Moro Street West of central was originally a street, but it was divided into two streets by legu Road, which became Moro Upper Street and Moro lower street. Although these two streets will be marked on the map or the government''s municipal planning drawings, pedestrians will never feel any difference if they walk on these two streets.
No one can remember the original name of this street. Moro street is a conventional name. Moro is the common name of local people for Indians or Palestinians with heavy cloth towels and Sikhs. Before India''s independence, many Indians came to Hong Kong to make a living, except a small number of Indian businessmen selling spices or coffee in South Asia, Most Indians in Hong Kong work as soldiers, police officers, watchmen, sailors, and open Indian snack shops to make a living. In Hong Kong, they can only be regarded as the middle and lower classes. These Indians who make a living in the middle and lower classes of Hong Kong lived in Moro street. If Hong Kong people walk through this street in the morning, they can see that the streets are full of white Sikhs wrapped with towels, So it is called Moro street.
After India split into India and Pakistan in 1947, many Indians in Hong Kong either returned to their Indian hometown, or married local women, had children and moved out of Moro street. Now there are only more than 30 real Indians on Moro street, and the remaining houses and shops are sold by small businessmen from the mainland who fled the civil war, At first, there were several shops selling paint, paper, pen and ink as well as old paintings. Later, brush, clock, antique, furniture, second-hand goods and other businesses moved in. Up to now, it has become an antique market in Hong Kong. When the Indian shops that initially operated Indian snack shops saw the Chinese selling antiques and second-hand goods, they simply changed the food shop into a second-hand shop, Let relatives collect some rare old antiques and sundries from India and put them on sale.
"How''s it going? Does it feel good?" song TIANYAO asked Angie pelis, who was recognized as a silver Rococo style ink bottle in the British King George''s period, carefully holding it in his hand after walking out from a street shop.
Angie pelis carefully put the ink bottle into her handbag: "it''s a huge treasure here. This silver ink bottle was owned by the nobility at that time, and the Indian owner of this shop only charged me HK $400. Although it is indeed damaged, it has no problem to collect it."
"Four hundred Hong Kong dollars can be exchanged for a lot of silver, miss. Senior British officials are not interested in coming to the junk market opened by Indians and Chinese. They prefer to go to the Xianshi department store you said, but I think they should like the gifts here when you see your face now." song TIANYAO said.
After he and Angie pelis came to Moro street, they had no interest in the shops opened by Chinese people and went directly to the thrift stores opened by Indians. Since the British East India Company entered India, Britain has colonized the Indian mainland for more than 200 years. The British colonization for more than 200 years has enabled these Indians to collect a lot of British Queen Anne in their hometown, King George and Victorian Silver or other antiques.
As soon as she entered the first store, Angie pelis chose a well sealed box of Dunning Earl tea from London. She hasn''t been able to smell the authentic London tea for a long time. Although she eats and stays in English hotels and doesn''t lack English afternoon tea, Dunning has only one store in London, and most of her collections also supply Royal and noble Earl tea, It is far from being freely available in far eastern cities such as Hong Kong.
At the third store, she started again with the so-called King George''s sterling silver ink bottle in her handbag.
Looking at Angie pelis, it seems that she can''t get out of the street without spending all the money song TIANYAO gave her. Sure enough, even a lady is crazy in front of her nature of shopping.
At an Indian thrift store, song TIANYAO picked a mahogany inlaid silver Roman totem. Under the base, there is also a cigar moisturizing box with Fox Lewis logo. Wipe off the dust covered on the surface, open the box cover, and in addition to the heavy and exquisite wooden box body, the box is also equipped with a hygrometer specially used to measure the humidity in the box.
He didn''t know how much this humidor would sell in London in 1951, but when he went shopping in London, he saw a similar humidor at the fox Lewis cigar store, which is known as the 200 year old cigar store, with an offer of 2000 pounds.
Without knowing each other''s taste, it''s impolite to give cigars to British men when they meet for the first time, but it''s still practical to give humidors of ancient cigar brands when they meet for the first time.
And the Indian shopkeeper opposite is holding ten fingers at him and repeating in semi unfamiliar Cantonese: "100, 100 Hong Kong dollars, those patterns are made of silver."
Song TIANYAO was impressed by the A-San shopkeeper. He wanted to buy it and leave. Now he stopped for the shopkeeper''s cheap sales, continued to take a few more steps towards the curry flavored store, continued to look at the old things, and selected a set of old-fashioned British flower arranging tools as the meeting gift of Mrs. Shi.
Finally, in the smile of a San shopkeeper, song TIANYAO dragged Anji pelis, who was unwilling to leave, out of Moro Street: "ghost sister, you are a lady lawyer, not a human dragon who will grab the treasure."
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Chu Xiaozhong and his secretary walked out of the door of Xianshi department store. The driver who had been waiting in the parking lot got out of the car, trotted all the way to pick up the gift wrapped in Chu Xiaozhong''s hand, and hurried back to help Chu Xiaozhong open the back door.
When Chu Xiaozhong and the capable female secretary sat down in the back seat of Rolls Royce, the driver asked from the rearview mirror, "where are you going, Mr. Chu?"
"Go to the peak restaurant and take Miss Yong en and me to Queen''s road. Wait in the car." Chu Xiaozhong ordered the driver.
