money player

A long time ago, the Philippine island of Mindanao was ruled by King Ballum. He ruled the country with an iron fist and brought peace to it. However, he had one worry: he could not win the heart of the beautiful queen because he was too ugly.

In desperation, Balum consulted a demigod hermit, who told him that he needed to find three things to cast the spell - an egg laid by a black cat, twelve spoonfuls of fresh milk squeezed from a flawless white cow, and nectar collected from the legendary fairy tree.

Balum turned pale at the three things the hermit asked for, but eventually he managed to find the three treasures with the help of talking animals and forest fairies.

The hermit was very satisfied with the treasure that Ballum found, but before casting the spell, he made a request, hoping that the king would agree to let the hermit be the guest of honor at the banquet to celebrate the queen's change of heart. Ballum readily agreed.

The hermit carefully dug a small hole in the black cat's egg, poured milk and nectar into it, and stirred it with his magic wand. The hermit asked Balum to plant the potion in the palace garden and let the queen eat the fruit of the tree that grew from the potion.

Balum obeyed the hermit's request, and when the queen tasted the smooth and fragrant magic fruit, she indeed fell in love with him. Balum was overjoyed and held a grand celebration, but he forgot to invite the hermit.

The hermit was very angry and cursed the fruit, changing its fragrant smell into an unpleasant odor and covering its smooth skin with hard thorns.

“Do you know what this fruit is?”

On an Indonesian fishing boat heading to Singapore, Durian, a member of the Black Spotted Cat Egg Team under Sambo, is chatting with Wuyaguo, a new Indonesian team member who has recently joined.

The Black Spotted Cat Egg Team was originally hired by the Indonesian gold mine owner to protect the prospecting team in exploring the gold mine. However, the gold mine owner was killed by his enemy. Based on the principle of good faith, without knowing whether they could get the reward, the team had been doing their duty conscientiously to protect the prospecting team to complete a stage of the task. However, the gold mine owner's family still did not come to pay the reward, so the team had to quit and left, and solved the reward problem on their own.

When exploring for gold, there will always be some gains. A gold nugget was found in an unnamed river, and the team gladly accepted it in exchange for their reward.

Wuyaguo lifted up the golden cross hanging around his neck, kissed it and said, "Are you talking about snakeskin fruit?"

Mangga, who was sitting next to the two and eating mango, handed a piece of mango to Wuyaguo and said, "Eat mango, don't listen to Durian's boring story."

"Boring?" Durian shrugged, "This is the origin of our team."

"Very boring." Mango spread his hands and hummed "Dahil Sa Iyo", a very popular song in the Philippines.

Seeing this, Durian turned around and said to Wuyaguo: "We will have a few days off, what do you want to do?"

Wuyaguo answered seriously: "Eat, eat all kinds of food."

"What a boring holiday arrangement. I will spend my holidays with women, a different woman every day..."

"Durian, remember to wear a condom." Tamarind, the captain of the Black Spotted Cat Egg Team, said suddenly.

Durian pulled out a handful of condoms from his pocket and said with a smile, "Captain, I have a lot more here."

Condoms can play a big role in special operations. Putting them on the muzzle of a gun can prevent mud, sand and rainwater from entering the barrel. They can be used for waterproof storage and emergency hemostasis. They can also be used as water storage containers, life-saving buoys, ejection devices, ignition tools, etc.

Carrying a dozen condoms that don't take up much space can replace a lot of supplies, freeing up weight to carry more ammunition or specific tools required for the mission.

The soldiers of the third brother mainly come from the Philippines. They are all short men who are good at sneaking into the woods. Their weakness is that they can carry heavy loads. Every piece of material they bring on a mission must be carefully calculated to minimize the weight.

"Damn it." Tamarind was furious, "Don't call me captain."

Durian laughed, "Captain, it's safe here. No snipers are targeting you."

"Fuck you."

In the cabin, the communications soldier Shantuoer took off his headphones and came to Tamarind. "I just received a message from the Purple Antelope Squad, asking us to go to the Red Light Wharf to jointly protect a transaction."

"When?"

"Tomorrow morning at 1:30."

As soon as he finished speaking, Tamarind shouted, "Listen to me, I received a temporary mission tonight, and my vacation will be postponed to tomorrow morning. Hoo ah?"

"Hoo ah."

Chinatown.

