But after two or three days of hard work, the stinky became a fat and white puppy, and every morning he got up, bared his teeth, and jumped on the bed with his little tail wagging happily, and when he woke up Luli, "Okay, okay, I know." Lu Li rubbed his eyes and sat up, took pants, vests and other things to put on, he was born not afraid of the cold, Hong Kong is located in the south, the coldest time in winter, the temperature is also around 7 or 8 °, so a shirt, a suit, you can completely cope, dressing, undressing is simple and easy.

Waking him up, Stink turned to torture the others until he woke them all up. "Hey, Xiaoxiao, did you read yesterday's newspaper? The eighth edition says that the third RIMPAC Fighting Championship will start on the 16th of next month. How, with your kung fu, sweep everything invincible! Go up and play with them? ”

"You lack heart, what does this kind of thing have to do with me, we are here to make money, not to fight."

"How is this a fight?" Xu Yunjian said: "This is an officially allowed beating activity, really, the fourth child is right, with your two hits, win those grandsons, no problem!" Hey, there are a lot of bonuses, fourth, how much is the bonus? ”

"100,000 dollars. I heard that it is more than 500,000 Hong Kong dollars. ”

Lu Lili ignored it, picked up the pot, and heated the leftovers and leftovers brought back yesterday and put them on a few plates, "You guys are feasible now, every day like an uncle, and you still have to serve me?" Eat it. ”

"Don't talk nonsense, Xu Yunjian, you love to serve or not, you have to serve the two of us well - he enjoyed it in the merchant forest back then, and we didn't get involved at all." Li Xueqing said with a grin, picked up the chopsticks, "Xiaoxiao, what are we doing today?" ”

Lu Li glanced out the window - they are not in the rooftop rental house in Hung Hom, but on the upper floor of the Sparrow House on Tai Kok Street, after going through the corresponding legal procedures, this place has officially become his property, the housing on the fourth floor is spacious, and several people have also moved over, "I have to go to the lawyer's house today, and last time Alan told me to find a few service companies for me to make a quotation for the decoration of our hot pot restaurant." Then choose one of them at the right price and of acceptable quality, and you are ready to dry. ”

"How much does it cost?"

"I don't know now, I'm completely inexperienced with this kind of thing. Listening to Allen, it's about forty or fifty thousand. Oh, I remember, once this thing starts, you can't just mess around all day, just stay in the store and be honest about the renovation - don't we don't know anything and play with others for nothing. When the time comes, we will spend money in vain, and let people laugh at us, do you hear? ”

"Don't worry, we've been shopping for the past few days, and when the business begins, everything is put aside, and it's all up to you to arrange."

"Then come with me in a while, go to the lawyer's office first, listen to the opinions, and then you can help come up with some ideas. This kind of thing still has to be discussed by everyone. ”

Xu Yunjian put down the dishes and chopsticks and wiped his mouth vigorously, "I'll go to the toilet, Xiaoxiao, will you brush the dishes?" ”

This hatred in Luli's heart! This bastard thing will come to pee this trick! "Xiaoxiao, don't serve us like a mother all day long," Li Tiehan proudly cocked Erlang's legs. Several of them were on duty in shifts to do hygiene, and today it was supposed to be Xu Yunjian doing housework, but this bastard could always come up with all kinds of ways to be lazy, and in the end it all fell on Lu Li's head, "If it goes on like this, it will spoil us." ”

Lu Lili ignored him, put away the dishes and chopsticks, put them in the pool and began to scrub, "Hey, Xiaoxiao, the second egg doesn't have to be cheap, this matter, I really have to take care of him, I don't do any work all day long, I know that I eat for nothing, what kind of line is this?" Li Xueqing held a cigarette in his mouth, stood beside him, and said.

"Forget it, Xu Yunjian is this virtue, he came all the way to Hong Kong to follow me, help him do some housework or something? Besides, I didn't just help him, didn't I do it all of you? ”

"I know, I know." Li Xueqing sighed and patted him on the shoulder, "Hurry up, we can't afford to delay, start work as soon as possible, and make money as soon as possible!" ”

"It's good, it's good." After picking up the tableware, the four of them changed their clothes, walked down the stairs, and saw Gu Zhong and Ah Mao walking in the door, "Ah Zhong, Ah Mao, in the morning." ”

"Morning." Gu Zhong bumped into the cat, who reluctantly rolled his eyes and muttered, "Morning." ”

"I went to the lawyer's office with them to discuss the renovation, and if everything was settled, it would be a matter of a few days before work could begin here. When the time comes, Gu Zhong, you have studied a lot, and you have more knowledge than us in this area, and you will have to rely on your help in many places. ”

"Do your best."

