In rural Yuen Long, North New Territories, outside the Sun Yee On Ancestral Hall.
Two golden dragons twisted and soared, while six colorful lions ran and leaped.
Gongs and drums thundered, and firecrackers crackled as Lok Bing-yeun, the Sun Yee On Dragon Head nicknamed Camel, led a crowd of Sun Yee On Gou Hok Jai in paying homage at the ancestral hall.
Today was the auspicious day when Camel returned to Hong Kong Island from the Netherlands to take the reins of Sun Yee On once more.
For the occasion, Sun Yee On had organized an enormous rolling banquet to entertain guests arriving from all directions.
Almost every leader of Hong Kong Island's gangs, large and small, had shown Camel some respect.
Even those who had not come to congratulate him in person had sent gifts.
With several hundred Gou Hok Jai gathered together, the North New Territories District police could hardly sit idle.
When Zhou Quan drove to the scene with his men, the first thing he saw was the large contingent of uniformed police officers outside the Sun Yee On Ancestral Hall.
"Quite the big shot, isn't this Camel?"
Looking out through the car window, Zhou Quan joked with interest.
"Anyone who didn't know better would think our North of the Border brothers were standing guard for his Sun Yee On!"
At that moment, Zhou Quan and He Wenzhan were sitting together in the back of his car.
Lau Bo-keung was driving, while Chan Wing Yan sat in the front passenger seat.
As for Zhou Quan's foremost lieutenant, Chow Sing Sing, it was his turn to lead training that week, so he had not come along.
Behind the off-road vehicle followed more than a dozen unmarked police cars.
Every member of the Security Department's Action Group One was