money player

Chapter 11 The first pot of gold, smuggling

There is no need to elaborate on the process of looking at a house. At present, the commodity attributes of a house have not been completely consolidated, not to mention the financial attributes. A house means "home" to most people, and it is used by countless generations to pass on, which is of great significance. It's rare that someone doesn't take it seriously.

Luo Yingshi is obviously not a weirdo. The house is built quite solidly, and the area calculation is also very interesting. Xian Yaowen used the algorithm from 110 to 198 years later to calculate 1000 square meters for one floor, and used the algorithm from 4000 years later to calculate square meters. The newspaper The advertisement clearly states that the first floor is square feet, with a total of square feet. There is a platform where a simple house can be built without approval.

I have to say that Xian Yaowen was a little surprised.

The layout of the house is also well designed, with two shops on the first floor, three rooms with one bedroom, one living room, one kitchen and one bathroom on the second and third floors, and the fourth floor is divided into two rooms with two bedrooms and one living room. For him, It's a bit redundant, but for the time being it meets the need of carrying two towing oil bottles.

After returning to Juying Real Estate to sign the contract and go to HSBC to settle the account, Luo Yingshi was shocked again by Xian Yaowen. He didn't deal with banks very much and always felt that it was unsafe to put his money in the bank. He kept his money and gold in a safe place. .

His method is not uncommon nowadays. Many businessmen hide the money they earn in their own "treasury", and large sums of cash are sent back and forth in business transactions. If you want to start a kidnapping business at this time, you need to be a little diligent. One thing, and if you are not too lucky, it is not difficult to accumulate a net worth of hundreds of millions in one year.

Xian Yaowen also likes to keep money in his own home, but he likes to call this home a bank.

After finishing everything, Xian Yaowen declined Luo Yingshi's invitation to have dinner, came to the street, took off his invisible equipment, and felt light all over.

He did not rush to summon a rickshaw. He walked briskly and hummed a tune: "You can pay the house price in installments when buying a house. You can pay the car price in installments when buying a car. For the first time, you only need to pay a few cents. How convenient it is... "

After humming a small tune, Xian Yaowen put on his equipment again, hailed a rickshaw and rushed to Victoria Harbor.

"Big brother."

Xian Yaowu, who had been tensed up, saw Xian Yaowen getting off the rickshaw, and his whole body was filled with joy and lightness.

After paying the bill, Xian Yaowen walked to Xian Yaowu and said with a smile: "You call me big brother, and you make me feel like a wanderer who hasn't been home for more than ten years. Do you miss me so much?"

"I think about it, I think about it but I'm sleepy at the same time." Xian Yaowu nodded.

"Haha, we have a family, let's go home." Xian Yaowen patted Xian Yaowu's arm, then turned to the third young master and said: "Third young master, I have a good news to tell you, I will send you off in a month and a half at most. London."

"Really?"

When the third young master heard this, his heart changed from apathy to summer solstice, and he looked into Xian Yaowen's eyes with a look of disbelief, trying desperately not to find signs of joking in them.

Xian Yaowen said with a smile: "Third Young Master, I told Mr. Liu that I am a loyal person and always keep my word. Be patient. Apart from today, there are still at most 30 days. Open your eyes and close your eyes. It will pass soon." ."

The third young master nodded involuntarily, then suddenly realized his situation, stopped his neck, and turned his face to the side.

Xian Yaowen smiled knowingly and led a few people towards the dock...

I bought necessities such as mats, blankets, washbasins, toothbrushes and toothpaste nearby, and also ate something to worship at the Five Zang Temple. That night, the four of them laid a floor in a living room on the fourth floor of the new house. Xian Yaowen asked Xian Yaowu to work the first shift in the first half of the night, which was easier, and he himself worked the second shift.

On the second night after arriving in Hong Kong, Xian Yaowen spent time on duty and lack of time to sleep.

The next day.

