I became a poor little sophora japonica in the courtyard

Huaihua passed by the door of Jinzheng Bank again. This small bank had been locked since she patronized it. It was estimated that the Xiangjiang branch of Jinzheng Bank was going to close down!

She had been wandering around Hong Kong for more than two months. Calculating the time, it was just the right time for her to meet Aunt Lou unexpectedly.

In the past two months, she has traveled all over the streets and alleys of Hong Kong Island, and even took a ferry to Kowloon New Territories, where she spent more than 20 days.

Now in the Hong Kong area, only the main island of Hong Kong and some urban areas of Kowloon seem to be prosperous, but the large undeveloped areas in the New Territories are like mountain fishing villages outside the city.

She visited Tsim Sha Tsui, Mong Kok, Tuen Mun, Yuen Long, Sai Kung and other places in Kowloon, which she had often heard of before.

These places are indeed full of good and bad people, with gangs and societies everywhere. Moreover, the black and white sides are colluding with each other, making those vendors and merchants miserable.

She saw with her own eyes at the Flower Street in Mong Kok that a low-ranking uniformed policeman took off his police cap to collect money in the name of collecting sanitation fees. After collecting money from the shops on only half a street, his police cap was already full of money.

Those shop owners dared not speak out but could only pay tribute obediently. If you were unwilling to pay, gang members would come and smash your shop.

At this point in time, the four Chinese chief inspectors in Hong Kong are all in control. Lui Lok, Yan Xiong, Lan Gang, Han Sen, which one is not notorious? Especially Lui Lok, the prototype of Lei Luo, who is known as the 500 million inspector.

In the 1960s, a skilled female garment worker in Hong Kong could support her family with a monthly salary of only 130 or 40 Hong Kong dollars. A minibus driver who worked early and came back late only earned more than 300 yuan a month. A house of more than 100 square meters in downtown Hong Kong now costs only 50,000 Hong Kong dollars.

Huaihua had read a biography called "Lei Luo Biography" in her previous life. It described in detail how Lei Luo made up all kinds of excuses to make a lot of money. He designated territories for various gangs and collected protection fees. Then, each gang had to hand over a certain share to him.

He would put all the money he collected every day in a building in Tsuen Wan. At the end of each month, he would distribute family support to 18 police stations and more than 10,000 police officers in Hong Kong.

Huaihua could no longer remember the exact address! She bought the same book on a shopping platform and flipped through it: Block A, 6/F, McAfee Building, Tsuen Wan, Kowloon.

Huaihua looked at the date. It was October 28, 1966. She wanted to see how much dirty money Lei Luo could collect every month.

She followed the address in the book and found the McAfee Building in Tsuen Wan. It is an 18-story commercial and residential building, with the lower two floors being commercial buildings and the upper floors being residential buildings.

Huaihua entered the elevator and pressed the button for the sixth floor. The elevator went up steadily. After a "ding" sound, the elevator door opened. The first thing that appeared in front of Huaihua was two uniformed policemen standing at the door of Building A on the sixth floor.

When the two policemen heard the ding-dong sound of the elevator, they turned around vigilantly with their holsters in their hands to check, but when the elevator door opened, they found that there was only a little girl of four or five years old inside, so they relaxed their vigilance.

Huaihua was calm and composed. She reached out and pressed the button for the seventh floor. There was a policeman standing guard at the door of Building A on the sixth floor. This must be where Lei Luo hid the cash.

The elevator stopped at the seventh floor, and Huaihua walked out. She looked around. The apartment here was two units per elevator. She walked to the door of Building A on the seventh floor, turned on the perspective function, and looked down.

Block A of this building has an area of ​​150 to 160 square meters. Block A on the sixth floor is completely empty, without even any furniture, except for a few desks and sofas in the living room. The floor of the room is littered with khaki canvas backpacks, bulging with colorful Hong Kong paper rolls tied up with rubber bands.

Huaihua's eyes swept around Building A on the sixth floor, taking all the canvas backpacks into the station warehouse, and then took the elevator down to the first floor of the building.

She walked down the street and went into the warehouse to check. There were more than 80 identical canvas backpacks inside. Each backpack had a number and the amount of money in each backpack was different. The stolen money had already been divided up, and all that was left was to distribute it.

She estimated that there were more than 100,000 Hong Kong dollars in each canvas bag. There were more than 80 backpacks here, with a total of about 8 million Hong Kong dollars. Excluding those middle and senior police officers with positions, ordinary police officers can get at least 100 yuan per month, right?