On the rooftop of the Nantian Hotel and in the Nantian Restaurant, there is a table full of allusions. It is said that the independent woman Wang Yingxia saw through the scumbag nature of Yu Dafu and decisively divorced him while maintaining her dignity. The two said goodbye at this table.

"This table may not be auspicious." Xu Shaoyu, the boss of Lan Gui Commercial Bank, thought so.

He hosted clients from Hong Kong to stay at the Nan Tian Hotel and arranged for them to sign the contract at Yu Dafu's table. This was considered as a way of showing off his elegance, and also as a way of using Yu Dafu as a topic of conversation, and chatting about some romantic things after signing the contract.

But who would have thought that while everything was going great together, the contract signing was not going so smoothly.

It was not because the terms were not negotiated, but because he lacked seals and signatures and could not issue a receipt, causing the signing process to be stuck at the last link.

He was anxious and called one after another, but no one answered every time.

The tea has been brewed several times and the customer is getting a little impatient.

He was worrying too much. His client, Zhao Lian, a manager of Jinji Logistics, was not impatient. He was savoring Yu Dafu's story carefully.

Yu Dafu spent the last years of his life in Baye, a small town on the western plateau of Sumatra. There, Yu Dafu changed his name to Zhao Lian, married Chen Lianyou, and changed his wife's name to He Liyou, which means He Lizhiyou, which means ugly in human language.

Because of the fate that his name was once a pseudonym used by Yu Dafu, Zhao Lian was more interested in Yu Dafu, and he was very satisfied with Xu Shaoyu's arrangement.

Therefore, even though the signing of the contract could not be completed due to reasons on Xu Shaoyu's side, he was not annoyed, but just put himself in the shoes of Yu Dafu and the beautiful women. This time it was the turn of Yu Dafu's "goddaughter" Li Xiaoying.

Of course, Zhao Lian understood that being a manager meant putting work first, but the deal had already been finalized by the boss, there was only one partner, and the price had been agreed upon. He was just here to go through the motions. After receiving the receipt and completing the delivery of the goods in the evening, he would just hand over the check to the other party.

It's very simple and nothing to worry about.

Xu Shaoyu is different. If he cannot issue a receipt, the other party will not pay. Although the business is arranged by the boss and both parties have a foundation of trust, it is not a case of not getting the money back after the goods are delivered, but for a transaction of hundreds of thousands, it is always uneasy if the payment is not collected immediately.

Without money, anything can happen.

……

0.0625 is a number that many people keep in mind, because it is the result of "1÷16". It is used almost every time in calculations. When calculating with an abacus, there is a mnemonic of "one minus six equals twenty-five".

Kaiyuan Pharmacy.

A waiter was standing at the counter, fiddling with an abacus, calculating the amount a customer had to pay for medicine. The Hakka shopkeeper, Hu Yidao, was standing at a corner of the counter, talking to a customer.

The guest’s surname is Zhao, his given name is Chuanxiong, his ancestral home is Yunnan, he is a Hakka, and he is the manager of Jinjitang, which is under Jinji Pharmaceutical, a subsidiary of Jinji Trading Company.

Jin Jitang is a quasi-century-old drugstore. This year is its first year of establishment, and it has not yet opened a single store for business, but its medicinal materials wholesale business has already been established.

Since the first group of Chinese went to Southeast Asia, Chinese medicine and traditional Chinese medicine also followed the Chinese into Southeast Asia. They were combined and took root in the local area in the form of traditional Chinese medicine shops. In the old days, Chinese people would go to traditional Chinese medicine shops for medical treatment. Even now, some elderly people still like traditional Chinese medicine shops.

It’s not that they believe in traditional Chinese medicine alone, but it’s out of habit and the pursuit of practicality.

For example, many Chinese parents in Singapore today are willing to risk their lives to support their sons to study medicine, and sell all they have to send them to study in the UK. This is not for any other reason, but just so that after they get the diploma, they can come back and sell all they have to open a clinic, which is a very profitable business.

When a patient comes to the clinic, no matter what illness he has, as long as the doctor writes out a prescription, the starting price is three yuan. The profit is not too high, and he only makes half of it.

There are not many clinics in Singapore, but those that are open do good business, with many customers every day. Everyone is very lucky and has met reasonable and thin-skinned customers who will neither make trouble nor bargain. They will just accept the price offered without bargaining.

A clinic that is qualified to hang a "Healing the World" banner can easily earn tens of thousands of dollars a year. If it is determined not to have the banner, earning hundreds of thousands of dollars should not be a problem.

