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Chapter 425 New situation

Liang Yuan, Guo Jian, Cheng Xi, and Wu Ruifang were not the only four people playing cards at this gambling table, but the others were not disgusted with Cao Mo's arrogant words, or they were not at all disgusted.

Even if they are not qualified to be disgusted, they all respond with a smile: "If you want to serve at the table, we will let you play at this table. It is enough for us to stand aside and broaden our horizons."

"Awenna is my half-sister..." Sturgeon Foster stepped forward and introduced the blonde to Cao Mo.

"Awenna Foster, an investigative reporter from the European Financial Times, recently went to Kahnem for a vacation. She took a look at Sturgeon's investment in Kahnem to see if there was any irresponsible spendthrift that the family had managed to accumulate.

Property," the blonde was dissatisfied with Sturgeon's vague identity during the introduction, and directly introduced herself to Cao Mo, "I have a few questions for Mr. Cao to answer. Why do you think Cornero Newport City is a good company?

Does the project have good development prospects?"

When dealing with Fulkov Investment and the people behind it, Nitz Oppenheimer and Sturgeon Foster, Cao Mo of course arranged for people to investigate the situation of the Foster family.

The Foster family has a long history. The first generation of Foster accumulated huge wealth by engaging in trade between Liverpool and Draculamore in the 19th century. Later, he also gained an extraordinary political status in the UK and the British colonies.

, the family also had a son who served as Governor of Draculamore.

As a long-established family tycoon in the UK, the Foster family's businesses once spread across Western Europe and the Gulf of Guinea coast.

In the 1950s and 1960s, anti-colonial struggles and independence movements were raging in Africa. It was during that period that the Foster family withdrew the family business from the countries along the Gulf of Guinea.

By the mid-to-late 1990s, European and American industries were moving to the Asia-Pacific region, and the Foster family completely gave up direct management of the industry. Instead, the family assets were mainly placed in shareholdings in several well-known financial institutions in Western Europe.

All are incorporated into the Foster Family Foundation for unified management.

At present, except for the elder Mr. Foster, the head of the Foster family, who serves as the chairman of the foundation, other members of the Foster family either have other careers or rely on the shadow of the family to live a life of luxury and wealth.

Living a luxurious life, only some of Sturgeon Foster's children work in the foundation or organizations related to the foundation.

Cao Mo arranged for people to investigate the members of the Foster family, and of course he also obtained some information about Awenna Foster.

Avina, who is 30 years old this year, is the former wife of Old Foster and the fourth wife in his life.

Avina and Sturgeon Foster have the same father. She studied at Harvard University in the United States. After graduation, she worked as a reporter for a French media. It is said that she also had a brief marriage with a French man. She soon became

Divorced and single.

Avina is a role with little presence in the Foster family, and she does not serve in the Foster Family Foundation.

Her mother and the elder Foster had parted ways long ago. Although Awenna retained a small part of the inheritance rights in the family foundation, she had very little contact with the Foster family after she left the UK during her college years.

There is no so-called brother-sister relationship with Sturgeon.

Therefore, the previous investigation of Awenna was very simple, and it was impossible to spend too much energy and resources. It did not even discover that she was an old acquaintance of May Mantar.

Energy and resources are limited, and the investigation of anything must have some focus.

It now appears that previous investigations into members of the Foster family clearly left out some very critical information.

Cao Mo didn't care whether Arwenna intended to pressure Sturgeon, or what changes had occurred within the Foster family, but he didn't know whether Arwenna's aggressive questioning tone to him was due to her professional habits or this.

Did the foreign girl have such a bad temper since she was a child?

His intuition told him that Awenna came with bad intentions this time.

"When did I say that Cornero New Port City is a good project?" Cao Mo put his hands in his trouser pockets and asked with curiosity on his face.

Cao Mo emphasized to Sturgeon that he did not want to see many projects on the south shore of Lake Cornero turned into a mess and did not want to see any negative impact on Chinese businessmen operating in West Africa. I believe Sturgeon will also convey this.

To other members of the Foster family.

In the end, everyone worked together - Huamao did not show any aggression during this period, and was very cooperative in pushing things forward, integrating the projects on the south bank of Conero mainly into the Fulkov Petrochemical Group and Conai

In Luo Xingang City, Huamao even took the initiative to encourage Huang Hebin to add manpower on the basis of the original Taihua team to preside over the construction and operation of Fulkov Petroleum Group and Cornero New Port City.

