful scene of Shanghai Bund, and after several years of parting, he has never dreamed of the king, how should he find someone.He first went to Seventh Heaven to gamble twice, but he found it boring.So I went to Paramount and drank a lot of wine.Drinking is a joyful thing, because there is endless wine in the world, so there is no time to enjoy it, and everything becomes a disappointment.

The car drove past the nightclub shining with neon lights, and drove towards the road leading to the stage of Tianchan.A lot of people gathered outside the theater, blocking the road and blocking the traffic. It seemed that the number of people far exceeded the capacity of the theater.The driver honked his horn impatiently, but did not disturb the crowd in the slightest.The ticket sellers shuttle back and forth among those waiting for tickets, haggling over prices, cursing and jumping for joy, and everyone is eagerly looking forward to something.

Only he guards the loneliness in the frenzy.

Su Shaojiu lit a cigarette, opened the car window to breathe, a gust of wind suddenly swept across his cheeks, blowing away the ash from the burning embers, making the orange red brighter, the October wind is indeed a bit cool.

A ticket vendor in a cloth coat knocked on his car door, and he put on his melon cap and smiled, "Sir, do you want to sell tickets?"

Su Shaojiu took a puff of smoke, and his calm expression was a little gloomy. The gloomyness was due to his long-term ignorance of the bustling outside world in the mountain temple. He asked, "What's the situation?"

The ticket seller grabbed the window sill, afraid of being swept away by the crowd, and said to each other with a smile on his face in the hustle and bustle, "Bai Ruoyu, the new actor on the Tianchan stage. It was only once that he sang, as soon as he took the stage, he was surrounded by military officials." It’s hard to listen to his play after the whole show! Ticket prices are so high now that it’s hard for ordinary people to get a ticket.”

The smoke flickered in front of Su Shaojiu's eyes, and he was so bored that he asked casually, "Which military master?"

The ticket vendor said, "Mr. Mukemu, the head of the advance regiment specially dispatched by the Nanjing side."

Su Shaojiu said, "Oh, stationed in Shanghai?"

The ticket vendor said, "Yes."

Su Shaojiu said, "Isn't that a soldier under the Overseer?"

The ticket vendor said, "That's right, all the people in Shanghai and Zhejiang who eat official food are soldiers under the warlord."

While Su Shaojiu was chatting with the ticket seller, a figure flashed in front of his eyes.Su Shaojiu froze for a moment, and immediately pressed the cigarette out on the edge of the car window, but he was so anxious that he didn't notice that the cigarette butt was pressed on the back of the ticket vendor's hand.He pushed the door and got out of the car. There was a little light and a little phantom, which was enough to make him plunge into the crowd desperately.

The entrance of the Grand Theater was overcrowded, and Su Shaojiu wished she could become a gust of wind or a ball of fire and get sucked in through the cracks in the crowd.He finally found a place where he could be crazy about tonight, but he was helpless like a headless chicken.

It is really not easy to watch a play, especially a play with good actors.

In addition, Shanghai has long been torn apart, the British Concession, the French Concession, the Public Concession, and the area north of the Suzhou Creek occupied by the Japanese.The trams have long been disconnected, and you need to transfer several lines to watch a show.

So everyone was agitated and manic, yelling and cursing, as if it made people's blood spurt more than betting their lives on the gambling table.It cannot be denied that he was a person who spared his life once he walked through the gate of hell.

He didn't need to join in such excitement.Just as Su Shaojiu retreated to the side and was about to wait for the adjutant to come to rescue him, the crowd stopped commotion. After the noise in twos and threes, there was no more noise, and then came the sound of vigorous footsteps.

The crowd voluntarily gave way, and the headmaster, who had shouted loudly for the ticket sales just now, took a breath and walked forward to greet him, fawning and fawning on a military master.

Su Shaojiu looked at it disdainfully, and sure enough, the one with the green skin is the one who is the most talkative, but today he is dressed in a modern and beautiful way, without any deterrent effect at all.

Mu Ke walked into the theater.

The decoration in the theater is magnificent, the chandeliers on the dome are shining brightly, and the only dark place is the four corners.The aisle in the hall is covered with a gorgeous red carpet, and the people who come in are either rich or expensive, those who know opera and those who don't.

The first time Ruoyu sang on stage was in a small theater.Mu Ke didn't get the news until halfway through the show, and hurried to ask for a box, but no matter how he looked at the frowns and smiles on the stage, they were all unfamiliar, and they were fake.Besides, others don't know, but he knows.How can Ruoyu's broken gong voice be so melodious, he is not singing, he is clearly singing double reeds, thanks to the hard work of the little opera singers behind the scenes to match his mouth shape.

What annoyed Mu Ke even more was that he didn't think much about anything else and just wanted him to stay and recuperate.Ruoyu didn't agree, she not only clamored that she had the ability to support herself, but also hung out with that Lin Jinsheng, and even fought for him and herself!Who knows, another Lu Jinlang appeared out of nowhere, sticking around Ruoyu like a follower all day long.

