At the beginning, I want to quit the arena

Chapter 2 The scenery that is about to retreat

At two o'clock in the morning, compared with other streets in Yau Tsim Mong, where there are more night spots, the lights are still full of feasting and feasting. Goldfish Street in Mong Kok has already returned to the quietness it should have in the middle of the night.

Sheng Jiale stood alone in the corridor on the seventh floor of the Huasheng Building, where the electrophoretic aging and poor contact might cause the lights to flicker from time to time, as if ghosts were haunting at any time. He knocked on the old and mottled iron security door in front of him, and the wooden door inside was soon broken. Pulling it apart, Li Lanxiang was wearing a black tight-fitting bust with thin straps, revealing the white flowers on her shoulders, neck and chest. While wiping her wet long hair with a towel, she asked through the security door: "What are you doing so late?"

"What can I do here, of course, is to issue a pawn ticket. Are you here to apply for a Vietnamese passport? Open the door." Sheng Jiale flicked the cigarette butt from his mouth and said with a slight frown.

Li Lanxiang opened the anti-theft door, stepped aside, and Sheng Jiale stepped into the door. As soon as he entered the door, a pistol was placed on Sheng Jiale's temple.

"Beware of fire, brother cheap." Sheng Jiale went straight into the living room without even looking at it, opened the old-fashioned refrigerator, took out a can of beer from inside, unscrewed the tab, took a sip into his mouth, and then looked at The TV in the living room is playing a video tape, listening to the lines and the costumes of the actors, like a second-rate period drama filmed in Taiwan a few years ago.

Li Chenghai behind the door picked up his dirty T-shirt, tucked the Black Star pistol back around his waist, checked the anti-theft door again, and after confirming that it was locked, he stared at Sheng Jiale with two ignorant and fearless eyes. He said in a slightly weird tone: "I said before, if you dare to harass my sister again, I will kill you."

"I'm here to harass you and pawn a ticket." Sheng Jiale drank beer and stared at the TV: "Old rules."

"I don't do your business." Li Chenghai dropped a sentence forcefully, then turned and went back to the bedroom.

Sheng Jiale said to Li Chenghai's back: "What do you have?"

Li Lanxiang sat down on the sofa in the living room with her legs crossed, her legs dangling in front of Sheng Jiale's eyes. While turning on the hair dryer to blow her long hair, she asked Sheng Jiale, "Are you in trouble?"

Sheng Jiale sat next to Li Lanxiang with a beer, and sniffed Li Lanxiang's long hair. Li Lanxiang pointed the hair dryer at Sheng Jiale's face and blew on Sheng Jiale's face. After blowing Sheng Jiale back, she laughed happily: " Did you touch a woman you shouldn't touch again?"

"You are the kind of woman who shouldn't be touched." Sheng Jiale leaned on the sofa and looked at the messy residence: "Your brother and his group have been doing big business for so long, and they have millions of dollars in deposits. Let them use some money to decorate it, save it to buy a coffin?"

Hearing that Li Chenghai was gone from the bedroom, Sheng Jiale drank the beer and threw the can at the bedroom door: "Hey, hurry up and save me! Please hurry up, brother cheap!"

"It doesn't take long for me to look up the dictionary and write pawn tickets! Chinese characters are not as easy to write as Vietnamese characters!" In the bedroom, Li Chenghai roared!

After more than ten minutes, Li Chenghai came out with a simple pawn ticket in duplicate. He said it was a pawn ticket, but in fact it was just a line of crooked writing on two pieces of white paper. , as proof.

At the bottom is Li Chenghai's signature and handprint.

Taking the ballpoint pen handed over by Li Chenghai, Sheng Jiale signed his name, and then pressed his fingerprints on the two pawn tickets with his thumb dipped in ink pad.

"Is it really easy to use?" Sheng Jiale asked Li Chenghai while pressing his fingerprints.

Li Chenghai responded coldly with a dark face: "We Vietnamese are not as dishonest as you Xiangjiang people. Where is the location?"

"Sai Kung Mei Yuen Street Man Kee Desserts, fortunately I am not a local, otherwise I will treat you as scolding me." Sheng Jiale returned a copy to Li Chenghai after pressing his fingerprints, and took out another similar one from his suit pocket. For the pawn slip, he stacked the pawn slip written by Li Chenghai and the one he took out of his pocket, and carefully put it in his pocket.

Seeing that Sheng Jiale had another pawn ticket, Li Lanxiang threw off the flip-flops with her raised left foot, and then lightly kicked Sheng Jiale's calf: "You know that the two families are not at odds, but you are so wealthy Give it to the two."

"Hey, I just bought an extra copy of insurance. Both of them owe me favors, and I'm in a dilemma. Only one of them makes me seem to be partial. I hope I don't need these two. Speaking of which, I have two cheap uncles. Brother is a deadly enemy, but you and Axiu have been sisters for so long, so there is no need to never see each other. If you have time to go shopping together, or play mahjong with my mother, she often asks about you." Sheng Jiale said After finishing, he turned around and walked out: "By the way, last time I bought clothes, I saw a skirt that should suit you, so I bought it for you. If you have time, go to my house to pick it up."

Li Chenghai was going to open the door, Li Lanxiang stepped on flip-flops and walked over to help Sheng Jiale open the door. When he walked out of the door, he said softly: "Be careful."

Sheng Jiale didn't seem to hear or pause, and walked out.

