20 years of restarting life

Chapter 3618 Good Man Zhao Chang'an

Lu Feifei intuitively felt that Xia Wenzhuo came to Xingcheng to investigate this matter.

Forced by their families to leave America, Lu Feifei and Lu Tanhua went to Xingcheng and found a detective agency to investigate Qiao Qinqin's whereabouts.

Upon learning that the painter had taken Qiao Qinqin to the pyramids for a trip instead of visiting countries like Europe, America, Japan, and South Korea, Lu Tanhua, in particular, immediately sensed a conspiracy.

He had lived in Cape Town for many years and had seen many gambling operations, but in the past they mainly targeted Europeans and Americans, using male or female seduction to lure them in, and then robbing them clean once the fish were caught.

However, with the continuous growth of the East Asian economy in recent years, some illegal gambling dens have started recruiting East Asians, specifically targeting them to make money.

The first stop for their escape was the pyramids, and the atmosphere there is incredibly intense.

Lu Tanhua asked Cape Town to help investigate, and soon received feedback that a gambling den had indeed been set up in Xingcheng two years ago, swindling millions of dollars.

As for the woman, she eventually ended up in a talent exchange market in Central Asia.

This led to their subsequent interactions with Xia Wenzhuo, and tonight they met Zhao Chang'an and revealed their purpose in wanting to cooperate with him.

Just as Lu Tanhua said, as long as Zhao Chang'an agrees, they will provide money, effort, technology and manpower. He only needs to act as a middleman to get a considerable share. Presumably, unless he is a fool, he will not refuse such a good thing.

As for the large amount of capital needed for mining, Lu Feifei believes that as long as they establish this channel, her family will definitely be happy to invest the money.

This is what a businessman should do, not like those two self-righteous fools, Lu Chengfeng and Lu Mohu, who went to North America and knew nothing, only to lose money and become suckers!
She had seen the original telegram Lu Chengfeng sent home last August, in which he boasted that the construction companies in Gotham City were so busy with projects that they were unwilling to take on such small projects, making it sound like he was incredibly capable.

Looking back now, that builder must be grinning from ear to ear. Right now, there are hardly any new construction projects starting in the United States, especially in Gotham City, and many builders are unemployed.

"Actually, I've always been against my family buying land and settling down in North America. In the past few years in China, I dare say it's the safest country in the world, and wherever we go, they're incredibly welcoming to us overseas Chinese. Fudan University High School has very high admission scores. At the time, I didn't know much Chinese, just spoken English, but I was admitted after only taking a Chinese proficiency test. As for university entrance exams, although my spoken English is good, my Chinese has always been weak. If I had taken the college entrance exam, I wouldn't have understood many of the questions. But when they learned about the situation of us overseas Chinese, they helped us get a place through the recommendation program without hesitation. It's all because our family returned to China to invest and contribute to the country that they reciprocated our kindness!"

Lu Feifei said angrily, "I really don't know if my parents have gone senile. Back in China, as long as we said we were returning from overseas, even the vegetable vendors would give us an extra handful of vegetables for free. In high school and college, the cafeteria ladies would serve me food without hesitation. But when we got to North America, the first thing they did was warn us that it wasn't Africa and we shouldn't cause trouble!"

"Sigh, you bet I sometimes put my arm around Sun Jun's waist. As a result, she's probably still cursing me back home. I'm glad I didn't sleep with her."

Hearing Lu Feifei's complaints, Lu Tanhua also looked resentful: "Look at the economic development in China over the past year since we withdrew. We could have comfortably made money and gained a good reputation. But for that little bit of money, not only that, but all the money we took was invested in North America, licking their boots—"

Lu Tanhua stopped abruptly because the next few words were just too offensive.

“That’s not just a little money.” Lu Feifei shook her head and said, “Anyway, this feud is huge. Even if there are opportunities to make money and get rich in China, it won’t be our family’s turn.”

Both of them remained silent with regret, now hoping that Zhao Chang'an could see the huge profits in their proposal and choose to cooperate with them to make money together.

When Lu Tanhua was treating us to dinner earlier, he made it very clear that the three of us would cooperate fairly, with each person holding one-third of the shares in the joint venture.

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Xia Wenzhuo was driving, and Zhao Chang'an was sitting in the passenger seat next to her, a smile on his face.

"Is it that funny? I think Lu Feifei makes a lot of sense. Gold mining doesn't require much technology, and there's no concept of environmental protection there. It's a vast, sparsely populated area with barren mountains everywhere. It would be ridiculous to build a sewage treatment plant there."

Xia Wenzhuo has been in Xingcheng for more than half a year. After experiencing it firsthand during this time, she really doesn't think there are any truly worthwhile investment projects in Southeast Asia.

The truly profitable businesses have been completely divided up by local powers, European and American conglomerates, and even Japanese and Korean companies over the years.

"Let me put it this way: Southeast Asia is a place where it's easy to produce super-rich people with assets of hundreds of billions of US dollars, but these super-rich people will definitely not be from us. There are abundant oil and natural gas resources and many mines here, but I feel that you shouldn't invest in these kinds of heavy assets easily. Once you invest, you will become someone else's bargaining chip."

"From what you're saying, you think it's okay to cooperate with Lu Feifei and the others?"

"The prerequisite for cooperation is that you need to have strong enough connections over there to prevent the Lu family from pulling the same stunt as they did back home."

Xia Wenzhuo said with a smile, "Listening to their back-and-forth, I'm embarrassed to say that based on the Lu family's embezzlement activities in China, they have no credibility whatsoever. I'm not sure about overseas, but at least in East Asia and Southeast Asia, which are deeply influenced by Chinese culture, the Lu family has absolutely no place to stand."

"I don't have any connections whatsoever, and they're not strong enough, you feel if they're hard enough!"

Zhao Chang'an chuckled and teased Xia Wenzhuo, "Those two are really something, how can I put it? No wonder they couldn't beat the Lu Chengfeng brothers in North America and were kicked out in a sorry state."

"You mean we should ignore them?"

"What's the point of paying attention to them? Are all these people out of their minds or something? Qi Daolong, Kou Yingxian, and even Shan Qiang and Ye Zi, they all firmly believed that I had practiced the Wedding Dress Divine Skill. Damn it!"

Zhao Chang'an cursed unhappily, "They provide funding, technology, and manpower, and even handle sales? Do I need that little bit of money? Is there a shortage of gold mining technology in China? I have money but can't hire people."

Then, Zhao Chang'an changed the subject: "As for mining, I think it's still worth doing to develop the local economy and support local development."