Chapter 22: Scar-Kun
Aside from the side he had seen at the opening banquet of the newspaper, this was the second time Su Jingxian had met Zhong Qiang, the text editor of the Haoqing nightlife column.
"Brother Qiang, your face doesn't seem to look very good." After walking for only a few minutes after leaving Tin Shui Wai, Su Jingxian found that Zhong Qiang, who was following him, was pale, panting, and sweating profusely on his forehead.
Zhong Qiang gasped and didn't forget to show off: "Boss, I flew a pair of sisters last night, and when I went home in the morning, I paid my wife a public ration, but I was a little tired." ”
Su Jingxian raised his eyebrows: "I heard Uncle Zhong say that you can try it every night recently, and the bosses of several night clubs will personally help you choose a girl, and you don't have to pay for it after eating, it seems to be true." ”
Zhong Qiang took out a handkerchief and wiped his sweat, with a smile on his face: "So I often say that the boss and the editor-in-chief are my nobles, without you two, I am still writing salty and wet stories in the tabloids, how can I encounter such a good thing now?" ”
"I don't think it's necessarily a good thing, you see that you are walking a few steps now as if you are going to die." Su Jingxian shook his head, "When the meal arrives, I will personally invite you to a cup of cordyceps soup, otherwise if you die on the woman's belly, I don't know if it should be considered a work injury." ”
Zhong Qiang smiled: "Don't worry, I'm twenty-six years old, and I can make up for it if I sleep!" ”
The two chatted and walked slowly up the avenue from the country road, Su Jingxian just passed by a licensed taxi carrying passengers before they met, stretched out his hand to stop and sit in with Zhong Qiang, and told the driver that Castle Peak Road Treasure Blood Hospital.
The taxi driver saw Zhong Qiang sweating profusely and his face pale from the rearview mirror, and thought that he was suffering from a sudden illness, so he slammed down the accelerator and drove out of the red Morris sedan at a high speed.
At the Treasure Blood Hospital on Castle Peak Road in Sham Shui Po, Zhong Qiang, who was gasping for breath in the car, looked a lot better, and after getting out of the car, he took Su Jingxian through several alleys, and finally stopped at a street behind the Treasure Blood Hospital building, Zhong Qiang, who had been leading the way.
Zhong Qiang looked up at the various signboards on the street, and finally paused on the signboard of a tea restaurant called Tim Ho Yun, and turned back to Su Jingxian and said, "Boss, in this tea restaurant, I made an appointment with the bald guy to wait here and go up together." ”
"Okay!" Su Jingxian nodded, observed the surrounding environment, and followed Zhong Qiang into the corridor.
Like most of Hong Kong's tea restaurants, the decoration pattern is not large, perhaps because of the age, the furniture in the restaurant looks old-fashioned and not high-end. If you don't know the situation in Hong Kong today, you will definitely think that inviting people to come to this kind of place to talk about business is making fun of people, but Su Jingxian knows that businessmen who want to advertise in the pride nightlife column invite themselves to meet in such a place where the pattern is not obvious, and there is absolutely no intention of looking down on people.
At that time, Hong Kong businessmen were divided into two types: Lao Zheng Xing and Lao Zheng Xing, and the businessmen who were Lao Zheng Xing could naturally go to various high-end places in an open and honest manner, and most of them went to Western restaurants and hotels to discuss business. Even if there was collusion and chaos in Hong Kong in the fifties, there was always no light in the door, not to mention that there were some enemies in the business, so they did not dare to swagger on the street.
The businessman who is now talking to Su Jingxian about nightlife column advertisements obviously belongs to the category of fishing for the wrong way.
"Brother Kun, hello! Hello! As soon as he entered the restaurant on the second floor, Zhong Qiang greeted a bald guy sitting in the corner through a few tables, turned his head and whispered to Su Jingxian, "Scar Kun, his real name is Cai Xingkun, and nine of the ten bone farms in Sham Shui Po are all under his sight." ”
Su Jingxian smiled and walked with Zhong Qiang to the table in the corner, but before they could get close to the table, the two were stopped by a strong man standing next to Cai Xingkun.
"I'm sorry, both of you." After the sturdy man who was still wearing a sweatshirt and a short beat in the middle of winter stopped Su Jingxian and Zhong Qiang, he raised his chin at them, "According to the rules, you have to search your body first." ”
"Ah Keung, you know my rules!" The bald guy Cai Xingkun didn't stop his subordinates, but said to Su Jingxian and Zhong Qiang across the table, "Su Jingxian Boss Su, right?" I'm sorry, I have a lot of enemies outside, so I naturally be cautious in doing things, and please bear with me if there is any rudeness. ”
It was not surprising that Su Jingxian was called by his name, since it was a business discussion, Zhong Qiang must have informed the other party early in the morning, but this Scar Kun was indeed cautious, knowing that the two of them were making newspapers and not mixing words, and they had to search their bodies according to the routine, it seems that it is really as he said, there are too many enemies outside.
After being touched from top to bottom by a big man, Su Jingxian endured the cold and sat opposite Cai Xingkun, with a hint of displeasure in his tone: "Boss Cai's rules are really greater than the Hong Kong Governor." ”
"Mr. Su doesn't blame a rough person like me, our Jianghu people's heads are stuck on the waistband of our trousers, if we accidentally cut it into seven or eight sections in the morning to feed the fish!" was rejected by Su Jingxian's cold and hard tone, Cai Xingkun was not angry, and pointed to a deep scar on his bald head, "See?" This scar is that I was too gullible back then, and I was cut out by someone, so now even if it is a scarlet, I have to check clearly that the woman's Xili has hidden blades, all in order to live two more days! ”
Su Jingxian raised the corners of his mouth, took out a cigarette from the cigarette case and handed it to Cai Xingkun, and then took out one himself, and Zhong Qiang on the side hurriedly struck a match and lit it for him when he saw this.
"I'm not interested in Jianghu affairs, let's talk about business." Su Jingxian held a cigarette, looked at Cai Xingkun opposite, and said straight to the point, "The circulation of the China and Hong Kong Daily in the first two days was 100,000 copies, and the sales volume of the two days fell slightly, but there are more than 80,000 copies, according to the official newspaper statistics of the Hong Kong government, the population of Hong Kong is now about 1.7 million, that is, almost one out of 20 people in Hong Kong has read the China and Hong Kong Daily, and it is based on days. ”
Cai Xingkun was slightly stunned after listening to Su Jingxian's call, then glanced around, and laughed at the little brothers around him: "Your mother! Before, you talked about doing business with cultural people? As soon as Mr. Su came up, he stepped into the topic, and Zhong Shuang was happy to pass the people of the rivers and lakes! ”
Su Jingxian smiled, seeing that Cai Xingkun did not answer immediately, he turned his face to the teahouse owner at the front desk and greeted: "A turtle jelly plus a bowl of tofu flowers, and a cup of bullwhip cordyceps soup stewed to nourish the kidneys for my employees." ”