Chapter 182 [Deng Family Internal Fighting during the Spring Festival]

Sunday, October 73, 1

Li Wendi was resting in a villa in Repulse Bay, holding a piece of black and white newspaper in his hand, catching up on the current affairs of the day.

There are many advertisements for the listing of small and medium-sized companies published in the newsprint. All businessmen want to make more money in the stock market, borrow money from shareholders to expand the scale of the company, and even fantasize about becoming some giant company.

Against this background, the scenario of "preferring stocks to cash" is real. A cash note can only be one piece of money, while stocks can increase in value and become two bills, or even more.

The second advertisement is about the promotion of the new "Miss Hong Kong Beauty Pageant" held by TVB, calling on beautiful and intelligent women to participate. At the same time, Huayi Brothers also stated that it will select people from the event to play some roles in the movie, in order to attract more female participation.

Li Wendi's mind immediately came up with a large number of famous women such as Zhao Yazhi and Zhu Lingling. It has to be said that they all achieved a leap in life class by relying on the Miss Hong Kong beauty pageant, and there is also Liu Luanxiong, the "female star sniper".

Just as he was lost in thought, a pair of big feet walked into the hall, the steps began to lighten, and slowly approached Li Wendi.

"Hey! Wendi, what are you doing?" Zhang Yan patted Li Wendi's shoulder and whispered in her ear like a ghost.

As Zhang Yan expected, Li Wendi was startled and took three minutes to recover.

"If you scare people, it will scare them to death. Please, don't do such childish things next time." Li Wendi said unhappily.

Seeing that Li Wendi was really angry, Zhang Yan quickly admitted his mistake and said, "Okay, it's my fault. I won't do it again."

Li Wendi sighed, "What do you want from me? Just tell me."

Zhang Yan was still planning to keep the secret, but was stopped by Li Wendi. "Wei Renwei brought a group of his followers to join the Yisheng Society across the street, and Xu Shoukun actually allowed the Yisheng Society to swallow up the society's territory in Tsim Sha Tsui. Uncle Deng is so angry that he is going to die."

"Huh? Why did Wei Renwei betray He Liansheng?" Li Wendi asked, grasping the key point. Wei Renwei was the boss of Tsim Sha Tsui and had a share of the Sai Wan nightclub. He could be said to be a winner in life. He must have changed his allegiance only after something big happened.

"I heard that Wei Renwei was not satisfied with just being a leader and wanted to compete for the position of leader. He joined forces with many uncles to seize the throne. Unfortunately, he was thwarted by Uncle Deng. So he was afraid of retaliation later, so he went to Yisheng Society." Zhang Yan told all the rumors he had heard. Although he felt that the matter was a bit strange, it seemed reasonable.

Li Wendi suddenly laughed and said, "Wei Renwei is not a fool. He must know that Uncle Deng will not let go of the leading position. He will not compete without Uncle Deng's consent. There are two possibilities. One is that Wei Renwei was deceived by Uncle Deng, and the other is that this rumor is false and was released specifically to give everyone an explanation."

"I think the second possibility is more likely. We are all smart people. How could Wei Renwei be easily fooled?"

Zhang Yan thought for a moment, then raised his head and said, “Wendy, do you mean that Wei Renwei has done something else that Uncle Deng cannot tolerate?”

"Okay, this is the business of Deng Bo, He Liansheng and Wei Renwei. It has nothing to do with us. You must not get involved. Be careful of being hunted down." Li Wendi reminded seriously.

Zhang Yan was still afraid of being hunted down by the gang because he had seen similar scenes before. He didn't think he could stop them. It was too tragic to see corpses lying on the streets. So he shook his head again and again, "This is none of my business. It's not worth getting involved."

In fact, Li Wendi speculated that this was related to the internal strife within the Deng family. Perhaps the internal strife had reached a white-hot stage, and Deng Songlian wanted to break the deadlock, but he couldn't use his two sons as a scapegoat, so he could only let Wei Renwei, an outsider, be abandoned.

However, Wei Renwei should not be considered innocent. He may have interfered in the family affairs of the Deng family. As for whether he is on the side of Deng Jiaren or Deng Jialuo, Li Wendi believes that Wei Renwei is wavering between the two, but he wants to support Deng Jialuo more. After all, Deng Jialuo's scheming is a little lacking. As long as Deng Jialuo wins, Wei Renwei can maximize his interests.

And Xu Shoukun, the inspector of Tsim Sha Tsui Police Station, is a complete egoist. As long as there is enough benefit, he will sell out anyone he wants in exchange for the greatest benefit. This is one of the reasons why Li Wendi is unwilling to have too much contact with Xu Shoukun.

The company that they cooperated with last time has been transferred to Xu Shoukun's personal name. Li Wendi only paid 100 million yuan. Of course, the company's assets are now worth more than one or two million yuan, at least 300 million yuan, which makes it a good small company.

