Hong Kong Storm: The King of Jobs

Chapter 493, Section 74: Giving You a Chance to Be With Me
Shengping Theater.

Today is the birthday of Shenxianjin's older sister, Gao Laofa's biological mother. Shenxianjin took out her wallet and money to book three private boxes on the second floor of Shengping Theater for the whole family to come and see the Chu Fengming Theater Troupe.

Ren Jianhui and Bai Xuexian, these two Cantonese opera masters, are too old to perform on stage.

However, the Chu Feng Ming Troupe has also cultivated several leading actors who can hold their own on stage. The pairing of Long Jiansheng and Mei Xueshi is known as the stage couple. Their performance style is delicate and elegant, and their singing style is rich and mellow.

On New Year's Day this year, something that excited Hong Kong opera fans was that Ren Bing'er officially joined the Chu Fung Ming Opera Troupe. This younger sister of Ren Jianhui, the most famous child star in the Cantonese opera world, has become a pillar of the Chu Fung Ming Opera Troupe as soon as she made her mark.

Cantonese opera enthusiasts all call Ren Bing'er "Little Boss Ren".

Gao Laofa sat in a chair, pouring tea for his uncle, Shenxian Jin, his mother, his father, and his sister, his eyes fixed on Boss Ren on the stage.

Everyone in the water room knew that Gao Laofa liked the actors on stage, but he didn't like the actors in movies or TV series; he only liked the actors on the stage.

But all the famous Cantonese opera stars had already been taken by the old fogies of the Chaozhou Chamber of Commerce, leaving Gao Lao with only rotten sweet potatoes and stinky bird eggs.

The same goes for Boss Ren. Although Mr. Li doesn't like Cantonese opera, Boss Ren has been raised by Mr. Li's side since she was eight years old. Now that she is sixteen, she is already Mr. Li's little girl.

Competing with the bigwigs of the business association for a woman, Gao Laofa admitted he wasn't strong enough and decided to give up. But Ren Xiaoban's every move on stage did indeed make him a little distracted.

The family was reunited, and there were no outsiders in the private room. Lazy Ice and the others were guarding the next private room. They could arrive in a second if there was any disturbance.

At this moment, the theater's front desk supervisor walked through the open seating area, went up the stairs, and came to the VIP box of Shenxianjin. Just as he was about to knock on the door, he was stopped by the waiter sitting at the door.

"What's wrong?"

The waiter brushed aside the theater's front desk supervisor's hand and asked coldly.

The theater's front desk supervisor knew he couldn't offend the gangsters, so he immediately said politely, "The front desk just received a call looking for Brother Chow, so I came up to let them know."

"The gentleman who called said he was from Da Dong Jiu and that it was an extremely urgent matter."

The henchman in the water room nodded, waved his hand, and told the theater's front desk supervisor to leave first. He then knocked on the door, walked into the private room, bent down, and came to Gao Laofa's side: "Brother Fa, Da Dongjiu called the theater looking for you."

Tall Fa nodded, indicating that he understood. He had heard every word of the scholar's phone call, and that the trouble that handsome Sheng was causing with the East Union Society had nothing to do with him.

But the matter isn't resolved yet! Why is Da Dong Jiu still calling me?

The henchman guarding the gate had already made his point clear, so he turned and left to continue guarding the gate.

Shenxian Jin noticed Gao Laofa's puzzled expression, coughed, and invited Gao Laofa to go to the restroom together.

The private rooms were separated by a thin screen window. Lazy Bingjian, the boss, got up and called to his henchmen to grab their weapons and follow him.

"What's wrong?"

After Shenxian Jin entered the bathroom, she unbuckled her belt, took out the water gun, and enjoyed herself for a while before asking questions.

After drinking a bellyful of water, Gao Laofa first relieved himself and then spoke up: "Ah Sheng is being harassed by the East Union Society. Now the East Union Society can't handle it, and Da Dong Jiu called me directly, asking me to come up with a solution."

"I have absolutely no idea!"

Knowing the whole story, Shenxian Jin grinned, walked to the sink, washed her hands, took the toilet paper from Lazy Bing, and wiped the water droplets off her hands.

"Da Dong Jiu is a smart man, but compared to Liang Zai Sheng, he's a bit lacking."

"Both the scholar and I pretended to be confused. He didn't explain things clearly because this old bastard believed that Da Dong Jiu could still control the situation, after all, Ah Sheng's woman was in the hands of Da Dong Jiu and Hua Lang Gui."

"Since the scholar is pretending to be confused when he knows the truth, then I will also pretend to be confused to give the scholar some face and not make this old brother lose face too much."

“But I give face to the scholar ghost, while Handsome Sheng will not give face to Big East Nine. The money-making path in Yau Ma Tei is all in Handsome Sheng’s hands. Whether it is the East Union Society, which has the largest territory, or the Old Fu, which has the most lucrative profits, they all have to be careful of Handsome Sheng’s whims.”

