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The treasurer of Hefenglou is missing!

The news spread throughout Guanbei City within a day.

Some people said that the shopkeeper He ran away with his concubine because he was afraid of revenge from the Lou family. Others said that the shopkeeper He was killed by someone sent by the Lou family, and the body was thrown on the mountain outside the city to feed the wolves.Others said that the shopkeeper He was actually in Guanbei City, but he was hiding.

The public says that the public is right, and the mother-in-law says that the mother-in-law is right. For a while, there are different opinions.The whereabouts of He Fa Cai became the hottest topic in Guanbei City. On the contrary, it was the concubine who disappeared with the shopkeeper, and no one paid attention to it.

Hefenglou continued to operate, and the shopkeeper was replaced by Hefacai's eldest son.It was only then that someone remembered that although the shopkeeper's means of doing business were top-notch and he was a good person, he just couldn't understand the word "color".Two years ago, I almost fell out with Yue's family because of an aunt.He even bought an outer house for that concubine, which kind of means that the two ends of the house are big.

Now, the shopkeeper and the shopkeeper don't see the dead or the dead, and the wife doesn't even cry a few times.

Then some people speculated that the disappearance of the shopkeeper and Mrs. He... In short, there are all kinds of theories, and the Lou family and the He family did not make a sound, which made the matter even more confusing.

"That unconscionable person, alive or dead, what difference does it make to our mother and child?"

Faced with his son's questioning, Mrs. He's expression was cold, "Hefeng Building couldn't be opened back then, didn't you rely on my dowry to recover? What happened to him? The one who should kill a thousand knives, for a woman of unknown origin , just forget about all the friendships from previous years! Throughout the year, how many days do you live at home? Isn’t it all happy on the belly of that bitch? Why are you being righteous and charitable? It was all earned from my dowry! Now I have offended the Marshal’s Mansion because of a relative who can’t be reached, if you want me to say, it’s better for him to die, lest he will bring trouble to our family if he is alive!”

As we talked, the eye circles of Mrs. He and his wife began to turn red: "You have forgotten now, what kind of life our mother and I have lived in the past two years? Your grandfather was almost pissed off by that heartless He Fa Cai! Now you want to ask Me!" He patted his chest with his hands: "What evil did I do..."

Young Master He was ashamed after being told by Mrs. He, he didn't dare to say any more, and hurriedly knelt in front of Mrs. He: "Mother, my son is wrong, my son won't ask any more questions, don't be angry!"

Seeing that Master He was soft, the kimono wiped his tears with a handkerchief, and said, "Da'er, listen to your mother, don't worry about this matter anymore, just treat your father as dead. The pillar set fire to Lou's house." Soap Factory, your father is his guarantor. It would be good if the Lou family didn't pursue the matter. If it did, our family would suffer! Now whether he runs away or... In short, we can always live a peaceful life without him. .”

Listening to Mrs. He's words, Young Master He lowered his head lower and lower, and finally replied: "Yes, mother."

Mrs. He covered the corners of her mouth with a handkerchief, He Facai, don't blame me, you were unkind back then, don't blame me for being unrighteous now!

The police station checked for a few days and found out the house with the boss.There was no trace of money or jewelry in the house, and there was no trace of struggle in the house. I also found a letter left by the boss on the table and handed it to He's family. It was proved that He Facai's handwriting was correct, and the case was closed hastily. .

Fearing revenge from the Marshal's Mansion, He Facai took his concubine Axiang to the south.

Immediately afterwards, someone said that not long ago, they saw someone who looked like the boss outside the city, with his female relatives, and looked like he was traveling far away.Now, even if someone still doesn't believe it, they can't say anything else.

After a few more days, the rumors about He Fa Cai gradually subsided, and He Fa Cai was never mentioned again.

In the dark corridor, there was the sound of leather boots hitting the ground, one after another, with regular and powerful steps.

This is a private residence of the Lou family. From the outside, it looks like a small two-story western-style building, but it is actually a prison for special prisoners.

"Young Master!"

At the end of the corridor, the guard in front of the iron gate saluted Lou Xiao with his left hand raised on his chest.

Young Marshal Lou walked in through the opened iron door, and could clearly hear inhuman screams coming from the room on the right.After a while, the cry stopped, and the door of the room opened from the inside. Qiao Leshan walked out of the door while wiping his hands.Behind him was Xiao Youde, and a pale-faced soldier, holding an iron box the size of a medicine chest.If you look closely, his arms are stiff, as if there is some kind of scourge in the box in his hand.

