At the beginning, I want to quit the arena

Chapter 27 I don't even want to come

Coming out of the headquarters building of the West Kowloon Police District, Sheng Jiale took his Xiangjiang ID card and went directly to the Luohu Control Station in Hong Kong ** District. After Sheng Jiale took out his ID card and asked the control station staff to confirm his identity, he could leave the country easily Xiangjiang, but leaving the country does not mean that you can set foot in the mainland. A new five-story building stands on the north side of the Luohu Bridge. A five-star red flag is hung on the roof. Xiangjiang people are forming a queue, moving slowly towards the building.

There is the Luohu Port in mainland China, the Shenzhen Luohu Entry-Exit Border Inspection Station.

It is not too convenient to go to the mainland nowadays. First, the ghosts in Hong Kong do not want a large number of Hong Kong people to tilt their funds and manpower to the mainland because of the reform and opening up of the mainland. After reviewing and registering, the Home Return Permit will be issued only after passing the test. Generally, it takes about half a month to a month to get the Home Return Permit and enter the mainland.

Originally, Shenzhen City was not as strict as it is now when it was just reforming and opening up, and it was easier to obtain a home return permit than it is now. However, it is clear that Shenzhen City thinks too well of Xiangjiang compatriots. In the mainland, posing as Hong Kong businessmen to defraud money, or abducting women to sell their bodies in Hong Kong, and even members of associations went to Shenzhen to try to develop associations, etc., causing a lot of bad effects, so the mainland began to increase censorship, and the review time was greatly lengthened.

Of course, if you can’t get a Home Return Permit, you can also take Dafei to smuggle to Shenzhen City. However, because you don’t have a Home Return Permit, it’s probably similar to a black household. Found, sent back to Xiangjiang.

Except for gang members who have a criminal record in Xiangjiang, or gang members who need to run away, or Xiangjiang son-in-law who insists on running a man-snake business and abducting women, no one wants to go back to his hometown and still be sneaky like a mouse, living in shame.

Sheng Jiale has no official criminal record in Xiangjiang now. Although he is engaged in an improper occupation and has an association status, because the police force has no evidence and has not formally filed a complaint against him, he can still come to apply for a home return permit, otherwise he will really be imprisoned. I've been involved in those bullshit rivers and lakes for too long, it's hard to say whether I'll have a chance to return to the mainland in the future.

As for Ouyang Feng's act of releasing snakes today, Sheng Jiale didn't care that much. Most of his regular customers in business, it's not so easy for a stranger to come to him. Naturally, Dabao will accompany him around first. Immediately sell the other party to a gambler, and the scammer will find a way to pretend to be a groom or a prostitute, so as to empty out the special funds prepared by the police force for these plain-clothes policemen.

From eleven o'clock in the noon to three o'clock in the afternoon, it was Sheng Jiale's turn to go to the counter. A copy of the "Notification of Returning to Hometown" and asked Sheng Jiale to fill it out.

The information requirements on the registration form are very detailed, personal identity information, Xiangjiang address, occupation, parents’ information, parents’ occupation and the purpose of going to Shenzhen, whether there are relatives in Shenzhen, the date of planned stay, whether you will bring your own duty-free items when you leave, Such as watches, foreign currency, cameras, etc...

After completing the filling and handing it over to the other party, the staff carefully confirmed that the application form had not been filled in wrongly, and said to Sheng Jiale:

"Comrade, it will take half a month to a month to review your information, depending on the number of Hong Kong and Macao compatriots who have recently returned home to register. If your review is passed, the home return certificate will be sent to you according to the address you provided. , then you can go to Shenzhen City. If you do not receive the Home Return Permit within one month, you can also come here to check the situation, but please note that the items you bring should match the number you registered, otherwise the checkpoint has the right to suspect You are trying to smuggle valuables, and the extra items you carry will be confiscated. If the circumstances are serious, your application for customs clearance may be directly rejected. Now you can go to the window next to you to take pictures."

