Lin Youde maintains considerable ties with revolutionaries overseas, especially Hong Kong.
If Xia Fanglan really went to the revolution, then Lin Youde was indeed the person who was most likely to find Xia Fanglan quickly on the ground in Guangzhou at this time. I believe that this is the reason why the old man of the Xia family rushed to Lin Youde in a fierce manner.
While welcoming the old man into his own house, Lin Youde had asked Johnnie to go to the telegraph office to telegraph Chen Haihui to inform him of the situation here and let him pay attention to the ship from Guangzhou to Hong Kong. If there is no one in the Guangzhou territory, Xia Fanglan can only
I went to Hong Kong.
After entering the flower hall of Longyuan Pavilion, Lin Youde deliberately gave Xia Ri to the top position. The old man was not polite and sat down as soon as he lifted his long gown. Lin Youde was not angry either. Originally, he was a new young man who was born at the turn of the century.
I am not interested in the complex rules of seniority in this era. I just sit there, but where is it different.
After all the guests of the hosts sat down, Lin Youde's maids pushed the Western-style dining car into the flower hall and started to serve black tea and snacks. As a result, Old Man Xia Risheng frowned. The old man pushed the tea cup brought by the maid to the side.
He said unhappily: "I can't bear this kind of foreign tea."
"What's going on?" Lin Youde pretended to be angry and scolded the maid, "Hurry up, change the old man Tieguanyin."
A maid trotted and left the flower hall.
The old man Xia Risheng's eyes followed the leaving maid, then turned to the maid on standby in the room, looked up and down, and the old man spoke: "Hmph, I heard that the shopkeeper Lin is good at using girls for a long time, today
It turns out that the reputation is indeed good, these girls have trained well."
Lin Youde thought that was nothing nonsense. The few maids in this yard were developed by maids. They usually practice according to the standards of practicing flight attendants at the last time and space airline, and of course they are well-trained.
As for the faint sarcasm in the old man's words, Lin Youde was too lazy to deal with it, and he would not be too sarcastic. He would not lose his reputation if he saw no one here.
Lin Youde smiled and replied, "The old man has been too proud."
"Hmph," Xia Risheng still had a cold face. He picked up the Tieguanyin that the maid had replaced him with at a rapid speed, took a sip, and continued, "Shopkeeper Lin, you just said you wanted to help me find Lan'er,
I wonder what a wonderful plan?"
"Old master, the ninth son of the Chen family is now helping Lin in Hong Kong. I have sent someone to call a telegram to make him pay attention to the steamer who arrived in Hong Kong today. Once you find out, there will be news back."
"How are you sure Lan'er will go to Hong Kong?"
"The revolutionaries in Guangzhou have been wiped out by the court. If the young lady wants to revolution, she can only go to Hong Kong."
Old Man Xia did not comment, but just lowered his head to continue to taste tea. After a while, the old man casually said to Lin Youde: "My baby Lan'er in summer is the most beautiful person in summer. She holds it in her hand and is afraid of falling, and hold it in her mouth and is afraid of melting. Last spring was early
Since then, I have never been willing to agree to many good families who come to propose marriage. I just want Lan'er to marry an excellent family and be rich for the rest of her life in the future. Now, it's better to be a girl's house, want to go out to revolution and make a fuss!"
Lin Youde quickly agreed, but he didn't agree. There were more strong women in the era he had lived in.
After a long time, I heard Old Man Xia telling the whole flower hall how baby he was and how cute his granddaughter was when he was a child. He completely lost the domineering spirit of the old man at the beginning, and was simply a doting granddaughter.
The old man Lin Youde could see that the old man was anxious because his granddaughter ran away from home. He mobilized all his troops to question the crime. There was probably this reason.
The old man spitted for a long time and seemed to finally say he was tired. He coughed twice, picked up the tea cup and took a sip of tea, and then looked at Lin Youde.
"Shopkeeper Lin, if you can find Lan'er, I will definitely thank you very much. If you can't find it, hum," the old man sneered, and the cold flashed in his eyes made Lin Youde's back a layer of goose bumps, "This
Guangzhou, you don’t have to stay there.”
After saying that, without waiting for Lin Youde to react, the old man put the teacup on the Eight Immortals table, slapped his thigh and stood up, and walked out of the flower hall without looking back.
Lin Youde followed the old man respectfully, sent the old man out of the gate of Longyuan Pavilion, and immediately asked Xue Daiba for questions...
"What do you know about Xia Fanglan?"
Ba shook her head: "I have never seen her again after seeing her the night that Wang Tianlin passed away."
"Have you heard that the revolutionary party lurking in Guangzhou contacted her?"
The girl still shook her head.
Lin Youde thought about it and felt that Xue Daiba would not have any information, so he stopped asking. He held his hands behind his back and took a step to start walking in the yard of Longyuan Pavilion, thinking about how to deal with the situation in front of him.
The power of the Xia family left a deep impression on Lin Youde. If he could get the support of the Xia family, even if it was just nominal support, it would be much more convenient for Lin Youde to develop his own power or plan an uprising in the Guangzhou area in the future.
