Zhang Jiaxin saw that Li An was very interested, and said on the side:

"Brother An, the sales of this Yuanfang Daily have been good before.

Since the publication of the word flower information, the sales volume has been better than in the past, and the sales in Kowloon are even better.

Because after buying a word flower in the Kowloon King Lao Ji character flower stall, you can get a newspaper for free in the newspaper file with the bill.

Occasionally, some coolies living in Kowloon received newspapers on the pier with their bills, and we exchanged newspapers for newspapers in distant daily newspapers through ticket numbers. ”

"Most citizens have the habit of reading newspapers, and the idea of using newspapers to advertise word flower stalls is really good."

Ang Lee chuckled and flipped through the newspaper.

Newspapers are all pages with one face and one headline with one pair of eyes.

A good layout will directly stimulate the public's interest in reading and browse rich information reports.

The distant daily newspaper belongs to the Times, and if you want to sell, then the gambling information such as the word flower cannot occupy a conspicuous position, and can only be placed in the advertising space.

Ang Lee's eyes swept over the genuine current affairs news, and finally saw the title of Wang Laoji's flower file in the lower right corner of the reverse side.

The word flower is a kind of 'flower file', which started in the south in the middle of the Qing Dynasty and was a game that prevailed in the coastal areas of Guangdong.

Thirty-six ancients, or thirty-six kinds of animals, are usually used, and thirty-six kinds of items are also used.

The stall owner writes down a mystery and provides some specious hints to increase the public's interest in betting, and finally seals it in wooden boxes, bird cages, and casseroles.

When the bet is over, it opens at a certain time, and the guesser gets 30 times the bet.

Of course, any gambling game is only for money, and it is not a good house, and the operability is much more.

You can only understand it, not say it.

Newspaper advertising space, below the headline of the word slot.

In addition to publishing the mystery of the day, it is the address of Wang Laoji's Zihua stall in Kowloon, as well as some stalls that can accept betting.

"Yau Ma Tei, 13 Bowring Street."

Li An swept the address of the word flower stall and closed the newspaper.

"You go sort out the accounts, I'll come from the docks and look at it."

After informing him, Li An handed the newspaper to Zhang Jiaxin and walked towards Pier 6.

In his mind, thoughts were rolling, thinking about how to get the shares in Ma Shaolin's hands.

Seriously speaking, the Ma brothers came to the dock that time, but they suffered a big loss in the hands of Sanjiang sailors.

was taken care of by Li Zhengtao in the errand hall for several days, not to mention, Wang Laoji paid money and owed favors.

It was not easy to get the two brothers and Chen Ashi out.

At the beginning, he casually asked him to promise himself a condition, maybe it was just Ma Shaolin as a step down the slope of the donkey.

And Ma Shaolin is optimistic about the newspaper industry, and he opened his mouth to ask him to give up the shares of COSCO Daily, and the other party will definitely not agree easily.

However, anything can be discussed.

After dealing with the things on the dock, I can ask him to meet.

It's half past eight in the morning, and by this time the wharf has already started.

When Ang Lee came to Pier 6, he was still looking at a busy scene.

The sacks of goods were stacked neatly on the concrete floor of the wharf.

The shirtless coolies came to the stacked goods one by one, and after receiving the small wooden stick-shaped chips from the organizers, they carried the goods to the freighter docked at the dock.

On the other side, the unloading coolies walked across the five-meter-long gangplank, got off the freighter, and placed the goods on their shoulders neatly on the board car transporting the goods.

It's busy, but everything seems to be in order.

"Don't worry, I'll help you get it on the ship later, and you can just put the goods here."

Xi Wei said with a big grin.

"Then please, this is the payment."

The one who spoke was a middle-aged man in a gray suit and black-rimmed glasses.

He pulled out a small wad of Hong Kong dollars from his briefcase and handed it over.

"You order."

Xi Wei took his hand and clicked, fifteen blue crabs:

"One hundred and fifty dollars, no problem."

"Thank you very much."

The other man arched his hand and turned to leave.

Xi Wei put away the money and was just about to get busy, when the corner of his eye swept away, he saw Li An coming over, and hurriedly greeted him.

"Brother An, you're here."

There was a hint of excitement on his face.

went from Li An to the walled city, although their brothers moved out of the walled city, they were worried about Li An's safety, and they always paid attention to the affairs of the walled city.

