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Qi Weiwen's residence.

The radio station kept making beeping sounds, and Zhao Shiying was wearing headphones and receiving messages from afar.

After translating a telegram, she put it aside and continued to copy the next one.

Qi Weiwen picked up a telegram, glanced at it, and stored all the contents in his mind - in June, Cuba will enter the Caribbean hurricane season. Meteorological experts speculate that at least 1 to 2 strong hurricanes will hit Cuba, mainly affecting the western and central sugarcane producing areas, such as Havana and Matanzas Province.

It is estimated that no less than 10 hectares of sugarcane fields will be flattened or soaked by strong winds and floods, and another % to % of the sugarcane fields will have their sugar content reduced due to lodging, diseases and insect pests.

Based on past experience, as the work of sugarcane harvesting decreases, some sugarcane farmers will move to cities or the United States, reducing the efficiency of sugarcane harvesting. Some mature sugarcane will rot in the fields because no one harvests them, further reducing the available yield.

More detailed data will be sent later.

Qi Weiwen lit the telegram with a lighter and put it into the brazier, then picked up another telegram.

Sugarcane juice is the best-selling summer drink on the streets of India. The weather in Mumbai this year is hotter than in previous years, but the sales of sugarcane juice on the streets have increased instead of decreased. The reason is that the price of sugarcane juice has increased from 1 anana/cup to 1.5 anana/cup or 2 anana/cup.

In order to reduce costs, street vendors mix water or add molasses, and some use unripe sugarcane to squeeze juice, which tastes bitter.

During a field visit to Punjab, one of the main sugarcane producing areas, it was found that this year's temperature was only about three degrees higher than in previous years, but the lack of wind caused the weather to become hotter.

After asking local elders and meteorological experts, it is likely that this year will have a weak monsoon, which will seriously affect the rainfall in the rainy season. Many foresighted sugarcane landowners have already switched to growing more drought-resistant millet or beans. The sugarcane planting area is conservatively estimated to have decreased by no less than 15%.

Due to rising sugar prices, Delhi is reportedly discussing whether to implement a rationing system. If a rationing system is implemented, India's sugar exports may stagnate.

Pick up the third telegram.

The domestic situation in Indonesia was chaotic, with constant armed conflicts in various places. There were Islamic armed rebellions, rebellions in the Republic of South Maluku, and harassment by the Indonesian Communist Party guerrillas. It was rumored that because the Soviet Union secretly contacted the Indonesian Communist Party, the United States began to provide military assistance to Indonesia.

In response to the dire situation, Army Chief of Staff Abdul Haris Nasution proposed strengthening the "territorial warfare" strategy, but military discipline was corrupted, resulting in civilian casualties.

On Java Island, which accounts for 85% of the country's sugarcane production, nearly 12 sugarcane farmers fled the war zone and sugarcane fields were abandoned; sugarcane borer pests broke out in some areas and farmers were helpless due to the lack of drugs to control them; half of the sugar mills controlled by Dutch capital in East Java Province stopped production and liquidated.

According to the most optimistic estimate, Indonesia's sugarcane production will decrease by 30% this year.

The fourth telegram.

The Philippines initiated negotiations with the United States, demanding a reduction in U.S. economic privileges, triggering panic among U.S. capital. Benguet Mining suspended new exploration investment and copper exports decreased. Unilever reduced its coconut oil processing business and moved it to Indonesia. The Philippine Sugar Corporation closed three sugar mills on Luzon Island and withdrew $3 million in capital.

Since last month, the export volume of jellyfish from the Philippines has increased. According to investigations, the number of jellyfish along the coast of the Philippines has soared, making it easier for fishermen to catch jellyfish than before.

Note: Jellyfish have the ability to sense changes in water pressure. A sudden drop in air pressure and a rise in sea temperature are signs of the El Niño phenomenon. If a subsequent low-pressure system forms, the Philippines is likely to encounter a strong typhoon not seen in decades.

The sixth telegram.

The major players in the London sugar market are already under investigation and the results will be out soon.

The seventh telegram.

