Chapter 925: Final Chapter 2: Crown Prince Director Director Director Director Director Director Guan
"Yo, yo, yo~~~ my precious son!"
"You actually ranked first in the entire grade!"
Causeway Bay,
At home.
Director Director Director Director Director Director Guan Zu was wearing oversized shorts and flip-flops, sitting on the sofa, looking at the final exam report card uniformly issued by the Five Star Education Group.
Director Director Director Director Director Director Guan Crown Prince's report card arrived first.
Director Director Director Director Director Director Guan Zu tore it open and took a look.
First in the entire grade.
His eyebrows danced with joy instantly.
Director Director Director Director Director Director Guan Zu looked smug: "As expected of my son, after my years of diligent tutoring, you got first in the entire grade!"
Director Director Director Director Director Director Guan Crown Prince: (_)
Ten thousand complaints in his heart:
No, Dad, you went to the United States for 5 years!
When did you ever tutor me with my homework?
Every time you came back from the States, you'd take Big Mommy, Mommy, and Little Mommy to a hotel and wouldn't come back for three days.
You never even asked about my homework, okay!
How do you have the face to say it's all thanks to your tutoring!
Your skin is really thick!
Director Director Director Director Director Director Guan Crown Prince said listlessly: "Yes, it's all because Dad taught me well!"
Director Director Director Director Director Director Guan Zu was happy: "Let's go, I'll take you to the wet market to buy groceries, buy a nice fish, and Dad will steam it for you personally—may your success rise with every passing day!"
Director Director Director Director Director Director Guan Crown Prince's eyes lit up: "Okay!"
As a 15-year-old boy, he worshipped his father immensely; he really wanted to follow behind his father, observe his words and deeds, and then imitate and learn from them.
"Let's go!"
Soon,
Director Director Director Director Director Director Guan Zu was dressed, looking casual, heroic, and radiating sunshine...
Director Director Director Director Director Director Guan Crown Prince: Ah~~~ my eyes.
The two were just about to set off,
"Ring, ring, ring~~~~"
Director Director Director Director Director Director Guan Zu's phone rang.
"What? Gao Gang is out picking up girls?"
Director Director Director Director Director Director Guan Zu was instantly excited: "Good, where?... Shatin District? Heh, the little rascal is hiding quite far away. Good, I'm coming over right now!"
After hanging up the phone, Director Director Director Director Director Director Guan Zu looked at Director Director Director Director Director Director Guan Crown Prince with a serious face:
"Son!"
"You aren't a 14-year-old child anymore; you must learn to be independent!"
"You go to the market yourself to buy the groceries and steam the fish yourself; Dad will come back to eat it..."
Director Director Director Director Director Director Guan Crown Prince was speechless.
"No, Dad, didn't you say you were taking me to the market to buy fish, then steam it, and praise me?"
Director Director Director Director Director Director Guan Zu was full of righteousness: "That's what I said, but look at your Uncle Gao Gang, he's been single for so long, he doesn't even have any children... as his brother, shouldn't I be concerned about him?"
"Besides!"
Director Director Director Director Director Director Guan Zu patted Director Director Director Director Director Director Guan Crown Prince on the shoulder: "In life, you must rely on yourself!"
After saying that,
He rushed out the door excitedly, and while leaving, he was already excitedly making calls: "Ah Jin/Ah Wah/Wah Jai/Xu Xu Xu Xu Xu Xu Zhengyang... are you there? Hurry to Shatin District... ho ho ho ho~~~"
Director Director Director Director Director Director Guan Crown Prince: Awkward...
His father's majestic and wise image had collapsed.
As for lunch and steamed fish, they were naturally off the table.
Director Director Director Director Director Director Guan Crown Prince glanced at his younger sister and brother who were still sleeping in... forget it, he'd go find his friends to play.
One hour later,
Causeway Bay small park.
A group of second-generation students were plotting some conspiracy.
18-year-old Chen Chen Yueqi (Chen Chen Yongren's daughter) was the big sister, a terrifying college student!
17-year-old Su Su Tianle (Su Su Jianqiu's daughter), Liu Liu Liqian (Wah Jai's daughter), Gao Gao Shaofen (Gao Jin's daughter)... were in Form 7 preparatory classes.
Director Director Director Director Director Director Guan Crown Prince, 16, Form 6.
Xiao Xiao Wenwen (Nine-Patterned Dragon's daughter), 15, Form 5.
Yu Liu Liu Liu Dehua (Yu Yu Shuntian's son), 15, Form 5.
Liu Liu Zhonghua (Ah Wah's son), 13.
Zhou Zhou Xiaoxing (Ah Xing's son), 12.
Gao Runfa (Gao Qiu's son), 12.
A group of little brats were gathered in a circle.
