Chapter 12

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Chen Canaan simply wanted to pinch Qiao Wen's shoulders and shake him awake.

Himself a perennial pocket than the face of a clean poor man, not to mention 20,000 yuan, two hundred yuan he could not get out, but afraid of Qiao Granny worried, had to try to squeeze out a smile, hardheaded, "Yes, I look for the help of the fourth brother on the line."

In Grandma Qiao's opinion, although Nan is not very old, but since childhood, he has been a child with a good idea and will come to things, joining the Wo Hing Society for the past two years, he has done a lot of things for the neighbors. Hearing him say this, slightly relieved, and then sighed and said: "You guys have to walk the right path, can not get addicted to that gambling addiction."

Chen Canaan patted his chest and assured, "That's for sure."

Soothing the granny, the two men went upstairs.

Chen Canaan saw that Qiao Wen has always not panicked, in the end, could not help, a door, clutched his shoulders, gritted his teeth and said: "Xiao Qiao, Uncle Ming this matter can not be a joke, two days later, we do not have the money to give, Baolian as usual have to be taken away. Scar probably still have to find us trouble."

His pair of iron claws, even if he didn't exert much force, clutched the tender-skinned Qiao Wen in raw pain, "Brother Nan, take it easy!"

"Can I not be in a hurry? This is twenty thousand dollars, where are we going to find it? Even if the neighbors are willing to help out, it's probably only a fraction."

Qiao Wen brushed his hand away and said, "Nan, have you forgotten Lin Zhaoming?"

Chen Canaan froze slightly, obviously not reacting, "Lin Zhaoming?"

"Didn't he give you a card to reward you? Twenty thousand dollars is astronomical to us, to a billionaire like him it's a sprinkle."

Chen Canaan furrowed his two handsome eyebrows and looked hesitant, "Will it work? What if he finds out that I am a member of the Wo Xing Society, or someone who wants to kill him? Not to mention paying the money, I'm afraid he'll have his bodyguards directly beat me to death, right?"

Qiao Wen smiled and shook his head, "Don't worry, even if he finds out that it was Master Leopard who sent someone to kill him, but his identity is there, he definitely won't believe that Master Leopard would find a forty-nine boy to do this, and the fact that you also blocked that Vietnamese killer for him shows that you didn't even know that Master Leopard wanted to kill him." He paused and added, "He definitely can't look down on people like us, but I read in the newspaper that he's a man of his word, and since he gave you the card, as long as we open our mouths, we'll definitely give money to get rid of it so that we can finish this favor."

Chen Canaan nodded, "Makes sense, then I'll go call and try." Saying as if he had thought of something, he lifted his eyelids, cleared his throat, and tried, "Since twenty thousand dollars is just a sprinkle for him, can I ask for more?"

Qiao Wen lost his smile: "No! Like Lin Zhaoming such a rich man, guarded heart is very heavy, if we are a large sum of money, he will feel that it is to blackmail him, may not be able to steal the chicken, 20,000 just look like an emergency use of the amount of money. And when the time comes, we have to say that this money will never be taken in vain, can do things for him as a return.

Chen Canaan said in amusement, "What can us two poor boys do for a billionaire?"

Jovian said, "Like ...... helping him find out who the people are who want him dead?"

Chen Canaan froze and said, "Master Panther is also paid to do things for people, and when someone looks for Master Panther, they rely on an intermediary in order not to expose their identity. Not to mention me, even Master Leopard himself doesn't know who the person who asked him to do away with Lin Zhaoming is."

Qiao Wen looked puzzled and hooked down the corners of his mouth, thinking to himself, Zhao Shanhai might be unaware of it, but he himself, the wearer of the book, knew it very well. However, he couldn't say it explicitly to Chen Canaan, and only said, "It's fine, I have a way to find out."

Chen Canaan suspiciously looked him up and down, he is very sure that day in the teahouse is not his own illusion, Xiao Qiao is indeed not quite the same as usual, clearly still the same pale face that he is familiar with, but it seems to be a different person from before.

However, he had always been rough around the edges, and this change that he couldn't say was not bad, and even surprised him a little, so he didn't think too much about it, and just pinched Qiao Wen's face, curved the corners of his mouth, and joked, "Xiao Qiao, are you possessed by something? Quickly give Little Joe back."

Qiaowen was inexplicably a little vain, followed by a roll of his eyes and opened his hand, "Nan, stop it, you're going to get a card to call."

Chen Canaan hemmed and hawed, and walked out alive, and suddenly, as if remembering something, he turned back to pick up his cane, and his liveliness turned into a limp.

Don't tell me, it's quite an act.

Most of the families in the walled city did not have telephones, and if they wanted to use a telephone, they would use a public telephone. Chen Canaan had to pretend that his legs and feet were injured, and half an hour had already passed.

But apparently things went well, and when he entered, his handsome face was wearing a big smile, "Xiao Qiao, Lin Zhaoming asked me to meet him tomorrow."

This was naturally expected by Qiaowen, who nodded, "I'll go with you."

"Okay, you have more ideas than I do now, I'm relieved to have you around."

Qiao Wen laughed and shook his head, looking at his big lolling crookedly on the sofa, his legs very much out of shape as he rested them on his lap, breathlessly patting him away, thinking for a moment, he said, "Brother Nan, I know that you joined the Wo Xing Society because you thought that you could have a talisman, and this identity is indeed a bit of a useful one as well, if it wasn't for you, today, Baolian would probably have been dragged away." He gave a slight beat, "But do you really intend to follow Fourth Brother all the way?"

