"Open!"

"I said it would open at half past four, and now it's almost five o'clock!"

"If you don't open it, you will return the money!"

"Hurry up!"

Shi Kip tail, Dawei word flower stall, surrounded by a large number of citizens waving bills to urge.

"What a noise! I didn't say no. ”

Dawei raised his hand and shouted: "Come on, hurry up, hurry up if you don't buy it." ”

"You're going to open it, and if you say it's half past four, then it's half past four. If you didn't say that you can open the word flower on the spot, how can we bet on your word flower file? Go to Wang Laoji's word flower stall early. ”

A man dressed as a coolie shouted at Dawei.

"yes."

The citizens gathered in front of the word flower stalls echoed one after another.

Wang Laoji's flower stall in Shek Kip Mei only accepts bets one day in advance, and must wait for the word flower stall in Yau Ma Tei to post the flower on the next day, and gamblers who bet on Shek Kip Mei can redeem it with their bills.

Dawei's word flower file can attract them to bet, relying on the gimmick of being able to bet on the spot and open the word flower on the spot.

"Hey, you said that this kid is here to open a flower stall and grab business with us, why doesn't Brother Ma let us do it."

"You ask me, how do I know."

“...... But it's not okay to just wait, there are so many customers. ”

"What are you panicking about! Brother Da Ma will naturally have arrangements. ”

Not far away, in front of Wang Laoji's flower stall, two young men in short shirts looked coldly at Dawei's stall and talked in a low voice.

"Alright, alright, it's going to open."

Dawei looked at the spittling customers around him, shouted as he raised the wooden stick at his feet, and smashed it hard at the casserole hanging in front of the stall.

"Phew!"

Fragments splattered, and a red ball of paper fell out of the broken casserole.

"Let it go, let it go."

Dawei pushed away the crowd and crouched down to pick up the paper balls.

.................

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Push forward the clock by an hour.

Yau Ma Tei's Wong Lao Kee stall.

Ma Shihao, who was wearing a plaid shirt, walked into the stall with a smile.

"Godfather!"

As soon as he entered the door, he shouted to the middle-aged man sitting at the top of the seat.

Then he glanced at the tenth brother sitting at the table and pouted: "Ten brother." ”

Then he came to the chair next to him and sat down.

The man was in his fifties and his cheeks were thin. He sat up, pointed at Ma Shihao and scolded:

"You little bastard, you still know how to come back, are you going to play mahjong again?"

"It's only been eight laps, what's the fuss."

Ma Shihao lit a cigarette, took a deep breath, and responded uncaringly.

The man snorted coldly, just about to open his mouth to reprimand. The fat-headed and fat-eared Ma Shaolin walked in with Hong Kong dollars.

"Godfather, this is the money collected by the word flower stall yesterday."

The man glanced at the money handed over by his godson, and frowned: "Why is it so much." ”

"That's all there is to it, godfather." Ma Shaolin responded in a low voice.

The man took the money, pointed at Ma Shihao with his finger, and reprimanded:

"Look at you, you know how to play mahjong all day long, and my word stalls will make you lose sooner or later."

"Godfather, you can't blame me for this."

Ma Shihao replied indifferently. Standing up and walking next to the man, he said with a hippie smile:

"Eating, drinking, prostitution, gambling, and smoking, everybody knows it's wrong. But godfather, I gamble money and win and lose. It's not like you smoke a lot...... Sooner or later, you'll be able to smoke a hanging egg! ”

When the man heard this, he grabbed the sweat towel beside him, threw it on his face, pointed at him and scolded:

"You little bastard!"

"Godfather, it's a big deal."

Ma Shihao took off the sweat towel on his face.

Seeing this, Ma Shaolin on the side hurriedly stepped forward and pulled his younger brother's arm, and scolded in a low voice: "Ah Hao, you are not verbose." ”

He lowered his body and said to the man: "Godfather, Ah Hao is still ignorant, and he speaks without covering his face, don't be angry." ”

"Bang!"

The tenth brother sitting at the table saw Ma Shihao's presumptuous words, slapped his face on the table, and scolded:

"You little rabbit cub, you don't talk big or small, who made you talk to Uncle Ji like this."

"I'll talk to my godfather, you don't need to be so angry, Brother Ten." Ma Shihao stepped forward with a grin.

The tenth brother kept a straight face and didn't give Ma Shihao a good look.

Rather, he said meaningfully:

"I recently inquired about a little situation, the reason why the income of the word flower stall has decreased greatly during this period of time is that someone secretly revealed the mystery of the word flower to the gamblers who bet in advance. But only a few of us know the riddle of the word flower, and it is clearly a thief, Uncle Ji. ”

Ma Shihao sneered: "Hey, Brother Shi, you mean to doubt me." ”

The tenth brother glanced at him: "I didn't say that, you said it yourself." ”

The two are battling each other!

"Enough! You are not when I am dead. ”

The man shouted, pointing at the two and scolding:

"My family members have infighting, and let outsiders see jokes in vain."

"Uncle Ji......" Brother Ten stood up.

The man glared at him fiercely, his face as pale as iron:

"Ah Shi, don't say this kind of thing in the future. You have been with me for more than ten years, and Shaolin and Ah Hao were raised by me, how could you do such a thing. ”

"Uncle Ji, I ......."

The tenth brother wanted to continue, but seeing the man's stern gaze, he opened his mouth, but after all, he didn't say anything more.

Several people were silent for a long time.

Ma Shaolin, who had been silent, cleared his throat and said:

"Godfather, Brother Shi, the business of the word flower stall is not good, in fact, a large part of the reason is that the business was robbed by the dog fighter, what we should do now is how to attract customers."

"Dog fighting?" The man looked at Ma Shaolin suspiciously.

Ma Shihao on the side hurriedly took over:

"Godfather, other people now have a special radio broadcast and explanation, gamblers only need to turn on the radio to know whether they win or lose, who do you say will buy word flowers."

The man was stunned: "There is such a thing?" ”

"Godfather, of course you don't know if you don't go out. It's not just dog fighting, the theater knows it....... Nowadays, they all rely on stripping and dancing to attract customers. ”

"Listen to what you mean, I'm going to find two more girls to write flowers."

"Ahem!"

Ma Shihao coughed in a choked voice, waved his hand and said:

"I don't mean that, I'm saying that we're outdated, and if we don't do some new tricks to attract customers, the word trick will end sooner or later."

Hearing the words of the two brothers, the man was thoughtful.

Ma Shihao glanced at his godfather imperceptibly, and the corners of his mouth turned up. He turned his head to look at the tenth brother on the side:

"Brother Ten, don't be suspicious of our two brothers all the time, you can take a look at the other stalls when you have time.

When I was playing mahjong before, a brother below told me that Shi Kip Wei opened a family flower stall again. You see, everyone else has come to our territory to grab business, do you think our business can be good? ”

"Which club?" Brother Ten asked in a deep voice.

Ma Shihao shrugged:

"Then I don't know. This kind of thing has always been handled by you, Brother Shi, how dare I do it for you. ”