Stage [Republic of China]

Her tears fell silently again, her breathing was sore and bitter.

Shui Jiu lowered her head and saw that Lulu's eyes were crying like hearts, with tears constantly oozing from the corners of her eyes, she couldn't help but sighed again. "Lulu..."

"He lied to me!" Lulu said suddenly, beating Shui Jiu on the shoulder with her fist, not sure if she took Shui Jiu as the heartbreaker. "It was originally agreed that as long as he comes to the city, he must talk to me, but he came quietly like this, and then left quietly. This tortoise bastard!"

"Who?" Shui Jiu asked again patiently. "Who the hell lied to you?"

"Who else?" Lulu hiccupped loudly again, and wiped away her tears with her hand.It was fine if she didn't wipe it off, but once she wiped her face, her face was messed up, her makeup was even more smudged, and a few red and black eyeliners flowed down along with tears.

Shui Jiu entangled with her in front of the porch for a long time, and was afraid that she would spit out some earth-shattering words after she was really drunk, which would disturb the surrounding residents, so she took the opportunity to gently pull her elbow inward.

With a creak, the door was closed.

"Who the hell?" Shui Jiu leaned against the door and sighed again.

Lulu told him to pull him into the house, kicked her legs left and right, slapped her buttocks on the floor and wiped her eyes.But this time, she didn't cry like she was sitting at the door just now, she just wiped away a couple of tears, then suddenly raised her head and laughed hysterically.

This wine is crazy!

Shui Jiu sighed again, took two steps closer, bent down, and was about to reach out to help Lulu up from the floor, when Lulu suddenly stared at him, laughed hysterically and said, "You like him too Bar?"

"Who do you like?" Shui Jiu curled her lips calmly. "You have to tell me the man's name anyway."

"Ning Jimin! Why are you pretending to be stupid with me?" Lulu looked at Shui Jiu with a big smile and spread her hands.On the index finger of his left hand, half of the nails that were originally painted with bright red Kodan were scratched somewhere, and he looked very embarrassed.But she smiled idiotically, and the face with the makeup was gone was inexplicably charming.

This kind of beauty surprised Shui Jiu.He didn't know until now that the person Lulu likes is actually Ning Jimin.Or maybe, Ning Jimin really had something with her, but these are not things that Shui Jiu can ask.

He lowered his eyelids and asked again quietly. "Ning Jimin has entered the city?"

"That's not right!" Lulu laughed loudly, "But you can't find him anymore, and he left again. That dead turtle deserves to be a bastard for the rest of his life!"

Lulu cursed again and again.

The outstretched hand of Shui Jiu retracted unconsciously, and her long eyebrows frowned slightly.Ning Jimin has been stationed in the outskirts of the city for a long time, and has been spying on the movement in Jibei City. There is no reason to come into the city suddenly, unless... Shui Jiu suddenly felt a thump in his heart.

"Something happened in the city, didn't it?" Shui Jiu asked coldly as she gathered her clothes tightly with both hands.

"Daotai is dead." Lulu raised her neck and smiled idiotically, her eyes were still fixed, but this time she was not looking at Shui Jiu, but at the incandescent lamp imported by foreigners above her head.

"Which Taoist platform?" Shui Jiu strode forward with a cold voice.

"Which Taoist platform can there be?" Lulu finally glanced at him in the blink of an eye, and in less than half a second, immediately stared at the incandescent lamp again, with her hands spread behind her back, she half-raised her body and stared at him bewilderedly. A few flying insects toward the incandescent lamp. "Ah, I also knew that he came to the city only for his important affairs. He only has the country and the world in his heart. There is no room for a woman like me."

Li Daotai is dead?Shui Jiu didn't believe it.

After all, Daotai is the biggest official in the northern city of Hebei. If something really happened, there is no reason not to beat drums and drums all over the street to find the murderer or put up notices.He stayed at home for the past few days, although it was to avoid those people from the Zeng residence visiting him, but he was not deaf to what was going on outside the window.The apartment that Lulu rents is in the bustling Eryuan, where there are alleys everywhere beyond the apartment building.People in the market are drying their clothes and shopping for vegetables, and some news will come out. There are people who are noisy downstairs every day, and Shui Jiu doesn't listen to any news at all.

"Lulu, are you drunk?" Shui Jiu frowned and asked her solemnly.

"Don't think I'm drunk and talking nonsense." Lulu cut him off neatly, still half-stretched and staring at the incandescent lamp.She was neither crying nor fussing now, and even that hysterical laughter gradually died down.

After a while, Lulu rubbed her forehead with a headache, and said to Shui Jiu in a hoarse voice: "This news has been suppressed, and it is estimated that the whole city will know by tomorrow morning."

"When did it happen?"

"This afternoon."

today?Shui Jiu frowned again, and put together the cause and effect.The last time he accompanied Mr. Zeng and Li Daotai to dinner at Paramount, at the banquet, Li Daotai once said that he would go to watch the dragon boat on the Dragon Boat Festival.