Chen Canaan couldn't care less, "I also want to go out and find a decent job, but you also know that I haven't studied for a few years and I don't even speak English, so what can I do if I leave the fortress? I can't even speak English. What can I do if I leave the Walled City, pull a yellow cab or work as a laborer at the pier? If someone like me wants to get rich, I can only go to be a chicken head or sell white powder." Turning his head after speaking, he hurriedly grinned at Qiao Wen again, "Don't worry, I won't go and do these harmful things. My grandfather fought against the Eight-Power Allied Forces, my father fought against the Japanese, our Chen family are all temperate and walk the right path, I won't walk the crooked path either."

Qiao Wen smiled, "I'm relieved when you say that. Don't worry, it's a good time for Hong Kong City to develop, there are plenty of opportunities, we will definitely go out."

Chen Canaan sat upright body, took his thin shoulders, neatly said: "In fact, who does not want to open here? Do you think it's the fishball store Gu's wife who doesn't want to? Or is it Uncle Ming who doesn't want Pauline? Grandma? Even Ho Chai often says he wants to go out. The Walled City is bad, the police don't come in, no one cares about murder and arson, and the Triad bosses are the kings of the land here, so everyone lives in misery. But many of us here have been through war and famine, and have no other choice but to settle down. Even if we live in misery, we can at least have a place to live, enough to eat and wear and have a roof over our heads. I'm a young and strong boy to leave here to beg for food is not difficult, but now this situation, I stay here, at least I can take care of the neighbors a hand."

Saying that, he leaned lazily towards the sofa and said carelessly, "Sometimes I actually think that if I had been the boss of the Wo Xing Society, maybe we people wouldn't have to suffer from this."

Qiao Wen looked at him in shock, completely did not expect him to be a dangling punk, but still have this cognizance, simply can be called sober on earth, but it is his own underestimation of him.

And want to be the boss, surprisingly also just for the city fortress neighbors live better. However, what he doesn't know is that people can't help themselves in the jungle, even if he really becomes the boss, nine times out of ten, he will become the second Zhao Shanhai.

He calculated that there were still two years to go before the ICAC was established and the whole city was swept clean and the police were stationed in the Walled City. Only the arrival of the police did not completely change the present situation, the crime rate remained high and the people still had a hard time. All in all, this place was a tumor-like existence in Hong Kong until it was dismantled in the early 1990s.

So, leaving is a must.

After finishing these words, Chen Canaan thought of something else and asked curiously, "Xiao Qiao, you said that you have a way to find out who wants to kill Lin Zhaoming, what exactly is that way?"

Of course Qiao Wen didn't really have a solution, but as someone who had read the original book, he knew who it was from early on. Because later Lin Zi Hui made his fortune, he managed to find out who was behind the killing of his own father back then, and naturally, he also determined that the killer was Chen Canaan, and avenged this killing of his father.

However, it's useless to just know who it is, you still have to find evidence to prove it to Lin Zhaoming.

He pondered for a moment and said, "Remember that young man with glasses in the Hibiscus Tea Room? He called Lin Zhaoming Abba, so he should be the illegitimate son he kept outside. Since the message given to the assassin was the Hibiscus Tea Room, it means that the person who wants to kill Lin Zhaoming knows all about his whereabouts and background. We'll just start with the Hibiscus Tea Room."

Chen Canaan had some impression of the foolish Lin Zihui, but it was only what Qiao Wen said that confused him. He rubbed his head and frowned, "Can it really work?"

"Nan, trust me and trust yourself."

Chen Canaan raised his eyebrows and smiled, "That's right, who am I, Pretty Nan? If I can't do this, how can I still mix? To be honest, I originally went to kill people, it was a mistake to save people, for this to take other people's money, it's not right, if I can do something for others, this money is to take the peace of mind."

Jovian looked at him without moving, but smiled.

After coming to this world for just a few days, leaving aside the influence of his original body, he found that this person, Chen Canaan, had surprised him somewhat.

This villain, who would later do nothing wrong, turned out to be a good young man with quite a sense of justice at this point.

Even if it wasn't for Little Jovian, simply because of this man, he would never let him go the way of the book.

He didn't tell Chen Canaan that in fact, this going back to Lin Zhaoming was to raise money to save Uncle Ming and Pauline, and secondly, he also intended to look for opportunities.

This world is set according to the real world, except for the absence of real-life characters, all backgrounds are different from reality. The seventies is a period of rapid development in Hong Kong City, especially in the past two years, both the stock market and real estate, there is a wave of big market. Especially the stock market, this year to the first half of next year will go into a big bull market, the Hang Seng Index rose from more than seven hundred to nearly two thousand.

The original book Lin Zi Hui is to take the Lin family to send out the caller as much as give him 20,000 to kill into the stock market, half a year down, earned nearly a million, and then in the second half of the year before the stock market crash, from the stock market to withdraw, put into the real estate, and let him make a breakthrough, and then a few years, the protagonist halo open, a leap into the Hong Kong rich businessmen.

Lin Zihui's model is here, of course, he also use up. But he and Chen Canaan starting point than than Lin Zihui a lot lower, not to mention twenty thousand dollars, two thousand dollars can not come out, want to immediately put into the stock market is certainly impossible, so he had to get the first bucket of gold as soon as possible, hurry in the stock market before the crash to earn a wave out of the stock market.

And with Lin Zhaoming, a billionaire, it's clearly a great opportunity for him to make his first bucket of money.