January 5, 1993, Fire Day, heavy snowfall.

After the Christmas and New Year celebrations, most Tokyoites have seen their appetite for consumption and fun go into a period of weakness. In the two days after the New Year's holiday, business in Kabukicho is at its quietest time of the year.

At ten o'clock in the morning, Li Xiaomu held a big black umbrella and hurried to the front of his store.

Last night due to the scarcity of tourists, they closed before 11 o'clock. It's rare to go to bed early, and he got up early today again, because he was worried about the things in the store, and rushed over from home as soon as he finished breakfast.

He pushed open the door and walked into the store, the entire reception area was empty, only Gao Dali was sitting on the sofa facing the door and playing GAMEBOY.

Gao Dali heard the doorbell ring and looked up. Seeing that it was Li Xiaomu who came in, he muttered hello to him, and then buried his head in the cube and went to fight with the cube.

Li Xiaomu walked around the store and saw that the floor and several pieces of office furniture had been carefully cleaned, and the mats at the entrance had also been rinsed clean. It seems that the two newcomers he arranged for the last to stay in the yard yesterday were not lazy, and they still cleaned up according to his requirements.

He nodded with satisfaction in his heart, walked briskly to Gao Dali's side and sat down, and asked, "Dali, why are you alone today?" Fengzi and Xiaoji haven't come yet? ”

"They came before nine o'clock, and then they all followed Brother Guangzhi to the maze house to see the beautiful women." Gao Dali continued to bury his head and replied in a muffled voice.

"These bunnies! I haven't seen them have such a good spirit! Li Xiaomu scolded with a smile, and then asked jokingly: "Hey, why didn't you go with you?" is still sitting in the store playing game consoles so honestly, can it be said that the charm of this game console is greater than that of beautiful women? ”

The GAMEBOY in Gao Dali's hand happened to sound a burst of game-ending music at this time. He angrily threw the game console on the table and said, "Of course I want to see beautiful women, but Brother Guangzhi insisted that I stay and watch the store." What else do you say that I look too fierce, what will affect the atmosphere of the scene! ”

Li Xiaomu laughed dumbly when he heard this, but he didn't comfort him much. Gao Dali's appearance, if it is seen at first glance by unfamiliar people, it is indeed a little scary.

However, hearing Gao Dali talk about this beautiful woman, Li Xiaomu felt that he couldn't sit still. He came here early this morning, in fact, for this matter. Of course, his purpose was certainly not to see beautiful women.

Two days before the New Year's Day holiday, Li Guangzhi and the Sun brothers talked to him about the plan to run a magazine, saying that Li Guangzhi had come up with a new idea. He was shrewd and saw the prospect of this plan at a glance, but what made him feel a little depressed was that Li Guangzhi and the others had already discussed the distribution of shares, and only left him 10 percent.

At that time, he didn't say anything in front of the three of them, just nodded yes. But later, in his heart, he was unhappy about this for several days.

The first thing that made him unhappy was that Li Guangzhi and the three brothers of the Sun family actually discussed everything without him, and finally gave him a notice. This feeling of being vaguely excluded by his own people made him feel a little inexplicably pantothenic and uneasy.

And the other thing that makes him unhappy is naturally the 10% share ratio.

The high gold content of Li Guangzhi's idea has been proved by the income in the unannounced case. Of the two money-making plans he proposed, the former one owned 40% of the shares, while the new one only kept 10% for himself. Such a big gap between the front and back made his heart a little unbalanced.

However, after he calmed down and thought about it for a few days, the imbalance gradually lessened a lot.

After all, he has been working hard outside for so many years, and he has experienced a lot of setbacks, and when he looks at certain things, his mentality is still relatively mature.

He explained to himself, after all, the three of them are all orphaned descendants, and the relationship is originally closer than with himself. They didn't completely abandon themselves, and they didn't give them a single share, which can be regarded as benevolent and righteous.

Moreover, as far as the plan of running a magazine is concerned, according to Li Guangzhi's explanation, the purpose of running a magazine is mainly to make a name for itself, and the bulk of the final profit will still fall on opening a branch.

His shares in the store account for forty percent, according to this calculation, that is, Li Guangzhi and the three of them have both money and efforts to run magazines for publicity, and they don't have to worry about anything, just wait for the fame to become famous and open a branch to make a lot of money

If you think about it this way, not only did you not suffer a loss, but you took a big advantage.

In the past few days, he felt that he had been left out of the matter, and he took a kind of indifferent attitude towards the various preparations for Li Guangzhi and the three of them to organize the magazine.

And now that he has calmed down and figured out his joints, he has realized that he should pay more attention to this matter.

