Volume 1: A sound on Wall Street, Xinxiang City is busy copying books Chapter 52: Borrowing Travel Equipment
Subtitle of this chapter: Guess what detective novel our Master Yuan will exchange for.
The reason why Yuan Yanshu and Louis Baker became friends was that they had a "common hobby", which was detective novels.
When our Master Yuan found out that the grandson of the Wall Street banker was a fan of detective novels, he couldn't help but check his B-coin balance on the Master Ball system... Although some B-coins appeared from nowhere, bringing his balance to double digits, it was still far from the 10,000 B-coins required to accurately exchange for a novel. So he couldn't make Mr. Baker his loyal fan for the time being.
Speaking of detective novels, Yuan Yanshu has already decided which series of novels he will exchange for when he becomes rich.
Even if he is not a master of detective novels now, as a visitor from the future, our Master Yuan has read much more detective novels than Mr. Louis Baker... At least he has read hundreds of episodes of "Detective Conan". Although a large part of them are Japanese, in Mr. Baker's eyes, Neo Yuan is a detective novel expert, so the two young gentlemen quickly became good friends.
Halloween is coming in a few days, and it has been a month and a half since Yuan Yanshu came here. Other time travelers who plagiarized literature have probably become rising stars in the literary world. But our Master Yuan, apart from reviewing Sino-Soviet relations and pretending to be cool a few times with his body, seems to have done nothing...
Mr. Louis Baker enthusiastically invited several classmates and friends to attend the masquerade party held at their home. Naturally, he also extended an invitation to the Chinese people he had recently met and who were very good at listening to him. Our Master Yuan gladly accepted the invitation without any hesitation.
On Halloween night (October 31st), the day of the masquerade ball, he made a special trip to Chinatown to express his patriotic feelings and open the eyes of the foreigners.
"Fifth brother, I am here to trouble you again. This..."
As for the people of Jianghu, once they get to know each other well, they naturally become brothers. However, this time, Yuan Yan suddenly met a Hongmen sister who was beautiful, heroic, and a little familiar... but she had a pair of three-inch golden lotus feet, which was a bit of a pity for a time traveler like him.
"Could it be my sister-in-law?"
"Sai Xiaoyi" Li Jie said with a smile, "It's my wife."
Yuan Yan hurried forward, placed his hands in front of his chest in the shape of "three and a half incense sticks", bent down and performed a Hongmen etiquette.
"Well...that Nintendo Yuan Er has met the fourth sister of Anliangtang."
The woman with bound feet who looked like a Chinese lady but was actually a Hongmen brothel owner smiled slightly, holding three and a half sticks of incense, and returned the greeting by bowing: "Second Master Yuan, long live your life."
After they finished greeting each other, Hongqi's eldest brother said with a smile: "My wife heard that you, Xiao Yuan, are also one of our family members. I came here today to apologize to you. By the way, I want to explain your affairs to you."
Apologize... Apologize for what? Apologize for charging too much for prostitution in the past?
Yuan Yan suddenly smiled bitterly in her heart, but her face was full of fear and trepidation: "This is my fault, how can you apologize, Fourth Sister? By the way..."
He took out a beautifully wrapped box from his purse and handed it to Mrs. Li with both hands, saying, "I would like to thank my fifth brother and fourth sister for this time. This is just a small gift, not a token of my respect."
Hongqi Laowu frowned and said unhappily: "Xiao Yuan, you are so polite! We are all Hongmen brothers, why are you giving us gifts? We can't accept this useless gift!"
"Fifth brother, please take a good look. This is not for you , but for my sister-in-law. I came here in a hurry and didn't have anything to show off. I just happened to have this thing on hand. As the saying goes, a sword is given to a hero like you, and a good gun should be given to a heroine like my sister-in-law."
Yuan Yan suddenly saw that the couple did not accept his gift, so he opened the box himself. Inside the box was a very exquisite silver Browning pistol.
In fact, this was a gift that MS. Tang had received before, but she, an intellectual woman and a lady from a noble family, did not like to show off her skills, so she gave it to her boyfriend. Now our Master Yuan felt that it was useless to keep it, so he took it out to offer as a gift.
The thing that Ms. Tang Baokun was not willing to look at was actually to the liking of Mrs. Li, the female gangster. After all, she was an experienced woman in the underworld. She said "Thank you, Second Master" and took it generously, picking up the small pistol from the box and playing with it.
Li Jie was very happy. Seeing that his wife liked it, he stopped refusing and said, "Xiao Yuan, look at yourself. This won't happen again! By the way... I haven't seen you for a few days. You look much better."
Our Master Yuan has not eaten meat for a whole month, and he takes long walks almost every day as exercise. His little body is indeed stronger than before.
"That's right, I have to thank those Cantonese people for their Zhizhong and Wujiapi. By the way, Fifth Brother, where is my friend?"
Mrs. Li put the gun into the box and raised her head and said, "Oh, the guest you mentioned, Second Master. I was just about to tell you about this..."
"We really didn't treat your old friend badly at all, and fortunately the cops didn't investigate too closely. A few days ago, the storm had passed, and we were about to send her away, but two to take her away. You once said that you could do it at your own convenience, so we let them go."
Yuan Yan suddenly thought that the person who came must be a close comrade of the anarchist female fighter. It would be better to let them take him away. Although Miss Enuka Rochelle was very pretty, he didn't want to have any intersection with this group of people again.
He nodded gratefully and said, "I really have to thank Fifth Brother and Fourth Sister!"
Yuan Yanshu chatted with the couple for a few more words, then said goodbye and left with his clothes for the masquerade ball and several Hongmen brothers who helped him carry the boxes.
After Hongqi Laowu sent him away, he returned to the room and asked, "Madam, what do you think of this Yuan Er?"
The fourth sister of Anliang Hall, Jinfeng, raised her hand to tidy up her hair, and said after a moment of hesitation: "Boss, this man is young, but he is very cunning. If he hadn't revealed his true colors this time, based on the few times we met in the past, I really wouldn't have known that he was a brother of the Hong family!"
Li Jie also nodded and said, "Madam, you are right. At his age, he is a single overseas student. Nine out of ten times he will come to me like Xiao Lu did. But he... And madam, you didn't see how powerful Yuan Er was when we were at the bottom of the sea last time. I didn't really believe that he could become a saint at such a young age. But since he is the eldest son of the eldest house, it is not surprising that he can be the second master in such a small family hall."
Madam Li said with some suspicion: "But... Boss, since you are from the same sect, you have done your utmost to help him by taking a risk. But..."
After all, they were a couple who had been through thick and thin together, and Mrs. Li knew her husband very well. She said suspiciously, "I see that you are paying close attention to this person. But this Nintendo is in Jiangsu, and it's a little-known small mountain hall. What use is it to our Anliang Hall?"