Cao Mo never showed a particularly strong interest in Xingang City from the beginning to the end. At the beginning, he also very decisively swapped the corresponding shares from the listed company Tianyue Industrial.

The Blake family, the Rupert family, Abacha, and Ochosan are willing to use part of the equity of Cornero Energy to exchange assets with Cao Mo, except that Cao Mo will consider giving them certain benefits in other ways.

In addition to compensation, more importantly, they still have some feelings for this land, consciously have to take on greater responsibilities, and are determined to promote the construction of projects along the shores of Lake Conero.

Cao Mo didn't know how Awenna judged that he was more interested in Cornero New Port City?

However, his intuition told him that Awenna was not deceiving him. Even though it was their first meeting, Awenna had indeed done some research on him.

While Cao Mo was making an understatement, he also noticed that Awenna's eyes drifted unnaturally behind him, and behind him, Liang Yuan and Guo Jian were sitting on the other side of the gambling table - Awenna was both today

When she met him for the first time, theoretically she should not have known Liang Yuan and Guo Jian. It was hard to imagine that they had been in contact before?

Cao Mo frowned slightly and turned slightly to the side. From the corner of his eye, he saw Liang Yuan arranging the chips at hand while looking at Awenna and Mei Yi's faces with curiosity - but it was...

It is certain that Guo Jian met Awenna for the first time.

How did Liang Yuan and Awenna get together, and he deliberately concealed this matter from Han Shaorong, so Guo Jiancai didn't know anything about it?

"I think you introduced me just now, or maybe you don't know much about the European Financial Times, and are you confusing investigative reporters with ordinary reporters?" Awenna has a pair of beautiful amber eyes, and asked Cao

Mo was very dissatisfied with Cao Mo's carelessness and was unwilling to let Cao Mo go easily, so he continued to ask aggressively.

From Awenna's tone, it seemed that "European Financial Times" was very famous, and "investigative reporter" was a very special profession that she was proud of, but Cao Mo just smiled lightly and decided to put this arrogant and shameless career first.

The blond girl who showed off her gift dried her hair, looked at Mei Yi and greeted her with greetings:

"When will Miss Mei come to Draculamore and not tell us so that I can arrange the reception?" He put his hand on Cheng Xi's shoulder and introduced them, "Miss Mei Mantar is A

Chief Secretary of the Front for the Promotion of Democracy in Akwa, Tianyue’s property in Akwa, please take good care of Miss Domon Mayi Mantal and her father, Mr. Juan Mantal - Miss Mayi, this is my fiancée

Miss Cheng Xi."

"Hello, Mr. Cheng, I have heard about your beauty for a long time, and I just got my wish to see you today,"

Mei Yi exchanged greetings with Cheng Xi, acting as a peacemaker to ease the tense atmosphere between Cao Mo and Awenna when they first met, and said,

"Miss Foster is a close friend I made while studying and working in France. The day before yesterday, she went to Pemme Port to visit Mr. Savvy Jr., a classmate who had studied together at Harvard. She stayed for two days, but I was unlucky to be there at that time.

In Cloono, I couldn't rush back to meet Miss Foster. To express my humility, I took the time to accompany her to Draculamore for two days."

Mei Mantar was also a little confused about the purpose of Awenna's trip to Africa and why she acted so aggressively when she first met Cao Mo.

However, no matter what, she still told Cao Mo some things she knew.

Cao Mo couldn't help but frown: Mei Mantar's simple words contained quite a wealth of information.

President Seviyi of Akwa has three sons. Only the second son, Seviyi Jr., studied at Harvard University in the United States and has stayed in the United States to work and live in the United States in recent years. He did not return to Akwa until the economic crisis swept the world.

Not only had Awenna just met with little Savvy before, but they had even discussed Tianyue's investment in Akwa and Kanem when they met with him?

Intuition told Cao Mo that it was definitely not a good thing that his investment in Akwa attracted the attention of members of the Saiwei family?

The key is that Awenna has had very little contact with the Foster family before, so what is her stance on getting involved in such an aggressive manner?

The information was limited for a while, and even if Cao Mo had telepathic intuition, he couldn't get a full picture.

Judging from the look on Mei Mantar's face, she and Awenna must have only been acquaintances before, and were by no means close friends. Perhaps it was because of Awenna's forced request, or perhaps because of Little Savvy's request that she reluctantly agreed.

