Chapter 38

In the evening, Chu Xiaoxin woke up from the guest room of dulisch Hotel and took a bus home.

The Chu family lives in a garden villa on shankerton road in the western half of Hong Kong Island, covering an area of more than 20000 square feet. Even if calculated according to square meters, it is nearly 2000 square meters. When the whole Tang building in other areas is only more than 100000 Hong Kong dollars, the garden villa here has broken one million or even two million.

Compared with the garden house of the Chu family, Yao Mu's small villa in Taiping mountain, the former chief inspector Hua's, can only be regarded as a pigeon cage.

This garden villa was bought by Chu Yaozong in the 1930s. The Chu family is not only the first batch of Chinese living in a Western-style house on the top of the mountain in Hong Kong, but also the first Chaozhou businessman. Chu Yaozong's neighbors are Zhou Xiyu, President of Dongguan chamber of Commerce, Cai Wenbai, President of Wuyi chamber of Commerce, and so on.

This is why Zhang Rongjin, Li Jiusheng, Yao Mu and Liu Fu are not qualified to let these big men come forward, even if they have a high reputation in the Hong Kong Police Force and even in the Jianghu.

The people who live here represent the faces of the local chambers of Commerce in their respective regions and even all the local people who come to Hong Kong. A chief Chinese inspector can hold a position for only hundreds of thousands of Hong Kong dollars. In the eyes of these real Chinese businessmen, he is just a chess piece.

Chu Xiaoxin got out of the car outside his foreign house, changed his home shoes under the service of his domestic servant, and then walked towards the restaurant.

The tradition of the Chu family is that unless they separate and live alone, as long as they go home for dinner, the whole family must sit at the table and eat together.

"Father." when Chu Xiaoxin entered the restaurant, Chu Yaozong was sitting at the big table in a loose Tang suit, reading the newspaper with glasses. Uncle en stood behind Chu Yaozong in a proper manner and saw Chu Xiaoxin come in, showing a smiling face.

"Well, just sit down and wait for dinner. The soup will be ready." Chu Yaozong stopped in the newspaper without raising his eyes.

Chu Xiaoxin obediently walked to his position and sat down. Then he nodded hello to his eldest brother Chu Xiaozhong, who sat opposite him: "eldest brother."

Chu Xiaozhong pushed the gold wire glasses and smiled at Chu Xiaoxin: "it's rare for a Xin to come back for dinner today."

"Er..." Chu Xiaoxin lowered his head and had no interface.

He knows his identity very well. Outside, he is the second son of the Chu family who is majestic and lavish in money, but when he comes home, he is a dandy and useless man despised by his father and his brother.

Chu Xiaozhong occasionally stabbed him with words, but he didn't know how to fight back, because his eldest brother, as the outside world said, inherited his father's ability and ambition. Since Chu Xiaozhong took over, the grain and oil business of the Chu family has been better than that of his father before, and he also funded the establishment of several new companies to set foot in other industries such as refrigeration and shipbuilding, It opened up territory for the Chu family.

But he Chu Xiaoxin, in addition to guarding a small pharmaceutical firm as a money pot, achieved nothing.

"Father, I heard that Mr. Zhou Xiyu will attend the dinner of the Kowloon Chinese Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong the day after tomorrow." Chu Xiaozhong saw his brother hang his head, smiled freely and said to Chu Yaozong, who was reading the newspaper.

Chu Yaozong handed the newspaper to Uncle en behind him and nodded: "I know this. Tan peihuan, the Secretary General in charge of liaison of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, sent an invitation last week. The main purpose is to discuss the regulations on warehousing of foreign materials at the wharf recently issued by the Administration for Industry and commerce. It is normal for Zhou Xiyu to participate in this kind of meeting. Nearly half of his more than 20 companies are engaged in Wharf business."