"Lou, I want to protest!" Qiao Leshan looked at Young Marshal Lou dissatisfiedly, and threw the handkerchief on the ground: "I'm a chemist! You asked me to do this kind of thing!"

Young Marshal Lou put his hands behind his back and looked at him expressionlessly: "I hired you."

Qiao Leshan shrugged his shoulders: "But I only get one salary, I would rather work in the laboratory. Your subordinate," Qiao Leshan pointed to Brother Bing standing beside Xiao Youde, "look at me It's like watching a monster."

"I think you're having fun, at least your face tells me so."

"...Okay, I admit defeat." He still didn't understand how this man, who was educated into a Prussian hard rock by the military academy, could keep him speechless every time.

Marshal Lou stopped talking to Qiao Leshan, and took over the confession from Xiao Youde to read it.Looking at it, the brow gradually tightened.He didn't expect that the Japanese had infiltrated into the military government silently, and even his father was surrounded by them!

Although it is not an important position, it will be a hidden danger sooner or later.This matter must be resolved as soon as possible.As for this Kawaguchi Kawako, she can't die now, she has a greater use.

Qiao Leshan saw Lou Xiao frowned and said nothing, "Lou, will you tell Li about this?"

"kindness?"

"This Japanese woman was the one who plotted to burn down the soap factory, and I think he has a right to know."

"Do not."

"Why?" Qiao Leshan was puzzled.

"It's none of your business."

"The hard rock of Prussia!" Qiao Leshan muttered and raised his voice: "Lou, Li is a man, not a girl who is as delicate as a flower. You shouldn't do this."

"I never thought of him as a woman."

"what?"

"This matter is very dangerous." Lou Xiao looked coldly at the cell where Kawaguchi Kokoko was being held: "I will tell him everything, but not now."

"I still don't understand, why?"

"Because she is my wife."

The reason why Young Marshal Lou is willing to "talk nonsense" with Qiao Leshan is just to tell him not to talk too much!

Looking at the back of Lou Xiao leaving, Qiao Leshan who was standing there was still puzzled.Well, even if he has Chinese blood, he still can't understand what is going on in the minds of traditional Chinese men.If Li Jinyan knew that Lou Xiao was hiding from him, wouldn't he be angry?

"Xiao, what do you think?"

Xiao Youde looked at Qiao Leshan innocently, and wanted to say, sir, which language did you and the young marshal speak just now?He can't understand a word...

In fact, Li Jinyan already knew what Kawaguchi Kawako and the Japanese were doing secretly.After careful consideration, he asked the dumb uncle to stop the pursuit.

"That's it." Li Jinyan said to Uncle Dumb: "No matter who captured this Japanese woman, as long as she is in the hands of the Lou family, this matter will come to fruition sooner or later."

Uncle Dumb dipped his finger in the tea and wrote three words on the table: "Why?"

"Uncle Dumb, you have eaten more salt than I have eaten rice. You should understand better than me what the people in power are most taboo about." Li Jinyan said: "Those Japanese factories and firms are nothing, but this one named Kawaguchi Women, but it will involve some things that I can't know now. It's not that I don't want to know, but I can't know. "

The dumb uncle didn't speak.

"Of course, I won't do nothing." Li Jinyan said, with a malicious smile on the corner of his mouth, "Since the Japanese can play dirty with me, it's not like I won't fight back when I'm bullied. Let's see Let's see, who can beat who..."

On the same day, Marshal Lou reported to Marshal Lou about Kawaguchi Kawako, and when he returned to the room, he saw Li Jinyan sitting at the table, looking at him with a smile on his face.

For some reason, Master Lou suddenly recalled the day he fell off the training equipment...

Young Marshal Lou remained calm, Li Sanshao stood up courteously, and took the initiative to take Marshal Lou's military cap and belt, "Young Marshal, you are back."

"En." Looking at Li Jinyan, Lou Xiao felt more and more that something was wrong.

"Young Marshal, I just talked to the Marshal."

"kindness."

"Are you hungry? Are you thirsty?"

"..." Young Marshal Lou confirmed that something was very wrong.

Lou Xiao didn't speak, just looked at him fixedly.The smile on Li Jinyan's face was a little stiff, he touched his nose, and said honestly: "Young Marshal, I have something to discuss with you."

"what's up?"

"It's those Russian prisoners. Aren't there some people who are here with us and don't want to go?"

