money player

Chapter 84 Night, surge
"Hahaha, Brother Sen, are you feeling lucky?"

When Xian Yaowen was collecting the money, several people came to the mahjong parlor, led by a slightly fat young man, followed by three people, two men and one woman. holding a box.

Han Sen turned his head and glanced, his brows furrowed in an instant, "Fat Kun, if you don't stay in Tsim Sha Tsui, why did you come to Temple Street?"

"Hey." The young man named Fatty Kun pointed to another young man and a woman behind him, "My brother and his younger sister want to set up a stall in Temple Street to make a living, so I specially brought them here to visit. Brother Sen. Akun, why are you still standing there? Hurry up and bring up the gift you prepared for Brother Sen."

Before the young man named A Kun could make any move, Han Sen said, "Fat Kun, I have guests today and I don't have time to greet you. We'll talk about you another day."

Hearing this, Fatty Kun glanced around the mahjong table and quickly locked onto Xian Yaowen. He was sure that the guest Han Sen was talking about was this one. He searched in his mind and couldn't find any strong or powerful club members. The image of Lao Jia matches that of Xian Yaowen. He doesn't look like a bad guy, but a bit like a businessman.

As soon as his mind turned around, Fatty Kun said: "Since Brother Sen has a guest, I won't disturb him and will come to visit another day."

Fatty Kun left as soon as he said he wanted to, without any hesitation.

Mahjong continues.

I don't know whether he was intentional or very intentional. After picking up the cards, Han Sen introduced Fat Boy Kun to Xian Yaowen.

"Xian Sheng, the fat boy Kun just now, his real name is Wu Zhenkun, he works in the soda shop. He used to work in Kowloon Walled City. He is smart and knows how to get things done. He quickly became famous. He is in charge of the canteen of the soda shop in Kowloon Walled City. With.

At the end of last year, he brought a group of people to Tsim Sha Tsui. Instead of grabbing land, he cooperated with other societies to make money. Now he supplies almost all the drugs in Tsim Sha Tsui, and he is about to become a big money maker. "

Xian Yaowen praised: "It's a very smart approach. It's friendly and friendly. Everyone can make money, and we can also save a lot of money on the settlement fee. Fatty Kun is a bit interesting, but it's a pity that he sells drugs. Otherwise, we can get to know each other." "

"Eight items." Han Sen did not respond and just played a mahjong tile.

Grab the cards, play the cards, and when the game enters the second round, everyone has a tacit understanding to let go of their restraints. They no longer only play small cards, but also the small three yuan in the fifth level, and all the small cards in the seventh level, but no one sits on the long bank. , two rounds of mahjong ended after just a few rounds, and the winning and losing were relatively even. It was purely a business mahjong game.

It was over here, but Su Lizhen was still continuing. Xian Yaowen walked over and saw that there were still two villagers to go before the round was completed, so he stood quietly behind Su Lizhen and watched her arrangement.

After drawing the first card, the card in Su Lizhen's hand was Xiao Sixi's face. She touched two cards and then encountered one. When it was her turn to draw a card, she immediately touched it herself.

In the second hand, a hidden kong is in hand, and the kong tile becomes another concealed kong. Then one kong tile is knocked out, leaving three fifty thousand, a pair of eight cakes, and a pair of nine strips in the hand, which are the proper Eighteen Arhat cards. type. And, as she thought, it was her opponent's turn to draw a card, and a fifty thousand card was played, and another kong, and the cards in his hand became three eight cakes and one nine.

After two rounds, her opponent once again accurately played eight cakes, and another kung came up, an eight of a kind. Su Lizhen struggled with the two cards for a while, and then played a familiar nine of a kind. Her opponent immediately pushed the card down. Bahgu Bahgu singled out nine, and the one he drew was the absolute best. Su Lizhen played the first nine, and someone followed and knocked down one.

Su Lizhen went from extreme happiness to extreme sadness in an instant. Before the joy on her face could fall, she was pushed out of the Tianling Gai by the rapidly rising annoyance. She took the eight bars in her hand and slapped it on the table. She opened the drawer and took out the banknotes inside. , he angrily took out a few pictures and put them on the table, and then counted the remaining banknotes. When he counted them clearly, his little face became flabby and he had no energy at all.

Xian Yaowen put his hands on Su Lizhen's shoulders and said with a smile: "How much did you win?"

Su Lizhen pouted and said: "I didn't win a point, but lost two yuan. At the peak, I won nearly a hundred."

"Okay, it's just entertainment. It doesn't matter if you win or lose. If you like playing cards, when the new building is completed, a room will be freed up for you to use as a mahjong room. You can usually spend time playing cards with the landlady next to you."

Su Lizhen raised her head, looked at Xian Yaowen's chin, and asked confusedly: "Is it okay to play cards every day?"

Xian Yaowen touched Su Lizhen's cheek and said softly: "There's nothing wrong with it. You have to have some fun for yourself."

