Chapter 5

The short song lasted only more than ten minutes. The little singer stopped and looked at the guests in front of him. Song TIANYAO took up the tea cup and drank the tea. It seemed that he was unaware of the music.

The little singer was very clever. He didn't make a sound or get up to interrupt song TIANYAO's thoughts. Instead, he gently fiddled with the Pipa and played a quiet and elegant tone.

After another five or six minutes, song TIANYAO got out of his mind, turned his face and smiled at the little singer. He took five yuan from his wallet and put it on the table:

"Fast but not disorderly, slow but constant, the sound is not too high, the festival is not too fast, and the melody is elegant and upright. This is a reward for you."

It was not until song TIANYAO spoke that Xiao Geling stood up and squatted down to thank song TIANYAO, but did not hurry to get the reward on the table. Instead, she was surprised that song TIANYAO, a young man like an international student, knew how to evaluate the tune he had just played:

"Does Mr. also dabble in Pipa?"

"You just played the pipa fingering of Chongming school. When I was in Shanghai, I had an old friend who was also proficient in Chongming's Pipa pinkie." song TIANYAO thought of someone's shadow and waved his hand after saying that to Xiao Geling: "thank you for your short song."

Little singer came over to accept the reward, thanked again and returned.

Although for a moment, song TIANYAO's expression attracted her to stay and listen to song TIANYAO talk about his past.

Wu Jinliang left for two hours. He didn't come back until five o'clock in the evening. He opened the door of the box and said to song TIANYAO before taking his seat:

"Brother, it's done. The second son of the Chu family promised to come down. I've made arrangements. At six o'clock, I'll go to the third floor of Taibai seafood restaurant. After ten o'clock, I'll go to the dance floor nightclub in the north corner for recreation. The position in the front row of the stage costs a total of 846 yuan. There's still..."

Song TIANYAO responded with a smile to Wu Jinliang: "brother Liang, the money I gave will never be taken back. The rest is naturally your thank-you gift."

Wu Jinliang had seen song TIANYAO's generosity before. At this time, he was no longer polite. He sat opposite song TIANYAO and began to tell the origin of the second son of the Chu family invited tonight.

In Hong Kong, there are many chambers of Commerce and prefixes in various places. Except for the aborigines in the new territories, the Chinese in Hong Kong can only be regarded as outsiders. When people from coastal areas such as Chaofeng, Haining, Shunhua and Lu Zhao come to Hong Kong to survive, they naturally need to take care of and unite with each other.

Therefore, these local chambers of Commerce in Hong Kong are probably equal to the chamber of Commerce organizations such as Wen merchants and Zhejiang merchants contacted by song TIANYAO in later generations. Businessmen from the same region gather together to share resources and contacts with each other and jointly obtain the greatest benefits.

At first, the purpose of the association was not to be bullied by other foreigners. Those who know kung fu and have enough loyalty stood up and gathered a group of brothers to stand out for the villagers. However, with more and more members of the association, the original intention of the association also changed.

The current situation is that the chamber of Commerce keeps associations and uses them to provide labor and umbrellas for itself, while the associations escort the chamber of Commerce and find some wharf jobs for the brothers in the association to solve the problem of food and clothing.

The president of Chaofeng chamber of commerce is Chu Yaozong. His Liheng firm is mainly engaged in grain and oil business. It is regarded as the leader of Chaofeng businessmen. After the war, Hong Kong is full of waste and all walks of life rise. Therefore, Chu Yaozong has opened two small firms in recent two years to intervene in the business of drug import and export and kerosene.

Chu Yaozong has three sons. His eldest son, Chu Xiaozhong, is 29 years old. At present, he helps Chu Yaozong run the business of Liheng firm. As the president of Chaofeng chamber of Commerce, Chu Yaozong has to deal with the large and small affairs of the whole chamber of Commerce. His basic grain and oil business is handed over to his eldest son, who also tells everyone in one way that Chu Lianhai will be in charge of the lintel of the Chu family in the future.

