When Bai Xiuling saw Di Xiong put on his suit and was about to go out, he quickly asked, "Where are you going?"
Di Xiong said: "It's time to go to work. I have to go to work at the police station. You are still injured, so don't run around. If you get bored, ask Uncle Fu to get some books from the study for you to read. What do you need to buy? , just tell Uncle Fu, I have already taken care of him, and there is twenty yuan in the drawer, which is for Wu Chunlei to treat his injuries. If I try my best to save you, I must have a very close friendship between you, and you cannot die of serious injuries."
When Di Xiong walked into the office in the afternoon, he saw several detectives looking at him with strange eyes. A detective said to him: "The detective is looking for you!"
The detective's name is Ma Hong, who had a relationship with Di Xiong's late father. It was Di Xiong who helped him become a detective. Di Xiong walked into the inspector's office and saw Inspector Ma frowning and smoking.
When he saw Di Xiong coming in, he sighed and said, "Di Xiong! I have to inform you about something. You have been fired!"
Di Xiong's heart sank and he thought: Could it be that someone from the detention center was guilty? It's impossible. When I took action, the three people didn't see me! He asked calmly: "Uncle Ma! Why did you fire me? Did I do something wrong?"
Ma Hong said: "You sent a thief to the detention center in the morning. After you left, Liang Mazi and two other guards were attacked and seriously injured. They are still lying in the hospital and the thief is also missing. Liang Mazi is the director. Fatty Huang's brother-in-law, and also one of Fatty Huang's favorite concubines. Now that the murderer can't be found, he gets angry at you and says that if you hadn't sent the thief away, maybe this wouldn't have happened, so he fired you. "
Di Xiong said with an innocent face: "This is too unfair. I sent the person in and left without doing anything. It is none of my business."
Ma Hong said: "If it was you who did it, it wouldn't be as simple as being fired. Your life would be gone. Fatty Huang has always had the final say in the Xicheng Police Department. Even if you are wronged, there is nothing you can do about it. You are not the only one who has been wronged. Patrolman Li Fei was arrested and tortured as a suspect because he had a quarrel with Liang Mazi a few days ago. He is still in a detention center. I tried my best to plead for you, but I only got two months of compensation for you. You go home and stay there, and I will try to find another job for you."
He put ten silver dollars on the table and said, "This is your two months' salary. Take out your gun and police badge."
Di Xiong sighed, took out his pistol and police badge and put them on the table. He took out the silver dollars and said, "I bought a restaurant today and it will open tomorrow. I originally planned to take a day off tomorrow, but it seems I won't need it now." .”
Ma Hong was very happy when he heard this and said: "It turns out that you already have something to do. This is the best. Opening a restaurant and being the boss is much better than being bullied in the police station. If the business is good, I will also invest a little share."
When Di Xiong was about to leave, Ma Hong stopped him again, took out two sealed rolls of silver coins from the drawer and handed them to him, saying: "The hotel has just opened, and it will definitely cost a lot of money. You can take this hundred yuan first, and then you can do the math." I invested in it.”
Di Xiong accepted the money and thanked him repeatedly. The money was actually a bribe given to Ma Hong by a big cigarette dealer. Ma Hong was just doing it as a favor. He never expected that he would reap huge rewards later.
In the afternoon, Dixiong went to the hotel to help with the cleaning. He cleaned the doors and windows, pasted the newly purchased pink window paper, and purchased a batch of items such as steamers and flour. He was busy until the evening when he returned home. When the waiters and cooks saw the boss personally helping with the cleaning, they were very moved and thought they had a good boss.
Shopkeeper Wu looked at Di Xiong's leaving figure and said to Du Ma Gan and Zhang Heilian: "From the first time I saw him, I realized that this is a capable boss. Your good days are coming."
"I'm sorry! I caused you to lose your job!" Bai Xiuling said sadly when she learned that he was fired.
Di Xiong smiled and said: "It doesn't matter, I don't want to do it a long time ago."
Di Xiong brought the dinner dishes to Bai Xiuling by the bedside, a plate of scrambled eggs with leeks, a bowl of roasted pork with mustard greens and leftover chicken soup from lunch. Bai Xiuling ate so much that she ate two bowls of rice in a row, making her stomach ache. Feeling bloated, I put down my chopsticks.
Di Xiong said: "You can sleep in my room tonight, and I will sleep in Uncle Fu's room. Your legs can go to the ground tomorrow. If you don't want to stay here, you can leave at any time. I am no longer a policeman and have no authority." I won’t lock you up anymore.”
Bai Xiuling was shocked when she heard this. She originally thought that Di Xiong brought her home and was so kind to her just because he wanted to possess her body. She was mentally prepared for this, but she didn't know that Di Xiong had no intention of doing this at all. .
Bai Xiuling was a little disappointed and asked: "Brother Di! Do you think I'm ugly? Or do you already have a beautiful wife?"
Di Xiong smiled and said, "You are the most beautiful girl I have ever seen. I don't have a beautiful wife either."
Bai Xiuling blushed and said, "Then why are you not attracted to me? If you want my body, I will give it to you now."
Di Xiong said: "It would be a lie to say that I am not attracted to you, but a real man will never take advantage of others' danger. If I take your body now, what difference would it make to Liang Mazi and others? In the eyes of others, It’s just four men competing for one woman.”