As long as you accept the money with a clear conscience, you will be in cahoots with them. If you refuse to accept the money, sorry, your colleagues will exclude you. So in Hong Kong during this period, no policeman was innocent.

That's how it is. It's only natural that Huaihua gets this money. It's estimated that the four Chinese chief detectives will have a headache for a while!

In the past two months, she has been looking for those quaint cobblestone alleys, turning on the perspective function and looking down to search.

But just as she had guessed before, Hong Kong's historical background was still too shallow, and it was a wild place before colonization. She didn't even pick up a broken piece of ancient porcelain!

However, she accidentally found an antique street. On both sides of the Man Mo Temple on Hollywood Road in Sheung Wan, there are hundreds of shops selling antiques. However, most of the antiques on the shelves of these shops are fakes.

But among the hundreds of antique shops, there are actually several shops selling jadeite raw stones. Huaihua used the perspective function to scan and picked out several high-quality raw stones.

Although she didn't know much about jadeite, and in her past life she only heard people around her talk about A-grade and B-grade jadeite, she was sure that the rough stones in front of her were all genuine and high-quality jadeite.

There was a piece of green that looked like green glass, and she knew there was a term called glass-type imperial green. There was another piece that was colorful, red, yellow, green, purple and transparent, and the colors were very beautiful.

She walked up to ask how much the rough stones were selling for. Unexpectedly, the rough stone shop owner looked down on her and waved her away.

"Go away, little sister. Don't come and interfere with my business!"

Huaihua was immediately furious! I'm not unwilling to pay you! With your attitude towards doing business, you deserve to lose money to avoid disaster.

She walked a few steps outside and looked back. Seeing that the boss was greeting other customers, she changed her mind and picked out the rough stones she had long been eyeing from a pile of stones and took them into the warehouse.

These must be good stuff! Huaihua bought an electric angle grinder from a shopping platform to grind off the outer skin of the raw stone.

Now, she has another option to spend time in the space. After practicing the piano in the evening, she puts on gloves and starts tinkering with these treasures.

It's a pity that I'm still too young! Otherwise, I could go to the raw stone mining area in Myanmar. Those fine jadeite raw stones buried in the mountains are just for me to take.

It's time to meet Aunt Lou unexpectedly! Huaihua put on the red shirt with big flowers that Aunt Lou gave her before, the pants decorated with green leaves and black cloth shoes. The standard red top and green bottom, the chili pepper style!

He smeared some black ash on his little face and threw some mud on his body, making himself covered in dirt.

As soon as it was light in the morning, she went to Hill Street in Sheung Wan, hid in a corner not far from Lou Mansion, and observed secretly.

After a whole day of waiting, Lou Xiao'e seemed to be reluctant to go out. No one was seen coming in and out of the gate of Lou Mansion, but Lou Xiao'e was nowhere to be seen.

Huaihua didn't believe that Lou Xiao'e had never gone out! She set up camp in a corner not far from Lou Mansion.

Lou Xiao'e moved into Lou Mansion on Hill Street in Hong Kong more than two months ago. Except for going to Sheung Wan Police Station to handle identity procedures, she has stayed in the house and rarely goes out.

She was a woman who dared to love and hate, and she could not let go of Sha Zhu. She wanted to write a letter to send to Sijiucheng, but she was afraid of implicating Sha Zhu.

Seeing her depressed, her mother Tan Yali tried to persuade her several times but to no avail. Now the Wei family, a family friend of the two families, has not found a place to stay yet, so they are still staying in Lou Mansion.

On this day, Mrs. Wei wanted to find a temple to burn incense and pray for her family. Tan Yali also had the same idea, and the two hit it off. They found a local maid to lead the way and prepared to take a minibus to the Tin Hau Temple in Causeway Bay.

Tan Yali also brought her daughter Lou Xiao'e along! She heard that the Tin Hau Temple in Causeway Bay can bless marriages, so Lou Xiao'e didn't mind going there to burn some incense.

The Causeway Bay Tin Hau Temple is located in Wan Chai, northwest of Hong Kong Island, not far from Sheung Wan. The Lou family's maid took them to Qian Nuo Road to take a minibus, which only took two stops.

They were waiting for the bus at the roadside platform. Suddenly, Lou Xiaoe's thigh was hugged by someone. At the same time, a childish but very familiar voice came into her ears.

"Aunt Lou! I'm hungry."