Lu Li sighed secretly, knowing that Gu Zhong might not be able to accept himself, to be honest, if it were him, he might not be able to do better than the other party, after all, what originally belonged to the master, he only helped a few times, and just grabbed it with a little threatening interest, anyone would feel depressed! "Then, please and your brothers remove all these tables, chairs, and benches from the first to the third floor—I don't know what you do with this garbage here, but when I come back, I'll see three empty floors." Nothing is allowed, is that okay? ”

"No problem, I'll do it right away."

Luli said no more and walked out the door. Ah Mao spat viciously, "I'm [***] your old mother!" It's not big, it's not small! It's only been a few days since you came, and you really think you're a big guy? Brother Zhong, what do you say? ”

"What else can I say? The master has already signed with others, and this place is also his, so he is kind enough to allow us to stay here......"

"! We, brothers, do we still have to look up to others? Not to mention still a regular customer? Why don't we go, where can't we eat a bowl of full rice? ”

"Wait a few more days, there is always a beginning and an end to things. If you don't want to see him, go back to your shop. Not yours here. ”

"Do you think I'm willing to leave my business over there and come here? Not because of you? I'm afraid you'll be bullied! ”

Gu Zhong smiled bitterly and shook his head, he and Ah Mao have been old friends for many years, and they are emotionally close like a family, "Forget it, Ah Mao, let's work." ”

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Lu Li got up in the morning and arrived at the lawyer's office, Zhang Dadong had just gone to work, and he hadn't taken a sip of the coffee he bought on the road, and he was startled when he saw a few people coming in, "!" Why so early? ”

"To run errands."

"It won't take so soon, will it? If you look at what time it is, it's not even a quarter past nine. ”

"Excuse me, didn't I bother you?"

"Forget it, forget it, I know I can't beat you. Come, sit down and talk. Zhang Dadong beckoned a few people into his office and sat down, "I'll get straight to the point, what about the decoration of your three-story building, I have found a total of four decoration companies for you, the most quoted price is 125,605.72 Hong Kong dollars, and the least is 89,410.45 Hong Kong dollars." Well, the preliminary renderings issued by them separately, you can take a look at them first. ”

Luli took the four folders and opened them one by one with his companions, and inside were renderings drawn with fine drawing paper, although they were in black and white, but they were also quite clear: the bright windows, the clean dining table, the bright stamens, and the boiling hot pot painted a harmonious and happy picture everywhere; Open the following one, this is the specific decoration schematic diagram, the ceiling is full of dense pipes, there is a pipe stretched down in front of each dining table, the diameter of the nozzle is very large, almost covering the entire hot pot, no need to ask, this is the device designed for pumping carbon gas according to his requirements.

Lu Li looked at it for a while, and shook his head secretly, which was not the same as he imagined, first of all, the diameter of the nozzle was too large, and it hung straight above the head, which would give the guests a sense of oppression and cause discomfort in the meal; In addition, he had requested that the pipelines should be buried in the ceiling, so that the sky is full of spider webs, will the guests feel disgusted when they see it? At the very least, in his opinion, it feels uncomfortable and disgusting! Thinking so, he handed the folder back, "I'll take a look at the rest." ”

"Of course, of course, everything has to be your satisfaction."

Li Tiehan and Li Xueqing liked the design sketches in their hands very much, and the two of them even discussed on the spot, "No, look at you, the space above is so small, and the entire floor is only two meters and three two, plus such a thick ceiling, people who turn back a little higher may have to hit their heads when they come in." ”

"What are you afraid of? How can Hong Kong people be tall? Don't you believe that if you walk around the street and see, there are people who are more than 1.6 meters tall? ”

Luli almost burst out laughing! He punched Xu Yunjian hard, turned his head to look at Zhang Dadong, and he also had a helpless look, "Allen, don't be serious with him, he is this kind of virtue." ”

"I know, I know."

Lu Li took the other three blueprints, all of which were similar to what he had just seen, and none of them were particularly impressive to him, "To be honest, I don't like any of them. Maybe I didn't make it clear to you at the beginning, I wanted the design to be as simple as possible, the ceiling should be completely closed, the central pipe could only have branches hanging down, and the diameter of each pipe should be as thick as the burning port of the hot pot, and I wanted a soft connection where the top and bottom communicated, that is, I wanted to be able to move freely in the drooping pipe, and there would be no swaying and natural sagging in the absence of hot pot. ”

"I understand......" Zhang Dadong picked up the pen and recorded them one by one, while saying: "Theoretically, this can be done, but the cost may be greatly increased." ”

"Specifically?"