Chu Xiaoxin, the second son, was born by Chu Yaozong's sequel. He is 22 years old and outgoing. When he was born, his family was already rich and noble. Therefore, some dandies have the posture of being flashy, bohemian and warm-hearted. It is best to make friends. Chu Yaozong gave the Chu family's grain and oil business to his eldest son and the drug business to Chu Xiaoxin, Although the drug business is not big, the benefits in January can also make a slight surplus after taking out Chu Xiaoxin's expensive expenses.

Chu Xiaozhi, the third son, is only 12 years old. He and Chu Xiaoxin were born to the same mother and are still studying at this time.

Wu Jinliang introduced song TIANYAO to work as the Secretary of the second junior of the Chu family.

"Chu Yaozong has three sons. As the saying goes, the emperor loves his eldest son and the common people love his youngest son. No matter whether Chu Yaozong is learning from the emperor or from the common people, he will not pay too much attention to the two children of the Chu family. Therefore, although Likang firm said that Chu Xiaoxin was given full authority to take care of it, he never asked, but in fact, Likang firm arranged Chu Yaozong's wife and uncle to stare at it at the wharf. This wife and uncle is not a sequel But the brother of Chu Xiaozhong, the eldest son, and the brother of Chu Yaozong's ex-wife who died of illness. The wife and uncle kept an eye on the business of Likang firm all the time, looking for opportunities to take the firm back for his nephew Chu Xiaozhong. The second junior of the Chu family had already spoken in various teahouses to find an eye-catching Secretary to help manage the business and keep his small job Industry, willing to pay 200 yuan a month for the Secretary, brother, if you really have talent and learning, this is the treasure land to display your ambition. "Wu Jinliang drank the fragrant tea in the tea cup and stared at Song TIANYAO.

Song TIANYAO nodded slightly and showed a smiling face: "after listening to brother Liang, I think this job seems to be specially designed for me."

The two of them had tea and chatted in the teahouse until 5:30. Then they got up and took a rickshaw to xishen Bay, Jiulong Tong. When they arrived at Shenwan, Jiulong Tong, the lights were already on. From a distance, they saw a lot of boats and boats on the sea, resplendent and brightly lit. All kinds of lights were reflected on the sea. The scenery was beautiful. From time to time, small boats rowed between various boats and the wharf, Pick up the guests boarding the boat.

Song TIANYAO is no stranger to the food boat in Hong Kong at this time. Later generations have seen many Hong Kong films and there are scenes about the food boat. For example, in lame Hao, Wu Xihao met Feifei for the first time. Feifei took the mistress played by Ye Zimei, wrapped up a whole food boat and was having dinner. His men gave him two yuan to see his hometown Wu Xihao.

However, song TIANYAO came to this place for the first time in his life. At this time, he stood on the wharf and looked at the food boat moored on the distant sea, but he didn't know how to ask the other party to sail to pick him up.

Fortunately, he followed Wu Jinliang. Song TIANYAO didn't speak. Wu Jinliang stood on the dock and pointed to a boat that had just sent the guests: "go to Taibai."

The boatman dressed in short fighting pulled the boat over with a bamboo pole and politely said to the two: "please board the boat."

When Wu Jinliang and song TIANYAO stood firm on the boat, the boatman supported the boat and rowed steadily towards the position of Taibai seafood boat, the most gorgeous food boat in Shenwan. When he saw a boat coming, the guys on the boat had already prepared the pedal to connect the boat with the food boat. Two capable guys came down and helped them to board Taibai seafood boat.

The whole Taibai seafood restaurant is divided into three floors. At this time, there are many diners on the middle and lower floors. They chat and listen to music in front of the wine table. It is noisy. The third floor at the top is covered by Wu Jinliang. At this time, after song TIANYAO ascended the third floor with Wu Jinliang, the noise on the lower two floors was immediately dispersed by a slight sea breeze, and the eyes are full of stars, With the magnificent scenery of Yueyong River, song TIANYAO stood against the railing and said, "good scenery."

At this time, on the whole third floor, there was only a table of twelve people in the center. There was no one else except the guys who hung their heads around waiting to serve the guests.