Su Lizhen grew up in a small bourgeois family. She was not very wealthy, but she had no worries about food and drink. She went to junior high school and had no problem reading books and newspapers, but she had never worked. She transitioned directly from a girl to a married woman, and she was not very smart about spending money. Thoughts, but no ability to make money.

Xian Yaowen does not intend to change Su Lizhen's lifestyle. He only intends to inject a little vitality into her life so that it will not be as boring as before.

Su Lizhen rubbed her cheek against Xian Yaowen's palm and said softly "Hmm".

For the next midnight snack, Han Sen arranged for him to eat some game and drink a few glasses of wine in the office next door.

When she got home, Su Lizhen would help Xian Yaowen undress and take off his belt, put out the bath water, and apply brown sugar soap all over his body. During this period, she would also perform some indescribable service methods, trying her best to make Xian Yaowen relax physically and mentally as much as possible.

However, Su Lizhen has not received the education of selfless dedication. If she gives something, she will ask for something in return, and she is not willing to wait for a moment. She will do this and do that all night long, even after the early morning, she will still lie unsatisfied on Xian Yaowen's heart, shamelessly Say "I want more".

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For the next two consecutive days, Xian Yaowen spent time in the factory. With the third floor of the first workshop building completed, the planning for the transition period was slightly adjusted. The workshop on the first floor was used to stack machines, and the second floor was used as a workshop. The role of the company is to mobilize skilled female workers from simple workshops to form a team that can produce normally as soon as possible. The third floor is used as a temporary office and warehouse, so office staff no longer need to work in the open air.

On the third day, everything was set up in the simple temporary office, and Xian Yaowen began to frequently travel between the third floor and the construction site more than 100 meters away from the workshop building where the office building was planned to be built.

No way, when he was stuck in an endless loop of thinking, he liked to smoke cigars to relax, but he also set a rule that no open or dark fires were allowed within a hundred meters of workshops and warehouses. When the factory was built, the only place where smoking could be done was in the office building. And the garden in front of the office building that has not yet been built. If someone smokes elsewhere, he will be fired immediately if found.

Fire prevention in a garment factory is a top priority. In order to reduce fire hazards, Xian Yaowen spends five times more on circuits than normal. They can connect in parallel and never in series. They do not save on places where fuses can be added, as well as wires, switches, and sockets. Pick the best one to buy.

He also wants to build two high water towers in the factory, one to store seawater for fire protection, and the other to store fresh water to achieve freedom of fresh water in the factory.

No one needs to tell you that Hong Kong's fresh water is tight. Xian Yaowen can see people queuing up at the street every day to collect water. From time to time, the faucets at home make the sound of air convection. During peak water consumption, the faucets will become weak at any time, like an old man peeing. There are various signs that cannot be controlled. He made more preparations for fresh water.

In the afternoon, he first walked around the factory to figure out which piece of land could be freed to build an underground reservoir in the future. Then he went to the mountains outside the factory to inspect the terrain, and asked geological experts to conduct groundwater exploration and demonstrate groundwater pumping. Whether it would cause subsidence was noted on his agenda.

After taking some time to prepare for the future, Xian Yaowen turned his attention to the present. The most important thing at the moment is naturally to let the factory build production capacity as soon as possible. Zheng Zhiping is in charge of the labor aspect and has always been in an orderly manner. What he needs to worry about are raw material suppliers and design patterns.

Let’s talk about shirts. Even though their various styles are similar, they seem very simple, but in fact they are very design-oriented, and the characteristics of shirts are usually reflected by their collars.

Xian Yaowen didn't have much research on shirt collars, but he had seen and worn many shirts with different collars. He called the designer Xu Leping, the pattern makers Lao Wen and Gao Laolin, and the four of them gathered in the open space outside, or smoked cigars. , or smoking.

Xian Yaowen drew a sketch of the collar on the blackboard, and then Xu Leping drew a beautiful pattern according to his sketch. Lao Wen and Gao Lao Lin discussed for a while, pointing out which Western movies the collar had been seen in, or naming it directly, or giving it a name. Nothing is known.

Picture after picture came out, and each collar was summarized and classified.

The more popular British Windsor collar; the niche Eton collar; the detachable collar that was once popular but is now a bit outdated; the hidden button collar with buttons to fix the collar; the pinhole collar that is fixed with a lapel pin; and Ear collars, patch collars, stand collars, wing collars, the Cuban collar, which is more popular in South America, and the heterochromatic collar, which was famously worn by Iron Man Howard Hughes and is easily labeled as a playboy when it appears.

After discussions, disagreements, arguments, and seeking common ground while reserving differences, Lao Wen relied on his skillful hands to use tailoring scissors to cut out one collar after another. With the actual object in hand, he continued to discuss the issue of shaping, whether it should be soft or hard, and whether it should be thickened. , ironing and shaping, whether it can be washed or the shape of the collar cannot be maintained after washing several times, etc.

