Chapter 16: Learning from the West
Early the next morning, when Lu Zonghao rushed to the Changle Bird Room, he saw Adong reading a newspaper in the lobby. He took the initiative to say hello: "Brother Dong, I'm here to see Brother Qiang. Is he there?"
"Boss, I don't have time to see you. Just talk to me if you have anything to do."
Adong put down the newspaper, put his legs on the card table, and looked at Lu Zonghao commandingly: "Over there on Dijie, Brother Qiang has already said hello. You go to the Xiangtang behind the fruit bar to find the shrimp boy. He will bring him
You are familiar with the situation."
When Lu Zonghao saw that Adong had finished speaking in a few words, he smiled and asked, "Is it that simple?"
"Otherwise? Do I still need to give you vocational training to teach you how to collect protection fees and kill people?"
Adong added impatiently: "The boss has told me that this month will be used as your familiarity with the environment. Starting from next month, I will send you 50,000 yuan at the end of each month. The remaining money will be yours. If you fail to pay the money, there will be consequences."
You don’t need me to remind you, do you?”
Chen Zixing always held a grudge against Adong. Seeing that he spoke so rudely, he didn't bother to talk nonsense: "Brother Hao has become the boss of the underground street. Shouldn't he be equipped with a car?"
The person next to Adong sneered: "Damn, it's just a fruit market. Do you really think it's a red stick? With a car? Can I match you with a few more foreign girls? Can you use this place as a kindergarten?"
Chen Zixing was irritated by the other party, so he stepped forward: "Damn it! What did you say?"
"Ah Xing! Don't be like them!"
Lu Zonghao stopped Chen Zhongxing, dragged him out of the door, and patted Hong Guoju, who was squatting on the roadside watching ants: "Aju, let's go!"
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The newly reclaimed land street is located in the west of the Kowloon Peninsula. It starts from Nanking Street, passes through Yau Ma Tei and Mong Kok, and ends at the junction of Lai Chi Kok Road and Prince Edward Road West. It is only two blocks away from the famous Bolan Street.
However, the economy here is very different from that of Bolan Street.
Bolan Street is a famous red light district with numerous commercial and residential buildings, theaters and a large number of hotels.
In addition to the large number of hardware stores on Reclamation Street, the most famous industry is the Yau Ma Tei fruit market.
Until the return of Hong Kong Island, this fruit wholesale market was the fruit wholesale and distribution center for the island and Kowloon. Starting from early in the morning every day, fruit wholesale, bidding, trading, transshipment and other work would be carried out, and it was a prosperous scene.
Different from the clean, tidy and fruity fruit market in our impression, the Yau Ma Tei fruit market is noisy and chaotic, and because of the large number of merchants, it has always been a battleground for major societies in Hong Kong. We have witnessed this countless times in the past few decades.
Gang war.
If Chen Mingzhe, the code gang, hadn't been too strong, and Bai Fenqiang didn't want to conflict with him, this kind of territory would never have fallen into the hands of a low-level mascot like Lu Zonghao.
Walking in the open-air market, you will see a large area of Chinese-style buildings with different shapes. The folding fence doors are open, and the awnings and stalls placed outside the doors occupy the not-so-wide passage.
Lu Zonghao walked through the narrow passages of the market, explored all the way, and finally found the Xiangtang located here in Xinyi.
It is said to be a Xiangtang, but in fact it is just a pointed iron room built with iron sheets, rainproof cloth and colored steel tiles. It seems that a gust of wind can cause the place to collapse.
Chen Zixing looked at the locked iron shed with a gloomy face: "Didn't Adong say that they have notified the people here in advance? On the first day that you, the new boss, came here, these bastards actually used this method to
Are you showing off your power?"
Lu Zonghao did not expect that their living environment could be so bad, but in line with the principle of taking care of things as they come, he glanced at Hong Guoju: "Ah Ju, pry open the door!"
Hong Guoju picked up a brick and was about to smash the lock when a scooter suddenly stopped behind a few people: "Hey! What are you doing?"