"Based on the most expensive part of the price we just mentioned, your current request will be more than twice as much."

"Isn't it just a soft connection? How can there be so much more? ”

"It's just my speculation, and it's not necessarily true."

Lu Li scratched his head with difficulty, if it was really as Zhang Dadong said, the money he was carrying with him might not be enough! Originally, he went home this time, and took another 30,000 yuan over, and if it was converted into Hong Kong dollars, it would be 120,000, but this money was easily unusable - this is really used as the start-up capital of the restaurant in the future, and all kinds of miscellaneous expenses must be supported by it, and there is a more important purpose, which is used for domestic dredging and raw material procurement.

He pondered for a moment and asked, "Alan, my money may not be enough, do you think there is any way?" ”

"Money ......" Zhang Dadong paused widely, and he asked as if he was very funny: "Lu Sheng, you don't have money, what are you talking about doing business?" ”

"Of course I have the money, but it's still at home on the mainland. To be honest, I didn't expect it to cost so much. ”

"So? If you are a Hong Kong national, have an official Hong Kong identity card, and engage in business activities, you can also apply for a loan from a bank, in which case, no matter how much money you have, it will not be a problem; But in your current situation, I think you need to go back. I still say what I said just now, if you can't support your business, you don't want to do it. ”

"Is there no other way?"

"Nope. In this case, you just want to find an underground bank for a loan, and people won't give it to you - what do you have to mortgage it? ”

"Xiaoxiao, if you can't do it, you can go back, right?" Li Xueqing persuaded.

"No, what are you going back to? Xiaoxiao, just according to what our brother told you in the morning, fight a kickboxing match, with your kung fu, is it still a problem to win a championship? When the time comes, 100,000 dollars will be in hand, and everything will be enough! ”

Zhang Dadong was stunned, "Mr. Xu, what kind of free fighting?" ”

"It's the Rim of the Pacific Kickboxing Tournament that's being held in Hong Kong! You don't know? A little kung fu is amazing! As soon as you get on the field, you can definitely win the championship. Won't there be money then? ”

Zhang Dadong suddenly remembered that Lu Li knew kung fu! When he first came to Hong Kong, didn't he just knock over a few gold shop robbers with three punches and two kicks, and even killed someone? "Hey, Lu Sheng, if you really have kung fu and a very strong grasp, you can really participate. Let me tell you, in addition to the winning bonus, there are also outside bets and matchup handicaps, with an underdog like you, you will definitely win enough! ”

Xu Yunjian was very curious and asked, "What bet, what handicap?" ”

"That is,...... Well, let's take Lu Sheng as an example, before he participated in the competition, no one knew how powerful his martial arts were, and at the same time, he didn't have any fame; Such people become unpopular candidates. Let's say the matchup is 5 to 1, and you pay $1,000 for him to win, and when he wins, you get $5,000. ”

Xu Yunjian laughed! "It's also a thousand yuan, if it's really a small play, I'll buy 100,000!"

"No way!" Zhang Dadong was startled and hurriedly dissuaded, "Mr. Xu, you can't do this, something big has to happen." ”

"What's wrong? Didn't you say that one pays five? ”

That's right, but an unpopular person like Lu Sheng is generally disdained by many people. Especially in the back, the more seeded players there are in the field, and everyone is a popular candidate, so there are naturally more people who buy it. You spend some spare money to buy the unpopular, it's nothing to win, you really invest a lot of money to buy, once the upset, the dealer loses money because of you, think about it, can people give up? ”

"That'...... Isn't this a matter of seeing money? Knowing that he can win, he doesn't buy much? ”

"This is the rule of the game, of course you can win, but you can't eat it clean, even you grab it from other people's bowls to eat, think about it, can people not hate you?" Zhang Dadong's words made everyone laugh, but he himself didn't laugh at all, "Mr. Xu, this is by no means a joke with you, the so-called eating alone is not fat, that's what it means." ”

The more Xu Yunjian listened, the more funny he felt, he was afraid that the world would not be chaotic, so he bumped Lu Li with his elbow, "Xiaoxiao, how is it?" What do you think? ”

"What do you think? What can I do with that? If you go up, you have to be beaten down! Don't make fun of me. (To be continued.) )