Song TIANYAO heard Wu Jinliang talk about it in the teahouse. The cost of wrapping up the third floor of Taibai seafood restaurant is 500 yuan. This money was definitely a huge sum in Hong Kong in the 1950s. However, in this situation, song TIANYAO felt that the money should be spent. It's just the scenery on the fence at this time. No more is not expensive.

After enjoying the night view of the sea for a while, before it reached seven o'clock, a man on the downstairs steps had shouted to remind: "one distinguished guest on the third floor!"

After hearing this, the waiter near the third floor stairway quickly stood over. He only heard the footsteps on the stairs. A handsome young man came up wearing a long windbreaker coat. When he saw song TIANYAO and Wu Jinliang standing up, he smiled and said hello to Wu Jinliang: "Lao Wu!"

"Please hurry, please hurry." Wu Jinliang hurried over and led Chu Xiaoxin to the top. Chu Xiaoxin took off his windbreaker and threw it to the waiter behind him. He looked at Song TIANYAO next to him. Apart from others, song TIANYAO was very satisfied with his appearance at this time,

"Open the table." Wu Jinliang said to the man in the distance, "ask someone to come up to accompany you."

A waiter immediately went downstairs to arrange. When Chu Xiaoxin was seated, Wu Jinliang helped the other party pour a cup of tea first, and then opened his mouth to introduce song TIANYAO to Chu Xiaoxin: "Xinshao, this is our Chaofeng fellow, song TIANYAO. He used to be a Chinese manager in Macao ocean bank and came to Hong Kong recently. I always remember that Xinshao said he wanted to find a secretary, so as soon as ah Yao arrived in Hong Kong, I'll ask you out to meet him. This is Xinshao, the boss of Likang business bank."

"Hello, Xinshao." song TIANYAO greeted Chu Xiaoxin politely.

After Chu Xiaoxin sat down, he found that his cigarette was still in the windbreaker. He wanted to turn around and ask the waiter to take out his cigarette. Song TIANYAO nearby had handed over his three or five cigarettes.

Chu Xiaoxin smiled and nodded, took out a cigarette and said to song TIANYAO, "ah Yao, right? How old is this year?"

"Eighteen years old." song TIANYAO struck a match, handed it over and helped Chu Xiaoxin light his cigarette.

"Eighteen? Eighteen year old manager Hua?" Chu Xiaoxin was stunned and looked at Wu Jinliang. He thought song TIANYAO would be in his early twenties, but he didn't expect to be only 18. Which foreign firm might let an 18-year-old boy become the manager of China? But Wu Jinliang didn't look like a braggart, so Chu Xiaoxin took a cigarette, handed the cigarette box back to song TIANYAO and continued to ask, "have you read a book?"

Song TIANYAO took the cigarette box, lit a cigarette for himself and said, "after three years at the Wenzhi college in Hong Kong, he dropped out and worked as a Chinese manager at the maladu foreign firm in Macao for half a year."

"I learned a foreign language. No wonder I can be a Chinese manager at the age of 18. Why didn't I read Huangren in those years? If I read Huangren, maybe we can still be classmates." Chu Xiaoxin nodded clearly.

Chu Xiaoxin was born in Huangren college, the best middle school in Hong Kong, but he also knows about Wenzhi college. Like Huangren college, Wenzhi college is an official Middle School of the Hong Kong colonial government. Its teaching is in English and Latin. Although it is not as famous as Huangren college, it is also a well-known institution.

As for the position of manager Hua, to be honest, it seems more reliable than the background of Wenzhi college. Many Chinese people now see that ordinary Chinese employees working in Dayang bank are used to calling manager Fang Hua. Chu Xiaoxin thought that song TIANYAO should be an ordinary employee of a Macao foreign bank for half a year and want to change jobs in Hong Kong.

"His family fell and he dropped out of school on the way," song TIANYAO said to Chu Xiaoxin.

After this sentence, the steps on the stairs rang, and the three singers with appearance signs were led up by the waiter.