Xiangjiang, a super restaurant for outsiders.
In the densely populated city of pigeon houses, a 90-square-meter house can be divided into 18 households.
The average household area is less than ten square meters, and this is not the most exaggerated.
The most exaggerated type of subdivided flat is one in which a bed is separated by an iron cage.
This is the room where one person lives.
Despite the exaggerated living environment, people living here earn at least 10,000 or 20,000 yuan per month.
Whether it is a dishwasher or a security guard, the starting monthly salary is more than 10,000 yuan.
Most of the people living in this kind of environment are outsiders, so the super restaurants opened here are also called outsider restaurants.
The Stranger Super Restaurant, which has been open for over a year, is extremely popular and employs no less than ten dishwashers.
As for the waiters who greeted customers, saw them off and cleared the tables, there were more than thirty of them.
This doesn't include the chefs and such.
The Foreigner Super Restaurant has two floors in total, and the area of each floor is about 500 square meters.
It is enough to accommodate hundreds of people for dinner at the same time.
And since it opened here, the media has spontaneously reported on it two or three times.
The main reason is that the price is too cheap.
A buffet at 15 yuan per person is acceptable in mainland China, but it is totally an anomaly in Hong Kong.
The dishes are particularly rich.
It can be said that since the day it opened, if you want to eat here you have to queue up.
If it happens to be dinner time, it will take at least seven or eight minutes before your turn to get your food.
Some reporters have done the math for it. First of all, the housing prices in Hong Kong are high.
A two-story storefront as large as this one would be unacceptable even if it is not located in the most prosperous street in Hong Kong.
If you open a business in a pigeon house like this, don’t even think about it if the annual rent is less than 30 million.
As for its price, it is very good if it can ensure that employees do not lose money every month.
Tens of millions of dollars in rent every year will definitely be lost, and this is indeed the case.
A restaurant catering to outsiders that charges 15 yuan per person cannot even recover its investment costs.
All that can be recovered is the reputation gained by outsiders.
Chen Anan stayed here honestly for a day or two, compared to the villa on the top of the mountain.
People here eat simply to fill their stomachs for a living.
After eating, you can either take a break or immediately get back to your day's work.
In short, you can hardly see any enjoyment of life on their faces.
This is the extreme contrast between the mountaintop villas and the people at the bottom.
She adapted quite well, but Erpi Ya started asking to go home after just two days.
Chen Pingsheng ignored her and left her here to exercise.
Shen Youwei and Zhao Yingying also accompanied the two young ladies.
As for the fat aunt, she has been working here for more than a year and many people know her.
We were neighbors before, and now we greet each other more often.
According to her, even though there are many middle-aged people here and they seem to be very stingy, they are really reluctant to spend money on themselves.
But once he enters the casino, he becomes a different person.
The chubby lady pointed at two middle-aged men with messy hair and dirty faces and said, "Those two work on the construction site, carrying rebar and cement. They're big eaters and don't like to talk. They go to the casino three or four times a month. They say they've been poor their whole lives, and how else can they get back on their feet if not through gambling?"
"Did they turn over?" Chen Anan asked curiously. The fat aunt whispered,
"How can you possibly turn things around? Of course you win less and lose more. In that kind of place, if you win, you can't stop, and if you lose, you'll just get deeper and deeper into trouble. These two have been working on the construction site for almost 20 years, and they can't even find a wife. It's obvious that they've been wasting their money there."
Poor people are actually better at gambling than rich people.
It’s mainly because of the stimulation. When life lacks passion, many people like to seek comfort from it.
Not only these two people like to gamble, many people who come here like it.
When payday comes, most people team up to play a few games.
Some people are homeless and single, and if they lose their money, they lose it.
Most of the people are not like that. They are already married and have children in the mainland, and they come here simply to make money.
This group of people can often still control themselves a little.
If you can't control yourself, the only option is divorce.
Nine out of ten times you will lose in gambling, that’s no joke.
The fat sister-in-law didn't understand why the big boss sent his daughter to such a place to work as a waitress.
Maybe it's not just for fun, but more to see the actual lives of these people struggling at the bottom of society.
In fact, the lives of poor people are often more depressing, and they lack a sense of accomplishment in life.
There is no channel to release emotions.
Gambling has naturally become a hobby for many people.
Some people can win hundreds of thousands of dollars in a single night, and most people can lose a month's salary in just a few hours.
The Outsider Restaurant not only brings together these people, but also some former street bosses.
Like the old man with half-white hair, what he likes to talk about most is the Causeway Bay of the past.
Brother Haonan is not a legend. The real person was slapped in the face for interfering in Anita Mui's nightclub.
And was hacked to death in the street.
Many people talk about Hong Kong in the 1990s, and always feel that there was still a place for underworld people in Hong Kong at that time.
But the ones who are really the best fighters are often the tough guys who smuggled in from the mainland.
Some people have indeed made it on the road of the underworld, and can now hold their glasses down and toast Chen Pingsheng with a glass of wine in a decent manner.
It's just that I can't sit at the main table.
It was a great honor to receive a business card from him, and these people had already changed into suits and black ties.
More people are still eliminated by the world.
Just like this white-haired old man, he is still lucky, and he himself respects that big brother for his loyalty.
However, he was put into sacks and thrown into the sea because of his loyalty.
The reason was that the younger brother offended a second-generation man, and the older brother went over and slapped him without asking any questions.
It's considered as helping my younger brother.
It sank into the sea the next day.
As for his younger brother, he had already fled abroad and never dared to return to Hong Kong until his death.
There were countless such incidents in Hong Kong in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s.
After the return of Hong Kong in 1997, the chaotic Hong Kong was completely cut off from the underworld.
And those of them who were once in the martial arts world, including that person, can only recall the glorious past.
What Chen Anan could feel here was a kind of depression, an extreme depression.
Perhaps everyone wants to fight for that chance to change their fate when they are young.
Some people risked their lives, and then lost them.
Some people work hard and then become laborers all their lives.
There are also people who work honestly and diligently at their posts. They may not be happy, but their wives and children back home are their greatest motivation.
As a result, these people can control their inner desires and return to the inland rural areas to live in a big house when they are old.
I just like to gamble, maybe not because I like gambling.
Just because I can't find hope in life.
And these people are often the worst off.
He was reluctant to eat or wear clothes, but instead used all his savings to gamble and take a gamble.
The price of hoping to turn a bicycle into a motorcycle is that you will lose the original broken bicycle.
(End of this chapter)
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