Chapter 79

The man's name is Chen Haoming. He came to Temple Street four months ago and opened a gym on the third floor of Zhang's Restaurant.

Who would have thought.

After finally opening the gym, he received two guests on the first day of opening. Compared with the previous company's daily traffic of several hundred people, this was simply vulnerable.

Chen Haoming was worried.

The rent in Hong Kong is not cheap. The gym not only needs a spacious venue but also expensive fitness equipment. For this, Chen Haoming spent all his savings to invest three million.

The monthly turnover did not even reach five thousand. Instead of having a full house as expected, he was sitting on the bench every day.

The original Lingyun's ambition was like a pot of charcoal fire extinguished by cold water.

Chen Haoming was losing money every month, and he was about to lose more than he earned, and he was getting more and more anxious. He even asked a financial expert in the industry to help analyze and see if he could turn things around.

The financial expert shook his head when he saw the gym.

Chen Haoming was at his wits' end, but suddenly he saw the booming business of the dessert stall and the crowds of neighbors who gathered around every day.

He had an idea.

When he learned that the fortune-telling fee was 200 yuan per divination, he was overjoyed.

"Cheap! Too cheap!"

"Compared to a few seconds of advertising that costs hundreds of thousands, 200 yuan is so cheap."

Without saying anything, Chen Haoming set an alarm for 6 a.m. the next day and went downstairs sleepily.

I thought he would be able to grab the best fortune-telling position.

I found that the deserted dessert stall was already filled with grandparents practicing Tai Chi.

Four or five grandparents were practicing and chatting.

"Hey, Mr. Shu, are you here to tell fortunes too?"

"Yes, I want to tell how many points my grandson got in the exam? The results will be released in the afternoon, and I couldn't sleep well last night and I'm very worried. What are you here to tell?"

"I want to tell if I'll have a girl next time."

Girl?

Chen Haoming looked at the old lady's thin legs bending while doing Tai Chi. He was so confused that his eyes almost fell to the ground and he couldn't help asking.

"Grandma, you are already 60 years old. Isn't it too risky to have a child in old age?"

"Hey, you young people just don't understand my desire to have granddaughters." The grandma grabbed Chen Haoming and complained, "What kind of high-quality life do young people want? They want to get married and have children later. My son is over 30 years old and he doesn't want to find a partner to settle down. I have to do it myself."

"Then... it's so hard for you, grandma." Chen Haoming wiped the sweat from his forehead.

After asking the parents-in-law about some simple household matters, Chen Haoming decisively took out the money and respectfully sent the parents-in-law away for 200 yuan each, and then he got the second seat.

During the queue, as the sun rose higher and higher, the flow of people at the dessert stand also increased.

Chen Haoming rehearsed his appearance countless times in his mind.

Apparently, it worked.

He succeeded in making the neighbors remember him and the gym. There were

even two housewives who wanted to buy lessons from him.

"Master."

Chen Haoming naturally wanted to take people to do business as soon as possible. He fumbled for a long time and took out two hundred yuan from his shorts, and put it on the table with a smile.

"Two hundred yuan for fortune-telling. I see you must be tired after running around just now, so I'll add another hundred."

While speaking, he took out another hundred yuan from his shorts pocket and put it on the table.

"You don't have to tell mine, Master, take advantage of my fortune-telling time to have a good rest."

"Come on, come on, housewives, follow me." Chen Haoming gave the money and stood up, excitedly preparing to wave to the two housewives who were staring at his chest with lustful eyes to go upstairs.

Facing the fortune teller in Temple Street,

he seemed to have no attachment

to him. After all, fortune telling was not as good as doing two business deals.

"Wait."

The girl sat at the wooden table, looking at the three hundred lychees on the table, her eyes slowly rose with a smile, "Are you sure it doesn't count?" Chen Haoming

waved his hand with a smile on his face, "Master, forget it, there is really nothing to calculate in my life."

"Really?" Chu Yueqing looked at his face and raised his eyebrows, "You are sure it doesn't count when your knot is so serious?"

"Besides, a few customers can't save your gym."

One sentence

pointed out Chen Haoming's dilemma.

Chen Haoming's smile suddenly stopped, and unlike his previous careless attitude, his back suddenly broke out in sweat.

Impossible.

It's impossible.

He had never told anyone else about his worries. How could Master Chu know?

Chu Yueqing pushed the three hundred yuan back, "If you are sure it doesn't count, then take the money back and I will postpone the next one."