The list of players on the New York Coffee and Sugar Exchange has been given to Secretary Quan, and a copy will be faxed at 22: Hong Kong time.

After reading one copy and burning another, Qi Weiwen thought for a moment and said, "Send a telegram to Singapore, and ask them to send a list of sugar prices in Malaya and Singapore as soon as possible, starting from May last year."

"Yes."

After a busy period, I can finally take a short break.

Carrier pigeon Zhao Shiying took off his headphones, stood up and twisted his waist, took out a cigarette from the cigarette box and put it in his mouth and lit it, exhaled a puff of white smoke and said faintly: "In order to establish a weather intelligence network, 70,000 US dollars have been invested. Aren't you afraid that the little man will scold you for being a spendthrift?"

Qi Weiwen raised his hand to fan away the smoke in front of his nose. "Farmers rely on the weather for their livelihood, and so does capital. Knowing in advance that it will rain three months from now, this information may be worth tens of millions of dollars."

“If we knew in advance that a warehouse storing sugar would catch fire or a ship carrying sugar would sink, wouldn’t that be valuable?”

"Not necessarily. You can catch fish when the water is muddy, but not when the water is too clear. If someone makes money, someone else will lose money. If you don't follow the rules, others can just take your life. You can earn money but not spend it."

"Where there are people, there are rules?"

"If you walk too much at night, you will always run into ghosts. Cheating is something you can only do occasionally. Do your part well, and if you get something, the foreign devils won't be stingy."

Zhao Shiying smiled charmingly, "I don't want the reward, just lend me your little man to play with for two days."

"It's a beautiful thought."

"Hahaha."

Seeing Zhao Shiying laughing, Qi Weiwen frowned and asked, "What's going on at Fuxing Bank?"

Zhao Shiying put away his smile. "It seems that Yuan Dequan has transferred another sum of money to Brazil. The exact amount is unknown. It's almost two million US dollars. I think we can close the net now. If we wait any longer, things may change."

"I'll tell the little foreigner to send someone to Brazil."

Taipei.

From a straw stack, a series of charming sounds echoed for miles away. Wang Zhaoyun's hands could no longer hold the bamboo pole and slid down, with his body limply collapsing on the straw.

Behind her, Xian Yaowen unbuckled his belt and reached into his crotch to rummage around. A dusty gray grasshopper came into his hand. Then he reached back and found another one.

He took off his clothes and shook them, and a few grasshoppers flapped their wings and jumped.

After cleaning himself up, he helped Wang Zhaoyun to drive away the grasshoppers on her head, brushed off the straw crumbs stuck on her head, straightened her skirt, picked her up, walked to the edge of the haystack, jumped down, and landed steadily on the ground.

Then, the story of the farmer and the snake happened, and Wang Zhaoyun raised his head and bit his shoulder.

After biting it, Wang Chaoyun spat out a mouthful of "Baga" and struggled to stand on the ground, scratching here and there with his hands, "Damn bastard, why are you in the straw stack?"

Xian Yaowen scratched the back of his neck and chuckled, "Exciting."

"Baga, take me back quickly, I want to take a shower."

"No midnight snack?"

"Eight……"

"Go, go back."

Without waiting for Wang Zhaoyun to curse again, Xian Yaowen pulled her forward.

……

The next day.

At half past seven, Xian Yaowen arrived at the door of the employer where Yang Jingyi's mother worked and waited.

A Japanese-style building with a small garden but no walls. It is slightly inferior to the Japanese dormitory on Qidong Street.

After waiting for a while, a woman dressed like a lady in her thirties came out, glanced at the jeep, and then walked towards the street.

After a while, Yang Jingyi appeared, followed by a woman of similar height to her, in her early thirties, with black hair that was combed meticulously. Judging from the style, she had a bun at the back of her head, which was the most common hairstyle for female servants at that time.

The height-to-width ratio of her face is about 1.3, close to the proportion of a child, but the angle of her jaw is clear, balancing childishness and sexiness.

