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The strangers quickly disappeared into the New Year's bustling streets and alleys, and no one paid them any attention except Jovan, the ignorant and unaware neighbors who were always immersed in the giddiness of the New Year.

The sound of gongs and drums stopped, Chen Canaan sweated profusely from the lion, threw the lion and a stack of red packets to Howie, quickly ran through the crowd to Qiao Wen's side, raised the remaining stack of red packets in his hand, and said with a joyful smile, "The harvest is good, isn't it?"

He was also wearing a yellow lion dance costume with a cardigan on top and furry lantern pants underneath, as if he had really just gone from a lion to a man.

Jovian gave him a thumbs up, "Very good."

In fact, the curry is to figure a lucky, inside the 50 cents a piece, a bunch of red envelopes add up to more than a dozen dollars, but bring the happy is far from money can be measured.

In previous years, Chen Canaan got the profit is also will bring back to get together to buy delicious, but now the hand is generous, since there is no need to be so withholding search, towards the Qiao Wen show, then waved his hand to recruit the road to play firecrackers of small children, all sent out.

Seeing that his head was covered in sweat, Qiaowen said, "Go upstairs and wipe it off before you catch a cold."

Chen Canaan was full of concern and said, "It's not that easy to catch a cold." The words were like this, but still followed the people upstairs with good intentions.

He casually wiped his sweat with cool water at Jovian's house, took off his hairy pants, leaving only a pair of slacks, and lay down on all fours on the couch and breathed a long sigh of relief.

Going to the lion dance early in the morning, even if his body was made of iron, he was so tired that he didn't want to move a muscle.

Seeing his lazy appearance, Qiao Wen poured him a cup of water and placed it on the coffee table, then sat at his feet and asked as if he was not thinking, "Brother Nan, do you know who will be coming to the city fortress recently?"

Chen Canaan picked up the cup of water, half lying down and gulped half a cup, sniffing uncertainly, "What what person?"

Qiao Wen said, "That is, there are any special status people coming to the city fortress, such as some Taoist, or stowaways?"

"Haven't heard." Chen Canaan shook his head, "Who doesn't stay home and run to the city fortress on New Year's Day? Why are you asking this?"

Qiao Wen said, "Just now when you danced the lion dance, I saw a few raw faces, kind of like gangsters."

Chen Canaan was unimpressed and said, "I guess it's visiting friends and relatives, there are all kinds of people in the walled city, the group of Chaoshan people in the Eastern District and the Fuqing people, and the Wo Xing Society can't control it."

Jovian nodded, "Anyway, watch yourself and don't mess with anyone you don't know when you come across them."

Chen Canaan said, "Understood."

Qiao Wen thought for a moment and added, "By the way, I've spotted a piece of land in the newspaper, if you're free in the next two days, go with me to take a look."

Chen Canaan eeped, "Are you buying land?"

Qiao Wen said, "Now that Hong Kong City is developing so fast, there are new buildings being built every day, and when the stock market heat passes, the land and houses will surely skyrocket, and with the money we have now, we should buy a few dozen acres of land in a more remote location."

Chen Canaan didn't put too much on his mind and waved his hand, "Okay, you look after it, just open your mouth if you need me to do anything, I'll listen to you."

Qiao Wen lost his smile, "Brother Nan, I think you'd better be careful, don't be sold at any time and still help count the money."

Chen Canaan snorted, "That's only if someone dares to buy it."

"Also, buying you back shall not get your home demolished."

Chen Canaan was quick to react this time, rubbing up and sitting up to pinch his face, "Xiao Qiao, you've really learned to be bad, you've learned to curse in a roundabout way."

The two of them were laughing and joking around some more.

Qiao Wen did see a piece of land from a newspaper advertisement, which only stated the approximate location and did not know the identity of the seller. After making the call, he and the person agreed to meet at a station in Clearwater Bay.

The other party was in his fifties and was riding in a vintage Ford car, the car wasn't new, but in this day and age, a family that could own such a car was naturally either rich or noble.

After exchanging pleasantries, I realized that this man's surname was Wang, and that the seller of the land was his young master, and he was the butler who acted as the sole agent in the transaction.

Qiao Wen rode on Chen Canaan's motorcycle, followed Uncle Wang's car, and rolled over to a small hill near Clearwater Bay.