"However, I still have to tell you. Your heart knot has a very big impact. If you don't untie it, your gym will definitely go bankrupt."

"Does it count?"

Hearing that the heart knot is related to career, Chen Haoming perked up.

Just kidding, who can't get over career.

That's three million! Three million!

Chen Haoming has quickly sat down on the opposite side, with his hands on the table, looking at Chu Yueqing expectantly, "Master, you said, as long as the gym is revived, even if you want me to be a gigolo, I can do it."

"No need to be a gigolo, my body can't take it." Chu Yueqing smiled.

"I can lose weight." Chen Haoming rolled up his sleeves and clenched his fists to show his well-defined muscles.

The two housewives not only stared at the muscles with lustful eyes.

According to the old rules, Chu Yueqing first took Chen Haoming's birth date and eight characters, and combined them to look at his face.

"Old rules, let me talk about your basic situation first."

Chen Haoming put down his sleeves and stopped deliberately making weird moves. Since he decided to tell fortunes seriously, he still had to be serious. No job is easy, and he needed to respect the other party.

Chu Yueqing pinched her fingers, "Jia Wood Day Master Wu Earth, Day Master Wu Earth is the official, there should be an older sister in the family. Your father is still alive, and the four pillars have Xiao Shi and Lin combined with your mother's palace, which is dark and pitted. Your mother is gone, right?"

Chen Haoming was obviously absent-minded when his mother was suddenly mentioned. "Yes, my mother died in an accident when I was 20 years old. If she were still alive, I invested millions in the gym but it didn't make any progress. She would definitely worry about me and couldn't sleep."

Chu Yueqing nodded in agreement, "Mothers usually care more about their children."

"Yes." Chen Haoming realized that he had lost his composure and laughed again: "I do have a sister, but she has married to New Zealand. The master has predicted both points, and he is indeed capable. No wonder his business is so busy every day." After

Chu Yueqing finished the calculation, Chen Haoming's expression became more serious.

He could even predict the situation of his family members, so... the situation of the gym that the master just mentioned, isn't it dire?

Thinking that he had worked hard for more than ten years to save a few million, and it would all go down the drain in just a few months, he couldn't help but feel anxious.

"Master, how can we get the gym off the ground?"

Chu Yueqing shook her head, "The gym is not the most important thing at the moment. I've already said that the knot in your heart will be a big obstacle to your career."

Some housewives are curious.

"Brother is so strong and handsome, what kind of knot could he have?"

Chen Haoming also smiled and nodded: "My friend also said so, how could someone like me who is cheerful, sunny and talkative have any knot."

So, he was more curious.

How did Master Chu see his knot? Chu

Yueqing smiled, "People have knots in their hearts, which have nothing to do with their physique and appearance. Once they have a knot in their hearts, it usually stays with them for a lifetime."

"Don't look at Mr. Chen, who is now a fitness coach and looks tall and mighty. But from the horoscope, Mr. Chen's family background was relatively difficult in his childhood, and the lack of nutrition also led to his thin body like a bean sprout all year round."

Chen Haoming admitted frankly: "Master is right, I was indeed not in good health when I was a child, and I often got sick and caught a cold."

The housewives showed special concern for Chen Haoming.

"You have big muscles. You can't tell that you were malnourished when you were young."

"When you finish your fortune-telling, my Aunt Fang will help you to improve your grades."

"But Aunt Fang also has a request. I want you to train with me every day."

Many uncles present also laughed teasingly.

"Even if you stop, Aunt Fang, your eyes are almost on your brother's muscles. Can you concentrate on training?"

"What?" Aunt Fang put her hands on her hips and was not convinced. Seeing Chen Haoming's face, she smiled again, "I call this appreciation, not blasphemy. You are bragging."

Chen Haoming, a grown man, blushed at the teasing.

Chu Yueqing helped to solve the problem, "You guys be quiet, I want to tell fortunes."

This group of neighbors see fortunes every day and have long had feelings for Chu Yueqing. Seeing that the fortune-telling was disturbed, they asked each other to be quiet.

Soon.

The originally noisy stall became quiet.

The neighbors waved their hands one after another: "Xingxi, as long as you ask, we are willing to move one hundred meters away from the stall."

Chu Yueqing nodded: "Thank you everyone."

After waiting for a while, she got into the state and continued to calculate, "It is easy to see that your horoscope is weak. The change happened when you were twelve years old, right?"

