Hong Kong: Rise of the Kings

Chapter 29 0029 [Schadenfreude]

Watching Lan Mingkun and others leave, Du Yongxiao couldn't figure out how his old gambling bean got involved with the famous Hong Yihai, and it seemed that Hong Yihai still treated him as a benefactor.

Since you can't figure it out, don't think about it.

Du Yongxiao got into the car again, and said to Dou Jiqiang: "I'm sorry, Brother Qiang, let's go to the new department store first! I want to buy something!"

The new department store is not far in front, located in the Mong Kok business district, it is the most famous department store in Hong Kong at present, and the owner is real estate tycoon Li Zhaoji. In order to gain fame, Li Zhaoji even invited Xiao Fangfang, a famous Shaw Brothers star, to advertise for the department store. Everyone in Hong Kong knows: "If you want to buy what you want, go to the new department store!"

Dou Jiqiang was so anxious that he wanted to drive Du Yongxiao out of the car, and then drove to the repair shop to touch up the paint.

But he had to do what Yan Xiong told him, and he had experienced Du Yongxiao's treachery before, if he made a small report in front of Yan Xiong, he would have to eat and walk around.

The car is running again.

Du Yongxiao and Dou Jiqiang are not on the same channel, so they have nothing to say.

Not far ahead is the new department store——

The towering high-rise buildings are in stark contrast to the dilapidated wooden houses in Shek Kip Mei.

Fashionable men and women form two dimensions with poor people in Shek Kip Mei, as if they do not live in the same place.

This is Hong Kong.

...

Shek Kip Mei Street——

The street vendors are like wool, and the flow of people is like a tide.

At the stall, Uncle Ah Shui, who sells sugar cane, said to his wife, "the combing woman", "Honey, I'm so smart. I was almost spotted by that pretty boy Xiaohuang yesterday. If our family's Ali marries him, she will definitely suffer."

"Boss, here's a sugarcane!"

"okay!"

Ah Shuibo hurriedly handed the cut sugarcane to the other party, collected the money, and handed the three money to his wife, "the hair comber".

The hairdressing woman took the money, jingled, and threw it directly into the money box under her feet, keeping her hands on, and continued to make hair for the female client.

Ah Shuibo glanced at the sugarcane money and swallowed.

Barbershops in Hong Kong a long time ago basically did not accept female customers, and often posted the words "female customers are not welcome" on the gate. As a result, hair combing stalls specially serving women appeared in the streets and alleys.

Those who preside over the hair-combing stalls are generally called "hair-combing women", and many of them are retired or changed jobs. After mastering this set of beauty skills, they can go to the streets to make a living, mainly doing buns for female customers.

They must be able to comb traditional ancient buns, as well as fashionable buns such as horizontal S, straight S or double S, which are learned from foreign women, in order to cope with various customers of different ages and habits.

In addition to combing customers' hair, the hair comber's other skill is to make noodles for customers.

The so-called Lemian is to remove the fine hair on the face of the female customers who love beauty, and to modify the short hair on the forehead, temples, neck and tail. But what is used is not sharp tools such as knives and scissors, but a relatively tough long coin. First bite one end with your mouth, and then use your hands to make the long line into a scissor-shaped cross, and pull it on the surface to wring out the fine hair and short hair. "Tattooed face", or "rolled face". In the old Chaozhou opera, there was also a "The Case of Pulling the Mian".

Ah Shuibo's wife, Ali's mother is a well-known "hair combing woman" in Shek Kip Mei, with excellent craftsmanship and exquisite skills. It's a pity that beauty parlors are booming in this era. Many ladies basically go to beauty parlors to have their faces done. The business of hairdressers is getting worse and worse. Only in Shek Kip Mei can they make a living. The main reason is that the prices are low and suitable for the poor.

At this moment, her daughter, Ali, was handing over the tools, and the hairdresser was helping the old customer comb her hair, while listening to Ah Shuibo's request for credit, she said, "According to your opinion, the handsome Xiaoxiao is finished this time?"

