Chapter 10: Hong Kong in Decline

When Chen Sheng was woken up by the senior brother, the plane had already reached the sky over Hong Kong and was about to land.

Chen Sheng, who slept for a while, is now in a much better mental state, and he is full of energy again, and the senior brother sees Chen Sheng's changes, and he is also secretly sighing, "It's good to be young."

When Chen Sheng and Senior Brother came out of the exit with their luggage, they saw Senior Brother Fan Wei waiting for them at the exit, and the two walked towards Fan Wei.

This senior brother Fan Wei came out of school relatively early, and he is relatively old, and he has been doing business in Shenzhen all these years, and his development is very good.

He will go north to pay New Year's greetings to his master during the New Year's holidays, and he has never been absent, Chen Sheng has seen him many times over the years, and he respects him very much.

And this is not the reason why Chen Sheng respects him the most, the reason why Chen Sheng respects and appreciates him is that after his father had an accident in Shenzhen, it was this Senior Brother Fan Wei who worked tirelessly here to help him before and after, so Chen Sheng sincerely respected this senior brother from the bottom of his heart.

The two came out of the passage, and Fan Wei had already greeted them:

"Senior brother, Xiaosheng, hello"

Chen Sheng bowed to Senior Brother Fan Wei and said:

"Hello brother"

The senior brother also said hello to him, and then the three of them took the gift box and walked out of the airport.

It didn't take a few steps to reach the gate of the waiting hall, Chen Sheng pulled the suitcase and walked out, there were a lot of people at the door, so it was more crowded, the suitcase accidentally hung on a young man's clothes, Chen Sheng turned around, looked at the other party and said:

"I'm sorry I accidentally hung up on you, it's okay"

A young man dressed in Japanese clothes looked at Chen Sheng with disdain and said:

"The road is not eye-catching, Beiyan"

Chen Sheng didn't know much about Cantonese, and he didn't know what the other party meant, but looking at his expression, he knew that it was not a good thing, and it was obvious that the other party had a kind of contempt and contempt for himself, and suddenly the look on Chen Sheng's face was a little bad.

Senior Brother Fan Wei, who was walking in front, was an authentic Cantonese person, so he could naturally understand the young man's words, so he immediately walked over, looked directly at the young man and said:

"Boy, you want to be a beggar"

The tone seemed very horizontal, not polite at all, and his eyes were staring at each other at the same time, showing a fierce light.

When the young man on the opposite side saw Fan Wei's fierce appearance and spoke pure Cantonese, he knew that he might have provoked a local, and there were three people on the other side, all of whom were five big and three coarse, and it was obviously not easy to provoke. Immediately coaxed, quickly bowed his head and said nothing, and walked away.

Seeing that the other party admitted and walked away, the three of them continued to walk out the door, and Chen Sheng asked Senior Brother Fan Wei:

"I didn't fully understand what he just said."

Fan Wei says:

"He scolds you for walking without eyes, and the latter sentence is a scolding of northerners, and now many young people in Hong Kong are like this, they have a sense of anger in their hearts, and they will vent when they have the opportunity"

Chen Sheng and Senior Brother both looked a little bad when they heard this, but they didn't say anything.

Fan Wei continued:

"Hong Kong's development in recent years has been worse than year by year, far less rapid than the mainland's development, young people find it difficult to find jobs, unemployment is high, and Hong Kong people's original sense of superiority over mainlanders has gradually been lost.

Especially compared with the four places of Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, there is no longer any advantage, and the mentality of the people is also changing, and many young people can't find a job and don't find their own reasons, but they all attribute it to the mainlanders, so the attitude towards people from the mainland is getting worse and worse, and now such people abound in society."

Saying that, the three of them had already walked out of the door, and the car stopped at the door and waited, and they got in the car and went straight to the hotel.

On the way, listening to the introduction of his senior brother Fan Wei, Chen Sheng also looked at the scenery outside the car window, which was indeed not as prosperous and energetic as the mainland cities.

