gentry

Chapter 76
The stunning Xiaoman attracted bees and butterflies in the other corner of the hall, and a bunch of men came to show their affections.Even Wang Charlie's younger brother Wang Dashan toasted Xiaoman many times with a wine glass, trying to pester Xiaoman.For a while, Wang Susu couldn't control the situation.At this moment, Luo Fei hurried to Xiaoman's side and said loudly, "Xiaoman, why did you come here? The inspector is looking for you."

"Oh! There must be something important. Excuse me, I still have tasks." Xiaoman followed Luo Fei out of the crowd while talking.

"Miss Qin? What's the matter after drinking?"

"Ouch, Mr. Wang, come here, let me toast you." Wang Susu immediately blocked the way of the two of them, and socialized with Wang Dashan.

After Xiaoman escaped smoothly, he breathed a sigh of relief and wanted to open his mouth to thank Luo Fei, but before he could say thank you, he withdrew his smile and walked towards Javert quickly.Luo Fei looked at Xiaoman's back and smiled slightly.

At this time, Wang Dashan was very unhappy after being disturbed by Luo Fei. While looking at Luo Fei with white eyes, he bypassed Wang Susu and walked over: "Are you a woman?"

Luo Fei avoided the topic and began to introduce himself: "I am Luo Fei, the detective consultant of the patrol room."

"The patrol room?" Wang Dashan glanced sideways at Luo Fei, picked up the wine glass in his hand, and drank it down. "My elder brother is so funny, he even invited the useless police from the patrol room."

At this moment, Javert walked towards Luo Fei and Wang Dashan with a cup in his hand, just in time to hear this sentence.

"Luo Fei." Javert exchanged glances with Luo Fei with a sullen face.

Wang Dashan looked at Javert and asked, "Who is this?"

"My name is Javert, the inspector of the Central Police Department of the Public Settlement, that is, the trash policeman you just mentioned." Javert said coldly.

Wang Dashan immediately smiled awkwardly: "Uh, hahaha. I was joking, brother, don't care, don't care."

Javert and Luo Fei did not respond, and the atmosphere fell into embarrassment.At this time, Wang Dashan took out a cigarette case from his pocket and opened it, inside was a neat row of high-quality cigars: "Come on, two, smoke a cigar, I'm a little brother, I'm going to make a mistake, and I'll take the blame for you, haha Haha." With a smile, Wang Dashan distributed one to Luo Fei and Javert each, and took out one for himself, struck a match inward, lit a cigar casually like an ordinary cigarette, and pretended to smoke.As a cigar lover, Luo Fei saw it as ridiculous and a waste of things.

At this time, Wang Dashan lighted the cigar for Javert conveniently.When Wang Dashan was about to give Luo Fei some, Luo Fei immediately waved his hand and took out a match from his pocket: "I will do it myself."

The three of them just took a few puffs, when the tall young man came over and said to the three of them: "Mr. Wang, please take your friend to the outer hall to smoke. There are artworks in the inner hall, so you can't touch the smell of cigarettes."

Wang Dashan curled his lips, and blew a puff of smoke at the young man: "My own house, where I want to smoke, I'm still up to you!"

Out of the help of the young man just now, Luo Fei stepped forward to make a rescue: "Mr. Wang, I also wanted to chat with you. There are many people here, so why not go to the outer hall."

Thus, Wang Dashan angrily led Luo Fei and Javert towards the outer hall.

The three of them passed through the crowd and came to the terrace of the outer hall. Wang Dashan leaned on the railing, watching the dark valley puffing clouds and mist under the setting sun.Luo Fei also started to talk to Wang Dashan.

"This Lin Zaizhong, relying on my elder brother's respect for him, took a chicken feather as an arrow and taught me a lesson." Wang Dashan said with a displeased face.

Luo Fei smiled perfunctorily: "I don't think I've heard his name before."

Wang Dashan snorted coldly and said: "Isn't it just a brat? Hmph, I don't know what drugs I gave my elder brother. In the past two months, he was suddenly promoted from a low-level salesman to a special assistant. It's even more annoying. Yes, elder brother let him live in the villa."

Luo Feiyuan looked at Lin Zaizhong thoughtfully.

Javert whispered in Luo Fei's ear: "It's really hard to guess what rich people think."

Wang Dashan continued to complain to Javert: "The inspector also knows that my elder brother is rich, but he is very stingy to me. He has no children. I asked him for some money and kept pushing back and forth. He didn't know why he died with his property. I can’t take it away, so give it to me right now.”

Javert showed embarrassment, and quickly took a few puffs of cigarettes.At this time, Housekeeper He of the villa came to Wang Dashan in a hurry: "Second Master, the banquet is about to start, and the Eldest Master has something important to announce, so I ask you to go in quickly."

Wang Dashan handed the cigar to Butler He, and walked in excitedly: "Could it be that the elder brother has figured it out? You want to share the family property with me, hahahaha."