Chen Haoming recalled and nodded: "It should be this age, Master, you can really calculate it."

Chu Yueqing continued to calculate, "That year, you just entered the second grade class. There was a group of bad boys in the class who liked to bully their classmates in class."

"Usually, you would avoid them if you could. But you didn't expect to encounter a turning point."

Chen Haoming heard this past event from the second person, and his tone was no longer pretending to be relaxed, and he fell silent.

"There is a new female student in the class. She just transferred back from abroad. Because she grew up abroad, she can't speak Cantonese, only English. Not long after, you found that this group of rascals picked up the female student after school and bullied her."

As Chu Yueqing counted, she saw the scene of that year.

That year.

Chen Haoming, who was only twelve years old, was less than 1.5 meters tall. His skinny hands grasped the heavy shoulder straps of his schoolbag. He stood at the corner outside the campus, looking straight ahead.

From time to time, the streets were filled with evil laughter.

Three rascals picked up the mixed-race white-skinned female student.

"Hey! Give me money, do you know how to behave?" The leading jerk was called Big Brother B. He stretched out his thumb and middle finger and kept rubbing them, his eyes wide open, "Doesn't your father give you 100 Hong Kong dollars every day? Take it out to honor us!"

The other two jerk also kept teasing the female classmate.

The jerk nicknamed Rubber Skin kept sticking chewing gum on the female classmate's fluffy light brown ponytail. After sticking it, he chewed new chewing gum and stuck it again and again.

Rubber Skin looked at the female classmate trembling, and he laughed: "Big Brother, look, the foreign girl really doesn't cry."

Big Brother B said with a pah and spit the toothpick on the ground.

"That means we are not cruel enough. If we were, she would cry in a minute!"

As he said that, Big Brother B snatched away a hundred yuan and pulled the girl's ponytail, ignoring her crying. He shook the Hong Kong dollars and said with a wicked smile, "Aren't you crying now?"

"Ghost girl, starting tomorrow, you have to ask your family for two hundred yuan. One hundred yuan is not enough for us brothers."

The girl's eyes were red and her tears filled her eye sockets. She felt painful and confused. She wanted to snatch her hair back from Big Brother B, but was pushed back by the rubber at the back.

"Boss, the ghost girl doesn't understand two hundred yuan."

Boss B said impatiently, "Please translate it! How can one hundred yuan be enough for the three of us to drink and eat?"

Rubber shook his head awkwardly and whispered, "My English has never been good."

Boss B had no choice but to let go of the ponytail.

A trembling voice came from the alley.

"Let her go!"

Twelve-year-old Chen Haomin's face was dirty, and his skinny legs were shaking under his shabby straight jeans. His voice was small, but he still wanted to use his courage to chase the bad guys away.

Young Chen Haoming was no match for the three hooligans. He was beaten and injured. Big Brother B even peed in the corner, and the hooligans pressed his face into the urine pit.

The warm and smelly urine went into his throat from his nose.

——This

past event surprised the neighbors.

No one would have thought that a big boy with a bright and sunny appearance had been bullied.

"Master, you are really accurate in fortune-telling." After a while, Chen Haoming smiled bitterly.

The memory of this incident is actually vague. It will only reappear in dreams at midnight.

Even though he is already thirty years old, the humiliation he suffered at the age of twelve is engraved in his heart.

"You protected the female classmate, but it also left a shadow on her for the rest of her life."

Chu Yueling continued: "The female classmate expressed her sincere gratitude to you."

"They stopped bullying the female classmate as you wished. But you became the next target of bullying."

Chen Haoming was so thin that he looked like a bean sprout and would break if bent lightly.

After experiencing the humiliation of the urine pit.

Chen Haoming swore from that day on that he would never let anyone bully him again.

He began to do various muscle-building exercises on his own initiative and went to the Taekwondo class, and slowly he became stronger.

After becoming stronger, Chen Haoming had the capital to protect himself and kept an eye on the big brother B in the class. Finally, when the big brother B bullied the girl again, he stood up.

This time.

He didn't let Big Brother B have another chance to pee, but beat him up severely.

After that, Big Brother B started to avoid him when he saw him.

This is also the reason why Chen Haoming became obsessed with fitness.

The neighbors were confused after hearing this.

"Since you have already taken revenge, why do you still have a knot in your heart?"

"That's right, Coach Chen, you must not let bad people affect your emotions."

