Reborn in 1970, I thrived in Hong Kong.

Today, Yi Zhong wasn't the only one to receive a string of red ears. The leaders and bosses of the Heshenghe and other shady organizations that participated in the vandalism a few days ago also received them.

Last night alone, eighteen members of various criminal organizations in Hong Kong disappeared.

This terrified the former henchmen of Bald Qiang, who had fled from the mainland to Hong Kong and then carried on the Shanghai gangsters' ways in Hong Kong, and who had been terrorizing the city for years.

As the saying goes, the stubborn fear the ruthless, and the ruthless fear the reckless.

In fact, the vast majority of members of the current criminal gangs in Hong Kong are subordinates of "Bald Qiang," who fled from the mainland to Hong Kong in 1949 and 1950.

These people are the most cowardly bullies who prey on the weak. When faced with a real crisis, most of them are cowards who are afraid of dying.

They can bully ordinary people, but when they encounter someone more ruthless, vicious, tyrannical, or reckless than themselves, they immediately cower.

Therefore, following Yi Zhong's offer of ten times the compensation to chain stores such as Shunde Gong Da Pai Dang and Shunde Lao Luobo Niu Za Dian, the leaders and bosses of the shady gangs, including He Sheng He, who had been terrified, also took the initiative to offer ten times the compensation.

These scoundrels who live in the underworld are the most well-informed.

Within a day, the news spread throughout all the criminal circles in Hong Kong. They all knew that last night, eighteen high-ranking members of the gang, along with their trusted confidants, had all been killed and drowned to be fed to fish.

Those who wiped out the Eighteen Red Sticks were said to be able to scale walls and even pass through walls, allowing them to come and go freely from the heavily guarded homes of their respective leaders and guild leaders.

From that day on, restaurants like Shunde Gong Dai Pai Dang became taboo for Hong Kong thugs, who absolutely dared not cause trouble in these establishments.

The next morning, Li Huai-ren received the battle report. Qiao Wu had mobilized his security team, drawing 180 people to assist LNM's 60 people in completing the plan to eliminate eighteen bad elements and their cronies.

Last night, a total of 107 scoundrels were fed fish.

In this dark colonial society, this was necessary to establish authority and set rules. As the saying goes, "A good start prevents a hundred bad ones." Li Huai-ren had no pity for her. He simply told Ye San-niang to eat river fish instead of seafood for a while and then ignored the matter.

From that day on, however, LNM’s 60 members began traveling in small teams around the world, active in the territories of various European and American families.

In particular, the location of the thirteen Freemason families at level 33 is the place they are most concerned about.

Meanwhile, a mercenary group called LNM suddenly appeared in Africa. All members were dressed in black and masked, with only their eyes showing. They were all brave and fierce fighters with perfect marksmanship.

African military and semi-military organizations were quite surprised by the sudden emergence of LNM and immediately arranged for personnel to investigate, but to no avail.

Later, during another chaotic battle over diamond mines, a member of LNM accidentally uttered the Japanese vulgarity "Baka yarou," which led various African military and semi-military organizations to guess what had happened.

The people in this LNM organization are actually Japanese ninjas! And these Japanese ninjas seem to have a particular fondness for robbing diamonds from Jewish jewelers, and they've succeeded time and again, never failing.

However, they didn't rob every day. They focused on plundering the big ones and neglected the small ones. They specialized in serving the big customers but let the small jewelry merchants go.

As a result, diamonds, which were already incredibly expensive, have seen their prices on the international market repeatedly reach new highs.

Of course, these are all things to be discussed later, so let's leave them aside for now.

On July 29, Bruce Lee returned to Hong Kong with his family, intending to settle there permanently. Lee Huai-ren and Wong Tin-lam personally went to Kai Tak Airport to pick him up.

After resting for three days and settling his family in, Bruce Lee went directly to the crew of "The Big Boss," which Cai Lan had already prepared.

On August 2, filming officially began for the movie "The Big Boss".

At the Phoenix Film City film set, director Wang Tianlin stood at the front, with film producer Cai Lan, Li Huai-ren, male lead Bruce Lee, female lead Brigitte Lin, and other key members of the production team behind him.

When the auspicious time arrived, the staff immediately distributed the lit incense to Wang Tianlin and others. Led by Wang Tianlin, they bowed three times to the incense table, then bowed to the left, right, and four directions, praying for the blessings of all the gods to ensure the smooth filming of the movie.

