money player

At the entrance of the Peninsula Hotel, Qi Longdao got out of the car and approached Yan Jingchuan, a security guard from Volkswagen Security.

"Is something wrong with the scriptures?"

Yan Jingchuan was once an intelligence officer in the Training Corps. Due to a muscle injury in his hand during the War of Resistance against Japan, he became physically weak and unqualified to be a security guard, so he had to accept the job as a security guard.

"Manager, I've noticed that the front desk manager, Lin Zhiming, has been acting suspiciously these past few days. It seems like he's plotting something with the Singaporean guests who checked in yesterday."

Has anything unusual happened at the hotel these past few days?

"I heard from the hotel staff that a British guest had stored a lot of very valuable jade in the underground vault."

"I understand. Be careful and stay away from danger. The hotel isn't paying you to risk your life."

Qi Longdao asked about the characteristics of the "Singaporean guest" and walked into the hotel.

The Peninsula Hotel has its own dedicated security team, led by a retired British military officer, consisting of 30 full-time security personnel, including 6 Gurkha mercenaries, who work in shifts 24 hours a day.

When special personnel or overseas dignitaries stay at the hotel, the police force will dispatch officers from the Special Branch or Weihaiwei Police Station to guard the hotel. The two are the core security forces of the Peninsula Hotel.

The hotel also has an external security team, with each person paid less than HK$100 a month. It's more about formality than practicality, and no one will risk their life for the hotel.

Through public relations efforts, Dazhong Security Guard signed a security contract with the Peninsula Hotel, securing five security positions. However, the contract amount was insufficient to cover the security guards' salaries, and additional fees were required to maintain relationships. As a result, the company was losing over 300 yuan per month.

The reason for doing this unprofitable deal is, of course, to make the client's case look better. When dealing with other clients, we can introduce the company as having a strategic partnership with the Peninsula Hotel, instead of shamefully saying that the bodies in the morgue and the skeletons in the cemetery are cared for by our company.

This is no joke. Public security guards are actively seeking security contracts with places related to death, both to facilitate the investigation and destruction of incriminating evidence in case of any mishaps, and to prepare for future entry into the "ancestral property" industry.

As Qi Longdao entered the hotel lobby, he glanced at the front desk and then his gaze swept over Lin Zhiming's face. He desperately wanted something big to happen at the hotel, as this would give him a chance to secure a truly lucrative security contract.

"How should the company's security personnel reasonably intervene in major incidents?"

If someone were to covet the jade, he would stage a "mantis stalking a cicada" scenario, leaving most of the robbers behind while allowing the robbers with the stolen goods to escape, while the others would wait in the wings.

That's what he thought, but he was also afraid that it was too late. Now that the people had moved in, any action would probably be taken tonight.

After sitting on the sofa in the lobby for a while without finding her, Qi Longdao went to the afternoon tea area and spotted Sally at a glance. Following her direction, he also spotted Chen Atai, who appeared to be a Singaporean customer.

His face was weathered and sun-baked, but his skin wasn't too dark, and he was only in his early thirties, which didn't quite fit the image of a Southeast Asian man who had worked hard to become wealthy.

Malaya and Singapore are at higher latitudes than Hong Kong, and the sun is stronger. To get a colonial passport, one must have suffered for several years. If someone's skin is too fair, people will assume that their identity is probably fake.

Qi Longdao observed for a while, memorized Chen Atai's facial features, and then went to the front desk to make a phone call.

After finishing the call, he saw Malaigong sitting on the sofa in the lobby. Since returning from escorting Su Lizhen on her trip to Shanghai, Malaigong had temporarily served as Zhou Ruoyun's co-driver and deputy bodyguard because of his excellent pulse diagnosis skills.

If Malay Kung is here, then Zhou Ruoyun must be here too.

Qi Longdao didn't say hello. After thinking for a moment, he made another phone call and then went back to continue having afternoon tea.

Tokyo Street.

