002【Tsz Wan Shan Estate】
In the late 60s, Hong Kong was at the crossroads of the old era and the new era, not only surviving the hundreds of thousands of people who came to Hong Kong from the mainland in the 50s, but also reached a 20-year period of development that would enable Hong Kong to prosper in the future.
It can be said that this is the best era, only if you have ambition and ability to work hard enough, sooner or later you will be able to make a fortune and become a trendsetter in the big era.
Huo Yaowen, who has relived his life, has the mentality that he is a trendsetter of the times at this moment, but he is still vigilant about himself, this is the best era and the worst era.
After the fire of the Hong Kong movie "Chasing the Dragon" in his last life, Huo Yaowen once wrote a script about the background of the underworld in the 70s for an online movie. At that time, the boss who invested in this movie was a rich second generation who liked the theme of gangster movies, and in order to let Huo Yaowen, a professional unknown screenwriter, write a script on this theme, he gave a full 100,000 yuan.
100,000 yuan doesn't sound like a lot, but thinking about it, as long as you write a script, or the script of a big online movie, it will take you half a month at most to get it, which naturally makes Huo Yaowen, an unknown screenwriter and street writer who is not very good, ecstatic.
In order to write a good script on this theme and ensure that it can be broadcast on the Internet, not to be broadcast by Radio and Television 404, and at the same time to make a name for himself as a screenwriter, Huo Yaowen, who has always been saved, rarely spent money to buy a plane ticket to Hong Kong.
In the Hong Kong library, I found a lot of newspapers and magazines of that year, as well as a lot of documents, and chatted with a few old people who claimed to have been in the 70s and cut from the street to the end of the street with a watermelon knife, and learned a lot about the lives and various situations faced by the low-level people in Hong Kong in the 70s.
Huo Yaowen stayed in Hong Kong for half a month and spent more than 10,000 yuan, and finally got the script of this online movie called "Hong Kong 1968".
The theme is definitely a gangster theme that the rich second-generation boss boss likes, but it does not take the famous lame hao and Lei Luo as gimmicks, but tells the inspirational legend of how an ordinary Sijiu boy grew step by step from the bottom of the gang to the inspirational legend of the leader.
I have to say that the rich second-generation boss just likes this tune, and the movies with the theme of Lame Hao and Lei Luo have long been tired of being filmed, and a new and original Sijiuzai character seems to arouse the yearning and longing of the second-generation boss for that special era in Hong Kong.
said too much off-topic,
Huo Yaowen has deliberately studied some historical materials from the late 60s and the 70s to the 80s, from the political and historical elite tycoons to the street hawkers and flying boys, almost all of them know a little bit about it.
Therefore, Huo Yaowen knows that this is the best era for ordinary people to make a fortune, and it is also the worst era for ordinary people to be bullied.
The four detectives are still working on errands to make money, the drug overlord Lame Hao is still arrogant, the underworld gangs are life and death, the corrupt royal police, the business tycoons who have become legendary stories, and the various literati and celebrities and gentlemen who have emerged have achieved the good and bad, sad and happy of this great era.
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Fok Yiu-man and Ming Tsai returned to Kowloon Peninsula by boat from Hong Kong Island and then took a bus to return to Tsz Wan Uk Estate (Village) in Wong Tai Sin District, halfway up Tsz Wan Shan District.
Tsz Yun Shan, um... That's right, it's the little stammering "My eldest brother is Brother Feihong of Tsz Yun Mountain, and there are 3,000 little brothers under his hands" Tsz Yun Mountain.
Tsz Wan Shan is one of the main peaks of the Kowloon Peninsula, halfway up the mountain in the Wong Tai Sin District, in the past ten years, a lot of public housing estates have been built, Hong Kong's public housing estates, also known as public housing, are synonymous with cheapness, the people who live here, are basically poor ghosts, pay a little rent every month, and a family of more than a dozen people live here peacefully.
Even in the 21st century, there are still a large number of poor people living in difficulty.
Since the fire in the 50s, more than 50 public housing estates have been built in Tsz Wan Shan, each of which is almost 10 storeys high on average, with a population of nearly 100,000, making it the largest public housing estate in Hong Kong.
With such a large population, and the people here are generally low-level people in Hong Kong, so the flow of people is mixed, there is a nest of snakes and rats, and there are all kinds of people, bringing together a large number of idle people, as well as problem teenagers!
This also created ten years later, when the young people born in the second wave of baby boomers in Hong Kong came of age, there was a sensational event in Hong Kong about the Tsz Wan Shan 13 Taibao Youth Friends Party Organization, and the place of Tsz Wan Shan became famous, and the later "Crazy Boy" also borrowed from this background.
Although there are many idle people like Ming Tsai who do not study or work as old people, those gang forces have not completely extended their hands at this time, after all, this is a well-known poor place in Hong Kong, and there is no money to buy.
This also leads to the fact that the idle people here have not become real underworld forces, but only occasionally do some small tricks of stealing chickens and dogs, and dare not do big bad things, let alone collect protection money.
When I went out, there were relatives, friends, and neighbors everywhere, but whenever a child did something bad, it was immediately like a whirlwind swept through the whole estate, and the family did not even dare to go out of the door! I would rather be a turtle with a shrunken head than hear someone chewing their tongues behind their backs.
