The Jade of the Republic of China

A few days later, in Lixin's boss's office, Du Zan hurriedly pushed the door open, and said in a low voice with anger all over his face, "Xiao Meng, I have had people follow the third master and young master Bai these few days, and it is indeed as you expected. The third master and Li Yongnian I met. The boss must have been killed by their conspiracy!"

The less people know about Bai Qinghe's poisoning, the better. Firstly, it saves trouble. Secondly, it is also because of Bai Qinghe's last wish, that he does not want Bai Zijun to plant hatred in his heart.

Meng Liansheng only told Du Zan, who was originally close to Bai Qinghe, loyal and didn't talk much, if he was asked to keep it a secret, he would die and would not say anything.

Hearing that Bai Qinghe was poisoned to death by Mr. Bai, he immediately wanted to take revenge with a gun. It was Meng Liansheng who told him clearly about the cause and effect and all the interests and interests, so that he dispelled his impulse.

Meng Liansheng listened to his words and nodded: "Sir, there is only one young Zijun under his knees. The third master has been plotting to establish a new government for a long time. As long as the husband is not around, they will definitely be able to control Lixin in the name of Zijun. It's just that their father and son have always been malicious. You are so brave, if you don’t have someone behind your back this time, you definitely wouldn’t dare to attack you.” He sighed sadly, “Mister regards them as relatives, remembering the kindness of the past, and gave in to them again and again. It is a fatal disaster."

"The boss must have expected it a long time ago, so he handed over Lixin to you in advance." After finishing speaking, Du Zan seemed to have realized it with hindsight, and said with wide eyes, "Since what Bai San wants is Lixin, why don't you talk to Li Yongnian?" Aren't you very dangerous now if you're working together?"

Meng Liansheng: "That's right."

Du Zan said anxiously: "Then you still wait until dark every day to drive back to the Bai mansion alone? If something happens to you, Li Xin will really be finished. I will immediately arrange a few brothers to follow you every day."

Meng Liansheng shook his head indifferently: "No, they won't have a chance to make a move if there are too many people."

"No, Xiaomeng, what do you mean?"

Meng Liansheng waved his hand and changed the topic: "By the way, what's the situation at Shunhe Pier?"

Du Zan said: "I found out that there should be a ship of smoke and soil arriving in Hong Kong the day after tomorrow."

Meng Liansheng nodded: "Okay, I understand. You and your brothers should be vigilant these few days. Don't go to the Fireworks and Willow Lane. I may let you do things at any time."

Du Zan said: "Don't worry, the boss has just been buried, no matter how stupid we are, we have to keep him mourning for 49 days. Besides, now that the enemy is at hand, who still wants to eat, drink and have fun?"

Meng Liansheng smiled slightly and said, "Everyone has worked hard. I will notify the accountant to increase everyone's salary and dividends by [-]% this month."

Du Zan was born to be someone's subordinate. When he was young, his family was poor, and he wandered around the streets of Nanshi. At the age of twelve or thirteen, he followed the first boss, a bum not two years older than him. eat.Not a year later, one morning, he went to meet up with his little boss as usual, only to find that the other party was dead on the street, with scars all over his body, obviously beaten to death by someone.The little boss has no father and no mother. Although he has recruited a few little brothers, he is actually a poor man with a lifeless life. When the police came, he dragged him away and threw him directly into the graveyard. As for the murderer, he naturally left it alone.

Things hurt their kind, Du Zan understands that in this world, one has to stand next to a big tree.He was lucky, and within two years, he met Sun Zhidong, who was also from Nanshi.At that time, Lixin had just developed and already had some influence in Shanghai Bund, so it was time to employ people.Sun Zhidong became his second boss. He had enough to eat, clothed himself warmly, and had money to eat, drink and have fun. Although he changed from stealing and kidnapping to occasionally murdering and arson, at least he didn't have to worry about dying on the street and no one would collect his body.As a subordinate, he worked hard and was always the one who rushed to the front, so when he was in danger in Xikang Mountain, he did not hesitate to use his body to cover Sun Zhidong's escape.