He naturally knew some of the things that Ang Lee had done, as well as the fall of the fellow townsmen's association.

Xi Wei's eyes unconsciously glanced at the man who was following Ang Lee:

"Brother An, who is this?"

"Dragon into a tiger! You've lived in the walled city for a while, you should have heard of it. ”

Xi Wei's eyes lit up, and he exaggeratedly exclaimed:

"Where have I just heard of it, it's like thunder, the first master of the walled city."

He originally wanted to say that he was the number one thug in the walled city, but when he reacted to it, the thug was not good, so he quickly changed his words.

Compared with Ke Wanchang, Long Chenghu is the first hitter, and the title of black market boxing champion is even more famous, and the residents who live in the walled city have naturally heard of it.

Shi Wei stretched out his hand:

"Hello, just call me Xiwei."

"Dragon into a tiger."

Long Chenghu shook his hand simply, and his tone was cold and hard.

"He's a serious man."

"No, all the masters are like that."

Xi Wei didn't care, and said with a smile.

Li An looked at the dock and asked casually:

"Things are going well on the docks during my absence, right?"

"Of course it went well, the last time we merged with the Changle Club, we made a name for ourselves, how can anyone dare to come to our territory to make trouble without long eyes. Besides, isn't there still Brother Shui?

It's right next to Pier 6, and the foremen of other docks have come to us a few times. ”

"What's the matter with you?"

"Drink tea and eat, come over to probe us by the way, worried that we will grab land in the past."

Shiwei pursed his lips.

Immediately, the conversation changed:

"Brother An, the belief in the docks is the law of the jungle, and now that we are outnumbered, it is better to take this opportunity to take down other docks."

"There's no rush to this."

Li An shook his head and did not immediately agree.

As a cargo terminal, the Triangle Terminal has nearly 40,000 coolies, and the interests involved are intricate.

If you want to grab the land with great fanfare, before you start, you must at least go to meet Li Zhengtao first and get through the relationship between the errand hall.

"Where's Wu Shihao?"

"My brother is in the pergola."

He pointed to the newly erected pergola at berth 61 not far away.

"The sun is big on the dock, and I can't stand it when I roast every day, so I will learn from Brother Shui and build a simple pergola to rest at noon."

"Okay, let's go sit down."

Li An smiled and walked towards the pergola.

As Shiwei said, the pergola can be called simple.

A few wooden sticks are fixed into a shelf, and then the four corners are fastened with hemp rope to build a waterproof canopy.

Inside is a red table of eight immortals with a mottled lacquer finish, and several long wooden benches.

In addition to Wu Shihao, there was also a young man with black-rimmed glasses sitting at the table, as well as a little girl.

The little girl was white and delicate, wearing a plaid shirt, twelve or thirteen years old, holding a pen in her hand, and was bowing her head to write her homework.

seemed to be a little scared, and when he saw Li An coming over, his face was timid.

"Brother An, sit."

Unknowingly, Wu Shihao also changed his name.

He pulled over a bench, beckoned Li An to sit down, took the teapot on the table, and said while making tea:

"Don't call people yet?"

"Brother An."

Ah Ping, who was wearing glasses, stood up and shouted.

And the little girl just looked at Ang Li and opened her mouth, but she was a little scared.

Li An reciprocated with a smile and a gentle tone:

"Little sister, what's your name?"

The little girl glanced at Wu Shihao, and then mustered up the courage to speak:

"I, my name is Ah Hua."

"Do your homework well and try to become a doctor or a lawyer in the future."

Li Anxin was clear.

The timid little girl in front of her should be the rose that was raised by Wu Shihao and placed next to Lei Luo.

However, with his intervention, Wu Shihao is no longer a lame man, and the little girl who would have become a rose should also change her life.

"Hmm."

Ah Hua nodded her little head.

"Ah Hua fell in love with me, and I regarded her as my sister.

Her father owes a lot of debts and hasn't seen anyone for a long time, Ah Hua is young and can't eat enough, so when I left the walled city, I took her with me.

Today is a day off, she doesn't have to go to school, she is always bored at home, so she asked me to come to the docks. ”

After speaking, Wu Shihao handed the brewed tea to Li An, and got up and walked towards Long Chenghu.

"It's good."

