sea ​​situation

Before I knew it, it was already night, and the room was pitch black.

Suddenly there was movement in the corridor, a sound of heavy and chaotic footsteps.

Lu Ming immediately came to his senses, and he grabbed a horn-handled paper knife on the table.

Although this knife is called a paper cutter, it is indeed only used to cut paper, but it is sharper than ordinary knives, and it can be used as a dagger at critical moments.

His gun was locked in a safe on the wall, and he couldn't get it out for a while, so he had to rely on the knife in an emergency.

The reason he was so alert was because of daytime events.

A gentleman is magnanimous, and a villain is long-suffering.Cao Boren was beaten, it is impossible to let it go, he will definitely find the backer of his youth gang.It is impossible for the Qing Gang to swallow this breath, so they must come to trouble him.

Lu Ming clenched the handle of the knife, and came to the door cautiously, ready to wait for the opponent to come in by smashing the door, knocking down one as a shield first.He is not afraid of chaotic battles, what he is afraid of is that the opponent has a gun in his hand.If he had someone from the opponent in his hand, it would be impossible for the opponent to shoot at him indiscriminately.

The footsteps sounded like they belonged to five people, but they stopped when they reached the door.

Lu Ming's heart suddenly rose, and the adrenaline began to surge, preparing for a fierce battle.

"Is this the one?" asked a man with a nasty voice outside.

"It's here, yes, boss."

"That's good, but don't get me wrong. There doesn't seem to be anyone in there?"

"Whatever, let's just deliver the letter, and it's considered a job once the letter is delivered." Another voice said erratically.

After a rustling sound, something came in from under the crack of the door, and then the chaotic footsteps outside sounded again, strangely, it seemed to be the sound of leaving footsteps.

Lu Ming didn't dare to move until the sound of footsteps left the building, then he returned to the table and turned on the light.

At that time, most residents in Shanghai were still lighting kerosene lamps. The area where the house he bought happened to have electricity, so he installed electric lights by taking advantage of the light.

He came to the door and looked at the thing stuffed in. It turned out to be a letter.

He cut open the envelope with a paper knife in his hand, and there was a line of words on the note inside: Mr. Lu, please bring Ms. Yuan Mingzhu to have a tea lecture at the Xiankelai Teahouse at nine o'clock tomorrow morning, and decide the right and wrong of today's incident .

The one who sent the letter was naturally the Green Gang.It was understandable for the letter to be sent to him. I guess the other party didn't dare to go directly to the residence of the boss of the Cao Gang, so he had to pick him as a soft persimmon.

Eating tea is a way for gangs to discuss right and wrong. If there is a conflict between gangs, the first thing is not to fight and kill, but the two parties agree on a place and invite gang leaders they know on their side to the scene. Judge the right and wrong of the conflict.In this way, the winning side will have a lot of face and benefits, and the losing side will not be completely defeated.

Drinking tea is indeed very particular in China, and all the big and small things are separated in a cup of tea. This is a very civilized way of communication.If they are hacked and killed like Young and Dangerous, not to mention that both sides will suffer, even the police station will not allow it. The fighting with weapons will inevitably accidentally injure citizens and affect social order.In the era of the Republic of China, the method of maintaining social order was very simple. If the police could not suppress the bullets, they would immediately deploy the army to control the situation.

If you say that what gangs are most afraid of is not the government, not the police, but the army, because the army is stronger than them, and it is even more unreasonable. As long as you give an order, you can kill as many people as you want, and you can just press the car horn after killing. There is no need to discuss it.

Lu Ming put the letter in a drawer of his desk, sat down to meditate, and sorted out his thoughts.

If you want to find someone to intercede, the best candidate is of course Sheng Youde. As long as Sheng Youde speaks up for a big matter, no matter it is the Qing Gang, Hong Gang, or Cao Gang, they must give some face, but the Sheng family is now He didn't even handle his own affairs well, so he couldn't make any more trouble.

The second candidate was Zhang Ziyang. He thought about it and rejected it. It is very taboo for one party to ask someone from the government or the police station to come forward in a fight between gangs. That would be scolded for being careless, and it would lose the meaning of talking about tea.

Hong helped him meet a few prominent people, but he was not familiar enough to be supported by others, so he would have to spend a lot of money to invite them to come forward, and he didn't know if he could settle the matter.

After much deliberation, he simply put all these behind him. Since the other party informed him to have a tea lecture, it meant that they didn't want to make a big deal about this matter. In this case, he simply settled it by himself.

In any case, he had a reason for this matter first. Cao Boren openly took photos of a beautiful girl on the street, which was obviously provocative, disrespectful, and even blackmailed afterwards. Based on this, even if he was beaten, It is still reasonable to smash his camera, not to mention that Cao Boren was not hurt, the camera was not damaged, and at worst he should be compensated for a roll of film.

