The middle-aged man whom Lao Zhou called Lao Xu didn't seem to expect that there would be a person squatting at the door of Zhou Ji's breakfast shop when it was still so early.
After being slightly startled at first, he saw Shu Guan's appearance clearly, and a trace of surprise flashed in his eyes.
A big man behind him seemed to want to come over immediately, but was stopped by Lao Xu with a wave of his hand.
Then those big men quickly dispersed to various corners of the street. Some stood at the intersection, and some stood under the big trees beside the street. They were all places with extremely wide views. If there were other people on this street, they would definitely not be able to hide. their sight.
As for Lao Xu himself, he strode over alone.
Shu watched those skillfully and vigilantly dispersed everywhere. In just a few breaths, they had placed the surrounding area of tens of meters under their absolute control, and all positions were marked by Zhou Ji. Shop early as the center.
This is not something that thugs in Jianghu gangs can do.
Shu Guan smoked a cigarette and squinted his eyes.
To be honest, he was quite curious about Lao Xu's identity.
From what Lao Zhou said, it seemed like he was involved in some big business, but Shu Guan always felt that Lao Xu didn't have the temperament of a businessman.
I had also wondered whether this old Xu might be the boss of some Jianghu gang, but now looking at the quality of the people under him, he didn't think it was the case.
He has now come into contact with many people in Jianghu gangs. There are a few martial arts masters in those gangs, but there is absolutely no chance of such thugs who act vigorously and well-organized.
The people under Lao Xu are more like the bodyguards of a certain department responsible for the chief's safety in his previous life.
"morning."
At this time, Lao Xu walked up to Shu Guan and said hello with a smile.
"morning."
Shu Guan also smiled and nodded to the other party, but he did not stand up.
"After all these years of eating, the one-night noodles at Lao Zhou's place are the best for me, so whenever I have time, I will always come to his place for breakfast."
"I was busy last night and happened to pass by here. I thought I might as well come to Lao Zhou's place to have a bowl of noodles before going back. I thought I would always be Lao Zhou's first customer today, but I didn't expect that someone else would be there earlier than me. Waiting here."
As if chatting with Shu Guan, Lao Xu lifted up the hem of his coat and squatted down on the steps.
Today's Shu Guan is no longer the Shu Guan who just walked out of the Peach Blossom Spring more than a year ago. He knows the outside world very well. In addition, he often went shopping with Rong Miao in the past few days, and his horizons and knowledge have also grown a lot under the influence of Rong Miao. .
So he could tell at a glance that the traditional Chinese coat and robe that Old Xu was wearing was not affordable for ordinary people. The price would be at least hundreds of silver dollars.
But just such a luxurious gown, when worn on Lao Xu, always makes people feel nondescript, because Lao Xu's temperament is too vulgar, just like he is squatting on the roadside at this time, no matter how luxurious the clothes are, He still looks like a country farmer, no different from those old men in Taoyuan Village who like to squat at the entrance of the village and brag.
This is also the reason why Shu Guan has never considered Lao Xu's identity as a high-ranking official.
How could there be such a vulgar and vulgar dignitary?
This old Xu's temperament doesn't look like a businessman, but he doesn't even look like an official.
"Little brother, we are quite destined. This is the second time we have met."
Lao Xu continued to talk to Shu Guan in a familiar manner.
"Yes, I wanted to thank you uncle for helping me find change last time."
Shu Guan took a puff of smoke.
So Lao Xu's eyes naturally fell on Shu Guan's cigarette rod. The next moment, his eyes suddenly lit up, and then he took a deep breath of the smell of smoke floating in the air, and his eyes became even brighter. A little brighter.
"The cigarette stick is good, and the cigarette is even better."
Lao Xu was full of praise, and then he took out a cigarette rod from behind himself. It was a cigarette rod inlaid with gold and jade. The cigarette cup was made of gold, and the cigarette holder was an ancient black jade. It's an air of luxury.
"Little brother, where did you buy your tobacco? It smells really good."
Lao Xu waved the tobacco pole in his hand and asked with a smile.
Shu Guan laughed dumbly.
But he actually quite likes people with this kind of personality.
So Shu Guan opened the exquisite cigarette bag hanging on the cigarette rod, which the old cripple had sewn by himself. One side of the tobacco bag was embroidered with a towering cliff, and the other side was embroidered with the stream outside Taoyuan Village. There were flowers in the stream. The swimming fish leaps up, lifelike.
"It's not where I bought it, but it was grown by my grandfather himself. Why don't you try it."