Li An smiled, took the tea handed over by Wu Shihao, and took a sip.

"Thank you."

Long Chenghu thanked him.

"What do you call it?"

"Dragon into a tiger."

Wu Shihao glanced at Long Chenghu in surprise.

He didn't say anything more, turned around and sat next to Ang Lee.

"In the half month that you are away, the dock has earned 86,000 yuan, and our four brothers and Hou Shijie have divided 20%, 40% of them have been sent to Brother Shui, and 40% are here for me.

Thirty-four thousand four hundred pieces in total, and I'll take them out for you later. ”

"Give it to me tomorrow, I'm going to Kowloon after I'm done with the file."

Ang Lee waved his hand.

After thinking for a while, he said:

"You leave another 10,000 yuan and help me get some goods. By the way, find another twenty who know marksmanship and send them to the walled city to hand over to Uncle Jun. ”

Wu Shihao asked with some surprise:

"Isn't the matter of the walled city settled?"

"Let them go to the walled city to maintain law and order."

Ang Lee muttered.

Drink the tea from the cup and stand up.

"Alright, you guys get busy first, and I'll come back tomorrow."

He glanced at Ah Hua again, and said in a soft tone: "You come to the dock next week, and my brother will take you to play." ”

"Thank you, Brother An."

Ah Hua nodded.

Seeing Ang Lee get up and prepare to leave, Wu Shihao asked:

"The house on Zhongfang Street, or I'll help you find another one."

"No, I live in a walled city."

Ang Lee waved his hand, walked out of the pergola, and left Pier 6.

It's close to noon.

Zhang Jiaxin carried two food boxes and hurriedly came to the newspaper file.

"Brother An, it's time to eat."

"Okay."

Li An responded, rubbed the corners of his eyes, and closed the account book.

Although Zhang Jiaxin's accounts were clear enough, it took more than three hours to simply calculate the accounts.

After eating, Li An didn't stay long, said hello to Zhang Jiaxin, and then went to the small ferry wharf.

And just when Ang Lee left Sheung Wan on a ferry and went to Kowloon to find the Ma brothers.

On the other side, Yau Ma Tei, in a sawmill by the sea.

The two brothers Ma Shaolin were tied hand and foot and sat on the ground with their backs to the piled up wooden baskets.

Opposite them, Chen Ashi held a bright knife in his hand, staring at the two brothers Ma Shaolin with an angry face, and the green tendons on his face almost burst open.

There were five or six four-nine beside him, and they looked at the two of them with the same unkind eyes.

Seeing this scene, Ma Shihao's throat tightened a little, and an ugly smile appeared on his face.

"Brother Ten, what's the matter, to make such a big battle and arrest our two brothers?"

"You two miscellaneous pieces, Uncle Ji and I treat you as treasures on weekdays.

I didn't expect the two of you to collude with outsiders to harm the loss of the word flower stall, eat inside and out, so as to take over Uncle Ji's word flower stall business.

Bite your mother, two white-eyed wolves that can't be raised! ”

Chen Ashi spat on the ground, and the anger in his eyes was about to burst out.

The two brothers' hearts slowed down and they looked at each other.

Ma Shaolin's cheeks twitched:

"Brother Ten, how can there be such a thing, you have also seen it, the word flower file was a loss before, we took over the word flower file in the past few months to bring the word flower file back to life, and the brothers have made a lot of money, you can't wronged people."

"Good! You say I've wronged people, right? Then I'll let you two die and understand! ”

Chen Ashi glared at the two of them viciously and raised his hand:

"Bring someone here!"

"Hurry up."

A middle-aged man with glasses who looked to be in his forties had his hands tied and was brought up by two four-nines.

Seeing the person who was caught, Ma Shaolin and Ma Shihao's eyelids jumped, and cold sweat the size of beans fell on their foreheads.

Chen Ashi glanced at the two brothers and walked up quickly.

"Let's talk quickly, are the two brothers colluding with you to eat the word stall."

The middle-aged man glanced at Ma Shihao, and then looked at the fierce Chen Ashi, and knew in his heart that if he admitted it, it would be an absolute dead end.

He swallowed hard and stammered:

"No, Brother Ten."

Chen Ashi put a knife on the neck of a middle-aged man:

"Say!"

"Nope."

"Say, if you say it, I'll let you live, hurry up."

