1982 Started from Hong Kong

Chapter 208 Falling out
The son of real estate developer Huang Xiaoqiu gambled heavily on the Natural Selection.

Overnight, Mr. Huang lost 12 games in a row.

Then he made a comeback, winning 22 games in a row and killing all the opponents!

Once this news was published, it quickly appeared on the front pages and supplements of various newspapers. Mr. Huang was crowned the "God of Gamblers" and talked about his betting experience in front of the camera.

In addition to Huang Xiaoqiu, a large number of the wealthy guests who boarded the ship this time also made money.

After counting the mud money, the staff in charge of the finances of the Xinji gambling ship found that they only made a mere 8 million yuan from this voyage.

After deducting fuel and labor costs, there is not much profit left.

As soon as the news got out, everyone in the circle who had been paying attention to the big and small letters of the Natural Selection issue burst out laughing when they heard the news.

The gambling ship with great momentum, the Las Vegas on the sea, all the previous advertisements hit Axe Jun's face like a boomerang.

"Small gambling is enjoyable, but big gambling is harmful to the body. Although Natural Selection did not make a profit this time, it at least proves that it is a fair and just gambling venue. I, Ye, have never cared about making money in business. I just hope to become friends with more people through this entertainment..."

"In addition, we encountered pirates during this voyage. In order to protect the guests, the security personnel of the Natural Selection fought fiercely with the pirates on the sea. They not only protected everyone's personal and property safety, but also did not affect the guests' relaxation in the casino. I think the company should express gratitude to these heroes behind the scenes..."

Ye Zhiming's speech on TV news sparked a new wave of public opinion.

For most people, pirates are species that only exist in movies and TV shows. How come the Natural Selection encountered them on its maiden voyage and even won?
TVB and ATV successively sent two helicopters to the high seas to obtain first-hand intelligence, and indeed, they found scattered wreckage of a speedboat nearby.

The footage was broadcast back to Hong Kong, and the high rollers who had been busy playing cards in the casino last night only then learned that this incident had happened. Besides feeling scared, they also felt a sense of pride and pleasure in showing off.

I am also a rich man, but I have been on a ship and fought pirates, so I have more reason to brag than you.

Although the high rollers in the casino didn't even go up to the deck the whole night, it did not affect the various news that came out of their mouths.

"Pick! What's there to be afraid of pirates? Back then, my uncle..."

"It was a small scene! I wanted to join the battle last night, but the ship's security moved too quickly and I didn't get a chance..."

"As for how many pirates I killed, I have nothing to say for now. I will invest in a movie later to tell everyone..."

Amid the chaos, the Natural Selection docked at the pier became a landmark for citizens to visit.

Gambling ships, high rollers, and citizens.

Fame, vanity and curiosity are all satisfied.

A win-win situation for all three parties.

The only loser was Xinji.

"Pick that star! Whoever kills Ye Zhiming, I'll give him the position of hall master!"

At the Xinji Hall, Axe Jun read several newspapers in succession with a dark face. Finally, he could no longer contain his anger and tore the newspapers into pieces and threw them to the ground.

Four hours after the gambling boat docked, the news outside was already everywhere.

It was not until then that Guizai Tian came to the hall and told him everything that happened on the boat last night.

"Why didn't you call me in advance? Pick on your mother!"

Axe Jun suddenly stood up and kicked Guizaitian hard on the inside of his thigh.

Guizai Tian staggered, then managed to stand firmly, lowering his head and saying, "Everyone on the boat was under control at the time. Someone pointed a gun at my head, so I had no chance to report the situation."

He pointed to the new gauze wrapped around his head. The hair around it had been shaved off to make it easier to apply medicine, revealing his stubbled scalp. "I couldn't stand the beating they gave me, so I brought people on board."

"What a loser!"

Axe Jun pointed at Guizai Tian's nose and cursed, and still feeling angry, he kicked over the table that was dedicated to Guan Gong next to him.

In addition to Axe Jun, there are also bosses and uncles from other regions in the hall.

After hearing the whole story, everyone looked at each other and exchanged glances.

"Ah Jun, Uncle Xia is old and relies on the two underground gambling dens in North Point for his retirement. You borrowed the dealers from my place. Now the gambling den cannot open. Of course, I don't mind. I will just support you. But I still have to pay the people below. It's not easy to appease them."

The uncle who was speaking was a man in his sixties, wearing an old-style long gown and speaking in a very friendly manner.

Axe Jun glanced at him, took a deep breath and forced a smile: "Uncle Xia, don't worry, I will definitely explain this to you. Calculate how much money the gambling den in North Point loses every day, and bring it to me. I will pay you the principal and interest."

Once the first person speaks up, a second one will inevitably follow.

Uncle Xia had just sat back in his seat when a burly man next to him stood up.

