"Just once! Just let her show her face, it won't even take five minutes." Wang Ying pulled An Qiqi's arm and begged.
"No." An Qiqi refused without hesitation: "My mother would never agree to such a request from me, and I would never mention it to her."
Wang Ying slowly squatted down and shook An Qiqi's arm: "Our company is very clean, and we make tea and promote Chinese culture. When she comes, we can also ask the media to do their best to promote her positively..."
"Stop!"
An Qiqi waved her hands: "Baoer, we can discuss anything, but not this."
Wang Ying swallowed her saliva and looked at An Qiqi eagerly with a very pitiful expression.
"My dear, I've lived for more than 20 years, and my best friends are you and Qiuqiu." An Qiqi looked at her seriously and said, "I also want to help you, but this matter... I really can't do it. Not only can my mother not go, but I will not invest in your company either."
Wang Ying was stunned.
"It's like this, my parents are still working, and their recent situation is a bit awkward." An Qiqi explained to Wang Ying patiently: "I am their direct descendant, I can't mess around outside, especially financially."
"Qiqi, please don't misunderstand..." Wang Ying wanted to explain.
"No, no, we are best friends, so I will say whatever I want to say." An Qiqi responded softly: "Of course I trust you, but the interests of too many parties are involved in financial companies. You can avoid making mistakes, but you can't guarantee that others will make mistakes, so... I really can't invest in this."
Qiuqiu drank his drink and said, "Hey, don't make it difficult for Qiqi. She is different from me. Although her parents are high-ranking officials now, they are also restricted in many ways... What they are considering makes sense."
"Then... forget it." Wang Ying nodded dully.
"How about this, aren't you short of six million? I'll help you with this part and introduce you to a rich friend." An Qiqi looked at her and said, "You sign a loan contract with him, and he won't charge you interest. I won't interfere or guarantee you, just agree on the repayment date."
"You're so nice, Qiqi!" Wang Ying put her arms around her and Qiuqiu, tears welling up in her eyes. "I'm so lucky to have friends like you in my life."
“Stop it.” Qiuqiu rolled her eyes. “If I hadn’t seen you were about to go in, I wouldn’t have cared about this kind of thing! You’ve been in the financial circle for so long, and you still make such a mistake. It’s unforgivable! Stupid!!”
"Okay, I get it. I promise there won't be a next time." Wang Ying gave Qiuqiu a kiss: "I love you!"
"Haha." An Qiqi grinned: "Oh, you're so disgusting. You gave me goose bumps all over my body."
"Come on, let me kiss you too."
"Get out of here, stop it, I can't stand it!" An Qiqi shouted while shrinking her neck.
After talking about money, Wang Ying took the initiative to say, "Let's have a drink to formally celebrate Qiqi's new life and also to celebrate my getting out of financial difficulties!"
"Okay!" An Qiqi replied.
"I'm a lady, I don't drink." Qiuqiu waved her hand.
Ten minutes later.
The three beauties raised their wine glasses, faced the sea, clinked their glasses together and shouted.
"Go to hell, you bastard! We won't have you in our Qiqi's life anymore!"
"I wish us three sisters to be forever young and beautiful, and always close to each other!"
"cheers!"
The three of them clinked their glasses and drank it all in one gulp.
…
In a compound in a Sri Lankan military town.
Xin Xiaodong said to Sun Wei with his hands behind his back, "You can only move around in this area. Those who arrive later are not allowed to move around at will, and are not allowed to go to the military defense zone. If you are discovered, you will bear the consequences yourself."
"I understand, I understand!" Sun Wei nodded repeatedly.
"Oh, as for whether the higher-ups agree to recruit you, we still need to hold a meeting to study it." Xin Xiaodong frowned and said, "Before that, you don't have to go out for training with the troops, and you can't carry any weapons in the defense zone, not even toothpicks!"
Sun Wei was sweating profusely: "Yes, I understand!"
