Chapter 15: Retiro
Several hipster uncles in the Kowloon Walled City are indeed very fond of Liu Changhua, otherwise with Liu Changhua's salary, even if he adds the black money he has collected over the years, he will not be able to withstand the expenses of these few days.
For a whole week, Su Jingxian accompanied Liu Changhua every night to entertain British superintendents with different faces, all of which were selected in high-end restaurants and nightclubs in the prime areas of Hong Kong Island.
North Point, Hong Kong Island, 923 King's Road, Retiro Garden Nightclub.
This nightclub converted from the Retiro Swimming Pool in North Point is the largest and highest-level nightclub in Hong Kong's history, and it is not far behind the Paramount Gate in the Pinjin Cave in Huangpu Beach at the time, and has been praised by Life magazine as the largest amusement park in the Far East.
In fact, Li Jufa is a native of Huangpu, and he wandered the streets of Huangpu when he was a teenager, and it is precisely because of the influence of Paramount that Li Jufa established such a luxurious nightclub after he started his career in Hong Kong.
Even after half past nine in the evening, the Retiro Garden was still full of visitors, with all kinds of cars parked in front of the nightclub, and waiters in shirts and vests standing on the side of the street to maintain order and valet parking, all of whom spoke fluent Cantonese when talking to customers, but each spoke pure Huangpu dialect.
"Rose roses are the most delicate, roses are the most gorgeous, long summer blooms on the branches, roses and roses I love you......"
At this time, in the dance hall on the first floor of the nightclub, a young singer stood in the center of the stage, playing the representative repertoire of Yao Li, one of the seven great singers of Huangpu Beach.
On the dance floor under the stage, dancing guests are dancing to the sound of singing.
In a café on both sides of the dance floor, Liu Changhua looked at the ghost superintendent who was hugging a dancer on the dance floor, and said to Su Jingxian beside him: "It's another salty worm (pervert), you go out to find the lobby manager, buy the dancing girl's street clock, and let her serve the ghost guy well tonight." ”
Su Jingxian nodded, stood up and walked to the public relations department outside the dance hall, turned back after a while, and sat back next to Liu Changhua: "Boss, it's done." ”
Liu Changhua withdrew his gaze from the dance floor, picked up the wine glass in his hand and touched it with Su Jingxian: "You have done a good job these days, and when you finish sending the ghost guy, I will give you half a month off from tomorrow." ”
"Thank you, boss." Hearing Liu Changhua say that he would take a holiday, Su Jingxian breathed a sigh of relief in his heart and drank all the Louis XVI in the cup.
For a plainclothes agent like him, it doesn't matter if he has a holiday or not, but he spent a whole week at the police station waiting for Liu Changhua's summons, which can be said to be the most constrained period since he was promoted to plainclothes agent.
Now that Liu Changhua said that he was going to give him a holiday, it means that tonight is the last British superintendent he has seen, and after tonight, he will no longer have to act as a sounding board between Liu Changhua and the ghost.
At the end of the song, the British superintendent on the dance floor hugged the plump dancer, returned to the tea house with a smile on his face, and held the dancer in his arms, and a pair of salty pig hands had already stretched into the hem of the woman's cheongsam.
"Superintendent Hunter, Inspector Liu has booked a room on the third floor of the Retiro, and this lady will help you clean the room and wake you up before twelve o'clock tomorrow morning." Suppressing the disgust in his heart, Su Jingxian smiled and said in English to the British Superintendent Hunter opposite.
The ghost guy Hunter looked at Liu Changhua, who was smiling all over his face, and said in stiff Cantonese: "Thank you, Inspector Liu, me, you, good friend!" ”
"Yes, yes, we're good friends, good friends!" Liu Changhua smiled on his face, turned his head to Su Jingxian and said, "Ah Xian, take out the gift I prepared for Superintendent Hunter before." ”
Su Jingxian took out two boxes from the leather bag beside him, one large and one small, the large box was made of transparent glass, and at a glance he could see that there was a longevity peach made of pure gold inside, and after the other small box was opened, there was a shining diamond necklace inside.
When the two gifts were placed on the table, the dancing girl snuggled in the arms of the ghost Hunter looked straight at her.
Pushing the two boxes in front of the ghost guy Hunter, Su Jingxian said in English: "Inspector Liu knows that today is your birthday for Superintendent Hunter, and I specially sent a small heart, and I heard that your wife lost a diamond necklace two days ago, so this morning Inspector Liu personally dispatched the police force, and finally caught the thief and retrieved the necklace for his wife." ”
Although he has already drunk a little big tongue, Hunter, who is used to accepting bribes, naturally will not say at this time that today is not his birthday, and his wife has not lost the diamond necklace Such stupid words, after skillfully putting away the gift, Hunter once again expressed his gratitude to Liu Changhua.
After the gift was delivered, Liu Changhua and the ghost superintendent drank a few more glasses of wine, and during the conversation, Su Jingxian intentionally or unintentionally raised the issue of the position arrangement of the next chief inspector after the retirement of the current chief inspector Yao Mu.
After three rounds of drinking, the ghost guy Hunter, who was already impatient, walked quickly to the room on the third floor of the Retiro with the dancing girl in his arms.
In the tea room of the dance hall on the first floor, only Su Jingxian and Liu Changhua were left.
"Humph! Liu Fu and Li Jisheng can invite ghosts to dance and drink, and I can do the same! And I gave a big gift to every ghost guy, and even their female relatives took care of it, so I don't believe that I won't be able to buy this ghost guy this time! Seeing Hunter go upstairs, Liu Changhua put down his wine glass heavily, picked up the cigar in the ashtray and took a puff, his face was slightly hideous under the smoke.
As a translator between the superintendent and Liu Changhua, Su Jingxian will also help Liu Changhua pay the bill for a while, he privately calculated Liu Changhua's expenses in the past few days, about 300,000 yuan, you must know that now even the detective of an oil and water area only costs about 100,000 yuan, it seems that Liu Changhua is determined to compete with Liu Fu and other veteran detectives for the position of Inspector Zonghua this time.
Seeing Liu Changhua's gloomy face, Su Jingxian curled the corners of his mouth, he knew that Liu Changhua was now fighting to the death, if Yao Mu retired and the position of Inspector Zonghua was not his turn, it was estimated that he would have the heart to kill the British superintendent he had befriended in the past week.
But then again, isn't Inspector Hua, who is in charge of all the Chinese police in Hong Kong, still a pawn of the British?
Su Jingxian poured a glass of wine again, holding the goblet in his hand and shaking it gently, the colorful lights on the dance floor were refracted and swayed together with the foreign wine in the wine glass.