Sheng Jiale paid the cost of production and took photos to complete all the work, and then walked back to the Luohu Entry-Exit Administration Station in Xiangjiang with his Xiangjiang ID card.

It happened that an old man with gray hair and a suit and leather shoes walked towards Shengjiale, and asked anxiously: "Young man, are you going to apply for a return certificate? I wonder if there are many people there? Will it take time? Go back Is it troublesome in the mainland? Can I go back after finishing the work today?"

"Probably still have to wait for a long time, but it's already [-]:[-], and the gates will close at [-]:[-]. I think you might as well queue up tomorrow, and you will have to wait for about a month to get the Home Return Permit." Lah." Sheng Jiale lowered his head and lit a cigarette, then said to the bewildered old man.

The old man handed a folder in his hand to Sheng Jiale: "This is the precautions that my family in Shenzhen listed for me. Please help me to confirm if there are any omissions? Otherwise, I am not prepared enough, and I am worried that I will not be able to do it once. Sure, I'm old, I don't want to run more times."

"There are no omissions, very detailed." Sheng Jiale opened it and looked it over. It was indeed handwritten and marked with precautions, such as Xiangjiang ID card, foreign currency amount, personal belongings, etc. After reading it, return the document to the other party: " Can you arrange it early tomorrow?"

"Thank you, young man, there are very few good people like you who are willing to help the elderly." The old man looked at the queue of people queuing up on the bridge in the distance to apply for the home return permit, and sighed in disappointment: "I knew I would have come here sooner."

Then turned around and walked towards the original road, Sheng Jiale called out to the other party: "Hello, Uncle."

The old man turned around, and Sheng Jiale handed over the folder in his hand: "Your notes."

"Oh~ thank you." The old man was stunned for a moment when he saw the document Sheng Jiale handed over to him, then he shook his head and walked back with a wry smile, took the document, thanked Sheng Jiale again, turned and left.

After standing still and smoking a cigarette, he finally met a taxi going back to the city. Sheng Jiale looked at the time on his watch, and thought about the distance from Shitang Tsui, West Ring, and said simply:
"Shek Tong Tsui."

According to the current traffic jam on the Hong Kong-Kowloon trunk line during peak hours, if I was delayed returning to Temple Street for a while, I might rush to the Western District instead of going to the Zhuji restaurant for dinner, but for supper.

When the sky was getting dark, the taxi finally brought Sheng Jiale to Zhuji restaurant in Shitangzui. There were still ten minutes before the appointment at six o'clock. Sheng Jiale did not rush in, but looked at it. Looking at the surrounding environment, although there are many shops on Qudi Street, most of them are closed and not open for business. Many of them have signs for rent. It seems that the whole street is quite deserted.

The main reason is that when the real estate was developed here in the 70s, the developer advertised that it would be connected to the subway and that it was a bus. However, after the real estate was sold, the Xiangjiang colonial government announced the cancellation of the development plan of the Shek Tong Tsui subway station. Many real estate speculators were so miserable that they went to the Housing Department to demonstrate and threatened to set themselves on fire.

If you open a restaurant here, it's hell to make money.

Sheng Jiale stepped into the dining room after repeatedly thinking that it was impossible for Fei Li to kill him because he was a forty-nine boy who proposed to wash his hands with a golden basin.

There are only four dining tables, and the dining room with one round table is dimly lit, giving it a warm atmosphere.

As the store door was pushed open, a string of wind chimes tied to the door rang crisply. Fili, who was wearing a chef hat and an apron, came out of the back kitchen with a spatula in his hand. Went to Shengjiale and smiled:
"Ale, right? Sit down as you please, and the meal will be OK right away."

"Uncle Feili, I don't look like a guest?" Sheng Jiale walked in, bowed and smiled at Feili who met him for the first time, then looked around and asked.

Fei Li shook his head: "This restaurant is at the end of Qudi Street, no one is willing to walk for so long to eat my cooking."

After speaking, Fili walked back to the kitchen.

Sheng Jiale sat at a dining table, looked at the empty dining room, and said softly, "I don't even want to come."

(End of this chapter)