Shu Guan took out a handful of tobacco from his cigarette bag.
Lao Xu immediately stretched out his hand, took the tobacco, and did not put it directly into the cigarette cup. Instead, he spread it on the palm of his hand and took a deep sniff near the tip of his nose.
Then he put the cut tobacco into the cigarette cup, then took out a pair of flint and fire sickles, and lit the tobacco.
This is an expert!
Shu glanced at the flint and sickle that Lao Xu used to light cigarettes and thought. To smoke dry cigarettes, you must use this thing to light the fire. If you use a match, it will have a sulfur smell. As for the lighter, it will have a diesel smell.
Shu Guan suddenly felt that it would not be a waste to give this guy some of the remaining tobacco he brought from Taoyuan Village.
After taking a puff of the dry cigarette given by Shu Guan, Lao Xu closed his eyes with an extremely intoxicated look on his face.
"I have smoked tobacco from many places, from the land of Youyan, Sichuan and Sichuan, and the land of Yunnan and Guangxi. Every year I send many people to various places to collect the best local tobacco for me, but I have never I have never smoked such a fragrant and powerful dry tobacco."
Then Lao Xu opened his eyes and said to Shu Guan solemnly.
"Your grandpa is amazing!"
Shu Guan smiled and tightened the mouth of his cigarette bag.
You praise me very well, but I won’t give you any more.
Lao Xu understood the implication of Shu Guan's action, and the corner of his mouth suddenly twitched slightly, remembering the way he used to exchange change with this boy, and the way he looked at every penny.
Not a happy person!
"How is your grandpa's health? I don't know where he lives now. If he is in Jingcheng, I would like to visit his old man."
Then Lao Xu asked as if chatting about common matters.
"My grandfather is no longer here."
Shu Guan said calmly.
Lao Xu said oh, and the look on his face seemed to be a little regretful.
Then the two squatted side by side on the steps, each holding their own long cigarette rods, and took a few puffs of the same cigarette in silence.
At this time, some pedestrians began to appear sparsely on Xiushui Street. Behind him, inside Zhou Ji's early shop, a ray of light came out from the crack in the door, as well as the rustling sound of packing things.
It should be Lao Zhou who is preparing to open the door.
It's dawn.
"selling?"
At this time, Lao Xu suddenly asked a question.
"What?"
"Can you sell me your tobacco rod and your grandfather's tobacco? Just ask for the price, money is not an issue."
Lao Xu asked sincerely.
Shu glanced at him without saying anything, and his meaning was already obvious.
Old Xu smiled coquettishly, as if he still didn't want to give up and continued:
"Little brother, I, Old Xu, still have some status in Jingcheng. If you are willing to sell it to me, in addition to paying whatever price you ask, I, Old Xu, will owe you a favor."
"Haha, my Lao Xu's favor in Jingcheng cannot be measured by money. Let's put it this way, if you become my friend, you can walk around in Jingcheng from now on."
When he said these words, Lao Xu looked confident and arrogant, as if it was a great honor for Shu Guan that he was willing to be Shu Guan's friend.
That's because you don't know who I am.
Shu Guan muttered in his heart, smiled indifferently, shook his head and said:
"Not buying."
"Five thousand silver dollars."
Lao Xu looked at him with a smile and reported a number.
After waiting for two or three seconds, seeing that Shuguan was unmoved, Lao Xu reported another number.
"Ten thousand silver dollars."
The smile on Lao Xu's face did not diminish.
He has never seen anyone in his life who couldn't be beaten with money.
If it can't be smashed, it only means that the price you paid is not enough.
Just like that female college student a few days ago, didn’t she always despise herself for being old, ugly and uneducated? Now is not the time to obediently enter the house and become his twentieth concubine.
"Fifteen thousand silver dollars."
Lao Xu quoted the price for the third time.
It's okay to say that tobacco is gone after you smoke it. He really likes that tobacco stick and he took a fancy to it just now.
But the young man next to him still seemed unmoved.
"Twenty thousand silver dollars."
The smile on Lao Xu's face faded a little.
...Twenty thousand silver dollars...enough for the people of Taoyuan Village to live comfortably for two years...
Shu Guan sighed in his heart.
If it weren't for the fact that the old cripple had left this cigarette rod behind, maybe he would have agreed directly.
At this time, Lao Xu had already frowned.
Because 20,000 silver dollars was not enough to smash that self-proclaimed female college student onto the bed.
