Chapter 41 The flowers are similar every year
Sham Shui Po, West Kowloon, Cheung Sha Wan Flower Market.
This is a traditional New Year's Eve market in Kowloon. It is open from the end of the year to New Year's Eve for citizens to purchase and enjoy.
Although this year's winter is particularly cold and the cold days last very long, it cannot stop people's enthusiasm for traveling on New Year's Eve.
Especially after the reunion dinner, I like to go out to the flower market, join in the fun, squeeze into the sea of flowers and people, and feel the New Year atmosphere.
Lu Dongjie and three others stood at the intersection of the flower market. The whole street was brightly lit and bustling with people.
Watching the crowds pouring in one after another, and pouring out from one end like water, and the five-color balloons floating and swinging above people's heads, there is a lively and festive atmosphere everywhere.
"Cousin, you are one year older this year. There should be many classmates chasing you in school." Guan Zhengfei looked at the beautifully dressed Miss Lu and couldn't help but joke.
Lu Xiaomei snorted softly and shook her head. She didn't want to deal with this cousin who was so dishonest that she was almost included in the list of unreliable entities.
"How could it not be? My cousin is so beautiful that she looks like a fairy. She is absolutely stunning in the world." Guan Zhengfei continued to find something to say.
"Shut up, I don't allow others to chase me," Lu Xiaomei returned with a cold look on her face.
Everyone couldn't help but laugh at Miss Lu's arrogant look.
"Qiqi, here" Guan Zhengfei happened to see Xu Ruoqi, who was wearing a coat and very simply dressed not far away, waving and calling.
"Sister Qiqi, I've finally waited for you. I'm almost frozen like a penguin." Lu Xiaomei had already taken the lead and held Xu Ruoqi's arm, saying pitifully. Guan Zhengfei had been snatched away by a sword and had no choice but to watch helplessly.
Already.
"Hey, what's wrong with you, Ajie?" Xu Ruoqi asked curiously when she saw that Lu Dongjie was wearing a peaked cap.
"I accidentally jumped on my head the day before yesterday." Lu Dongjie smiled bitterly and shook his head, lifting his hat, revealing a dark bruise on his forehead.
Xu Ruoqi was very doubtful about Lu Dongjie's statement. She also knew from Guan Zhengfei that Lu Dongjie was a practitioner and had extraordinary skills. It would be no problem to hit ten of them with one. However, since Lu Dongjie only said that he had injured himself accidentally, she didn't think so.
I'll ask in detail.
"Shall I buy you some ice cream?" Guan Zhengfei began to ask politely.
"Why are you eating ice cream when it's so cold?" Lu Xiaomei rolled her eyes, ignoring her cousin whose IQ had plummeted, and walked forward holding Xu Ruoqi's hand.
This year’s New Year’s Eve market has various stalls spread out along the street in an orderly manner. The stalls are also divided into wet goods stalls and dry goods stalls.
The wet goods stalls usually have various flowers, panjings and orange trees, while the dry goods stalls have some toys, audio tapes, Oriental universal cabinets, and even some household items.
"Ximei, what do you want to buy and what else do you want to play?" Lu Dongjie asked Lu Xiaomei.
"Can I set off firecrackers and fireworks? Boss, have you forgotten that when I was a child, I liked to take me to firecrackers and watch fireworks in Victoria Park?" Miss Lu vaguely remembered the happiest things in her childhood.
"That won't work. If you know the law and break the law, you will be punished with an additional penalty." Lu Dongjie smiled and shook his head.
"Why don't we secretly go to the New Territories to release it? I heard that the villagers there are doing it openly and honestly." Lu Xiaomei still didn't give up, holding Lu Dongjie's arm and encouraging her in a low voice.
"I promise you, I will take you to Omen in two days. Then you can do whatever you want, okay?" Lu Dongjie was dumbfounded by these thoughts of his little sister, and he could only settle for the next best thing.
"Hey, boss, you said it, then it's a deal." Miss Lu took Lu Dongjie's hand and shook it excitedly.
Lu Dongjie looked at Miss Lu with a fox-like smile of success, and wondered if he had been caught in Miss Lu's smoke screen.
Since the June 7th Incident ten years ago, in order to control those objects with explosive properties, the British Hong Kong government has enacted legislation to completely prohibit the production, possession, sale and setting off of any festive items such as fireworks and firecrackers in Hong Kong.
But it is said that the sound of firecrackers bids farewell to the old year. It would be a bit boring for Chinese people to celebrate the New Year without these things. Therefore, tens of thousands of people take a boat across Omen during the Spring Festival every year to set off fireworks there.
"Hey, you don't have anything to say?" Xu Ruoqi looked at Guan Zhengfei with a half-smile.
"How about I buy a pair of Huichun for you later?" Guan Zhengfei rolled his eyes and said rather wisely.
"Then what are you planning to give?" Xu Ruoqi's smile did not change and she waited patiently for the next part.
"It doesn't exist here, it needs to be written newly." Guan Zhengfei looked around and replied with a guilty conscience.