He asked Axe Jun in a muffled voice, "Brother Jun, although our New Territories is a rural area, you have contributed manpower and effort to support us this time. The dealers sent twelve people on board, causing three gambling dens to close down. I don't want the money, but one of the dealers is my wife's brother. When will you send him back to me?"

Axe Jun raised his eyebrows, but before he could speak, a third person stepped forward.

"Brother Jun, my gambling dens in Sham Shui Po and Wong Tai Sin are also closed now. Many of my regular customers have been lured away by people from Hutchison Whampoa and the Number Gang. I'm afraid that in a few days they will bully me because my place is not prosperous and bring their troops to cross the border to fight for territory..."

In order to ensure the three shifts on the gambling boat, Axe Jun selected fifty or sixty dealers from the society, all of whom were experienced veterans.

Even if an underground gambling den on the shore is not making any money, it still makes hundreds of thousands of dollars a month. Now all these dealers have been detained by Ye Zhiming, and at least a dozen gambling dens in Xinji cannot open.

When it comes to underworld people, profit is their first priority. If their own business is affected, no one will care whether you are the boss or not.

In just a short moment, several more FIT owners stood up to complain, their attitudes were either soft or hard, and their voices were like flies buzzing in the hall.

"Good! Great!"

Axe Jun laughed in anger: "Before my gambling boat had an accident, you all came to me and begged me to bring your dealers on board, saying that you support me, Huang Jun. Now it's just a little wind and waves, and you are scared to shit and piss. New Territory Niu, you closed your three gambling stalls, right? Pick on your mother! In 79, if I, Huang Jun, hadn't led the troops to help you kill Niu Shiqiang, you would have gone down to sell salted duck eggs early in the morning. How can I remember this amount? Gui Liwei, you old Weizhong have the nerve to tell me about your gambling stall in Wong Tai Sin? Who took down the two streets in Wong Tai Sin? It was me, Huang Jun! And you, Egg Roll Qiang..."

Axe Jun looked around at the group of big men sitting in the hall and called out their names one by one and criticized them.

Later on, even Uncle Xia, who spoke first, was not spared.

He walked up to Uncle Xia and slapped him on the shoulder. Uncle Xia looked up and called out "Ajun" with a forced smile.

Axe Jun grinned at him, and the next second he poured a cup of hot tea on his face.

"Uncle Xia, Uncle Xia, if you give me some face, you are the uncle. If you don't, you are just an old man! I'm picking on you! You are in your forties and you don't know what you are talking about. You are trying to be the first to do something! You dare to stand up like this today. Are you brave enough to sow discord? You are wearing a long gown and pretending to be a mentor. Are you thinking you are Zhuge Liang? I'm picking on you!"

Uncle Xia, who was in his sixties, had his head and face drenched with tea. He forced a smile and wiped his face, but he didn't even dare to fart.

"Why do you useless people like you exist in the company?"

Huang Jun vented his anger and grabbed a towel to wipe his hands: "I will compensate all the gambling dens affected. Now get out of here!"

With one shout, all the big guys who had just opened their mouths to ask for an explanation stood up in disgrace, forced a smile and said "goodbye, Jun brother", lowered their heads and hurried away. The number of people in the huge hall was reduced by half in an instant.

"Brother Jun, I'll have someone do something to kill Ye Zhiming."

Once the flies left, the only ones left were Axe Jun's own people. The pretty mom from Portland Street was the first to speak, with a fierce look on her face.

Axe Jun rubbed his face and smiled at his mother: "It's not just Ye Zhiming who is involved in this matter. There's also your friend Zhai Yuan, the owner of the theater. Can you help me deal with him?"

In all the news, it was Ye Zhiming, the nominal boss of the gambling boat, who spoke out, while Zhai Yuan seemed to have disappeared.

It was only when Axe Jun calmed down that he remembered that the man named Zhai must have been involved.

The pretty mother said without hesitation: "No problem, he just helped me shoot a few pornographic movies, Jun Ge asked him to stop tonight."

Axe Jun took a deep breath, closed his eyes and thought for a while, then waved to his mother.

"Telephone!"

He stretched out his hand, and the younger brother beside him immediately handed him his brother's phone.

Axe Jun directly dialed Zhai Yuan's number.

The phone rang for a long time before someone picked up the phone.

Zhai Yuan's sleepy voice came from the receiver: "Who are you?"

"I'm Huang Jun." Axe Jun said in a calm voice, "The gambling ship returned to the port this morning. Did you watch the news?"

"No! I slept too late last night and was just woken up by your phone call." Zhai Yuan yawned and immediately changed his tone to an enthusiastic one: "How about it, Jun brother, do you want to give me some money?"

On the other end of the phone, a woman's voice immediately rang out beside Zhai Yuan: "What money? How much?"

