Chapter 840 Hao Hongmin's Father

When Hao Hongmin's mother returned home after work at the street office a few days ago, she looked for a small road with few people and walked back with her head down as usual. But today, halfway through the road, she was stopped by a backpacker from Hong Kong holding a photo and asked.

"Hello, are you Hao Hongmin's mother, Hao Jingshi?"

Hao Hongmin's mother has been nervous for many years. Recently, her daughter was admitted to Shanghai Commercial Technical School and she relaxed a little. However, when facing this foreigner with a difficult accent, the habit she has developed over the years still made her ask vigilantly.

"Who are you?"

"Are you Hao Hongmin's mother, Hao Jingshi? Say it quickly, I don't have time to waste with you here."

Hao Hongmin's mother looked at the stranger in front of her, and then looked around and saw no one, so she said in a low voice.

"I am Hao Jingshi, who are you?"

This person was obviously relieved after getting the reply, thinking that if the price given by the other party this time was not very attractive, he would not do anything like this, which might make him eat peanuts if he was caught.

After getting the accurate information, the man quickly took out a letter from his bag, threw it to Hao Jingshi along with the photo in his hand, and left without looking back.

"I'm from Hong Kong, and I'm entrusted to bring you a letter this time."

Hao Hongmin's mother looked at the photo of herself when she was young, and the familiar yet unfamiliar handwriting on the envelope. Various emotions such as shock, fear, anger, sadness, and worry surged into her heart, and she stood there for a while.

However, Hao Hongmin's mother soon came to her senses. After seeing that there was still no one around, she wiped the tears that had just flowed unconsciously with her sleeves, put the letter and photo close to her body, and then walked home carefully along the roadside with her head down as usual.

Hao Hongmin's mother returned home with a more cautious attitude than usual, and immediately locked the door, took out the photo and the letter from her arms, looked at the young self in the photo, squatted down and covered her mouth and cried for a long time, and then opened the letter with very familiar handwriting with trembling hands.

"My wife, I am writing to you."

The beginning of this letter describes the situation when [Hao Jiangdong] left that year, and how he had to leave without bringing the mother and daughter with him when he first left. But after he came to Hong Kong, he was glad that he did not bring the mother and daughter with him.

Although this place is much better than Shanghai at the beginning, it faces threats and demands for benefits from officials and gang members every day.

Hao Jiangdong and his group of five people from Shanghai smuggled into Hong Kong. The smuggler told them to go to Kowloon City after getting off the boat, where there were all kinds of people and would not be checked by the police.

But Hao Jiangdong and his group set foot on this land in the early morning, and were stopped by the "police" of the police station in the morning and asked for their ID cards.

When they first arrived there, they remembered the situation in Shanghai, and their identity as smuggled immigrants. If they were caught and sent back, they would face what they would face.

All these circumstances made one of them subconsciously start running, and everyone else ran away with him.

Although Hao Jiangdong and his team finally escaped the official pursuit, one of them was unfortunately hit by a bullet and died that night.

In the next week, Hao Jiangdong and his team hid from place to place while trying to find out about the friend who had a good relationship with them and came to Hong Kong more than ten years ago.

Hao Jiangdong and his team's efficiency was very pitiful. After a week, they still didn't find out about the friend's situation.

However, Hao Jiangdong and his team also had a basic understanding of the situation in Hong Kong during this period, that is, it was similar to the situation before the liberation of Shanghai. As long as you have money, most of the small things can be done, including the identity issues of several of them.

Hao Jiangdong and his team were born into wealthy families. When they came to Hong Kong, they had a lot of hard currency yellow croakers wrapped around their waists and thighs, and the yellow croakers on the companion who died at the time were now theirs.

So Hao Jiangdong and his team planned to buy a legal identity first, so that they would not have to hide from place to place, and they could also find out about their friends through official channels.

Unfortunately, when Hao Jiangdong and his team found someone to buy a legal identity, they were not only deceived, but also targeted by people in the gang behind them.

When being hunted by these gangs, Hao Jiangdong and his four companions lost two more members. Hao Jiangdong and the remaining companion were also stabbed several times. Fortunately, only one companion's body fell into the hands of the gang.

This made Hao Jiangdong and his two companions have four people's small yellow croakers. During the period of hiding and recuperating, they heard or saw people dying on the spot every day.

This situation made Hao Jiangdong and the only remaining companion feel that they were back to the eve of the liberation of Shanghai. This chaotic and almost disorderly environment made them more afraid to act rashly, and at the same time they suspected that the friend they were looking for had been hacked to death.

During the period of recuperation, they found out that the most powerful among the four inspectors was Inspector Lei Luo, and they also knew which car Lei Luo liked to ride and which villa he lived in. After discussing it, the two took out two people's small yellow croakers to follow near Lei Luo's villa.

But Hao Jiangdong and the others didn't know that the person living here was Lei Luo's lover, whom he was not convenient to bring home to meet his wife, concubine or mistress. Fortunately, because of this situation, the two of them were able to keep watch here for more than a week without being beaten to death.

Hao Jiangdong and his team were bitten by mosquitoes for a week before they finally saw Lei Luo's car drive into the villa.

So Hao Jiangdong and his team hurriedly came to the door with small yellow croakers to ask for an interview. It might be that they brought a lot of small yellow croakers, it might be that Lei Luo didn't want to break the rule of taking money to do things, it might be that Lei Luo's lover wanted these small goldfish, or he had other ideas.

In short, no matter what the reason, Hao Jiangdong and his team were summoned by Lei Luo. The two had been in the business world for many years and knew what to say and what not to say.

