On the train, Wang Tianmu booked a box, and the journey was very comfortable. Wang Tianmu arranged passes for all three of them. French currency is not circulated in Tianjin, so they had already exchanged it for silver dollars and small yellow croakers. I was very unhappy about being charged a 10% handling fee.
Wang Tianmu said that he was planning to form an anti-rape team, and a group of trainees would follow in Tianjin and Peking.
It seems that this Sanmu King is preparing to start a big fight and cause a bloody storm in Tianjin and Peiping.
Ma Kui seemed to understand something and his attitude towards the two of them was much better. The two ignored him. Wang Tianmu seemed to have noticed something and arranged for Ma Kui to go directly to Peiping and report to Peking Station Chief Ma Hanshan.
Wang Tianmu's public identity in Tianjin is that of the shopkeeper of Datong Trading Company. Datong Trading Company is engaged in import and export trade on the surface, but in fact it is smuggling goods and laundering money on behalf of Boss Dai and some senior officials in Jinling.
Datong Commercial Bank has shops in Tianjin and Peiping, and Xu Zhongyi and Huang Guobin became the business managers of Datong Commercial Bank.
After getting off the train, the person who came to pick her up was a tall and beautiful woman, about twenty years old, with a graceful figure, capable movements, and a curvy front and back, like a tall cedar tree. Driving a Stypunk car directly to the train station, Xu Zhongyi's eyes lit up and he hurried up to strike up a conversation.
Huang Guobin was a little embarrassed. What if this was Wang Tianmu's lover or secretary? Didn't you Xu Zhongyi light candles in the toilet and seek death?
Wang Tianmu introduced in a low voice: "This is my sister-in-law, Su Lianlian, the chief of the operations section of Tianjin Station."
Xu Zhongyi became even more enthusiastic.
Huang Guobin refused Wang Tianmu to send him home and asked Xu Zhongyi to return to Tianjin Station with Wang Tianmu. He called a rickshaw and went to the address of his home in his memory.
Huang Guobin's home is in Shichichi, a shanty town in Tianjin. In the early years, the area was deserted. In 1878, Li Hongzhang took soil here to build Guangrentang, forming a pit and pond, which gradually stored a lot of water.
After the Eight-Power Allied Forces invaded Tianjin in 1900, the Germans Hannagan seized the land in Xiguangkai and established the Daguang Real Estate Company. They continued to take soil and build houses here, gradually forming a stinking pit about 8 feet deep and 130 acres in length. , commonly known as the smelly pool.
Later, Yuan Datou stole the country, and warlords of various factions fought in a melee. The Hebei area became a battlefield between the warlords of Zhili and Fengcheng. As a result, a large number of refugees flowed into Tianjin. Many people in Tianjin today are the descendants of the refugees who were homeless at that time. They built huts and settled near the smelly pits, making a living by picking up rags, buying and selling old things, and making clips.
When Huang Guobin got off the rickshaw, an unpleasant stench of hunger hit his face. He saw that the streets and alleys here were messy, sewage was overflowing, mosquitoes and flies were flying everywhere, and maggots were crawling everywhere.
After twisting and turning along the route in my memory, I finally arrived at my home, a rickety wooden hut with a white paper on the door, which meant that someone had just passed away.
A thin woman in her forties was holding a pretty little girl of four or five years old, sitting at the door with eyes blank, and coughs could be heard from time to time in the room.
This was his mother, Mrs. Liu. Huang Guobin's nose felt sour, he knelt down to his mother and cried: "Mother, the unfilial son is back."
"Bin'er, it's really Bin'er!" Huang Guobin's mother couldn't help crying, holding Huang Guobin's head and sobbing.
The neighbors also gathered around. When they saw Huang Guobin wearing a suit, leather shoes and tie, they all said, "The guest is back. You ladies will have a chance to survive."
"The distinguished guest has become rich. This suit must cost dozens of dollars!"
Huang Guobin quickly took out cigarettes and candies and gave them to his neighbor, and then gave the little girl a handful of candies. He stuffed the little girl into her mouth so happily that she didn't even know how to tear the candy wrappers.