When the car started slowly, the female secretary, who was called Miss Yong en by Chu Xiaozhong, said: "The deputy director Shi Zhiyi of the mountaintop restaurant has an appointment with five people tonight. In addition to Mr. Chu, there is Liu Fuzhao, the fifth son of Liu Guanchun. He just obtained his master''s degree from Walton School of business and economics in Pennsylvania six months ago. After returning to Hong Kong, he did not enter the family industry to compete for a position with his four brothers. He has met deputy director Shi Zhiyi on a yacht before Besides him, there are Ji Yueyang, the third son of Mr. Ji Dongpu, Gu Dexiang, the fourth son of Gu Zhong, the taxi king. The last one is your brother. Chu has little filial piety. "
"Ah Xin?" Chu Xiaozhong was stunned.
During this time, Shi Zhiyi met many businessmen during the waiting time before dinner every day. The last few nights he met were people who were slightly older and in their 30s and 40s. In the last two days, they were the next generation of major Chinese business families. Originally, if Chu Xiaozhong just kept his achievements and inherited his father''s career, it was totally unnecessary to see the new deputy director, but he obviously didn''t want to rely on him alone Living in the shadow of his father''s generation, the warehouse, blow molding and other emerging businesses he opened with his friends are at the moment when he needs to deal with the industrial and commercial management office. Therefore, Chu Xiaozhong wants to get familiar with the deputy director first. Even if he doesn''t have to leave a deep impression, it''s convenient to communicate in the future.
These people tonight, whether they are Liu Fuzhao, the fifth son of the Liu family, one of the four major families in Hong Kong, Ji Yueyang, the third son of the Ji family of the Bank of East Asia, or even Gu Dexiang and Chu Xiaozhong, the concubines of the upstart Gu Zhong, are not surprised. These three people are more or less unstable in the family. Frankly, they will not be the future heirs of the family, but these three There are also some abilities, so the family can provide some financial support to let them go out and open up their own territory. This kind of people are most eager to see Shi Zhiyi. They want to accumulate wealth as soon as possible, let their parents see their abilities and efforts, and hope to regain some initiative in the struggle for family successors in the future.
The strangest thing is his half brother, Chu Xiaoxin.
"His recent Likang is not going to do the contraband business, but that kind of business is also taken out to talk to the deputy director? Nonsense!" Chu Xiaozhong''s mind flashed, and a cold sweat was about to drop from his forehead.
To do the contraband business, find some middle-level British officials of the customs and get through all the joints, so that the ship can safely leave the waters of Hong Kong. This kind of thing is tacitly understood by both the Hong Kong Governor and ordinary British sailors, but there must be no smugglers who openly run to discuss with a British ghost who has stepped into the high-level ranks of the Hong Kong colonial government "I''m going to smuggle. You just have to turn a blind eye and I''ll divide the smuggling benefits into 40%.".
It was not Chu Xiaoxin who was outside, because the woman was jealous with other worthless childe brothers. He made a few sarcastic remarks next to Chu Xiaozhong. In the end, it was nothing more than spending a few money to solve it. Chu Xiaoxin lost his reputation as a dandy.
If this matter is spread, it will not have much impact on other businesses of the Chu family, but I''m afraid it will also become a laughing stock for a while. Even if people don''t laugh face to face when they go out with their father, they will have strange eyes and make fun behind their backs.
"Help me now..." Chu Xiaozhong''s first reaction was not to let Chu Xiaoxin fool around. He wanted to ask the driver to drive quickly to the Taiping mountain cable car boarding office, where he tried to stop Chu Xiaoxin, but halfway through his words, Chu Xiaozhong stopped again, and suddenly flashed the young man standing behind Chu Xiaoxin with a smile on his face.
Chu Xiaoxin can''t think of meeting Shi Zhiyi himself. How can a dandy brother who can''t even understand the accounts of a business be interested in communicating with a stereotyped Englishman?
If song TIANYAO arranged it, he should know that as long as his boss opened his mouth in front of Shi Zhiyi, all the details would be exposed. Then he should be prepared. He is unlikely to push the boss down the cliff unless he is ready to be crushed.
Chu Xiaozhong breathed out slowly, leaned his upper body back to the seat, stood up his ears, and said to the driver waiting to listen to the command: "nothing, just drive to Queen''s road normally."
The next secretary, Miss Yong en, was curious about Chu Xiaozhong''s actions just now and asked, "Mr. Chu is worried about the lack of letters?"
"I want to worry and realize that it''s not necessary. Do you know why I didn''t invite a secretary casually, but paid a high salary to invite you back from the Hong Kong Association of Chartered Secretaries, Miss Jiang Yongen, the professional company secretary?" Chu Xiaozhong gently rubbed his eyebrows, turned his face and looked at the capable female secretary around him: "Just because my brother was lucky enough to spend only more than 200 yuan a month, he hired a secretary who made me feel cold when I recall the past. I have made moves to him and ah Xin, but he almost fell down, and he hasn''t fought back."
"What''s the name of the secretary with few letters?" Jiang Yongen asked calmly.
Chu Xiaozhong put his hand down from the center of his eyebrows and looked out of the window: "his name is song TIANYAO."