Rebirth: Outstanding

Tonight’s Angus roast beef, Shi Zhiyi and his wife who sat opposite each other failed to be as full of praise as usual. The restaurant chef Charlie, who personally served them the food, failed to get Shi Zhiyi and his wife until he introduced all the dishes. Kind compliment, only Mrs. Beth's reluctantly perfunctory thank you.

Charlie walked back to the back kitchen slightly disappointed. When others were not paying attention, he murmured a little bit. No one knew what it was, but only vaguely heard the words of Australia Saint Kila.

After having dinner in the restaurant, when the couple returned to their villa in the mid-levels, the children had already taken a shower and went to bed under the service of the maid. Shi Zhiyi and Bes took off their coats and went to the children lightly. Our room, sent them a good night kiss, and then quietly retired.

Beth and the maid in the family are opening the gifts brought by the five groups of people who met with his husband and wife tonight and entrusting the waiter in the restaurant to give them to them.

Shi Zhiyi went to the wine cabinet, chose a red wine to pour it in a goblet, and stood gently in front of the huge French window in the living room, enjoying the night of Hong Kong Island.

It has been 16 years since he entered Queen’s College of Cambridge University but was selected by the British Colony Department for only one year after further study. He arrived in Hong Kong as a second-level official student and started his career as a colonial official. It has been 16 years. Become a China Tong who can speak Cantonese, Chongqing dialect, and Shanghai dialect fluently to Chinese people. From the beginning, he was a second-level official student. After the entire World War II, his official career has moved all the way to Hong Kong, Malaysia, Chongqing, Guangdong, and London. , And finally returned to Hong Kong.

In the same year he joined the British Colonial Department as second-level officials in the same year, many of them are now first-level officials, and a few with special identities have even become directorate students, or in Mauritius, or Became an important party member in Malaysia, even the Falkland Islands and other places. Even some of my colleagues who worked in Hong Kong before the war also participated in the civil affairs of the British military government in Hong Kong after the war. They were awarded medals and promotions. Civil officials of the military government, such as Bai Jiashi and He Liwen, were similar to his officials before the war, and after the war they have become the chief ministers of Hong Kong Governor Yang Muqi.

For these people, Shi Zhiyi is not jealous, because these old colleagues were almost always imprisoned by the Japanese army or immediately participated in the war when Hong Kong fell, but he was seconded to the Malaysian Colonial Government Department half a month before the fall of Hong Kong. The chief assistant to the auxiliary secretary, evaded the defense of Hong Kong. After Malaysia was controlled by the Japanese army, Shi Zhiyi successfully evacuated and moved to Chongqing and Qujiang. He continued to work in China as the Counselor of the Refugee Relief Department of the British Embassy in China. He returned to London in 43 years and met his wife, a Saint from Australia. The Anglicans of Kira.

Without the identity of his wife, Shi Zhiyi would not be able to compare with the military merits of his colleagues who participated in the war after the war, but he did a lot of hard work in the economic and government affairs of the British overseas colonies, and as a real Hong Kong master, the post-war Britain The Colony Department once listed him as one of the nine core members of the Hong Kong Planning Group in 1944, responsible for formulating British governance policies on Hong Kong after the war, and preparing for Japan's surrender and Hong Kong's return to British governance. It was his old boss McDougall before the war who personally proposed to include him among the core members, but in the end, because of his wife’s identity as an aboriginal Australian, he was removed and continued to stay in London, failing to return at the same time as the rest of the group. Hong Kong, divide up post-war credit and positions.

If it were not for the political disagreement between the new Governor Grantham and the predecessor Governor Yang Muqi, Shi Zhiyi, after careful analysis of the situation in London and Hong Kong, publicly expressed his support for Grantham, who had not formally taken office at that time, and first published this move to show Ge Lianghong. I am afraid that now he can't even sit on the position of deputy director of the Industrial and Commercial Management Office, and still has to carry the title of administrative officer of the second-level official student to the middle level of the Hong Kong colonial government.

Even after he heard that his wife was an aboriginal in the Australian colony, he regretted putting aside the report next month suggesting that the colonial ministry promote Shi Zhiyi as a first-level official student.

The forty-year-old second-level official student started his colonial political career in Hong Kong as a high-achieving student at Cambridge University at the age of 24. He is a second-level official student. Now 16 years later, he is still a second-level official student.

Shi Zhiyi took a sip of red wine in his mouth. It was a bit astringent. His appearance was reflected in the bright glass of the floor-to-ceiling windows. He was still in a straight suit and meticulous, no different from when he was young, except for his balding hair and face. His wrinkles, huge bags under the eyes and reddish nose are no longer what they were in the past.

Looking at himself outside the window, Shi Zhiyi remembered the years when he was in high school at St. Lawrence College.

At that time, he was the student leader of the college, and he was able to speak confidently with the dean on behalf of the students in the college to fight for the rights of the students in the school.

He remembered that when he walked out of Oxford University after getting his degree, three political organizations invited him to join him as an assistant secretary.

I also thought of entering Queen's College at Cambridge University for further study, but within a year he was eagerly sought after by officials of the Colony Department and invited him to go overseas to manage the colony for the Queen.

I remembered that I met my wife at the Anglican Church in London, socialized, and proposed to his wife under the witness of the parishioners, and the other party cried and smiled with tears.

I think of my affirmative expression to my wife that no matter what happens, I will change her life in the future.

Thinking of my embarrassment when the first child was born, and worry about the future of the child...

Thinking of the end, Shi Zhiyi suddenly found tears streaming out of his own reflection in the glass. There was no sad expression, but the tears flowed along the numb face until he blurred his vision.