Sheng Jiale walked out of this old-fashioned tenement building, looked up at the starry sky, and then got into the co-pilot of his old Mitsubishi SUV. At this time, the driver was no longer his little brother Dabao, but a gray overalls. With cropped short hair, just sitting there makes people feel a vigorous young man. When Sheng Jiale sits firmly, the young man turns the key and starts the car to drive towards Saigon.

"Think clearly, are you sure you want to use up the pawn ticket you've been keeping as your hole card? And it's two at a time?" The young man who drove pointed at Sheng Jiale, the co-pilot, and motioned him to light a cigarette for himself. said in his mouth.

Sheng Jiale took out two from his Davidoff silver box, lit them in his mouth, and then gave one to the other party: "Whether it's my Vietnamese brother or you, it's not just fancy but not useful, ah ? Mainland uncle?"

Zhao Jiandong laughed when he heard Sheng Jiale's words: "You don't know what our two groups rely on to get food? I just feel a little pity. You have suffered so many grievances before and never asked me for help. Xiudu couldn't help begging me in private, let me come forward to help you, but you refused, maybe this time you met a ghost crab king in the countryside of Saigon, and you played all the cards in your hand, you know, the next time you meet If you get into trouble and want us to help you solve it, you will have to charge money.”

The Daquan Boys entrenched in Sai Yee Street in Mong Kok and the Vietnamese Boys gathered in Jinyu Street in Mong Kok each owed a favor to Sheng Jiale. These two favors are the two strongest cards in the hands of Sheng Jiale. Even if Le encountered some rivers and lakes battles, he never thought of troublesome them. He wanted to wait until one day he could compete for the leader position of the society, and then use these two favors to help him get rid of some competitors.

As for why the two groups owe Sheng Jiale a favor, and Sheng Jiale also calls Li Chenghai and Zhao Jiandong uncles?It's very simple. When Li Chenghai's younger sister Li Lanxiang and Zhao Jiandong's younger sister Zhao Jianxiu first came to Xiangjiang, they were both tested and opened by Sheng Jiale.

Originally, the two girls wanted to come out with him to sell and make money, but before Sheng Jiale lifted his pants after opening the cans, they wanted to advance a sum of money to help his brother buy guns, and Sheng Jiale borrowed 6 yuan from the association. , gave each of the two women 3 yuan, and said that they did not need to pay it back, and did not continue to keep the two women to start work.

At that time, Sheng Jiale was selfish, just to catch up with the Vietnamese boy and the big circle boy behind the two of them. It turned out that both parties were very satisfied with Sheng Jiale. After all, in Xiangjiang in the 80s, the client wanted to find a woman to open a can. Five thousand Hong Kong dollars is already a sky-high price.

Even if Li Lanxiang and Zhao Jianxiu had never been touched by a man before, they only took 3 yuan for sleeping with Sheng Jiale once. The Vietnam Boys and the Big Circle Boys all expressed that they owed Sheng Jiale once, and one day Sheng Jiale needed help, they would issue a pawn ticket to him, and after the matter was settled, they would take back the pawn ticket from him, and they would be completely cleared.

"Could it be that you have a way to do the right thing, or are you planning to run away to Thailand?" Zhao Jiandong asked with a half-smile, a cigarette in his mouth.

He actually had a good impression of Sheng Jiale, otherwise Sheng Jiale would not have dared to joke with him, calling him uncle, this guy is born with a good skin and knows how to behave, especially good at making women happy. She refuses to find a man to marry because she still has this guy in her heart.

Sheng Jiale looked at Zhao Jiandong, gave his thumbs up, and his tone was full of approval: "Compared to Vietnam uncle, Zhong is because you have better eyesight, I was just about to change my ways and quit the rivers and lakes, just before I quit, I encountered trouble, Just use it for favors, anyway, I probably won’t interfere in these things in the future.”

"Of course I have better eyesight. The Vietnamese people were defeated by the Chinese subordinates in the self-defense counterattack." Zhao Jiandong said with a smile: "What are you going to do in the future?"

"I want to go back to the Mainland to pretend to be a Hong Kong businessman and do business." Sheng Jiale looked at Zhao Jiandong: "What do you think?"

"I just thought that if you really do a good job in the future, it would be good to let Jianxiu follow you, but after listening to you... I brought my brothers and sisters to Xiangjiang to earn a living because I think the mainland is too poor , Forget it, I can’t let her go back with you to suffer.” Zhao Jiandong took a few puffs of his cigarette, and then blew the cigarette butt out of the window: “It doesn’t matter if you quit the rivers and lakes, you can only eat after serving this bowl of rice. Into the stomach."

Sheng Jiale breathed a sigh of relief, watched Zhao Jiandong drive the car into Meiyuan Street, and said loudly: "So, tonight is my last night in the rivers and lakes on Bolan Street, as the saying goes, you have to retreat." , leaving my last legend on the rivers and lakes."

Zhao Jiandong parked the car outside the main entrance of Manji Dessert, and said with a smile: "You are the only one in Kowloon that can let you come out with me. You are the only one in Kowloon. It is impossible not to be beautiful. Be careful, call for help if something happens, legend! "

"You'd better prick up your ears now, otherwise your sister will be widowed before getting married." Sheng Jiale jumped out of the car, put his hands in the pockets of his shorts, and pushed open the door of Manji Dessert shop briskly.

(End of this chapter)