Hong Kong Tycoon: Starting from Delivering Dongfeng Express

Chapter 129 Ni Yongxiao: Ah Ren, come back and help me!
The salty sea breeze, carrying the warmth of the setting sun, swept over the Central Pier, turning the entire Victoria Harbour amber color.

Fat Cat, his face beaming with joy, came running over on his short legs: "Brother Ren, I'll treat you to fish balls!"

"Then I won't be polite!" Chen Yongren said with a smile as he accepted the fish balls.

"We're good friends!" Fat Cat smacked his lips as he chewed on the fish ball, a happy expression on his face.

Today is payday, and Fat Cat said he would treat him to a meal after receiving his money.

But Chen Yongren knew that Fat Cat's life was not easy and didn't want him to spend money, so he only let him buy fish balls at the dock.

The ferry's whistle swept across the shimmering waves, and the golden reflection of the setting sun rose and fell with the waves, sometimes stretching out into a flowing cloud, and sometimes gathering into a dazzling cluster of stars.

"Wow! So beautiful!"

The two leaned on the railing, eating fish balls while enjoying the beautiful scenery on the water, savoring their leisure time after get off work.

"Ren-ge, I've noticed that Qi-ge and the others always bring things home when they come back. Why didn't you bring anything?"

Faced with Fat Cat's curiosity, Chen Yongren smiled and said, "I don't need that many things at home, and they're not for my own use either."

The fat cat asked curiously, "Then what did they bring back for?"

"Let's sell it for money!"

Seeing that Fat Cat didn't quite understand, Chen Yongren simply told him, "Don't follow their example."

He worked as a deliveryman for a while, and I must say it was a really good job.

You can earn 100 yuan a day by making one round trip across the border, which is much easier than being a courier, and you can also earn extra money.

As far as he knew, some of the deliverymen in his group would bring back some daily necessities from the mainland to Hong Kong Island on each trip while delivering express packages, so they could sell them even if they didn't need them themselves.

The price difference between the two sides creates a profit margin. By making one trip a day, little by little, one can earn at least a thousand dollars in extra income each month.

Chen Yongren didn't know if his boss was aware of these things, but he was a principled person and always felt that using one's position to smuggle in personal gain was not a good thing. He couldn't control others, but he could only control himself.

As the ferry drew closer, Chen Yongren asked Fat Cat, "Are you alright? Do you want me to take you home?"

Fat Cat shook his head repeatedly: "Brother Ren, no need! I can go back to Lantau Island by myself these days!"

Chen Yongren glanced at the fat cat, then whispered, "Keep your money safe and don't talk to strangers on the way."

"Don't worry, Ren-ge, I'll definitely be fine!"

Chen Yongren smiled and rubbed the fat cat's head.

After a while.

"Bye-bye, Ren-ge!"

As Fat Cat waved goodbye to him from the ferry and grew smaller and smaller on the sea, Chen Yongren turned around with a smile, only to suddenly freeze.

Just a few meters away, Ni Yongxiao was standing there, smiling at him.

Ni Yongxiao slowly stepped forward: "Aren."

Chen Yongren's heart skipped a beat: "You were following me?"

Chen Yongren cursed himself inwardly for the comfortable environment he had been working at Dongfeng Express, which had almost made him lose his vigilance. He hadn't even realized he was being followed by Ni Yongxiao. This was fatal for an undercover agent!

Ni Yongxiao chuckled and shook his head: "Ah Ren, don't be so nervous, I just came to talk to you about something."

As he spoke, Ni Yongxiao pointed to a car not far away, gesturing for Chen Yongren to follow him into the car.

However, Chen Yongren remained standing still: "If there's anything you need to say, just say it here!"

Ni Yongxiao glanced at Chen Yongren and could sense that Chen was still wary of him.

He leaned against the railing, took off his glasses, took out a handkerchief from his pocket and wiped them, looking completely relaxed, and asked Chen Yongren, "Was that your colleague just now?"

Seeing that Chen Yongren didn't speak, he smiled and said to himself, "I've never seen you smile so happily before. It seems you really like your current job!"

Chen Yongren, unsure of Ni Yongxiao's intentions, replied, "What are you trying to say?"

Ni Yongxiao smiled, put his glasses back on, and asked, "Aren, would you like to own your own courier shop?"

Chen Yongren was stunned: "What? Your own courier shop?"

Ni Yongxiao nodded, his glasses gleaming in the setting sun.
"That's right, it's our own courier company! I've already had someone register the company, Lightning Express!"

Come back, and I'll make you the store manager. We brothers will be the ones calling the shots in the company!

You can also invite your friends; I definitely won't treat them badly!