The fan-shaped double eyelids and drooping eye tails make the pupil exposed to 90%. This is a typical dog eye, which gives people a sense of innocence and is easy to win the favor of men. If you stare at it, it will have a lazy temptation.

The bridge of her nose is of moderate height, the tip of her nose is round and fleshy, and the wings of her nose are slightly wide, making her face look not so delicate, but rather friendly and energetic.

The upper lip is obviously M-shaped, the lower lip is full, the thickness ratio is 1:1.5, and it is slightly open in its natural state, with a slightly seductive feel.

She wore a bright black loose cheongsam with a blue-black cardigan on the outside and a pair of low-heeled black cloth shoes. This outfit is also a typical servant's outfit, usually seen in families that often need to entertain guests but cannot afford to hire multiple servants. The servants' dress needs to maintain decency for their employers.

In general, Yang's mother looks pitiful and is not too old. If it weren't for Yang Jingyi, the burden, it should not be difficult for her to find a wealthy man to live with.

After the observation, Xian Yaowen saw that the mother and daughter were still walking forward hand in hand, and Yang's mother had no intention of stopping. He immediately understood that the cheap mother-in-law wanted to have a heart-to-heart talk with her prospective son-in-law.

He opened the door and got out of the car, then walked straight towards the mother and daughter.

Coming closer, he smiled shyly and said, "Jingyi, hello, auntie, I'm Xian Yaowen."

Mother Yang said calmly, "Mr. Xian, please come in with me and have a cup of hot tea. Jingyi, you wait outside."

"Okay." Xian Yaowen responded, and then said to Yang Jingyi: "Jingyi, you get in the car first, I will talk to my aunt."

"Ah."

Xian Yaowen followed Yang's mother into the house and into the living room. Yang's mother did not stop and continued to walk deeper. Judging from the direction she was moving, she should be heading towards the servant's room.

"Maybe the boss has strict rules and doesn't allow Yang's mother to meet guests in the living room." Xian Yaowen thought so and continued to follow.

After walking a few more steps, Yang's mother opened a shoji door and walked into a small room. Before Xian Yaowen followed in, she turned her back to Xian Yaowen and said, "Close the door."

Xian Yaowen closed the door and waited for Yang's mother's reprimand.

Unexpectedly, Yang's mother did not turn around. She only saw her elbow joint begin to move. Judging from the change in posture, she should have raised her hand, but there was no way of knowing what she was doing.

After a while, Yang's mother's body trembled slightly, and then her shoulders trembled more violently. Xian Yaowen immediately realized what Yang's mother was doing.

At this moment, he felt a little disgusted with himself for being too quick in reaction.

"Auntie, don't look back or turn around, just button your clothes."

Hearing this, Yang's mother's body began to tremble more violently, and she could be heard sobbing faintly. She slowly turned around, and a tearful face and exposed chest came into Xian Yaowen's sight.

"Mr. Xian, my daughter is still young. If you haven't decided to take care of her for the rest of her life, please forgive her and don't touch her. You are teasing me." As she said this, Yang's mother pulled her collar, revealing her collarbone.

Xian Yaowen glanced at Yang's mother's sexy collarbone, then moved his eyes down to glance at her underwear, then at her flat and smooth belly. There was no trace of stretch marks, as if telling that she had suffered a lot during pregnancy.

His eyes quickly moved up to Yang's mother's face. He took two steps forward, pinched the front of his cheongsam, and gently helped Yang's mother button it.

"what's your name?"

Mother Yang's eyelashes trembled, and after a pause she said, "Yang Lihua."

"Jingyi has your last name?"

"No."

"Oh, Yang is a big surname and people with the same surname can marry each other, but we with the surname Xian can't do that because we are likely to meet someone who is not out of the fifth degree of mourning. Anyone who dares to find someone with the same surname will be dragged to the ancestral hall and have his legs broken."

After buttoning up all of Yang Lihua's clothes one by one and fixing her collar, Xian Yaowen took a step back and said calmly, "Ms. Yang, you are a very good judge of people. I am indeed interested in both mother and daughter, but you are using the wrong method. If you were more direct, you might have controlled me. But you are trying to use moral shackles against me, making things too complicated. Sorry, I am not interested in playing with you."

