If you walk on the road at night too much, you will eventually encounter ghosts.
As expected, Chen Xia’s heroic act of spending hundreds of thousands of dollars these two days has attracted someone’s attention.
In the early 1980s, a large number of educated youth returned to the city. Most of them could not find jobs for a while, or they became unemployed vagrants because they thought the jobs were too bad.
High school graduates of appropriate age are also unable to find jobs, resulting in a sharp increase in the number of unemployed people in cities. Young people are always impulsive and easily learn bad habits, so in the end many young people go down the path of breaking the law and committing crimes.
In addition, the legal order had not yet been fully restored in the early 1980s, which gave these people an opportunity to take advantage of the situation.
The poor social security and frequent major crimes led to the central government's strong crackdown, and the first nationwide crackdown began in 1983.
It is now February 1982, and the public security situation is already quite grim, especially in cities.
If you say you are a pauper, who will care about you? In the eyes of those scoundrels, you are just a stray dog.
But if you are rich, like Chen Xia, even if you are from Hong Kong or an American, you are a fat sheep and will definitely be targeted by people with ulterior motives.
There is a kind of people who value money more than their lives.
In Huanglong City now, the hype of Clivia has slowly emerged. For example, the most expensive pot that Chen Xia bought today has reached 1,000 yuan, which is almost the income of an ordinary worker for two years. How can one not be jealous?
So from then on, a series of cases of robbery of Clivia occurred, and later on, tragic incidents of brothers fighting and killing each other for the Clivia occurred from time to time.
A pot of flowers can be equivalent to one or two years' salary, which is tempting enough.
By 1984, when a pot of flowers was worth as much as a Crown car, Clivia was no longer a flower but a death warrant.
What everyone sees is someone becoming rich overnight, but what everyone hasn’t seen is how many people have lost their families because of it.
Did Chen Xia know the danger? Of course he knew, but he had no other choice. He could not let others know about some of the things he did, so he could only fight alone.
After the acquisition was completed that day, Chen Xia waited until after 9 o'clock in the evening when there was no one in the park before quickly putting the Clivia into the space hospital.
I came out of the greenhouse and looked around. Except for a few lights on in the distance, the entire park was shrouded in darkness.
The darkness not only concealed Chen Xia's use of the golden finger, but also concealed the bad guys' hiding.
Chen Xia walked through the park and was about to reach the brightly lit main road. As long as he reached the main road, he could take a tricycle back to the hotel.
But just one step away, Chen Xia found himself blocked by two young men in front and behind.
Both of them had long hair, and one of them was wearing sunglasses late at night. Chen Xia was not naive enough to think that these people were here to dance square dance.
Although his heartbeat quickened, he remained calm. Damn it, he had seen real guns and cannons from the Burmese side. He wouldn't capsize in the ditch, right?
People who often fight know that they are not afraid of meeting "old masters", but they are most afraid of these foolish young people who do not hold back when hitting you. If they say they will stab you, they will really do it. They will definitely not just scare you.
When you are under someone's roof, it's okay to bow your head.
"Hey, guys, are you guys out for a walk this evening? It's so cold. Here, here's 100 yuan. Let me buy you a drink."
Chen Xia was very polite, put a few banknotes on the ground, and then took two steps back.
A young man came over, picked up the money on the ground, and laughed contemptuously: "What? Boss Xiangjiang is going to send us brothers away with just 100 yuan?"
"Haha, no problem. If you think it's not enough, how about allowing me to go back to the hotel to get the money?"
"Not very good, let's go, our eldest brother wants to discuss a business with you, don't worry, we are serious businessmen, hehehe."
As soon as these words came out, Chen Xia knew that he had encountered a "professional gangster". If he was just a small-time thug, 100 yuan would be enough to get rid of him.
Perhaps he had too little experience in fighting. Just as Chen Xia was hesitating, he was supported by someone from behind, and a hard object pressed against his waist.
"Let's go, it's not far."
Chen Xia smiled awkwardly, not daring to bet whether it was a knife or a gun, or whether he was faster in becoming invisible or the other person was faster in attacking.
People from Northeast China are warm and hospitable, but there are also a few who are really cruel.
In 1983, the Er Wang massacre in Damingding, which killed nine people and seriously injured nine others, happened in Northeast China. Even the police were dared to attack, and in the end, it took the deployment of tens of thousands of troops to put them down.
How could Chen Xia not be afraid? How could he bet that someone would be soft-hearted?
The only way now is to follow them. After all, they just want to "talk business" and they probably won't kill us before the deal is done, right?
The three people walked through the park and entered the residential area next to it. There were some large courtyards here, and the roads were narrow and winding. In the middle of winter, no one was out wandering around, so they didn't meet many people along the way.
Chen Xia followed the others and walked forward, observing the terrain along the way from time to time.
The few people walked for about 10 minutes, not knowing how many turns they made or how far they walked, before they arrived at the gate of a yard. One of them knocked on the door.
The door opened, and the people inside looked outside and let everyone in.
The inside is similar to a courtyard house, with a main house and left and right side rooms, but at this time only the main house has lights on.
After entering the room, under the dim light, there were three people sitting in the room. One of them was sitting in the middle, drinking white wine. He must be the "boss of Chaoyang Park."
Including the two people just now, there were five grown men in the room looking at Chen Xia sinisterly, until a man with a scar on his face slapped Chen Xia on the back of the head.
"This is our boss, hurry up and call him Brother Shan."
Chen Xia suppressed his anger and called out reluctantly, "Brother Shan, I heard you want to do business with me?"
The leader, Shan Ge, who was less than 30 years old, smiled and said:
"Well, I have a pot of Clivia here, an absolutely rare variety, and I've decided to sell it to you."
After that, a younger brother brought out a pot of Clivia from the inner room. It was just a casual pot with only six or seven leaves. Even a layman like Chen Xia could tell at a glance that this was not a rare treasure at all, but just some junk picked up from the roadside.
Seeing through it but not saying anything, Chen Xia didn't even glance at it again. "I wonder how much Brother Shan is going to bid?"
"I heard you Hong Kong people are quite wealthy. How about this, for such a treasure, you should give me 100,000."
Chen Xia looked at Brother Shan in front of him as if he were a fool, thinking that this was really an exorbitant demand, asking for 100,000 yuan right away?
Do you really think you are the Pheasant Brother from Causeway Bay?
It’s a pity that it’s just a local chicken from Chaoyang Park. With such a big appetite, aren’t you afraid of overeating?
Chen Xia knew that today's matter would not end peacefully. As long as he dared to pay 100,000 yuan, these people would dare to kill him and then ask him to pay another 1 million yuan.
Don't expect these scumbags to have any professional ethics. So what's next? How do you get out of this situation?
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