Suddenly, the door on the left side of the room was opened, and a group of people came in. Er Zi and Xiao Wu took the lead, each holding a saber, and surrounded Bai Laosan and the black suit. These were the people arranged by Li Shun in advance.
I'm a little surprised. According to Li Shun's arrangement, er Zi and Xiao Wu should be in ningzhou now. How can they appear here?
I can't think more about it. Almost at the same time, the door on the right side of the room was opened, and a group of people rushed into the room with iron bars in their hands. They rushed behind me and Li Shun and surrounded me and Li Shun. Undoubtedly, this is Bai Laosan's team. As expected, Bai Laosan also laid an ambush.
There was a tense confrontation between the two sides.
I don't look at anything any more. I hold the pistol tightly, pass through the sight of the pistol, and stare at Bai Laosan's forehead, waiting for Li Shun's order.
I know that in today's situation, it is very difficult to win. At best, both sides will lose.
However, at present, Li Shun and Bai Laosan are both in a dilemma. No one will stop first, and no one wants to lose first.
The atmosphere in the room became more and more tense as everyone was deadlocked
Just then, a voice came out of the door of the left room: "don't move, listen to me -"
this is a low baritone, not very loud, but very strong.
I looked sideways. At this time, a middle-aged man with black windbreaker and Xu Wenqiang hat appeared at the door. Behind him, a man with a strange face and a sharp chin appeared.
Seeing the middle-aged man, Bai Laosan sat there motionless, but Li Shun immediately stood up.
I haven't seen anyone who can make Li Shun stand up immediately.
Who is he?
With Li Shun's action, I immediately judged that Li Shun knew the middle-aged man. He not only knew him, but also seemed to care about him and even respect him.
And Bai Laosan just raised his eyelids and didn't move his buttocks. It's clear that he didn't pay attention to the middle-aged man or didn't know him. I guess the more likely is the latter. After all, Bai Laosan hasn't settled in Xinghai for a long time.
I can't understand the origin of this middle-aged man who suddenly appeared.
"General!" Li shunchong middle-aged man respectfully said hello, and then said: "Why are you here?"
Li Shun called the middle-aged man a general, which surprised me. Is this mysterious middle-aged man a senior general of the army? It doesn't look like it!
Li Shun's address made Bai Laosan move his eyelids, and then his eyes showed an incredible and incomprehensible look. As I thought, Bai Laosan squinted at the middle-aged man, with an incredible expression on his face, even a trace of sarcasm, but he didn't speak.
"Why am I here?" The middle-aged man repeated and took another step forward. Then he looked at the thin chin man next to his lower body. He smiled, looked at Bai Laosan, and then looked at Li Shun. He said, "how can you hide such a big event from me? How can I not come to participate in such an important event?"
As he spoke, the middle-aged man had come to the conference table, right between Li Shun and Bai Laosan. The thin chin man pulled a chair in a hurry. The middle-aged man sat down and looked at Bai Laosan with a smile: "this must be boss Bai. I've heard that there's a powerful boss on xinghaidao. Today I can meet him."
The middle-aged man's tone of voice is very modest. Bai Laosan seems to be more useful. He looks at the middle-aged man with an arrogant look and says, "who is your honor? Listen to boss Li call you a general, is it a senior officer in the army? Since there is a general, who is the marshal? Ha ha... "
With that, Bai Laosan began to laugh, and seemed to be a little unscrupulous and disrespectful to the middle-aged man.
The middle-aged man didn't seem to be angry at all. He still had a smile on his face. After Bai Laosan finished laughing, he said calmly: "the general is the internal appellation of several brothers who came back from Japan on the road. It's a humble name."
As soon as the middle-aged man spoke, Bai Laosan's face was filled with emotion, and he looked at wood with wide eyes: "you It's wood, sir
"Exactly!"
Bai Laosan's face changed dramatically. He stood up and quickly bowed: "boss Wu, I'm sorry. I haven't seen boss Wu in person since I came to Xinghai. But boss Wu's name is as loud as thunder. Today, my younger brother has eyes and doesn't know what to do. I'm sorry to offend boss Wu by neglecting him. I'll forgive you a lot."
In my heart, I was greatly surprised that this wood was so sacred that Bai Laosan suddenly became respectful when he heard the name. Is this wood a bigger black boss than Li Shun and Bai Laosan on the way of Xinghai? Is there a stronger official background?
At this time, wood's face showed a confident smile: "boss Bai is not polite, I don't know who is not strange. In fact, it can't blame boss Bai, but it should blame me. Boss Bai has been in Xinghai for such a long time. I'm so ashamed that my host hasn't had time to clean up boss Bai."
Wood's words seemed very magnanimous. Bai Laosan even couldn't bear them. He said: "boss Wu is generous. I'm very ashamed."Woody waved his hand: "boss Bai, please sit down. They are all my brothers. Don't talk too much about politeness."
Bai Laosan just sat down.