"Now, no gang wants to lose Dragon Palace Nightclub."

"Ah Fa, do you know how much revenue Dragon Palace Nightclub made last week?"

The bathroom smelled awful, so Shenxian Jin randomly picked a table and asked Gao Laofa to sit down.

"I heard that last week's turnover was 20 million, and the net profit was 60%. That means Young Master Wang earned 12 million in one week."

The Dragon Palace Nightclub has boxing matches to watch. The bosses who used to go to Kowloon Walled City have all gone to the Dragon Palace Nightclub now. The Kowloon Walled City is now full of Annan boys and Big Circle boys, all of them ruthless characters who don't care about their lives and just want money.

Now that the Kwok brothers have been kidnapped, although the Wo Shing and Chiu Tsing gangs have all stepped forward to execute the entire Big Circle Gang that kidnapped them, the Kwok family is now completely ruined.

Mother and son turned against each other, brothers turned against each other, husband and wife turned against each other, and the fighting was chaotic.

The large-scale development of Wan Chai, which was originally agreed upon with Wo Luen Shing and Wo Luen Shing's Wan Chai Emperor Chan Tai, has completely fallen through. Construction has come to a standstill, and everyone is left with no way to make a living.

With such a brilliant example before them, the bosses dared not go to Kowloon Walled City. It was said that Boss Guo was targeted by the Big Circle Boys because he went to Kowloon Walled City to watch a boxing match.

Why go on an adventure in Kowloon Walled City when you can watch boxing matches and meet beautiful women at the Dragon Palace Nightclub?

Of course, the big boats also contributed a lot of revenue. This week, ABK opened 8,000 accounts, and at least 12 million yuan entered ABK's accounts.

Liangzai Sheng discussed ABK Company's accounts with him every week and even hired an international accounting firm to do the bookkeeping. Zhashu Baigusheng, far away in Singapore, and Uncle Gui, who was barely clinging to life in the ICU, were all very satisfied.

Shuifang also opened a separate betting company account and threw all the black rice he had into ABK Company's account. ABK Company only collected the water fees it was supposed to collect, circulated the money in the account, and then transferred the money to Shark Tong's account.

A contract worth tens of millions was not worth Shark-Brother Tong's attention. The second young master Zheng, who was in charge of major clients, only added five percentage points to the handling fee and then transported the money to Hang Seng Bank.

Hang Seng Bank was able to hold on entirely thanks to the support of the Dongguan Chamber of Commerce, the Wuyi Chamber of Commerce, and the Chaoshan Chamber of Commerce.

These three chambers of commerce charge high membership fees every month, and these high membership fees are similar to a bank's letter of credit. When doing business within the chambers, everyone takes these membership fees into consideration.

If someone is scammed, the chairman will give the scammed party their membership fee as compensation, and the three chambers of commerce will also need to invest the huge membership fees they paid.

Hong Kong offers floating interest rates, and to attract deposits, the deposit rates are very high. However, this requires paying insurance premiums to Jardine Matheson and HSBC, both under the Securities and Futures Commission. The higher the interest rate, the higher the insurance premium.

Aside from Wing On Bank's focus on small-scale, high-quality operations serving its own businesses, both Hang Seng and Chinese banks require massive amounts of liquid funds.

Hang Seng Bank, the financial backer of a Chinese bank, is none other than Shark Tung. Therefore, all the banknotes deposited by Shark Tung's companies into the bank received the green light.

Since Chinese people don't have their own bank vaults, they have to deposit their money in the vaults of Jardine Matheson and Standard Chartered Bank. According to the agreement of the Hong Kong Banking Association, once these banknotes enter the vaults, they are completely laundered.

The five-point transaction fee was absolutely worth it!

Shui Fang's financial company holds shares in ABK Company and Rubber Company. Shen Xian Jin himself also holds shares in two companies. This was given to him by Liang Zai Sheng. This scoundrel's specialty is profit distribution.

Twelve million!

Tall Fa was a little astonished. This was almost the same as the Shanghai City nightclub where his older brother Cheng Nazha ran a nightclub. Although it couldn't compare to Du Laozhi's nightclub, the difference between the two was not much.

It seems that Dragon Palace Nightclub is now undoubtedly the top nightclub in Hong Kong!
“The gang is run by the person in charge. As long as Dong Lian Jiu is alive, the scholar ghost can’t get involved. The gangsters are all money-grubbing. They are loyal and righteous, but once they see real money in their hands, they forget everything else.”

"Da Dong Jiu won't stand up for Hua Lang Gui, but he will support him."

"It seems that Da Dong Jiu can't hold on any longer and wants you, his good brother, to help him out."

"Have you decided what you want?"

Shenxian Jin is an old immortal who can see at a glance what Da Dong Jiu wants to do, but it seems that his silly nephew hasn't figured out what he wants yet.

“I really haven’t thought it through. I don’t even want to take on this mess. My cooperation with Handsome Sheng is very good. I leave all my construction waste to Handsome Sheng to handle.”