Training their sons to become western medicine doctors is the best choice for today's far-sighted parents. They are of noble status, earn a lot, and have no room for factory owners who have fewer than 108 workers - never mind relationships, just go out and get a number, queue up, and come in when your name is called.

It costs at least three yuan to see a doctor, which may take two days to earn. Go to a Chinese medicine shop to see a doctor, which only costs a few dimes. The shop assistants will call you uncle. Well, how do educated people say it...

By the way, the treasure of women, phew, is to feel at home.

Basically, Chinese medicinal materials have good development potential in Southeast Asia. Among the five East Asian countries, South Korea has the greatest development potential. After the Meiji Restoration, the Japanese medicine was fully westernized, and Kampo medicine suffered a devastating blow. Today, Chinese medicinal materials are basically in a stage where there is no market, but the future is bright, and Kampo medicine will surely have a second spring.

Combined with the odds and ends business in Chinatowns in other countries, the wholesale business of Chinese medicinal materials is still quite promising.

If we look at the list and information of Chinese medicine shop owners around the world, we can find an interesting phenomenon: eight out of ten Chinese medicine shop owners are Hakkas, and most of them are from Fujian and Guangdong.

Although Zhao Chuanxiong's ancestral home is in Yunnan, his mother is a Hakka from Fujian and has run a Chinese medicine shop in Myanmar for many years. Zhao's father used to be a clerk in Zhao's mother's herbal medicine shop. A cliché story happened where the boss took a fancy to the capable clerk and recruited him as his son-in-law. So it can be said that Zhao Chuanxiong is a descendant of the Fujian Hakka Chinese medicine shop gang.

Zhao's mother was very capable. She became pregnant with Zhao Chuanxiong when her eldest grandson was already old enough to help with household chores. He was the thirteenth child in the family, with seven older brothers and three older sisters. No matter how the three Chinese medicine shops in the family were divided, it would not be easy for him to get them.

Without the worry of inheriting the family business, he can let go and work hard outside.

"Chuanxiong, who founded the Jin Jitang brand?" Hu Yidao asked Zhao Chuanxiong.

"Uncle Zhao, I'm not sure either. My supervisor is a British woman. I heard her say that the boss is from Tangshan."

Hu Yidao stroked his chin and said, "You can get the British to work for you. Your boss is quite powerful. What kind of treatment does Jin Jitang give you?"

"The monthly salary is two hundred, and there will be commissions if you achieve certain performance. After working for a year and a half, you can start to get shares, starting at two cents, and when it reaches one cent, it will be changed to silver shares." Zhao Chuanxiong said with a beaming eyebrow.

Hu Yidao was surprised and said, "You can get the shares in a year and a half, and the starting point is still two cents. It seems that your boss is a generous person and values ​​your ability. Chuanxiong, do a good job."

"Uncle Zhao, I will."

Zhao Chuanxiong took out a quotation sheet from his bag and placed it on the counter. "Uncle Zhao, this is Jin Jitang's quotation sheet. Please support me, nephew."

"No problem." Hu Yidao picked up the quotation sheet with a smile and flipped through it. As he flipped through it, he asked, "Can Jinjitang supply Yumihusk? Kaiyuan's stock is running out and we need to replenish it urgently."

Poppy husk is easy to obtain, but it is difficult to import it into Singapore through formal channels. A special license issued by the Governor's Office is required.

Zhao Chuanxiong showed an awkward expression, "Uncle Zhao, Jin Jitang's purpose is to operate in accordance with the law and not to sell goods privately."

Hu Yidao raised his head and smiled, "Kaiyuan has always been operating in compliance with the law since its establishment and has never bought smuggled goods."

Zhao Chuanxiong pretended to smile awkwardly, "Uncle Zhao, do you need a license?"

"Yes."

"A bit expensive."

"If we can provide a long-term and stable supply, it doesn't matter if it's a little more expensive."

After leaving Dahua Soy Sauce, Xian Yaowen and his partner came to a quiet cafe, sat on the second-floor balcony, drank coffee and discussed documents.

After discussing for a while, Xian Yaowen borrowed the store's phone to call the backyard of She Garden, but still no one answered.

He didn't pay much attention to it and continued discussing with Narcissus.

When it was 3:30 in the afternoon, he and Narcissus finished discussing the documents and were about to leave. He made another call, but the same result came back, no one answered.