Luo Fei and Javert looked at each other, stubbed out the cigar in their hands, shook their heads and followed into the inner hall.When Luo Fei was walking into the hall, he suddenly noticed that it started to rain outside.

When Luo Fei and the others returned to the inner hall of Yuanshan Villa, Charlie Wang stood in the center of the stage in a black dress, with a tired look on his face.Charlie Wang scanned the audience and nodded frequently.When he saw Wang Dashan coming in, he began to speak.

"Dear distinguished guests, first of all welcome everyone to come to the humble house, Mr. Wang is very honored."

Immediately there was applause from the audience.At this time, Liu Mingxu, the personal lawyer of the Wang family, took two steps closer to the stage, holding the document in his hand, and exchanged glances with Charlie Wang.

Immediately afterwards, Charlie Wang continued: "I invite everyone to come here today, because I want to announce a few things to you."

Everyone in the audience began to whisper.Charlie Wang ignored it, and said seriously: "I have been traveling for most of my life, and now I want to take a good rest, so I take this opportunity to officially announce my retirement and end my adventure career."

Everyone in the audience looked at each other in blank dismay and began to whisper.

"I have already made arrangements for my retirement life. I will set up an art foundation to support the creation of local young artists. The foundation will be managed by my assistant Lin Zaizhong. He is a top student at the National Academy of Fine Arts. It will be responsible for selecting funding and supporting objects.”

Before Charlie Wang finished speaking, everyone's eyes were on Lin Zaizhong.Lin Zaizhong was a little embarrassed for a while, blushing a little, looking at Charlie Wang on the stage from time to time, and Charlie Wang returned encouraging eyes.

But Wang Dashan, who was aggrieved, protested in the audience: "Are you confused? Spend money to become Guanyin Bodhisattva!"

Everyone looked at Wang Dashan in unison again.Wang Charlie glanced at the audience, ignored his younger brother, and then announced: "My stocks, deposits and real estate will all be inherited by my younger brother Wang Dashan. Lawyer Liu will prepare relevant documents. The premise is that Wang Dashan must correct his evil ways and not break the law. Otherwise, the inheritance qualification will be automatically disqualified, and the property will be managed by the foundation."

At this time, lawyer Liu Mingxu took a set of documents and walked towards Charlie Wang in the center of the stage.Some collectors in the audience couldn't help whispering, and Luo Fei also intentionally leaned closer to the two people standing in front of him to listen to a few words.

"Wang Dashan is at a loss. The most valuable thing about Wang Charlie is not the things on the books, but his painting."

"Isn't it? If you get the treasure map, you can buy the whole of Shanghai."

While everyone was discussing, Luo Fei heard Chen Shuang, who was not far from him in the audience, suddenly asked loudly: "Who will you leave that famous painting to?"

Charlie Wang on the stage just smiled slightly: "Famous paintings are just rumors and jokes, don't listen to rumors."

Wang Dashan, who was already furious at this time, became even more furious when he heard it, and grabbed Lin Zaizhong who was in the audience by the collar, gritted his teeth and asked, "You boy, what kind of ecstasy soup did you give my elder brother!"

Under the eyes of everyone, Lin Zaizhong was red-faced, and hurriedly turned his attention to Wang Charlie for help.Charlie Wang immediately motioned to Butler He.Steward He immediately led someone to drag Wang Dashan out of the inner hall, and then Charlie Wang continued to greet everyone to enjoy the dinner.The orchestra in the inner hall immediately played cheerful dance music.

On the dance floor, Xiaoman and Luo Fei dance lightly.But Xiaoman's face was slightly awkward, because Luo Fei's eyes were always observing Charlie Wang at the side of the stage.

"I'm not your girlfriend, why did you ask me to dance..." Xiaoman asked intentionally.

"You have made great progress in dancing." Luo Fei said without looking back.

"After I made a fool of myself last time, I asked Sister Susu to teach me." Xiaoman said seriously.

"I haven't heard you mention it either."

"Hmph!" Xiaoman snorted, "I don't have to report everything to you, right?"

While spinning, Luo Fei paid attention to Charlie Wang's figure. When he saw Charlie Wang walking towards Javert, he handed Xiaoman to Benjamin who was standing aside and eating salad. "You dance with Xiaoman for a while."

Xiaoman stared at Luo Fei, unable to say a word in anger.Seeing this, Benjamin quickly slipped aside with a plate.

On the other side, Luo Fei followed Javert and Charlie Wang to a quiet compartment in the inner hall.

Javert was holding a wine glass to exchange greetings with Charlie Wang. When he saw Luo Fei coming, he immediately introduced to Charlie Wang: "Mr. Wang, this is Luo Fei, the detective consultant in our patrol room."

"Mr. Wang, nice to meet you." Luo Fei smiled and held out his hand to Charlie Wang.

Wang Charlie looked at Luo Fei for a moment, and then quickly recovered his expression of talking and laughing.But even the slight change at this moment was noticed by Luo Fei.

Charlie Wang and Luo Fei shook hands with a smile: "It's a pleasure to meet you, Mr. Luo."

