Hong Kong: When the Wind Rises Again

early morning.

The sun rises from the sky, bringing warm golden light, and it is another sunny day.

Causeway Bay.

In a residential building in a mid- to high-end community, Boss B is busy in the kitchen wearing an apron.

"Eat quickly, I woke up more than 20 minutes late today, and we don't have much time."

He walked out of the kitchen with a cup of freshly ground soy milk and handed it to his daughter: "Drink it quickly. After drinking it, your mother will send you to school."

"Uh-huh."

Boss B's daughter stuffed fried eggs in her mouth and nodded in agreement with a confused expression.

"Slow down and drink some soy milk."

Boss B looked at his young daughter dotingly and pushed the soy milk in front of her: "There's no need to be in such a hurry, don't choke."

"Your mother has been acting strange these days. She goes out to buy groceries every day and comes back. Tell her what you want to eat and ask her to buy it accordingly."

Although Boss B is from the club, he has put away his fierce look in front of his daughter and replaced it with kindness.

He has been out for so many years, found a wife, Azhen, and gave birth to a daughter. His boss B is also satisfied.

Recently, after being beaten so hard by Jiang Tiansheng, Big Boss B felt a little unhappy and acted like a Buddha.

I only spend a short time at my place every day, and most of my time is spent at home with my daughter and wife.

Boss B finished breakfast with his daughter and was just about to ask his wife to send her daughter to school when he saw his wife coming out of the bedroom in a rage.

"It's over."

Azhen put on her coat, took the car keys and went out: "It's too late, I'm late, I'm late."

She closed the door behind her back, not forgetting to say: "You send the girl to school, I don't have time."

"Going to the street, are you such a bitch?"

Boss B muttered, looked at his wife who had left, and muttered in a low voice: "Girl, you don't care, you only know how to play cards."

He took off his apron, put on his coat, and after his daughter finished eating, he helped her carry her small pink schoolbag and sent her to school.

Azhen drove the car all the way from Causeway Bay to Aberdeen.

I met my bestie on the side of the road, and the two of them walked in tandem to the Wu Kee Market in front of them, one after the other.

Azhen was so angry that she really didn't have anything else to worry about. She was in a hurry to buy vegetables at Wuji Market.

In order to attract people, Wu Ji Food Market is doing some anniversary celebration activities to give back to customers, which is very lively.

At first, Azhen didn't know about this, and she never went shopping for groceries. On weekdays, Boss B's younger brother would deliver groceries to her door.

And there is no such thing as Wu Kee Market in Causeway Bay.

It's just a vegetable market, nothing to pay attention to.

This is what Azhen's best friend told her.

That day, her best friend took her all the way west to Wu Kee Market in Aberdeen with a magical expression on her face.

Compared with other vegetable markets, the environment here is indeed much better, and it doesn't look cluttered, just like a small supermarket.

Just this is not enough for Azhen to be interested. The main reason is that the market is doing activities during this time.

The activity is also very simple. As long as you spend more than 58 yuan on food at the market, you can go to the market management office to participate in the lottery.

There are all kinds of prizes, and they are 100% guaranteed to win. The value of the prizes varies.

Azhen was born to be a lottery winner. The first time she came, she won a grand prize of 1,000 yuan, the second time 500 yuan, and the third time.
In this way, her best friend took her here to buy groceries for three consecutive days and five consecutive days.

Azhen won more than 5,000 yuan in total. In one word, it was great!

Her best friend was a bit unlucky, and in five days she won only 500 yuan, plus a rice cooker.

This is already very good, and the previous good prizes have basically been taken away.

Nowadays.

It was the last day of their Wuji Market's anniversary celebration, and the prize pool for the lottery had taken a quantum leap.

The first prize is 188,000 in cash, the first prize is 88,000 in cash, the second prize is 8,800 in cash, and the difference after that is much different...
The threshold for the lottery is not high, as long as you spend at least 108 yuan at the market.

The number of draws is limited and each person can only participate once.

Of course.

If you want to draw more times, you can also buy a stored-value card from the market.

It's something like a small card, made of special metal, with a hidden serial number printed on the back, similar to the coating on a lottery ticket.

When consuming at the market, just scratch it off and align it, and use the whole sheet at a time.

One card with a denomination of 100 can be drawn once for every 500 recharges, up to four draws for 2,000 recharges.

Don’t retreat!

Azhen usually likes to play cards to kill time, and she has always believed in momentum.

I have won consecutive prizes in the past few days, and I am gaining momentum. I am sure that I will really win a big prize today.

When the two of them arrived outside Wu Ji Vegetable Market, there were already many people here. Standing outside and looking in, it was crowded.

Basically, all the citizens from the nearby residential areas came here. Grandpa and grandma were very excited, and they all came here for the lottery.