"There's been much less trouble, and the Environmental Protection Administration doesn't bother us anymore."

"The brotherhood that Da Dong Jiu imitated Zu Jia's is not respectable at all. Small fish and shrimps may be afraid, but the big sharks will not care about such a small name."

A person should know their own limitations. Tall Fat doesn't think he has much influence and would interfere with Handsome Sheng's decision. Even if he could, he would still owe him a huge favor.

Da Dong Jiu has very few cards in his hand, and he needs even fewer. Since that's the case, it's better not to answer the call and let Da Dong Jiu back down.

“Go answer the phone and tell Ah Sheng to put this matter aside for now. I have business to discuss with the Scholar Ghost.”

"As for what you want, think about it slowly. Da Dong Jiu owes you a favor, and there will definitely be a chance to repay it."

The next play is "The Purple Hairpin," which is Boss Ren's specialty. Shen Xianjin didn't want to miss it, so he stood up and hummed a selection from "The Purple Hairpin": "I was originally from Longxi, but I've become a guest in Chang'an."

"I wish I could pluck a cassia branch from the moon palace to accompany the flowers in the jade vase. The wind stirs the bamboo as I open the curtain; could it be an old friend coming?"

Now that his uncle had made up his mind, Gao Laofa went to the front desk, asked for the number that Da Dongjiu had called earlier, and dialed it back.

Da Dong Jiu was very happy to see Gao Lao call back. After explaining the situation, he waited for Gao Lao's reply.

Knowing full well that rushing won't make a sale, Gao Laofa told Da Dong Jiu to wait a moment. He put the phone aside, took out his cigarette case, and enjoyed a cigarette. After waiting for three minutes, he picked up the phone again and let Liang Zai Sheng take the call.

Chi Mengli pretended to be very unwilling, but still picked up the phone. After hearing what Gao Lao said, she nodded reluctantly and hung up the phone.

"Brother Gui, you're really lucky! Tonight, so many people vouch for you. You have so much influence!"

"Brother Dong Jiu, let's just let this matter go. Lend me Brother Gui for a bit. I promise I won't make things difficult for him. Whether you agree or not, I'm taking him with me."

Chi Mengli tossed the bag to Acong as pocket money, grabbed Hua Langgui by the back of the neck, and prepared to leave.

Having been grabbed by the back of his neck, Hua Langgui was naturally unwilling to accept it. He was close enough and prepared to make a move to kill Liangzai Sheng. If he were to be led away like this, he would have no face to continue living in the underworld.

too slow!
It's so slow!
Hua Langgui's fancy but ineffective punches and kicks were nothing to worry about. Chi Mengli easily blocked them with a flick of her wrist, then punched Hua Langgui in the liver, causing the bastard to suffer a liver explosion.

Hua Langgui, who had been punched in the liver, bent over and kept refluxing acid.

Chi Mengli waved her hand, signaling Xizai to restrain the person and take them to the back door to load them into the car.

"Brother Sheng, we've paid out the money, but we can't lose our people. We hope you'll keep your promise."

Da Dong Jiu saw that Chi Meng Li was determined to take the person away, and he couldn't stop him. Liang Zai Sheng was smart and knew the rules of the underworld; he wouldn't kill Hua Lang Gui tonight.

"I'll send you back tomorrow. I guarantee you'll be able to run and jump again."

"good night!"

Chi Mengli waved dismissively at Da Dongjiu and then walked down the stairs.

On the landing of the first-floor stairs, Dong Sheng was still unconscious. Chi Mengli gently kicked him with her foot, but seeing that the idiot didn't move at all, she smiled helplessly and asked Ji Mi behind her to take the big, clumsy bear to the clinic.

If a person dies, throw them into the ocean; it's a way of making a contribution to the Earth.

Having explained everything, Chi Mengli walked out of the teahouse.

The henchmen of the water houses on the street, upon seeing Lao Ding appear, all greeted him in unison: "Lao Ding! Lao Ding!"

Chi Mengli imitated Elvis Presley's exaggerated movements, putting her hand to her ear as a microphone. After playing with these rascals for a while, she finally spoke up: "Brother Jimi has prepared a food stall and will take everyone to eat hot pot."

"Tonight's hot pot is on me, Handsome Sheng! Let's go!"

After finishing her sentence, Chi Mengli got into the Volvo sedan parked by the roadside.

"Old Ding is mighty! Old Ding is mighty!"

Hearing that there would be free late-night snacks, the henchmen were all very happy and cheered.

Chi Mengli's convoy drove all the way to Lion Mountain and went directly to the top of the mountain along the road.

After the car was parked, Chi Mengli got out and looked at the night view of Hong Kong. Xiren followed behind her in silence.

Xizai opened the back door of the van, dragged Hualanggui out, and threw him on the ground.

"I'm giving you a chance, a chance to rise to the top, a chance to work with me!"

(End of this chapter)