Chu Yue shook his head.

Chen Haoming's knot was planted in his childhood, and he did not become strong immediately. During the process, he always dreamed of being pressed into the puddle of urine, and he would go home in fear after school, for fear of being caught by a few bad guys.

This kind of inner trauma is like a scar that reminds him all the time.

Even if he becomes stronger as an adult, he can't forget this incident.

Chen Haoming smiled helplessly and said, "As an adult, I can't say forgetfulness for the young Chen Haoming."

"I only thought about this occasionally before. It wasn't until the business was bad after I started my own business, and I heard that Big Boss B inherited the family business. I felt resentful in my heart. I worked hard to live a good life, but he, a loser, how could he live a more carefree life?"

"Master, you said that the knot in your heart would affect my career. Is this the reason?"

Chu Yueqing nodded: "You are unwilling to give up. The lower you are, the more you want to make money. You just want to prove that you are better than Big Boss B. The gym is not making enough money, so you borrow money to advertise and use all means to attract customers."

"The result is predictable."

"The gym declared bankruptcy. You owed a lot of loans and were chased by debtors every day. Coupled with the shadow of your heart, you finally went crazy."

That's right.

Chen Haoming's original fate was to go crazy.

After the gym went bankrupt, he was chased by loan sharks and had no face to go home. He hid from place to place. Every night when it was quiet, he would dream of being humiliated, which led to a mental breakdown. When he

wandered the streets in rags, he would always mutter in a trance.

"Why do the bad guys live a better life than me?"

Chen Haoming didn't expect his ending to be so tragic. He was silent for a long time, and finally, he asked.

"Then how can we avoid the gym going bankrupt?"

"In fact, after the store opened, I realized that there was a big problem with the location."

"The majority of customers in Temple Street are tourists. They finally have a day off to play, so why would they waste their time in the gym?"

"I really can't afford to move the store. Although the fitness equipment can be moved, the decoration cannot."

He really didn't want his hard work to go to waste.

But thinking of the current situation, Chen Haoming sighed deeply again. He had invited a financial expert to take a look, and the other party had already said that there was no way.

Although the master is good at fortune-telling, there is no way he can help him.

"Forget it, I won't make it difficult for the master."

Chu Yueqing smiled: "Who said there is no way?"

Chen Haoming looked up in surprise.

After Chu Yuexiang finished sorting out the reasons, she said, "Since the location is not good, you have to be unique enough. Make sure you are the only one in Hong Kong, so that customers will have no comparison and will naturally come to you. "

Chen Haoming thought for a while and nodded, "That makes sense."

"When you were working in the gym, what kind of customers did you have?"

"Celebrities and business elites from various industries." Chen Haoming hesitated, "But they are all very busy, and their work units are some distance away from me. They definitely won't come here to apply for cards."

"Who said they should come here to apply for cards?" Chu Yuexiang pointed out the way, "You can send them the cards."

"Why do the celebrities you know come to the gym?"

Chen Haoming thought for a moment before saying, "To keep in shape."

"How much does the membership card cost?" Chu Yuexiang asked again.

"Three thousand for half a year." As Chen Haoming was prompted, his thoughts gradually opened up. "The gym equipment is all new, and they have introduced popular international equipment. As far as I know, there are only three gyms in Kowloon that have it."

"Their membership fee is twice as much as mine. There is no reason why they have good things for free. No stars are willing to come."

Chen Haoming became more and more excited.

Why didn't he think of it before?

As long as the stars are willing to come, isn't it equivalent to free promotion?

He seemed to have seen the gym come back to life and be packed with people.

Chu Yueqing saw that Chen Haoming had come to his senses and smiled slightly, "That's it."

The effect of stars is still very strong.

Regardless of whether Hong Kong citizens care about seeing celebrities or not, it is still a face-saving thing to be able to use the same gym as celebrities.

Use celebrities as a gimmick to attract new customers.

"Then, do you have more female customers or male customers in your gym?"

"More female customers." Chen Haoming was decisive.

Chu Yueqing smiled: "Since you are willing to sell your sex appeal to attract customers, why not hire a few more male coaches?"

Chen Haoming's face immediately flushed, "Well... there is nothing we can do about it."

Instantly, the neighbors behind him burst into laughter.

When the laughter gradually subsided.

Chen Haoming was silent for a while, and finally he mustered up the courage to ask: "Master, since the knot in my heart will affect me so much, should I forgive them? Let it go?"