Bai Xiuling was silent for a while and then smiled and said: "You are such a good person. I originally planned to leave here after I recover from my injury, but the food you cooked is so delicious that I don't want to leave anymore. What do you think I should do?"
Di Xiong said: "We are friends now. Of course you can live here. I also need help in my hotel. But there is a condition: I will break away from the Fei Ying Gang and stop being a thief. Because I have been stolen from too many times in the past. times, I know the pain of those who have been stolen.”
In the dark old house, Wu Chunlei was lying on a dirty bed. The pain from the wound was driving him crazy. He wished he could just hit his head and die, so as not to suffer the consequences here. He hated the young policeman who injured him. It was deep in his bones, but if he wanted to take revenge, he thought he was no match for him. He knew that he was so seriously injured that he would probably be abandoned by Boss Zhang. Just like other pawns who were abandoned before, Boss Zhang would never fight for a A pawn who is about to die will have to spend a lot of money on medical expenses.
He suddenly smelled the smell of low-quality cigarettes and looked up to see Leng Hanbing coming in with a cigarette in his mouth.
Leng Hanbing, with a gray face and cold eyes, walked to the bed, put out his cigarette butts, took a few pills and said to him: "These are the painkillers I stole from the hospital. Take them quickly!"
Leng Hanbing was only sixteen years old. He had lived at the bottom of society for a long time and had gone through many vicissitudes. He looked like he was in his twenties. He was Wu Chunlei's best friend. It was Leng Hanbing who found Wu Chunlei lying on the street and brought him to her. He carried it back to the old house. This is a temporary hideout of the Flying Eagle Gang in Beijing.
Wu Chunlei said: "I'm already about to die. Why take the risk to help me steal medicine? If the boss and the others find out, they will beat you again."
Leng Hanbing said: "The boss won't know that he and the second master went to a brothel in Changping County to find a sweetheart, and the third master sent the fourth master to the hospital. Only Chunfeng and Tianlie know, you should understand that they are not Will tell."
Wu Chunlei said: "Sister Bai was arrested by the police. The guy had a red mole on his forehead!"
Leng Hanbing said: "I know, Chunfeng has already found out where this person lives. I will take Chunfeng and Tianlie to find him tomorrow, kill him to avenge you, and then rescue Sister Bai."
Wu Chunlei said: "That guy's kung fu is very powerful. Even Fourth Master Fei was seriously injured by him."
Leng Hanbing said: "I know, I was also the one who sent Fourth Master to the hospital. The doctor said that he had three broken ribs. But it is easy to hide from open guns, but hard to guard against hidden arrows. I will bring the throwing knife with me tomorrow. I will never do it." A head-on confrontation with him."
In the morning, amid a burst of firecrackers, the "Zhu Ji" restaurant along Xihe Street reopened, but the plaque on the door had been replaced with the words "Weili Hotel". People watching the excitement saw that the steamed buns, shaomai and noodles sold in the restaurant were cheaper than other restaurants, and they were big and filled with fillings, so they came in one after another to have breakfast. It was so full that Du Ma Gan and Zhang Hei Lian were so busy that their backs and legs ached. pain. The silver coins and copper plates that the guests paid for were piled up in front of Shopkeeper Wu, who was beaming with joy.
Di Xiong happened to see it when he walked in, and smiled at shopkeeper Wu: "It's just a few small coins, and it makes you so happy?"
Wu Zhong said to Di Xiong: "The boss is really a natural businessman. Last night, I asked Ma Gan and Hei Lian to post the opening notice and price list all over the alleys. There were also many rickshaws. Business is really booming today. .”
Di Xiong said: "It's just an advertisement. In addition, it must be really cheap and high-quality, otherwise you won't be able to retain customers."
When a middle-aged customer came to the counter to check out, he said to Wu Zhong: "I used to have breakfast at your restaurant. Why does the breakfast now taste so much better than before?"
Wu Zhong looked at Di Xiong and smiled at the middle-aged man: "Because the breakfast recipe has been changed. Since Boss Li likes to eat it, he will come here more often in the future."
After sending Boss Li away, Wu Zhong said to Di Xiong: "Actually, when Boss Zhu was here, the hotel business was also very good, but the government collected too many excessive taxes and miscellaneous taxes. Xihe Street is the junction of the two major gangsters in Beijing, Qinglong Hui and the Ghost Gang came to collect protection fees, plus a group of Beiyang soldiers who often came to eat for free, so there was no money to be made. Last month, Boss Zhu couldn't bear it anymore and asked for protection money from the soldiers who often came for free. There was a conflict over food money, and the soldiers shot Boss Zhu to death. Sister Zhu filed a complaint with the Yamen. So far, there has been no result. We only know that it was a soldier from the Third Town. Boss, you are a policeman yourself, so of course you don't have these troubles."
Di Xiong said: "It seems that if you want to gain a foothold in Beijing, you must have certain strength." He did not tell Wu Zhong that he was no longer a policeman.
At about ten o'clock in the morning, Defoe was about to go out to take out the garbage. As soon as he opened the door, he saw three strange teenagers standing outside the door, which shocked him. The three teenagers were all wearing shabby black cotton-padded clothes. One of them, a fierce-looking purple-faced boy, put his hand into his arms as if he wanted to take out something. He was stopped by another boy with a green-gray face. The green-gray-faced boy seemed to be the leader. He looked at them. A white-faced boy next to him winked.
