"You've got guts!"
The man fighting with Xie Sui, Gao Feng, couldn't help but want to charge forward and teach him a lesson, but Hu Yaohui stopped him. "Brother, we truly mean no harm. Why do you have to be like this? This is actually a good thing, we want to make you rich together."
"I said, I'm not an idiot. I've seen people forced into prostitution, but never seen anyone insist on taking others to get rich." Xie Sui sneered, not understanding what these people saw in him. He knew he was excellent, but he didn't expect men to be attracted to him as well.
Hu Yaohui sat down and said, "Do you see that steel mill? I received news that the procurement director of the factory embezzled a large sum of money using his authority. We want to skim the cream off the top. But it's inconvenient for us to appear, so we need a stranger's face, someone who looks like they work for the government, and someone with nerve. You fit perfectly. It's a kind of fate that you met us."
Xie Sui put down the chair leg and asked, "What should I call you?"
"Hu San, you can call me Third Brother."
"Hu Han San?!" Xie Sui raised an eyebrow, his face full of defiance. Gao Feng couldn't help but say, "You're asking for a beating, aren't you? Boss, let's find someone else. Let's kill this punk first. I've disliked him for a long time."
"Heh, you're the punk. If you were my grandson, I'd be ashamed. You can't even beat me in a fight. Want to try again?"
Hu Yaohui's face darkened. "Enough, Fengzi. How many times have I told you, listen to me. Are you defying me, your big brother?"
"No, Big Brother, please don't be angry." Gao Feng had no choice but to step back. Xie Sui snorted, "Lapdog."
"You..." Gao Feng was almost infuriated. This kid was clearly taking advantage of the situation. A little sunshine and he was beaming. With his big brother forbidding him from fighting, he became even more emboldened.
Hu Yaohui also had a headache. This kid was truly sharp-tongued, unwilling to suffer any loss. "Alright, don't go too far. We don't *have* to use you. We brothers are just after money."
Xie Sui also sat down and began to negotiate. "What percentage do I get?"
"Twenty percent."
"Too little, I want forty percent." Gao Feng couldn't listen anymore and went outside. Anyway, he only did the work, not the thinking. He just had to obey.
Hu Yaohui thought about it. Greed was good. Greed could be exploited. He nodded. "Fine, then forty percent."
Xie Sui then asked, "Are you very familiar with the city? How did you know the procurement director embezzled?"
Hu Yaohui didn't hide anything from him. "A brother from the underworld got out of a farm. He knew someone inside who was ruined by that director. We got the information from him. He asked my brother to avenge him and gave us all the evidence."
"Is that so? What's that person's name?"
"Xu Donglai."
Xie Sui's pupils contracted slightly. Xu Donglai. This person would be a big shot twenty years later, a leader in manufacturing. It was said that he suffered a lot in his youth, his family was gone, and he was a rather eccentric person. Xie Sui felt he could get along with him, perhaps because they both had no family around, and could understand each other's feelings. An old friend. He was still in a labor reform farm at this time, truly miserable.
"What do you need me to do?"
"You'll pose as a businessman from Hong Kong and find that director. His surname is Wang, his name is Wang Fugui..."
"People in our village like to name dogs Fugui." Xie Sui's sharp tongue couldn't help but interject as the immediate danger subsided.
Hu Yaohui: "..." Can this guy really do it?
"Continue." Xie Sui rubbed his nose and made a gesture to keep quiet. Hu Yaohui took a deep breath, wishing he could kill him.
"Wang Fugui's plan is simple. He first purchased a production line, but it was a domestic substandard one, and he relabeled it as imported. Xu Donglai's parents were victims of the production line accident. Wang covered it up, saying they violated operating procedures, and refused compensation, only giving a small amount for funeral expenses. Xu Donglai, unwilling to accept this, went to settle the score and was framed, ending up in prison. His two younger sisters and younger brother don't know how they're living. As long as there are no inspections from above and Hong Kong doesn't inquire, in two years, he'll replace the production line with a new one and pocket the difference."
Xie Sui: "How much money is it?"
"Two hundred thousand!" Xie Sui gasped. In an era when being a Yuan millionaire was rare, what was the concept of two hundred thousand! But this two hundred thousand involved two lives. Xu Donglai's family might not be the only victims. He'd do it. Wang Fugui wasn't a good person either. It was a great deed to act on behalf of heaven.
"Alright, it's settled. Wang is not a good person, but I have a condition."
"You say it."
"Two hundred thousand, two thousand must be given to Xu Donglai's younger siblings. We need to take care of their family."
Hu Yaohui nodded. "Okay."
"Let's sleep now. Wake me up at ten o'clock, and we'll go to the supply and marketing cooperative for some shopping. A Hong Kong businessman needs the demeanor of a Hong Kong businessman, right? We can't just go like this?"
"We're already prepared, you don't need to worry about it."
"But I still need to sleep first." Xie Sui lay down and slept, ignoring Hu Yaohui's complicated gaze. It was they who were asking him, not the other way around. If a fight really broke out, the hotel was full of people and rumors. Once the police were called, they would be the ones to be afraid. Why would Xie Sui be scared!
When he woke up, Hu Yaohui brought a set of attire: a leather jacket, jeans, black leather shoes, and a steel watch. It had cost a lot of money.
"This is it?" Xie Sui looked down on it, shaking his head. "It seems you know nothing about Hong Kong businessmen."
"We saw it on TV like this." Gao Feng was unconvinced. It had cost hundreds of yuan. If he wasn't so scruffy, he would have wanted to play the role of this businessman.
"Let's go, we still need to go to the department store. These are for fooling around. There's no elite flair to them." Hu Yaohui and Gao Feng followed, while the others waited at the hotel.
Xie Sui went straight to the foreign exchange area and asked Hu Yaohui, "Do you have foreign exchange certificates?"
"Yes."
"That's good." Xie Sui picked out a suit, a shirt, a tie, even bought two sets of underwear, a briefcase, a pair of gold-rimmed glasses, and a Vacheron Constantin imported watch.
Gao Feng watched him pick out the items and muttered to Hu Yaohui, "Boss, this must cost a lot of money, right?"
"You can't catch a wolf without sacrificing your child. I think this kid knows what he's doing. He's interesting."
"Heh, buy it. Let him have his fun for a couple of days." No matter how much he bought, it would all be theirs in the end.
"You two also pick out a suit and shirt. A secretary needs to look like a secretary. Third Brother, you too."
Hu Yaohui: "Can someone with my looks be a secretary?"
"No, you're the bodyguard. Your eyes should be in black sunglasses, and your clothes should be the same black suit. One bodyguard is too few for you. Big shots from Hong Kong have more than ten bodyguards when they go out, and their cars are bulletproof. That's a real big shot."