Temple Street is a famous open-air market in Yau Ma Tei, Kowloon, Hong Kong. Don’t imagine this place too well. It is very small, just a long and messy street, about 600 meters long.
Yau Ma Tei is close to the sea. In the early years, it was just a wasteland, with some low-rise houses similar to shantytowns. The people living here were poor people and people from different religions who were like street rats. When dark, there would be gang fights.
Due to poverty and a mixture of dragons and snakes, Temple Street gradually developed into a black market harboring filth and evil. As soon as it gets dark, prostitutes go to the street to solicit customers, hawkers come out to set up street stalls, and the better ones become open-air shops.
Temple Street becomes very lively after nightfall, and many people come to shop and buy. In the 1990s, this place became famous, and many foreign tourists came here because of it. What is sold in the street market are clothes, bags, leather goods, and lifestyle products.
Daily miscellaneous goods.
During the golden period of Hong Kong movies, Temple Street was a famous filming location. As long as you were filming the chaotic and disorderly society at the bottom, this place was the right place. Over the next ten years, this place will gradually be standardized, with more diverse items for sale, and it will become a famous tourist attraction.
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But now...
The streets are crowded with people and the air is mixed. Simple lighting fixtures are hung on disorderly stalls, reflecting the faces of people walking back and forth.
Zhou Qingfeng was sitting at the door of a herbal tea shop, and the sounds of Cantonese songs and price inquiries and bargaining repeatedly hit his ears. He lowered his head and looked at the dark tea, with a bitter look on his face that was "suspicious of life" and he couldn't get used to drinking it.
Opposite is a stall that sells reprinted video tapes and environmental books. The covers of all the books are unsightly—literally, the girl on the cover is pretentious, her posture is distorted, her face is too ugly, and it’s off-putting.
It’s really hard to imagine how anyone could like this kind of publication with a ‘birth control’ effect? Don’t you have nightmares at night after reading it?
But even so, the business of this stall is actually pretty good. Some people come here to buy and choose their favorites. Zhou Qingfeng also went over and browsed through it, but he really didn't understand people's current interests and hobbies.
The story about an old woman giving birth, a rich man picking off ashes, and meeting a female ghost at night is comparable to Mainland street stall literature. It is not well-written at all. After reading it, I felt dizzy and confused.
The seven little goblins flew out invisibly and wandered around the market, chattering and discussing the strange things they saw. The book charm also disappeared and wandered among the crowd, despising the books on the market at the slightest touch.
"Master, I thought the picture album you made was obscene enough, but the books here are even more obscene. The succubus must really like the depraved atmosphere here, and can turn everyone here into a prisoner of desire."
"Stop talking nonsense, I'm looking for a starting point on how to set up the stall."
Zhou Qingfeng caught a pickpocket at the airport and took a taxi to come here. With the 'lying corsage', pickpockets who dare to tell lies will be punished. He has to tell the truth and insider information and tell the rules of survival in Temple Street.
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Each stall in Temple Street is basically fixed, and is patrolled by gang members, who have to pay protection fees. In order to compete for territory, gangs often fight with each other - don't think that the Young and Dangerous are so handsome, they are just a bunch of poor little gangsters.
The middle-aged pickpocket was also sitting in the herbal tea shop, looking at Zhou Qingfeng in confusion. He really couldn't figure out what this kid was up to. When it was past eight o'clock at night, the market became more crowded and noisier.
Suddenly there was a burst of yelling and cursing from the crowd, and they lifted up the stall and smashed things. Uncle Zhou got excited and ran over happily. Several gangsters were beating a stall owner, and hundreds of lighters and other small items were scattered on the ground.
stuff.
The stall owner had already crouched on the ground with his head in his arms, and the gangsters were punching and kicking him. Zhou Qingfeng was like 'when the road is rough, draw your sword to help', he punched him excitedly and shouted: "Hey, how can you hit someone?"
Passers-by on the street stayed away to watch the excitement. I saw a young man rushing to the rescue, punching people one after another, and knocking them away. This boy shouted, "How can you hit people?", but he punched more people than anyone else.
Very cruel.
The gangster who was punched all fell to the ground and basically fainted on the spot. The beaten stall owner got up with his face covered in blood and looked sad, but he saw a young man smiling at him - this guy seemed to have encountered something
Good thing, thief is happy.
"Old man, is it okay?" Zhou Qingfeng smiled and said, "I'm going to help you out, I just want to discuss something with you..."
The stall owner, who was in his fifties or sixties, looked at Zhou Qingfeng indifferently. He looked at the gangsters who were crying for their fathers and mothers, and immediately ran away. There was not even a thank you in the whole process, and all the goods were scattered on the floor.
No more.
Eh... Zhou Qingfeng didn't even catch the stall owner who ran away. The latter didn't seem to care about his stall at all, and didn't care about the beating he just received. The gangsters helped each other get up, looking dejected.
gone.
The whole process seems inexplicable.
The market quickly resumed circulation, with people coming and going, and the noise remained as if nothing had happened. Only the goods scattered on the ground indicated that a dispute had indeed occurred here.
Sunglasses, lighters, ties, the stall owner was selling a variety of things. Zhou Qingfeng was too embarrassed to grab other people's stalls. He wanted to find someone to discuss a company, but he didn't know that the other person ran away.
"Sofia, ask Lingnu to bring the goods to me." Zhou Qingfeng gave the order through the link network. He lifted the overturned stall, used a repair technique on the broken area, and then picked up the goods on the ground.
A few minutes later, several spirit slaves with good faces and slim figures emerged from the darkness where no one was paying attention, holding album packaging boxes. In the winter, they were all dressed very coolly, with their arms, waist, and thighs exposed.
Although HK is located in the south, winter is not summer after all. People in the street market at least wear thin sweaters, and some also wear down jackets. This group of spiritual slaves is like models on the catwalk, attracting people's attention.
The stall was rearranged, the packaging boxes were opened, and a dozen full-color copies of "The Widow" were placed together with a bunch of miscellaneous goods. At least it didn't look monotonous. Two beautiful soul slaves stood behind the stall, smiling at the passers-by.
Spirit slaves are supernatural creatures with ever-changing changes. When they transform into humans, they have the most attractive appearance, instantly attracting attention. It is difficult for people not to pay attention to them. Soon, a lot of eyes came to the stall to scan.
Ordinary groceries are naturally unattractive, but the contents of the 'Eighteen Forbidden' are still jaw-dropping. The exaggerated painting style, exquisite printing, collectible quality, coupled with the sweet voice of a beautiful spiritual slave who transformed the appearance of a Western woman...
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"Sir, it's only a hundred yuan. Buy a copy."
The price is a bit expensive.
But it’s worth a hundred yuan if you can make a beautiful girl smile cutely or sell it in person in cool winter clothes to a foreign girl. Not to mention now, even thirty years from now, foreign faces will still be acceptable on both sides of the Taiwan Strait.
Popular.
Just the cool outfit for selling meat was enough to make a man dig into his pocket. Although Lingnu himself didn't care about the cold at all - Zhou Qingfeng stood outside the stall and observed, and suddenly realized that he could actually make money by printing a cool photo album.
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As the old saying goes, food and sex are the same.