As Yang Lihua looked at him in shock, Xian Yaowen stepped forward and hugged Yang Lihua, kissed her on the face, then released the hug and stroked her face, "Don't worry about it, good things will come to you, you don't have to worry about the rest of your life. I have already arranged a job for you, you can find your employer and resign."

"You, you, I, I...you, you guessed what I was thinking?" Yang Lihua's face turned purple.

"It's all about fate. I used to be in the joint defense team, guarding the checkpoint leading to Hong Kong. I would meet hundreds or even thousands of women every day. In order to pass that checkpoint smoothly, they would use all kinds of tricks. Even the dumbest person would gain something after seeing more.

Not only am I not stupid, I can draw inferences from one instance, and I understand women’s hearts quite well.”

Xian Yaowen stroked Yang Lihua's face once again, then withdrew his hand, turned around and said, "I have no bad intentions towards Jingyi or you, so relax. I'm leaving."

Hearing the footsteps fading away, Yang Lihua patted her chest and sat down on the bed, gasping for breath. She was too excited just now and she was holding her breath.

After she calmed down, her heart was moved, "This man seems good."

When he came out of the house, Xian Yaowen breathed a sigh of relief.

Yang Lihua is a realistic woman, which is a good thing for him and makes it easier to deal with her.

When he came to the car, he saw Yang Jingyi's face pressed against the glass, her lips pouting like an abalone. He flicked his fingers on the glass, and she quickly shrank her head in fright.

After opening the car door and getting in, Yang Jingyi held his hand and asked, "What did my mother tell you?"

Xian Yaowen said with a wicked smile: "Aunt said that you are still young, you can only hold hands and kiss, you can't do anything else."

"I don't believe my mother would say that." Yang Jingyi said with a pout.

"Forget it if you don't believe me. Where do your classmates live?"

"Lizhen said she was waiting at the station."

"Your classmate's name is Lizhen?"

"Li Lizhen, what's wrong?"

"Nothing. I know quite a few Lizhens."

"It's not surprising. There are many people named Lizhen. There are three Lizhens among my classmates."

"Oh, what other names have the most duplicates?"

"Shuzhen, Shufang, Shuying, Yulan, Xiulan, Xiuyun, Huifen, Lifen, and Yuehua, Lihua, Baozhen, Zhenzhu, Caiyun, Yunying, Ruoyun. There are students with the same names in the school."

"That's quite a lot. What about Jingyi? Does she have the same name as him?"

"It seems there is none now. Last year, there was a senior named Jingyi, who has already graduated." Yang Jingyi kicked the cloth bag under her feet. "What's in it? It's hard, like wood."

"The bamboo strips are used to set up the cover."

"Are we going hunting?" Yang Jingyi was eager to try.

"It depends on your luck whether you can catch wild game. If not, you can only eat roasted lamb."

"Mutton?" Yang Jingyi's eyes lit up. "I ate mutton soup when I was very young, but I haven't seen mutton since then."

"Aunt has cooked for so many families, but no one likes to eat mutton?"

"Mutton is hard to buy." Yang Jingyi said pitifully, "Even if I buy it, it won't be my turn to eat it."

"Then you are in for a treat. There is half a lamb and three legs in the trunk. I ate them yesterday. You and Lizhen can share them."

"Great."

While chatting about sheep, we arrived at Taipei Main Station unknowingly.

In a conspicuous position on the side of the road where there was no one else around, a girl stood there, staring at the jeep.

Without waiting for Xian Yaowen to ask, Yang Jingyi had already stretched her head out and waved to the girl, "Lizhen, here."

The girl smiled and walked quickly towards the jeep.

Yang Jingyi pushed open the car door and jumped out. The two girls huddled together and chatted for a few words. Then, Li Lizhen's eyes fixed on Xian Yaowen's face.

Xian Yaowen nodded at her and glanced at her whole body.

