1989, Hong Kong, Jiaolong Fortress.
This is a city shrouded in mysterious shadows. When looking down from the sky, the entire city is square, with densely stacked high-rise buildings, like a Rubik’s Cube made of reinforced concrete, stationed abruptly in the Kowloon City District of the New Territories of Hong Kong, which is incompatible with the surrounding buildings and modern viaducts. This big magic area is less than three square kilometers, but it has more than 500 high-rise buildings and a population of nearly 30,000. The dense buildings block even the hottest sunshine in summer, and 95% of the city is dark all year round.
Its notoriety spread far overseas at that time. Due to the problems left over from the history of the Manchu and Qing Dynasties, this small town has become a "three no-holds-barred" black zone. Beijing, Hong Kong, and the British government have no jurisdiction over it, thus becoming a special "autonomous region". In this endless darkness, there are countless drug caves, casinos, pornographic venues, dog meat restaurants, unlicensed clinics, etc. It was the largest "white face" scattered area in the Asia-Pacific region at that time, and it was also a gathering and hiding place for gangs and gangs.
Xia Liuyi, the number one gold medal fighter in Jiaolong Fortress, Xiaoqitang "Red Stick", used to use a pair of Qinglong swords.
The name "Red Stick" is commonly known as the beating head. It specializes in beating people and leading a team to beating people. Its status in the gang is second only to the "leading boss (mountain owner)" and "deputy hall owner (deputy mountain owner)". ”, and the “White Paper Fan” in charge of finance and the “Grass Sandals” in charge of liaison. [Note 1]
In terms of skill, Xia Liuyi was not number one in Jiaolong Fortress. Jiaolong Fortress is a mixed bag, and there are always more than a dozen gangs. No matter how the other gangs are stalking the dragons and crouching tigers, in the Xiaoqi Hall alone, his skill has to be ranked second behind the deputy hall master Xu Ying, who is said to be the descendant of the descendants of the descendants of the descendants of the Twenty-Eight Palms of Subduing Dragons.
But in terms of gold medal fighters, he recognized the second place in the entire Jiaolong Fortress, and no one dared to recognize the first place.
The reason is simple and easy to understand - when you are fighting for your life and death, who will tell you how to master the swordsmanship, and where to learn from. He is ruthless, so ruthless that he doesn't even care about his own life! This is the essence of gang fights!
When Xia Liu was 18 years old, in a gang melee, in order to rescue the besieged leader Hao Chengqing, he cut down more than 40 people with two swords, and cut a bloody road that stretched three lanes. After the incident, nearby residents shoveled pieces of meat on the ground for two days and two nights.
This battle, known as the "Black Children's Day" by the people in Jianghu, has been talked about for more than six years now. There is no such thing as "Children's Day" in Hong Kong. It is the mainland's way of celebrating Children's Day on June 1. Many residents in Xiaolong Walled City came from the mainland, and because of the name of Xia Liuyi, word of mouth, the saying "Children's Day" was widely known in the Walled City. When Xiao Xiao people heard the color change of "June 1", they were most afraid of being invited to "Children's Day" by Brother Liu Yi.
Fortunately, this ruthless brother Liuyi is still moral, neither rampant nor domineering. Basically, he has a mentality of not committing me and I will not commit others, and he is loyal and obedient to his boss Hao Chengqing. Hao Chengqing was considered to be a gentler and cautious one among the leading bigwigs in the city, so Xia Liuyi's sharp blade was also obediently sheathed, and there were few times when he would open his mouth to kill.
Brother Liuyi is not only too lazy to do it, even most of the time he is too lazy to carry his favorite knife. When he came to the newly opened "Xiaoqi Film Company" under Xiaoqitang that day, he was followed by a fan named Lai Quan who was carrying a knife for him.
Lai Quan lost 20,000 yuan in the gambling stall under Xiaoqitang, and tried to escape. He was very honored to be recovered by Brother Liuyi himself. At this time, he had already foreseen the tragic ending of his blood and flesh, and he was crying while walking. And don't forget to wipe your nose while crying, lest they drip onto Brother Liuyi's knife.