But Chen Yongren looked at Ni Yongxiao with a strange expression: "Don't you know that the mainland cracks down hard on organized crime?"

Ni Yongxiao smiled faintly: "What does the mainland's crackdown on organized crime have to do with our Ni family? My eldest brother is a doctor, my sister is an administrative manager, and my younger brother just graduated from university. Everyone in our Ni family is clean and innocent!"

Chen Yongren scoffed, "And what about you?"

Ni Yongxiao paused for a moment, then looked at Chen Yongren: "Aren, I know you've always harbored some resentment towards our father, but he's no longer here. I'm currently getting the Ni family back on track, and the express delivery service is a great opportunity. I want you to help me!"

"Don't you know what happened to Hutchison Express?"

Ni Yongxiao nodded: "I know. I looked into the whole process of Hutchison Express's collapse. The key issue was that the goods were lost after arriving in mainland China. So I also found local powerful figures in mainland China to cooperate with!"
Dongfeng Express has an advantage in mainland China, but based on what I've heard, it's impossible for them to have absolute control and shut everyone out. Given the mainland's welcoming attitude towards Hong Kong businessmen, they wouldn't dare to commit repeated malicious incidents.

Chen Yongren and Ni Yongxiao stared at each other, trying to see something in each other's eyes, but he couldn't see through Ni Yongxiao.

Would Chen Yongren agree?

Of course he doesn't want to!

Ordinary people may not know about the Ni family, but he knows very well that the Ni family are Hong Kong drug lords hiding behind triads!

So just as Huang Zhicheng suspected Dongfeng Express back then, Chen Yongren's first reaction when he heard Ni Yongxiao say that he wanted to do cross-border express delivery was whether the other party wanted to use this channel to transport flour.
As an undercover police officer with a strong sense of justice and principles, and having harbored a lifelong aversion to the Ni family, he instinctively wanted to avoid getting involved with them, even if they were trying to conduct legitimate business this time!

"I'm living a good life now and don't want to be disturbed."

After saying this, Chen Yongren turned and left. Watching Chen Yongren's disappearing figure, Ni Yongxiao sighed. It seemed that the other party still harbored considerable resentment towards the Ni family.

He invited Chen Yongren not only because he was his younger brother, but also because he valued Chen's work experience at Dongfeng Express and his clean record!
Although Ni Yongxiao claims that the Ni family is clean and honest, he knows what he has done. The Ni family's background is not clean, and if they are really affected because of this, it will be difficult to handle.

Very few people know that Chen Yongren is the illegitimate son of the Ni family. If Chen Yongren is willing to help him, he will not hesitate to put the company under Chen Yongren's name, so that the outside world will not associate the courier company with the Ni family.

But now that Chen Yongren is unwilling to come, he can only find another way and add several layers of protection.

After leaving, Chen Yongren remained focused, wandering around in circles until he was sure no one was following him, before finally finding his phone and making a call.

Half an hour later, Chen Yongren circled around and arrived at the rooftop.

Huang Zhicheng, who had been waiting for a while, immediately went up to Chen Yongren upon seeing him and asked, "Have you found anything at Dongfeng Express?"

Recently, Chen Yongren was transferred from a courier to a deliveryman and has already gone to the mainland. Huang Zhicheng thought that Chen Yongren had contacted him this time because he had found some clues about Dongfeng Express.

Chen Yongren rolled his eyes: "Inspector Huang, according to my current investigation, Dongfeng Express is completely innocent and there is absolutely no indication that they have committed any illegal or criminal acts!"

Huang Zhicheng frowned and quickly asked, "You've seen it all on the mainland too? Are you sure?"

"Absolutely certain! They're just in the courier business!"

This stunned Huang Zhicheng, who muttered to himself, "Just doing express delivery business? That shouldn't be the case. Why go through all this trouble to get things through customs and pull strings with customs officials, only to do express delivery business?"

Chen Yongren couldn't help but say, "Inspector Huang, do you know how good Dongfeng Express's business is? They handle thousands of orders every day, and roughly speaking, they make hundreds of thousands every day. Why would they risk going into the flour business?"

"Hundreds of thousands every day?!"

Huang Zhicheng opened his mouth, he never expected that delivering packages could be so profitable!

If that's the case, does that mean he really made a mistake from the beginning?
Huang Zhicheng wavered somewhat, but he couldn't admit such a thing in front of his subordinates, otherwise it would damage his prestige. He stubbornly replied:

"What do you know? Delivering packages might earn you a couple hundred thousand a day, but delivering flour can earn you millions! Just because you haven't noticed doesn't mean they haven't been doing it!"

Chen Yongren was too lazy to refute Huang Zhicheng anymore, but in his heart he felt even more contempt for his superior.