Thinking of this incident, Li Jinyan also felt a little funny.More than 500 old men who were captured by Lou Xiao, when they heard that they were going to be sent back to Russia, more than half of them told the guards that they didn't want to go back!

"We can work, serve as soldiers, and do anything!" Russian Corporal Ivan, who was elected as a representative, said, "Don't send us back!"

At first, the soldiers guarding them thought that these old men were playing tricks, but no matter how they asked, these old men just said one word, don't go!

Seeing the Russian officials who came to bring people, they squatted on the ground one by one, like a group of large potatoes.

The personnel on both sides are a little dumbfounded, they can't be picked up like a carrot, right?Besides, all of them have big shoulders, round waists, and tall men, so they should be able to be picked up!

There is nothing wrong with it, the Russian diplomats can only leave with those who are willing to leave first, and the remaining Russians have finally told the truth to the guards.Most of them were bankrupt freemen, and some were serfs.In the past few years, natural disasters and man-made disasters have continued in Russia, and the grain harvest has not been good. Even rich peasants have no surplus at home, let alone serfs who have no private property and can only depend on their masters. Hungry is commonplace.

The Russian upper class also tried to improve this system that hindered social progress. For example, Alexander II, the grandfather of the current Tsar Nicholas II, issued an edict to abolish serfdom, but he was assassinated.The former imperial prime minister, Stolypin, also carried out land reforms, but he also died at the gunpoint of assassins.

The life of the peasants became more and more difficult, and the nobles only knew how to enjoy themselves. Nicholas II was the richest king in the world, but his people were starving.

"We have to work for nobles and landlords almost every day, but we don't have enough to eat." Ivan can speak a few words of Chinese, but the tone is very strange, "We fight for the tsar, and we also want to have enough to eat."

After the Russians were caught, they were initially panicked, thinking that they might be hanged.Unexpectedly, the Huaxia people didn't kill them, they just locked them up and gave them something to eat.

When the Russians saw the potatoes and multigrain steamed buns on the plate, they could hardly believe their eyes!

To be a captive with a full belly, oh, praise God!

Russia is a huge empire, and there are more than 100 ethnic minorities.From Peter the Great to Empress Catherine, several generations of Russian emperors have continued to expand their territory, expand their territory, and invade neighboring countries.

Most of these Russians who were unwilling to leave were descendants of nomadic peoples conquered by the Russian Empire.The process of conquering and being conquered is always accompanied by blood and killing.Russia is not so much their motherland as the enemy of their ancestors.As long as they can eat enough, they don't mind whether they work and fight for the Tsar or the Chinese.

The soldiers were dumbfounded when they heard this, is this the so-called mother who has milk?

"Aren't you worried about your family?"

"Family?" Ivan shook his head, "We don't have family, most of them do."

Men in their prime can't eat enough, and they can't afford to marry a wife.As for the old people in the family... when famine comes, they are always the first ones to be starved to death.

When the guard reported Ivan's words to Shangfeng, Shangfeng's reaction was just as he expected, he was stunned.

Russian diplomats came three times, but these Russian prisoners refused to leave anyway, and the matter had to be dragged down.

When Li Jinyan heard about these captives, he rolled his eyes and immediately had an idea.No matter whether we want to keep them or not, we can't let them just eat and not work, right?Isn't there still a saying of reform through labor for detaining prisoners in later generations?

"Young commander, those Russians who are unwilling to leave may be of great use."

Marshal Lou raised one eyebrow, and Li Jinyan leaned close to his ear pretending to be mysterious, and lowered his voice. After saying this and that, he became more and more excited as he talked, and he didn't notice it at all. While speaking, Young Marshal Lou's hand had already lifted the hem of his long gown and penetrated into his inner garment...

By the time Li Sanshao came to his senses, he had already been pushed down on the table by Marshal Lou.

Table, table!Pressed and tossed on it, his waist is either crippled or crippled!

Li Jinyan was so angry that he patted the table, trying to push Lou Xiao who was pressing on him, but he pressed on the shoulder strap, leaving a red scratch on the palm of his hand.Lou Xiao held his wrist, pressed his lips against his palm, and slowly licked his wet tongue along his palm.

"Be honest, it's going to hurt."

Li Sanshao is angry.

Is there anything so cheeky and unreasonable?Do you have? !

In the end, under Li Jinyan's awe-inspiring righteousness, Young Marshal Lou made a strategic transfer from the table to the bed. Li Jinyan took Lou Xiao's hand pulling his gown: "Young Marshal, the Russian captive... Well!"