"Brother Liuyi!" Ma Zai, who was guarding the door, stood up straight with his chest out.
[Note: Ma Zai, that is, the younger brother.]
Xia Liuyi took the cigarette he handed over and tilted his head to let him light it.
"Brother Ma is waiting for you inside," Ma Zai reported seriously.
Xia Liuyi glanced at him, raised his chin and gestured, "Take him to the studio, look after him."
"Yes!" Ma Zai responded with anger, turning back and kicking Lai Quan, "What are you looking at! Go!"
"return."
"Brother Liuyi still have orders?"
"Knife."
Ma Zai kicked again, "Hurry up and return the knife to Brother Liuyi!"
Xia Liuyi walked into the room, closed the door, sat down on the desk, and lowered his head to smoke.
His confidant, a pony with scars on his face and a stylish back, is kneeling on the ground in a tiger-like manner with a few villainous thugs. The pony waited for a long time without hearing him speak, so he looked up furtively.
"I've never seen the one at the door," Xia Liu said.
"Brother Xu was transferred yesterday, saying he is smart. If you don't like Brother Liuyi, I will find an excuse to replace him tomorrow!" Xiaoma said neatly with a flattering expression that was completely inconsistent with his fierce appearance.
"Fuck, promise..." Xia Liuyi pondered, with a mouthful of cigarettes in his mouth, and slowly exhaled, "Tomorrow night, I will book a single room in Hexianglou, and I want to invite Ah Da to dinner."
The "A Da" in his mouth is Hao Chengqing, the leader of Xiaoqitang, who is called "Qinglong Boss" in Jianghu.
"Yes! I'm going to book a table now!" Little Marley jumped up.
Xia Liuyi flicked the ash, "Go back."
The pony went back down with a sad face.
Xia Liu tapped his toes at one o'clock.
The pony looked frustrated and held up a thick wooden stick in both hands. All the villains consciously lowered their heads, pouted their butts, and bit their cuffs.
Xia Liuyi slowly took out the cigarette, threw the scabbard around his waist and behind his back on the table, put up his sleeves, and took the wooden stick.
- And then there was a slap in the face and a slap in the butt!
crackle crackle crackle crackle crackle!
He used 50% of his strength on his hand, and in three or two strokes, he whipped a group of subordinates into monkey butts. These burly men were so full of pain that they didn't dare to cry out. They bit their sleeves desperately, crying in their hearts. At the end, he felt that he was almost done, so he threw away the stick and sat down on the table again. The pony struggled to get up and limped up to light his cigarette.
"You know what's wrong?" Xia Liuyi asked.
"I know!" The pony said quickly, and the big men followed him and nodded vigorously.
"What's wrong?"
"Uh... hehe..."
Xia Liuyi took a cigarette and turned around to touch the stick again.
The pony saw that the situation was wrong, and a fierce man rushed forward and hugged Xia Liuyi's thigh, and let out a mournful and lingering scream, "Liuyi brother! You can't fight anymore! If you fight again, it will be useless!"
Xia Liuyi slapped his swollen ass with his palms mercilessly again! The pony screamed, and the big men turned their faces away.
"What did Lao Tzu do to support you bastards?" He finally scolded with a big mouth, "If you can't catch all of you, you need Lao Tzu to come out in person?"
"Brother Liuyi," Xiaoma covered his buttocks with a sad face, "I don't understand, Lai Quan only owes 20,000 yuan, why is there any need to arrest him in a big way..."
"You don't understand!" Xia Liuyi slapped his head with messy hair, "Your fucking brain is on your butt! Of course you don't understand!"
The pony squatted on the ground clutching the big bag above his head, hurt and aggrieved.
Xia Liuyi sat back with a cold face, "Lai Quan has a younger sister, do you know that?"
"I know, Lai Sanmei, a famous slut."
"What has she been up to lately?"
"Uh, I heard that I followed the big guy 'Fat Seven' at the event."