It doesn’t matter if you win the big prize or not, as long as you win a small prize, you will be satisfied.

What if?
What if you get hit?

You have to buy vegetables anyway. If you buy a few more kilograms of meat or a piece of seafood, you will reach the lottery threshold.

and.

Wuji Food Market has grown in scale and has basically created a chain effect in the area, with a good flow of people.

The Wuji Market was crowded with people, and the management office also temporarily dispatched additional security personnel, and also asked the police station to deploy military uniforms to patrol.

There was already a long queue at the venue.

At the entrance to the food market, the management office's stored-value card purchase point is set up here, which is only accessible but not accessible.

At the back door of the market, the lottery point is set up here, you can only go out but not in.

The vegetable market is sandwiched in the middle.

Although there were many people at the scene, the order was maintained very well and the management was orderly.

"oops."

The best friend held the banknotes in her hands, looked at the queue in front of her, and complained to Azhen behind her: "It's all your fault. Look, I'm late."

She glanced unkindly at the grandparents in front of her: "The first prize is only a few. If they take it away, we will lose it."

"Oh, how could I know?"

Azhen also muttered: "At such an old age, I still come out to line up for the lottery so early in the morning. I'm not ashamed."

"I won ten pounds of pork!"

"Won a box of eggs!"

“I won three thousand yuan in cash!!”

Every time the lottery was drawn, someone would announce it with a loudspeaker. After the 88,000 cash prize was announced, the scene immediately became excited.

My best friend was furious when she heard this: "Oh, all the good prizes are gone!"

She looked at the long queue in front of her. If there weren't many security guards around her, she would have rushed forward and jumped in line.

"Eight thousand eighty-eight thousand dollars in lottery cash!"

The second prize will be awarded directly half an hour after the opening.

A grandma of a certain age took her lottery ticket number to the exchange desk. The process of redeeming the prize was extremely smooth. She collected the tickets and redeemed the prize and took away the rolls of cash.

Facing Le Huizhen's camera, the grandma smiled widely, showing her missing teeth: "Thank you, thank you so much, boss. Eight thousand eighty, I have been eating and drinking for nothing at the market for more than half a year."

"Hahaha"

Everyone burst into laughter immediately.

"Shadow!"

"Internal, fake lottery!"

Someone muttered and said so, but the queue did not break up at all.

Everyone stood in line, motionless, motionless. The main thing is that they love to line up.

Most of them are nearby residents. Regardless of whether there is a lottery or not, they will come here to spend money.

Having such a link makes it even more fun.

Opposite the food court.

Wu Zhihui, Big D, Ah Ji, and Liu Yaozu were sitting next to the window on the second floor of the tea restaurant.

Normally business is good at this spot, but today there were very few people having breakfast.

Today is another working day. Young people have to work, and grandparents are busy with lottery draws, so they don’t have time to drink morning tea.

There were basically no customers in the store, and there were very few waiters. There was only one waiter and one chef in the entire restaurant, and even the restaurant bosses joined the queue on the opposite side.

The boss even specially called all his waiters and chefs over.

Buy a stored-value card worth up to two thousand to get more lottery draws and win a big prize. Anyway, the restaurant has to buy it every day.

"Your meal."

When the waiter brought the breakfast, he didn't forget to take a look at the bustling scene of the food market opposite.

It was obvious that he also wanted to take a shot.

Maybe one shot into the soul?

"Tsk, tsk."

Liu Yaozu sipped on the straw while holding the frozen lemon tea, and glanced at the busy market opposite: "The boss is smart enough."

“While we were still running errands, we also pushed the store’s stored-value card business to a higher level.”

"I think if the current trend continues, the market will make a lot of money today!"

"Oh, these people have to consume anyway."

Wu Zhihui waved his hand reservedly: "The ones with high consumption will be spent in a short time, and the ones with low consumption will be spent in two and a half years at most. It's not big."

The market is now operating very stably, and it’s time to organize activities to make it lively.

Properly giving away profits, stored-value cards will undoubtedly increase user stickiness.

At present, he has opened a total of 16 stores in Xiangjiang. So many stores are doing activities at the same time, which is very lively.

Of course.

No businessman, no traitor.

Wu Zhihui opened a vegetable market there and spent some money out of his own pocket. It couldn't be for charity. It must be a way to absorb funds in advance.

You may not make much in the short term, but the long-term benefits are huge.

And for those in the market, it was a reassurance.

This is just like those shopping mall properties that organize a series of activities during holidays. They use their own money to organize various activities, and even invite scantily clad dance halls to dance.

Why does the real estate company have to pay this money?
It is nothing more than attracting traffic, and then stabilizing the internal merchants to remain stable, so that they can continue to collect rent stably, or even increase the rent.