"This is it!" The car stopped at the humble roadside, and Uncle Wang stepped down and led the two of them towards a piece of barren land facing the sea, "This piece totals twenty acres, all of which is my young master's property."

Then also took out the deed and showed it to the two men.

Qiao Wen nodded and looked around, saying, "It's much more remote than I expected." Lowering one's opinion of the goods first was the first step to killing the price.

Uncle Wang didn't comment on this comment, and only piled up a smile on his face and said, "To be honest, my young master's family had a very rich background, and if it wasn't for the decline of the family in recent years, he wouldn't have thought of selling this piece of land. This land looks remote, but drive twenty minutes is the rich district of Clearwater Bay, in front of the sea, behind the mountains, is also considered to be by the sea. Mr. Geomancy has seen it, and it's definitely a piece of feng shui land. I put it in the newspaper less than a week ago, and there are several buyers interested."

Qiao Wen did not move to listen, not bad, this steward thought to be a skilled hand, raising prices quite well.

Chen Canaan is an impatient person, listening to this man's long-winded annoyance, interrupted him and said, "Just say the price directly."

Uncle Wang laughed and said, "Little brother is a fastidious person, this piece of land is priced at a mouthful of one million two hundred thousand dollars."

"One million two hundred thousand dollars?" Chen Canaan's eyes widened, pointing at the barren land in front of him, "To ask for a million and two hundred thousand dollars for this piece of land in the middle of nowhere where birds and shit don't exist, you really have the guts to ask for it!"

Uncle Wang smiled lightly, "This is my young master's land, I as a housekeeper can't let him suffer, can I? There will be people coming to see the land later, so you guys go back and think about it, and if you are interested in buying it, call me earlier, or I'm afraid it will be sold two days later."

Chen Canaan said impatiently, "It's so expensive, what's the point of buying it? I don't think you should go and grab it for your young master. Xiao Qiao let's go."

Qiao Wen patted him to smooth his fur and said politely to Wang Bo, "Then we'll go back and think about it, and contact you again if we have any interest."

Uncle Wang nodded, "No problem."

As he was talking, the driver of the car next to him poked his head out and waved his hand to Uncle Wang, "Abba, have we talked yet?"

Uncle Wang responded, "All right."

Jovian glanced toward the young driver and casually asked, "Your son?"

Uncle Wang nodded his head, "Precisely the canine son." Then he smiled and waved his hand, "I'll leave then, contact me when you've considered it."

Qiao Wen stood still to watch the black Ford leave, and in his mind, he thought that the son of this butler as a chauffeur was wearing a Patek Philippe watch.

Chen Canaan handed him the helmet and said, "Xiao Qiao, do you really want to buy this piece of broken land? It's a million and two hundred thousand dollars."

Qiao Wen laughed, "This is not a broken land, twenty minutes to the rich district of Clearwater Bay, if you build a row of sea view villas here, which is the next rich district, you can definitely make a fortune."

"And you want to build a villa? We only have enough money to buy a piece of land."

"With land of course there is no fear of not having the money to build a house."

Chen Canaan didn't understand, and Qiao Wen didn't explain much. Originally, he just wanted to take the money in his hands to hoard a little bit of small land, and when the stock market collapsed and real estate went crazy, he resold it. But after seeing this piece of land, it immediately changed his mind.

Uncle Wang is right, this is indeed a piece of feng shui land, now it is a bird's nest, but after building a house, it will be a piece of Hong Kong City downtown quiet by the mountains and the sea of valuable land.

The fact that there was such a good piece of land that hadn't been circled by a major plutocrat in the bullet-ridden part of Hong Kong City was like picking up a leak. He definitely wouldn't miss it, but he was also unwilling to spend a million and two hundred thousand dollars, after all, this was his and Chen Canaan's entire current fortune.

He patted Chen Canaan's shoulder, "Brother Nan, you send me to a pay phone, I need to make a call."

Chen Canaan: "Who to call?"

"A reporter, looking for him for something."

There is no network in this era, want to inquire about things, the most convenient way is to find some lace tabloid reporter, do not underestimate their ability, star rich family all kinds of unknown secrets, these paparazzi can be investigated clearly, the ability to be comparable to the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.

The reporter he found is the same one who sold him Li Xing Chen's itinerary last time, this paparazzi not only shoots the stars, but also follows the rich and famous, and knows all kinds of gossip in the city like the back of his hand.