"Ada wants to open a nightclub on Bolan Street, Mongkok, next to Yau Ma Tei. Yau Ma Tei is the site of a grand event, so it's inevitable that he will come to make trouble. Now that I've caught Lai Quan, Fei Qi will have to call Ada to ask for his brother-in-law. I I have always listened to Ah Da’s words, and of course I’ll give him face immediately. Fei Qi owes Ah Da a favor, and there will be no accommodation for the nightclub in the future…”
"Oh! Oooh!" The pony suddenly yelled, indicating that he really knew this time.
Xia Liuyi slapped his ass again, "Grow your brain!"
"It must grow! It will grow soon! I've been with Brother Liuyi for three years, and I'm growing every day, really!" The pony clutched his butt and hurriedly flattered.
"roll!"
The little flatterer climbed up, grabbed the wooden stick and prepared to run away, slipped to the door and remembered something, and came back crying, "Brother Liuyi, there is one more thing about the new movie."
At the beginning of this year, Xia Liuyi and Cui Dongdong, the "white paper fan" in the gang, were ordered to open this "Xiaoqi Film Company" with the purpose of laundering money for the "head office". Cui Dongdong was in charge of the accounts, and Xia Liuyi, as the "general manager" in charge, had to make a few movies and pretend to act, so he would come here from time to time to sit in the hall. They had already made several tertiary films before, with good or bad returns. Now Qinglong wants to change the market and is making a gangster love story.
Xia Liuyi released a sharp eye knife, and the pony immediately shivered, "No, no, it's not a big deal! The director is ready! I lost 500,000 in gambling money. The heroine, the boss said that his sister-in-law would play the role. But that director can only make third-level films, and he is all about "Flaming Girl", "Midnight Cafe", "Feng Chen Mistress"... He Said to find a screenwriter who can write serious stories, this, this screenwriter, I don't know any of them..."
"Fuck it, just find someone who can read! If you can't, you can write!"
Xiaoma's face collapsed, "I didn't even graduate from middle school, Brother Liuyi!"
"Then find someone who graduated from high school!" He kicked over.
The pony screamed and ran away, clutching his butt. He took two steps and was called back.
Xia Liuyi lowered his head and smoked a cigarette, regaining his lazy and pretentious appearance, and recalled, "Two years ago, there was a college student in the city wall, let go of the firecrackers and look for him."
"clear!"
…
At 10:35 at night, a group of villains blocked the road and robbed He Chusan, who was returning home from self-study, in the alley. The sack was in his pocket, and he carried it back to the "company" in fifteen minutes.
He Chusan, He Xueren, is the first contemporary college student in the history of Jiaolong Fortress. The meaning is equivalent to a gold medal champion in ancient times. His mother, Shen Peipei, was one of the most beautiful girls in the city. Unfortunately, she was born blind with beautiful eyes and followed a little underworld thug who had no power, no power and no money. The two loved each other like glue, and Shen Jingnu was pregnant with a big belly before she got married. In the fourth month of her pregnancy, the little thug was hacked into pieces in the dark alley. Fortunately, there is a complete head left, and I can still recognize the corpse and talk about consolation.
Shen Jingnu did not accept consolation, and that night she couldn't figure it out, and she committed suicide by jumping into the sea with a big belly. Not long after it sank, it was picked up by an unlicensed dentist passing by. The dentist's surname is He, he looks bad, and he is honest. His wife ran away with others, and he doesn't mind being a cheap dad for others. Pretty girl Shen lay sick for six months in Dentist He's clinic. She went there on the day she gave birth. Before she died, she held Dentist He's hand. The child's surname is He, don't let him be a gangster.
Dentist He didn't even care about marrying his wife, so he worked diligently to bring up He Xiaoqian's son. Because he was born on the third day of the new year, his real name was He Chusan, his nickname was Asan, and his nickname was India Asan. Little India Asan is well-behaved, sensible and obedient. No matter how he was ridiculed, teased, provoked, molested and beaten from childhood to adulthood, he never fought, and gradually became a pure and elegant flower in Jiaolong Fortress with excellent character and learning. This strange flower finished elementary school and middle school with a scholarship all the way, and got an admission letter from Longgang University of Technology, which added an extremely strange brilliance to the Jiaolong Fortress, which was not visible to the sun.
