"Okay, Sister Yun," Shi Yin replied, gathering the documents neatly.
"I just said that these peripheral horse racing venues will be handed over to you from now on. By the way, what's your name?" Lou Fengyun asked, looking at Wo Hop To, the henchman who had shot her boss.
The younger brother looked at Lou Fengyun: "I... I'm Ah Chuan, Stinking-Mouth Chuan."
"The place will be managed by Yulan Ming. You and your brothers will be responsible for collecting the money in his place. As usual, Yulan Ming will take 20%, and you, as the manager, will take 10%," Lou Fengyun said.
Song Tianyao put her in charge of the Police Club, not just to provide welfare for the Britain and let the Foreign Devil profit from the money. Song Tianyao's vision for the Police Club was clear: the money would ultimately be earned back from the Britain. The Chinese version of "Hong Kong Horse Racing Guide," which Hong Lai-sau was in charge of, his own Police Club, and the more than twenty peripheral betting stalls were all operating under a joint model. The ultimate goal was to divert the large sums of money from Hong Kong's horse racing gamblers, from the Jockey Hong Kong Jockey Club with the Britain, to Song Tianyao's private betting operations. With this money, he would cultivate good relations with the Hong Kong Police Force and the British Forces in Hong Kong. These Britain, who were not qualified in the eyes of the Hong Kong Jockey Club, would be fed by Song Tianyao and, unable to get rid of him, would actively protect this interest group.
This explains why Lou Fengyun could make a single phone call to the British Forces in Hong Kong, arresting over twenty underworld Big Brother and taking them to their barracks for a vacation, and also to have the Hong Kong Police Force prepare incriminating files on these individuals well in advance, all of whom would end up being hanged.
When Lou Fengyun recalled that Song Tianyao had asked her to manage a women's teahouse, she had initially thought that Song Tianyao wanted her to be a hostess who would be taken advantage of. But who would have thought that this women's teahouse had members including the wives of the British Army military officers, the wives of Britain Police Force officers, and the wives of Customs officials, among others? She was the boss of these women, distributing profits among them and their husbands.
She was no longer the Widow Yun who guarded her Gambling den, fearing that the gambling den would snatch everything away at any moment. Now, she was the largest unsecured horse racing bookmaker in Hong Kong, and the wealth she handled was enough to leave everyone speechless.
"I'm tired, let's put on a song." Lou Fengyun closed her eyes, mimicking Song Tianyao's gesture, gently pinching her brow, and leaned back in her chair.
The record player began to play, the stylus sliding across the vinyl record. A faint smell of blood still lingered in the air. Yulan Ming and Stinking-Mouth Chuan were still in shock, but Lou Fengyun had already abandoned her previous fierce and ruthless demeanor, becoming as languid as a little woman.
"Sometimes, I really envy Wanqing..." Lou Fengyun murmured as she sang.
In the large conference room, the woman, who seemed to be powerless, had already fallen asleep, leaving two men who were famous in the martial arts world trembling with fear, not daring to even breathe loudly.
Outside the window, the wind and rain rage, the grass is wild and desolate; inside, the nightingale sings softly, and the beauty is at peace.
A city, at opposite ends of the world.
On the pier, Xu Enbo held his own umbrella, watching the woman who braved the rain to emerge from a fishing boat nearby. If some newspaper editors were present, they would be astonished that Hong Lai-sau, the editor-in-chief of "China Hong Kong Business Weekly" and "Hong Kong Horse Racing Guide," would actually allow his wife, Xu Minjun, to stand in the rain on the pier in the middle of the night.
The couple Hong Lai-sau and Xu Minjun, were a laughing stock in Hong Kong's newspaper industry. Hong Lai-sau never cared about his appearance; now, in his early twenties, he had already started growing a beard, which he was terrible at styling, resulting in a tangled mess of strands. Yet, he considered it a magnificent beard, a stark contrast to the impeccably groomed beards of other newspaper executives, who were always impeccably dressed in suits, had their hair styled with wax, and had their beards professionally trimmed. Xu Minjun, on the other hand, was practically a wife and mother, not only handling the newspaper's work as a secretary but also acting as a caretaker for Hong Lai-sau, even sleeping with Hong Lai-sau at night. At every newspaper industry party, jokes invariably centered on Xu Minjun: a graduate of a prestigious university, with outstanding looks—why was she so blind to marry someone like Hong Lai-sau? Hong Lai-sau would smugly ask Xu Minjun for the reason, but Xu Minjun would always just smile and brush it off, leading everyone to unanimously conclude that this literary Hong Lai-sau must be quite the expert in bed...
At this moment, Xu Minjun braved the rain to step out of the fishing boat and met Xu Enbo's gaze. Xu Enbo immediately frowned. "I thought I was going to meet a man. In this heavy rain, Song Tianyao actually let such a beautiful young lady go out?"
Xu Minjun's face was somewhat pale in the rain, but the heroic spirit between her brows was much stronger than when she was with Hong Lai-sau. She wiped the raindrops from her face and said, "It wasn't Mr. Song who made me stand in the rain. Mr. Xu's willingness to come see me so late at night clearly means that you have already reached an agreement with Mr. Song?"
"Using the word 'settled' is a bit premature. I'm just here to check on the goods that need my help to transport," Xu Enbo said calmly.
Although the benefits Song Tianyao discussed with him were quite tempting to Xu Enbo, as a businessman, especially a big businessman, he wouldn't have let profits blind him so easily; otherwise, the Xu Family wouldn't have reached its current status.
"Mr. Xu is a shipping tycoon. I wonder if he has noticed any foreign merchant ships recently docking in the port flying the Brazil flag?"
"I'll have to ask my secretary about that. Besides, the entry of foreign merchant ships into port is none of my business."
"Now it concerns you, Mr. Xu. That ship and everyone on it are your scapegoats." Xu Minjun pulled her rain hat back up, obscuring most of her face. At this moment, Xu Enbo could only see Xu Minjun's white teeth.
In the night, in the rain, the white was eerily stark, like a female beast baring her fangs, while I felt like prey caught in a trap.
Chapter 506 Worried about you
Harp Restaurant is a long-established Western restaurant in Hong Kong. However, it was not originally located on the seventh floor of the Cloud Palace Hotel. At that time, it was located next to Queen’s Pier Central, Hong Kong Island. Now it has a history of almost a hundred years. It is said that Harp Restaurant was one of the secret bases for planning the operation of the 1895 1895 Guangzhou Double Ninth Uprising. Sun Yat-sen- sen, Yeung Ku-wan, Tse Tsan-tai and others planned here. Even the main force of the Guangzhou Uprising and the backbone of the Hong Kong Special Task Force had a Western meal at this restaurant in the early stage of the uprising and received a pistol specially prepared for them by Yeung Ku-wan.