Lihua Ballroom is the property of the Sihai Gang. Not only are there many guests who come here to have fun and dancers who rely on the dance hall to make a living, but there are also many members of the Sihai Gang who watch the show. As soon as Tang Cheng reached the stairs, he was blocked by two Sihai Gang members with cold faces. Tang Cheng, who pretended to be looking for the toilet, had no choice but to turn around and leave. Tang Cheng, who failed to go up to the second floor and wandered around the ballroom, sat down at the bar again. As time went by, the Lihua Ballroom became more and more lively, but Tang Cheng's mood became more and more impatient.
Looking down at his watch, he realized that it had been more than an hour since he entered the Lihua Ballroom. Tang Cheng, who was leaning against the bar, decided not to wait any longer. The two men in black who were guarding the stairs clearly had knives or daggers hidden in their bulging waists. Although Tang Cheng was not afraid of opponents using cold weapons, there were at least six or seven others in the ballroom. A man in black dressed like them. Tang Cheng slowly squinted his eyes, and quickly calculated in his mind. After quickly looking around the ballroom, Tang Cheng finally thought of a solution.
Tang Cheng reached out and took out a big ocean from his pocket. While the band in the dance hall was changing songs, when all the sounds in the dance hall were mixed together, Tang Cheng suddenly raised his hand, and a ray of silver light came out. He hit a middle-aged man on the dance floor in the back of the head. "Oops!" A cry of pain resounded. The middle-aged man who was hit on the back of the head by the ocean put his hand to cover his head and turned around. However, there were people in front of and behind him, and it was impossible to find out who hit him for the moment.
Realizing that the thing that hit him on the head was actually an ocean, the middle-aged man who was covering his head immediately began to dance on the dance floor. Tang Cheng, who was sitting at the bar, smiled and said nothing, just like the other guest dancers. , just watching the monkey show performed by the middle-aged man. Two people from the Sihai Gang quickly came over to watch in the Lihua Ballroom. Seeing the apologetic smiles on the faces of these two men in black at the middle-aged man, it was clear that the middle-aged man selected by Tangcheng was not an ordinary person.
Tang Cheng's purpose is to cause chaos in the Lihua Ballroom so that he can have a chance to fish in troubled waters. It would be even better if the commotion in the ballroom can draw out Sun Baohua on the second floor. The middle-aged man who was hit on the head by Dayang was not an ordinary person. The two spectators from the Sihai Gang kept smiling faces, but the middle-aged man kept refusing to let him go, and his yelling became louder and louder.
"I won't tell you. If you call Sun Baohua out, he must give me an explanation for this matter." There was blood in the middle-aged man's right hand that was covering his head, which made him even more angry. If you want to find the person who attacked you in the dance hall, you must get the help of the Sihai Gang and the spectators. However, although the other two have been with you all the time, they have no intention of looking for anyone. This is obvious. I want to keep things quiet and don't want to make things bigger.
The originally lively dance hall had quieted down, and the band on the stage had no instructions to take a break. However, seeing how noisy the dance floor was, the band had no choice but to stop playing. "Captain Zhang is not giving Sun Baohua face! That Sun Baohua is not someone to be trifled with. It looks like there will be a good show soon." Some of the many guests who knew the middle-aged man started talking quietly around the dance floor. Hearing someone say that the middle-aged man was an operations captain of the city's anti-smuggling department, Tang Cheng couldn't help but smile.
Although the Lihua Ballroom is in the French Concession, and Captain Zhang is an action captain affiliated with the Anti-Smuggling Department of the Shanghai Municipal Government, the Sihai Gang has been secretly running the tobacco business. If Captain Zhang intends to block the Sihai Gang's tobacco business, the one who will suffer in the end will definitely be Si Hai Gang. After all, most of the cigarettes entering Shanghai were transported through the Kuomintang-controlled areas. As long as Captain Zhang acted mischievously, the Sihai Gang might not be able to transport a single piece of cigarettes into the concession.
The two men in black who were guarding the entrance of the stairs immediately separated and went up the stairs to the second floor. After a short time, the man in long gown that Tang Cheng had seen at the door of the ballroom came down from the second floor. "Captain Zhang, what are you doing? Are you complaining that your brother didn't come to toast you? Come on, come on, let's talk upstairs, and I'll introduce you to a friend." The man in the long gown was obviously very attached to Captain Zhang. They were familiar with each other, and with just a few jokes, he half-tugged and half-tugged the angry-looking Captain Zhang up to the second floor.
As the two pushed and pulled, Tang Cheng, who was sitting at the bar, saw the left hand of the man in the long gown. Sure enough, the left hand of the man in the long gown was missing a little finger. This person was Sun Baohua. Tang Cheng reached out to pick up the wine glass from the bar, but his eyes were always on the man in the long gown. Seeing that the two of them had gone up the stairs to the second floor, Tang Cheng immediately put down his wine glass and threw a few bills to the bartender. Tang Cheng immediately stood up and left the Lihua Ballroom.