"hehe."

Big D looked convinced and bared his teeth and praised: "The boss is proficient in everything, and he also has great ideas in business."

When it comes to doing business, my boss Hui is definitely a layman.

But as long as he puts forward a point of view at a certain link, it will definitely be effective and achieve good results.

This is something that Big D admires very much.

The same goes for Liu Yaozu.

Previously, he had been struggling with how to deal with Big Boss B and make the civil strife in Hongxing bigger.

I haven't been able to find a good trick for a long time.

Wu Zhihui gave a little bit of advice, and by the way, he also took care of the operation of the market, killing two birds with one stone.

This time the market is operating on such a large scale, Jiang Tiansheng will definitely see it.

The four of them chatted and ate breakfast, their eyes scanning the market over there from time to time.

in the crowd.

Azhen and her best friends were about to arrive in line, but little did they know that eyes were staring at them.

"full!"

My best friend put the banknotes she prepared in advance on the stored-value desk, and A-Zhen did the same.

Number of draws +4.

After the two entered the market, they looked at Aunt Aji's fruit column at the door and each ordered a durian.

Number of draws +1.

They didn't take anything, and went straight to the back door. They came to the lottery area at the back and handed over the lottery tickets in their hands.

The two of them were in high spirits.

My best friend took the lead and smoked five times in a row, which was okay and satisfactory. She drew 500 yuan in cash, plus a carton of eggs and a pound of cucumbers.

She pursed her lips, feeling a little dissatisfied, and looked at Azhen: "Look at your luck?"

What a coincidence.

There was someone in front of Azhen. This person was lucky and took away the first prize of 88,000.

As for the winners, former journalist Le Hye-jung, who was in charge of the shooting, of course had to take photos of the winners, and also give an acceptance speech.

soon.

Arrived at Azhen.

"I'm definitely going to win the jackpot."

Azhen murmured to herself and handed over the lottery tickets.

The service staff smiled and motioned for her to draw the lottery.

At the beginning.

The four consecutive draws were also mediocre, until the last blow.

The service staff standing in front of the lottery box stepped under the box before A-Zhen reached out.

The interior compartments of the box are pulled up.

Azhen scratched inside, took out the lottery ticket, and opened it.

The first prize is 188,000 cash.

"Ah? Ah!!"

Azhen took the lottery ticket, looked at the 188,000 on it, and stomped her feet excitedly: "Damn it, I really won?!"

"Ok?"

The service staff were also stunned.

The expressions on his face were very rich, ranging from surprise to envy and even jealousy.

However, the quality of the service staff is still very good. In other words, the food court is still grand, and the process of redeeming prizes is still refreshing.

"Damn, the first prize is gone?"

"It's an unofficial decision, it's definitely an unofficial decision!"

"Look at how well this person takes care of himself. He doesn't look like someone who would go to the market to buy vegetables."

Someone started to complain.

Azhen, who had finished redeeming her prize, listened to these discussions and cursed at them before taking the money and leaving quickly.

Don't tell me yet.

This 188,000 is really the inside story.

Today's lottery at the market is for the inside story of Azhen, Big Boss B's wife.

Send the money to boss B through his wife.

"The acting looks very similar."

Changmao walked out with a smile, glanced at Azhen who had walked away, praised the service staff, and looked at Le Huizhen over there.

Le Huizhen tacitly asked her assistant to come up with a camera and also started the interview: "As the person in charge of the market, this time Wu Ji Market."

All these things must be packed up and distributed with the TV station when the time comes.

Eighty-eight Wanba's acceptance speech and Changmao's interview should be cut and sent out together.

As for Ah Zhen's 188,000, Le Huizhen didn't even take a picture of her, let alone say anything about her acceptance speech.

Only in this way, with comparison, will there be reasons for people to doubt.

There must have been eyeliners watching when Azhen came over, and the contrast between the coming and going reached Jiang Tiansheng's ears.

Let Jiang Tiansheng guess the specific situation.

Market entrance.

A Liang arranged for Ma Zai, who was responsible for tracking Big Boss B, to watch A Zhen leave and quickly call out to his accomplices: "Let's go, let's go."

The accomplice was excited and prepared to recharge the stored-value card in exchange for a lottery chance: "I'm recharging for the lottery."

He who usually loves gambling encountered this kind of thing and forgot that he was here to keep an eye on him: "The first prize hasn't been announced yet. If I win the first prize, I'll make a fortune. It's 188,000 yuan."

"Slap your mother!"

Ma Zai slapped him angrily: "Big B's wife secretly took away the first prize, and you're still fucking slapping me!"

"Do you really think it's your turn to get the nod? Go back and report the situation, you idiot!" (End of Chapter)