Chapter 468 Banquet
After seeing Chen Ruoyi off, Xia Zhizhi immediately went to the Causeway Bay Ferry. Using the excuse of relaxing, she rented a fishing boat and asked the boatman to take her to the beach to play.
Xia Zhizhi asked for a high price, and the boatman was very cooperative. He would go wherever she told him to go.
She didn't just send them straight to their destination, but first ordered a nearby island. When they got there, she picked and chose, pouting and saying, "I don't think this place is that great."
The fisherman replied, "That's right. The people who live here are all fishermen. There's nothing to see. It's completely different from Hong Kong Island."
Xia Zhizhi pointed to the destination ahead casually and said to the boatman, "I've never been to that island over there. Let's go take a look."
Fishermen are very familiar with the nearby islands when they go out to sea to fish. The boatman takes a closer look and says, "You are not allowed to go to that island."
Xia Zhizhi pretended to be confused: "Why not let me go up? Are you trying to take a break?"
The fishermen explained: "There are security guards in the morning. As soon as our fishing boats get close, they will start to chase us away. If you don't believe us, we will go over and see for ourselves."
The people drove their fishing boats over and circled the outlying islands. As expected, there were guards guarding the several places where people could land. As soon as they saw them from a distance, they began to stretch out their hands to chase them away.
There was only one ferry that happened to have a ship coming to deliver goods, but the guard was taking inventory and had no time to catch up with them, so they were able to stay for a while.
Xia Zhizhi used her mental power to scan the island and roughly figured out the layout. Then she said to the fishermen, "If you don't allow us to go ashore, then don't allow us to go ashore. What's so strange about it? Why make it so mysterious? Let's go!"
The fishermen didn't want to cause trouble, so after hearing what she said, they quickly took her and ran away.
After Xia Zhizhi returned, she acted as if nothing had happened. She first found a restaurant to eat, then went back to the hotel to catch up on her sleep, and slept until midnight.
After coming down from the hotel room, I went to the roadside to have a midnight snack.
Then he picked up a load of dirt and said, "Let's go to South Bay."
The hotel was quite close to Victoria Harbour, but there were people around the port 24 hours a day, and she didn't plan to swim to the outlying islands. It didn't seem right to take out a boat with her bare hands in public.
So she chose to go into the water from the South Bay.
South Bay at this time is not as lively as Central. It has just been developed and has not yet become a wealthy area.
The toast driver thought she was very proud of herself. She wore a pair of sunglasses late at night and looked very arrogant. He didn't say much and just chatted with her, not asking why she went to that remote place.
As soon as we arrived and got the money, the driver ran away quickly.
Xia Zhizhi found a deserted place and took out a small cruise ship from the space, the kind that runs on electricity and is silent, the kind that you can play on in the park.
Then quietly drove towards the outlying island.
After visiting the area during the day, she knew that there were only a few places that were convenient for landing that were guarded by guards. After all, it was an island, not big, but not small either. It was impossible to station heavy troops every three steps to surround the outer perimeter.
She stopped the boat near a reef that was difficult to land on, then jumped onto the reef, reeled in the boat, and Ah Ju carried her to the center of the island.
There are two villa-like buildings on the island, one big and one small. The small one can be said to be a villa, and the big one is more like a palace.
She scanned with her mental power and realized that the smaller area was the dormitory for the island's staff.
The big house has four floors. The first floor is divided into two parts. The smaller part is the kitchen and restaurant. There is a long Western-style dining table in the restaurant that is large enough for dozens of people to dine together.
On the other side is a spacious hall, richly decorated and large enough for hosting banquets.
Upstairs are suites, only a few of which are occupied, while the rest are mostly empty and used as guest rooms. After the party, everyone gets drunk and needs a place to stay.
The party was to be held tomorrow. Xia Zhizhi ran to the third floor, found an empty room and began to catch up on her sleep, while Ah Ju stood guard for her.
At dawn, Xia Zhizhi heard some noise outside the house, but the sound was not loud.
She yawned, got up from the bed, walked to the window, hid behind the curtain and looked down.
A ship brought fresh food, vegetables, fruits and flowers. The workers unloaded the things and the servants each had their own responsibilities, putting the things away in an orderly manner.
Judging from the appearance of the maids, they should all be Filipino maids. Good guys. Half of the Filipino maids in Hong Kong should be in this place these days.
Some servants went to decorate the hall with flowers.
Xia Zhizhi swept the empty vase on the bedside table, thinking that she would put some flowers in the room later.
She asked Ah Ju to pull the bed sheets and then jumped out of the window at the end of the corridor outside the room.
There is a garden at the back, and Xia Zhizhi plans to spend the day here. She could hide in the space, but it would be easy for her to leak information, so it would be safer to stay outside.
Anyway, this place is quite safe. The servants have to be busy setting up the place and preparing food and drinks all day, so they won't have time to wander around the garden.
Even if someone is bored and wants to come here to laze around, it is not a big problem for Xia Zhizhi.
The servants worked until the sun set, all the lights on the island were lit, and a cruise ship finally approached slowly.
About twenty or thirty white people got off the cruise ship, with one or two East Asian faces among them. The servants led the guests into the hall to settle them down. Not long after, another cruise ship arrived and also got off with about twenty people.
No one is allowed to drive over on the island, so the organizer must send someone to pick everyone up, ask everyone to gather at a certain time, and then bring them over in one trip.
Xia Zhizhi then saw that the organizer was the Governor of Hong Kong, Yang Taiwen, a knight, a plump Englishman who had been in office for several years and was the undisputed local tyrant of this place. [fictitious]
Xia Zhizhi had only seen him in newspapers.
A group of people entered the hall and began to greet the Governor one by one.
Xia Zhizhi felt that white people looked pretty much the same, and if they didn't tell her, she would find it difficult to tell which country a person was from just by looking at their face.
Just by listening to everyone's accents, I feel that there should be some people from other countries. If nothing unexpected happens, they should all be from Europe. The two East Asian faces are easy to distinguish, they are both from Japan.
A group of people started to haggle endlessly and talked for a long time before finally getting to the point.
The wine and food for the banquet were already prepared. The governor asked the servants to leave and the doors and windows were closed. Air conditioners are very noisy these days, and they have installed several of them here. After the group of people calmed down, they could hear a lot of noise.