According to the information he heard from Liu Chuanfeng, since yesterday, Li Guangzhi has specially asked the owner of the mystery house to borrow two daytime venues, and it is said that he has also hired a professional photography team to take promotional photos for the magazines of the top hostesses selected in each store.

Li Xiaomu himself studied fashion design, and he had a lot of interest in this kind of occasion. Moreover, he also planned to talk to Li Guangzhi about this opportunity to express his concern about this matter.

Thinking of this, he stood up and said hello to Gao Dali, and then hurriedly walked out of the store and walked in the direction of the maze house

When I came out of the store, I forgot to take an umbrella in a hurry, and when Li Xiaomu walked into the characteristic porch of the maze house, there were a lot of snowflakes on his head and coat.

He patted his leather gloves on his body as he walked down the verandah toward the performance hall.

Bypassing the two courtesy poles with red velvet ropes blocking the entrance, he pushed open the heavy soft leather door and entered the performance hall, immediately involuntarily paused for a moment by the heat and noise rushing inside.

He had been to this show more than once or twice before, and although every time he came, the lights were dim because of the performances, but he was still familiar with the environment of this performance hall.

But what he saw now was completely different from the scene he remembered.

At this time, on the originally empty performance stage, a circular white curtain with a square of four or five meters was hung on the side facing the door, which made him think that he was walking into a movie theater at first glance.

In front of the white curtain, there are several photographic lights of various types. There were two people busy adjusting the position of the lights left and right.

On both sides of the stage, the chairs and small round tables that had been used to seat guests have also been removed, replaced by several large spotlights and reflectors held up high by iron shelves, and two or three rows of colorful movable hangers full of clothes.

At this time, there was a man wearing a baseball cap standing on the performance stage, shouting loudly, and five or six people on and off the stage were running around under his command, and from time to time they were responding loudly according to his instructions. The atmosphere in the whole hall seemed to be a bit tense and busy.

Li Xiaomu took a few steps forward, ready to take a closer look. Unexpectedly, a person suddenly rushed out of the oblique stab and almost crashed into his arms.

After the man stabilized his footsteps, he hurriedly lowered his head and said "Smith Marseille", and then he raised his head and saw Li Xiaomu, and immediately shouted in surprise: "Yo, Brother Li, you are here too?" Just now, Brother Guangzhi asked me about you. ”

As soon as Li Xiaomu heard the Sichuan flavor in this, he knew that this person must be Liu Chuanfeng, and said to him angrily: "What are you running around here like a headless fly?" You are really indispensable wherever there is excitement! By the way, are you Brother Guangzhi? Where are the others? ”

"I'm here to help run errands." Liu Chuanfeng smiled a little embarrassedly, then picked up his feet and looked around: "Brother Guangzhi was still here just now, why did he disappear all of a sudden?" Oh, there. Oh, Brother Li, look, is it Brother Guangzhi sitting on the sofa by the wall? ”

Li Xiaomu looked in the direction he pointed, and there were two people sitting on the sofa on the wall on the right side of the hall, looking down at something, one of them was Li Guangzhi.

"Hiroshi, this guy has a lot of brains and boldness, and the scene is getting bigger and bigger!" After finding Li Guangzhi's location, he looked back at the busy scene in the hall and couldn't help but sigh.

He stretched out his hand and patted Liu Chuanfeng's shoulder, and said in a deep voice: "I said Fengzi, this is a serious occasion, if you kid wants to help, give me a little more steadfast, don't be careless and make trouble for others, you know?" ”

Seeing Liu Chuanfeng nodding, he waved his hand and said, "Okay, you don't have to worry about me, hurry up and get busy with you, I'll go over there and talk to Guangzhi about something." ”

When Li Xiaomu walked along the wall to Li Guangzhi, Li Guangzhi was pointing to something that looked like a photo album and discussing something with the person sitting next to him.

The person next to him, Li Xiaomu, also knows, it is Jiro Ikeda, the manager of this mysterious house.

"Ikeda-san, Brother Hiroshi, good morning, you two." Li Xiaomu saw that the two of them didn't notice him, so he took the initiative to greet him and salute.

Li Guangzhi and Ikeda raised their heads when they heard the sound, and when they saw that it was him, they quickly stood up and saluted.

After a few pleasantries, Ikeda knew that the two of them might have something to discuss, so he politely got up and left.

After Ikeda left, Li Xiaomu sat down on the sofa opposite Li Guangzhi and said with a smile: "Brother Guangzhi, I see that you are getting bigger and bigger on this occasion." How's it going, are you still busy, are you not enough? Where I can be useful, just open your mouth, but don't be polite to me! ”