Chapter 3: The Red Stick of the Past
The Kwun Kee Seafood Restaurant on Tin Heung Street is also a time-honored brand in Kwun Tong District, especially famous for its tempeh cod and steamed grouper, but most of the gangsters in Kwun Tong don't have much money to eat here, and occasionally have some money in their hands, they will also go to bet on horses or go to gambling stalls to bet, or go to nightclubs to see and understand, in short, they will not use the money earned by blood and life to spend on a meal, most of the diners in this restaurant are factory owners in Kwun Tong and the owners of banquets in various industries, and there is no such black miasma in the places where people in the community often hang out.
Turning from Yuehua Street to Tianxiang Street, when Huo Dongjun walked to the intersection of Yuehua Street, he stopped, hesitated, and finally turned around and entered a boxing gym called "Hong Yihai".
This gym is an old-fashioned Chinese boxing gym, unlike those new-style gyms in Wan Chai or Kowloon City, which teach Muay Thai or taekwondo Jeet Kune Do, etc., as soon as you enter the gym, the first thing that catches your eye is a huge lion head hanging, and under the lion's head is a wooden plaque "Yihai Hidden Dragon".
The whole gym is not too big, and there is not too much exaggerated decoration, the entrance is the training ground, only a unit is separated by a corner as an office, it is dinner time, no one practices boxing on the huge training ground, only a middle-aged man in his forties wearing a red hoof vest and crotch pants, is limping and mopping the floor.
Although Huo Dongjun's predecessor is an out-and-out rotten boy, in Huo Dongjun's opinion, he also has merit, that is, no matter how busy he is in a week, he must squeeze out time to come to the boxing gym to fight twice, and the lame middle-aged man on the opposite side is Huo Dongjun's master, Li Jianqing, who taught Huo Dongjun to learn boxing at the age of seven.
Seeing Li Jianqing mopping the floor with a glance, Huo Dongjun was a little emotional, if he hadn't inherited the memory of the original Huo Dongjun, he wouldn't have believed that the middle-aged man in front of him was actually the apprentice of Guo Tianyang, one of the four heavenly kings of Cai Li Buddha Boxing, and belonged to the authentic Cai Li Buddha heir, who could no longer be authentic Cai Li Buddha When supervising the work at the wharf, he met an opponent to grab the turf, and directly took off the towel around his neck and rolled it up as a nine-section whip to use, knocking down more than ten opponents, and was called "Brother Sweat Towel" by the Jianghu people.
At that time, there were hundreds of cargo terminals in Hong Kong, large and small, and Li Jianqing used a towel to lay 30 for the "Hong Shuntang", which shocked the rivers and lakes, but unfortunately he was ambushed later, surrounded by hundreds of people, and was picked to break the hamstrings, and was disheartened and opened this boxing gym in Kwun Tong to teach Cai Li Foquan.
Now the "Hong Shuntang" community has long disappeared with history, and the legend of Li Jianqing has long been replaced by later generations, but when the word "sweat towel green" is mentioned among the older generation of Jianghu people, there will still be people who remember this name, even if they can't remember the appearance of this person, they will remember the towel like a steel whip.
Maybe it was Huo Dongjun's footsteps that sounded, Li Jianqing turned around with Dunbu, and saw Huo Dongjun at the door, a hard face engraved with traces of time turned around, and said in a low voice:
"Have time to practice today?"
Huo Dongjun's nose was a little sour, he walked over quickly and took the dun cloth in his master's hand, and said with a reluctant smile: "Today, a few brothers said that they wanted to eat seafood, so I want to ask the master to go with me, and." ”
As he spoke, Huo Dongjun took out 500 Hong Kong dollars from his pocket and stuffed it into Li Jianqing's trouser pocket: "I took some money this month to honor my master." ”
Li Jianqing grinned, seemed to feel Huo Dongjun's sadness, patted him on the shoulder with a rough and short hand and said: "Don't be sad, your master and I have passed through the wind and waves, and it is very common for there to be no students in the boxing gym. You give me the money, beware of your mom complaining. "Filial piety to the master, it is a matter of course, my mother will not say anything, let's go, master, go to dinner." Huo Dongjun said.
