Hong Kong Variety Show: Let you eat melons, eat melons on your sister-in-law

Chapter 79 "79" Question-Setting Master Gui Lixiong
"Oh no, Brother D!" Lin Yao said with a smile, "I've just been a bit busy lately. I didn't know you were interested in this kind of thing!"

Big D said directly, "I won't beat around the bush. I have some money that I want to invest in your film company. What do you think?"

"Of course, no problem!" Lin Yao said with a smile. "But Brother D, do you want to invest, or do you want to launder money?"

"You understand me!" Big D immediately laughed: "That sum of money in my hand is the profit share from that bastard Da Pu Hei selling pills. I'm having a bit of a headache about what to do with it!"

Lin Yao nodded: "No problem, but according to the rules of the underworld, it's 50%! As for you, Brother D, I'll just take 30% as a token!"

Big D immediately laughed: "I knew you were loyal, Yao-zai. I'll send you the money in a while! How long will it take?"

"It depends on how much you're planning to wash. I can still manage up to 30 million for now!" Lin Yao said after thinking for a moment.

Once Big D's money arrives, Lin Yao can fully invest it in the new movie.

He kept all the profits for himself, only needing to give 70% of the initial investment to Big D. This was the perfect example of using someone else's resources to make money.

"Okay, then it's settled!" Big D said with a smile.

"Cheers!" Lin Yao raised his glass.

……

The sixth issue of Jianghu magazine received an exceptionally good response, and orders saw a terrifying increase.

In just six issues, this semi-monthly publication made "Jianghu" almost the number one magazine in Hong Kong.

This rate of development alone is enough to make other magazines envious.

Besides the novel, there are also various gossips about the club that people enjoy talking about.

Lu Ping's food guide column also has many fans.

Stephen Chow has recently opened two more branches.

However, judging from his words, he doesn't plan to rush into opening fast food restaurants like the Tang Dynasty Catering Group did before.

Instead, they had a different idea!
And those vendors on Temple Street, as soon as they are featured in the "Jianghu" food guide, their business immediately booms, attracting many people who come from far and wide, causing the vendors to be overwhelmed with orders!

If things continue like this, Lin Yao's magazine office near Shanghai Street will no longer be enough.

We need to move to an office building to work.

However, apart from Lin Yao, the editor-in-chief, the other three editors are now playing a supporting role.

Lu Ping was the only one who managed to create the food guide section.

As for club news, Lin Yao is already finding it increasingly difficult to keep up.

How much news can Lin Yao generate on his own? Even with the system's help, it can't keep up with the audience's ever-growing demand for gossip.

Therefore, Lin Yao needs to find an assistant, preferably a seasoned figure in the underworld.

For example, guys like Heng Yaowen.

However, such people are not only hard to find, but Lin Yao also doesn't have any resources to attract them.

With no other option, Lin Yao went to Jimmy, hoping to recruit a few more clever henchmen, preferably educated ones.

Jimmy was speechless: "Boss, are you kidding me? If gangsters could study, why would they be gangsters? I also want to find a few people to help me share the pressure!"

"Pick!" Lin Yao immediately felt a headache coming on: "If all else fails, find a few of your poor henchmen and I'll pay for them to go to school and get further education. That should be fine, right?"

"Talent is hard to find, so we'll just train our own!"

Jimmy stroked his chin and said, "That's a feasible solution. As far as I know, quite a few people in our company and the Lian Sheng Group turned to crime because they were poor at home!"

"That's fine then. You can arrange it as you see fit. Anyway, the money will come from our account!" Lin Yao said unhappily, "I don't believe we can't produce a few decent talents!"

"Wow, forget about everything else!" Jimmy pulled Lin Yao along, pulling out a thick stack of ledgers: "Help me check the accounts first, okay?"

"Damn it, for something like reviewing accounts, you should hire an accountant!" Lin Yao rolled his eyes and said, "I'm going out to gather information!"

"Tch!" Jimmy saw Lin Yao's hurried departure and immediately gave him the middle finger.

……

Lin Yao wasn't really looking for any news; he was just too lazy to look at the accounts.

Seeing this thing gave Lin Yao a headache.

Besides, what's more interesting than beautiful women when it comes to boring numbers?

Lin Yao planned to go to ATV to flirt with some beautiful women and see if he could poach a couple of editors.

ATV has drastically reduced the number of its programs.

The entire news department of ATV was under immense pressure.

Even the leading actresses have to frequently go out to cover the news.

This would have been absolutely impossible in the past.

Therefore, many people have recently switched jobs at ATV, and it's almost become their talent training base.

In any case, as far as Lam Yiu knew, TVB had poached a lot of senior editors and reporters.

Now even Lin Yao has set his sights on ATV.

As soon as Lin Yao entered the entrance of ATV, he saw two beautiful women, Lok Wai-ching and Fong Si-wai, sitting together and cricketing.

Lin Yao grinned mischievously and leaned closer: "What are you two ladies talking about?"