"Nine times out of ten it's not a good thing. I don't want it. Just keep it for yourself." Xu Ruoqi glanced at Guan Zhengfei suspiciously, shook her head, and continued walking forward.
"If you don't want it yourself, you can take it home and give it to you. Anyway, it's a good New Year and it's a good idea." Guan Zhengfei said a little persistently.
"Okay, then tell me what kind of gift you want to give me?" Xu Ruoqi stopped and looked at him leisurely.
"If I give it to you, it must be a happy marriage that lasts forever. If I give it to your dad, of course it's best to give it to a dog and a horse, haha," Guan Zhengfei said with a flattering look on his face.
"Okay, you send it here, and I'll take it back to my dad and say it's from you." Xu Ruoqi glanced at him and said angrily.
"It's a joke, don't take it seriously." Guan Zhengfei touched his nose and smiled coquettishly.
Stopping and walking along the way, they stopped at a flower stall. The two girls happily selected New Year flowers, gladioli, daffodils, small peach blossoms and other dazzling flowers and kept comparing them.
"Don't you notice that the flower market here is any different from previous years?" Lu Dongjie looked at the busy flower street and said to Guan Zhengfei with a smile.
"What's different? There aren't always that many people every year, but this year we've sent more guys out to beat people. At least the citizens don't have to worry about little hands." Guan Zhengfei pointed to the uniformed police officers patrolling back and forth in the distance.
"I found that you are really good at what you do." Lu Dongjie shook his head and smiled, pointing to his ears.
"Hey, where are they?" Guan Zhengfei was about to hear what Lu Dongjie was talking about, but found that Xu Ruoqi and Lu Xiaomei were missing.
"Let's go, we should be in front." Lu Dongjie pointed at the crowd that was constantly moving forward.
Lu Dongjie and Guan Zhengfei kept pushing through the crowd, and after searching forward for a while, they saw the two of them among the crowd of onlookers. They quickly stepped forward to stop them.
"Boss, cousin, you are here. That evil uncle is bullying that girl. Go and help her." When Lu Xiaomei saw Lu Dongjie and Guan Zhengfei coming, she pointed at the scene in the field and said with an angry look on her face.
Lu Dongjie saw a middle-aged man grabbing a girl's hand and continuing to curse Guan Zhengfei. Lu Dongjie couldn't help but frowned, and then pushed Guan Zhengfei with his hand.
"I am the assistant to the Kowloon Police Chief. May I ask this gentleman what happened here?" Guan Zhengfei showed his ID and looked at the middle-aged man with a serious face.
"Sir, you are here just in time. I want to report a crime. I stopped this thief girl from carrying her purse. Please hurry up and take her to the police station." The middle-aged man raised the gray wallet in his hand angrily and pointed at it.
The girl next to me.
"I didn't steal anything. I just picked up this wallet on the ground. When I picked it up and wanted to return it to him, he said I stole it from him." The girl rubbed her sore wrist that had been caught and said with a stubborn look on her face.
Looking at Guan Zhengfei and Lu Dongjie, his red eyes were filled with tears of grievance.
"Sir, if you insist that it was she who stole your money, we will take you two back to the mission station to take statements and conduct further investigation," Guan Zhengfei said seriously.
He then smiled and patted him on the shoulder to persuade him: "But I think this is more likely to be a misunderstanding. Besides, in the New Year Liuliu, I think there is no need for you to be tainted with royal aura. Besides, you have nothing to lose. One more thing is worse than one less thing.”
"Sir, you see such a young girl trying to steal. If you don't take her back and let a judge try her and get a legal education, she might grow up to be a female thief king," the middle-aged man still said reluctantly.
With.
"Sir, may I ask which pocket you prefer to put your wallet in?" Lu Dongjie, who was silent next to him, suddenly said something.
"It's this bag, what's wrong?" The middle-aged man patted the left pocket and looked at Lu Dongjie with a puzzled expression.
"Then please put your purse into that pocket one more time," Lu Dongjie said to him firmly.
"Just put it..." the middle-aged man said and stuffed the purse into his pocket. Bang, the gray purse fell directly to the ground. The middle-aged man put his hand into the pocket in confusion, and his fingers went straight through it.
Revealed, the onlookers couldn't help but burst out laughing when they saw this scene.
The middle-aged man's face suddenly turned red, and he quickly told Guan Zhengfei and Lu Dongjie that he had made a mistake, and had wronged the little girl through a misunderstanding. Then he turned around and said sorry to the little girl, with an embarrassed look on his face, and hurriedly
He left as if running away.
"Thank you two big brothers," the girl said gratefully to Lu Dongjie and Guan Zhengfei.
"That guy has nothing to do. If he hadn't walked so fast, I would have locked him back to the mission station, sued him for slander, and given you justice," Guan Zhengfei said with a serious smile.
"Little girl, be careful when you go out. You will have an idea next time." Lu Dongjie smiled and nodded.
Chapter completed!