Li Jianqing looked at his apprentice, who was not an apprentice, and sighed with some emotion, when he opened the boxing gym, more than 400 people came to the boxing gym to learn boxing, but after all these years, whether it was those disciples or registered disciples, they never came back to see themselves, but this seven-year-old who learned boxing with himself has always been affectionate and righteous, as long as there is money in his pocket, he will remember to give himself some filial piety. "I'm not going, you and those young boys split wine, go to an old immortal ruined fun, remember, it's useless to drink more, the wooden stake at home has time to remember to fight, and if you don't practice your fists, it will rust. Li Jianqing didn't take out the money and said no, but patted the pocket containing the money: "It's rare that I still have you as an apprentice." "Then I'll go first, master. Huo Dongjun respectfully bowed to Li Jianqing, and then turned around and walked out of the boxing gym, he knew that Li Jianqing was guarding this boxing gym alone, not because he said that there was a boxing gym by his side, but because he was guarding the past honor, guarding his once dominating half of his life, such a person is always difficult to bow to the cruel society.
When it came to the official record, Wisdom Yaohui and several people had already arrived, and they were looking at the recipe and ordering, Huo Dongjun sat directly on the main seat in the middle, the service girl was very eye-catching, and when she saw Huo Dongjun's posture, she knew that she was the main master today, and immediately put another recipe in her hand in front of Huo Dongjun, ready to recommend the dishes, Huo Dongjun raised his eyebrows slightly, glanced sideways at the service sister, and said: " Steamed a fresh rat spot, fried money spot, a serving of tempeh cod, weevil mussel sashimi and lily soup for two, open a bottle of white wine to accompany the meal, and let them order the rest. “
Rao is little sister has seen a lot of guests, but when she saw this young man who was no more than eighteen years old at most opened his mouth and ordered a few expensive dishes, he couldn't help but take a breath, and when Chen Hao and a few people ordered, he couldn't help but secretly look at this young and handsome guest, and when a few people finished ordering, he hurriedly went downstairs to decorate.
Huo Dongjun ate countless seafood dishes in his last life, but the brothers in front of him were from poor backgrounds, and this kind of restaurant had never been to before, when he first came, except for Lin Zhizhi, several other people saw the price code of those dishes on the menu, and their faces turned a little pale, and then they knew that the more than 1,000 Hong Kong dollars in their pockets were just the money for a few dishes of a rich man. "Brother Jun, the price of this restaurant is so expensive, I really don't know how much it costs to have a meal in those restaurants in Youjianwang. After Heizai waited for the waiter to go downstairs, he looked at Huo Dongjun and asked.
Huo Dongjun took out a cigarette from the cigarette case, and the Le boy next to him immediately helped him light it, Huo Dongjun took a puff before saying: "There are hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands, and tens of thousands of dollars, and there is money in this world without worrying about spending." “
Lin Zhizhi used chopsticks to pick up the refreshing hors d'oeuvres, and said with a smile: "I'm afraid this meal is going to eat all of your harvest this month, Brother Jun, more than a thousand yuan, aren't you afraid that Sister Lan will scold you?"
Hearing Lin Zhizhi's words, several other people laughed, Huo Dongjun's mother Sister Lan is a well-known fierce figure in the estate, someone bullied Sister Lan's orphans and widows in the estate, and was chased out of Yuehua Street by Sister Lan with a kitchen knife, which one of the few people here has the experience of being scolded by Sister Lan with her ears, Huo Dongjun has joined the club since she was fifteen years old, and Sister Lan has to ask Huo Dongjun for money every month, which is more punctual than the chartered wife.
Hearing the words Sister Lan, several people touched their ears in unison, Huo Dongjun flicked the cigarette ash and said: "Last month, I gave my mother 2,000 yuan, and told her that she would not pay for three months, and it was not due now, so I am not afraid." Well, what were you talking about before I came?"