"My dear, what's the matter with you?" Mrs. Beth was holding the cigar box specially selected by Song Tianyao in her hand, standing not far behind Shi Zhiyi, looking at her husband reflected outside the glass window, and asked gently.

Shi Zhiyi wiped his eyes with the handkerchief in his suit pocket, and turned around as if nothing had happened: "It's nothing, maybe some sand has been blown into the eyes, don't worry about my dear, take a break early."

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In front of the main entrance of Retiro Club, the water is still blocked as usual. The entrance of the nightclub is responsible for greeting guests. The waiters in red vests and white shirts are sweating on their faces and can't even wipe them. They are hurriedly guiding the traffic in the traffic. To accompany the smiling face to cope with the screams of those wealthy princes who come to amuse themselves when they get out of the car.

After finally waiting for these uncles to get out of the car and enter the nightclub, the driver drove away to give up the empty space in front of the gate, and the waiters drove the rickshaws waiting for business farther away. Finally, there was a moment of free time, and a waiter wiped it out. He wiped the sweat from his forehead, straightened his waist and took a thick breath, and whispered in Shanghai dialect to the rich guys who had already entered the nightclub gate: "This is the end of my mother! I was in Shanghai back then, not to mention this. The bright scenery of the small open, even the leader of the patrol house, dare not yell five and six in front of the gate, behavely with the brothers, and ask for a cigarette before entering. These Hong Kong small open, when we clear the open It’s the porridge farm? If it’s still on the beach, I’ve brought my brothers to burn these small open-mouthed houses!"

Another waiter next to him took out a cheap Double Happiness cigarette from his pocket and gave one to his complaining companion: "The dragon does not crush the snake. Boss Du is not in good health. I heard that he has been unable to get up. Everyone has no leader. Mr. Fa looks good on the surface, but only maintains the situation. The local Hongmen gangs are no better than the Hongmen gangs in the mainland who are familiar with the Qing gangs. Everyone always has a friendship. The gangs here are ruthless and stubborn. , Wait for Mr. Du or Mr. Judge Law to stand up and preside over the overall situation, our Qing Gang will turn this Hong Kong upside down sooner or later."

He drank a cigarette to comfort his companion. A waiter leader wearing a black vest and a short beard on his jaw also came over. The two who were smoking a breath hurriedly showed smiles, and the waiter handed his double happiness cigarette to each other. Go: "Brother Fei, smoke."

The leader waved his hand, took out the box from his pocket and put it on the lucky spot: "What? What are the two people talking about sneakily?"

"Brother Fei, if you were not the boss tycoon in Shanghai before, even if you just helped Paramount’s shoeshine, you have never received such a scolding. If you take a slow step to greet him, you will just open your mouth to your mother, and change your job. Before in Shanghai, I took a few brothers to tie him, blackmailed his family for a sum and then sank him into the Huangpu River, breaking his family incense.” The waiter who complained at the beginning was obviously very familiar with Fei Ge. Don't shy away from helping the other party to light a cigarette, and said.

Fei Ge vomited a ring of smoke, turned his head, often at the nightclub gate, snorted and said in a low voice: "No hurry, Mr. Du is not in good health. Rumors may not last long. Mr. Jianfa has something to say, Mr. Du While alive, he can’t break the Qing gang’s seniority and rules. If Mr. Du dies, he will prepare for the opening ceremony of the Hong Kong Qing gang. At that time, it will be the opportunity for those of us to work hard for Mr. Law."

Hearing these words, the waiter squeezed the cap off his head excitedly: "I've had enough of this kind of life! At the beginning, even if I couldn't go to a high-end book apartment to sleep a famous prostitute in Shanghai, my brothers were all long. The rampant characters in the three-year-old hall, under the banner of the Qing Gang, no one dared to look at him as a waiter. Since I came to Hong Kong, I have been scolded by small groups all day. Mother smashed them with an axe! Brother Fei, don't worry, as long as Mr. Jiefa speaks, within half a month, our Qinggang children will be able to turn this big **** over Hong Kong!"

The other waiter was calmer than him, but he was also a little excited at this time. They are the disciples and grandchildren of the gang, and the big bosses can’t hear what they are discussing. They can only know what they are doing when they are told. Secret story, now that the little boss Fei has received the news, it seems that Mr. Jianfa has endured for so long and is finally ready to light up the banner of the clearing gang:

"In the beginning, Mr. Jufa and Mr. Du should learn 14k, and the same goes for entering Hong Kong from the mainland. Now in the Kowloon area, 14k has played a few games with other local gangs, and it just took up one-third of the territory, Hong Kong Island. Bian also put in a lot of relationships to open up the context."

"At the beginning of 14k, the Kuomintang was backed by the Kuomintang. When it was founded, it was supported by the Kuomintang’s gold bars. When crossing the river, thousands of people were majestic. Now they have to find their own money. Ge Zhaohuang took up 14k of money and ran to Taiwan and left behind. A gang gave the first adjutant to let them fend for themselves? These people are not comparable to us, and they can rely on Mr. Jianfa’s business to eat a bowl of tea and rice and wait for the opportunity. If they don’t grab the site, they will starve to death on the street. Or Mr. Jianfa Have a foresight, first accumulate wealth and observe the situation, and then take action after the time is right." Hearing that subordinate talked about the 14k, which had recently established a firm foothold in Hong Kong, Fei Ge said dissatisfied.

"Hey~ this foreign girl is beautiful! When the Qing Gang dominates Hong Kong, I will tie it up sooner or later!" The waiter holding his cap, looked at a couple of men and women walking along the road in the distance, with squinted hair. Ruthlessly: "Foreign devils women just wear **** clothes, bare arms and legs, and a piece of white flesh on their chest, which makes them tickle when they look at it."