The Days When Song Tianyao Was Away from Hong Kong (II) (continued)

At this time, various illegal businesses near Kowloon Walled City also sent out their patrons to greet customers. Some prostitution businesses even arranged for women to stand on the already narrow streets, occasionally pulling down the necklines of their cheongsams or bending their legs to flirt with passersby.

Opium dens, wine shops, nude sketching parlors, tour guide agencies, beautiful women shining shoes, three flavors of chicken, fish, shrimp, and crab, Fan Tan game)... During the day, these places of prostitution, gambling, and drugs, which were somewhat concealed, began to exert their charm after dark, striving to attract potential customers on the street.

Some food stalls set up tables and chairs at the entrances of alleys along the street, serving dog meat, snake soup, frogs, wild rabbits, and other delicacies. As the stall owners, shirtless, tossed the woks and stir-fried the meat over a high flame, the aroma wafted far and wide.

Li Angju, with a half-smoked cigarette dangling from his mouth, was squatting outside the casino Observatory chatting with the lookout. Seeing Gu Tiancheng approaching, he quickly threw away the cigarette and hurried over. "Brother Shing? Are you alright? I've already made arrangements for the brothers at the Gambling den who will be off duty later. They'll grab their gear and head over after their shift."

"Alright, I see you're even more anxious than me. Is it because you have feelings for one of the other women?" Gu Tiancheng chuckled, patting the other man's shoulder. He then addressed the impatient Li Angju, "After Brother Shan and the others finish their shift at ten o'clock, take them to Fung Yu Restaurant first. Make sure everyone is well taken care of. Uncle Xiang has some things to ask me to do."

In Gu Tiancheng's view, fighting over a woman was like a childish farce. Gu Tiancheng was handsome and dressed differently from most gangsters, so many people jokingly called him "Handsome Ching". Moreover, Gu Tiancheng was already a big Silver Head at a young age, and he was also generous and magnanimous. Even if he only had one dollar left in his pocket, he would take it out and spend it with everyone, never being stingy.

A handsome young man with a promising future in the martial arts world, who is also generous and loyal, would naturally attract the interest of girls.

Moreover, this girl is no ordinary person; she is the youngest of the Mong Kok Twelve Golden Hairpins, a seventeen-year-old dancer whose stage name is Tong Junfen.

The Twelve Golden Hairpins are not the same prefix, nor are they the subordinates of a certain prefix. There are currently twelve members, all of whom are women. However, they are not all with the same prefix. It is just that these women are in love with each other, are full of charlatanism, and have good skills. Duan La, cruel-hearted and aggressive, made everyone in the world shine in the traditional concept of men and women at this time, so these twelve women imitated the man Jinlan and formed a party, and they were called the Twelve Golden Hairpins in Mongkok.

Offending one of the Twelve Golden Hairpins is equivalent to offending all twelve. If the power behind these twelve women were to suddenly be unleashed, even a well-established and renowned figure in the martial Double Red Pole world might not be able to withstand it.

Therefore, most gangsters are unwilling to offend these women. These women don't commit serious crimes like robbing banks, stealing grain funds, seizing police guns, or killing police officers like men do. They just hang out together all day, swaggering around Mong Kok, and at most deliberately cause trouble for gambling dens, Opium dens, and dance halls.

The youngest of the Twelve Golden Hairpins, just seventeen years old, whose real name is Yan Lifen, is the top dancer at the Tai Tung Dance Hall in Kowloon City. She also has the backing of the godfather of Tung Sun Wo White Paper Fan Zhishan. As a teenager, she joined the Hong Kong Girl Guides Association, so she often wears a Girl Scout uniform and goes out with the other Twelve Golden Hairpins. In particular, she hides a scout knife in her handbag. When she gets into a conflict with someone, she will draw the knife and stab them. She has earned the nickname "Scout Fen".

Gu Tiancheng met Tong Junfen when he went dancing at the Tai Tung Dance Hall some time ago. Tong Junfen had a good impression of Gu Tiancheng. However, the problem was that she had just started dating a boyfriend, a young man who had recently emerged in the Shek Tong Tsui area with He Yong Yi. His nickname was Handsome Keung. He was handsome, a son-in-law, and at a young age, he was already the manager of a private club in Shek Tong Tsui.

Upon learning that Tong Junfen had been cheating on him with other men, Handsome Keung felt humiliated. However, he didn't dare to directly cause trouble for Tong Junfen, given that she had eleven god-sisters and a godfather who Tung Sun Wo White Paper Fan. But he had no qualms about dealing with Gu Tiancheng, who had no official title. He had once arrogantly brought seven or eight people to the Gambling den to cause trouble for Gu Tiancheng, but before he even saw Gu Tiancheng, he was forced to retreat by Li Angju and his Che Qi Shan, who showed no regard for fraternity.

Tong Junfen felt that both men were good-looking and had promising futures, making it difficult for her to choose. Seeing that the two men were about to fight over her, she felt very proud and simply announced that they would settle their differences in front of the Twelve Golden Hairpins at the Fung Yu Restaurant in Mong Kok that night, and she would go with whoever won.

If it weren't for Li Angju constantly jumping around and provoking him, Gu Tiancheng wouldn't have bothered dressing up as a clown for a flirtatious dancer whose belt was looser than her shoelaces. He preferred money and status to women.

"What did Uncle Xiang tell you? Really? You're going to compete for a pretty girl tonight, and Uncle Xiang knows that, so why is he arranging for you to do something? How about I go help you, and you go to the restaurant?" Li Angju frowned as he heard Uncle Xiang instructing Gu Tiancheng to do something.

In the eyes of a young man like him, nothing is more important than a man fighting over the woman he loves.

"Here's a thousand dollars. Uncle Xiang asked me to get it for tonight's expenses. No need for further words. In front of Handsome Keung and those women, throw this thousand dollars in the restaurant owner's face and tell him that all the expenses for the restaurant's guests tonight belong to me, Gu Tiancheng." Gu Tiancheng took out a thousand dollars in cash from his shirt pocket and handed it to Li Angju: "I won't be too late to get there."

Li Angju took the money. "Brother Shing, a thousand dollars to book Fengru? That's a bit much. Fifteen hundred dollars might be enough, after all, Fengru has three floors and dozens of tables."

"Consider it a deposit then. I'll make up the difference later," Gu Tiancheng said to Li Angju. "If anyone asks me, just say Uncle Xiang told me to do something and I'll be late. Also, give me your dagger; I need it for self-defense."

Li Angju put away the money, pulled out a gleaming dagger from his waistband, and handed it to Gu Tiancheng. Gu Tiancheng didn't waste any words, took the dagger, hid it under his shirt, and turned to walk towards a vault. As instructed by Smiling-Faced Xiang, he had the vault guard take out 20,000 yuan in cash, wrap it in newspaper, and put it on his person. He then signed his name in the ledger. Only after the vault Silver Head arranged for someone to contact Smiling-Faced Xiang to confirm that the money was indeed withdrawn by Gu Tiancheng, did he allow Gu Tiancheng to leave.