Chen Hao grabbed his half-length hair and said casually: "I didn't talk about anything, it was wisdom that said that I can't make much money selling photos, do you want to scrape together money to buy a video recorder and put salty and wet films at home, five yuan for a student, 24 hours a day, and make money." ”
Huo Dongjun glanced at Lin Zhizhi, on the whole table, except for himself, only Lin Zhizhi's head is the smartest, this idea of putting salty and wet films is really good, if he doesn't think of a better idea, he will definitely do it, because there are few salty and wet films in the cinema now, and although there is no classification system, but the film association has inspectors, who will specifically check whether there are minors in those theaters that show, so it is a little difficult for minors to watch, but now a video recorder costs at least more than 20,000 Hong Kong dollars, which is expensive, and it is more troublesome to find a way to buy a videotape。
"What do you think, Brother Jun?" Yaohui paid more attention to Huo Dongjun's words, because in the past few years, several of them have been in a hurry, largely because Huo Dongjun took them to think of ideas to make money......
"I had an idea, I wanted to make a magazine. Huo Dongjun glanced at a few people on the table and said.
Chen Hao almost spit out the tea in his mouth, looked at Huo Dongjun in surprise and shouted: "No! Brother Jun, don't you become an artist by taking a few body art photos? You just go to middle five, and I will drop out of middle school in middle three! How many of us are engaged in magazines?
Le Zai and Yaohui were amused by Chen Hao's tone, and only Lin Zhizhi looked at Huo Dongjun with his eyes lit up.
"Mu is wrong! It's Body Art Weekly! I'm going to run a salty and wet magazine!" Huo Dongjun said in an affirmative tone.
After he was reborn in Hong Kong, he found that the magazine stalls in Hong Kong were a little weird, and something was missing, and it took a long time to find that there were no adult magazines such as "Dragon and Tiger Daily", "Man" and even "Fire Unicorn", which were popular in Southeast Asia in later generations I also deliberately learned about the news of this magazine, which was first published in September 84, with a ten-day issue, and a net profit of up to 1 million a month, which is a real net profit, you know, in the downturn of the property market in 83 years, the luxury houses in Repulse Bay, the cheap ones are only one million, and a villa is paid in a month, and this crazy money-absorbing behavior lasted for a year and a half! A year and a half later, other adult magazines began to appear at the newsstand. At that time, the investment of "Dragon and Tiger Daily" was only 60,000 yuan, renting an office space, recruiting a few employees, and contacting a printing factory to start construction.
It is very easy to make a magazine in Hong Kong, this city pays attention to freedom of speech, there is almost no restriction on the opening of magazines and newspapers, if you want to run a magazine, it is simple, as long as you have 10,000 yuan of registered capital to register a company, and no one goes to verify the capital, you only need to prepare materials to apply for a publication number, and you can start construction after the approval of the content. Huo Dongjun has always wanted to enter this industry, but the money has not yet been done, because he has studied this problem early on, if the magazine wants to open steadily to attract money, it must choose a good place, "Dragon and Tiger Daily" was in the limelight in the previous life, and several major associations in Hong Kong have found trouble, burning magazines, smashing machines and other means have emerged in an endless stream, which is why the founder Lin Guoguang finally closed down the magazine and left for the United States.
Huo Dongjun took a fancy to a workshop on the left side of the Immortal Temple in Lantian Han Zhongli, this workshop is being rented, but the price is slightly higher, 20,000 Hong Kong dollars a year, the reason why he values this place is because this workshop is next to the Kwun Tong Police Station, and even next to the parking lot of the Kwun Tong Police Station.
At this time, the dishes were already ready, where were a few guys still in the mood to care about Huo Dongjun's salty and wet magazines, they had already picked up their chopsticks and feasted on the food on the table, Huo Dongjun poured himself a glass of white wine, took a sip with a smile, and stopped making a sound.
I didn't need to talk too much about this kind of thing.