"Of course, he borrowed usury and offended the Chief Inspector Yan Xiong. If he doesn't die, he will peel off his skin!" A Shuibo spit and splashed, "I didn't say that, you can ask the snake boy to understand them, they Know this too!"

Ali still has some affection for Du Yongxiao, and can't bear to hear that something happened to Du Yongxiao.

"Yes, hair comber, I can testify!" Snake Ming, who was squatting at the Xirong stall eating not far away, said with a bowl in his hand, "Yesterday we all saw people with golden teeth coming to ask for money! Those gangs People are fierce!"

The three people next to him immediately agreed, "Not only is he fierce, but he is also domineering, that pretty boy is so scared to pee!"

Others are even more gloating.

The worst thing for the poor is not the wealth of the rich, but the sudden prosperity of the poor like themselves.

In their view, Du Yongxiao, an outlier, came out of the Du family. If he wanted to ascend to heaven by being a chicken dog in plain clothes, there was no way for him to do so.

"Did you hear that?" Ah Shui Bo proudly said to the hair-comb woman, "That pretty boy is saved! I have already found a better home for our family Ali!"

After Ah Shuibo finished speaking, he looked at his daughter: "Ali, I just want to say something. When the bakery owner Li Mazi Li comes over later, you must entertain him!"

Just as Ali was about to speak, she saw two rickshaws stop back and forth, and Li Mazi, the owner of the bakery, got out of the first car.

As the name suggests, Li Mazi's face is full of pockmarks, bumps and hollows, like orange peel.

He was in his forties, as thin as a hemp stick, wearing a long silk gown. When he got out of the car, he took out a snuff bottle and wiped his nose before he ostentatiously beckoned to the coachman to remove the presents from the second car.

Look at those gifts again, silk and satin, American ginseng, toilet water, and Huadiao wine, etc., all of which are only available from Guangfa Foreign Firm.

In this day and age, most poor people like to buy things at Guangfa Foreign Bank, not to mention the high quality and low price, and occasionally rice and soy sauce as gifts.

Seeing the gift, Ah Shuibo's eyes lit up immediately, and even the hairdresser who was combing the female guest's hair couldn't help but take another look.

Ali initially hated Li Mazi's appearance, but when she saw the gift, her disgust disappeared a lot.

Her eyes were fixed on the bottle of toilet water, and she remembered that Alan's boyfriend gave her a bottle not long ago and asked her to show it off for three days.

This bottle looks bigger and more exquisite than hers, so it must be expensive.

"These gifts are too expensive! I can't accept them!" Uncle Ah Shui hurriedly stepped forward to greet Li Mazi, saying that he couldn't accept them, but he had already taken the silk and satin with both hands.

"Small idea!" Li Mazi raised his chin with a haughty expression on his face, "As long as Ali likes it, I'm willing to give it as much as I want." After speaking, he looked at Ali obsessively.

She Ziming and the others didn't care about eating, so they ran over to curry favor: "Is that right, Boss Li? You are so majestic. I heard that you are going to buy a car recently?"

"There is such a thing!" Li Mazi said proudly, "I can take Ali to play then."

"Wow, it's so cool to have a private car!"

"Yes, Ali is really blessed!"

After listening to these words, Ali looked at Li Mazi's ugly face, and suddenly felt that she wasn't too ugly. Immediately, Du Yongxiao's appearance appeared in his mind again, and he thought: "What's the use of being handsome? You don't even have to sit in a car!"

at this time--

Beep beep!

A car horn honked.

I saw a luxury Ford sedan driving over.

She Ziming and the others stared wide-eyed.

A Shuibo also looked straight at him.

Even Li Mazi watched enviously.

After all, in a poor place like Shek Kip Mei, not to mention luxury cars, even the buttocks of cars are rarely seen.

Ali looked at the luxury car that was slowly stopping, guessing who would get off it, and then——

A familiar figure stepped down from the car.

Dressed in white.

Yushu faces the wind.