Chen Chen Yueqi stood on a stool: "My dad said he used to be an undercover cop..."
Su Su Tianle: "My dad also said he used to be an undercover..."
Liu Liu Liqian: "My dad said he used to be a gangster."
Zhou Zhou Xiaoxing, the youngest, asked confusedly: "What is a gangster?"
Director Director Director Director Director Director Guan Crown Prince: "You don't even know that? They're the ones who deliver packages and takeout."
(Gangsters: "............" I'm damn sure I don't know how to refute that!)
Because gangsters haven't had a place to eat for the past few years, they can only do these things, causing many children to think that gangsters are just people who deliver packages and takeout.
13-year-old Liu Liu Zhonghua: "Oh, so people who deliver packages and takeout are gangsters."
Chen Chen Yueqi rolled her eyes: "You guys got it wrong. In the past, gangsters weren't delivery people; they were people who bullied others all day, fought and killed, exploited people, collected usury..."
Everyone was confused: "???"
Zhou Zhou Xiaoxing puffed up his little face: "How could there be such bad people in this world?"
Director Director Director Director Director Director Guan Crown Prince was thoughtful.
His dad used to be a gangster too, and a small-time gang leader at that.
Then he couldn't help but have another thought: Did his dad used to fight, kill, exploit people, and collect usury all day?
Then he immediately shook his head: Based on his dad's behavior, he was definitely not that kind of person.
"Everyone!"
Director Director Director Director Director Director Guan Crown Prince stood up... looked up at Chen Chen Yueqi... and then he stood on a stool too:
"Big sisters, younger brothers~~~~"
"Among us, some of our dads are police, some of our dads are gangsters... aren't you curious about what they used to do?"
"I'm curious!" Zhou Zhou Xiaoxing, who had ADHD, raised his hand.
"I'm curious too!"
"I'm curious too!"
Director Director Director Director Director Director Guan Crown Prince: "It's summer vacation now, and we don't have any homework anyway, so why don't we do a little research and investigate what our dads did in the past!"
Once these words were spoken, it immediately stirred up the interest of the group of little brats.
"I agree!"
"I agree!"
They raised their hands one after another.
The oldest, Chen Chen Yueqi: "I agree, but there's a problem. Who do we investigate? We can't just blindly go looking for people, right? That would be very inefficient."
Director Director Director Director Director Director Guan Crown Prince: "I know, let's go find Qiu Kaiqi's dad, Uncle Brother Da Tou. He's always been in charge of Five Star Property, so he has the most complete records."
"Agreed!"
"Agreed!"
"Agreed!"
Then the group of little brats swarmed off to find Brother Da Tou's daughter, Yang Qiu Kaiqi.
Yang Qiu Kaiqi was only 7 years old.
She shouted loudly: "I want to join too, I want to join too!"
Director Director Director Director Director Director Guan Crown Prince looked at her with disdain: "You're too small."
Yang Qiu Kaiqi: "If you don't let me join, I won't help."
Director Director Director Director Director Director Guan Crown Prince: "Come to think of it, our team needs talent like you."
Everyone: "............"
Your change of face is way too fast, hey!
Soon,
Yang Qiu Kaiqi called Da Tou and asked where he was.
Da Tou said he was at the branch office in Kowloon, so the group of them set off in a grand procession by car to Kowloon.
The driver was Xi Gui.
Director Director Director Director Director Director Guan Crown Prince looked serious: "Uncle He (He He Xikui), we are currently conducting a secret operation. You must help us keep it a secret and not tell our dads!"
Xi Gui: "???"
Looking at the group of serious faces, his mouth couldn't help but twitch.
"Alright!"
Soon, Xi Gui drove them to Kowloon and they met Da Tou. After dropping them off, he turned and left.
Then he quickly called Gao Jin to report the situation.
What? You promised Director Director Director Director Director Director Guan Crown Prince?
Heh~~~
When dealing with these little brats, there's no need to talk about keeping one's word or loyalty!
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Huo huo huo~~~
(Director Director Director Director Director Director Guan Crown Prince and the others: "............" The old guy has no martial virtue!)
Over at Da Tou's side,
Director Director Director Director Director Director Guan Crown Prince also used a serious expression to say this to Da Tou.
Da Tou: "............"
"What do you want to do? Speak."
Director Director Director Director Director Director Guan Crown Prince explained the matter, saying they wanted to research the past history of Gao Jin and the others, and wanted Da Tou to provide a list so they could go and interview them.
Da Tou thought about it.
Not bad. Gao Jin, Da Tou, and the others all felt that the second generation grew up in comfortable circumstances; although they weren't given particularly wealthy conditions, neighbors and teachers often took extra care of them.
This created a problem—being pampered while growing up makes it easy for issues to arise.
