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Chapter 114 Don’t Delay Others’ Future

In a deserted back alley in Tsim Sha Tsui, Han Hongbing sat on the broken iron stairs with a piece of bread in his left hand and a Coke in his right hand. While eating, he said to Xie Hushan who was sitting next to him:

"These comrades are so enthusiastic. What did you say to them that they are willing to help us get the identity papers you mentioned as relatives and send us food and drinks. Although I don't think the household registration you mentioned is of much use, the food must cost them a lot of money."

Xie Hushan bit a piece of bread and looked at Zhu Youjun, who was sitting at another staircase a few meters away and also eating free food. Sitting next to her was a pretty girl of the same age, but with an ugly face as if her husband had just died, and she didn't seem to have much appetite for the free food.

At this moment, at the entrance of the alley, six young men were blocking the only exit, smoking and talking. They looked at the four of them from time to time, but their eyes were mainly focused on the two women, and they occasionally showed ambiguous smiles.

"Nothing much. To come to the urban area of ​​Hong Kong Island to get an identity document, you need a local guarantor. These people are locals from the Freedom Association, and they specialize in providing guarantees for people who come here." Xie Hushan explained to Han Hongbing with a smile.

Hong Kong’s so-called resistance policy does not mean that you can go to the police station to register for your identity once you arrive in the city. You also need local relatives who are willing to guarantee you.

Therefore, many gray businesses have emerged around guarantees.

The South Bay Freedom Association, to which Number Gang is affiliated, is one of the largest companies doing this kind of guarantee business.

They claim to guarantee the identities of compatriots from the mainland who come to seek freedom for free, but after obtaining the identity papers, they are generally directly withheld by them, which is almost the same as not obtaining any identity at all. These people can only arrange their own destiny.

Generally, those who looked honest and strong would be sent to the sparsely populated eastern part of South Bay to open up wasteland and farm. As for women and some men who the Number Gang thought were useful, they would be left behind to make other arrangements.

The foreigners turned a blind eye to this kind of thing. After all, the two sides have been cooperating since the 1960s, and South Bay has always obtained cheap labor through Hong Kong Island.

"Is the Freedom Association a farmers' association or a labor union?" Han Hongbing swallowed his food, took a sip of Coke, and then said with a grin:

"This stuff is full of gas and smells like medicinal soup. It's not tasty. It's not as good as the orange juice in Bingyang."

"They are neither the Farmers' Association nor the Trade Union. They are Chiang Kai-shek's people. They won't help us for nothing. After we finish eating, they will let us go with them." Xie Hushan said to Han Hongbing.

Han Hongbing coughed repeatedly and his face turned red. He found that Xie Hushan was not joking. Han Hongbing turned his head to look at the young men and then looked at Xie Hushan:
"Lao Jiang's people? Is this true?"

"An organization called the Number Gang is responsible for helping Chiang Kai-shek in Hong Kong Island. You can just think of them as Chiang Kai-shek's militia. Their main responsibility is to help Chiang Kai-shek recruit young men in Hong Kong Island and send them to South Bay." Xie Hushan explained directly and simply.

"There's no war, so why conscript men? You think I can't understand the bird language in this place and you're kidding me." Han Hongbing doubted Xie Hushan's words.

Xie Hushan took a sip of Coke:

"The two of us and Yan'er got our identities with their guarantees, and our identity papers are also in their hands, so we are now the fat sheep in their eyes. They will probably take us to resettle after we finish eating, but I don't know where to go. Do you want to go to South Bay to see more? Anyway, I won't go because I don't have enough time."

"Really? Damn it! Xie Siling! You should have told me earlier! I was born under the red flag, I have a country and a family, how can I put Chiang Kai-shek to rest!" Han Hongbing finished his Coke, burped, turned around, grabbed the Coke bottle and threw it at several young men at the alley. The bottle hit the ground in front of them and shattered, scaring them.

Han Hongbing disdained a sneak attack, stood up in the alley, and waved to the young men:

"Fuck your mother! I represent the Republic's militia and will fight you, the son-of-a-bitch Chiang Kai-shek militia! Come up if you are not afraid of death!"

"Hey, don't use your weapons. They think we are fat sheep who dare not run around, so they don't bring any weapons." Xie Hushan drank Coke, sat upright in his original position, and said to Han Hongbing who had already put his hand into his waist, ready to draw his bayonet and stab someone.

"Fuck your mother!" The leading young man cursed and rushed in with his men to teach this guy who suddenly went crazy a lesson!
Han Hongbing put his hands down from his waist, walked towards the young men who rushed in to beat him up, and kicked the leader who had just cursed at him in the crotch!
As soon as the other party lowered his head in pain, Han Hongbing had already grabbed his hair and slammed his head hard against the wall of the alley!
There was a dull thud! The wall was hit so hard that it looked like snowflakes falling off.
Just this one move frightened the other five younger brothers who followed in so much that they stood still and dared not move forward!
Han Hongbing then released his grip on the hair. The opponent's leader didn't even utter a scream from beginning to end. He just collapsed limply at his feet, completely unconscious, with blood oozing out of the wound on his forehead.

Han Hongbing stood proudly, spat on the ground with disdain, and waved to the remaining five people:

"Aren't you here to conscript men? If I don't come to seduce them, how can I go with you?"

The five young men looked at the boss under Han Hongbing's feet, then looked at Han Hongbing, and they all swallowed their saliva at the same time, not daring to say a word.