But neither the little boss back then nor the later Sun Zhidong actually took his life as his life, nor did he regard him as an adult. A dog that can go to work for its master, even if it makes money, is just a little bit of charity from the boss.

He didn't understand at first, because he didn't take himself as a person.It wasn't until he had been with Meng Liansheng for more than a year that he realized that his subordinates were also human beings.When something happened, Meng Liansheng would not let everyone work hard if there was another way. Life was always more important than money, and when it came to money, he thought of everyone first.

Not only he, but also the other brothers who followed Sun Zhidong were aware of this.

Du Zan rubbed his hands and said embarrassedly: "In this situation, Xiaomeng, you still miss everyone, it's really hard for you."

Meng Liansheng said: "It should be. Everyone comes out to work to support their families and live a good life. Who really wants to hang their necks on the tip of a knife when they have nothing to do. When these things are resolved, I hope to be able to make money safely in the future. "

Du Zan said, "Xiao Meng, just give me your orders, and my brothers and I will make it work."

"Okay." Meng Liansheng nodded, his eyes were sincere, showing respect and trust for others.

A week later, at 09:30 in the evening, Meng Liansheng's Chevrolet drove from Lixin to Bai Mansion as usual.While passing through a secluded narrow alley, he bumped into a stone blocking the middle of the road and fell to the ground with a bang. Immediately afterwards, the killers ambushing on both sides fired several times at the person in the driver's seat. ten shots.

The dense gunfire fell silent, and the car was completely silent.

The baptism of the hail of bullets made the car and the people in the car a quiet sieve.

The killers swarmed forward in the night, opened the car door, and pulled out a bloody corpse from inside.However, someone yelled loudly: "This is not Lixin Xiaomeng!"

"He...he is Young Master Bai!"

At the same time, the Shunhe Wharf, where three tons of smoky soil had just been stored last night—the largest wharf in Shunhe, suddenly caught fire, and within half a moment, the flames shot straight into the sky amidst the rumbling sound of explosions.Li Yongnian, who was originally in the mansion with pear blossoms and begonias, and who was too lingering with Aunt Hua in [-], received the news, immediately put on his pants and went straight to the pier.

The pier is close to the water, so it was not difficult to put out the fire, but the fire came strangely, accompanied by the sound of an explosion.Seeing that the fire was getting bigger and bigger, those who retreated and those who put out the fire, when Li Yongnian arrived, the pier was already in chaos.

He looked at the soaring flames with grief, and yelled at the servants around him: "Hurry up and put out the fire!"

The attendants responded again and again, and rushed into the fire to fight the fire, leaving Li Yongnian standing alone on the periphery of the fire, watching the messy fire fighting scene, like ants on a hot pot, circling in place.

Everyone's thoughts were on the fire, as long as Li Yongnian didn't pull others to give orders, no one would pay attention to him as the boss.Even Li Yongnian himself forgot that he was alone at the moment.

"Boss Li!"

A gentle voice came from behind him.

He turned his head and saw Meng Liansheng's seemingly real and illusory face illuminated by the flames, and said in disbelief, "You...why are you here?"

His people have been with Meng Liansheng for half a month, and they have a clear understanding of his habits. Tonight's assassination plan should be foolproof, but why did he suddenly appear here?

"I'm not dead yet, let Boss Li down." Meng Liansheng hooked the corners of his mouth, leaned closer to his ear, and whispered: "Mr. Bai regards you as a foster father and has always been merciful to you, but you are determined to put him in the wrong place." Death. Just let me take you on his way and reunite with your good nephew."

Li Yongnian came to his senses and wanted to call for help, but his exchange was covered by a loud explosion, and three bullets pierced his back and heart.

Before the other party completely fell to the ground, Meng Liansheng disappeared without a sound in the dark night behind the flames.

A fire broke out in the Shunhe warehouse, several tons of soot were reduced to ashes, and Li Yongnian was assassinated, which made the headlines of the major newspapers the next morning, and became the topic of conversation among wealthy businessmen and peddlers for a while.

There are many gangs in Shanghai, and there are many bloody incidents caused by the smoke and dirt. strife between.