Then wood looked at the tense situation between the two sides and nodded with a smile: "I don't know why the two brothers are so nervous today, ha ha We are all on the road. It will hurt the harmony. I see, two brothers give me a face, all temporarily accept, each return to each team, OK? If you have anything to do, please speak calmly and let me make a judgment for you. Of course, the premise is that the two bosses can trust me and look up to me... "
When Wood said this, Li Shun immediately made a gesture to ER Zi and Xiao Wu, and winked at me. I immediately put away the gun. Er Zi and Xiao Wu, with their men and horses, put away their sabres and walked to the back of Li Shun and me.
At the same time, Bai Laosan's bodyguards also put away the gun, his men also put away the iron bar, moved to Bai Laosan behind.
Wood then laughed: "well, it's good. Thank you for giving me face. It seems that I still have a lot of face today."
Both Li Shun and Bai Laosan laughed at wood. Li Shun said, "the general has spoken. Li Shun dare not listen to him!" Bai Laosan said, "when I meet boss Wu for the first time, I can't help giving boss Wu face."
"Thank you Thank you both Wood saluted Li Shun and Bai Laosan in turn, with a sullen smile on his face.
Li Baoshun and Lao Bai are busy.
Then wood took out a cigar, and the thin chin man behind him quickly took out the fire to light it.
Wood's manner of smoking cigars at the moment seemed to be a bit of General Patton's manner. After a few puffs of smoke, he kept silent, with a certain degree of arrogance.
Li Shun and Bai Laosan did not speak. Although there were a lot of people in the room, it was very quiet. Even we could hear everyone's breathing. No one dared to cough.
After a long time, wood began to speak and said to the thin man beside him: "Xiao Huang, go and tell the waiter to change the tea. I want a good Tie Guanyin. Give me a cup and change it for the two bosses --"
"yes, general!" The skinny man, known as Xiao Huang, bowed obediently and went out.
At this time, wood looked at everyone, his face again with a smile: "ah - why are you so restrained? Relax, don't do that."
When Wood said that, everyone became a little relaxed. Some people began to cough slightly, and some began to whisper.
At this time, I whispered with ER Zi, and then I knew that Er Zi and Xiao Wu were called back from ningzhou by Li Shun this morning. I asked about wood's identity and background again. Er Zi seemed to know more about it. He whispered to me in a simple way. After that, I realized that wood was really not simple.
It turned out that this wood's real name was Zhang Qiang. He came from Liaocheng, Shandong Province, where donkey hide gelatin was produced. I didn't know what he had done in his hometown in the early years, so he went to Japan and changed his name to wood.
It was in Japan that Li Shun met him. When Li Shun met wood, wood had already joined the Shankou formation and had become a small leader under the Shankou formation.
Wood, out of his admiration for Japanese shogunate culture, combined with the title of shogunate general, made himself a general. He took care of Li Shun in Japan. Although Li Shun was used to being cynical, he was always respectful to wood and did not dare to be presumptuous. He called him "general" or "general".
Later, Li Shun returned to China. For some reason, the general also returned to China and lived in Xinghai. Because of wood's background in the Yamaguchi formation in Japan, and because he is quite sophisticated and has an unpredictable background, people on Xinghai road are very respectful to him, including Li Shun.
After listening to Erzi's background, I can't help but look at wood a few more times and speculate that the general may have a stronger backstage than Li Shun in officialdom.
As for the skinny chin man, Erzi said that he was a close attendant brought back by wood from Japan. He was resourceful and good at inquiring about all kinds of news. There was nothing he couldn't find out about things on the Xinghai Road, because his underground work was extremely smart and excellent, and because his name was Huang Zhe, he was nicknamed "underground emperor".
The sudden appearance of wood should have something to do with the underground emperor's inquiry.
As soon as the second son said this, the underground emperor came in, personally carrying a tea tray with three cups of tea. He put them in order for wood, Bai Laosan and Li Shun, and then stood behind wood.
Wood took the glass, sighed, tasted the tea and nodded: "it's delicious -"
then Wood said to Li Shun and Bai Laosan: "two eldest brothers, drink tea!"
Li Shun and Bai Laosan picked up a cup of water to drink tea, then nodded and said, "well It's really delicious! "
Wood laughed, then looked at the company on both sides, and said softly, "except for the two bosses and one of their personal attendants, the others - go down!"
Wood didn't speak in a big voice, but his tone was unquestionable and powerful. Although he felt more and more like a blister, he didn't dare to listen.
As soon as Woody finished, Bai Laosan waved to the people behind him: "you go out!"Li Shun also turned back and said, "the general has spoken, didn't you hear me? Get out of here
The people of both sides left quietly. In the big room, only wood, Li Shun, Bai Laosan, the underground emperor, Bai Laosan's bodyguards and me were left.
Wood seemed very satisfied with the effect of his speech, nodded and laughed: "thank you for your face. It seems that my old face still works!"
Looking at wood's face, I suddenly remembered the face of a large animal, donkey's face, which is abundant in Dong'e, Shandong Province, his hometown.