And the philosophy of the Five Star Group is—to go deep into the grassroots and understand the needs of the masses. A group of Five Star successors who look down on everyone clearly won't do.
And this "research" activity could solve this problem very well.
"No problem, if you want to learn about your fathers' generation, I can give you a list, and you can interview them in order..."
When Director Director Director Director Director Director Guan Crown Prince and the others heard this, they became excited.
"Really, thank you Uncle Da Tou!"
"Thank you Uncle Da Tou!"
Looking at this group of energetic little brats, Da Tou couldn't help but laugh.
The next day,
Early in the morning, Director Director Director Director Director Director Guan Crown Prince snuck out of the house.
"Stop!"
Gao Jin held back a laugh, his face solemn: "Where are you going?"
Director Director Director Director Director Director Guan Crown Prince felt guilty and looked left and right: "Cough cough~~~ I'm going to find my friends to play."
Gao Jin: "Accompany me to the wet market to buy fish today, I'll make you some fatherly steamed fish."
Director Director Director Director Director Director Guan Crown Prince waved his hands quickly: "No, no, I promised my friends I'd be there at 8 o'clock. Dad, you said it yourself, a person must keep their word!"
Gao Jin: "Oh, alright then, go ahead... be careful."
Director Director Director Director Director Director Guan Crown Prince: "Definitely, definitely!"
Then he slipped out the door in a flash.
Then he met up with Zhou Zhou Xiaoxing and Chen Chen Yueqi downstairs, and the group chased each other, running to another street in Causeway Bay 100 meters away.
At Gao Jin's home.
Fang Ting looked curious: "What is our son doing? He feels so sneaky."
Gao Jin smiled and told her about Director Director Director Director Director Director Guan Crown Prince and the others' plan.
When Fang Ting heard it, she couldn't help but be amused.
Soon, Gao Jin went out, arrived at the company, met with Chen Chen Yongren and the others, and told them the situation.
"Haha~~ I was just saying my daughter felt strange today."
"I also felt my son was acting strange, I didn't expect it was this."
"It's a good thing!"
"Let them know the suffering their fathers went through in the past."
At this time,
Director Director Director Director Director Director Guan Crown Prince's group arrived at Enping Street in Causeway Bay.
4th floor.
"Hello Grandma~~~" 8 voices chimed in together, like a group of chirping little sparrows.
"Hello to you all~~~" The 89-year-old grandmother happily let the 8 children in.
This grandmother was the one who, in 1990, had been helped across the street by Gao Jin, then had the horn honked at her by Bai Chi Li, and then wanted to introduce her 0.1-ton granddaughter to Gao Jin.
She was now of advanced age and had difficulty walking.
Then,
Under the chirping questions of the group of children, the grandmother began to tell the stories of the past.
"In the past, the gangsters were always fighting and killing..."
"You children of this generation haven't seen how chaotic Hong Kong was in the 80s. Back then, there were many gangsters. These gangsters carried fruit knives, ran rampant, forced people to pay protection fees, and if you refused to pay the 'protection fee', they would break your legs, force good women into prostitution, destroy families... there were too many messy things like that."
"Besides gangsters, there were also fierce bandits, robbing banks, gold shops, jewelry stores, and it was useless even if the police came..."
As the grandmother spoke slowly and clearly,
The group of children finally felt the ruthlessness of the societies and gangsters of the past.
Director Director Director Director Director Director Guan Crown Prince: "Was my dad so fierce and bad in the past?"
The grandmother chuckled: "Your dad was different."
"At that time, he also grew up in Causeway Bay, then joined a society and became a gangster. Because the world was so chaotic, many people would join a society to get protection..."
"Ah~~~"
The children were shocked.
"Your dad was different from other gangsters. He liked to do good deeds, stand up for justice, and help the neighbors..."
"One time, Old Li downstairs lost money in business and was forced by people from another faction to borrow usury, the interest rolling over and over, and those people even brought knives to his door to collect the debt. In the end, it was your dad who negotiated with them, waived the high-interest portion, and gave Old Li a way to survive."
"He established a property management company and did many things for the neighbors in Causeway Bay. If the elderly had trouble going up and down the stairs, he would take his underlings to help carry rice and oil; and if the electrical wiring was old, he would organize people to fix it..."
She said a lot, a lot.
The 8 little brats listened in dead silence.
They didn't expect there to be so many things.
One hour later,
Everyone walked out of the residential building. Zhou Zhou Xiaoxing tugged at the corner of Director Director Director Director Director Director Guan Crown Prince's shirt: "Brother, your dad is so amazing!"
"So who are we going to interview next?" Su Su Tianle asked.
Su Su Tianle: "This time it's my dad's turn. I heard my dad used to be a policeman and came here to work as an undercover for Uncle Gao."