"The day after tomorrow will be the Dragon Boat Festival," Shui Jiu murmured while thinking, "Even if Ning Jimin can really get into the city, he won't be able to get to the Daotai Mansion, right?"

If Ning Jimin really had that ability, he would have entered the city long ago.

"It's true that the day after tomorrow will be the Dragon Boat Festival," Lulu stood up half-staggered, knocked off the high-heeled shoe of her left foot, and then kicked the high-heeled shoe of her right foot straight onto the wall print with a bang.After a pause, he laughed again. "Jibei City is different from other places. There is always a rehearsal of dragon boat racing three days before the Dragon Boat Festival. Occasionally, the government will watch this kind of event in person. At noon today, Li Daotai happened to go."

Shui Jiu frowned.As a native of Hebei City, he does know that there is such a rule in the city, but Li Daotai went to see the preview of the dragon boat race today.Unless there are others around Li Daotai who are tipping off the news, like...informants like him and Lulu.

Lu Lu's drunken eyes slanted, and she didn't know whether she had seen through Shui Jiu's inner thoughts, or just said something in a daze. "I didn't realize until today that he didn't need us like this."

Shui Jiu's heart tightened, and she stood under the incandescent lamp with her cold white gown, and asked her quietly, "How do you say that?"

"You know that in the dragon boat team, there are seven or eight of them are his people." Lulu said and raised her head again, laughing until tears flowed down her cheeks.

Shui Jiu lowered her face, and roughly figured out the ins and outs of this matter.There is a custom of dragon boat racing in Beibei City. In order to win a lottery, the government sets a very high bonus every year. If you can row the dragon boat and win the first place, each person will be rewarded with ten yuan.The so-called great rewards must have brave men, and the poor men who pull carts and run errands all actively participate.It was indeed the best idea for Ning Jimin to mix people in and get close to Li Daotai.

"However, you and I don't need to underestimate ourselves too much." Shui Jiu said indifferently, "If you hadn't handed over the news that Li Daotai will participate in the dragon boat race, he might not have dared to take such a risk."

The dragon boat race in Hebei City is held every year. This year, because the war is really tight, the Jiangnan rebels have already reached the gate of the city, and waves of refugees from outside have poured in. The court on the north bank of the river is now at the stage of dying, and the local officials appointed by the court often We have to discuss with the Jin army to handle one thing.The so-called ordering out of the Purple Gold Palace has long been a secret known to the world.

Lulu was stunned for a moment when she heard his words, and then said, "Sure enough, I shouldn't have gone to Mihang that day, and passed the news to Zhuzi."

"It's useless to say anything now." Shui Jiu sighed, and said a few more words of relief in a general way. "Maybe he never went to the city himself, so why should you hate him so much and cry for him so much?"

"Why didn't he go to the city?" Lulu suddenly became angry. "Li Daotai was shot three times. According to the inspection by the clerk in the yamen, it was Browning. Isn't he wearing a silver Browning?"

Lulu and Li Daotai's family is so close, and they can always get first-hand information.She said, probably not wrong.

Shui Jiu lowered her eyelids and thought for a while. The other one on Ning Jimin’s waist really looks like a 0.4mm Browning. Most of the gun’s shell is silver-plated. In Jibei City, it’s possible to have one with such a unique shape, obviously from the hands of foreigners. Browning here is a rarity.Therefore, about [-]% to [-]% of Lulu's guess is true.

Shui Jiu sighed along with Lulu in her heart.He is not familiar with Ning Jimin, but he is definitely no stranger.Before this person entered the city, he didn't give them any information at all, and he didn't ask them to escape together after completing such a big matter as assassinating Li Daotai.Perhaps... that person had already escaped.

If Li Daotai was really assassinated and killed, the most dangerous people at the moment would be the informants who had assisted Ning Jimin.

"Lulu," Shui Jiu said in a deep voice. "We've got to get out of town as soon as possible, too."

Lulu froze for a moment, then finally calmed down.He just stood there in a daze under the incandescent light, and hiccupped again.Shui Jiu supported her, half coaxing and half persuading her, and managed to get her into the room to rest.

After Lulu, who smelled of alcohol, lay down on the bed, Shui Jiu opened the floral curtain of the cubicle, thinking for a moment.Perhaps, he should also go to the Zeng Mansion to "report a funeral".

21, 21

◎"There is no way to go to heaven, no way to go to earth"◎

On the second day, Lulu slept until two o'clock in the afternoon and didn't wake up. She was probably very drunk, crying and tired and hurting her body.Shui Jiu decided not to wait any longer, and silently put on the floral cloth cheongsam that Zeng's house had made for him. After thinking about it, he specially wore a western woman's flowered brim hat to cover most of his eyebrows and eyes.

As soon as he went out, he got into a rickshaw.also not