After getting up in the morning, after freshening up, Xian Yaowen went out alone to do some shopping. He first found a grocery store and bought foreign oil stoves, foreign oil, pots and pans, seasonings, kitchen knives and other kitchen supplies, as well as a bunch of gadgets that are essential for home, and then ran away. Two furniture stores made appointments to visit the venue at ten o'clock and eleven o'clock respectively.

The fourth floor can be put into place slowly, and the second and third floors must be quickly packed with furniture so that they can be rented out one day early and the rent collected one day early.

After finishing these two tasks, Xian Yaowen moved the things he bought back in two stages. The first time he moved more, and the second time he moved less. To be more relaxed, he borrowed a faucet from the grocery store to put the enamel lunch box (combinable type) he bought. ) After washing, I bought breakfast on the way and a pile of newspapers.

After taking the things back, Xian Yaowen asked the other three to have breakfast first, and he went out again - he went to several stationery stores and bookstores, bought pens, brushes, ink, letter paper, manuscript paper, and a few books that could be used as textbooks for primary school students. Books, I also carefully found two pamphlets compiled by leftists, the content of which was about exposing the dark sins of landlords and old wealth.

Returning to his building again, Xian Yaowen didn't rush upstairs. He sat at the stairs, wrote a rental notice for the second and third floors, and pasted it on the door of the shop on the first floor. After finishing, he went up to the fourth floor.

As soon as he went upstairs, Xian Yaowen saw Xian Yaowu leaning on the door frame and smoking. As he approached, Xian Yaowu said: "Brother, the porridge is cold, hurry up and eat."

"fine."

Xian Yaowen glanced into the room and saw two oil bottles sitting in the corner in a daze. He walked in and handed the pen, ink, paper and book to the third young master. "I just asked around outside. Hong Kong has been pouring in in the past two years." There are too many refugees and there are too few jobs but too many people. Every job has a group of people competing to do it. Life is difficult. Some people here in the New Territories have British overseas passports and are going to the UK together to look for job opportunities.

Britain fought two world wars in succession, and many men died. I heard that this year the army has begun to recruit female soldiers. You can imagine how much there is a shortage of strong labor and men. The third young master went to London. How many houses can he take? A foreign woman and a concubine, show your face to the Liu family. "

Xian Yaowen pointed to one of the books in the hands of the third young master, "This book is in English. It is very elementary. It is suitable for you, the third young master, to learn English. Hong Kong is quite chaotic. Read more at home and go out less. If you want to go out and follow Yaowu Tell him to accompany you out."

The third young master glanced at the English book and thought in his mind, "Bandit Xian said at first that he would send him to London within half a year. Yesterday he changed his mind and said that he would send him to London within a month. Today he bought a book for himself. So, he really wanted to send him there. London?"

Xian Yaowen touched the third young master's head kindly, "Read the book and ask me if you don't understand anything."

With that said, Xian Yaowen went into the kitchen, took a pot of water and sat on the oil stove, lit the fire, walked out of the kitchen, divided the leftover porridge that had been lumped into one piece in the enamel rice basin into two enamel basins. Inside, he took an enamel rice bowl, tore two fried dough sticks in half from the middle, cut them into three-centimeter-wide pieces with scissors, put them in the bowl, and sprinkled them with a little salt and Ajinomoto.

Wait for the water to boil, pour an appropriate amount of water into the two porridge basins and the deep-fried dough sticks basin, stir it with chopsticks, the porridge will separate when heated and turn into gruel, the deep-fried dough sticks will become soft, the oil and water will melt, and in a blink of an eye it will turn into a thin porridge. A bowl of oily fried dough sticks soup.

Just eating the gruel with the fried dough stick soup and three bowls of clear soup, Xian Yaowen's stomach was filled, and a feeling of satiety swept through his body, making him feel very at ease. After eating, he went out again and bought rice and vegetables. Xian Yaowen could then sit at the corner of the stairs on the first floor and read the newspaper quietly, waiting for people from the furniture store to come to his door.

