Reborn in 1970, I thrived in Hong Kong.

Both of his kidneys were about to fail. Even though he was influenced by the original owner's body's desires and really wanted to have sex with two women to win glory for the country, Li Huai Ren still held back and politely declined Zhao Shi Seng's invitation and kind offer.

He had just hung up the phone when it rang again.

After the call connected, the person on the other end said directly:

"Ah Ren, don't forget you're going to the racetrack today. Wait for me at home, I'll drive over and pick you up, I'll be there soon!"

After saying that, the other party hung up the phone before Li Huai-ren could say anything.

Li Huai-ren was stunned for a moment before he recovered.

"Holy crap, this guy is Lei Luo's trusted confidant, Piggy? The original owner's gambling buddy, Piggy, who was a womanizer and a womanizer?"

After saying this, his eyes suddenly lit up, he excitedly pumped his fist, and exclaimed:

"Damn it, how could I forget about the horse race on New Year's Day in 1970?"

Haha, I chatted with "Just Want to Write Books" on QQ before I was reborn about today's horse racing results.

He sent me a copy of the January 2, 1970 edition of the Industrial and Commercial Daily, which I had found. I read it and knew clearly the names of the winning horses in the eight races and the horses that won the triple jackpot, as well as the story of the person who won the triple jackpot that day…”

He immediately recalled the story of "Chen Xia," the man who won the triple jackpot.

根据1970年1月2日《工商日报》头版记载，1970年1月1日跑马地第8场压轴让赛的三重彩（三宝）奖金为：$1，250，000港元。

这笔钱在1970年，于九龙塘可购6套500呎洋房（单价20万），或者买下42个的士牌照（每个3万），或者相当于一个码头工人1，042年的工资（月薪100）！

三重彩头马「海霸王」赔率为12倍，二马「飞将军」赔率为35倍，三马「银河舰」赔率为80倍，理论赔率为12×35×80=33，600倍。

However, the actual payout ratio dropped to approximately 1:2,500 due to the splitting of the prize pool.

The winner, Chen Xia, is a boat owner from Kowloon Walled City. He used HK$200, the money his wife earned from selling her blood, to buy 10 tickets (HK$20 each). According to him, the inspiration for his bet came from a dream he had the night before, in which he saw "three water ghosts carrying a coffin" (a Cantonese expression meaning "water ghosts ascend to the city god").

Of course, getting rich overnight is not necessarily a good thing for some people, especially for Chan Ha, a boat owner in Kowloon Walled City.

After receiving the award, he was immediately extorted by the triad "14K". Fortunately, he was not stupid and knew that he could not keep the remaining HK$105 million after deducting stamp duty. After paying HK$75, he eventually fled to Brazil with HK$30 and his family. It is said that he opened a restaurant in Brazil.

Thinking of all this, Li Huai-ren smiled. Chen Xia's overnight fortune couldn't protect this windfall, but he was an exception. Hong Kong, this capitalist society, is ultimately a society for the rich.

With Zhu Youzai by his side at today's Jockey Club, along with Huo Shahuang, He Gambling King, and his distant cousin, Fourth Uncle Li Zhaoji, he felt that if he won the triple jackpot, securing the prize wouldn't be a big problem.

Without further hesitation, he immediately changed his clothes, putting on a sharp suit and dressing himself up like a Hong Kong high society elite.

His hair, styled with hair wax, was so smooth that even a fly would slip on it; he wore a black bow tie around his neck; and he sprayed a little men's cologne on his suit…

It's a pity that his height of over 1.8 meters was wasted; his skinny figure made him just a large clothes hanger.

After he finished dressing, he put the remaining HK$23,000 from the safe into his wallet, and after thinking for a moment, he also took out his HSBC passbook.

Just as Li Huai-ren put the passbook into his pocket, a car horn sounded downstairs. Piggy had arrived in his newly bought Mercedes, looking quite smug!

Li Huai-ren quickly leaned out of the window and gestured to indicate that he would go downstairs immediately.

In the lobby on the first floor, Ye San Niang saw Li Huai Ren about to go out with Zhu You Zai, so she quickly brought out the Chinese medicine she had prepared and told him to drink it before going out.