Director Director Director Director Director Director Guan Crown Prince: "Then let's go find Uncle Ma Ma Haotian!"
Ma Ma Haotian's home.
A villa.
Ma Ma Haotian also had a son, named Ma Qingyun, 13 years old.
They often played together.
"Brother Director Director Director Director Director Director Guan~~"
"Little Yun~~"
Soon,
Ma Ma Haotian sat on a small sofa, and the group of children squeezed onto the large sofa together.
Ma Ma Haotian began,
"Little Le, your dad was in the same department as me, the Wealth Investigation Unit... At that time, the superiors felt the society managed by Mr. Gao was a bit suspicious, so they sent your dad to go undercover..."
There wasn't much to say about Su Su Jianqiu's experience,
Basically, he didn't suffer much, was quickly reused by Gao Jin, became the director of an orphanage, and then became a principal.
Ma Ma Haotian looked at Chen Chen Yueqi: "The one most worth mentioning is your dad... When your dad was in the police academy, he was discovered by a black-hearted policeman named Sir Sir Sir Sir Sir Huang Wang Wang Wang Wang Wang Wang Zhicheng. He found out that Chen Chen Yongren's father was from the drug-trafficking Ni family, so he forced him to go undercover..."
He told of Chen Chen Yongren's series of tragic circumstances.
Being hunted by the underworld, being arrested by the police, living in fear, and seeing no light of day...
The group of brats listened with wide-eyed astonishment.
Chen Chen Yueqi was even more shocked.
She never expected that her father, who was always so cheerful, could have had such a dark past.
"I heard that Chen Chen Yongren's girlfriend was pregnant... That's right, the one she was carrying at the time was you, Chen Yueqi. Your mother felt that your father had no future as a gangster, so she left him, intending to raise you on her own..."
"Ah??"
The group of brats covered their mouths and gasped.
Ma Ma Haotian: "Everything changed when Mr. Chen went to work as an undercover for Mr. Director Director Director Director Director Director Guan, then Mr. Wu (Fly) found a girlfriend for Mr. Chen, and then discovered your mother was pregnant. He told your father, and afterward, your father had a sudden change of heart, found your mother, and confessed to Mr. Director Director Director Director Director Director Guan that he was an undercover..."
"Mr. Director Director Director Director Director Director Guan didn't blame him at all, but instead made Mr. Chen a principal, and then slowly groomed him, until now he has become the president of a five-star bank."
At this moment, Chen Chen Yueqi's eyes were sparkling: "I never thought my dad and mom had such a romantic love story..."
Then Ma Hao talked about Gao Qiu's undercover work.
"Wait... how come all three of them were recruited by Uncle Fly?"
Director Director Director Director Director Director Guan Crown Prince suddenly asked.
The group of children: "............"
The tall, imposing image of Fly in their hearts collapsed instantly!
In the days that followed,
The group of children went everywhere to 'interview' people.
Tai Lo B: "Back then, we weren't good people, but Ah Zu was different; he was completely unlike the other gangsters..."
Sheng Fan: "At first, I was very unconvinced by Brother Zu. Back then, we fought to the death to climb the ranks, but Brother Zu made me admire him wholeheartedly... Over these years, Brother Zu's business has grown bigger and bigger, making Hongdao a wonderful place. The person I admire most is Brother Zu..."
Then, the group of children went to a certain place. (The neighbors of the place where Ah Fen and Gu Zai used drugs)
They learned about how Ah Fen and Gu Zai became junkies and useless people, leaving behind their daughter, Xiao Fen.
Then, based on information provided by Da Tou, they found Zhong Tianzheng's wife.
"That day..."
Zhong Tianzheng's wife began to recount that day, when Zhong Tianzheng took the last of their money to gamble, while their son was critically ill and they had no money for the hospital...
Then Brother Zu descended like a hero of justice, taught Zhong Tianzheng a lesson, and even took the mother and son to the hospital.
Then there was the matter of Southeast Middle School. They interviewed Teacher Wen and Zhu Zhu Wanfang, and learned about how Director Director Director Director Director Director Guan Zu and his team fought against evil criminal forces, ultimately saving Southeast Middle School...
Then they heard about Gao Gang's dark history—being swindled by a woman...
Director Director Director Director Director Director Guan Crown Prince and the others: "Oh~~ no wonder Uncle Gao still hasn't found a wife even now..."
(Gao Gang: "I............ Can we just move past this?")
As they continued their visits,
They heard more and more stories about Director Director Director Director Director Director Guan Zu, Chen Chen Yongren, and the others...
A vivid picture of the Director Director Director Director Director Director Guan Zu team's growth gradually formed in the minds of these children.
End of Chapter