Chen Ashi roared angrily, and his hand couldn't help but exert force, and the middle-aged man's neck was cut with a bloody mark by the blade.

He shook his head desperately:

"Not really."

"Okay, no, right?"

Chen Ashi handed the knife in his hand to Sijiu beside him, picked up a sawn wooden board from the ground, weighed it, and turned around sharply.

The wooden board smashed the middle-aged man's face, and in an instant, blood came out, flowing down his cheeks, and the whole person was knocked to the ground.

"Say it or not, say it."

It slammed into the middle-aged man's body one by one.

The middle-aged man's face was covered with blood, and his breath became weak:

"Ten, Brother Ten, I really don't have it"

Ma Shihao's heart was beating when he saw it, and he couldn't help but say out:

"Tenth brother, if you fight like this, it is clear that you want to bend and beat us into a trick and wronged us."

"You say I wronged you? I've been looking into this for months, and you think I'm going to find you with no evidence. ”

Chen Ashi gritted his teeth.

"Click!"

With a hard blow, the plank could no longer bear it and broke in two.

Seeing the middle-aged man who was dying and didn't speak, Chen Ashi finally lost his patience, and a fierce look flashed in his eyes.

"If you don't see the coffin, you won't shed tears!"

He lifted the middle-aged man up and was still on the saw.

Pull the switch.

Boom!

Sharp serrations rotate at high speed.

"Fuck you, you go die!"

Cold water sprayed down the saw table, and seeing that the saw teeth were getting closer and closer, the middle-aged man finally spoke:

"Tenth brother, me."

But it was too late

With the high-speed rotation of the sawtooth, the middle-aged man let out a miserable scream, and blood splattered out.

Chen Ashi was sprayed with blood all over his face, he wiped the blood on his face, pulled down the electric switch, and turned his head to look at the Ma brothers.

"It's your turn."

He pointed to Ma Shihao:

"Bring him here!"

The two Sijiu pounced like wolves, grabbed Ma Shihao, whose hands were tied, and walked to the table saw.

Ma Shaolin struggled to stand up and pleaded:

"Brother Ten, don't be like this, Ah Hao was raised by you since you were a child."

As Ma Shihao was pressed on the table saw, Chen Ashi pulled the electric switch.

"You two little bastards, do you want to say it?"

The cold water that cooled down the heat sprayed on his face, and Ma Shihao scolded:

"Chen Ashi, you fucking framed us!"

"Brother Ten, you just let Ah Hao go, you have to think about it carefully, my godfather won't forgive you when he knows it."

Seeing that Ma Shihao's head was getting closer and closer to the sawtooth, Ma Shaolin panicked.

Chen Ashi was unmoved, and roared with red eyes:

"Fucking talk about it!!"

Ma Shihao trembled like chaff, but his mouth was scolding:

"Say your mother, what I haven't done, what do you want me to say!"

"you!"

"Tenth brother, you let go of Ah Hao, tenth brother."

Ma Shaolin begged bitterly.

"Die, die, fuck your Chen Ashi!"

Ma Shihao shouted hysterically.

He knew that if he admitted it, he would only die faster.

His two brothers were arrested by Chen Ashi, and someone must have informed Wang Laoji that he could only pray for his godfather to find him quickly.

Even if he dies, the eldest brother still has a chance to live.

"Brother Ten, stop, stop, me."

"Brother, if you don't ask him, he won't let us go."

Ma Shihao roared and interrupted Ma Shaolin's words.

He tilted his head sideways, looking at the rapidly spinning, getting closer and closer to the jagged teeth, and the horror in his heart could no longer be suppressed: "Ah~"

Chen Ashi had a fierce face.

"Hard-mouthed, huh? Say it or not, you're all going to die. After cleaning up the portal, I'll go to Uncle Ji again to ask for guilt! ”

"Stop!"

A neutral voice came.

Wang Laoji, accompanied by a four-nine, came to the sawmill.

"I'll tell you to stop!"

Chen Ashi's eyes widened, and he could only pull down the electric switch unwillingly.

Looking at the sawtooth that was close at hand and slowly stopped, Ma Shihao gasped, and the whole person went limp.

He knew he had won the bet.

"The guy doesn't put it away yet."

Wang Laoji snorted angrily and walked over quickly.

(End of chapter)