If Xia Fanglan couldn't come back or something happened, he might not get out of Guangzhou like the old man in the Xia family threatened, but it is certain that his career will be hit.
After walking around the yard for two times, Lin Youde sighed and murmured to himself: "Xia Fanglan, Xia Fanglan, I'll leave you without eating, you're going to cause trouble for me."
"Mr. Lin?" Xuedeba didn't hear what Lin Youde was saying clearly, and asked subconsciously, looking full of question marks on his face.
Lin Youde waved his hand and said, "It's okay", but suddenly remembered something, turned his head and asked Xue Daiba: "You witches should be able to do divination? Can you use divination techniques to find where Xia Fanglan is going?"
"A technique like divination can only see the direction and fortune over a long period of time. Such specific content cannot be achieved. In addition, I am a war witch, and divination is not my best. I am a good teacher.
It can only be considered as a love luck within a year, and it is not accurate."
That is, it is completely useless.
Lin Youde nodded and began to walk with his hands down. Ba was standing under the eaves of the corridor next to him, watching Lin Youde slowly circle the big banyan tree in the yard.
When he reached the tenth lap, Lin Youde finally made up his mind.
"I'll go to Hong Kong in person. Ba, please write me the contact information of the Hong Kong Revolutionary Party, you stay in Guangzhou. Xia Fanglan will run away from home, maybe she was bewitched by someone - no, it's probably because of the slightest.
Has been bewitched by someone? Xia Fanglan, a girl who has never cared about revolution, has neither the experience of leaving home alone, nor the contact information of the revolutionary party. She herself is not a very courageous and insightful girl.
It’s unreasonable to leave home and join the revolution just because of emotional impulses.”
This is the additional benefit brought by Lin Youde's little white-faced gold finger. If Xia Fanglan really had the courage and insight to join the revolution alone, she would not have become a fool in the gold finger.
"So you stay in Guangzhou and find ways to inquire about the news. Pay special attention to whether the revolutionary party sneaked back to Guangzhou after the Qing Dynasty's mobilization. During my time in Hong Kong, Johnnie To and his subordinates were under your command."
"Mr. Lin, if you don't take me there, who will ensure your safety?" Xuedeba looked very worried.
Lin Youde could only smile bitterly, and he turned around and began to pace around the big banyan tree again.
In the current situation, the dog-beating team has not yet been trained, and Chen Haihui is in Hong Kong again. If Lin Youde takes Ba away, it is difficult to guarantee that no one will come to the next. As an emerging force in Guangzhou, Lin Youde's foundation is unstable, and now he can expand in a stable manner.
The career depends on Chen Haihui and Chen Jiu Ge's people's expectations, and Xue Daiba's deterrence as a god's goddess, and the rest is unreliable. For example, Lin Youde's connections that he was fooled by the young master every night was basically a decoration.
Even if he is present, the people who are making trouble may still be more fussy and are useless.
So I had to go alone. Fortunately, the journey from Guangzhou to Hong Kong to take the steamer is not far, and I will be able to arrive soon. His current image as a slut has not been exposed. I guess the Qing court would not have thought about it for a while.
Try him.
What's more, the news of going to Hong Kong in person is a gesture. If you can't find Xia Fanglan back then, you can have an explanation to the Xia family: If I don't have the heart to find someone, Fanglan will be invisible.
No matter how you look at it, it's worth visiting.
Furthermore, Lin Youde also had the idea of expanding his business to Hong Kong. It was a gangster city in the Chinese circle. Now he is the boss of the gangster, how could he not build an industry in Hong Kong? In addition, although information transmission is slow in this era
, but one day, these advanced marketing concepts I adopted in Guangzhou will spread all over the world. It would be too late to not seize the time to expand my business and seize market share before that, and wait for everyone to start using the same concept to run the industry.
Of course, Lin Youde has not yet established a stable foothold in Guangzhou, so he went to Hong Kong to buy a property, which is a bit of a rash taste. But as the saying goes, choosing a date is worse than choosing a day. Now he has this opportunity, so it seems that it is good to go to Hong Kong first to lay down the road.
Maybe you can also be able to charm foreign girls with a niche face and send them back to Guangzhou and put them in a nightclub. That is another good channel to cheat money.
These little guys were wandering around Lin Youde's heart, and our shopkeeper's previous annoyance disappeared.
When Lin Youde stopped again, his face suddenly became clear. He had been watching him with a worried look on his face and noticed this, and his tense expression also relaxed. The girl quietly breathed a sigh of relief and looked again
Lin Youde also had a smile on his face when he was about to do so.
"Just do as I said just now, go and prepare simple luggage for me-oh by the way, I want to take a maid with me, well, let's take No. 3. What's the name of No. 3? Forget it, this
It's casual, anyway, I'll take her there and ask her to prepare it. Are you there a new custom-made maid outfit? No? Take the two pieces as samples for No. 3. I also sent my friend to buy the ones that I went to Hong Kong this afternoon
For the boat ticket, Johnnie To asked him to come to my study after he came back from the Telegraph Office."
"learn."
At noon that day, Lin Youde had dinner, and then explained a few words to Johnnie To whom he rushed back, and then took a loyal maid to board the ship to Hong Kong.