Li Lizhen was wearing a school uniform, her face and body were shrunk like a flower bud, it was obvious that her living standard was not as good as Yang Jingyi's, and she had already shown signs of mild malnutrition. But it was obvious that she was a beauty, and she had a lot of stamina, her most beautiful moment should be around 30 years old, a bit like Nie Feng's mother.

"Hey, what was the actor's name? I don't think I paid attention to him. I only remember the line 'Xiongba gave me the happiness of a woman, everything I wanted'."

While thinking about it, Yang Jingyi pulled Li Lizhen into the car. The back seat was a bit crowded with four people, so Yang Jingyi sat on Xian Yaowen's thighs without hesitation, sinking her legs down and leaning her upper body back to avoid her head hitting the ceiling.

After finding the most comfortable position and sitting down, Yang Jingyi introduced in a boastful tone: "Lizhen, this is my boyfriend Xian Yaowen."

"Hello, Li." Xian Yaowen greeted her and quietly reached down to smooth down the hem of Yang Jingyi's skirt.

It was no use being quiet, as the movement was quite large and was seen by Li Lizhen, but she didn't say anything, just responded with a "hello".

"Lizhen, Yaowen brought half a sheep..."

Xian Yaowen closed his ears and ignored Yang Jingyi's childish show-off. He let the two girls chatter and only responded when they were called. He simply kept his mind blank the rest of the time.

Fortunately, there were not many cars on the road, and it didn’t take long for the car to enter the Yangmingshan area and stop at the foot of Qixing Mountain.

As soon as the car stopped, the two girls jumped out, looked at the top of the mountain, and shouted with their hands covering their mouths.

Xian Yaowen was not as excited as the other two. He sat in the car and checked his trouser legs and cuffs, and only got out after making sure that there were no problems.

Lucas mentioned that the camp of the US military advisory group has been located at the foot of Yangming Mountain and construction will begin soon. A hunting club has been established, a shooting area has been set up in Yangming Mountain, and wild boars have begun to be shot in a planned manner.

During a hunting trip, two soldiers were bitten by a five-step snake and almost died in the mountains.

Xian Yaowen got down to the ground and carefully looked at his feet. When he found nothing wrong, he looked around and searched around. He found a few yellowish-brown dots on an exposed rock. Upon closer inspection, he found that they were suspected to be deer.

This is Taipei. There are no deer here. There are only small muntjacs of the genus Muntjac in the family Cervidae, which the locals call mountain muntjacs.

There are five in total, and the shooting conditions are good. If he is given a bolt-action rifle, he is sure to kill at least three of them. Whether the result can be better depends on which direction the others run after he kills the first one.

After satisfying his desire, Xian Yaowen shouted to the two girls, "Watch your step, there are five-step snakes here."

"snake?"

"Ah! There's a snake."

A shrill cry was heard, and the culprit was just a branch.

Xian Yaowen frowned and shook his head at Qi Longque who was staring at the rear of the car with his hand in his pocket. He reached into his pocket, took out a coin, and threw it towards the rear of the car. The coin flew onto the body of the car and made a noise.

Unexpectedly, the noise did not scare the two macaques that were touching the bag. Instead, they bared their teeth and made "click, click" sounds, which was the macaques' way of threatening their opponents.

"Damn it, you touched my bag and dared to threaten me."

Xian Yaowen spat, bent down, picked up a stone from the ground, and pretended to throw it at the two macaques. Seeing this, the macaques cried "ga ga" and ran a few meters away, then stopped on a small hill and stared at him.

"Sir, there is fruit in the bag, and the two beasts won't leave."

Xian Yaowen threw away the stones and said, "Let them go. Don't do anything excessive and don't hurt them."

Yang Jingyi, who had been jumping up and down just now, saw clearly that the snake on the ground was actually a branch. She had recovered from the shock, but she suddenly became unhappy again. She screamed so miserably, but Xian Yaowen ignored her and just played with the monkey.

She held Li Lizhen's hand and said, "Lizhen, let's go to the mountain."

"Just us?"

"Don't worry about him." Yang Jingyi quickened her pace. (End of this chapter)