In Jinmen, in the courtyard of a small foreign-style building full of flowers, Wei Ran was holding a pair of pruning scissors, clicking and pruning the flowers and plants growing wantonly under the courtyard wall and in the flower beds.
On the terrace on the third floor, Suisui was leading the girls to replant the empty flowerpots of flowers and plants that had failed to survive in the previous few months.
This is already the fifth day since they returned from Yue Di. In the past few days, they had been running back and forth between their grandma's house and Suisui's accomplice's company in the capital every day from nine to five.
The reason why they came to Jinmen early after "getting off work" yesterday was because Qin II called in advance - the bees that Cha Xifeng owed him had been shipped in.
"I don't know if the flowers in the yard are enough for the bees to eat..."
Wei Ran muttered secretly, and then turned to look at the idle boiler room that he had entrusted his uncle, the contractor, to help renovate in the past three days - that was the place where he planned to raise bees, even though he had originally
I planned to leave this house to Beria.
Just as he was secretly thinking about bees, Qin Er drove his old Land Cruiser and parked at the door with a domestic pickup truck.
Without even needing to say hello, Xia Shushi had already pushed open the door and got out of the car, and helped push open the ajar door without anyone noticing.
Immediately afterwards, with the roar of their engines, the two cars also drove into the courtyard one after another. They waited until Xia Shushi bolted the solid wood courtyard door again before turning off the engines.
When Wei Ran put down the pruning scissors in his hand, the doors of the two cars also opened one after another.
"You are finally here"
Wei Ran took the initiative to say hello to Zha Xifeng and his adopted son Zhan Zhan, and then looked at Zhong Zhen who got out of Qin Er's car.
Zhongzhen was wearing a bunny hat on his head. He was also wearing a mask and sunglasses under the hat. He was covering himself even more tightly than those self-righteous 18-tier starlets.
"Brother Wei Ran, thanks to Mr. Qin's help, I brought the bees."
Zha Xifeng shook hands with Wei Ran and said first, "We drove all the way from Dian Province."
“Thank you for your hard work”
Wei Ran shook hands with the other party, but Zhan Zhan next to him had already opened the rear panel of the pickup truck, pulled out a beehive modified from a grenade box and asked, "Mr. Wei, where do you plan to keep this box of bees?"
"
"There it is"
Wei Ran first raised his chin towards Qin II and the others to signal them to go in first, and then led Zha Xifeng and his son to the boiler room in the corner.
In order to raise such a box of unnecessary bees, Wei Ran spent a lot of money. Not only did he modify the doors and windows, but he also covered them with a layer of lightly carbonized fir boards.
"Have squad leader Dao and his comrades been buried?" Wei Ran opened the door of the boiler room and asked while spreading smoke for Zha Xifeng.
"Buried"
Zha Xifeng took the cigarette and lit it, and took advantage of the time to lay out the beehives and introduced, "On the third day after you secretly left, my father's two comrades were also taken back by military representatives and buried in the Martyrs Cemetery.
There were originally their tombs there.”
My father was also buried on the same day. He was not at the Martyrs Cemetery, but he was also buried near Laoshan. He was buried with his wife and children. Uncle Lu told me that his child who died in infancy was named Dao Yuanyue."
"When my child is born, his name will be Dao Yuanyue."
Zhan, who was busy arranging the beehives, added without looking back, "From now on, my children's children will always have Dao as their surname. Those old men agreed."
"That day, we also took a group photo in front of the grave of my father's comrade-in-arms."
Having said this, Zha Xifeng took out a photo frame from her arms and handed it to Wei Ran, "Qingyan also went when we took the group photo, and uncle Yuejin's son and uncle Zhanzhan's daughter also came back.
It was taken with an old camera provided by Uncle Lu, and Lu Ming asked me to give this group photo to you as a souvenir."
Hearing this, Wei Ran took the photo frame and looked over. Among the green pines and cypresses, several veterans were wearing large five-leaf camouflage, or wearing chest slings on their chests, or carrying mine detectors, or carrying outdated military equipment.
Radio station, and holding various weapons in his hands, but obviously, those weapons are just relatively similar models.
As for the younger generation, including Zha Xifeng, they all wore bunny hats. The only difference was that this time the bunny hat on Luo Qingyan's head was pressed extremely low, so that it completely blocked him.
Profile of face that appears to be wearing a mask.
Others, regardless of age or sex, only have calm and solemn faces, but they no longer need to apply thick layers of oil paint or wear dense five-leaf masks.
Even the portrait of Squad Leader Dao held in Zha Xifeng's arms was an old photo taken during the Dongfeng mission, without a mask or camouflage oil.