As a "friend", he accompanied Awenna to Draculamore.

Thinking of such an unexpected situation in Draculamore, Cao Mo also secretly had a headache, but at the moment he looked at Sturgeon calmly, and Ensange asked:

"What a coincidence. I have arranged a dinner at the beach open-air restaurant of Lana Del Rey Resort Hotel in the evening. If you don't mind, can we come together to marry Miss May and Miss Foster?"

"Okay, I'll spare you the trouble, so I don't have to make any arrangements." Sturgeon agreed before Awenna did.

"It's still early, do you want to sit down and play two games?" Cao Mo asked as he pulled up the chair next to the gaming table.

Even though Lana Del Rey Beach Casino was not his territory, as soon as Cao Mo said this, the gamblers on both sides politely stood up and gave up their seats.

"Okay, I also saw how good Mr. Cao's poker skills are... Texas Hold'em?" Avina Foster was not happy that Sturgeon made the decision for him, but she did not stand aside and pulled away.

He sat down at the gambling table, wanting to see what kind of person could rise so quickly in this barbaric continent in just three to five years.

"It's just for entertainment, it doesn't matter." Cao Mo saw Liang Yuan packing up his chips and leaving with Guo Jian. He smiled inwardly and said, "Mr. Liang has never gotten to know Ms. Awenna of the Foster family at all.

What do you think, are you in such a hurry to leave so soon?"

"If you don't mind us worrying, then it's okay for us to stay,"

However, Liang Yuan would not lose his momentum in front of Cao Mo. He extended his hand to Awenna very politely.

"Liang Yuan, who had the honor to replace the Foster family in running the Atlantic United Petroleum Trading Company for a period of time, now works for China's Huamao Capital. This Mr. Guo Jian also represents Huamao Capital in Fulkov Petrochemical Group and

She is a director on the board of directors of Cornero New Port City and is a friend of Mr. Sturgeon. If Ms. Avina wants to know something about Fulkov Petrochemical Group and Cornero New Port City, Mr. Guo Jian may be able to know more.

There are so many truths…”

"I've heard about you - I heard that it was you who caused the death of the Guidamu family, which was once prominent in Draculamore. I hope that knowing you will not bring bad luck to our Foster family." Avina stretched out her hand and spoke to her.

Liang Yuan shook his hand gently and then withdrew his hand, his words showing sharpness.

"Miss Awenna is really good at joking. If you want to say who is the most capable of bringing bad luck to others, there is really no one who can compare with Mr. Cao." Liang Yuan smiled softly and continued the topic to Cao Mo.

on the body.

Cao Mo no longer wanted to argue with a character like Liang Yuan, so he turned to Yan Ming and said, "If you come to be our dealer, it won't delay you, right?"

"It is my honor to serve Mr. Cao!" Yan Ming replaced the black girl dealer, walked to the other side of the big table and stood there, looked at everyone and asked, "You guys are playing according to the rules of this gambling table.

, or another agreement?”

Of course, Cheng Xi could sense that the situation was a bit delicate and looked at Cao Mo with some concern.

Cao Mo grabbed her little hand and told her not to worry about anything, and said to Yan Ming: "I'm just going to have a small discussion of card skills with Miss Awenna. Please prepare 20,000 yuan for me, Awenna, Sturgeon, and Nsangge."

Dollar chips – just play a few and enjoy the beauty of Lana Del Rey Beach when you have time!”

Cao Mo easily took a deck of cards, pulled one out, faced Awenna, and said with a smile: "Chinese people all have special powers, especially when playing cards, they can do magic tricks. In fact, whether this card is big or small,

It was already drawn out when I took action, does Miss Awenna dare to bet on the size of this card with me?"

"This kind of little trick can only trick girls into going to bed," Awenna let go of Cao Mo's hand, casually pulled out a card, turned her back to Cao Mo and asked, "Is the card in my hand a big or a small one?"

"I bet ten dollars, big!" Cao Mo picked up a chip from Cheng Xi's table and placed it on the table with a "pop" sound.

"Where do you have such strong self-confidence? If I hadn't kept my eyes on this card, I might have been deceived by you!" Awenna spread a five of hearts on the card table, took the chip over, and said

, "I now kind of believe that you are a master at playing Texas Hold'em!"