"That's it." After Xin Xiaodong gave his instructions, he turned around and left the compound.
…
In the evening, around seven o'clock.
Zhao Weihu sat in the office, looking at Su Tianyu with a frustrated expression: "How do you do this business? I can't even figure out how to arrange the people now, and you brought back more than a thousand people?! What are you going to do, get 20,000 people to beg for food? Set up a Beggars' Gang?!"
"You don't understand the situation at that time..." Su Tianyu was also speechless: "That Sun Wei is too talkative, he put us on the moral high ground and rubbed us..."
"You have no morals?!" Zhao Weihu was so angry that he stood up. "Did you shave your head randomly? You've become a gang leader who can extort money, what morals do you still have? You're a bandit, can you put yourself in your proper place?!"
"... How can I explain this to you?" Su Tianyu was a little upset by Sun Wei: "The situation at that time..."
"Let me do the math for you!" Zhao Weihu said, counting on his fingers. "They paid 20 million, which is equivalent to the joining fee, right? It seems a lot, but if you think about it carefully, there are more than a thousand of them. Let's assume it's a thousand, and if they are paid according to the salary scale of the Chi Army in the future, their monthly expenses will be 2 million. In other words, if they work for you for ten months, they will basically get their money back, and they will make money every day after that! They don't have to grow opium anymore, they can just find a long-term meal ticket."
"You can't say that. More than a thousand people is also a fighting force, right?!"
"Why would I use him to fight? How can their people compare to ours? One soldier of the Chi Army can beat three of them. How long will it take you to train them to fight on the battlefield?" Zhao Weihu clapped his hands and said, "What's more, they defected to the enemy. Even if they can fight, do you dare to let them go to the battlefield? If they run into old acquaintances or old babies from the rebel army, they might just turn their guns around and shoot you."
"You don't understand. This Sun Wei is very sensible."
"Bullshit, what the hell do you know? Why don't I believe him? He's just an opium grower...!"
As the two brothers were talking, the guard outside the door walked in, saluted and shouted, "Commander, Sun Wei, who was brought back by Commander Su, wants to see you."
Zhao Weihu was silent for a moment, then turned to look at Su Tianyu and said, "Don't talk for a while, I'll send them away."
"Oh!" Su Tianyu nodded.
Five minutes later.
Sun Wei led his wife, three children, and his younger brother, whom he had just redeemed for 20 million yuan, into the commander's office.
"What are you doing..." Zhao Weihu looked at Sun Wei in confusion: "Why did you bring the child in?"
Sun Wei, who was very fat, wiped the sweat off his face with a flattering smile, "Yes... It's like this, Commander Zhao, I thought about it carefully, you said... We used to work for the rebels and the Xue family, and now it's all of a sudden, the brothers of the Chi Army and the Third Division will inevitably have some thoughts in their minds. To put it bluntly, we are surrendering to the enemy... But this is really a decision that we can't help."
"What do you mean?" Zhao Weihu asked.
"... This is what I think. If there is room in your headquarters, let my wife, children, and my brother's family live here." Sun Wei said excitedly, "Let me put it this way. If one day in the future you think I am abnormal, you can kill them in a minute. This is also... my token of loyalty to you. We are children of the rivers and lakes. There is nothing else... but justice. We should be sincere in doing things!"
“…!” Zhao Weihu was stunned.
When Su Tianyu heard this, he turned his head and covered his mouth with his hand.
"They are here. I will lead our more than 1,000 people to train with our most basic troops. Let's put it this way, if we don't act like soldiers, you won't pay us. When you think we are qualified, we will be treated the same as our brothers in the Chi Army," Sun Wei wiped the sweat off his face, "Do you think it's okay?!"
"Fuck you!" Zhao Weihu rubbed his face and cursed in a low voice: "This... This is really sensible!"
"Hello, Commander Zhao. I want to be your soldier!" Sun Wei's youngest son was only seven or eight years old. At this moment, he saluted in a naive manner with a very serious face.