So he said in a deep voice:
“I have always believed that everything in the world has a price, and I am willing to pay more than it is worth for the things I like, but if it exceeds too much, I will not be taken advantage of, so I will not make unlimited quotations. Now I quote you the last price, I hope you understand that if you miss it, there will be no next time."
Lao Xu took a deep breath and slowly said:
"I'm out..."
Lao Xu ultimately failed to quote his price because a gunshot interrupted him.
Breaking the pre-dawn tranquility of Xiushui Street.
The cigarette rod inlaid with gold and jade in Lao Xu's hand broke into two pieces. A bullet grazed Lao Xu's cheek and hit the wall behind.
If it hadn't been blocked by the cigarette rod, this bullet would definitely explode Lao Xu's head.
Lao Xu's reaction was also extremely quick. He immediately fell to the ground, rolled and hid in the corner.
Shu Guan raised his eyebrows and looked towards a house across the street.
The bullet just now was shot from the window of that house.
Of course Shu Guan knew that there was someone in that house, but he did not have clairvoyance. Before the person inside took action, he could not have known that the person inside was trying to assassinate Lao Xu.
Then continuous gunfire rang out, and from the houses on both sides of the street, many people wearing black clothes, black trousers, and black hoods poured out. They all had guns in their hands, and some of them rushed towards Lao Xu. , and part of them went to deal with Lao Xu's guards.
This was definitely a premeditated ambush and assassination.
Lao Xu's guards reacted extremely quickly. Although one was killed and two were seriously injured in the first wave of enemy's cold shots, the remaining ones immediately relied on the cover of trees and walls to launch a counterattack, and at the same time kept approaching Lao Xu. This way.
Each of these guards is armed with two guns, and their tactical movements are significantly higher than those of the ambushed men in black. Their bullets are almost perfect, and one of the men in black will fall with every shot.
So for a while, no man in black could get close to Lao Xu.
At this time, the wooden door behind Lao Xu and Shu Guan was opened a crack, and Lao Zhou's chubby head poked out from inside, with a look of panic and confusion on his face. He must have been frightened by the gunshots, so he poked his head out. Look what happened.
Then he saw Lao Xu huddled in the corner, Shu Guan squatting on the steps, and the two groups of people fighting fiercely outside.
Lao Zhou's expression suddenly changed, and he opened the door wider without thinking.
"You two come in quickly."
Lao Xu almost immediately crawled into the threshold on all fours. Despite his age, his movements were still very agile and extremely standard. In two or three seconds, he climbed into Zhou Ji's Breakfast Shop, then rolled and hid under the door. back.
As for Shu Guan, he stood up leisurely, put the cigarette rod back into his inner pocket, and turned to look at the men in black who ambushed Lao Xu.
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Sudden, ambush without warning, man in black.
At that moment, Shu Guan seemed to have returned to the original Fuhua Warehouse.
But he quickly judged that these men in black and the men in black in Fuhua Warehouse were not the same thing at all.
These men in black are all mortals, and although it can be seen that they have gone through a certain amount of training, they are far different from the guards around Lao Xu in every aspect. If it were not for the large number of people, they would not be Lao Xu at all. The opponents who were guarding him around him.
However, it may not be easy for Lao Xu to escape today's disaster.
Because there were too many people in black, and there were only three of the guards around Lao Xu who could fight.
There are so many ants that they kill an elephant!
Shu Guan sighed and walked into Lao Zhou's shop. Before entering, Shu Guan held his hands in his hands behind him, and several bullets fell quietly.
In the burst of gunfire just now, it was inevitable that some stray bullets would come towards him.
Shu Guan walked into the breakfast shop, and Lao Zhou quickly closed the door tightly and locked it with a big lock.
"Lao Zhou, is there a back door here?"
Lao Xu asked solemnly, but his tone was quite calm.
Shu glanced at him and found that there was no trace of panic on Lao Xu's face. In such a dangerous situation, it was really remarkable that this guy could survive the collapse of the mountain without changing his expression.
"have."
Lao Zhou nodded tremblingly. For this old man selling breakfast, just inviting Lao Xu and Shu Guan in was probably the most courageous thing he had ever done in his life.
"You guys come with me."
Although his face turned pale with fright, Lao Zhou still gritted his teeth and led the two of them towards the back of the store.
Old Xu took a deep look at the fat little old man and suddenly patted Old Zhou on the shoulder.
"Old Zhou, believe me, as long as I, Old Xu, can get out alive this time, you will be prosperous."
At this time, the gunshots outside the house had gradually faded away, and the rapid footsteps of many people sounded outside the door.