On the second day after arriving in Hong Kong, Xian Yaowen was busy taking care of the housework at home. By the time of dinner, there was already a dining table to put dishes on and chairs to sit on. There was no need to make a floor at night and he could just lie down on the beech wood bed. .

Day three.

Xian Yaowen did not go out. He asked Xian Yaowu to go out first and find someone to come and install a door on the stairs from the third floor to the fourth floor to seal off the fourth floor. He also asked Xian Yaowu to buy newspapers for him, and then asked him to touch Sham Shui Po. The situation in the nearby cabin area.

According to the newspaper, Hong Kong’s current population has exceeded 180 million, and the number is increasing by about three to four thousand every day. Less than half of the people live in buildings, and the per capita living area is less than 12 square feet, or 1.1 square meters.

For the other half, a small number like Xian Yaowen and the four entered the country secretly and did not apply for documents, so they are not included in the statistics. Most of the others slept on the streets or built a large number of shacks on the rooftops of tenement buildings, beside the streets, and around the city. Houses, wooden houses, and even paper houses form many densely populated wooden house areas.

Not far from Xian Yaowen's house, there are two adjacent wooden houses that are about to merge together. Xian Yaowen needs a few veterans who have carried guns and fought in the war to eat with him. This is what he asked Xian Yaowu to touch. .

Fourth day.

Xian Yaowen pretended to go out with Xian Yaowu and asked the third young master and the two to stay at home. In fact, after he and Xian Yaowu went out for a certain distance, he secretly returned home and sat at the corner of the stairs on the first floor to read a newspaper.

He didn't know what kind of calculations or arguments the third young master and the housekeeper had. Anyway, the final result was that the two of them did not do anything untoward.

Day .

Repeat the previous day's actions.

During the four days before and after, Xian Yaowen read a large number of newspapers, remembered the names of several reporters and writers, and gained a deeper understanding of the current situation in Hong Kong. During this period, while buying breakfast and groceries, he did not forget to check the prices. His eyes, mouth, and heart were not idle. He looked in all directions, asked questions without shame, and pondered carefully, absorbing the necessary knowledge and nutrients bit by bit.

Day .

When Xian Yaowu went out, Xian Yaowen was still sitting at the corner of the stairs reading the newspaper.

Different from the previous few days, someone came to see the house today. It was just that the person was tall and thick, covered in stinky sweat, and his exposed arms were muscular and shiny from the sun. He probably worked hard at the dock.

Nowadays, the wharves in Hong Kong are all occupied by Chinese characters. The coolies who can stand on the wharf are not necessarily hard-working people, but they must be the forty-nine boys of the society. If people are more honest and just rely on the Chinese characters to have someone to protect them, Xian Yaowen will be waiting. If the rent is owed in the future, if you are not honest and willing to fight, it will be even more troublesome. If not, enemies will come to kill you in the future.

The day's pay for dock coolies is only two or three yuan, which is slightly lower than other jobs. But fortunately, it is paid on a daily basis. When it is time to finish work, you can take the bamboo chips handed out by the chipmaker to exchange for wages, and you can buy something with the wages. Food is more friendly to people who have just arrived and have nothing to live on, and can keep them alive.

[Zhou Lao, you must have seen it in movies and TV dramas. After carrying a sack, the dock coolie goes to someone to get a bamboo stick. The person responsible for handing out the bamboo sticks is called Chao Lao, and he is usually a crony or close friend of the boss/leader. It doesn't matter that people like me can't get this kind of job. ]
The dock coolie's daily income was just this little, and he couldn't afford to rent Xian Yaowen's house. Since he dared to come and inquire, he must be confident. Then the other party was probably the second type of person Xian Yaowen thought. Trouble within trouble, Xian Yaowen opened a The unreasonably high prices directly drove people away.

On that day, no second group of people came to see the house, and Xian Yaowen spent another day quietly reading the newspaper.

Seventh day.

