dognovel Chapter 25 Secretary Hong Takes a Stamp
Chapter 25 Secretary Hong Takes a Stamp
"Cheers!"
At night, in a private room on the second floor of Dayunfu Restaurant, Hong Zhong, along with Song Fei, Chen Beifa, Liu Genbao, and a few others, sat around a large round mahogany table.
The entire second floor was quiet except for their private room.
After all, the Bureau of Investigation and Statistics told them to reopen tomorrow, so they dared not open today.
By this time, the banquet was nearing its end, and the fresh seafood on the table had long since disappeared.
"Thank you all for your hard work these past few days. This is a small allowance I applied for from the site administrator. Please take it!"
After finishing his drink, Hong Zhong took out several red envelopes from his pocket and distributed them to the people present.
"Secretary Hong, I haven't participated much, what are you doing?"
When Hong Zhong gave Song Fei a red envelope, Song Fei felt somewhat apprehensive.
"If you hadn't lent me your people, this wouldn't have been done so quickly. Here, take them!"
Seeing Hong Zhong's insistence, Song Fei had no choice but to accept it.
He squeezed the thickness of the red envelope; it was made of paper money, which put his mind at ease.
This amount of money is estimated to be only a few hundred thousand yuan in legal tender, not much at all.
"Good heavens, Secretary Hong, this is... US dollars?"
Chen Beifa opened the red envelope and was immediately excited to find that it contained $100.
Upon hearing Chen Beifa's words, Song Fei was also taken aback.
He quickly opened his red envelope and discovered that it contained nearly $200.
This delighted him; he hadn't done anything and yet he'd received $200 for nothing.
These days, the legal tender is constantly depreciating, and people are so disgusted with it that they don't even want to use it to wipe their butts.
The truly reliable options are still the ocean, gold, and the US dollar!
But for ordinary people like them, they can barely get close to the ocean; they've never even seen a US dollar before.
They don't even know how to spend their money!
"Of course it's US dollars. Wouldn't you just spend fiat currency in the blink of an eye?"
Everyone is short of money. We work so hard every day that we have to keep some capital in reserve, right?
This isn't a lot of money, but it's still a savings account, left for family emergencies!
Hearing that Hong Zhong cared so much for them, they were all deeply moved and wished they could bow down and pay homage on the spot.
What else can they say when they're following a big brother like that?
However, what they didn't know was that Wu Jingzhong actually gave Hong Zhong a credit line of $5000, but Hong Zhong used less than $1000 in total.
He actually pocketed over 4000 in kickbacks!
Of course, the reason Wu Jingzhong entrusted the distribution of money to Hong Zhong was to give him the opportunity to receive kickbacks.
Even if Hong Zhong didn't give a single penny to his subordinates, Wu Jingzhong wouldn't say anything!
At most, I would mentally label Hong Zhong as someone who couldn't be reused.
After all, he had already set an example, so how could Hong Zhong possibly make a mistake by copying it?
If he could copy it wrong, Wu Jingzhong would be disappointed not in his character, but in his intelligence!
"Manager Zhou, you all have some too, but where are Ali and Xiaomei?"
Hong Zhong then took out three more red envelopes and handed them to Zhou Yafu.
"Thank you, Secretary Hong. Xiaomei isn't feeling well, so Ali took her to see a doctor!"
Zhou Yafu accepted it with both hands and quickly explained.
"Okay, then you can give this to them for me, but don't you dare try to keep it for yourself!"
"No, no, I will definitely hand it over to them myself!"
Zhou Yafu repeatedly assured him.
"Please bring them two dishes on your way back; they can have a meal when they get back!"
"Okay, sure!"
After instructing Zhou Yafu, Hong Zhong then addressed the others:
"Alright, let's call it a day!"
"Besides Wen Shiming and Chen Beifa staying behind to continue monitoring the military police, everyone else will follow Captain Li starting tomorrow!"
"Secretary Hong, we're still willing to work for you!"