Lou Xiao raised his head and licked the corner of Li Jinyan's lips: "Do as you say."

Li Sanshao was satisfied.But immediately felt that something was wrong. No matter how many times he looked at this matter, it was all his fault? !

On this day, a strange thing happened in Guanbei City. A group of decently dressed Russians broke into a Japanese-owned business, smashed and robbed them. A few Japanese wanderers passed by and immediately rushed to help. After being punched down by the polar bear, the tall and burly old Maozi surrounded him and kicked him in groups.

The common people in China have liked to watch the excitement since ancient times, not to mention the excitement of the old Maozi and the Japanese scorpion.For a moment, the Japanese who was kicked by the group, and the old Maozi who kicked them, were surrounded by three layers of people inside and outside.

The owner of the firm was also screaming anxiously, but fortunately the police arrived in time, the sharp whistle sounded, and the crowd dispersed in a rush, and the troublesome Russians disappeared, only the Japanese lying on the ground moaning. Ronin and almost ransacked shopkeepers.

The police dutifully questioned what had happened, and comforted the shopkeeper who was mourning and the ronin who lost four front teeth.

As for the group of Russians who took the initiative to provoke trouble, they all ran away, where can they be arrested?

In the next few days, similar incidents emerged one after another. This group of Russians almost patronized all the Japanese companies in Guanbei City, and even went to trouble the Japanese factories outside the city. Extremely.In particular, the two soap factories suffered heavy losses.

It's not that there are no guards in the factory, but this group of polar bears is so many, and there are guys in their hands, the Japanese guards are no match at all!As for the Chinese in the factory, they would not go all out for these Japanese.

After the robbery, the Russians who returned with a full load returned to the place where they joined the guards, changed their clothes, and continued to go back to be prisoners.One-third of what they robbed was distributed to the entire prisoner-of-war camp.After half a month in a row, these Russians have a lot of wealth in their hands.

The confidence they left behind became more determined. Following the Huaxia people, there is meat to eat and money to make!

Honda Kumataro, Acting Secretary of the Japanese Secretary, protested to the military government and demanded that those Russians who caused trouble be severely punished!

"If you don't have the ability, the Empire of Japan will personally send troops to protect the safety of the overseas Chinese!"

Zhan Changqing, who was sitting opposite Honda Kumataro, was grinding his teeth angrily, but there was no trace of displeasure on his face, he just secretly thought that his brother-in-law was unjust, and with so many people under him, he was the one to deal with this Japanese!He said that those who can do more work, he is in charge of finances, does it have anything to do with diplomacy? !

"I will convey your intentions to the Marshal." Zhan Changqing said gently, "However, Mr. Ben Duo, you'd better pay attention to your attitude and wording, so as not to cause unnecessary misunderstandings."

Honda Xiong Taro left, Zhan Changqing immediately reported the matter, Lou Dashuai looked at Lou Youngshuai standing in front of him: "You bastard, you will find trouble for me!"

"Yes!"

"Are you still confident?"

"Yes!"

Lou Da is so handsome that his liver hurts.

In the end, when Honda Kumataro came to the door for the third time, Zhan Changqing said to him with a guilty face: "Mr. Honda, we really can't handle this matter."

"What?!" Honda jumped up from his chair, "Are you planning to shirk your responsibility?!"

"No, please listen to my explanation." Zhan Changqing said: "Those Russians who are not friendly to Japanese expatriates are all Russian soldiers. Under non-war conditions, if we want to arrest and try them, we must go through Russia. Fang agrees, but your Excellency also knows that the commander-in-chief has just fought a battle with the Russians, and they will never agree."

"Baga!" Honda became even more furious, "These damn Russians!"

Kuma Taro Honda's rage was also part of a play, he scolded the Russians while observing Zhan Changqing's expression, unfortunately, Zhan Changqing didn't let him see the slightest flaw from the beginning to the end.

Could it be that this matter has nothing to do with the Chinese people, but the Russians deliberately provoked it?

Honda couldn't help feeling suspicious, after all, the Russo-Japanese War had just passed for a few years...

Kumataro Honda finally left. He thought he had discovered a conspiracy and had to report it to Lord Ijuin as soon as possible.Zhan Changqing stood up, brushed the hem of his gown, well, working with brother-in-law is much more refreshing than working under the president.

With his hands behind his back, Zhan Changqing walked out of the room with a hum, and smiled with the soldier at the door in a very good mood.

Brother Bing: "..." Has Minister Zhan been stimulated by Little Japan so that his head is not normal?