While lying in bed watching "Thirteen Orphans," Ma Liu felt an orange-red light. He glanced at the pager next to him and saw the signal indicator light flashing. He quickly rolled off the bed, tidied up a bit, and rode his bicycle towards Yaodong Street.

In this lifetime, the "dog caller," which is truly chained and worn on the waist, will appear earlier than expected in history.

Two years ago, Al Gross invented the telephone pager system. He designed the system for doctors to use, but doctors questioned it, worrying that the system would make patients uncomfortable. Only one hospital was willing to try it.

He also tried to get telephone companies interested in mobile phones, but to no avail. Bell was not interested, and other companies were worried about Bell's monopoly on transmission lines.

The pager system became uncommercially viable due to setbacks on both ends, but Parrot invested in Al Gross, allowing him to continue investing in miniaturized iterations. Once integrated circuit and screen technologies broke through, the first generation of pagers would be released.

Meanwhile, to give Al Gross confidence, Volkswagen Security ordered him a custom-made "dog whistle" system as part of the covert communications.

Ma Liu arrived at the Public Security Guard's office and received the task assigned by Qi Longdao—to immediately take the miniature camera and head to the Peninsula Hotel.

Today is Saturday. There are no classes in the afternoon. After having lunch at home, Sin Kin-chi came to the YMCA's office, Liu Wan-ching, to kill time. She was thirsty but didn't want to drink water, so she went to a hotel to drink milk tea and eat mango pudding.

He scooped up a spoonful of pudding, chewed it slowly in his mouth, and fiddled with a miniature DC motor in his hand, studying how to fit it into the model ship.

In the days when wireless remote control technology was not yet mature, electric models could still achieve highly entertaining gameplay without the use of wired remote control, such as using a spring to achieve timed control.

The model boat in Sin Kin-chi's hand is a racing model boat that is still under development by Tongqu. It is powered by an electric motor and equipped with a DIY steering system. In fact, it uses a spring to control the rudder at a time, and can run time trials on a fixed track.

The little girl scratched her head and assembled the motor for a while, then took out the DIY manual and draft paper, and started calculating on the draft paper with a pencil.

Ship models are positioned as educational toys, requiring not only hands-on skills but also the learning of geometry and trigonometry, fluid mechanics, dynamics, basic speed conversion, Ohm's law, linear equations, the relationship between frequency and pole pairs, pulse frequency and proportional calculations, and even differential equations.

However, the "advanced" parts will basically be made into supporting modules, so players don't need to learn too much advanced knowledge. They only need to have a certain understanding of the knowledge to guide their learning interest and interest in purchasing the modules.

If you aspire to become a competitor, you either need to learn from F1 teams and build your own team, or you need to push yourself to become an all-rounder.

Basically, children's educational toys don't target parents' toy budgets, but rather their children's education funds. Parents who hope their children will succeed are like filial children with terminal cancer; they know some money is unnecessary, but they still have to grit their teeth and spend it anyway.

This type of person deceives themselves, afraid to urinate in public, yet dares to hope for the best, creating a few role models of child prodigies who learn through play, and it's not difficult to extract money from their pockets.

The little girl acted like she was doing something impressive, seemingly calculating some important data, but in reality she was just following a DIY manual to calculate the simplest formula for steering angle and turning radius, doing nothing more than addition and subtraction.

While the little girl was completely absorbed in her own world, Zhou Ruoyun came to her side, "Qianzhi."

Hearing the voice, the little girl looked up and sweetly called out, "Aunt Zhou."

Zhou Ruoyun glanced at the draft paper and said gently, "What is Qianzhi calculating?"

The little girl pointed to the model ship, "This one."

"Model ships? You like playing with these?"

"Mmm." The little girl nodded. "Daddy gave it to me. When Daddy comes back, I want to play with him."

"Oh." Zhou Ruoyun stroked the little girl's hair. "Are you here all alone?"

"Ah."

"Where's your mom?"

"work."

"Is she still working today, Saturday?"

"Working overtime." The little girl looked at Zhou Ruoyun's belly. "Aunt Zhou, when will the little brother come out?"