"When we come back, come here and take a photo without (mask)"
Inexplicably, Wei Ran remembered the agreement initiated by Platoon Leader Luo before setting off on the Dongfeng mission, and then subconsciously looked at Luo Qingyan, the only person in the photo who had intentionally covered his face.
The Dongfeng mission is over, but it is obvious that the Dongfeng mission is not over yet. At least Luo Qingyan has inherited the Dongfeng mission and continues to carry out the mission of using the east wind to overwhelm the west wind in this new era.
"I will keep this photo well," Wei Ran promised seriously.
"I have another gift to give you," Cha Xifeng said with a smile.
"what gift?"
When Wei Ran saw that Zhang Zhan had arranged the beehive, he asked curiously, locked the door of the boiler room, and led the father and son into the living room on the first floor.
"The Bayi rifle my father left behind"
Zha Xifeng explained with a smile, "It is already on its way to Kazan. It was sent there together with another hive bee. I asked Comrade Chaning to obtain completely legal collection procedures for it. It will also be kept in the future."
You can commemorate it."
"I will put it in the most conspicuous place in my library for permanent display." Wei Ran made a serious promise.
"I believe you will keep these things well." Before Zha Xifeng finished speaking, she had already followed Wei Ran into the lobby on the first floor.
At this time, the two little girls Lola and Lu Xinda had already helped bring hot tea, but Zhong Zhen had not taken off the hat on his head or the mask on his face until this moment.
"Brother Wei Ran, Soseki and I are not here to look for you this time."
Qin Er didn't wait for Wei Ran to sit down, then pointed at Suisui who came down from the second floor, "We brothers are here to talk to the director of Aurora about film shooting and marketing. You left in a hurry last time. These things
We didn’t even have time to talk about it.”
"I know, where are you talking?"
“Let’s go upstairs”
Suisui glanced at Zhong Zhen who was sitting on the sofa and didn't ask any questions. She rolled up her arms and sleeves and waved to Qin Er, then led the two brothers and Anfisa towards the second floor.
Walk.
A few of them went up, but Marta, Anfiya, Lucinda and Lola stayed on the first floor.
"Let's find a place to sit too."
Wei Ran stood up as he spoke, walked to the door of the storage room and opened the locked door.
Seeing this, Zha Xifeng and his son, who had just sat down, and Zhong Zhen, who had been silent just now, also stood up and followed Wei Ran. Even Anfiya and Marta followed, but Lola and
The two little girls, Lu Xinda, were guarding the hall on the first floor.
It wasn't until he entered the cool, dry basement that Zhong Zhen took off his hat and mask after looking around at the frosted glass on the surrounding windows.
"Sit anywhere"
Wei Ran invited everyone to sit down and said straight to the point, "Mr. Cha, I would like to introduce a business to you."
"Introducing a business?" Zha Xifeng raised his eyebrows, "What business?"
"I heard from Brother Yang that the demining company under your name has some operating problems?"
Hearing this, Zha Xifeng was stunned at first, and then couldn't help but reveal a hint of hope. Then, he suppressed his excitement and answered with a frank response, "There are indeed some problems. Last year, my company was in Cambodia."
Some accidents occurred during demining, which cost me a very large amount of money and caused some problems in the capital chain."
“Would you like to sell your demining company?”
Zhong Zhen lit a cigarette and said casually, "I plan to find someone to come forward to acquire 55% of the equity of Dongfeng Demining Company, but your people will still be responsible for the daily operations."
Hearing this, Zha Xifeng subconsciously looked at Wei Ran.
"Don't look at him, this is just a normal investment."
Zhong Zhen continued, "Mr. Wei is going to help you. I happen to owe Mr. Wei a favor, just like you owe Mr. Wei a favor now. The reason is that simple."
Before Zha Xifeng could speak, Zhong Zhen continued, "As far as I know, Mr. Cha was looking for a buyer at the beginning of this year and planned to sell part of his equity to ensure that Dongfeng Mine Clearance Company can still operate normally and to purchase some mine clearance equipment."
Zha Xifeng nodded, "Indeed, it does happen."
"Do you still have any plans to accept investment now?" Zhong Zhen asked in hot pursuit.
Looking gratefully at the smiling Wei Ran, Zha Xifeng breathed a sigh of relief, "Sir, we can talk."
"In this case, let's wait for an appointment."
Zhong Zhen said and glanced at Wei Ran, "Now let's give time to Mr. Wei."
"Thank you very much"
Wei Ran pretended to be polite and nodded towards Zhong Zhen, who was also pretending to be a big-tailed wolf, and then said to Zha Xifeng, "I want to introduce the second person to you, the lady next to me.