Mu Ke couldn't tie him down and kept watching him. After the play, he told the head of the Xiliancheng troupe that he would book all of Bai Ruoyu's plays, no matter where they were sung.

Mu Ke sat down in the front row, neither urging nor shouting, just sitting.From the scorching heat to the cold moon, he was dazed in everything he did and felt uncomfortable, just like he was staring at the big stage in a daze now.

The horizontal plaque hanging in the middle of the stage bears the four characters "Xianfeng Nanlai". The top of the stage is piled up with more than a hundred deformed bucket arches, which spiral upward like a chicken coop.It was as if Que'er was standing in the middle of the stage without moving or smiling, and that was fine, he was about to quarrel with himself when he opened his mouth.

Mu Ke begs for compromise, he doesn't care about anything else, he always wants to go home and take care of his health first.Ruoyu sneered back, have you forgotten how your father scolded me and my mother?Should I go back to humiliate myself or go back to see your second mother's face, she wishes for you and me to die, and stop arguing with her son for family property!Mu Ke ridiculed him for not singing, and Ruoyu retorted that he was not a human being wearing human skin.He also wants to be a person, but what can he do?From the first time Mu Ke met Ruoyu on a rainy night seven years ago, he knew that this was a predestined person, but the relationship was too deep, the kinship in the dark, God's tricks, whether it was love or hate, it should involve blood. .Thinking of this, the flesh-and-blood skeleton trembled.

After staring for a long time, his eyes became loose, and the roof of the chicken coop was about to fall off, turning into an iron cage to cover Ruoyu inside, and in a blink of an eye, the person in the cage became himself again.

Mu Ke sighed and asked the adjutant to call the class leader, "When will the gong start?"

The class leader asked someone to make a cup of tea for Mu Ke, and said with a smile, "Boss Bai is putting on makeup in the background, it will be soon."

Mu Ke took the teacup and asked again, "Is that Lin Jinsheng here?"

The last time they met in the backstage, the two fought fiercely, and the class leader didn't take it seriously. This kind of thing is not uncommon. The rich and powerful young master always wants to be superior to others, and the red silk floats down from the beam, so the value rises.

The class leader nodded and replied, "Master Lin is here, right in the background."

Mu Ke's face darkened, and he pushed the teacup into the hands of the adjutant, the splash of dark green tea stained his clothes. "How dare you fucking come!"

Mu Ke rushed to the backstage angrily, and the host followed in a hurry. He opened the red curtain and saw that it was empty and there was no one there.Mu Ke grabbed the leader by the collar and asked, "Where is the man?"

The class leader was also surprised, and hurriedly begged, "Just now, just now, the person was still here! I'll send someone to look for it."

Mu Ke let go of his hands and slumped on the chair, lowered his head and pinched the center of his brows, and said, "Go!"

Ji Xingtang went into the theater and found a corner to sit down. His heart was also suffering. There was a knot in his heart that he couldn't untie. clear.

Tickets outside are almost sold out.Su Shaojiu entered the grand theater with the crowd. He searched for that figure in a hurry. There were so many people, but he couldn't see him. He was reluctant to sit down in the corridor. Only then did he realize what he should do. Let him notice himself as the majestic Grand Warlord.

Su Shaojiu was looking forward to it, but unexpectedly, the people in the theater became noisy again. The reason was that the actor was missing, and the headmaster told everyone not to wait, but his voice could not suppress the crowd's complaints at all.

The crystal chandelier on the dome flickered twice and suddenly went out.In an instant, in the whole theater, there was only a faint red light shrouded in the lampshade made of brocade cloth and embroidery on the stage, and now there were curses.

The chaos didn't end there. Patriotic students and progressive young people mixed in in the theater. Suddenly, someone dropped a handful of leaflets with words like "Resist Japan, save the country, love China" and fluttered in front of the audience. They also shouted, "Resist Japan and save the nation, don't be a subjugated slave!" Some people took advantage of the chaos to respond, and some people picked up leaflets. Coupled with the unstoppable noise, the scene was very chaotic.

The head teacher was so anxious that he asked people to search for her again and again, but Ruoyu and Lin Jinsheng were nowhere to be found. The time for the opening of the gong was approaching and the electricity was cut off. There was nothing he could do.The class leader went on stage and explained the reason, with a frown on his face, he asked the complaining audience to refund the tickets.

The crowd rushed out, Ji Xingtang walked on the stage, Su Shaojiu also walked on the stage, and finally the two met at the embroidered lantern.Ji Xingtang was about to lift the curtain to enter the backstage, and accidentally stepped on Su Shaojiu's foot. He bowed his body to apologize, and then raised his head and looked at each other, choking his throat.

