Ever since Kou Shuiwei won a large sum of money in the last NBA league, I don’t know what’s wrong with him recently. He loses everything he buys.
If you buy horses, you lose; if you buy lottery tickets, you lose.
It can be said that everything is going wrong and my gambling luck is bad!
There is a saying: Money earned by luck will often be lost by strength.
This sentence is both right and wrong.
Gambling, of course, relies purely on luck.
Don't even think about earning money based on your own ability. You can easily lose everything you have left.
Many newspapers and magazines will write news like this: most people who win the lottery will indulge in debauchery after getting the huge prize money and eventually become homeless, which is really sad.
In fact, this is just the result of selective media reporting.
This is what journalism and communication studies refer to as the misleading bias of mass media.
They just selectively report news that is in line with public values.
If a person won a prize of 100 million yuan, he would buy several houses in Beijing at once and live a very happy life from then on, collecting rent and basking in the sun every day.
Such a life will only make people jealous, and no one wants to read such news.
Everyone likes to read news about others’ decline from the peak. Such things make people feel satisfied. In fact, it is just the readers’ jealousy that is at work.
There are also many people who were once awesome but ended up with their companies going bankrupt and becoming penniless because of the failure of their strategies. We will unconsciously classify these people as those who lost money due to their own strength.
But a rotten boat still has half a pound of nails.
Even if others fail, they can still live a more carefree life than ordinary people. Some people can learn from their mistakes and make a comeback from where they started.
Kou Shuiwei lost so much money in gambling recently that he even pawned the jade bracelet that Zhao Zitong asked him to keep for safekeeping. He was worrying about how to make a comeback.
"Boss, why don't we go collect protection money?" The basketball boy next to him gave the boss an idea.
It has become increasingly difficult to engage in usury recently. People with money are investing in real estate, and fewer and fewer people are borrowing money to do business.
For those who don't know much about the Hong Kong underworld, Hong Kong movies are almost their entire source of understanding. They all think that the Hong Kong underworld is monopolizing all the gray industries in Hong Kong, from arms smuggling to collecting protection fees from fruit stalls.
But it is not difficult to find in Hong Kong movies that Big Brother B was raped by Liang Kun, Liang Kun was raped by Haonan, and Haonan was raped by a group of younger brothers.
Kill people and set fires and you will get a golden belt; build bridges and repair roads and you will leave no corpses.
There is only one Li family city in the whole of Hong Kong, and not all gangsters are big bosses. Only the grassroots brothers are the foundation of Hong Kong's underworld.
Movies are just movies after all. Plots on the edge of a knife are not life. The underworld is not all about you chopping me and I chopping you. Chopping each other will not prosper Hong Kong's knife-making and medical industries.
When he was beaten to a pulp, he realized that the Guan Erye on the table could not protect everyone.
If you are a human being you have to eat. The core businesses of gangs are mostly valet parking, driving vans, selling pornographic films, and persuading fruit stall ladies to pay protection fees.
After Hong Kong's return to China, he occasionally worked part-time as a tour guide for mainland tourists.
Switching from loan sharking to collecting protection fees is a good idea. Kou Shuiwei gave the basketball kid an admiring look:
"You, kid, have become more alert since you followed me!"
When Kou Shuiwei praises others, he never forgets to praise himself, because he is handsome, suave, humorous and smart.
"Then tell me, where is the best place to collect protection money?"
The underworld also has its own rules, which is that whoever owns the territory is the boss. If you want to cross the line, you have to rely on strength.
The strength mentioned here, of course, is the ability to chop people down. How can it be achieved by relying on eloquence
The only movie that can say someone to death is Stephen Chow's movie "Justice, My Foot" which dares to write like this. For the shameless gangsters, even the online violence of later generations cannot shake them in the slightest.
"Taikoo City!" The basketball kid had already found out:
"I heard that the boss there recently kept a migrant worker girl from the mainland. After she came to Dongguan, she had no time to take care of the business there."
"We are in a leaderless state now, so we are just waiting for the big brother to unify the world!"
Starting from 1980, a group of Hong Kong businessmen, white-collar workers and container truck drivers traveling between Hong Kong and the mainland began to keep mistresses in Shenzhen, Dongguan and other places.
As this "romantic army" expanded, some garden residences near the Luohu Wenjin To Port became famous for the relatively concentrated number of "mistresses", and these communities were called mistress communities.
By 1990, with the westward shift of Shenzhen’s central area, many urban villages in Futian became the first choice for a small number of Hong Kong people to “hide their mistresses in a golden house”.
Along the north bank of the Shenzhen River, there are many villages near Huanggang Port, China's largest inland port, such as Huanggang Village, Shangsha Village and Xixiasha Village.
These urban villages are becoming the first choice for Hong Kong container truck drivers to keep mistresses because they are convenient for them to rest and enter and exit.
People usually call villages where there are many mistresses renting houses mistress villages.
This name is unscientific, but it is catchy and has special meaning. Even in 2021, many people still call these urban villages this way.
"Okay! After we finish this hot pot, let's go to Tiangu City!"
He gulped down a large bottle of Coke, burped loudly, and then dropped the bottle in his hand to the ground with a "bang".
The posture was just like a general in ancient times who would drink a cup of wine before going to war and then smash the bowl.
While Kou Shuiwei, who was eating hotpot here, was thinking about how to grab territory in Taikoo City, while Zhao Zitong and the other two, who were eating hotpot over there, were thinking about how to set up their own shop in Taikoo City.
While eating the smooth goose intestines, Zhao Zitong told Yu Wenyin about his plan to open a fresh food supermarket.
Although she felt that Yu Wenyin was pedantic, she also felt that Yu Wenyin was a reliable friend. She was kind and upright, and she took the initiative to help her many times.
Besides, she is an outstanding student in the Department of Architecture at the University of Hong Kong. No one would believe you if you said she had no real skills.
Besides, she knows the Hong Kong people’s sentiments better than I do. I am still completely confused about Hong Kong in the 1990s.
After listening to this, Yu Wenyin did not express her opinion immediately. She threw the chopped beef into the hot pot and took it out after boiling it for a few seconds.
He put it in his sauce dish, took a big bite of beef, and then said to Zhao Zitong:
"Zi Tong, it's not that I don't approve of you making money."
"I'm just going to say something you don't like to hear: I know you're short of money now, but I think it's better for you to find a job than to run a business."
Zhao Zitong did not refute Yu Wenyin, because her idea was actually for her own benefit.
Everyone knows that doing business can make money, but everyone also knows that doing business is hard, and there are also great risks in doing business.