Li Yongnian is a person who values ​​profits over righteousness. Even if his subordinates guessed who did it, no one would risk their lives to avenge him. They divided up the money hastily, and went back to each house to find their own mothers, for fear that they would also die. implicated.

The burning of the Shunhe warehouse and the death of Li Yongnian made the news of the young master Bai who was also killed that night become insignificant. Except for the third master Bai, no one cared that this rich young master also went to Xitian that night.

Meng Liansheng has been in charge of Lixin for a year and a half, and his style of work is completely different from Sun Zhidong's. From the perspective of outsiders, he neither kills nor sets fire, and he never even robs private land again.Every time Mr. Bai met him, he always saw his face was respectful, honest and loyal.

He didn't know how such a dutiful boy managed to manage such a big Lixin, all thanks to Bai Qinghe sitting behind him.So there is a small thought just around the corner.What he thought was that with Li Yongnian and Boss Li helping him, as long as Bai Qinghe wasn't around, killing such a kid would be as easy as crushing an ant.

However, what he didn't understand was that there are many types of ants in this world. In addition to those that can be crushed to death at will, there are also those that can kill people with a single bite.

When he understands this truth, what awaits him is the death of his son and the downfall of his backer.

Meng Liansheng, who is harmless to humans and animals, is certainly not an ant, he is a top hunter disguised as prey.

In the evening three days later, Mr. Bo packed his luggage and prepared to flee back to his hometown to save his life. However, he had just walked to the pier and before boarding the boat, he was put in a sack and beaten unconscious with a stick.

When he woke up again, he was already on the boat, of course it was not the boat he wanted to board, but a painting boat.It should be on the Huangpu River, but apart from this lighted painting boat, the surrounding area is pitch black, with no passing boats or buildings on both sides of the river, it is already a deserted land.

Mr. Bai looked forward in a panic, and saw Meng Liansheng sitting cross-legged beside the small table in the middle of the painting boat, and the two brothers Chang'an and Changping at the bow and stern of the boat.

His face suddenly turned pale.

And when his eyes fell on a man who was also tied up beside him, he was even more frightened.

This person is none other than his youngest son, Bai Qingwen.

Not only was Bai Qingwen tied up, but a towel was stuffed into his mouth, so he didn't make a sound just now.

"Xiao Meng, you... what are you going to do?" Mr. Bo said tremblingly.

Meng Liansheng was wearing a long gown, with a black veil on his arm for Bai Qinghe's mourning, and he still looked gentle and harmless.He rubbed a small teacup in his hand, looked up at him, and said unhurriedly: "Mr. Bai always told me to be polite to you, no matter what you do in Lixin, just open your eyes and close your eyes." That's good, because you are his uncle and have been kind to him."

"That's right, that's right," Mr. Bai's eyes lit up, as if he had caught a life-saving straw, "I'm Qinghe's uncle, how can you be worthy of his kindness in nurturing me if you treat me like this?"

Meng Liansheng chuckled: "It is precisely to be worthy of Mr. Bai's kindness in nurturing me that I send you, the third master, to apologize to him."

Mr. Bo: "You... what do you mean?"

Meng Liansheng said: "Third Master, Wang Cheng has already gone to apologize first. Boss Li and Young Master Bai have followed closely behind."

Mr. Bo now fully understands that everything he has done has been exposed. He closed his eyes in despair, and suddenly thought of something, turned his head to look at his terrified little son, struggling to kneel on the ground, Weeping loudly: "Xiao Meng, I was the one who killed Qinghe. Qingwen studied hard since he was a child, and has been working as a doctor in the hospital since he came back from overseas. His big cousin lost his life, and my old life will be lost to Qingyuan immediately, but please hold your hands high and let Qingwen go."

Meng Liansheng got up and walked over, pulled the towel off Bai Qingwen's mouth, looked at the bewildered young man, and asked softly, "Doctor Bai, do you really not know what your father and brother have done?"

Bai Qingwen shook his head vigorously, he had probably never seen such a scene before, and was already so frightened that he burst into tears: "I... really don't know."

Meng Liansheng said: "Then if I kill your father in front of you, will you seek revenge from me?"