In the end, Lei Luo not only helped them get their ID cards, but also allowed Hao Jiangdong and his team to ask him for help when they had something to do.

Next, Hao Jiangdong and his team officially settled in Hong Kong. At this time, they could openly start to inquire about their friends and the various business situations in Hong Kong.

In the end, Hao Jiangdong and his team found out that their friend had lost all his property two years ago and jumped off the building when he was chased for debts.

As for business, many industries are almost monopolized, and no matter what industry you are in, the tribute from the police and gangs is absolutely necessary, otherwise.

If the small yellow croakers carried by Hao Jiangdong and his companions were converted into money, it would not be enough to support them in doing those popular businesses.

However, after years of business, they are more far-sighted than ordinary people, and know which people's money is the easiest to make and which money is the most stable.

So Hao Jiangdong and his companions went around all the similar places in Hong Kong, and now there are rumors that an undersea tunnel is being built nearby, so they finally determined that Causeway Bay will definitely have a future in the future.

(In the 1950s, a large-scale reclamation project was carried out near Causeway Bay. In the 1960s, some small red-dot merchants bought land and built houses in Causeway Bay. In 1969, the Hung Hom Undersea Tunnel was started. After it was opened to traffic in 1972, it attracted many department stores to open here, making it the main shopping center in Hong Kong. It was not until the mid-1980s that Causeway Bay entered its heyday and became the Causeway Bay that everyone talks about.)

Hao Jiangdong and his companions were introduced by many real estate agents and finally won a five-story storefront building in Causeway Bay.

At this time, they had very little money left, so they found a bank loan to renovate the place, and finally built a British-style, petty-bourgeois boutique coffee shop and hotel.

The first floor only sells boutique coffee, tea and some exquisite snacks and cakes.

The second to fourth floors are accommodation hotels, which are decorated as exquisitely as the first floor, and are used to make money from petty-bourgeois and white-collar people.

But no matter which floor they are on, they don’t sell any alcoholic drinks.

This is because Hao Jiangdong and his companions had too profound experiences after coming to Hong Kong, and they are not young anymore. They just want to do some stable business, and they made such a decision in order to reduce contact with those people in the gang.

The fifth floor is a dormitory and canteen, where Hao Jiangdong and his companions live, as well as employees who need to work in shifts and cannot go home.

After the store opened, it quickly attracted many elites to come, allowing them to quickly pay off the bank loan.

Unfortunately, the good times did not last long. Hao Jiangdong said that his companions had an accident when they went out to drink wine.

From then on, Hao Jiangdong pulled the hotel alone and opened two branches.

Recently, he felt that he had a small fortune in Hong Kong and could give his wife and daughter a better life. He wanted to bring them to Hong Kong, but he didn't know what the current situation in Shanghai was, so he asked the backpacker to deliver this letter.

After reading the letter, Hao Hongmin's mother didn't know what to do. When her daughter came home on Sunday, she found an opportunity to hand over the letter.

After Hao Hongmin took the letter with a puzzled look, she suddenly felt a nameless anger in her heart.

She couldn't help but think of the past years. When Hao Jiangdong ran away in 1967, she was only eleven years old at that time.

He patted his butt and left without saying a word, leaving everything that the family should have suffered to the mother and daughter.

At first, they lived in a shed with heavy rain outside and moderate rain inside, crying and eating sour and smelly food.

Mum was beaten in the leg at that time, which left her with sequelae. She felt very uncomfortable every time it was rainy and cold. If it weren't for Han Li's "Stretching Pain Relief Cream", she would have been addicted to painkillers now.

The situation was a little better afterwards, but they were often dragged out as a typical demonstration. No matter where they went, they were full of abuse, contempt, and humiliation.

This was even more so in life. Even if Mum took the risk to secretly buy food from the black market, their family didn't dare to cook too much. Even if they cooked some rice porridge, they had to prevent the aroma of the food from drifting out and being smelled by others. Therefore, the mother and daughter ate half-cooked food for a long time.

Later, the malicious eyes of those people made them dare not wash their faces or change clothes. They tried every means to make themselves sloppy and cowardly. Mum, the former rich lady, took the initiative to take on the task of collecting toilets from door to door, just to make herself full of unapproachable odor.

Seeing that things were not going well, Mum dragged her injured leg around and kowtowed to people everywhere. She also took out many precious jewelry passed down to her by her grandmother, which allowed her to safely join the production team in Shanghe Village.

Later, with Han Li's "Stretching Pain Relief Ointment", not only did Mum's leg injury no longer hurt, but she also received protection from others and changed from collecting toilets to sweeping the streets, a slightly cleaner job.

With the help of Han Li, she not only became a tractor driver in Shanghe Village, but also won the title of advanced educated youth.

Therefore, she was able to catch up with the train of the college entrance examination. Although she could only go to a technical secondary school due to her identity, all this was a good change.

When her life with her mother was getting better and better, why did this Hao Jiangdong suddenly appear?

When Hao Hongmin thought of this, her eyes became redder and redder. When she reached out to tear up the letter, Hao Jingshi, who had been paying attention to her, hurriedly stopped her.

"Don't do it, Nannan"

This Sunday, Hao Hongmin didn't know how she got through it, how she got back to school, and she lay on the bed in a daze in the dormitory, her mind was full of the sound and picture of her mother crying, and the various situations she had suffered when she was a child.

When Hao Hongmin was almost out of breath because of all this, the first person she thought of was Han Li.

At this time, Jiang Wen, who was described as a big monkey by Han Erjie, was immediately questioned by Xiao Yingzi after he returned to the yard.

"How is it, little mosquito, I have been waiting for your call today."