They met in chaos, parted in chaos, and met again in chaos.The dim red light illuminated each other's faces, as if there were only the two of them under the old shadow of the blue light that day, but things were different.Different from the first meeting, Su Shaojiu is no longer a young man who eats, drinks, and has fun, even his appearance has changed according to his heart. His face is full of indifference and meanness, and the dimples are no longer childish.

It took a long time for Su Shaojiu to realize the situation, and said in a low voice, "Brother."

Ji Xingtang frowned, a sense of guilt rose from the bottom of her heart, and she felt that it was God's blessing that Shaojiu was not dead, and now he was standing in front of her.Ji Xingtang put down the arm that lifted the curtain, frowned and raised the corners of his mouth unconsciously, not because he was nostalgic for Su Shaojiu, but because this young life relieved his inner guilt, "Shaojiu..."

Hearing his words, Su Shaojiu suddenly chuckled, "Brother, are you here all right?"

Ji Xingtang suddenly turned into a dehydrated fish, her lips parted and she couldn't speak.After staring at him for a long time, he recovered from the numbness of the blood all over his body, "Oh, this is not the place to talk."

Ruoyu was woken up by being splashed with cold water, and the oil paint on her face also melted into the water and became greasy and stained her clothes.Before he opened his eyes, a bright and dazzling spotlight hit his face directly.

It wasn't until he got used to the intensity of the light that he realized the situation in front of him.The light in the room was not only the dazzling direct light, but also the very dim light from the skylight, and people were shrouded in dust.The room was very dark, with scorched marks on the wall, and irregular dark red asphalt on the floor, evil and terrifying.

And he was interrogated with his hands tied behind his back to a wooden frame. The interrogator sat on a chair in front of him, with his right leg folded over his left.

Bai Xiaohong gave his subordinates a wink, and the man stepped aside with the bucket in his hand. Ruoyu followed the trail and saw that the burly man was lighting a fire on the dark stove, and started to solder the iron when sparks were flying everywhere.

Bai Xiaohong's voice was cold but not threatening. He asked, "Do you know where this is?"

Ruoyu snorted and laughed, "If you want to kill, kill it. I'm afraid you won't make it, and you're wasting time with such nonsense."

Bai Xiaohong added, "This is the underground prison of Xiangxie Xiaolong, which is specially used to detain and deal with dishonest people. When you sleep peacefully every day, people may be dying here."

Ruoyu said, "The sound insulation effect is really good. It's just that the yin is so heavy, can the crabapple you planted still bloom?"

"You don't need to worry about it." Bai Xiaohong glanced at him, stood up and walked in front of him, "I haven't asked you anything out of your mouth again and again, so let's make a break today. Tell me everything you know, I don't have to argue with you, maybe I can let you go because of these years of love. Otherwise, try to see if you can bear this."

Ruoyu pondered for a moment. In the past, he wanted to find his mother alive, to be with Ji Xingtang happily, and to have someone to back him up, so he naturally wished for it.But now that his mother is dead, he has incest with his own brother, and has been consumed by maggots. It is meaningless for him to live every day. The only reason for him to live is to see Ji Xingtang , tell him everything, let him hate himself, so that he doesn't have to worry about his own death.As for Du Ziming's conspiracy, he doesn't care about any grievances with Bai Xiaohong, he can see that the two of them care deeply about Ji Xingtang, and whoever loses or wins will not hurt him.

Ruoyu said calmly, "Okay, I'll tell you everything I know, and you have to promise me one condition."

Bai Xiaohong was noncommittal, but Ruoyu said, "It's very simple, let me meet Ji Xingtang, and I can tell you everything you want to know."

Bai Xiaohong pinched his chin and finally showed his fangs, "Why, do you want him to feel guilty for your death? That idiot Xingtang raised a son who killed his father and enemy, maybe he will kill you with a single shot if he finds out. !"

Ruoyu shook his head and snorted twice, "I just want to let him know that he is a complete idiot. He not only raised a son who killed his father and enemy, but also let him bite back! I don't think it will be long before going to the beach." The sky is going to change, and you, Lord Bai, won’t be able to hold your seat anymore! I am indeed working for others, sowing discord between you and Ji Xingtang, reporting your whereabouts and waiting for an opportunity to assassinate you, collecting your criminal evidence and business account books, all of them are me. made."

Ruoyu raised her eyebrows coldly, and said provocatively, "What? He still believes me or not. You don't even know what you are in his heart! If the love between you is really stronger than gold, how can I?" Is there a chance to sneak in? How can Su Shaojiu have a chance to sneak in?"

Bai Xiaohong's spine was poked by Ruoyu, and his back was sweating coldly.He is really not a good person, he has learned from Ji Xingtang for so many years to be glib, sharp-tongued, and to bite other people's sore spots with an air of righteousness, which is disgusting!Bai Xiaohong patted his thick and colorful face with a cold cowhide whip, suppressed his anger and said, "Okay, go on, tell me everything you know."