Bai Qingwen still shook his head: "My cousin's kindness to our family is as great as a mountain. If it weren't for my cousin, I wouldn't be able to study medicine and come back to become a doctor. My father and brother killed their relatives for money, which is neither kind nor righteous."

Meng Liansheng nodded: "You're right." After finishing speaking, he turned to look at Dr. Bai's father again, "Third Master, I'm actually not willing to kill people, because killing people is always bad. Since Dr. Bai has nothing to do with this It’s nothing to do, and I’m sure I won’t embarrass him.”

Both father and son of the Bai family breathed a sigh of relief.

Meng Liansheng waved to Chang An at the bow of the boat. The other party understood, and came over with a pine cigar box, and opened it in front of Bai Qingwen.

"Doctor Bai, this is the last box of cigars that Mr. Bai smoked. Since you are very grateful to Mr. Bai, I will forward this box of cigars to you."

When Bai Qingwen saw the cigarette case, his face visibly froze, and he stammered, "Thank you...thank you!"

Meng Liansheng took out a cigar from the box, and a lighter appeared in his hand like a magic trick. He lit the cigar, put it into Bai Qingwen's mouth, and said, "Since Dr. Bai likes Mr. Bai's relic, why don't you smoke it on the boat?" go back."

Bai Qingwen was full of fear, but he didn't dare to refuse. He smoked mouthfuls one by one, but he sucked less and spit out more.

Meng Liansheng shook his head: "Doctor Bai's drawing method is too slow, Chang An, please help him!"

Chang An looked at the father and son coldly, opened the cigars in the box, pinched Bai Qingwen's mouth with one hand, grabbed the shredded tobacco with the other, and stuffed it roughly into his mouth.

Bai Qingwen was crying and wanted to spit it out, but he just covered his mouth and forced him to swallow it.Chang An didn't throw him away until he had finished eating.

Bai Qingwen lay on the ground coughing violently, shaking violently from fear.Third Master Bai on the side shouted hysterically: "I told you that Qingwen has nothing to do with this matter, so stop torturing him!"

Before he could speak, he heard a bang in the night. It was Chang An who shot him in the forehead, making his voice stop abruptly.

Bai Qingwen turned his head, looked in horror at his father lying on the ground bleeding, and finally couldn't help but yelled.

Meng Liansheng shook his head and sighed: "Doctor Bai, you said that if you were your doctor honestly and honestly, it would be great to save lives and heal the wounded, but you must use the knowledge you have learned to help your father and brother kill their own relatives."

Bai Qingwen looked at him with wide eyes, forgetting to cry for a while, and the gun in Chang An's hand was already on his forehead.

After a gunshot, there was the muffled sound of two heavy objects falling into the river.After a while, there was no other movement on the pitch-black river except for the sound of wind and waves.

Meng Liansheng sat back in front of the small table, looked at the dark and calm river, and said softly: "It's all over, go back!"

He picked up the teacup on the small table, took a sip of the long-cold tea, and felt at ease against the evening river breeze.

He kind of missed his small building on Fumin Road.

"Well, it's good that you are fine. I read the newspaper. It seems that a lot of things have happened in the concession recently. You should pay attention to your own safety."

In the office of Shen's Salt Factory, Shen Yutong looked down at the newspaper on the table while talking on the phone with Meng Liansheng.Since a week ago, the Shunhe warehouse caught fire and Li Yongnian was assassinated.The newspapers these days have been full of relevant news, and Lixin was naturally involved. It is difficult to distinguish the truth from the various rumors. Some say that Li Yongnian and the Qing Gang robbed the tobacco market, some say that his subordinates rebelled, and of course Lixin is the real culprit. Xiaomeng's statement may be that Bai Qinghe's funeral has not passed the seventh episode, and Meng Liansheng has never been Sun Zhidong's style of murder and arson, so the suspicion is not too great.However, Li Xinshun and Li Xin have been feuding for a long time, and Li Xin is not just Xiao Meng, who will inevitably be involved in the cusp.

