"When did you decide to go to Hong Kong to work with me? I didn't even realize I had this kind of charm." Song Tianyao spoke as if chatting with a friend, his tone very relaxed.
Huang Liu recalled, "On that day, you said you didn't agree with the saying 'life and death are predestined, wealth and honor are determined by fate.' You said that if I accepted my fate, I would be a laborer who failed the police academy entrance exam and was going to work at the docks, instead of Song Tianyao who dared to kill Foreign Devil today. All along, I've only believed that fate is given by one's parents, and wealth and honor are earned through one's own efforts. It's just a Foreign Devil dying; such a trivial matter shouldn't be taken to heart. I've thought about it carefully. If I accepted my fate, I would be an inconspicuous bodyguard by Mr. He's side. If I didn't accept my fate, either Mr. Song would shoot me, or he would show me what Hong Kong is like."
"Bang!" Song Tianyao suddenly raised his pistol and fired a shot. The bullet grazed past Huang Liu, and the huge recoil made Song Tianyao's entire arm rise up. He originally wanted to shoot in a straight line, but the bullet ended up leaving a bullet hole in the ceiling in the distance.
The instant the gunshot rang out, Nine-Tattooed Dragon rushed in from the outer room with a fruit knife in hand. Song Tianyao waved him away, and Nine-Tattooed Dragon glanced at Huang Liu, then at the bullet hole, before turning and walking out.
After firing the shot, Song Tianyao tossed the pistol to Huang Liu: "I can't accept Mr. He's favor, nor do I want to. Since I've fired a shot, let's pretend this favor never existed. As for you, who owes me a shot..."
Huang Liu took the pistol, his eyes gleaming with excitement as he looked at Song Tianyao. Song Tianyao laughed, "Go to the pier to pick them up. Let them rest at the hospital for the night, then head back to Hong Kong tomorrow. Damn it, don't come to Macau again unless it's absolutely necessary. It's too dangerous."
Huang Liu, with his square face and sharp features, smiled and said, "Don't worry, boss, everything's arranged. I even sent someone to Hong Kong to personally pick up your two girlfriends who can't wait to see you, before you even gave the order."
"You'll arrange for someone to do it?"
"That cop from Hong Kong named Yan Hung, and my two local gangster friends in Macau." Huang Liu holstered his pistol back on his waist, and seeing Nine-Tattooed Dragon peeking out from the doorway, he deliberately raised his voice. "Boss, you're actually quite lucky. Someone like me is much more reliable as a bodyguard than that Nine-Tattooed Dragon outside. That guy is obviously a good-for-nothing. I'm different. As long as you pay me, I guarantee that as long as I'm alive, no one will be able to hurt you."
Upon hearing Huang Liu's words, Nine-Tattooed Dragon's face turned from ashen to black, his eyes practically spitting fire. Even though he knew he might not be able to defeat this scoundrel, Nine-Tattooed Dragon was prepared to fight to the death if Song Tianyao spoke.
"Even the Nine-Tattooed Dragon outside bragged about this, and then he was stripped naked and hung up like a pig on the dock," Song Tianyao said with a smile, rubbing his temples.
Upon hearing Song Tianyao recount his embarrassing incident, Nine-Tattooed Dragon's head immediately disappeared from the doorway.
When Huang Liu saw Song Tianyao rubbing his temples, he didn't say anything more. Instead, he turned around and walked away quietly. This guy's eyesight seemed completely different from when he was in Hong Kong last time. Last time, Song Tianyao almost blinked blindly at him, but this bastard ignored him and continued to do as he pleased, even One Blade Gang Heizai Jie with a C-section. Now, he just rubbed his temples, and the other party immediately knew he didn't want to talk, so he turned around and left briskly.
Song Tianyao remained noncommittal about what Huang Liu had told him earlier that day. He had been shot but luckily survived; how could he pursue the matter? Should he endure it for now because of He Xian, and then wait a few years to find an opportunity to kill Huang Liu to vent his anger? Initially, Song Tianyao had indeed been tempted to kill Huang Liu in shock and anger after being shot, but after calming down, he dismissed the thought. Huang Liu had no reason to harm him, and the guy had already decided to become his bodyguard and go to Hong Kong with him. If He Xian hadn't spoken up, Huang Liu wouldn't have come to see him, but since He Xian had already spoken, if he refused...
The favor that He Xian and the three newspapers had done for him by publishing the advertisement was now considered evened out, as he had been shot in the back. All the favors he had done for He Xian in Macau were now wiped out.
The question is whether Huang Liu would be a qualified bodyguard. To be honest, Song Tianyao feels that whether or not he has a bodyguard in Hong Kong is not important. Hong Kong still has basic social order and won't end up like Macau, where grenades are flying everywhere or guns are exploding like beans.
However, Huang Liu knew how to drive, Song Tianyao thought it would be good to have a driver, since cars at that time didn't have power steering and the steering wheel was extremely heavy.
In his previous life, which Song Tianyao was unaware of, Huang Zixiong was still just an ordinary bodyguard for He Xian until the early 1960s. He chose to leave He Xian, departed Macau for Hong Kong, and became the man and capable assistant of Xie Erdi of the 14K Qi Weiwen. At that time, Xie Erdi was already respectfully called Second Auntie Xie. While other gangsters in Hong Kong were still wielding watermelon knives and fighting for territory on the streets, Xie Erdi was already doing smuggling business with the Japan Yamashita -Yamashita-kai. A batch of goods was Yamashita-kai the Yamashita-kai in Tokyo. Huang Zixiong, along with several of his personally trained men, escorted Xie Erdi from Hong Kong to Japan, where they killed more than 30 members of the Yamashita-kai to retrieve the goods and returned safely to Hong Kong. This frightened the Yamashita-kai leader, who proactively called the police for protection, shocking the Hong Kong and Japan underworld. Huang Zixiong completed his transformation from He Xian's bodyguard to a ruthless gangster, known in the Hong Kong underworld as Killer Hung. He was placed on Interpol's wanted list and disappeared after being wanted, reportedly eventually going to Thailand.
The nickname "Killer Hung" was used by many underworld figures in Hong Kong from its opening to the handover, but the first person to be called by this nickname was Huang Zixiong. In the 1970s, Chief Inspector Liu Qifa of the Hong Kong Police Force still had a deep impression of Huang Zixiong: medium-length hair, a face with sharp features, never expressionless, sharp eyes, and godlike marksmanship.
In his previous life, Huang Liu endured for another ten years, still wearing his flamboyant and unconventional mask. He didn't get a chance to rise to prominence by He Xian's side, so he left Macau on his own initiative. Instead of relying on wealthy people, he chose to plunge into the Hong Kong, shining brightly like a shooting star before finally hiding away and dying there. In this life, Huang Liu has met Song Tianyao. His future is uncertain. Perhaps he will become rich and successful, or perhaps he will not even achieve the same result as dying away in a foreign land in his previous life.
Chapter 286 The Tang family's Opportunity