Sure enough a phone call to find people, in Qiao Wen reported the license plate number and Wang Bo big name, this reporter named Zhang Jia Ming immediately said: "You find people should be Guan young, early years is indeed broad young, but unfortunately, parents go early, the family property handed over in the hands of this fop, has long been defeated, these years has been relying on the sale of the family's assets to live."

Qiaowen said, "You help look into it more carefully and give me a detailed report tomorrow."

"Okay, no problem, I'll make sure you find out how many women he's slept with."

It's not necessary.

Hanging up the phone, Chen Canaan, a handsome face curiously stretched over, asked, "You still need to check the seller's details to buy land?"

Jovian said, "Of course, it's good to know the bottom line so you can cut the price, isn't it?"

"That's true, it's still you who thought it through." After a pause, and then weakly whispered, "Actually, if you really want to buy take a piece of land, I also have a way to cut down the price."

Qiao Wen gave him a look: "Take the knife on your waist? Are you really used to being a gangster? This is not a fortress. Even if they sell to you due to their power, once they report back to the police, the deal will still be null and void."

Chen Canaan rubbed his nose and laughed sheepishly, "I'm just saying it off the top of my head, I'm sure you have a way."

Qiao Wen lost his smile, "Let's go, Mrs. Long's wife's beef mince should be open, let's go eat beef mince."

When Chen Canaan heard this, he immediately smiled and smiled, dashingly and handsomely sat down on the car, "As big as the sky is, eating beef mince is the biggest."

"Look at you." Which is like some kind of villainous bigot prepper.

As expected, on the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, Mrs. Long's Beef and Vegetables was already open for business. People who have eaten too many leftovers from New Year's Eve, clutching New Year's favorites, have run out to eat, a small stall, inside and outside crowded with diners.

Seeing that there were no empty seats, Chen Canaan swept the crowded gourmets and was thinking about which table to drive away when he caught sight of an acquaintance and instantly spread a smile, pulling Qiao Wen and running over to him, "Fourth Brother, Happy New Year!"

"Yo, Ah Nan, haven't seen you for a long time, now I have to call you Brother Nan, right?" Zhao Ah Si and a small ponyboy occupied a small table, and when he saw Chen Canaan, he immediately smiled and urged.

Chen Canaan tsked, "Fourth brother, don't make fun of me, you're my big brother, always have been and always will be."

Zhao Ah Si nodded with satisfaction, "You servant street still has a bit of conscience, fourth brother didn't love you in vain before." He took out two red liyi bags and handed them to him and Qiao Wen, "For you two brothers."

Chen Canaan joyfully took it, "Thank you, Fourth Brother! Then, Ah Di and I will take a table with you." He handed the red packet to Qiao Wen, ran to the inside of the stall and carried out two plastic stools, pulling Qiao Wen to squeeze in this tiny table.

Zhao Ah Si patted his shoulder affectionately, "Of all my little brothers, you're the only one who has grown up. But you have heard about what happened outside Fourth Brother, take it easy on yourself, nothing is as important as life."

Chen Canaan smiled, "Thank you for reminding Fourth Brother, I will."

Zhao A four years over thirty, than he was ten years older, look at him as if looking at his little brother, at the moment look at him a red-faced handsome face, suddenly remembered what like, curved up the corners of the mouth and smiled: "A Nan, you this year real age twenty right?"

Chen Canaan said, "I'll turn twenty in the middle of the year."

Zhao Ah Si asked with a bad smile, "Then how come I haven't seen any girls around you yet?"

Chen Canaan subconsciously glanced at Qiao Wen, and said with a little bit of heartiness, "Have I not yet met the one who fits my eyes?"

Zhao Ah Si snorted lightly, "Is it hard to believe that you still want to find a heavenly fairy?" Saying this, he glanced at Qiao Wen and jokingly added, "But you spend all day with a pretty boy like your Ah Di, it's not surprising that you have a high vision."

"What are you pulling my brother for, Fourth Brother?" Chen Canaan grunted, took the beef mince that was sent up, quietly looked at the person beside him, thinking that Xiao Qiao was indeed good-looking, but he hadn't had any mischievous thoughts because of his good looks before, so it was evident that good looks were not the reason why he liked him, and he was not a superficial man who only looked at appearances, and thinking about it, he couldn't help but smiled smugly.

Qiaowen hadn't sensed this subtle little movement of his, and just laughed at such a joke without thinking and shook his head.