Huang Zhicheng then frowned and asked, "Then why did you call me here?"

Chen Yongren took a breath: "Ni Yongxiao is going to open a courier company too!"

"What? Ni Yongxiao is going to get into cross-border express delivery!"

Huang Zhicheng reacted strongly and couldn't help but exclaim in surprise.

At the same time, his wavering thoughts instantly became firm again, even more so than before!

Who are the Ni family? They are one of the major behind-the-scenes players in the Hong Kong flour market!

Since Ni Yongxiao is going to get into cross-border express delivery, it must involve the flour business!
"There's no mistake! Absolutely no mistake! They are definitely smuggling flour across borders!"

Huang Zhicheng paced back and forth, rubbing his hands excitedly.

Then he immediately grabbed Chen Yongren and asked, "What else did Ni Yongxiao say to you?"

Chen Yongren hesitated for a moment, then lowered his head and said, "He asked me to gather information for him at Dongfeng Express."

Chen Yongren felt a little guilty, as he hadn't told his superior the truth as an undercover agent.

He knew that once he told Huang Zhicheng the truth, Huang would definitely ask him to go undercover at Ni's family's courier company.

However, he has no intention of leaving Dongfeng Express, nor does he want to get involved with the Ni family again.

Therefore, for his own selfish reasons, Chen Yongren did not fully disclose the situation to Huang Zhicheng.

However, Huang Zhicheng completely failed to notice Chen Yongren's slight abnormality, and instead clapped his hands:
"That's right! That's more like it! Ni Yongxiao also wants to uncover Dongfeng Express's core secrets! To dig out Dongfeng Express's network and buyers! This Dongfeng Express must be hiding an even bigger secret!"

Then Huang Zhicheng revealed a smug expression: "I told you, there's definitely something wrong with this Dongfeng Express, you just haven't noticed yet!"

Huang Zhicheng then fell into hesitation. He now had two choices: one was to return to his original intention and let Chen Yongren return to the Ni family.

Now that the Ni family is involved in cross-border express delivery, they need manpower, so Ni Yongxiao shouldn't refuse his request to return. Given Chen Yongren's status, he'll definitely have access to the Ni family's core secrets and obtain evidence of their crimes!

The other option is to keep Chen Yongren at Dongfeng Express. However, compared to his time with the Ni family, Chen Yongren's status at Dongfeng Express is much lower, and he still hasn't had access to Dongfeng Express's core secrets. It's even more uncertain when they'll be able to gather evidence of his crimes.

Huang Zhicheng looked at Chen Yongren, struggling with his decision. After a moment, he finally let out a sigh of relief.

He'd made up his mind: he wanted both Dongfeng Express and the Ni family! They were both crucial to his promotion!
As for the Ni family, given Chen Yongren's status as the Ni family's illegitimate son, he will be highly valued whenever he returns, and will gradually come into contact with the Ni family's criminal activities.

But if Chen Yongren leaves Dongfeng Express now, the trust he has built up will completely collapse, and it will be difficult for him to contact Dongfeng Express again in the future!

After clearing his mind and making up his mind, Huang Zhicheng instructed Chen Yongren:

"Ah Ren, just listen to Ni Yongxiao and gather information carefully at Dongfeng Express. At the same time, don't cut off contact with the Ni family!"
Didn't you say you had a good relationship with that manager, Ahua? Try to get closer to him!
And your colleagues, try to build good relationships with them too; you might get some clues from them!

Hearing Huang Zhicheng tell him to stay with Dongfeng Express, Chen Yongren breathed a sigh of relief.

To be honest, he himself was a bit confused and couldn't figure out what his mindset was right now.
……

night.

Ye Dongsheng sat on the sofa with Yueguang in his arms. Yueguang picked up some grapes from the fruit plate, peeled them, and put the flesh into Ye Dongsheng's mouth.
"Cousin, is this sweet?"

"You want to know? Try it for yourself!"

After saying that, Ye Dongsheng lowered his head and pressed his lips to Moonlight's.

After a long exchange of words, Ye Dongsheng finally looked up and asked with a smile, "Is it sweet?"

Moonlight, panting softly, didn't speak, but rolled her eyes and poked Ye Dongsheng's cheek with her finger: "If you keep bullying me, I won't feed you grapes anymore~"

"Hehe, these grapes aren't as delicious as the ones on you~"

Moonlight blushed and gently pinched Ye Dongsheng's waist: "You're so annoying! Didn't you just come while you were taking a shower?"

Ye Dongsheng was about to continue his teasing when he heard the news broadcast on television:
"The government denies taking over the bankrupt Hengfeng Bank; according to reliable sources, Dao Heng Bank may be initiating the takeover..."

(End of this chapter)