When Dentist He heard the news of the admission, he was so excited that he set off a string of firecrackers for his son in the street, and the whole city knew it. The Guangyao lintel is also right, but unfortunately his son has been planted with this firecracker all his life.
On the night of this tragedy, He Chusan had just spent a day filling his brain with dense English formulas. He was walking down the familiar dark alley with a small schoolbag on his back. Suddenly, his nose and mouth were covered, and his eyes went black with a bang! In a daze, he "flyed" sideways!
It flew up and down, swish and swish for an unknown time, and then slammed again, and the eyes were bright!
At a glance, he saw a handsome young man in front of him. He wore a close-fitting black vest, showing healthy wheat-colored, handsome arms and shoulders. His two long legs, tightly wrapped in jeans, were folded on the table. superior. This handsome boy has handsome and cold eyebrows and star-like pupils. He was born with an alienated face, but his expression was very lazy and relaxed. He was eating a bunch of beef offal while watching TV intently.
"The Godfather" is being shown on the black-and-white TV. Marlon Brando is smoking a cigar and standing by the bed, speaking vague English. This is for He Chu, who grew up in a slum and has only seen TVs in the cabinets of shopping malls. Thirdly, it was a too novel experience, and he immediately pinned his attention to it!
The two watched intently for a while, Xia Liuyi, who was not literate enough to keep up with the changing rhythm of the subtitles, finally couldn't bear it any longer, "Pony!"
A young man with a scarred face and a greasy back came limping from the next room, "Hey! Brother Liuyi!"
"What about the Chinese dubbing?"
"Hey, this film is like this, no dubbing!"
"… "
"Hey hey hey." The pony gave a pleasing smile.
"roll!"
"Yes!" The pony slipped away.
"return."
"Yes!" Ma slipped back.
"Who is this?" Xia Liuyi raised his chin.
"Screenwriter, you asked me to catch it this afternoon." Pony proudly said.
Xia Liuyi frowned and looked up and down He Chusan, "Is this... an adult?"
"Why don't you tell Brother Liuyi, how old are you?!" The pony immediately changed his face and shouted fiercely.
"Twenty-one." He Chusan said obediently.
The pony kicked him on his hind legs, and He Chusan cried out in pain and fell to his knees, "What the fuck is twenty-one, sixteen is almost the same! Be honest!"
He Chusan lowered his head to touch the schoolbag, the pony thought he was going to kick the guy, kicked him two meters away, picked him up and wanted to beat him, but Xia Liuyi raised his hand and stopped him.
He Chusan coughed desperately while clutching his kicked chest, and pulled out his ID card from his schoolbag with shaking hands. The pony snatched over to see the date of birth, twenty-one was correct.
"Fuck!" the pony scolded. This kid has thin arms and stovepipes like a chicken, and his face is full of tenderness. Can this be twenty-one
He Chusan covered his chest and said nothing. The people on the road are unreasonable, he understands, and he still doesn't know what they are arresting him for, so silence is golden.
Xia Liuyi waved his hand and completely drove the pony away. Raising his chin, he motioned for He Chusan to sit down. He turned his head and continued to watch TV intently.
He Chusan's chest pained silently for a while, and then his attention was sucked away by the TV again.
The two watched silently together for about ten minutes. Xia Liuyi, who missed the subtitles again, frowned, "What did he say?"
"He said 'I'll give him an offer that he can't refuse'."
Xia Liuyi whistled, showing a very agreeable expression.
"What about this sentence?"
"Be closer to your enemies than to your friends."
This time Xia Liuyi raised his eyebrows.
After watching for a while, he picked up a bunch of beef offal and continued eating, and pushed the plate to He Chusan.
"No, thank you." He Chusan said.
"Fall on the street! Brother Liuyi asks you to eat and you can eat it!" A big man guarding the door suddenly let out a thunderous roar.
