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Chapter 38 The Working Emperor(1/2)

.Leaving the airport, Li Xiaoming took Mu Haoyang and Pang Yuelong to Causeway Bay to taste authentic Hong Kong-style dishes.

After getting off the "Shark", the two of them had never eaten anything. They were probably hungry, and after a large table of delicious dishes, they were still unsatisfied. As for the taste of Hong Kong-style dishes, they were not famous. Li Xiaoming seemed to have become a different person, not only was he much more gentle, but he was also very polite.

When paying the bill, he gave a tip of 200 yuan. Although it was Hong Kong dollars, it also made Mu Haoyang and Pang Yuelong feel a little heartbroken.

In Pang Yuelong's hometown, two hundred yuan is enough for a family of five to live a week.

"Are you full?" Li Xiaoming asked the two of them with his eyes before saying, "If you are full, let's go back. Next time I come to Hong Kong, I will take you to see the night view."

“When can I make a call?”

"Don't hurry, it's not suitable here, and I didn't bring a phone number." Li Xiaoming said to Pang Yuelong, glanced at his watch, and said, "It's almost done, let's go."

"Where do you go?" Mu Haoyang stood up.

"go home."

"You live here?"

Li Xiaoming smiled, without answering, and left the restaurant directly.

After receiving tips, the waiter was very enthusiastic and thoughtful. Not only did he take the initiative to open the door for Li Xiaoming, but he also led the three of them to the side of the road.

Li Xiaoming did not reach out to call a taxi, nor did he need it, because when he walked to the curb, a luxury car with a silver angel logo on the front of the car drove over.

A driver in a uniform and a big brim got out of the car, walked around and opened the car door, and bowed to Li Xiaoming.

Seeing this scene, Mu Haoyang and Pang Yuelong were both stunned. The two realized at the same time that Li Xiaoming was not as simple as they had known each other before.

"Tell Aunt Hua that you can prepare two rooms and arrange them on the third floor."

"What else do you have to do?" The driver was very respectful and lowered his head when he spoke.

"Prepare to eat something, Sichuan flavor, a little spicy, and the bottles of 1982 Rafi in the wine cellar, I said I want to entertain guests."

"How many days will you stay this time?"

"Just one night, I'll leave early tomorrow morning."

The driver nodded and did not ask any more questions.

Li Xiaoming looked back at Mu Haoyang and Pang Yuelong, and smiled and said, "Why are you standing there? Get in the car? You come from afar, you can't let you stay in a hotel."

Mu Haoyang and Pang Yuelong looked at each other and gritted their teeth and got into the luxury car that they could never afford in their entire lives.

The driver pushed the door after Li Xiaoming got on the car.

"Lao Luo, drive quickly, we have to catch a plane tomorrow morning."

"no problem."

After the car started, Li Xiaoming closed the window leading to the cab in front.

"You...you are so surprising." Mu Haoyang looked at Li Xiaoming carefully and said, "I didn't expect that you are so rich."

"It's not considered rich, I just work for others."

"That's also the working emperor." Pang Yuelong agreed.

Li Xiaoming smiled and said, "You know, people like me have many identities, and they change each time every two or three years. Sometimes I don't know who I am."

"Who are you now?"

"Now?" Li Xiaoming glanced at Mu Haoyang and said, "Now I am the general manager of 'Harvest Huang Ji' and the chairman of the board of directors."

Mu Haoyang and Pang Yuelong were shocked again, and looked at Li Xiaoming even more unbelievably.

"You're talking about the 'Harvest'?"

"Is there a second Hong Kong Guardian Wong Ji?"

"It's the Hutchison Group, which has assets of up to trillions, controls half of Hong Kong's real estate, owns East Asia's largest shipping company, and is rich enough to rival a country?"

Li Xiaoming nodded without explaining.

"So, you are really rich." Pang Yuelong couldn't help swallowing.

"It's true that there's a little money, but it's not mine." Li Xiaoming smiled and said, "The big boss is not me, and the shares under my name belong to the second department, and have nothing to do with me. Eating and drinking can't cost much money. I can get hundreds of thousands of subsidies every year, but I can't use the group's assets. To put it bluntly, I'm just a body that is in name but not real. I'm working for others in name, but actually using this as a cover."

"What to cover?"

"Let me get in and out of other countries and regions more conveniently, so as not to get into trouble." Li Xiaoming sighed and said, "If you take a Hong Kong passport, you can enter the country without a visa in more than 100 countries. If you get a mainland passport, you have to apply for a visa separately when you go to some sensitive areas. If you go to some sensitive areas, you will be monitored. For example, after this incident, any mainland tourists who go to the United States and Canada will be monitored."

"For a passport, you won't be so famous."

"That depends on what you do. If it is just ordinary intelligence work, there is no need for this."

"So, what you do is not ordinary."

Li Xiaoming smiled and said, "On ordinary or not, you will know slowly. When you see other people later, it will look a little more natural. Don't act like it was as scary as you did at the beginning."

"Are they not agents from the Second Division?"

"Of course not. The second department does not have so many staff members, and it is impossible to arrange for the rigorously trained intelligence personnel to take care of my daily life."