Especially the high-rise residential buildings that plunge into the sky, hundreds of buildings are like towering cement pillars, erected on both sides of the road, the façade is not decorated, very simple or even simple, the spacing between the buildings is very small, the windows on the upper floors are dense like honeycombs, you can imagine how small the area of the rooms inside is, how many people live in a building.

Such dense buildings and population density are unimaginable even in Beijing and Shanghai, where the population is several times larger than that of Hong Kong, and people with dense phobia simply cannot survive here.

Fan Wei saw Chen Sheng observing the scenery outside the car and said:

"This situation outside is the normal living conditions of ordinary people in Hong Kong, the space they live in is extremely small, and the scarcity of land makes them only develop at high altitudes, so it is still difficult to find a house, Hong Kong's housing prices are almost the most expensive in the world, and ordinary people simply can't afford it.

Now Hong Kong's economy is also very deformed, there are two kinds of people in society, those who sell houses and those who sell medicines, and those who sell houses are housing agents, and when you enter the city, you can see that the streets are full of such people handing out leaflets, and those who sell medicines are selling milk powder and Chinese medicinal materials to mainland tourists in pharmacies.

Once upon a time, the word Hong Kong represented fashion and wealth in the eyes of the mainland people, but now Hong Kong is losing its former glory and gradually declining.

After the car entered the city, the speed slowed down, Chen Sheng was also carefully observing the scenery of the streets of Hong Kong, everyone was in a hurry, running for a living, the expression was cold and stiff, lack of warmth, it seems that it is indeed a commercial city, not very suitable for living life.

On the side of the road, I even saw two groups of young people in suits and leather shoes fighting, everyone looked angry, fists and feet were not lively, and the pedestrians on the side of the road were also watching, not many people stepped forward to stop and persuade the fight, and all kinds of leaflets were scattered on the ground.

The senior brother told Chen Sheng that this was all a fight between real estate salespeople, and in Hong Kong now, such a situation has become commonplace, and everyone is used to it.

Next, Chen Sheng saw countless people in suits and leather shoes on the side of the road handing out leaflets all over the street, all of them selling buildings, such a scene is indeed a bit weird, is there really so much money in the pockets of Hong Kong people? Is the property market so hot?

Fan Wei looked at the situation outside and said:

"Don't look at so many people, you can't make a few orders a month, many people can't make a single transaction a month, they are all living with a basic salary, this is the crowd tactics adopted by real estate companies, creating a false prosperity scene, making people pay their wallets, and slowly it becomes a vicious circle, everyone does this, resulting in this kind of scene full of house sellers on the street"

Within a few minutes, the car stopped at the door of the hotel, this time the senior brother ordered the Peninsula Hotel, which is the best hotel in Hong Kong, located in Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, facing Victoria Harbour, the night view is very beautiful.

Entering the hotel, everyone is not interested in appreciating the luxury of the hotel, after the front desk check-in, directly under the guidance of the service staff, to their own room.

After putting down his things and washing up a little, Chen Sheng immediately began to contact lawyer Huang Jiaying.

He is a friend of his mother's in Hong Kong, and he has business dealings with his mother's company, and the company's legal affairs in Hong Kong are entrusted to his law firm.

After the phone was connected, Chen Sheng told the other party his identity, and then told him about the hotel and guest room where he was staying now, and Lawyer Huang told him to let Chen Sheng wait at the hotel, and he would come over in a while.

After hanging up the phone, Chen Sheng contacted some people whose mother explained that he had to contact in Hong Kong, these are all his mother's friends, and he may be able to help this time, Chen Sheng contacted them one by one, telling the other party that he had arrived in Hong Kong, and the other party also replied to Chen Sheng very positively, this time he must do his best to help, so that Chen Sheng must find them if he has a problem.

At the same time, the elder brother has also called Wang Yue's family, telling them that he has arrived in Hong Kong and asking them to come to the hotel to discuss the next countermeasures.