As a result, Xia Liuyi swung his long legs and kicked the whole plate of beef at him with one kick, "It's so noisy, get out!"
The big man rolled away quickly.
Xia Liuyi turned his head to continue watching TV, and handed the surviving half skewer of beef to He Chusan. He Chusan hesitated to answer, Xia Liu stared at the TV without turning his head, just shook the beef offal in his hand, and said gently, "Eat it."
He Chusan was like a little wild dog who entered a mansion by mistake, was reprimanded by his servants, and then was gently brushed by the owner. He took the beef offal and took a bite. He found out that this was the fat sister's snack shop next to his Abba clinic. the taste of.
He Chusan, who had not yet been deeply involved in the world, suddenly felt that this underworld boss was different from those he had seen and heard before - young, handsome, gentle, approachable, and should be able to reason.
He moved his hips secretly to relax a little, feeling that he had a chance to leave safely tonight.
He finished eating the string of beef offal, read the subtitles, and finally turned off the TV under Xia Liuyi's instructions. The "gentle" underworld boss started talking to him lazily, "Do you know what to do with you?"
He Chusan shook his head obediently.
"Have you heard of 'screenwriter'?"
Keep shaking your head.
Xia Liuyi explained to him patiently, "I want to make a movie, I need you to write a story, give it to me within three days."
He Chusan blinked and finally understood. But as a young colonial youth whose head is full of English formulas, he has absolutely no idea how to write.
"I'm studying finance..." he said.
- I don't write stories.
Before he could say the last sentence, the pony who had gone out earlier came in cursing, "Brother Liuyi! I called Sanmei Lai to ask for money, and Sanmei Lai said that the two brothers and sisters had cut off their relationship long ago, and Lai Quan is dead. Don't do her business!"
Xia Liuyi raised his eyebrows, "Huh?"
"Fuck it, his sister has no way of hanging up on me!" Pony added angrily.
Xia Liuyi was not in a hurry. He tilted his head and lit a cigarette with a leisurely expression, "Bring it in."
Within ten seconds, Lai Quan, who had a bruised nose and a swollen face, was carried over by several big men.
He Chusan was full of cold sweat, watching Xia Liuyi leisurely smoking a cigarette, he lifted up the stool and smoked Lai Quan into an inhuman shape! In the end, someone pressed him to the table, took off his socks to cover his mouth, and used pliers to pull out his nails one by one!
"I don't know what to do? Would you like Brother Liuyi to help you think about it?" Xia Liuyi pressed the smoking butt on Lai Quan's bloody fingers, "Think for yourself, just a finger. Brother Liuyi can help you think about it. , three fingers."
"Woooooooooo!" Lai Quan bit his stinky sock and kept crying, his head was about to fly out.
Xia Liu waved his hand, and the pony stepped forward and ripped off the smelly socks.
"I, I called my mother and asked my mother to beg her." Lai Quan said weakly with a crying voice.
"Good," Xia Liuyi patted his head approvingly, "One."
The pony jumped up and snapped cleanly! All I could hear was a piercing scream!
"Ooooooooooooo!"
He Chusan's young, slender, careful liver, with seven souls and six souls, was completely blown away by this last high-pitched sound! He was dumbfounded as he watched the limp Lai Quan being dragged away by several big men. The pony wrapped up the severed finger, instructed one of his subordinates to deliver it to Lai Quan's old mother, and diligently wiped the bloody table top with his own hands, and then quickly rolled away.
Xia Liuyi sat back at the table and put up his long legs again, "What did you just say?"
He Chusan smacked his lips blankly, "I'm studying finance..."
"Um?"
"I can write stories."
"Very good, darling."
[Anti-slip tips:
1. The Jiaolong Walled City is actually the "Kowloon Walled City" that has been demolished. Due to the addition of fabricated elements and slightly different settings, it was renamed Jiaolong Walled City to distinguish it.
2. In the Hong Kong gangster system, titles such as mountain master, deputy mountain master, red stick, white paper fan, and straw sandals are often abbreviated by specific numbers. In this article, for ease of reading and comprehension, it is omitted.]