Next, it's time to cut the roast pork and divide the roast meat.

Lin Qingxia was given a piece of roast pork that was half lean and half fat. She took a bite off the lean half and then casually stuffed the other half of the fat half into Li Huai-ren's mouth, her movements natural and skillful.

Those around him smiled knowingly.

Li Huai-ren's mind wasn't on that. He was chewing on the piece of fatty roasted pork that Lin Qingxia had stuffed into his mouth, but his eyes were fixed on a boy of about ten years old in the crowd who was selling cigarettes with a cigarette holder around his neck. The more he looked at him, the more familiar the boy seemed.

The boy kept staring in one direction. Li Huai-ren followed his gaze and found that he was staring at the male lead, Bruce Lee.

A flash of inspiration struck Li Huai-ren, and he immediately guessed who the boy was: Zhou Xingchi, who was only nine years old!

After thinking for a moment, Li Huai-ren beckoned to Qiu Wen, the general manager of Phoenix Film City, who was directing staff to maintain order. He pointed at Stephen Chow and said to him:

"Ask him later if he's interested in acting."

If he is interested in acting, you should prioritize arranging for him to play small roles suitable for his age during winter and summer vacations and regular holidays.

Remember, don't give him leading roles. Just give him all sorts of small parts. And tell him to come find me in ten years.

Qiu Wen was taken aback. He looked back at Stephen Chow, but no matter how he looked at him, he couldn't see anything special about him. He thought to himself that Stephen Chow was really lucky to have been noticed by the big boss and was being trained in this way.

He quickly responded:

"Okay, boss."

The crew immediately began filming their first scene of the day, clearing the set and requiring all unrelated personnel to leave.

Li Huai-ren was right; the boy selling cigarettes really was Stephen Chow. His parents had divorced two years ago, and his mother raised him, his older sister, and his younger sister alone, struggling to make ends meet on her meager factory wages.

Stephen Chow is very sensible. Whenever he has free time, he sells cigarettes, newspapers, and other items to earn money to help support his family.

It's summer vacation now, and he loves watching film crews shoot movies, so he sneaked into Phoenix Film City, selling cigarettes while watching people film.

Of course, another reason he came to the film studio to sell cigarettes was that there were no thugs to bully him here, and no one would take away the meager earnings he made from selling cigarettes.

Seeing the crew clearing the set, Stephen Chow had no choice but to leave reluctantly, turning back every few steps.

He had only taken a few steps when he saw Qiu Wen, the general manager of Phoenix Film City, walking towards him and waving as he went.

He naturally recognized Qiu Wen.

In the past two years, he has been selling cigarettes and newspapers everywhere, and has learned a lot of things. For example, when you go to a certain place, you can tell who is the king and queen, who is the boss of this place, and who has the power to speak, etc.

Stephen Chow assumed that Qiu Wen wanted to help him out by buying cigarettes from him, so he quickly went to greet him.

"Mr. Qiu, do you want Marlboro or...?"

Qiu Wen smiled, waved his hand, and said:

"Hey handsome, I don't buy cigarettes."

I have something to ask you: do you want to act?

Oh, and let me tell you, I'm warning you, don't even think about getting a lead role. You'll only get minor parts with a few lines.

Stephen Chow was stunned for a moment, then overjoyed, so excited that he became incoherent:

"I'll act, I'll act, thank you Mr. Qiu, I'll definitely act, I'll even play a dead body..."

Qiu Wen smiled and interrupted him:

"If you enjoy acting, that's fine. Kid, you're lucky. You know my boss, right?"

Stephen Chow nodded vigorously:

"Yes, of course I know him. He is Lord Li Huai-ren of the Ming Dynasty, the greatest talent in Hong Kong."

Qiu Wen reached out and patted him on the shoulder:

"Kid, you've hit the jackpot! I have some great news for you, even better news. Which do you want to hear first?"

"Good news?"

"Young man, the good news is that my boss, Mr. Li, has asked me to arrange a small role that's suitable for you."

"And what's the even better news?"

"The even better news is that Mr. Li asked me to arrange all sorts of small roles for you to play, so you can play them for ten years."

Stephen Chow was dumbfounded: "What kind of even better news is this?"

Qiu Wen reached out and gently patted the back of his head, laughing and scolding:

"Silly boy, after Mr. Li has made you play minor roles for ten years, go directly to him. Isn't that even better news?"

"Huh?" Stephen Chow was dumbfounded again.