Seeing Li Huai-ren gulp down the bowl of Chinese medicine, Ye San-niang was very pleased, and said with a slightly smug expression:

"Young master, you've already taken your Chinese medicine, so please remember not to drink alcohol."

Li Huai-ren smiled; how could he not understand her little scheme? He agreed.

He got into the car, and as soon as he sat in the passenger seat, Piggy started nagging him, telling him horse racing stories:

"Ah Ren, let me tell you, you absolutely have to listen to me this time. In the fourth race of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce Challenge Cup 1650-meter horse race, picking 'Golden Jade Hall' is definitely the right choice. I've checked, the odds of winning are 15 times, you're guaranteed to make a profit..."

After talking for a while, he suddenly lowered his voice and said mysteriously:

"Hey, Ah Ren, behave yourself. I've heard that the outside betting odds have arranged for someone to take down Horse King 'Eastern Overlord'. Today's race, Horse King 'Eastern Overlord' will definitely not be able to compete."

Not only will it be unable to compete, but it will likely be deliberately crippled and sold as a meat horse.

The betting stalls on the periphery have been terribly ruined by this horse, losing millions in total. Limpy Ho has already spread the word that he's going to have roasted "Eastern Overlord" tonight!

How could the Hong Kong Jockey Club at that time have treated injured horses that could not be fully recovered and retired horses with the same humane approach as it would decades later?

Hehe, even a mosquito's leg has meat. These old horses that are injured and cannot be healed or retired, no matter if they were horse kings or horse emperors, "Eastern overlords" or "Western overlords", are all sent to the slaughterhouse to be slaughtered and sold as horse meat.

Li Huai-ren naturally understood what Limpy Ho meant when he said he wanted to eat roasted meat of the horse king "Eastern Overlord" tonight, which meant to completely cripple "Eastern Overlord"!

He paused for a moment, then immediately understood something:

"That makes sense now. No wonder the incredibly powerful horse 'Eastern Overlord' from the original owner's memories didn't appear on the front page of the January 2, 1970 edition of the Commercial Daily's list of winning horses. So that's why!"

In 1970, horse racing was still using the old racecourse in Causeway Bay. A new racecourse had been built in Sha Tin, and the horse racing activities were not moved to Sha Tin Racecourse until three years later.

When Li Huai-ren and Zhu You-zai arrived at the racecourse, instead of buying tickets for HK$3 like ordinary people and sitting in the concrete stands, they went directly into Lei Luo's box.

Hong Kong at this time was a capitalist society with a very clear class distinction, and the unique characteristics of horse racing in 1970 were one of the hallmarks of that era:

The horses used in the horse races are 98% imported from Australia, supplied by the Queen's official ranch, hehe.

Therefore, there is a reason why almost everyone in the British royal family loves horse racing and riding. Don't believe the nonsense and ramblings of some people who insist on portraying the whole family as kind-hearted horse lovers.

Today alone, the value of Toastmasters "Golden House" is as high as 40,000, which is equivalent to 20 years of income for an average middle-class person;

Ordinary citizens must queue at a ticket window to buy physical lottery tickets. Forget about telephone betting; it's only available to executives of British-owned companies, and requires a deposit of 10,000.

At the racecourse, public tickets cost HK$3 and include a free copy of the horse racing section of the Overseas Chinese Daily. Seats are in concrete stands.

The VIP boxes are different:

Each of the private boxes reserved for Hong Kong tycoons such as Tsar Fok and Stanley Ho, as well as senior Hong Kong officials and executives of British-owned companies, has a champagne tower, which is provided free of charge by the Hong Kong Jockey Club to these distinguished VVVip clients.

This is a stark social mirror of colonial New Year's Day revelry, and it reveals class divisions:

Ordinary Chinese people gathered in the public seating area (cement stands); British citizens occupied the members' seats exclusively (with rattan chairs and chilled gin tonic).

Li Huai-ren's soul came from decades later. Upon entering the racecourse, he directly felt the impact of the microcosm and underlying nature of Hong Kong society at that time.

He was filled with many emotions, but his motivation to make money also surged.

Although he did not point at Mr. Y.K. Pao, the richest man in the Chinese community, in the best seat box and make the foolish statement that "he can be replaced", Li Huai-ren had already had this idea in his mind, and it was growing wildly like weeds, and he had begun to plan it in his mind!