With more and more people from the mainland illegally entering the city in recent years, the port city now has a population of about three million.
The real estate economy of Hong Kong City has also experienced its first boom and is now entering its second period of development.
The future richest man named Li had already founded his real estate company, Cheung Kong Holdings, in 1971 and listed it on the stock market.
The Hong Kong government has implemented a public housing system to solve the housing problem of the poor. The public housing units that have been built have been developed into high-rise buildings, some of which have even reached dozens of floors. One public housing building may be crowded with tens of thousands of people.
Xie Wan felt enormous pressure when he thought about finding the young man named Jiang Beiwang from so many people.
Forget it. There’s really no rush for this matter. Let’s just slowly inquire about it.
The inspection team that Xie Wan participated in was an officially organized business delegation. Its main purpose was to come to the port city to look for business opportunities and earn foreign exchange for the country.
Our country is currently under great pressure on foreign exchange, and this inspection team actually came here with a mission.
Xie Wan and Xu Bing pretended to be representatives of Rongcheng. The reason why Rongcheng had this opportunity was related to the more than 2 million US dollars that Xie Wan had previously handed over.
Most of the other people in the group came from Shanghai and Guangzhou, which were the major foreign exchange earning provinces at that time.
In addition to Xie Wan and Xu Bing, Rongcheng also sent two real people from the Foreign Trade Bureau.
The man and woman are named Zhang Qiushan and Li Baili.
They thought Xie Wan was just an interpreter accompanying the group, and Xu Bing was assigned by the organization to do odd jobs.
There was a knock on the door. It was Zhang Qiushan and Li Baili asking them to go downstairs for dinner.
The hotel included breakfast, but when they checked in, it was almost evening, so they had to prepare dinner on their own.
Li Baili was in charge of the Chengdu delegation's money. She said the hotel food was too expensive, so she took them to a small restaurant outside to eat.
Xie Wan and Xu Bing followed behind Li Baili, looking curiously at the streets and alleys that Li Baili took them through.
"Sister Li, are you familiar with Hong Kong City?"
Li Baihe shook her head. "I'm not familiar with it. I just came here once with my boss a few years ago. I remember the boss took me to a Taiwanese porridge shop. It was cheap and delicious."
Xie Wan had an idea. It was opened by a Taiwanese, so it was a good opportunity to find out some information about it.
When they arrived at the porridge shop, several people each ordered a bowl of porridge and four baskets of dim sum.
Xie Wan saw that there were only six tables in the shop. It was not yet meal time and the boss was not busy, so he went over to chat with him.
"Boss, are you really coming from Taiwan?"
The boss was a slightly plump middle-aged man. He looked at Xie Wan warily and asked, "Are you from the mainland? Let me tell you, I've been running this shop for more than 20 years, but I don't know what's going on in Taiwan."
The boss immediately recognized Xie Wan's accent and knew she was not a local, so he thought she wanted to find out about Taiwan.
Xie Wan hurriedly smiled and said, "Boss, don't be nervous. I have a relative who went to Taiwan before, and later I heard that he came to Hong Kong.
This time my father asked me to find out the whereabouts of this relative in Gangcheng.
I would like to ask you, generally speaking, where do people from Taiwan live in Hong Kong, and what industries do they work in? "
The boss said casually in Taiwanese accent: "We have everything, it just depends on whether your relative has money to bring."
Xie Wan thought about it and realized that the guard was only in his twenties at the time, with a child and facing pursuit, so he definitely wouldn't have much money on him.
“Where do poor people usually gather?”
The boss pointed randomly and said, "Places like Causeway Bay and Kowloon Walled City, where Taiwanese, mainlanders, and locals each account for one-third. I don't know about other places..."
Xie Wan wanted to ask something else, but the boss became a little impatient, so Xie Wan had to give up.
Xie Wan returned to his seat and started drinking porridge.
Li Baili asked Xie Wan in a low voice: "Are you here to look for relatives?"
Xie Wan nodded.
Her current identity is fake, so it’s okay to create another fake relative.
Li Baili kindly reminded: "Don't worry about this matter. Having relatives in Hong Kong now is not a good thing."
Xie Wan made up a story: “He is my uncle’s son.
My uncle raised my father with great difficulty, but later he was conscripted into the army.
I only found out a few years ago that my uncle had passed away.
He left behind a son and fled here.
A fellow villager brought back a letter saying that my uncle's last wish before his death was to return to his hometown.
My cousin brought his ashes and smuggled into the port city.
After hearing the news, my father cried for three days and three nights.
He told me to bring back my uncle’s ashes if I could find my cousin.”
Xie Wan's uncle Xie Changshou shuddered and then sneezed in Xiejia Village in southern Fujian.
Xie Changshou's wife scolded, "How could you catch a cold out of nowhere in the middle of summer?
You must have attracted the jealousy of some villain who cursed you!"
While Xie Changshou was sneezing and wiping his snot and tears, he cursed: "Who else would curse me except that villain Xie Changgen?"
Xie Changhong, who was working in the south city, also sneezed for no apparent reason, and then thought to himself: "My daughter must be away on a business trip and is thinking about me!"
Xie Wan's story moved Li Baihe and Zhang Qiushan.
In this era, there are indeed many people who are homesick because they are separated by the strait and have no way to return to their homeland until they die.
Li Baili sighed deeply and said, "We will only stay here for seven days. Do you want to find your cousin? Do you have an address or something like that?"
Xie Wan shook his head and recapitulated what he had just asked his boss.
Zhang Qiushan was older and wore a navy blue Mao suit with two pens in his chest pocket, looking very intellectual.
He hesitated for a moment and then said, "Why don't you put an ad in the newspaper to find someone?
I know a newspaper editor here who can help you put up a missing person notice."
Xie Wan was overjoyed. She had thought about placing an ad in the newspaper to look for the person, but she had just arrived and had not found a way yet.
Having made an appointment with Zhang Qiushan to go to the newspaper office tomorrow, Xie Wan and Xu Bing did not go back to the hotel directly, saying that they wanted to take a walk around the area.
Xu Bing didn't say much along the way. It was not until he separated from Zhang Qiushan and the others that he asked, "Boss, will it be effective if we put an advertisement in the newspaper to look for the person?"
Xie Wan shook his head, "I don't know. Now we don't even know if he can read or not, let's just give it a try.
Let’s go visit the famous Kowloon Walled City.”
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