Several people in the noisy hustle and bustle, eating and chatting, just halfway through the meal, suddenly heard a rather arrogant voice: "How many of you together?"

Qiao Wen subconsciously turned his head and saw four men standing beside a table, the man in the lead kicked the foot of the table and said to the diners who were eating beef mince, "Quite a face, new here, right? Do you know the rules? There are so many people waiting to eat, and you five people are occupying two tables. Hurry up and squeeze a table to make room."

These people Qiao Wen is not too unfamiliar, that is, recently in the walled city of the more prevalent Chaoshan boy, only two years ago to smuggle over to the foot. They are not many, but are some vicious people, specializing in robbery and kidnapping hook, but because there are not many people, has not formed a climate, in the walled city is quite honest, after all, this is the territory of the Hexing Society.

Being this arrogant at the moment, it was about seeing that these few diners who were eating beef mince were very unfamiliar.

Just now Qiao Wen was pulled by Chen Canaan running over, coupled with a large number of people, did not pay too much attention, only at this moment realized that these few men who were said to be unfamiliar by the Chaoshan boy, are the ones who saw him arrive on the first day of the New Year.

Zhao Ah Si spat lowly, "Yesterday, a gold shop in Central was robbed, and I heard that it was these Chaoshan boys who did it, and they even killed two security guards. Robbing money and harming lives, what a way to go."

Chen Canaan frowned and glanced at those few people, saying, "Anyway, just don't spread wildness over us, we can't care about the rest." Between the words, he also noticed the few strangers sitting there, and casually asked, "Fourth brother, these few people seem to have never seen before, new to the city? What do they do?"

Zhao Ah Si shook his head, "I don't know, I haven't seen it either."

Qiao Wen said, "Don't worry about it, hurry up and eat, eat so that you can give someone an empty seat so that Mrs. Long can earn a few more dollars."

That being said, it was also true that Chen Canaan and Zhao Ah Si no longer cared about that side, but he himself continued to observe without moving.

Only to see the arrogant and domineering Chiu Chow boy boss kicking the table after the man sitting close to him, looking up slowly from the bowl of beef mince and looking coldly at the other man.

It was an expressionless face, very cold and stern, and the eyes were as sharp as those of a falcon.

Qiao Wen felt a bit familiar, as if he had seen such eyes somewhere, right, it was the Vietnamese assassin who had been hired by Zhao Shanhai to kill Lin Zhaoming.

Is it possible that these men are also soldiers from the Vietnam War?

But they didn't really look alike, at least three of them were standard Chinese looking, while the remaining ones were Southeast Asian looking.

Seeing the other party's attitude, the Chiu Chow boy provocatively reached out and pushed his head, saying, "What? Are you still unwilling to give up your seat?"

The man's brow wrinkled, his right hand fiercely touched his waist, however, a forty-something year old looking man beside him did not move to hold him down, and raised his head to smile again, "First timers don't know the rules, we'll let you have your seat here."

The man spoke a less-than-standard Cantonese, not the less-than-standard accent of a foreigner, but the accent of a non-Cantonese-speaking Chinese, obviously a Chinese, or a Chinese.

Qiao Wen still has the impression that the day Chen Canaan danced the lion was rubbing against this person, and he begged a red packet from him, and was also touched by him to touch the lion's head.

At the moment, looking at the situation, he should be the leader of the group.

When he finished, he patted his companion whose expression was as cold as ice, and the two of them carried their bowls and squeezed into a nearby table.

They ate quickly, paying the bill and getting up to leave in no more than two minutes.

Qiao Wen had been quietly surveying these people, and he saw that after they had taken a few steps away, the man with the fierce appearance just now, suddenly turned around, put his finger on the back of the head of the Chiu Chow boy who was eating the beef mince, and made a shooting gesture through the air.

Although it was only a light movement, it made Qiaowen, who had taken this in, silently shiver.

He was about to retract his gaze silently, but then he inadvertently glanced at their Chinese boss's waist, and on a hidden keychain was a blue and white badge.

He was stunned, vaguely guessing the identity of these people.

The next morning, Jovan had just gotten up and left the house when he heard a bombshell.

Yesterday, the few Chaoshan boy, all were killed in the rental house. It is said to be the middle of the night to move, did not make a little noise, and did not leave a survivor, the landlord realized something was wrong, pushed the door to see, a few people were full of misery on the floor, a large part of the house has dried up blood stains.