Lin Yao's sudden appearance startled the two of them.

One of them pinched Lin Yao to vent his anger.

"Damn, you guys went all out!" Lin Yao said, rubbing his arms and grimacing. Le Huizhen snorted coldly, "Serves you right for scaring people like that!"

After joking around for a while, Lin Yao asked curiously, "By the way, you guys still haven't told me what you were talking about earlier?"

Fang Siwei mysteriously pulled Lin Yao down to sit and said to him, "Do you remember Aunt Huang from our TV station? The one who always brought you sweet soup!"

Lin Yao nodded: "I remember, what happened to Aunt Huang?"

In Lin Yao's memory, this smiling aunt was a very kind person.

She was specifically responsible for cleaning at ATV and had worked for the company for many years!

When Lin Yao first came to ATV as a freelance reporter, he received a lot of preferential treatment from them.

Even at that time, Lin Yao could not be considered an employee of ATV.

There was always a portion of the sweet soup that was delivered for Lin Yao.

Lok Wai-ching added, "It's all because of her good-for-nothing son. He gambled away money everywhere at such a young age, racked up huge debts from loan sharks, and then ran away! I heard he went to England to find his father who abandoned his wife and children!"

"Those loan sharks couldn't find Aunt Huang's son, so they came directly to the TV station to demand that Aunt Huang repay the money! Now the higher-ups know about it and are discussing whether to fire Aunt Huang."

"Ah Yao, do you... do you have any way to help Aunt Huang?"

Lin Yao frowned and said, "Who's here to cause trouble?"

Lok Wai-ching pointed outside the company and said to several men in suits, "That's them. They look all respectable, but their methods are despicable!"

Lin Yao found it somewhat amusing. If the methods used in loan sharking weren't despicable, could it still be called loan sharking?

However, Lin Yao seemed to recognize these guys in front of him!
[Ding, intelligence is being updated...]

[Ten minutes later, the broadcast announces a memorable scene—Gui Lixiong: Diligent martial arts training keeps you healthy, a new level is about to be added…]

[Hurry up and go eat some melon seeds!]

Lin Yao was surprised that seeing this guy would refresh the information.

This saved Lin Yao the trouble of asking who this guy was.

Gui Lixiong is a character in the PTU series who loves to give others questions but never reads the books himself.

However, their debt collection skills are indeed quite superb.

Lin Yao smiled and walked up to Aunt Huang, who was crying: "Aunt Huang, don't cry, I've taken care of this for you!"

"Ah Yao, it's you!" Aunt Huang said with a sorrowful expression, "Don't worry about me, it's my fault for not teaching that rascal well! Those people are gangsters, you must never get involved with them!"

Lin Yao immediately laughed: "Aunt Huang, I'm a gangster too! And I'm much bigger than him. Don't worry, leave this to me!"

"Nonsense, how could a handsome guy like you be a gangster!" Aunt Huang quickly said, "This is none of your business!"

Le Huizhen and Fang Siwei also came over. Le Huizhen held Aunt Huang's hand and said, "Aunt Huang, you can leave this to this guy. He's drunk so much of the sweet soup you prepared, it's time for him to do his part!"

Lin Yao said with a smile, "I'll go take a look. You guys stay with Aunt Huang for now."

When Lin Yao walked out of ATV's office building, Gui Lixiong and his group had already left.

There are security guards at the entrance of ATV; these people who solicit exorbitant fees can't get in at all.

If he tries to force his way in, he'll probably end up in jail.

ATV's major shareholder is an Englishman.

Although Lin Yao didn't find Gui Lixiong, he knew where to go and watch the drama unfold.

He went straight to the location, lit a cigarette, and stood quietly in the designated smoking area by the street to wait.

A moment later, a young man rolled out from the mahjong parlor next door.

It's not an adjective, it's a verb.

He was being kicked while rolling on the ground.

The guy who hit the young man was Gui Lixiong. After he kicked the young man twice, his henchmen swarmed over and started punching and kicking him.

The beating quickly attracted the attention of the patrolling PTU.

A policewoman rushed over with several PTU officers: "Hey, stop!"

Gui Lixiong waited until the policewoman walked up to him before ordering his henchmen to stop.

He saluted the policewoman in a flippant tone and said, "Good morning, officer!"

The henchmen behind her imitated Gui Lixiong's mannerisms, which infuriated the policewoman.

However, the police chief was quite restrained and only had her subordinates check on the young man who had been beaten.

"Hey, how are you?" the PTU officer asked directly.

Gui Lixiong said arrogantly, "The officer is asking you how you are doing, answer him!"

"It's alright, I'm fine!" the young man quickly waved his hand and said.

The policewoman asked directly, "Did they beat you? I saw you being beaten to the ground with my own eyes!"

"No, no one hit me!" The young man shook his head vigorously.

However, this is clearly a blatant lie.

Gui Lixiong sneered at the policewoman and said, "What do you mean, 'fight'? We're just practicing our skills!"

(End of this chapter)