After thinking about it, he still felt unhappy.

But if it really affects his career and whether the gym can be prosperous, he still wants to give up.

Chu Yueqing didn't have time to say anything.

The neighbors in the crowd spoke angrily.

"Don't forgive, it's King Yanluo's business to forgive them!"

"That's right! Coach Chen, remember, you can ridicule them when you become bigger and stronger in the future!"

"I'm fifty years old this year, and this is the time when I need to keep fit the most. Don't worry, we neighbors will support your business!"

"My granddaughter likes fitness the most. There was no fitness here on Temple Street before, so she took a taxi to Mong Kok. I'll call her back!"

Chen Haoming saw that the neighbors supported him, and his cold heart was warmed. He was moved and his depressed mood in recent days suddenly became much brighter.

Chu Yueqing wrote an address in a notebook, tore off a piece of paper and handed it to him.

"Go and have a look, maybe the knot in your heart will be untied."

She blinked, "You can ridicule me if you want."

Chen Haoming took the note, hesitated for a moment, and took a taxi to an industrial area in Sai Kung.

He followed the address and finally stopped at a cement factory.

Bags of cement were loaded onto trucks on the backs of workers.

The dust was so thick that Chen Haoming couldn't see everyone's appearance. Suddenly, an evil voice from many years ago caught his attention.

"Xiao Liu, how many years will Big Boss B be in prison?" Two men with cement dust all over their faces were sitting in the corner eating rice balls.

Chen Haoming recognized the voices as the two bad boys who were Big Boss B's henchmen back then.

"It's robbery, and he was sentenced to twenty years." Xiaoliu complained, "If Big Boss B's family hadn't collapsed and his business hadn't failed, would he have robbed? Why are we moving cement in Sai Kung?" "

Oh, how did we end up in such a miserable state?" Jiaopi stared at the rice ball without any vegetables and sighed, "We can't afford to eat, wear clothes, or sleep. We work as a clerk in the factory after work."

"Compared to Big Boss B, we're okay." Xiaoliu cursed, "He tried to escape from prison and was sentenced to three more years. The last time I saw him, he was beaten up in prison with a black eye."

"That's right."

Rubber raised his neck and saw an elite man in a suit standing not far away. He didn't know who the elite man was but felt that he looked familiar. He took a bite of the rice ball and approached his brother, "Do you still remember Chen Haoming?"

"Yes, Big Brother B humiliated him by peeing on him, and he built up muscles and chased us to fight." The follower shuddered, "He almost cracked my skull, and it hurt so much that I avoided him afterwards. I would still remember him even if he died and turned into ashes."

Rubber took another bite of the rice ball, "Chen Haoming is lucky. My classmates said that he invested millions to open a gym. Alas, he is a big boss. We can't compare with him."

As he spoke, the bad boy asked Xiaoliu again.

"Do you think we still have a chance to turn over in this life?"

"Turn over? Are you dreaming or awake?" Xiaoliu finished eating the rice ball and stuffed the plastic bag into his dirty pocket, urging, "Our life is like this."

A gust of wind blew by.

Chen Haoming loosened his hand and let the note blow away. He chuckled, and his heavy heart was instantly relieved.

It turned out that the master just wanted him to see how miserable these bastards were.

"Uncle is right, it is King Yanluo's business to forgive them."

He turned around and prepared to leave, intending to give free membership cards to former customers according to the method taught by the master. Just as he raised his feet, he saw a man coming out of the cement factory office.

It was the owner of the cement factory and also Chen Haoming's former customer.

"Mr. Chen Haoming?" The boss was surprised. "What a coincidence, why are you here?"

The boss's voice attracted the two people who were preparing to carry cement.

They looked over with dirty faces.

Chen Haoming was bright and handsome, talking to the boss like a successful person. Later, he even entered the boss's office, which they were not qualified to enter normally.

During the whole process,

Chen Haoming did not give them any extra glances.

It was as if they were an insignificant grain of sand.

"Chen Haoming?"

Jiaopi and Xiaoliu were stunned. In an instant, huge gaps, inferiority, unwillingness and other emotions swept over them. Their faces seemed to have been slapped hard and loudly. The punches that had landed on Chen Haoming were returned several times.

Punch after punch.

They were beaten into the dust.

In the next few decades, this scene will become a lingering shadow in their hearts and a nightmare that will appear every midnight