Hong Kong Storm: The King of Jobs

Chapter 406, page 183: Absolutely No Retreat
Duffy had gotten used to her mother's attitude. This mother treated her this way not only, but also her other sisters.

After all, everyone is a competitor, and his mother was just the winner of the previous competition.

Duffy was actually very curious. His mother had lost more than she had won when she was young, and the Russian roulette wheel had spun once, but this damned old man was able to crawl out of the gates of hell. It was truly an unsolved mystery of the world.

Duffy shrugged at his father, got back into the speedboat, and had his men start the boat and return to the island.

Anna Krejci sat down in her seat on the speedboat, stroking the seat with the three fingers she had left on her right hand, and said curiously, "This is the most famous sightseeing boat in Hong Kong!"

"The symbol of two lions trampling the earth has once again appeared on the sea surface of the four oceans. The old signboard of the East India Company is still being used!"

The longer you live, the more you see, especially in the era before the internet boom. In the history of the Clijsters family, the image of two lions trampling the earth was the trademark of the East India Company for its ointment.

Although Shaanxi Tobacco and Yunnan Tobacco rose to prominence later, the East India Company evolved overnight from a plantation system into an agent and free trade agent. The Three Gold Brand Shaanxi Tobacco and the Three Fortune Brand Yunnan Tobacco became the mainstream of international trade, replacing the older generation of Double Lions Treading the Earth.

Anna Clijsters has seen historical footage of Darjeeling tea plantations. The hardworking tea farmers of Wuyi have diligently cultivated black tea, completely ending the history of China's monopoly on tea.

When it comes to cultivating crops by human labor, no other ethnic group can compare to the Han Chinese.

“Mother, you haven’t left Paris in a long time. Now that you have time, you can go to Singapore. The scenery and climate in Singapore are very beautiful now.”

Ruan Wen took out a Plenier ice cream from the cooler on the speedboat and suggested to his mother that they take this opportunity to go on vacation to Singapore and gamble at the casino.

Since being diagnosed with diabetes, Anna Clijsters has rarely eaten sweets, but the human desire for sugar is unstoppable, even though the weather in Hong Kong is not warm, only in the teens above zero.

But December is almost over, and the new year is just around the corner. Warm currents are reaching the sea, so eating an ice cream won't be a big problem.

Taking the ice cream from her legally daughter's hand, Anna Keligis took a bite, savoring the hard-won treat. Unfortunately, all her teeth were false, so she couldn't fully appreciate its sweetness.

"Mother, are you here to lecture me?"

Ruan Wen spoke fluent French, looked at his father who was smoking, and found that his father was as cold as ever, so he spoke first.

The Water House wields considerable power in Asia and can command numerous skilled individuals. Publicly auctioning off the Water House's patrol horses and accountants will undoubtedly provoke a backlash. The Cligis family is not afraid of confrontation; these madmen don't care what others think of them.

But for business, this is a destabilizing factor.

"Heh! You're so capable, finding so many valuable goods, why would I teach you a lesson? Ruan Wen, you're overthinking it!"

Do you know how I lost two fingers on my right hand?

Anna Kreigis greedily finished her ice cream, let out a satisfied burp, and looked at her legally adopted daughter, deliberately asking a question.

The members of the Kreigs family all knew that all of Anna Kreigs's body parts were lost at the auction. Three of her fingers were blown up by a timed earthworm sent by the chieftain after she tied up the chieftain's young prince.

The young prince of the Witbui chief in West Africa was purchased by the Billday Group, which exchanged him for three diamond mines from the Witbui chief.

"As Chief Witbuy lay dying, he kept calling out your name. This great warrior, who could hunt down an adult male lion on his own, wanted to twist your head off."

Even though the speaker was Nguyen Van, she still found it incredible that Chief Witbui, who owned thirteen percent of Namibia's territory, was one of the most important leaders of the Oram tribe.

The tribe has more than 9,000 warriors who fought a three-year war against mercenaries in order to fight against the Bill Des Group. But for the sake of his successor, Chief Witbui reached an agreement with the Bill Des Group to jointly develop the Diamond Mountain in the territory.

When he learned that his heir had been kidnapped by Anna Keligis, he sent someone with a timed ground potato, intending to send Anna Keligis to meet God.

"And these teeth of mine are because of Idi Amin. My investment in Obert has reached tens of millions of francs. There is no way I can back down. The British have schemed against me and destroyed the ivory sales group that I built from scratch."

“Amin knocked my tusks out one by one to secure my ivory sales channels, but even so, I did not give in. The Kligis family still has a share of the ivory business in Uganda.”

"If you don't dare to attack when you see that the other side has great power, then don't be a criminal."