However, in recent years, with the large-scale development of various parts of Hong Kong and the arrogance of the four detectives, it has become the biggest umbrella for gangsters, but in order to expand their power and manpower, some gangs have gradually set their sights on Tsz Wan Shan, a public housing estate with a large number of teenagers. After all, the people who live here, from the elderly to the children, all want to come out and make money from the bottom of their hearts, and a little benefit can make these children who have never seen the world become the most loyal horses of the underworld forces.
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As soon as they got off the bus and walked out of the bus stop, several aunts who were about forty years old waved their hands and grinned at the top of their throats after noticing Huo Yaowen and Ming Tsai: "Ah Wen is back!"
Huo Yaowen did not look down on and ignore these uneducated neighbors and aunts, but walked over quite politely and greeted them one by one with a smile: "Aunt Zhang, Aunt Li, Aunt Wang......"
Ming Tsai next to him also shouted.
But compared with Huo Yaowen's greetings, Ming Tsai seemed to be ignored.
No, Aunt Zhang put down the vegetable basket in her hand, looked at the white shirt and trousers wearing gold-rimmed glasses with a polite face, and at a glance knew that Huo Yaowen, who had a strong literati atmosphere, and said with a smile: "Ah Wen, I heard your aunt say that you went to apply for a teacher at the University of Hong Kong today? ”
"Don't you say that the old Zhang Yi's mother-in-law is not nonsense!" Aunt Li from Shanghai next to her scolded with a smile, and then stared at Huo Yaowen, who was just in his early twenties and was about the same age as his youngest daughter, and said: "Yaowen is the first person in Alawu Estate to be admitted to the University of Hong Kong, so smart and beautiful, it's not enough to be a university teacher!"
Aunt Zhang was very unhappy when she saw that Aunt Li was so able to talk back, pursed her lips and learned Aunt Li's tone, and said in a strange tone: "Yo, Nong can still drag words?"
"Nong wants to die, how can you learn to speak!" Aunt Li replied not to be outdone.
When Aunt Zhang heard this, she was immediately furious, if she had fought with this Shanghai woman in the past, but at this moment, considering that Huo Yaowen was here, for the sake of her own daughter, she also crossed her hands on her hips, deliberately tilted her head, and snorted: "What's the matter, don't you also learn Shanghainese, can't you?"
"Nong is learning to try!" Aunt Li was angry, and also put down the vegetable basket, crossed her hands on her waist, and glared at the other party angrily.
"Let's try it. ”
"Nong is trying!"
"Let's try it. ”
Seeing that the two aunts were arguing here again, Huo Yaowen chuckled lightly in his heart, but he still maintained a warm smile on his face, glanced at a very ordinary and seriously worn mechanical watch in his hand, and saw that it was already more than 11 o'clock, and the family meal was almost ready, so he opened his mouth and said: "Aunt Li, Aunt Zhang, I'll go home for a live meal first, and my mother is waiting for me at home." ”
Aunt Wang, who didn't walk next to her and didn't stay, nodded again and again when she heard Huo Yaowen say that she wanted to go home: "Go, go, I have to hurry home to cook for the children, by the way, Ah Wen, Aunt Wang bought fresh kelp and pork ribs, you must remember to eat later." ”
"Okay, Aunt Wang. Huo Yaowen didn't refuse, nodded with a smile, he knew that what Aunt Wang said was not polite words, at least there was a Ming Zai by his side, if it was a polite word, he would definitely say it to Ming Zai, not just to himself.
For Huo Yaowen's special treatment, Ming Tsai has long been accustomed to it, after all, who made Brother Yaowen not only smart and handsome since he was a child, especially after wearing glasses, he exudes a unique temperament of a scholar.
Immediately, Huo Yaowen led Ming Tsai, who had been standing next to him for a long time, back to his public house, and Aunt Wang followed closely when she saw this, for fear of being discovered by Aunt Li and Aunt Zhang.
And Aunt Li and Aunt Zhang quarreled at this intersection for a while, until the sun was getting hotter and hotter, and then they realized that it was not too early.
Quarrels between neighbours are a common occurrence in Tsz Wan Estate, after all, there are tens of thousands of people from different regions with different customs and dialects from all over the world, and it is inevitable that conflicts will arise when so many people gather together.
It's a bit better now, but in the past, especially in the 50s, when there was a big tide in Hong Kong, it was called a mess. Almost all people live and work with people in their own village or a region, and once they have a quarrel with someone, the most fierce time of the dispute is to pull the whole family, neighbors and even people from the same village and township together.
But this is all in the past, Fok Yiuwen remembers from his memory that about ten years ago, when he was only 11 years old, when he first moved into the estate, he now lived in the No. 8 public housing and the people of the No. 9 public housing next door had a dispute over the placement of sundries between the corridors.
Good guys, a whole group of people from Public Housing No. 8 went into battle, and together with the people from Public Housing No. 9, they gathered in the square of the estate, and almost caused a big fight. In the end, it was under the coordination of the Tsz Wan Shan Estate Management Association, which had just been established, that a major incident was avoided as soon as the new house was moved.
Since this incident, all the public housing estates in Tsz Wan Shan Estate have been managed separately to avoid the same situation as this incident.
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