"Cao Mo obviously guessed wrong, how come you can tell that he is good at playing cards?" Yu Jing saw Cao Jiaying, and Cheng Xin was also alarmed by what happened here and came over, and asked curiously.

Texas was initially popular among people who returned from studying abroad in Xinhai. Now many people in the financial circle also play it. Wu Ruifang, Cheng Xin and Cao Jiaying sometimes play Texas for fun, but they haven't had the chance to catch Cao Mo with them.

Have a play.

"The most important thing in the Texas high-end game is not to guess the cards in other people's hands, but to prevent your opponents from seeing through your own cards, or even to deliberately mislead others into guessing the cards in your hand," Cao Mo turned back and told Yu Jing

Explained, "This well-dressed Mr. Liang made his fortune by cheating, so it's easy for him to bully you. But just now I bet ten dollars, and he believed it, which shows that my method of playing Texas Hold'em is much better than his."

However, Miss Awenna can see this, which shows that she is above the standard!"

Avina complained in her heart: I was mocking you just now, couldn't you hear it?

However, she turned around and saw Liang Yuan, who was acting elegant and graceful. At this time, he was agitated by Cao Mo's words. She wondered, could it be that he had really been deceived by Cao Mo just now?

Cao Mo intuitively felt that Liang Yuan had contact with Awenna, but Awenna looked down on Liang Yuan from the bottom of her heart, so in the subsequent irrelevant card games, he intentionally or unintentionally targeted Liang Yuan, making him come in and out.

He lost his position and became even more embarrassed in front of Awenna.

But he has no intention of clearing the tables of Awinna, Sturgeon or Nsange.

After playing for more than an hour, Cao Mo saw that he had 60,000 US dollars in chips, so he suggested ending the game and said:

"At this time, I stand on the beach of Lana Del Rey Resort Hotel and look at the sunset over the Atlantic Ocean. It is the most magnificent and beautiful. If Ms. Awenna comes to Canem for the first time, she should not miss such a beautiful scenery. It is the same as the Port of Pemé.

The sunset brings a completely different feeling to people."

Then Cao Mo casually handed over 60,000 US dollars in chips to Adelaide next to him, and said: "In the past two months, in Dracula Mo and Longta, the police have been killed by gangsters while fighting crime. Since we are in Dracula Mo,

Lamo, we cannot develop in Lonta without some expression - you can help me convert these chips into cash, and donate them to the families of the policemen who died in the line of duty in Gulamo and Lonta in the past year...

"

After the explanation, Cao Mo smiled at Awenna and said: "I play cards and occasionally do some tricks, but I have a rule, that is, the money I make by playing tricks never goes into my own pocket - Chinese people are very fond of cheating.

For those who are superstitious, there are gods at the top of their heads. If you don’t believe that these people will be punished sooner or later!”

The veins on Liang Yuan's forehead throbbed.

Cao Mo invited Mei, Awenna, Sturgeon, and Ensange to leave the casino with them, and walked directly through the beach to the outdoor restaurant, but did not look at Liang Yuan and Guo Jian again.

Standing on the beach outside the Lana Del Rey Resort Hotel, looking at the sunset in the distance, it is indeed indescribably magnificent, with thousands of golden lights falling on the blue sea.

Although Awenna was a bit aggressive when they first met, Fulkov Investment and Tianyue have a close cooperative relationship. Tianyue has a closer relationship with the Democratic Promotion Front in Akwa, including Sturgeon, May,

Nsanga moderated the atmosphere, and everyone walked on the beach, talking and laughing, and no more unpleasantness was caused.

Especially Nsangge, who does not have much ability and has a frivolous temperament, but has a eloquent tongue. When he is among a group of girls, he makes them giggle.

Cao Jiaying, Wu Ruifang, and Yu Jing had already recovered from the disappointment and panic they felt when they got off the plane. They didn't expect that although most places in Dracula Moor were dilapidated and dirty, the high-end resort hotel built next to the beach was actually...

No worse than the five-star hotels in Xinhai.

"Mr. Cao, Mr. Abacha and Mr. Brahm are here, with Miss Tubman..." Little Kuski came over, leaned over and whispered to Cao Mo.

"I'll come as soon as I go!" Cao Mo patted Cheng Xi's hand and asked her to stay here and continue chatting with a group of people. He calmly walked towards the coconut grove on the east side of the beach...


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