Her name is Marta, she is from Wudong and she is my personal doctor. Mr. Cha, Marta plans to invest in your Dongfeng Demining School."
“Invest in Dongfeng Demining School?”
Zha Xifeng couldn't react for a moment, and even Zha Zhang, who was in charge of the demining school, looked surprised.
Taking Wei Ran's hint, Marta nodded and said in English, "Mr. Charlie, I plan to purchase part of the equity of your Dongfeng School. In exchange, I hope that Dongfeng School can help me train a group of people with sufficient demining and demining skills every year.
Combat engineer with minelaying experience.”
"Combat engineers?" Zha Xifeng frowned, "You want to send my students to Wudong..."
"No no no"
Marta waved her hand, "I will provide talented students for you to train. They not only need to learn demining and laying mines, but also learn many things, such as the cooking courses of Dongfeng School."
"no problem"
Zha Xifeng immediately breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Ms. Marta, how much equity do you want to acquire?"
"This requires us to discuss it in further detail."
Marta smiled and said, "Thank you Victor for providing us with a safe and quiet negotiation venue."
With that said, she turned to look at Wei Ran and said in Russian, "Victor, let's talk alone next."
"no problem"
Wei Ran nodded happily and said in Chinese, "I am just a matchmaker. You can talk about it yourself. Whether it succeeds or not has nothing to do with me. I will ask Xinda to send you some fruits later."
After saying that, without waiting for anyone to respond, he called Anfiya, who had been silent just now, to get up and leave the basement.
Returning to the first floor, Wei Ran said hello to Lu Xinda, who immediately picked up the fruit plate they had prepared in advance with Lola and walked into the storage room.
"Do you have enough money?" Wei Ran asked in Italian while sitting on the sofa.
“enough”
Anfiya sat next to Wei Ran and whispered, "Both Hela and Succubus have begun to make profits, and Marta's initial investment in the demining school is expected to only cost US$600,000 to one million US dollars.
We can still get the funds now."
"Tell me about your plans," Wei Ran asked as if he just remembered.
Speaking of which, whether investing in Cha Xifeng's demining company or demining school was proposed by the Katenka sisters when they were on their way back a few days ago.
However, after some discussion, the matter of investing in the demining company was handed over to Zhong Zhen, and the matter of investing in the demining school was left to Marta.
"The acquisition of a demining company will give our transport aircraft a reasonable enough reason to frequently fly to and from fourth world countries, which will at least equalize the cost of maintaining a transport aircraft."
Anfiya replied without thinking, "The reason behind is learned from Sister Aurora. She has been trying to find more profitable jobs for transport aircraft. As far as I know, there is nothing better than flying to a fourth world country."
The route is more profitable.”
"What is our transport plane going to the fourth world country for?" Wei Ran asked subconsciously.
"Expand manpower for Succubus and Hela"
Anfiya gave a new reason, "It is the lowest cost to recruit in fourth world countries. We can even follow the demining company to make some basic investments in fourth world countries in the future.
In the future, both funds and personnel can be laundered through these basic investments, although we currently do not have any black money to launder, and we have not done any illegal business."
"All right"
Wei Ran, who was easily persuaded, was too lazy to continue asking, and changed his question to a new question, "What's the deal with investing in demining schools?"
"Wudong really needs some experienced demining engineers to deal with all kinds of unexploded bombs and landmines. This matter was actually first brought up by Sister Aurora in a chat. At that time, you were taking those veterans to find your comrades.
.”
Anfiya explained without stumbling, "You must not pay much attention to those videos posted by Marta. There are many innocent civilians whose disabilities are actually caused by landmines and unexploded bombs."
"What about other reasons?" Wei Ran continued to ask, he wanted to know a more practical reason.
"They also need experienced drone pilots and combat and medical personnel."
When Anfiya said this, she switched to French, "Mr. Charlie's demining school can provide enough practical experience in demining, and Mr. Zhong can provide drone flight control, medical treatment, and practical training for free.
All the training projects I just mentioned start from one year. When the training is over, these trainees will return to Wudong to continue fighting and continue to defend their homes and land."
As if she knew what Wei Ran wanted to ask, Anfiya said before he could speak, "We only need to invest US$600,000 to US$1 million in the initial stage. In the future, we will have a private team with a steady increase in the number of people and practical experience.
armed forces.
Boss, Hela and Succubus can solve many things, but there are always some troubles that require bullets. When the time comes, these people will be the guns that help us shoot bullets. Regarding this gun, we can not use it, but we must not use it when we need it.
No."