Zhou Ruoyun stroked her belly, her face radiating maternal love, "The little one won't be out for a few more months. When he comes out, will you take him to play?"

"Okay, okay." The little girl came to Zhou Ruoyun's side, bent down and put her ear to Zhou Ruoyun's belly, "Little brother, what's your name?"

Zhou Ruoyun chuckled and said, "His name is Weizhen, Xian Weizhen."

In fact, she had no way of knowing whether the child in her womb was a boy or a girl, but she hoped it would be a boy. Xian Yaowen had prepared two names, one for a boy and one for a girl, Weizhen, but she deliberately only remembered Weizhen.

"Aunt Zhou, is it the 'zhen' in 'zhen tian xiang' (meaning 'resonant' or 'rapid')?"

"No, it's the character with the 'earth' radical on the left and the character for 'river' on the right, which means a small ditch in the field."

"Ah, a little ditch, not impressive at all."

Zhou Ruoyun smiled knowingly, without explaining the meaning of "no field without a canal". The canal may seem insignificant, but it is one of the fundamental elements of agriculture and carries the great expectations the master had for the children. She liked this word very much.

After spending some time cuddling with the little girl, she sat down at an empty table and waited for Shanudri Mohidin and Joseph Burke to arrive.

After a brief exchange of pleasantries, the three began discussing business.

“Mr. Mohidin, Ms. Hepburn, Burke Diamonds has well-established procurement channels in Belgium, and Burke Diamonds is fully capable of providing the various types of diamonds that Sri Lanka needs.”

“Mr. Burke, we in Sri Lanka need diamonds that are completely legal yet affordable,” Mohidian said.

“Neither of these points is a problem. Our two families are both on Queen’s Road, very close to each other. You two can go to Burke Diamonds to see the samples at any time.” As Joseph Burke spoke, most of his gaze remained on Zhou Ruoyun’s face.

Zhou Ruoyun was slightly puzzled. During their visit to the diamond exhibition on the second floor of the annex building, Joseph Burke had focused half of his attention on her, who was just an accompaniment, and paid little attention to Mo Xidian. She couldn't help but think the worst.

It wasn't that he was lusting after her beauty, but rather that he began to doubt whether Joseph Burke, this diamond merchant, was a decent person.

Hong Kong currently does not have a large diamond consumer market, but it has a very large demand for diamonds. It can be said that Hong Kong is the most active and also the least transparent diamond trading center in Asia, or directly a jewelry trading center.

As Hong Kong increasingly becomes an intelligence hub for the Asia-Pacific region, diamonds, which are easier to conceal and carry than gold, play an important role in the shadows, becoming a hard currency for money laundering, smuggling, and espionage. Diamonds are also divided into two main categories—jewelry diamonds and financial diamonds, or distinguished by legal and black market.

Financial diamonds play a role similar to certain cryptocurrencies decades from now, characterized by being smuggled into Hong Kong, lacking certificates, and being more expensive than jewelry diamonds.

A one-carat jewelry diamond is priced at around $500, while a financial diamond can fetch $800 on the black market. Five-carat diamonds are priced at $5000 and $9000 respectively. The higher the wealth value a single piece can represent, the higher the premium.

Diamonds are the decentralized currency of Hong Kong's underworld, and their value is recognized by intelligence agencies and triads from various countries.

Since Zhou Ruoyun has entered the diamond industry, how could she not be aware of the multiple roles that diamonds play in Hong Kong? Lowering costs and not obtaining certificates can still earn more money. There are too many friendly businesses in Hong Kong that do not compete with Sri Lanka.

She sensed that Joseph Burke seemed to know something about the Sin family and that he preferred the diamond smuggling business to the legitimate diamond business.

After a quick thought, she said, "Mr. Burke, does Burke Diamonds have any pink diamond samples?"

"Of course, we have a very complete range of products."

"I need a special pink diamond to make a birthday gift for a child."

Joseph Burke chuckled and said, “I can certainly meet Ms. Hepburn’s needs.”

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I spent all day revising yesterday's censored chapter, so I had to rewrite it. (End of Chapter)