Xian Yaowen went out early and went to the Kowloon Customs Checkpoint. He found a branch on the way and held up a piece of paper with the words "Wenchangwei" written on it. He waited at the checkpoint for a long time when a person came with a message from Xian Guangbing. The words "Twenty-three Flavors" were heard in the other party's mouth.

Twenty-three and twenty-four are indispensable, but even if the fire is not enough, the Liu family will not die for the time being. At the same time, it has been agreed that the next date for delivering the oral message will be October 12rd or December 12th.

Xian Yaowen was mentally prepared, knowing that things would not develop in the direction that best suited his wishes. He was not too depressed after receiving the message. He returned home and started cooking in the eager anticipation of the other three people.

These days, no matter whether you are rich or poor, as long as you stay at home and don’t wander outside, few men can cook. Even women, as long as they are girls from poor families in the countryside, don’t expect them to become snail girls and be able to cook delicious food. The dishes I have been exposed to are "frugal" cooking techniques, which lack oil and salt, not to mention other ingredients. The main ingredients are also scarce. All I can cook is a few common home-grown dishes, and the possibility of superb cooking skills is slim. .

If a girl from the inland country prepares a large table of Manchu and Han banquets with all the colors, flavors and aromas, she will be tortured and tortured to ask her which year she came from. Don’t ask backwards. Ask forwards. It must be at least 1920 Before and after this, it was very difficult to prepare all the ingredients for the Man-Han banquet. Moreover, this difficulty was especially difficult for Xian Yaowen, the former second generation of the consortium. Most people could not even think of finding all the pictures, not to mention having seen and eaten it.

Xian Yaowu went to restaurants when he was out, and when he came home, his mother would do the cooking. Not to mention the third young master, even the housekeeper couldn't cook at ordinary times. The three of them could only cook the rice together. In the past two days, Xian Yaowen taught him Xian Yaowu's method of stew - wash all the vegetables, throw them into the pot without cutting them, add water and boil, when the heat is up, add the seasonings and then stew them, and eat them with the seasonings on the stove, so as not to starve. .

In contrast, Xian Yaowen, who was taught by his father for a period of time in his previous life, became the top chef in the family. He was the only one who could cook food for human consumption, but he didn't like cooking either and made a winter melon stew. Fatty fooled around for a while, ate a bowl of rice in a hurry, went out to a restaurant and got himself a squab, and a plate of barbecued pork.

Drinking a glass of cold San Miguel beer is so refreshing.

After a glass of wine, Xian Yaowen slowly ate and drank, while thinking about how to recruit people later.

No matter in the previous life or this life, Xian Yaowen is only half Yanhuang blood, but this does not prevent him from being patriotic. Patriotism should be loved 365 hours a day, 24 days a year. If there is a business that can make a lot of money while being patriotic. Fei's income, then he will definitely actively participate in it.

Based on the analysis of the current situation, smuggling is the business that best suits his heart. Therefore, his business will start with smuggling, and the entry point starts with gold smuggling.

But before starting business, he has to go to London, where there is a pot of gold waiting for him to dig.

When he made friends with Zhou Yutong and said that he would send the third young master to London, he had a clear goal and was not just talking nonsense. He had already made a plan for what to do next. In a few years, the general direction would not change and he would only make fine adjustments in the process.

Basically, Xian Yaowen's first small goal is to send himself to the top of the mountain. In a year and a half, or at most two years, he will settle his family on the top of Victoria Peak and enter the top class of Hong Kong. The next step is to move forward. Refers to the world.

Xian Yaowen just wants to be a high-level person who is willing to lean in and listen and integrate with the people at the bottom, instead of hanging around at the bottom. He doesn't want to be a chess piece and be the price that others can sacrifice at any time. He just wants to be a chess player, and he has to be The chess king uses chess players as chess pieces and controls everything behind the scenes. The person who comes and goes in front of his door must be at least the richest man in the party.

(End of this chapter)