Xu Shoukun intervened in the affairs of these societies and must have received a lot of promises. It is very likely that he got the best of both worlds, gaining benefits from He Liansheng and money from Yisheng Society and Wei Renwei.

This kind of person is not much kinder than Lin Jianmin, but Xu Shoukun is not as arrogant as Lin Jianmin. He knows the truth that "there are always people better than you", so he will not go too far.

Li Wendi let go of the topic and once again instructed Zhang Yan to start selling the stocks.

Zhang Yan naturally agreed, but Li Wendi didn't know whether he listened to him completely. After Zhang Yan left, Li Wendi fell into deep thought again. He was thinking about whether he could gain some benefits from Deng's Real Estate Company. Of course, this required Deng Songlian's consent.

It is not an easy task to get benefits from the tiger Deng Songlian.

Time flows and disappears without a trace.

In the blink of an eye, it was the Spring Festival holiday. The whole of Hong Kong was filled with the festive atmosphere, which was incomparable to the atmosphere in later generations.

According to Hong Kong’s company practice, the Spring Festival holiday is generally 5 days, except for on-duty personnel.

The Li family villa in Repulse Bay had already been pasted with spring couplets early on, and seasonal potted plants such as oranges and peach blossoms had already filled the front and back yards. Even Li Xiaonan was dressed up in red, like a big orange.

Guo Cuiting has always been frugal, but she is willing to spend money during annual festivals such as the Spring Festival. The red envelopes she gave to the Filipino maids and bodyguards were all 1000 yuan notes. These days, 1000 yuan is equivalent to one and a half months' salary for an ordinary worker.

Of course Li Wendi would not be stingy with such a small amount of money. As long as Guo Cuiting was happy, he would not feel sorry for adding another 1000 yuan note.

However, Li Xiaonan was a little envious because she also received a red envelope of 1000 yuan from Guo Cuiting. Li Wendi wanted to give a big red envelope to her separately, but was stopped by Guo Cuiting on the grounds that Li Wendi was not married yet and could not be given red envelope money.

Li Wendi had no choice but to give in to Guo Cuiting's strong request and spread his hands towards Li Xiaonan, indicating that he was powerless.

Although red envelopes could not be given, no one said that checks could not be given, so Li Wendi directly wrote a check for 10000 yuan to Li Xiaonan, which made Li Xiaonan ecstatic.

These 1 yuan were equivalent to the annual salary of a white-collar worker in Central. Li Xiaonan had never seen so much money before.

Although the Li family has become wealthy, Guo Cuiting has always been frugal. Although the pocket money she gives to Li Xiaonan has increased, it will not exceed 100 yuan a month, and most of the time it is 50 yuan.

As for Li Wendi, he seldom gave money directly to Li Xiaonan. On the one hand, it was because of Guo Cuiting's advice: her sister was only a middle school student, and she should not be allowed to develop the habit of spending money lavishly. On the other hand, Li Wendi was very busy, and most of the time he took Li Xiaonan out to buy clothes or eat, and he seldom even bought jewelry.

After finishing the affairs of the villa, Guo Cuiting returned to Sai Wan and opened the convenience store. At the same time, she greeted the old neighbors and gave them a lot of New Year's goods. Although the neighbors' words were mostly flattering, Guo Cuiting still liked the atmosphere of Sai Wan and chatted with the neighbors with a smile on her face.

Li Wendi could only smile apologetically, without any of the arrogance of a boss of a listed company. He was more like the stupid son of a landlord.

"Wendy, I heard that you've made a fortune and have several listed companies. Don't forget us, your old neighbors."

"Yes, Cuiting, you are fine now. You can enjoy yourself. Isn't the villa in Repulse Bay very different from ours?"

"The stock market has been very hot recently. Wendy, you are the boss of a listed company. Do you have any inside information? Let's make a little money too."

Li Wendi was always humble in front of these old neighbors. They had taken good care of Guo Cuiting's family. It couldn't be said that they had done them a favor, but there was a lot of affection between them. So Li Wendi was considering whether to remind these people.

"There are some inside information, but I'm afraid you won't believe it." Li Wendi said with a smile.

"Tell us about it!" When the neighbors heard that Li Wendi really had the inside story, their eyes became bright and their tone became a little anxious.

"I heard from some experts that the stock market is too hot and there is a possibility of a crash," Li Wendi said seriously.

The neighbors were stunned, their faces looking solemn. They did not completely believe what Li Wendi said, but Li Wendi's words undoubtedly poured a bucket of cold water on them, chilling them to the core.

"I know you don't believe it, but it is very likely to happen. You should still be cautious and don't borrow money to invest in stocks." Li Wendi reminded as a second best option. He didn't want to see some neighbors lose their families due to stock speculation.

The atmosphere cooled down for a while, and Li Wendi quickly changed the subject, then took the opportunity to leave the "symposium" and returned to the table with the young people.

(End of this chapter)