Days in Hong Kong variety shows

Finding Yue Huizhen, he grabbed her and prepared to find a corner to squat down and wait for the show to begin. When the idiot Li was about to follow, Yue Huizhen raised her fist to threaten him, muttering under her breath as she turned away to another place.

"You didn't see it? Those pieces of jewelry are absolutely gorgeous. Especially that diamond necklace; the core blue diamond alone is over 200 carats, and the dozen or so large colored side diamonds are each nearly 100 carats. If I could wear it just once, I'd gladly shorten my lifespan by a year!"

Beside a money tree, Le Huizhen whispered to Cao Tai, her voice filled with excitement, her eyes shining, and she even licked her lips with her little tongue.

Cao Tai handed over a glass of champagne at the opportune moment. "Why are you so excited? Soak your throat first."

Le Huizhen took the glass and drank most of it in one gulp, then continued excitedly, "Let me tell you..."

What could Mr. Cao do? He could only smile and listen attentively, occasionally nodding in response.

After Yue Huizhen finished the rest of the champagne, Cao Tai smiled and took the glass, putting it aside.

"Give me the handbag." Cao Tai reached out and took the handbag from Le Huizhen's hand, then pressed the recording button on the camera inside the bag, hung it securely on a branch of the money tree, and pointed the camera at the jewelry display stand in the middle of the hall.

The movements were quick and discreet. After all that was done, the handbag was hidden among the leaves and would hardly be noticed unless you looked closely.

Yue Huizhen: "??? What are you doing?"

"There's going to be a good show later," Cao Tai whispered, bringing his lips close to her ear, and then gently kissed her earlobe.

Suddenly, Yue Huizhen's entire face turned bright red, like a ripe peach.

The woman lightly punched the man's chest, uttering a soft, melodious "Yama..."—no, it was an overly sweet, sticky "Ugh."

The two had known each other for about a month. Apart from the time Mr. Cao went to the mainland, they had also met up for meals a few times when they were in Hong Kong.

Young, wealthy, self-made, and somewhat handsome, Mr. Cao realized just how popular he was.

Ruby, who has achieved great success, has already resigned from her nightclub job and moved into a luxurious 1600-square-foot three-bedroom apartment on a mid-to-high floor of a building purchased by Mr. Cao.

It seems that Miss Yue Huizhen is about to fall for it too, but she doesn't yet know how many sisters she has.

The banquet hall doors were violently pushed open with a "bang," and several burly men dressed as security personnel for the night ran in, guns in hand, followed by a strong man in camouflage and sunglasses.

"What are you doing?" A security company supervisor on duty in the banquet hall saw several security personnel barge in and stepped forward to shout at them, ignoring the guns they were carrying.

A crisp gunshot rang out as the rabbit, dressed in camouflage, struck the security supervisor in the chest. The powerful bullet pierced through his body, creating a hole the size of an adult's fist in his back.

The gunshot startled the groups of guests who were chatting. Those who were closer turned around and saw the security supervisor lying on the ground in a pitiful state, which made many of the women scream.

The robbers then fired a few shots into the air, driving the guests, who were scattering around like headless flies, to squat down together.

Cao Tai had already pulled Le Huizhen down to squat down when the robbers came in. When the robbers rushed in and drove the guests together, he also helped Jesse, who was rushing over and almost stumbled and fell.

By the time the twenty-odd thugs had taken control of the banquet hall, Mr. Cao was already hiding at the back of the crowd, squatting in an Asian squatting position, watching the robbers' performance through his sunglasses.

"We're after money, not lives. As long as you all behave and obey us, you can go home safely after we've finished our business," the bandit leader in camouflage said.

He glanced around and saw the guests huddled together like quails, shivering in fear, and nodded in satisfaction.

Then he spoke again: "Is Mr. Chen Liming from the security company here?"

In the crowd, a middle-aged man with a foreign face raised his hand and stood up shakily. "I...I am."

"Okay, Mr. Chen, could you please open the safe on the display stand?" the burly man in camouflage asked with a smile.

"The...password...was...set this morning by...the company's computer expert, and it hasn't been reported to me yet." The foreigner Chen Liming spoke more and more fluently, his Chinese was also very fluent, and after he finished speaking, he couldn't help but swallow.

After a gunshot, a burst of blood erupted from Chen Liming's chest, and he collapsed to the ground. Some people in the crowd screamed in fright, but they were quickly suppressed.

When the gunshot rang out, the two women dressed in pink and black on either side of Cao Tai were startled and shivered. Mr. Cao also lowered his arms, which were resting on his knees, and took the two slender hands in his hands.

The two women on either side instinctively grasped Mr. Cao's hand in return, and lowered their heads, unable to bear looking at the bloody scene in front of them.

"It's your turn. Can you handle it?" Rabbit, dressed in camouflage, asked a young, bespectacled Indian man beside him after shooting and killing Chen Liming, the head of the security company.

"This is my job. I'm here to take care of these protective shields. Leave it to me!" the Indian man replied casually, then took out a laptop from his backpack and went to the booth to start working.

Cao Tai, who was squatting at the back of the crowd, yawned. Although he had two soft little hands to play with, squatting for a long time was really too boring.

"These robbers are so unskilled. They make such a big scene just to steal a few pieces of jewelry," Cao Tai muttered under his breath, his eyes glancing sideways at a man squatting next to Jesse on his left behind his sunglasses.

The sound was too soft; only three or five people around Cao Tai heard it. The man squatting next to Jesse visibly twitched his ear, then kept his head still, but glanced at Cao Tai a few times.

The "doctor" squatting in front of Cao Tai also secretly glanced back at Cao Tai.

Yes, when the robbers rushed into the banquet hall, Jessie lifted her skirt and hid behind them. The "doctor," who had already taken Jessie for granted, followed suit and ended up squatting in front of Cao Tai.

"Those three pieces of jewelry are so expensive." Jesse was a bit bolder than Le Huizhen, and whispered in Cao Tai's ear.

"Thirty million US dollars? That's all the price inflated by the auction house. Even if these robbers manage to steal the jewelry, they can only get 30% or 40% of it at most when they sell it to someone else. The highest they can get is no more than 12 million US dollars, which is less than 100 million Hong Kong dollars at the current exchange rate. That's far less than the 160 million Hong Kong dollars stolen from the cash-in-transit van at Kai Tak Airport earlier this year."

Cao Tai spoke in a low voice, noticing that the man next to Jesse's ears twitched a few times, while the 'doctor' couldn't help but steal a glance back.

"We don't care how much money it costs, we just want to know how much longer we have to wait before we can leave?" Le Huizhen pouted and complained softly.

"An hour, that's still a long wait. If the police arrive later, it'll be even longer. Damn it, these robbers beat the security company manager to death without even questioning him. It's a complete waste of time," Mr. Cao couldn't help but complain again.

What reason could the head of the security company possibly have not to know the combination to the booth's safes? With a little questioning, we could open all three safes in less than 10 minutes.

After all, none of the jewelry in the exhibition was uninsured. If it was stolen or robbed, the loss would be covered by the insurance company. The security company manager had no reason to risk his life. Even if you interrogate him, he might pretend to resist for a while, but in the end, he would still confess.

The "Doctor" may seem like a cunning international thug, but his handling of the Cointreau Hotel heist was incredibly shoddy, lacking any real skill.