Seeing the other party's reaction, Han Hongbing asked suspiciously to Xie Hushan, who was sitting on the stairs and continuing to eat bread and drink Coke:

"The militia under Chiang Kai-shek has only this much combat power? Are you kidding me, Xie Siling? If this is true, it means Chiang Kai-shek was beaten badly during the Liberation War, but he has not learned his lesson at all?"

The remaining five young men saw that their boss was kicked in the crotch by the other party in the blink of an eye, and his head hit the wall, with a bloody head and an unknown end. They only felt a slight chill in their crotch!
Looking at the big guy under the other person's feet, even before he fainted, he did not forget to bend over and clamp his legs together, and tried to cover his crotch with his hands. You can tell that the kick must have been very, very painful.

A young man nervously spoke to Han Hongbing in Mandarin:
"Comrade, you..." He wanted to ask Han Hongbing why he suddenly turned against him.

"Who the hell is your comrade! Fuck!" Han Hongbing saw that the other party was hesitating and not making a move, and was hesitating about who to attack next.

Since someone had spoken, he took the opportunity to rush forward, grabbed the unlucky guy who had called him comrade, twisted his back and slammed him to the ground!

Before he could even scream, Han Hongbing No. 44's big foot stomped on his head, knocking him unconscious!
"This guy is definitely not a militiaman, Xie Siling, you must be kidding me." After knocking the second person down, Han Hongbing was 100% convinced that Xie Hushan was kidding him.

The remaining four people on the opposite side had cold sweat on their foreheads, and they slowly retreated towards the alley entrance in unison.

My boss had said before that pie in the sky fell, and three fat sheep from the mainland ran away and foolishly ran into it and fell into the trap...

Fuck the boss's mother! It's not unfair to have your scrotum kicked!

Looking at this guy's current appearance, how could he be a fat sheep who would foolishly walk into a trap?
Maybe they are the vanguard troops sent by the Communist Party to retake Hong Kong Island!
When are there any gangsters in Hong Kong fighting with each other, they have never seen such desperate killing, brutal and reckless fighting style.

Before both of them could react, they were beaten so hard that they passed out like dead dogs!
Moreover, the other party had just pulled their hair and slammed them against the wall and stomped on their heads with such force that they felt that even if the boss and his companions could wake up afterwards, they might become idiots!

Seeing Han Hongbing moving his neck and wrists and walking towards the three of them, as if he was going to continue to harm them, one of the four tried hard to smile and begged for mercy in stuttering Mandarin:

"Brother, we are all Chinese, so let's talk it out. Why don't you just be casual? I won't call the police... No! I'll call the police! I will definitely not notify the police!"

He pointed at the body of the big boss that Han Hongbing had killed:

"The three identity papers... are in my pocket. I'll help you. I'll help you. No need to do anything. I'll take them..."

As he spoke, he slowly walked over with his hands raised high, squatted in front of his boss, fumbled in his pocket, took out his ID card, and without even bothering to look at it, simply raised it above his head and handed it to Han Hongbing:
"It's all here, it's all here. With your identities, the three of you are Hong Kong Islanders. No one will bother you anymore..."

"Who the hell is a Hong Kong Islander? I'm Chinese!" Seeing that the other party had a good attitude, Han Hongbing didn't want to fight anymore. He took the identity papers and wanted to tell them to get out. However, the other party's last sentence irritated him, and he couldn't help but kicked the other party in the face, knocking him to the ground.

The remaining three people saw that they would be beaten if they fought, and would be beaten again if they begged for mercy, so they simply turned around and ran towards the alley entrance, but as they ran they kept saying harsh words that had no deterrent effect:

"Don't leave if you dare! I will bring my brothers back immediately and kill you!"

Seeing the three people being scared away by Han Lao Er, Xie Hushan withdrew his gaze in boredom, turned back and waved at Zhu Youjun: "Have you finished eating? If you're done, leave."

"Didn't you say they helped us?" Zhu Youjun had not yet recovered from Han Hongbing's sudden attack.

These young men were very friendly to them. Xie Hushan took them by train to a city area with tall buildings and went straight to the Public Security Bureau. These young men were holding signs outside the Public Security Bureau that said "Free Guarantee".

Then Xie Hushan walked over and said something to the other party in Cantonese. Two young men and the woman who was standing next to him just now accompanied them into the Public Security Bureau to complete the registration. From beginning to end, he and Han Hongbing didn't say a few words. They were given something called a temporary identity paper.

Xie Hushan told himself that thanks to the other party's help, the three of them now have Hong Kong Island identity.

After these young men came out, they kindly brought them here to eat and said they would arrange accommodation for them to rest later.

As a result, before he had even finished eating a piece of bread or gone to rest, three of the six opponents had already been beaten by Han Hongbing and were now lying in the alley to rest.

"Girl, are you leaving or are you going to...join Chiang Kai-shek?" Han Hongbing flipped through the identity papers in his hand, which turned out to be four pieces. He looked at the girl with an unpleasant expression and asked.

Xie Hushan jumped down the stairs, patted Han Hongbing on the shoulder, took his ID card and put it in his pocket, then walked towards the alley entrance, stepping on the three unconscious bodies, and said lazily:
"Let's go. It's obvious that she is not of the same kind as us. She is here sincerely to seek freedom. Don't worry about things that you shouldn't worry about. Don't delay her future."

Han Hongbing said "Oh" and handed the extra ID card to the woman. Then he turned around and followed Xie Hushan and Zhu Youjun towards the alley entrance.

The woman grabbed the identity card and suddenly stood up and shouted to Han Hongbing:

"Can I come with you?"

(End of this chapter)