Mu Haoyang and Pang Yuelong nodded, indicating that they knew what to do.

"You can come here for a while, and drink it happily later. I have kept those bottles of Lafite for three years and have never been able to drink them. If you don't drink them, it will be cheaper for others."

“Very good?”

"It's not delicious, but it's very valuable."

Mu Haoyang was stunned and said, "How expensive is it?"

"I bought it tens of thousands of yuan a bottle back then, but I heard it has increased dozens of times. In mainland China, a bottle can be sold for hundreds of thousands of yuan, and it has a price but no market price."

"So expensive!?"

"If I exchange it for money..."

"What's the use of money? Rich people want to drink it, but they can't buy it." Li Xiaoming glanced at Pang Yuelong and said, "You may be different. For me, money is dirt. People like me, who have fallen asleep and don't know if they can wake up tomorrow. No matter how much money they get, there are not many immediate relatives. When I die on the streets or sink into the sea of ​​corpses, they will all be cheaper. While I am still alive and have the ability to enjoy it, just enjoy it. When I arrive at the Hall of Hell, the money on earth is not as good as the underworld, and you can't take it with you."

"You are free from worries, but we are different." Pang Yuelong sighed.

Li Xiaoming smiled and said, "No matter what, everyone can only live once. Don't carry too many burdens to make yourself live a little easier. As the saying goes, 'If you have wine today, you will be drunk today, so don't care about the sword and sword tomorrow." Since you are here in Hong Kong, you don't want to spend money, let it go."

Pang Yuelong smiled and shook his head without answering.

Mu Haoyang knew about Pang Yuelong's situation, and when he saw that he was not speculating, he immediately changed the subject. "Will we set out early tomorrow morning?"

"The plane has been arranged, we will only spend the night in Hong Kong. When I finish dealing with the matter here, I will go to Taiwan tomorrow."

"What's the matter?"

"The entry certificate and where I went in the past few days after leaving Hong Kong. I have to arrange a fake identity for you, and it will take some time."

"No problem, right?"

"Don't worry, every spy knows what to do."

Mu Haoyang nodded and didn't ask any more questions.

Soon, the car drove into a manor facing Dapeng Bay, walked around it several times before stopping outside a five-story villa.

The villa is very grand and it looks like a place where rich people live.

Under the night, Mu Haoyang and Pang Yuelong only knew that the manor was very big, but they could not see any other place. Standing at the door of the villa, they could not see the wall outside.

After Li Xiaoming took the two of them out of the car, the driver drove the car away.

A middle-aged woman with dark skin greeted Li Xiaoming in English with a very strange accent, then led the way in front and entered the villa gate.

"Aunt Hua, bring the food and drinks to the study room, and then prepare bath water for the guests. If there is nothing to do, don't disturb us."

The middle-aged woman bowed, walked back a few steps before turning around and going to the kitchen.

"Filipino maid?" Mu Haoyang's family background was not too bad. He had studied in the Military Academy for a few years. He knew some things outside the military camp at least with vision than Pang Yuelong.

"I came here two years ago, very hardworking and serious in doing things. She worked hard for her two children who were still studying." Li Xiaoming walked up the stairs and said, "Go to the study, it's easier to speak there."

As he walked up the stairs, Pang Yuelong looked at the kitchen and seemed to be a little touched.

Mu Haoyang pushed him for a while before he followed Li Xiaoming's pace.

The study room is very spacious, not a hundred square meters, and there are eighty square meters. There are several rows of bookcases on the left, several sculptures on the right, and several oil paintings and landscape paintings on the wall; the furniture is classical, perhaps antiques; the most eye-catching thing is the gold pen holder on the desk.

"Stop looking, gilded, not worth the money." Li Xiaoming walked over with three crystal wine glasses, "If you want to take the lead, these wine glasses are more worth the effort."

Mu Haoyang and Pang Yuelong smiled, knowing that Li Xiaoming was joking.

After the three of them sat down, the maid pushed the dining cart and brought in a few plates of carefully crafted pastries and bottles of wine.

When the maid left, Li Xiaoming opened a bottle of red wine. Knowing that the two of them were not very gentle, he poured a full glass for them. Then he picked up the bottle indifferently and took a big sip.

"It's really good. The more I put the wine, the more delicious it becomes." Li Xiaoming was satisfied, wiped the corner of his mouth and said, "Look at me, drink it quickly."

"I want to call my home first."

Li Xiaoming was stunned and said, "I have forgotten this matter, drink first, or call first?"

"Call first." Pang Yuelong answered very simply.

"Okay, I made a phone call and had no worries to drink openly. I heard that each of you special forces soldiers has two or three pounds of alcohol." Li Xiaoming walked to the desk, took out a cell phone from the drawer, and handed it to Pang Yuelong. "Add three zeros and pounds in front of the area code. Don't be too verbose, and talk about it. Although this is a confidential phone number and will not be eavesdropped on, it's past eleven o'clock, and it's time for the officers and soldiers on the 'Bengbu' to go to bed."
To be continued...
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