He was thinking about this, when suddenly there was another sound from the corridor outside, this time it wasn't the sound of heavy footsteps, but a rustling sound, as if a snake was coming.

Lu Ming's body was tense again, his nerves were like a bow string being stretched, and he could hear an ominous meaning from the slight sound.

How is this going?

He often spends the night in this detective agency, more often than in the apartment, but the corridor outside is always dead silent, there is never a sound, because no one comes here at night, and there is a guard building outside The night watchman at the door, outsiders cannot enter this building without a good reason.

He hesitated whether to open the safe and take out the pistol inside, but he still didn't move after thinking about it.

He walked quietly to the door step by step, then grabbed the door handle, yanked the door open, and jumped out of the door.

But the corridor was empty.

Could it be a mouse that came out to look for food?He shook his head, maybe he was too suspicious.

However, when he turned back to the room, he suddenly found a bright red bloody handprint on the door, which was particularly eye-catching under the reflection of the light from the room.

He could be sure that it was left just now, because the blood on the bloody handprint was still dripping down, leaving a few eye-catching marks on the door.

He rushed downstairs and looked around, but there was still no one. He rushed to the door of the building, saw the sleepy night watchman behind the counter, and asked him if he had seen anyone come in.

The night watchman said embarrassingly that some people did come in, because they were members of the Qing Gang, and he didn't dare to stop them, and no one else came in. He swore that only a group of people came in.

Lu Ming suddenly yelled that he was not good, and hurried upstairs again. Sure enough, his door was closed, was it closed by someone or by Night Breeze?

He stood in front of the door and hesitated for a while, but now the house was not safe.But he can't always stand outside. He took out the key to open the door, and the moment he opened the door, he stepped aside suddenly to prevent the people inside from attacking him.

There was someone in the room, and it was a woman, because when the door opened, he smelled a faint scent of perfume.

The people inside were hiding behind the door, where he had previously hidden, and were waiting for him to go in so as to sneak attack him.

He pressed his body against the wall tightly, and was also waiting for the people inside to come out to make a move.

Neither of them moved, as if they were testing each other's patience, separated by a door, only the slight breathing and the beating of their hearts.

"May I ask where is your friend? If you want to ask for money but come to the wrong place, I don't have any money here." Lu Ming said in a deep voice.

The other party is not a member of the Green Gang, there is no need to doubt this, because there are very few women in the gang, and even if there are, they are all family members, and a female snitch or female killer will not suddenly appear.

There was no echo from inside.

"Are you trying to spend the night with me? I'll accompany you, but in the morning, many people will come. What are you going to do then?" Lu Ming laughed.

He was smiling, but the muscles on his face were tense, and the paper knife in his hand was ready to attack at any time.

"Friend, why don't we sit down and have a glass of wine and talk about how things are going. I don't have money in the house, but I have good wine." Lu Ming continued to tease, hoping to numb the other party or make him make mistakes in his busy schedule.The most terrible thing is that the other party does not move, so that he will be stared to death.

Even though this stalemate continued, in the morning all the people working in this building came, and the people inside had no choice but to arrest them, but keeping him in this position for one night was impossible. He was not a sniper.

It is said that a well-trained sniper can remain in one position for up to 72 hours.He couldn't figure out how to do it, it was even better than a ninjutsu master.

The other party was probably betting on him. If he couldn't hold on and didn't dare to take the initiative to enter the house to attack, he could only flee outside, and the people inside would have a chance to escape.

"My friend, you may not know that my door can be locked from the outside. If I lock the door, you won't be able to come out, and you can only jump from the window." Lu Ming continued to fool.

That's what he said, and he was going to do it. Although the floor he was on was only the second floor, and if he jumped down, he would probably sprain his ankle and not even have a broken bone, but he still wanted to force the other party to jump off the building and escape.

Just as he was speaking, a black shadow suddenly appeared from inside, and the paper knife in his hand instinctively cut out, but that black shadow smashed through the window opposite the door with a stone, and then fell down like a meteor.

What Lu Ming's knife cut through was only the air, and the opponent's body was not cut by a thin line.

His face was pale, and his hands were trembling slightly. Now he was sure that the other party must be a character like a female killer. Just because she dared to break through the window and jump down, she could see her courage and ruthlessness.

But when did he provoke a female killer?

He concluded that this has absolutely nothing to do with Cao Boren's matter, Cao Boren has not been able to invite such a female killer.

"what happened?"

The night watchman ran up panting, and he also heard the earth-shattering sound, so he hurried up to check.

"It's okay, I don't know which bastard was idle and smashed the window with a stone. I'll find someone to fix it when the sun rises." Lu Ming pretended to be relaxed.

The night watchman looked at the broken glass on the ground, and the broken window frames, and murmured: "My good fellow, how heavy is the stone to smash the window like this?"

"That's right, this bastard might be a strong man." Lu Ming let out a sigh with his mouth twisted.