"Ordinary citizens fear titles, fear bloodlines, and fear the existing rules of the world; that's why they fail."

"A person only has one life. Most fathers and mothers will not seek revenge for their children, and children will not seek revenge for their parents' blood feud. Everything is illusory. Only the gun in your hand is real."

"Everyone says that the Cligis family is a branch of the Giss family, but don't be ridiculous! The first Cligis was just a maid in the Giss family, the lowest-ranking maid, a prostitute who would take off her skirt and be fucked for two copper coins."

"But when Ms. Clare Gies successfully gave birth to the Gies family's illegitimate daughter and received a sum of money to bribe the local hereditary cardinal, that damned surname became part of the nobility."

“If we cower like turtles, we won’t have a place in the criminal world. In the criminal world, weakness is the greatest crime. We’ll be either at the dinner table or on the dinner table.” “Although you don’t have my genes, you are still a member of the Cligis family. Remember the family motto.”

"Eternal life continues!"

Anna Kreigis threw the ice cream wrapper into the sea, her hands covered in ice cream stains. She immediately reached out and wiped them on her husband's Dior haute couture.

Mr. Mendes, feeling insulted, grew even colder.

Ruan Wen nodded after hearing Anna Clijsters's words. Since you've already taken the plunge, don't worry about the consequences. You only have one life, and you can only pay for it with this one life.

The large speedboat started up and headed towards the coastline.

Tonight at six o'clock, the auction will begin. The villa is bustling with activity as subordinates work hard to prepare for tonight's auction.

Xiren really liked the gift that Teacher Li had prepared for her, and she especially liked the blue silk dress and polar bear shawl that Teacher Li had ordered for her. After changing her clothes, she lay down on the bed and took out a lipstick from the gift box.

This lipstick is very long, longer than a regular lipstick. Xiren opened the cap of the lipstick and glanced at the lipstick inside.

This is a lipstick pistol invented by the Red Goose people. A clockwise spin dispenses the lipstick, while a counter-clockwise spin fires miniature bullets.

Because the inside of the lipstick is made of hard plastic, only the bullet hidden inside is made of pure copper.

Xi Ren twisted the lipstick into a tube, applied it evenly to her lips, smacked her lips, then sat up, put on her high heels, put the lipstick into her small bag, and left the room.

Teacher Li had already set off. He had prepared a Rolls-Royce for Xiren. The driver, wearing a peaked hat, quickly opened the car door and invited Xiren to sit down when he saw her come out.

"The Peninsula Hotel, Starlight Hall."

After Xiren settled down, she stated her destination, picked up the newspaper on her seat, and began to read it.

Without saying much, the driver floored the accelerator, and the Rolls-Royce drove straight to the Peninsula Hotel.

There were a lot of cars parked in front of the entrance to the Peninsula Hotel's Starry Night Hall tonight, and they were all luxury cars.

When the Peninsula Hotel's security personnel saw a luxury car entering, they checked the license plate and immediately picked up their walkie-talkies to instruct the security guards at the entrance to let it through.

Two South Asian security guards jogged ahead to lead the way, escorting the top-of-the-line Silver Spur, worth over a million Hong Kong dollars, into the parking space.

Two security guards from the Peninsula Hotel quickly came to the car door, opened the Rolls-Royce door, and asked Xiren to get out of the car.

Wearing sunglasses, Xi Ren stepped out of the car and immediately understood what the two foreign security guards were up to when she saw them standing in front of her!

"Room 25/1002, the room I booked, has a view of the moon from the ceiling!"

Xi Ren calmly read out the information on the bus slip of paper. This time, her public identity was Mr. Wu's antique expert, and she was there to buy several famous paintings by Bada Shanren on Mr. Wu's behalf.

"Good evening, Ms. Wu. Elevator B5 is ready for you."

After checking the information, a security guard nodded immediately and led the way, guiding Xi Ren to the B5 elevator.

Inside the elevator, a South Asian waiter stood, blocking the elevator door with his hand and smiling at Xi Ren.

"Room 25/1002, I want a room where you can see the moon from the ceiling."

Xi Ren pretended to be impatient and repeated the contact code.

The security personnel nodded to the South Asian waiter, took a step back, and turned around.

"Miss Wu, this way please!"

The South Asian waiter spoke, stepping aside to invite Xiren into the elevator.

As Xi Ren stepped into the elevator, she kept thinking to herself, "This auction is quite grand. To hold an auction inside the Peninsula Hotel is truly a big deal."

The Peninsula Hotel is known for its non-stick surface and lucrative illicit income, but none of its illegal or unethical activities have anything to do with the MacDowell family.

(End of this chapter)