He felt something was wrong and called Sheyuan. When he learned that Lan E'niang still hadn't shown up, he put down the phone and thought carefully.

Something is very wrong. People like She Agui are similar to him. They would never treat the phone as a decoration. There must be a dedicated person responsible for answering the phone. Even if this person is very brave, he would not dare to be absent all day. Logically, if the call could not be connected in the morning, it should be connected in the afternoon.

The call still can't be connected at this time. The reason is unlikely to be due to the person responsible for answering the phone, but most likely because of She Agui himself.

Something happened to She Agui?
What's the matter?
Are you doing something secret and don't want others to know your whereabouts?

This possibility is not high. If you don't want others to know your whereabouts, you don't have to ignore the phone.

"It's more likely that we're in trouble..."

Xian Yaowen leaned on the counter, lit a cigar, and wondered what trouble She Agui had encountered.

She Agui was a member of a secret society, and it was normal for him to be hacked to death. However, in recent decades, there have been very few top leaders like She Agui who have achieved such a high status and died suddenly. They were all in it for money, not for their lives. It would be enough to let the people below them take care of the fighting, and there was no need to fan the flames too much and cause too many consequences.

It is unlikely that other secret societies would seek revenge.

There is no possibility of being caught by the police. If he was caught by the police, the Sanqitui Gang would definitely receive the news.

"What evil did She Agui commit in the past? He didn't clean up the mess, and now the victim's child has grown up and is here to seek revenge?"

After thinking for a while, Xian Yaowen thought of many possibilities, but he could not lock on the biggest possibility based on guesswork alone.

He waved his hand and called Qi Longque to his ear, "Send me back first, then take your guys to the backyard of She Garden to take a look. She Agui might have been in trouble."

Qi Longque nodded, "Do you need to do anything?"

"Once the accident is confirmed, you go home immediately. Something is fishy. The fire may burn us."

"The Purple Antelope Squadron of the Gold Squadron is at the dock."

"Don't rush to transfer people. Just take a look first and call back."

After that, Xian Yaowen returned to the balcony and said to Narcissus, "Is there any way to contact your people? The two who followed Li Yueru."

"what happened?"

"Something may have happened. We need to tell them as soon as possible to protect Li Yueru."

"You can only send a verbal message."

"Forget it, get ready to go."

In front of the counter, Qi Longque made a phone call to his home on Ousili Road and asked the gardener Lao Hong to open the gate on time in twenty minutes.

After paying the bill, Xian Yaowen and Xie Tingyun went to the bathroom together. Xie Tingyun handed him a Browning HP pistol and two magazines. He put the gun into his briefcase, adjusted it several times, and placed it in a position that he thought was most convenient at the moment.

He repeated the actions of taking out the gun, turning on the safety, aiming, and firing several times, letting his hands warm up, then left the bathroom.

They went downstairs and stopped in a blind spot near the door of the cafe. Xie Tingyun stayed behind while Qi Longque and Xie Huiran went to check the car.

After the inspection, Xie Huiran stayed by the car while Qi Longque returned to pick people up.

When I got into the car, I saw two human-shaped steel plates on the backrest of the back seat, which could just block bullets shot from the rear of the car.

Xian Yaowen helped Narcissus fasten her seat belt, then he took out a pistol from his briefcase and fastened it to a buckle behind the driver's seat. He placed the two magazines in the most convenient position on the seat next to his thighs.

He lowered his upper body, moved his buttocks outward, and tilted his head back, so that his downward gaze was parallel to the car window. This allowed him to see what was happening outside the car while keeping most of his body under the protection of the car door.

The car doors have been modified so that ordinary bullets cannot penetrate them. They may be a bit vulnerable to heavy machine gun fire or special bullets, but as long as your luck is not too bad and you are shot in a vital part, there is basically no chance of serious injury.

After making preparations, Xian Yaowen said to Qi Longque in the driving seat: "Let's go, drive irregularly, and don't go in a straight line if you have the chance."

"Got."

Qi Longque responded solemnly, stepped on the accelerator, and the car drove out.

He did not choose the best route home, and he drove carefully on the road, trying his best to avoid any unexpected situations that might cause him to stop. His speed was unpredictable and arbitrary, sometimes fast and sometimes slow. There was no pattern at all, and naturally there was no way to calculate the lead time. (End of this chapter)