Shen Yutong naturally didn't believe that Meng Liansheng would commit murder and arson while he was in mourning. He was only worried that the situation was so chaotic that he would be implicated and in danger.

These days, he has been not at ease, the two of them talk on the phone almost every evening, and now he is a little relieved to hear that he is fine again

Meng Liansheng at the other end said: "Second Young Master, I have nineteen days left in mourning."

Shen Yutong said, "Okay, I'll look for you when the time comes."

Meng Liansheng said, "Well, let's meet in my small building."

Shen Yutong smiled lightly: "Take care of yourself and see you later."

Meng Liansheng: "You too."

Shen Yutong hung up the phone, and was about to continue browsing the newspaper in his hand, when Shen Yuyan pushed the door open, holding the same newspaper in his hand.

"Brother, what's the matter?"

Shen Yuan said: "You know what happened in the concession recently. I just heard about it. Li Yongnian's incident also involved Bai Sanye. The whereabouts of the three members of Bai Sanye's family are unknown, and it is suspected that they were also killed. These gangsters We don’t need to know too much about what’s going on with Shang, just keep it at a respectful distance.”

Shen Yutong nodded.

Shen Yuan glanced at him, feeling that he didn't take his own words to heart, and said bluntly: "I'm talking about Xiao Meng. I know he is kind to our Shen family and you, and you are friends with him. But He is the boss of Lixin now, even if he didn't do what happened this time, it must have something to do with it."

Shen Yutong interrupted him: "Xiao Meng is still in mourning, it is impossible for him to do these things."

"He is the boss, as long as it has something to do with Lixin, it has nothing to do with him."

Shen Yutong looked up at his elder brother, and said calmly, "Brother, you also said that Xiaomeng is different from us. Not everyone inherits the family business from birth. Some people have difficulty even eating enough. There is no need to criticize others for what they do. , as long as he doesn't kill and set fire to indiscriminately injure innocent people."

Shen Yuan said: "Yes, I have never heard of Xiaomeng murdering and setting fire. But we all know how chaotic the tobacco industry is. For the sake of profit, who doesn't fight you to death? Xiaomeng is now the boss of Lixin, and it is even more impossible for him to work in this industry. Safeguard yourself. I'm not asking you to sever ties with him, our Shen family's salt transportation still depends on the Lixin Wharf. I just hope you maintain a gentleman's friendship with him, so as not to get too close and accidentally get involved in their disputes."

Shen Yutong secretly thought, not to mention that he and Meng Liansheng already had another relationship, even if the two were still just friends, they were definitely best friends, and it was impossible for them to be just friends of gentlemen.

He thought for a while, anyway, the relationship between the two should be concealed, so he simply didn't argue with his elder brother, and just said perfunctorily: "Brother, I have a sense of propriety."

Shen Yuan sighed regretfully, wanted to say something, but didn't speak again.The number of times he saw Meng Liansheng could be counted on one finger. No matter which time, the impression left on him was that he was a pure and honest child, and he even had an old-school gentle, courteous and thrifty style.But he is very clear that a young man in his early twenties can secure the position of the new boss, and it is absolutely impossible to rely on pure and honest duty.

Compared with his elder brother's judgment on Meng Liansheng due to various hearsay, Shen Yutong thought that he didn't say [-]% of Meng Liansheng, but he definitely knew [-]% of it.

They have been together in Xikang day and night for three months, and they still have a lifelong friendship.He believed in his eyes and his feelings, and would never misunderstand him in the slightest because of the rumors from the outside world.

He is the one I love, and I should trust him.

The author has something to say:

As for why Bai Qinghe didn't take revenge, he was about to die, he really couldn't care less, the only thing he could do was to bet on Meng Liansheng with all his wealth, in exchange for his son's safety.What he thought was, walk calmly and let his son be less shadowed.

He himself is a kind-hearted person who values ​​love, righteousness, and kindness, and he can be regarded as a hero made by the times.When there are too many weaknesses, after the wife and children have accidents, they wash their hands and believe in Buddhism, so this ending is caused.At the beginning, he brought Xiao Meng back because he felt that the other party was very similar to himself before.But in fact, the two are completely alike.