After discussing body shaping, we discussed matching. Shirts can play a one-man show in the summer and half of autumn. At other times, they must be in focus with suits. Naturally, the design of shirts must consider the matching with suits. They must fit perfectly and not take over the show. Therefore, the topic Quickly ran to the suit again.

From the discussion at two o'clock in the afternoon until the bus left, the sky was dark, and the four of them changed positions and went to the cafeteria to eat and discuss...

It wasn't until eight o'clock that the discussion was suspended, and Xian Yaowen drove the people back one by one.

On the way home, I fine-tuned my car-buying plan in my mind. I couldn't wait until the factory officially opened to buy it, I had to make it in advance.

The next day, Xian Yaowen was bleeding profusely and spent 1949 to order three Ford s in one go. Two were used as cars for factory executives to travel and receive customers, and one was intended to be used to reward Zheng Yueying.

By the way, I placed a new order for a Ford F1 pickup truck. This car was out of stock and had to wait for the dealer to ship it from the United States.

He said he didn't care about the wait. Not to mention the pickup truck, he didn't plan to pick up the three cars right away. He had to wait for Zhong Lin to recruit the driver before he came to pick up the cars.

After leaving the car dealership, Xian Yaowen also went to the Government Printing Bureau to inquire about the bidding matter.

The British Hong Kong government has an official English-language newspaper, the Hong Kong Gazette. All regulations and subsidiary legislation in Hong Kong must be published in the Gazette (gazetted) to take effect, which shows its authority.

Not only that, the gazette also publishes information on government bidding and procurement, land reclamation and building construction, land auctions, administrative announcements, etc. This information often contains many business opportunities. As long as you seize one, you don't have to worry about making money.

However, business opportunities basically have a threshold. Xian Yaowen read the gazette for more than two months and found three business opportunities, but they were not something he could covet now. He could only sit back and watch the opportunities slip through his fingers.

There are no business opportunities for the time being, so it is still possible to pick up some junk. No, the factory originally needed to equip two or three trucks, but he saw from yesterday's gazette that the police force had a batch of old equipment that needed to be auctioned, including assault rifles. The fleet of large trucks, three-wheeled motorcycles and the Sam Empire Police Cruiser No. 1 of the marine police were just right. He could take pictures of the trucks and police cruisers, and land and water transportation were integrated.

In the morning, he wandered around the transportation, and in the afternoon, he returned to the factory to continue discussing collars. Just like yesterday, he had the attitude of burning the midnight oil, but when it was time to get off work, he directly announced that the discussion was suspended and could no longer be discussed. He had other things to do in the evening.

Half past six in the evening.

It was still near Kimballoon Road, or to be precise, it was the Bird Cage Friends on Waterloo Road. When Xian Yaowen arrived, Huang Zuqiang had not arrived yet. He was hungry. He ordered food and waited while eating.

Ten minutes had passed before the appointed time, and most of the food had been eaten. Huang Zuqiang looked weak and weak before he sat down opposite Xian Yaowen. When he said sorry, Xian Yaowen glanced at his face twice and raised his eyebrows. He was smiling, with a lewd look on his lips, and his body smelled of powder.

Putting down his chopsticks and wiping his mouth with a handkerchief, Xian Yaowen teased: "I guess the reason why you are late must be for work, and in an attitude of serving readers, you went to the chicken stall in person before publishing Dianping's Chicken Girl Visit, and risk your life to test the horse yourself with your old body and bones, am I right?"

Huang Zuqiang blushed when Xian Yaowen said it, and said hesitantly: "This afternoon, the boss of the red cannon led a few people to the newspaper office and threw a wad of money on my table. When I refused to publish his advertisement at first, he threatened to burn down the newspaper office, so I had no choice but to deal with him..."

Xian Yaowen waved his hand, "Okay, okay, okay, I'm not your wife, so you don't need to make up excuses for me. You'd better think about making up some excuse to excuse your wife. Hey, don't say I don't care about you, you can If you arrange for me in front of your wife at will, just say that you are not willing to do it. I have to drag you to go, otherwise I will fire you, and you can do whatever else you want."

"The newspaper office is very busy. I won't go home today. I have to work at the newspaper office all night to catch up on manuscripts."

"Haha, Editor Huang, thank you for your hard work." Xian Yaowen's sentence contained 80% ridicule.

"..."

Huang Zuqiang was speechless by Xian Yaowen.

After the interlude, the two officially started talking about work.

Not to mention, Shisan Yao’s crooked tricks were all right. Dianping was particularly popular among readers. On the third day of its publication, the newspaper received a lot of letters from readers, some of whom came to inquire for information, and some of whom wanted to become appraisers. The chicken chef recommends chicken girls and chicken stalls.

The serialized novel finally titled "Thirteen Yao" was also very popular among readers. In addition to the precise audience, there was also a group of readers who came for the plot of the novel.

……

To be continued!

There is another chapter today.

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