"Recently, I and my friends are going to invest in building four refrigerated warehouses on Hong Kong Island. Mr. Zhou Xiyu's current milk company accounts for 70% of the market share of Hong Kong's milk industry. Before, his milk company always bought ice and stored it by itself. I think it's OK to hand over their milk to the cold storage warehouse for storage. I can solve the logistics myself. If it's feasible, I'd like to ask my father for help At the dinner the day after tomorrow, say hello to Mr. Zhou Xiyu. "Chu Xiaozhong looked at his father calmly and said his thoughts calmly.

Chu Yaozong thought for more than ten seconds before he said, "Zhou Xiyu has opened an ice factory himself. Can you give you such a large market share? It's impossible. You can talk about how he uses the ice factory to buy shares in your refrigeration company. As for the share ratio, you can talk about it yourself."

"Thank you, father." Chu Xiaozhong said to Chu Yaozong with a sigh of relief.

Zhou Xiyu in the mouth of the father and son is the president of Dongguan chamber of Commerce. He has many titles and identities, such as justice of the peace, chairman of Hong Kong Baoliang Bureau, member of Hong Kong China Chamber of Commerce, President of Hong Kong cotton and Hemp Industry Chamber of Commerce and so on.

Of course, in the eyes of others, Zhou Xiyu is undoubtedly dazzling, but Chu Yaozong, as the president of Chaofeng chamber of Commerce, has no less titles and honors than Zhou Xiyu. There are many titles such as justice of the peace, director of Hong Kong Baoliang Bureau, member of Hong Kong Chinese Merchants Association and president of Hong Kong grain and oil industry chamber of Commerce.

This is also why Chu Xiaozhong asked his father to talk to Zhou Xiyu. His identity as the son of the Chu family may still work in the eyes of others, but in front of Zhou Xiyu, he is just a worthless descendant. At the banquet, he praised a few words and patted his shoulder. Zhou Xiyu may not be stingy, but talk about business? He's not qualified yet.

Chu Yaozong, who put down the newspaper, asked about Chu Xiaozhong's grain and oil business, turned his eyes to Chu Xiaoxin, who lowered his head and didn't say a word, and asked, "ah Xin, I heard that you caused trouble in Lichi last night? Broke the head of the dry son of a detective Hua in Wuyi?"

"Ah Xin... I'm not the eldest brother. My father is old and has a lot of business at home. Please take care of yourself and help take care of the business at home..." Chu Xiaozhong was surprised and helpless. He took off his gold wire glasses, rubbed his eyebrows and said with a bitter smile to Chu Xiaoxin: "You seem arrogant to beat people. Everyone dares not provoke you, but people will laugh at the Chu family. Which one did you hit? I'll send someone to help you clean up your hands tomorrow."

"Elder brother, I have settled the matter last night by myself." Chu Xiaoxin raised his head and said to Chu Xiaozhong, and immediately lowered his head.

"Settle it by yourself?" Chu Xiaozhong was stunned and immediately laughed again: "how much did you lose? 30000? 50000? Which uncles of the chamber of commerce were invited to help mediate?"

"Two thousand yuan, no trouble for my father's friend. My secretary and a friend of the police helped solve it."

"The dry son of a detective only needs to pay 2000 yuan? It's from Wuyi, not Chaozhou?" Chu Xiaozhong said to Chu Xiaoxin, "Xin, do you believe this price can be solved?"

"It's true! Why don't you believe me?" Chu Xiaoxin raised his head and stared at Chu Xiaozhong: "do you have to sneer at me every time you go home?"

"If you do your best, you won't take other people's words as sarcasm." Chu Xiaozhong said disdainfully when he saw that Chu Xiaoxin was angered.

"Your secretary and a police friend help you solve it. By the way, uncle en, I seem to say, let ah Xin's secretary come home to drink soup tonight." Chu Yaozong looked at the quarrel between his two sons and was not angry. He just raised his head and said to Uncle en behind him, "where is he?"

"Sir, I'm going to ask Secretary song to come and see you." Uncle en said behind his back.

Chu Yaozong nodded: "it's good to see such a beautiful person lying on the chopping board with empty hands. Besides, he did a good job last night. That's how he did it."