After sending the neighbor away, he entered the house and saw a pale young man lying on the bed, coughing non-stop. Seeing Huang Guobin, he forced a smile and said feebly: "Brother, you are back."
This is his younger brother Huang Guoan.
Huang Guobin asked him to lie down and asked his mother: "What is the disease? What did the doctor say?"
Mrs. Liu wiped away her tears and said, "The doctor said it's a fever that has infected the lungs. If you want to treat it, you need any kind of treatment. It's too expensive and we can't afford to treat it, so we can only live with it."
"Penicillin, it's okay, mother, I'll find a solution. You clean up, we will move today." Huang Guobin comforted his mother.
"Moving?" Mother asked hesitantly.
Huang Guobin entered the room, kowtowed three times respectfully to his father's memorial tablet, and placed a stick of incense.
"How did dad pass away?"
"Like your brother, he was infected with lung disease and didn't survive."
Huang Guobin sighed, he would rather be a peace dog than a person in troubled times. The lives of the poor these days are as cheap as weeds.
After all the neighbors had dispersed, he closed the door and took out ten small yellow croakers and a large bag of silver dollars, totaling five hundred yuan, which frightened my mother.
"You...you became a bandit?"
"Mom, don't worry. This is all legitimate. Just keep it. I will buy a house tomorrow and we can move out."
In Tianjin now, it only costs two to three hundred silver dollars to buy a similar courtyard house.
The top priority now is to send his brother to the hospital.
He asked his mother to pack things at home, and he called two rickshaws to take his brother to the hospital.
Of course, you have to go to the best hospital. The best hospital in Tianjin currently is Shuige Hospital, which was opened by the Beiyang government in 1902.
I was stopped at the entrance of the hospital. Without a Japanese certificate, I couldn't enter. Because the people living there were either high-ranking Japanese officials or high-ranking officials and nobles from Tianjin. Seeing Huang Guobin leading a beggar-like person in, he would definitely not let them in.
The rickshaw driver said: "It's better to go to Guangci Hospital in the German Concession."
Huang Guobin had no choice but to take his brother to Guangci Hospital.
After the diagnosis, the blond German doctor Hans said to Huang Guobin in blunt Chinese: "This is a lung infection and requires an injection of penicillin."
"Then use it quickly!"
"But this medicine...has no medicine."
"How come the hospital doesn't have any medicine?"
"Penicillin is a controlled drug, only islanders have it... But you can try it on the black market, but a box of four will cost about a gold bar. Do you have the money?" Dr. Hans gave advice.
A gold bar is just a small yellow croaker, which is about 32 grams of gold, which is more expensive than gold.
"Then let's go to the hospital first, and you guys will be treated first." Huang Guobin frowned. It seemed that he had to try the black market. If he couldn't buy it, he asked Wang Tianmu for help.
After settling his brother, paying the hospital fee and deposit, and leaving ten oceans of food money for his brother, Huang Guobin went directly to Datong Trading Company.
Wang Tianmu said: "Penicillin is easy to talk about. Our trading company has it. I will ask Zhongyi to be sent to the hospital later. I will also leave the moving matter to Xu Zhongyi. Just find a house in the French Concession. There is a task for you now. Go and follow a man named Geng Bo’s people.”
"Who is Geng Bo?" Huang Guobin asked.
"A person who defected from Datong wants to join the Tianjin Super High School. If he is connected with the Super High School, everyone in Datong may be exposed. Geng Bo arrived in Tianjin yesterday. He stayed at the Shiguo Hotel. It's best if you can kill him." Wang Mu gave him a Colt pistol, a compact camera, and Geng Bo's photos and information, which were just faxed from Datong.
"The matter is extremely urgent. All the manpower has been sent out, so I can only look for you. You try to follow him, and I will ask the action team to kill him." Wang Tianmu was a little embarrassed.
Huang Guobin demonstrated his makeup skills on the spot and asked Xu Zhongyi to buy some flour, cosmetics, and wigs.
Then after tinkering for a few minutes, he changed his clothes, and the old man with a goatee and a walking stick walked out shakily.
Wang Tianmu and the others looked at each other in shock.
Huang Guobin wanted more than just tracking, he wanted to see if he could kill the traitor directly.