Liu Genbao, who hadn't had much of a chance to speak up, finally had the opportunity to express his loyalty, and the others naturally followed suit.
It wasn't that they were flattering him; rather, they had a full understanding of Li Ya's style of doing things.
Since arriving at Jinhai Station, Captain Li has been like an ascetic, throwing himself into his work every day and even sleeping in his office.
The problem is, his men aren't ascetics!
Besides the hard work, Li Ya brought very limited benefits to his subordinates.
First and foremost, there's the matter of merit. Li Ya has yet to achieve anything since arriving in Jinhai, so naturally, his subordinates won't get anything either.
Secondly, there are advantages. Li Ya himself doesn't have much money, but his action team does!
The station chief gave all the properties, including the cold storage warehouse and Dehong Hotel, to the action team, which even aroused Lu Qiaoshan's dissatisfaction.
But what was the result? Although Li Ya applied for a subsidy for his subordinates, they ended up doing even more work, which was far from enough to satisfy everyone.
Nowadays, there's even a saying: "Follow Li Ya, and you'll go hungry nine times in three days!"
On the other hand, even though Hong Zhong had only done one thing, the others took food and money from him!
If they followed Hong Zhong and did a few more things, they could all become rich!
After dinner, it was already dark.
Before leaving, Hong Zhong called Chen Beifa aside:
"You did a good job this time. I've left you some money in the bank; don't tell anyone!"
"Brother Zhong, this..."
Chen Beifa was quite surprised to hear that Hong Zhong would give him another sum of money.
"This is what you deserve. You were the most dangerous person to do this, so you naturally deserve the most!"
However, please don't tell anyone else about these things, lest they have other ideas about you, understand?
"I understand, Secretary Hong. Don't worry, I won't say a word about this!"
Although Chen Beifa was young, he was very sensible!
Although Hong Zhong was talking about giving money, it actually included this operation as well!
Throughout the whole affair, the other agents had no idea that Hong Zhong was extorting money; they simply thought it was to arrest a thug.
Besides the trio from Hengyazhai, the only one who knew the truth about this matter was Chen Beifa, who was in charge of the extortion.
At this moment, Chen Beifa took the initiative to express his stance, clearly having guessed Hong Zhong's thoughts.
"very good!"
Hong Zhong patted Chen Beifa on the shoulder, feeling quite satisfied with Chen Beifa.
Chen Beifa deserves much credit for the successful completion of this mission.
This guy is bold and meticulous, quite capable, and most importantly, young—definitely a promising talent!
After giving his final words, surrounded by the crowd, Hong Zhong drove off first, and then it was the others' turn.
"Brother Zhou, shall we see you off?"
Chen Beifa looked at Zhou Yafu, who was carrying a lunchbox, and asked.
"No need, I'll just find a rubber-covered cart. Your two carts aren't big enough for me!"
Zhou Yafu smiled and then waved to the roadside.
Seeing Zhou Yafu say this, they did not insist any further, since they were going back to the station and it was indeed not on the same route as Zhou Yafu.
So Zhou Yafu found a rickshaw by the roadside and took it to Hengyazhai to deliver money and food to the brother and sister.
As he passed by the Xiuchun Pavilion on the way, he couldn't help but glance at it a few more times.
This glance revealed a striking resemblance to Mo Xiaoli among the rickshaw pullers waiting at the intersection.
"Could I be seeing things?"
Because it was late and the moment had passed, Zhou Yafu thought he had misread it. After all, Mo Xiaoli should have gone back to the shop with his sister by now, so why would he still be working as a rickshaw driver?
"Your brother isn't here?"
However, when Zhou Yafu arrived at the shop, he found that only Mo Xiaohui was there.
"The doctor was preparing the medicine, and my brother didn't want me to wait there any longer, so he brought me back first!"
Hearing Mo Xiaohui's somewhat haggard words did not dispel Zhou Yafu's suspicions. He calmly handed the food and money to Mo Xiaohui, but in his heart he was thinking:
Could that person really be Mo Xiaoli?