Hong Guoju clutched the brick and turned around, looking at the skinny young man on the motorcycle: "Who are you?"
The young man seemed to be frightened by Hong Guoju's physique, so he pretended to be calm and said: "You guys must understand that this is not a fruit farm warehouse, but an incense hall in Xinyi'an. If you break this lock, you must carefully consider the consequences."
Hong Guoju's eyes widened: "Bullshit! Please show me clearly, this is Lu Zonghao, the leader of Dijie sent by Xinyi'an!"
"Are you Brother Hao?"
When the young man heard this, he showed an expression of relief and hurried forward to greet him: "Hello, brother Hao, I am also a disciple of Xinyi'an. My name is Liu Jiale, you can call me Xiazai!"
Lu Zonghao saw that Xiazai was slightly hunched over, and roughly understood the origin of his nickname. He raised his eyebrows and asked, "Why is the door of Xiangtang locked in broad daylight?"
"Brother Hao, I'm really sorry. Last night, Brother Qiang said you would come today, but I didn't expect you to come so early, so I sent my sister to school."
Xiazai apologized profusely, and at the same time took out the key and opened the door of the Xiangtang: "Now I am the only one left in the Xiangtang in the fruit bar. There are many thieves in this area, so I locked the door before leaving."
Lu Zonghao looked at Xiazi a little confused: "Did you just say that you are the only one in the entire market?"
When he watched Hong Kong movies in the past, he once envied the big bosses of the society who were able to call the shots, especially the scene where they could summon hundreds of brothers with just a whistle, which made people's blood boil.
But who would have thought that when he became the boss, he would have only one younger brother.
When Xia Zai saw Lu Zonghao asking, he explained angrily: "The Yau Ma Tei fruit bar was originally a very profitable business owned by Tang Kou. At one time, there were more than thirty brothers stationed here! But since the Ma Gang came, our living space has been reduced.
Getting younger and younger, the brothers gradually followed the bosses from other clansmen, and some even joined the code gang."
Lu Zonghao lit a cigarette irritably: "Tang Monk also brought three disciples with him to study scriptures! With me, I am just a polished commander?"
Hong Guoju counted the number of people: "You can't say that, aren't there exactly four of us now?"
Lu Zonghao was choked by these words and said sternly: "Then Tang Monk still has a white dragon horse?"
Xiazai sniffed his nose and pointed to the worn-out pedal not far away: "Brother Hao, I have a motorcycle."
Chen Zixing sighed: "With our configuration, I don't know if we can get the true scriptures, but if we really work with the Code Gang, we will definitely be able to go to the West!"
Xiazai waved his hands to disperse the mosquitoes and flies around him, opened the door curtain and invited: "Brother Hao, it's windy outside, let's chat inside!"
Lu Zonghao walked into the house helplessly and found that the inside of the iron shed was not small. In addition to a hall, it was divided into several small rooms.
The living room is equipped with a billiard table, a mahjong table, a TV, and a DVD player, all of which silently tell the story of the liveliness and glory of this place.
Lu Zonghao sat on the sofa, took a glass of water from Xiazai, and asked: "How much is the monthly income from the land here in the fruit bar?"
"In the past, when we were responsible for collection, the monthly income from the fruit bar and other shops' protection fees was more than 800,000 yuan. But now this street has been owned by the Ma Gang, and the protection fees belong to them.
We had fought with them several times before, but the superiors ignored our situation and the injured brother couldn't even afford the medical bills. Gradually, people's hearts began to lose, and we ended up in this situation."
Xiazai scratched his head and sighed: "In addition to the house in Xiangtang, our site also has an open space behind it. I have rented it to three fruit shops opposite as venues. The monthly rent is three thousand.
Yuan, excluding five hundred yuan for water and electricity expenses, the rest is my salary for staying here. To be honest, if I didn’t have this money to support me, I’d probably have run away long ago.”
Chapter completed!