At this time, Javert suddenly said to Charlie Wang: "Mr. Wang, can I borrow your phone number, I want to call home and ask about the child, he is sick."

Charlie Wang smiled and nodded: "Of course."

Javert then turned and left, and Charlie Wang also wanted to turn around, but was immediately stopped by Luo Fei's words.

"Mr. Wang seems a little surprised to see me?"

"Oh——" Wang Charlie looked back at Luo Fei, and explained with a smile, "Because I personally approved the guest list, and I don't remember Mr. Luo's name."

Luo Fei stared into Wang Charlie's eyes and raised his glass to him: "Then I'm here uninvited."

Charlie Wang smiled embarrassingly again: "Where, where, it's my honor to have a famous detective come to my humble house. If there is a place where the greeting is not good, please bear with me."

As he spoke, Charlie Wang took out a box of cigars from his pocket, and handed one to Luo Fei.Afterwards, Luo Fei saw that Charlie Wang took out two more matches and lit them side by side. After the matches were burned out, he preheated the cigarette body, then lit the cigar again, and took a slow puff.Suddenly coughed.

"Hey! When I was young, I was always traveling outside, but now my body really can't take it anymore."

Luo Fei took a look at the cigar, and said to Charlie Wang, "That's why you prepared this dinner, and publicly announced your retirement."

Charlie Wang smiled wryly: "I have been busy for most of my life, and everyone thought I was going to hunt for treasures, but how could I know that real treasures cannot be measured by money."

"You mean that painting?" Luo Fei asked.

Charlie Wang was silent for two seconds, and breathed a long sigh of relief through the smoke of the cigar: "I'd rather be."

Luo Fei smiled knowingly: "Don't mind Mr. Wang, I just asked casually out of the detective's curiosity, everyone has the right to keep their own secrets."

Charlie Wang nodded, and turned around to greet the approaching guests, having another round of drinking and chatting.At this time, Chen Shuang came over, held a wine glass and touched Luo Fei: "This is the famous detective Luo Fei in Shanghai, right, Chen Shuang."

Luo Fei glanced at Chen Shuang, but did not shake hands with him.But Chen Shuang smoothed things over by himself: "Did Detective Luo ask Charlie Wang about famous paintings just now?"

Luo Fei looked at Chen Shuang with some disgust: "Mr. Chen is better than us detectives, and he can know what we are talking about from a long distance."

"Hehe. Mr. Luo is really good at joking." Chen Shuang smiled with sharp eyes, narrowed them into slits, and looked at Luo Fei calmly, "We were still discussing with a group of people just now. For whom to leave it, I want to hear Mr. Luo's opinion."

At this time, there was a quarrel on the dance floor, and Luo Fei immediately left Chen Shuang and rushed over to check.

When Luo Fei squeezed into the crowd, he saw Wang Dashan going berserk with a wine bottle in his hand, and Wang Charlie slapped Wang Dashan in public.

"You hit me! I dare to hit me!" Wang Dashan covered his face, furious, raised the wine bottle and tried to fight back, but Lin Zaizhong grabbed him. "

"Are you crazy enough? Get lost!" Wang Charlie's momentum calmed down the audience, and also frightened Wang Dashan into a stunned state.Afterwards, Wang Charlie dragged Wang Dashan towards the inner room.Everyone whispered for a while.

Seeing the situation, Butler He hurried to the front of the stage and said to everyone: "Dear distinguished guests, due to the heavy rain outside, the cable car can't come up. Please stay in the villa tonight. Now the servants have prepared guest rooms, and the number is limited. I can only wrong you to share the room with the two of you." Steward He glanced at Lin Zaizhong as he spoke, and then continued, "Guests who need to rest please come with me later, guests who still want to dance, you can stay and continue."

Afterwards, the crowd chattered and gradually dispersed.Luo Fei and his party gathered together at this moment.

Looking at the two brothers who seemed to be walking away, Xiaoman said with emotion: "Obviously they are brothers who are similar in appearance, so why are there such big differences in temperament and temperament?"

The key point of the others is obviously that they have to stay overnight tonight, and Benjamin was the first to complain: "Oh, I still have a report to hand in tomorrow, so I'm in trouble."

Luo Fei was even more restless: "I'm in trouble because I didn't bring a nightgown."

Benjamin immediately pointed at Luo Fei and teased, "Ha, yes, I don't know if the guest room here will catch your eyes."

Javert blinked vigorously: "This champagne has really strong stamina, I'm dizzy, I'm going back to the guest room first, there are so many people, I hope nothing will happen."

Xiaoman glanced at Wang Susu who was still swaying in the center of the dance floor not far away and sighed: "I'll go and see Sister Susu, she seems to have drunk too much."

So Xiaoman and Javert left one after another.Benjamin looked at Luo Fei flatteringly.

Luo Fei was looked at with hairs all over his body, and then he understood the meaning in Benjamin's eyes, and immediately refused with a cold face: "No way, you go live with the detective."

(End of this chapter)