"This is Master Hung's house. He instructed that you should stay here and recuperate without worrying about anything in the martial world. We'll talk about everything once you're healed. The servants here have been with Master Hung for a long time; they're loyal and reliable. Just tell them what you need," Yan Hung's confidant A Yue, said to Chen Tai, who was lying on the bed wrapped up like a glutinous rice dumpling.
Last night, Chen Tai led the Harmony Heroes men to storm the Wo On Lok Anle gang in Sai Wan. After the initial melee, most of the Harmony Heroes members lost their fighting spirit due to Wo On Lok's numerical advantage and fled. Only Chen Tai, with a few dozen trusted brothers, fought fiercely. In the end, Chen Tai, exhausted, was knocked unconscious by Tie Tou Su and handed over to several men to protect him as they escaped. After covering the retreat for a while, Chen Tai, seriously injured, jumped off the dock and his fate is unknown.
The men hadn't run far when they happened to run into Yan Hung's men A Yue and A Wai, who rescued them and brought them to this tenement building in Kowloon.
"Brothers of Heroes..." Chen Tai tried to sit up, but found that even with the pain, he could only lift his head slightly. The wounds on his body felt like they were being cut by knives, so he could only stare at A Yue in front of the bed and ask.
A Yue said coldly, "Most of Harmony Heroes's territory has been destroyed. Those uncles Harmony Heroes either fled or died. Now the people in the Shui Fong are claiming that Heroes broke the rules and ruined the camaraderie among fellow disciples. They are just retaliating. By the time you get out, you may already be the last Big Brother of Harmony Heroes."
"Pu Ni Amu's Shui Fong." After hearing this, Chen Tai closed his eyes in pain and squeezed out a sentence.
A Yue said, "Let's go clubbing after we've fully recovered."
Just then, footsteps sounded outside, and Yan Hung's voice rang out. "Mr. Song, my men just happened to rescue A-Tai. He's caused such a big problem, so I wanted to ask you..."
Following the footsteps, the person outside entered the bedroom. A Yue said to the newcomer, "Master Hung, Mr. Song."
Chen Tai looked at the two approaching figures with a complicated expression.
One was tall and the other short. The shorter one was Yan Hung, the newly appointed Detective Chief Inspector of Yau Ma Tei, and the taller one was naturally his distant cousin, Song Tianyao.
"You were quite the hero, weren't you? Everyone in the underworld is saying that you fought with the men from the Shui Fong to avenge your Big Brother." Song Tianyao said to Chen Tai with a blank expression, "But you were quite the hero last night, so why are you lying here like a dead dog now?"
"Brother Yiu, if you want to settle scores with Nine-Tattooed Dragon, just hand me over to the Shui Fong or the Sergeant Hung next door, or I can get up now and go out to fend for myself. You don't need to say things like this." Chen Tai forced a smile and said, refusing to back down.
"You've really improved after a few days in the underworld; you can even understand when I'm mocking you." Song Tianyao walked to the bedside, looking at Chen Tai, who lay on the bed with over a dozen wounds, yet still remained defiant. "Do you want to avenge your dead Big Brother? I'll give you a chance. If you can still pick up a knife, we'll have another fight at Shui Fong tomorrow night."
Chapter 399 Determined by Fate
Lin Xiaosen walked out of the Labour Department with a gloomy face. In the distance, the striking workers had gradually dispersed under the supervision and urging of Uniformed Branch police officers.
The more than 600 workers who came to the Labour Department to demonstrate were all members of the Construction Industry General Union. The purpose of their demonstration was to stand up for more than 100 construction workers who were working on a hotel construction project in the Lin Family Central, because the Lin Family owed them three months of overtime pay.
When the Labour Department called Xizhen Properties to contact the Lin Family, it was Lin Xiaosen who answered the phone. After receiving news of the workers' strike, he did not hesitate and had his secretary calculate the overtime pay for these people, which was only a little over Hong Kong dollars 40,000. He used his personal savings, rushed to the Labour Department, and in front of the Labour Department officials, union representatives, and even all the workers who were demonstrating, distributed Hong Kong dollars 50,000.
The workers who received overtime pay naturally had no reason to continue making trouble, and the Labour Department officials were also very satisfied with Lin Xiaosen's response, which saved them a lot of trouble, resulting in a happy ending for everyone.
But Lin Xiaosen didn't feel relieved. He immediately took a car to the United Soda Factory in To Kwa To Kwa Wan after leaving the Labour Department. The construction workers' demands for tens of thousands of dollars in overtime pay were nothing to him. The workers at the United Soda Factory were involved in a fight Harmony Heroes and Wo On Lok last night. Four workers were killed and more than thirty were seriously injured. Now all the workers at the Soda Factory were in a state of panic and dared not come to work. This was the problem that he urgently needed to solve.
All the workers at the United Soda Factory were members of the Wo On Lok. Although they had gang names on their names, these workers were not actually vicious gangsters. Many of them just wanted to find a gang name for protection so they could work and earn a living peacefully.
Second Lin Xiao qia went to meet with the Wo On Lok, while he went to the Soda Factory to appease the workers, telling them to continue working and not to be afraid. He assured them that no one would come to the Soda Factory to cause trouble for these honest workers again.
The Soda Factory must not be shut down under any circumstances; it is the Lin Family's cash cow. Orders for Coca-Cola, Yuen Chun, 7-Up, and other soft drinks in Hong Kong are all made by the Soda Factory, and cash is deposited into the company on time every month.
When he entered the Soda Factory office, he discovered that Lin Xiaojie, who had been in charge of managing the Soda Factory recently, wasn't there. Before Lin Xiaohe could even take a sip of water, the phone rang. The factory supervisor answered it, listened for a moment, and then handed it to Lin Xiaosen: "Mr. Lin, it's Mr. Lin Xiaohe calling."
"Third Brother." Lin Xiaosen put down his water glass, which he hadn't even had a chance to drink from, and went to answer the phone.
Lin Xiaohe's voice on the phone was unreadable. "You just went to the Labour Department? How did it go...?"
"It's nothing. A group of workers went to the Labour Department to cause trouble because the hotel project owed them three months' overtime pay, more than 40,000 yuan. I went over myself and paid them the overdue overtime pay. Now everything is fine," Lin Xiaosen said calmly.
Lin Xiaohe on the other end of the phone was silent for a while before slowly saying, "A-Sen, sometimes you need to use your brain and not be impulsive. This kind of thing isn't as simple as just making up for overtime pay. Forget it, you and your second brother should settle things with the On Lok Hall and the Soda Factory first."