When Young Master Huo Huo Zhenting came back from the dance hall, he immediately took off his coat and handed it to the housekeeper Ah Cai, and then asked the maid Cui Sister to get him a cup of sobering tea.
After drinking tea and rinsing his mouth, Huo Zhenting walked towards the bedroom where his father lived in the back building.
Mr. Huo has been in poor health these days and keeps coughing. The Western doctor Hendry diagnosed and treated him and said he had influenza, so he was allowed to rest at home.
The bedroom where Mr. Huo lives has also been disinfected, and the servants are usually very careful when serving him.
When Huo Zhenting came to the door, he happened to see his mother, Mrs. Lu, bringing foot-washing water. He quickly took it and said, "Mom, you take a rest, and I will wash my father's feet."
Mrs. Lu nodded and said, "You should say less and go to bed early."
"I know." Huo Zhenting knocked on the door and went in with water for washing feet.
In the bedroom, Mr. Huo, wearing glasses and loose and comfortable pajamas, was leaning on the bedside, using the light of the bedside table lamp to read the Chinese Evening News, which was full of editorial and commercial content.
Seeing Huo Zhenting come in with foot-washing water, he folded the newspaper in his hand and put it on the bedside table. He took off his glasses and put them on the newspaper, and asked, "Where is your mother?"
"I let her rest. I'll wash your feet tonight."
"You brat, you always give me a small gift every time you wash my feet. What delicious food did you pack this time?"
Huo Zhenting smiled, put down the footbath, picked up a towel and wiped his hands. Then he took out the "roasted sweet potatoes" packed from the roadside, handed them to his father and said, "Try this roasted sweet potatoes."
Is it on point?"
Mr. Huo hurriedly took it, smelled it in front of his nose, then peeled off the skin, licked the sweet potato skin first, and then took a gentle bite into the heart of the sweet potato after licking it clean.
Mr. Huo came from hard times. He couldn't even eat and was often hungry while working.
After he became rich, he became very diligent and frugal, especially when it came to food, and he avoided waste. For this reason, he scolded all servants, wives and children when they wasted food.
After taking a few bites of sweet potatoes, Mr. Huo couldn't help but praise: "It's delicious! It still tastes the same! Is the one at the eastern end of Lockhart Road in Wan Chai right?"
"You guessed it! Dad, you are indeed a big eater!" Huo Zhenting gave Mr. Huo a thumbs up, then helped him take off his socks, gently soaked his feet in the water, and rubbed him while raising his head.
He said to Mr. Huo: "Mom, it's true, I won't let you eat this or that. It makes me bring things back from outside like a thief every time, for fear of being discovered by her!"
Mr. Huo gnawed a sweet potato and said, "She is also doing it for my own good. When I was young, I worked too hard and got the root of the disease. I can't get rid of it. No, I caught a cold again just after the weather changed. By the way, you left me.
Stay away, Doctor Hendry said, my cold is contagious!"
"What are you afraid of? I'm so strong!" Huo Zhenting lifted Mr. Huo's feet from the basin, picked up the foot-washing cloth next to him and wiped them patiently, then lifted them up and put them on the bed.
Sitting on the bedside, he said to Mr. Huo: "But dad, I met that Shi Zhijian today."
"Which one?"
"This is the young man who tricked Li Ka-shing not long ago and got 3,000 acres of land in Tsuen Wan."
"Oh, I remembered. Mr. Xu's friend, right? You go to see him on my behalf tonight. How is it? What do you think?" Mr. Huo carefully wrapped the uneaten sweet potato with a handkerchief, and then
He took a napkin and wiped his mouth, then looked up at his son Huo Zhenting.
"My thoughts, I think this guy is pretty good."
Boss Huo smiled and said, "You have a good mind and think well of everyone. To be able to deceive someone as big as Li Jiacheng into doing that, Shi Zhijian should not be that simple."
"You are right about that."
Immediately afterwards, Huo Zhenting told Mr. Huo what happened in the dance hall tonight in detail.
At first, Mr. Huo was careless. Although he valued Shi Zhijian very much, he still felt that Shi Zhijian was too young. Even if he cheated Li Jiacheng, he was just out of luck.
Mr. Huo even secretly had the idea of using the Huo family's strong strength to seize Shi Zhijian's land for independent development.
Who told Shi Zhijian that those pieces of land were stolen from others? Don't say that his old man bullies the younger generation. This is the case in shopping malls. You cheat me and I cheat you. The strong will crush the weak. If you are not strong enough, you can only be cannon fodder.
But when Mr. Huo heard that Shi Zhijian was teaming up with the Chinese Inspector Chen Zhichao to deal with that ghost Inspector Guinness, his expression couldn't help but change, and a glint of admiration showed in his eyes.
"Dad, you don't know the situation at that time. How rampant that ghost guy Guinness was, he didn't take us Chinese seriously at all!" Huo Zhenting described everything he saw vividly, especially Shi Zhijian's
I praised him again for being brave and resourceful.
"So I think this Shi Zhijian is a friend we can make. Dad, what do you think?"
After telling the story, Huo Zhenting looked at his father and asked Mr. Huo for his opinion.
Huo Zhenting has always worshiped his father as a god and always asked him before doing anything.
Mr. Huo looked at his son's hopeful eyes and couldn't help but sigh.
Others said that the eldest son was not smart and was not suitable for business.
Only Mr. Huo himself knows that his son is not unintelligent, but as wise as a fool.
It's just that his own light is too dazzling, blocking his son's light, and his son likes to listen to his opinions on everything, so he rarely thinks independently.
"Ating, if anything happens in the future, you can make your own decision without asking me. We are father and son, and I trust you!" Huo said to Huo Zhenting.
Huo Zhenting was stunned for a moment, "Dad, what do you mean by this?"
"What I mean is that as I get older, I will no longer have to do everything myself. You must also learn to be independent. When the time comes, I will leave all the Huo family's business to you. You must be mentally prepared.
Prepare."
"No, Dad, you are still so young. Our Huo family can't live without you. I can't learn from you!" Huo Zhenting waved his hands hastily, a little afraid of taking over such a large family business.
Seeing this, Mr. Huo sighed secretly: "Okay, I'm just joking with you. You have told me so much, but you just said that this Shi Zhijian is a very good person----Why, did you agree to him?"
What?"
Who is Mr. Huo?
You can guess what's going on in your son's heart from his words and deeds.
"I really can't hide it from you." Huo Zhenting scratched his head, "I made an agreement with him to bring him to see you tomorrow."
"Are you afraid that I won't agree?"
Huo Zhenting nodded, "You know you don't like meeting strangers, not to mention you've been sick recently."
Mr. Huo has a dull personality and does not speak much on many occasions, so many Hong Kong people think that he is difficult to contact.
"Since you think he is good, then I will meet him."
"Really? That's great!" Huo Zhenting was overjoyed.
Mr. Huo smiled slightly: "For your friend who wants my son, as a father, I have to help you weigh him to see if he is qualified!"
"Also," Mr. Huo said with emphasis, "I hid half a sweet potato, please don't tell your mother!"