At the beginning of the night, Shanghai was at its most lively. People were still coming and going outside the Lihua Ballroom. Tang Cheng, who walked out of the Lihua Ballroom, sat down at a food stall on the opposite street. The only thing the food stall sells is thin-skin wontons. Perhaps because it's opposite the Lihua Ballroom, there are also a few side dishes on this food stall. Tang Cheng also followed the trend and, like the other two diners, ordered a bowl of wontons, a plate of braised meat and three liang of rice wine.
The wontons tasted very good, and the braised flavor was also very good, but Tang Cheng didn't touch a lick of the three ounces of rice wine. Not long after, Tang Cheng, who was sitting in the corner of the snack stall, saw several people walking out of the Lihua Ballroom. The two leaders were Sun Baohua and Captain Zhang. Sun Baohua and Captain Zhang were talking in low voices as they walked. It was obviously Sun Baohua who sent Captain Zhang away. Tang Cheng immediately left two pieces of money on the small table and immediately got up and left the snack stall.
The car borrowed from Hans was parked on the street not far away. After getting in, Tangcheng didn't have to turn around at all. He just started the car and stepped on the accelerator. The black car drove towards the Lihua Ballroom not far ahead. As Tang Cheng deduced, Sun Baohua was indeed here to see off Captain Zhang. Even though the two of them were acting like brothers just now, the car carrying Captain Zhang left the door of the ballroom. Sun Baohua, who was originally smiling, suddenly became cold. Face.
"This Zhang Chuan is getting more and more over the top. He found a few trustworthy brothers and looked for opportunities to trick him. He took so much money from us, but he is still so greedy. He really thinks that our Sihai Gang is his bank." Reaching out to take the cigarette from his cronies, Sun Baohua tilted his head and lit the cigarette, but he did not forget to tell his cronies to find an opportunity to teach Captain Zhang, who had just left, a lesson.
If it were Sun Baohua half a year ago, he would not dare to deal with Captain Zhang, but now it is different. The Sihai Gang has established relations with the Japanese. Sun Baohua does not believe that Captain Zhang can be the opponent of the Japanese. . When he thought of the Japanese, Sun Baohua suddenly remembered the incident a few days ago, and then turned to ask the cronies around him. "Lao Qi, has the Special Higher Education Department said whether this matter will continue? The underground gang is not easy to deal with. I ask the brothers to be careful during this time."
It was Sun Baohua's initiative to act as an informant for the Special High School in the concession. The reason was for no other reason than that as long as they could establish relations with the Japanese, the Sihai Gang would no longer worry about being choked by the patrol house in the concession. What happened a few days ago happened too suddenly. Of the 20 or so people the Sihai Gang lent to the extra-high school class, less than half came back in the end. Sun Baohua would be lying if he said he didn't feel bad.
He was just distressed, but Sun Baohua didn't show anything, because he knew that if he wanted to truly establish a relationship with the Japanese, he would have to make a certain amount of sacrifice. "There hasn't been a reply from the Special High School Department. They just said that we should try our best to find out information about the underground party. We will definitely find out and contact their people in the concession immediately." Sun Baohua's cronies have been following him for many years, and there are many from the Sihai Gang. Sun Baohua has become accustomed to leaving matters to this confidant.
"That's good. Since the Japanese have said it, let's make it clear to my brothers that we should be more careful when doing things." Sun Baohua threw away the half-remaining cigarette in his hand and prepared to turn around and return to the dance hall. At this moment, the black car driven by Tang Cheng happened to be less than 10 meters away from the entrance of the dance hall. Seeing that Sun Baohua seemed to be returning to the dance hall, Tang Cheng in the car suddenly stepped on the accelerator and at the same time, held the pistol in his hand. His right hand was raised in the car.
The car that stepped on the accelerator made a loud roar. Sun Baohua, who was half turning around at the door of the ballroom, couldn't help but raise his eyes and look towards the car. Less than ten meters away, Tang Cheng in the car suddenly stepped on the accelerator. In the blink of an eye, the black car driven by Tang Cheng drove up to Sun Baohua. "Brother, be careful..." Xiao Qi, who had been standing next to Sun Baohua, was the first to notice that something was wrong. Then he shouted angrily and pushed Sun Baohua.
"Poof!" The bullet was shot from the right side window, which had been rolled down a long time ago, and hit Xiao Qi's right arm with a bloody splatter. Before Xiao Qi could scream, Tang Cheng in the car had already stepped on the brakes and pulled the trigger of the pistol again. "Poof!" A second bloody flower suddenly appeared at the door of the ballroom, but it was a pity that the second bullet fired by Tang Cheng still failed to hit Sun Baohua. The person who blocked the second shot for Sun Baohua was a member of the Sihai Gang. He was hit in the back by a bullet and fell to the ground without saying a word.
"Damn it!" Two shots failed to hit Sun Baohua. Tang Cheng, who had stopped the car, cursed in a low voice, then reached out to push the door open, then jumped out of the car and walked around the front of the car, rushing straight to the car. Under the big light at the entrance of the dance hall. "Sun Baohua, today is the day you die. Don't be a traitor in the next life!" Tang Cheng, who was masked with black cloth, shouted loudly. The shell gun in his left hand sprayed a barrage at Sun Baohua and others at the door of the dance hall, and the gun in his right hand With his pistol, he quickly and accurately shot the two men in black who had drawn their guns to the ground.