After a series of phone calls, all that was left was to wait, waiting for the lawyer and Wang Yue's family to arrive to learn more about the situation before making the next step.

While waiting, the three of them also exchanged their views with each other and chatted for a while.

After about half an hour, I heard Chen Sheng's phone ringing, and when I picked it up, it was the lawyer who arrived, and he was going to the room immediately.

Putting down the phone, Chen Sheng and the senior brother walked to the door of the hotel room, opened the door, and came out to take a look, just in time to see the two people coming out of the elevator.

This is a man and a woman, walking in front of a middle-aged man, about 1.76 meters tall, meticulously cleaned up, wearing a PaulSmith suit, elegant with a hint of British fun, the appearance is very elegant, giving people the first feeling is very trustworthy.

The lady behind her was obviously the assistant of the man in front, wearing a business suit, very good and attractive, in her twenties, dignified and elegant, and looking very shrewd and capable.

Seeing Chen Sheng and them coming out, the middle-aged man walked a few steps quickly, and when he arrived in front of Chen Sheng, he stretched out his right hand and was about to shake hands with Chen Sheng, and said at the same time:

"You are Chen Sheng, your mother sent me your photo, the young man is very good, he is a beautiful boy"

Chen Sheng hurriedly shook the other party's hand and said:

"Hello Uncle Huang, thank you for coming, this time in Hong Kong will depend on you"

Immediately afterwards, Chen Sheng introduced his two senior brothers to the other party, and the two sides shook hands one by one, and then entered the room.

After sitting down in the room, I talked about the business this time with a few polite sentences.

Chen Sheng told lawyer Huang everything he knew, and said that Wang Yue's family would also come to the hotel after a while to tell everyone more details, so that everyone could have a comprehensive grasp of the current situation.

After listening to Chen Sheng's narration, Mr. Huang said:

"After your mother called me today, I also asked a friend to find out about the specific situation, this time your brother's basket is indeed not small, now the main thing is that the casino is not doing it, after all, people have accepted bets, which is irretrievable, the amount is too high, no one can afford to pay.

In addition, part of the money borrowed by your senior brother is from investment companies, and the investment companies in Hong Kong are not like the mainland, many of them are investment companies run by associations, and to put it bluntly, they are usury, and the money borrowed from them is the result of bankruptcy, and even their own lives will be taken."

Hearing that Senior Brother Wang Yue actually borrowed money from the underworld, Chen Sheng and Senior Brother turned a little solemn.

The elder brother asked:

"Is there any other solution? The most important thing is to get the people out first, as long as the people are okay, the rest of the things are easy to say, and the money can be repaid slowly."

Mr. Wong says:

"These investment companies are all underworlds, and they won't allow you to raise money for too long, and they will directly force you to sell your house and land, or even sell your body, and their interest rates are very high, short-term turnover is okay, no one can afford it for a long time, if you can't pay back the money, they will also use violent means, so things are more troublesome now."

Hearing this, the faces of several people had changed, and the senior brother said:

"We are not afraid of violent means, we are all martial arts practitioners, this does not scare us"

Mr. Wong went on to say:

"I know that your kung fu is very good, I heard Chen Sheng's mother say it, but you still have to be careful, the triad in Hong Kong is completely different from the mainland, under the high pressure of the government, there is no underworld group formed at all, and if it is a little larger, it will be destroyed immediately.

Hong Kong's triad has a history of tens or hundreds of years, and it has long been corporatized and corporate, and it is semi-public.

And these underworlds will not talk about morality, and you will fight with fists and feet, if you can beat you, you will fight, if you can't fight, you will use weapons, the weapons here not only include watermelon knives, baseball bats and the like, but also guns, plus you are all outsiders, these underworlds have no worries"

Hearing this, Chen Sheng and Senior Brother's faces had become very ugly. (To be continued.) )