"I'm just a historian," Wei Ran reminded with a smile.
"certainly"
Anfiya also smiled, "Hela is just a network security consulting organization. Even Succubus has not done any illegal business. In the past two years, they have even rescued many poor homeless girls.
And Marta, through her own efforts and personality charm, she borrowed a large amount of money from her friends and invested in a demining school to provide some life-saving means for her friends in her hometown.
You see, none of us have done anything illegal. No matter who it is, their knowledge of you is just a history... No, to be precise, you are a historian who likes to collect beautiful girls."
"You are self-aware," Wei Ran responded to Anfeiya's teasing with a dumbfounded expression.
"I am very confident in my appearance"
Anfiya smiled calmly, "For all of us, I mean for the girls around Aurora, we don't mind sacrificing some reputation to help you maintain your current scumbag character. After all,
We all gained the life we wanted."
"Including Aurora?" Wei Ran asked half jokingly and half seriously.
"Unless you're going to do something to us pretty girls"
Anfiya spread her hands, "Our existence has actually indirectly helped Aurora block many competitors, such as Miss Olena and Miss Coco."
"Forget it, I don't want to be buried in the cemetery so early and watch you clean my tombstone."
Wei Ran waved his hands and did not dare to continue this dangerous topic. Instead, he continued to ask as if he was deliberately embarrassing the young girl next to him who knew she was quite beautiful, "Where is Mr. Zhong? What is his need?"
"Electricity-free also has the historical legacy of war minefields"
Anfiya said with a smile, "As a local Chinese, it does not seem illegal to invest in a demining company to eliminate local security risks."
"Continue" Weiran didn't seem to be satisfied with this answer.
"Increase the positive influence of Chinese people in the local area"
Anfiya immediately gave an answer that satisfied Wei Ran, "Also, if you are good at clearing mines, you will naturally be able to lay mines. When necessary, you can quickly create new minefields. This is also an influence.
At least from what my sister and I know, the cost of using disgusting weapons like landmines is so cheap that they are almost negligible, but the subsequent pollution is actually far greater than the more terrifying-sounding atomic bombs."
"Amphiya, no, Katenka, do what you want."
Wei Ran finally let go. Amid Anfiya's increasingly bright smile, he got up and went upstairs alone. He walked into the locked darkroom on the second floor and placed the photo that Cha Xifeng had just given to him on the desk, next to it.
Wearing the bunny hat held up by the hat stand.
At noon that day, Wei Ran took the girls except the Katenka sisters to cook in person, and prepared a large table full of sumptuous meals. They warmly entertained Zha Xifeng and his son, Qin II, Xia Shushi, and
The three Zhong Zhen brothers.
The guests and hosts had a great time at the family dinner, and everyone gained something. The visitors also bid farewell to Wei Ran and left, making the small courtyard quiet again.
"Have you finished talking to Gougou over there?"
Suisui waited until Wei Ran closed the courtyard door before asking with a smile.
"We're done talking, where are you?" Wei Ran threw the question back while holding the other party in his arms.
"It's almost done"
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Suisui said proudly as she walked towards the boiler room, "When will we return to Kazan?"
"In the past two days"
Wei Ran stopped at the door of the boiler room, "There will also be some bees there."
"Tell me, will the alcohol content in honey produced by bees raised in Kazan exceed the legal limit?"
Suisui joked while looking at the bees flying in and out through the specially made holes in the window.
"Are we tied to Mr. Wei?"
In the taxi heading to the airport, Zhan Zhan asked Cha Xifeng sitting next to him in Vietnamese.
"We owe him a huge favor," Zha Xifeng replied as if he was talking to himself while looking at the scenery outside the window.
"That's why I agreed to accept the investment..."
"A Ming, you got the order wrong."
Zha Xifeng turned around and said, "We did not accept the investment to repay the favor. On the contrary, we owe Mr. Wei a huge favor because we received the investment."
"Why?" Zhan Zhan asked somewhat puzzled.
"None of Mr. Wei's friends are simple"
When Zha Xifeng said this, he inexplicably thought of Brother Yang who was running behind Wei Ran all the time, and then couldn't help but shuddered, "Anyway, A Ming, our opportunity has come.
Take advantage of this opportunity."
"Is that Mr. Wei really that powerful?"
Zhan Zhan asked suspiciously, "I don't deny that he helped us find Grandpa Dao, but no matter how I look at it, I think he is just a playboy who likes to collect beautiful women."
"Maybe Mr. Wei is just a playboy who likes beautiful girls as you said."
Zha Xifeng looked out the window again and sighed, "But his friends are not like this. Well, let's talk about these things when we get back."