Then there were the sounds of Zhai Yuan and the woman flirting.

Axe Jun's face was gloomy. "I'll give you two hours. Send all the dealers back to my hall safely. You and Ye Zhiming will come to me in person to pour tea and admit your mistakes. I will pretend that this incident never happened."

Zhai Yuan's voice on the phone became clearer, as if he had sat up straight in bed.

He asked curiously, "What do you mean? Why don't I understand what you are saying? Brother Jun, you are not going to default on my debt and not even give me 10%?"

Axe Jun's knuckles turned slightly white as he held the phone, and he let out a long breath: "Handsome, are you kidding me? Can you afford to play with me?"

There was silence in the receiver for a moment, and then Zhai Yuan's smiling voice sounded again, at full force.

"Pick! Of course I'm playing with you! Axe Jun? Jun your mother's head! I've tolerated you for a long time, stupid dog. You've messed up a good gambling ship business and turned it into what it is now. And you want to take 80% of it? I'll burn it for you, okay?"

"You said I can't afford it? I don't lack the most difficult dealers now. I have to thank you, brother! If you are brave enough, go to the dock tonight and sink the Natural Selection. Otherwise, we will go out to sea again in two days. I will make 100 yuan and use 80 yuan to buy arms. See who can't afford it!"

"Also, I have to inform you that your brother Yuan will leave for Luohu Port right away. I don't have any bodyguards with me. If you touch me, you are stupid!"

Zhai Yuan had a lot of verbal attacks, and after he had satisfied himself, he hung up the phone directly, without even giving Axe Jun a chance to retort or say anything harsh.

In the hall, other people didn't know what happened on the phone.

But everyone could see with their own eyes that Axe Jun's face had turned ashen.

"Zhai Yuan said on the phone that he was going to Luohu Port. Did he think that everything would be fine if he ran away to the mainland?"

Axe Jun suppressed his anger and said half a sentence calmly, but finally he couldn't control himself anymore and threw the phone to the ground: "Go out immediately and get Zhai Yuan and his family out. I want him to be killed!"

…………

Kowloon Tong, Garden Villa.

Zhai Yuan hung up the phone, wiped the saliva from the corner of his mouth, and cursed in a low voice, "Stupid dog."

Deng Leling lay beside him and chuckled, "Who called to be scolded so badly by you?"

Zhai Yuan jumped off the bed and put on a new set of casual clothes: "Xinji's Dragon Head Axe Jun."

Deng Leling's eyes widened instantly. After all, she had been the wife of an inspector, and she had heard of this vicious reputation before. She asked with some concern, "Will there be any trouble? How did you offend such a gangster?"

Zhai Yuan cursed: "Pujie Xinji wants to eat up my multi-billion dollar business. I was very polite on the phone."

When Deng Leling heard about the business worth hundreds of millions, she was stunned for two seconds, and immediately clung to him like a water snake.

She hugged Zhai Yuan's back and rubbed it, saying, "Then he is indeed dead. If you are not in a hurry, can we do it again?"

"Wait until I make some real money before you show off!" Zhai Yuan laughed and said, "I'm going to the mainland tonight to take care of some small matters there. I won't be back until after the National Day holiday."

Deng Leling hummed, frowned and thought for a moment, then suddenly a look of enlightenment appeared on her face.

She murmured, "No wonder you asked me to help you contact his former police colleague. If Xinji dares to mess with you, wouldn't it be..."

The 'he' Deng Leling was referring to was her ex-husband, the inspector. Although they had long since broken off relations, she still helped Zhai Yuan contact colleagues who had worked with Inspector Shi.

Zhai Yuan smiled and said, "So I'm afraid that Xinji won't mess with me. That would be too boring."

Deng Leling swallowed unconsciously when she thought about what might happen next.

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Half an hour later, Zhai Yuan, who claimed that he did not bring any bodyguards, came out of Kowloon Tong. Shangguan Yonggan and his group of five were already in the car.

The Toyota pickup truck drove directly to Clear Water Bay, Sai Kung, downstairs of Silver Capital Corporation Limited.

Zhai Yuan called Xia Meng, and not long after, four black Red Flag sedans drove out of the garage.

Immediately afterwards, Xia Meng and several powerful people appeared downstairs in formal attire.

"I'll leave things here to you. Help me protect my family."

Zhai Yuan sat in the car and gave a few instructions to the Five Patriarchs of Shaolin.

Shangguan Yonggan looked at the Red Flag cars and became more and more certain of Zhai Yuan's identity. He patted his chest and said, "Don't worry, I will complete the task!"

Zhai Yuan lowered his head and smiled, then got out of the car and said hello to Xia Meng.

at the same time.

A Xinji van has stopped on the road leading to Luohu Port.

(End of this chapter)