sinovels Chapter 20 Chapter 20
Chapter 20 Chapter 20
"I'm too stingy?! Me?! Stingy?!"
Jimmy looked at himself in the full-length mirror, and shouted to the trees with his soul.And Lin Mu's lips overflowed with a smile, and he said "huh" in a calm manner.
"When I only had a packet of turkey noodles left, I gave it to you!"
"Maybe you are afraid of spicy food?"
"The surname is Lin!!!"
Lin Mu grabs Jimmy by the collar in front of the full-length mirror to keep him still.
Then he slowly adjusted his collar. The vest in the three-piece suit was fastened first, the collar of the white shirt was temporarily turned up, and the suit jacket was buttoned one by one. He checked it all.
"You..." Jimmy lost his mind for a moment.
In the early hours of yesterday morning, Jimmy finally got cash back from the ATM in the city center. After taking care of the doctors and nurses at the American Aid Saltwater City International Hospital, he left his pager number and Lin Mu's cell phone number, and followed him back to his dormitory.
It is said to be a dormitory, but it is actually an apartment rented by Jianxin Group for the pilots in the downtown area of Xianshui City. Lin Mu lives in a one-bedroom, one living room, which is quite life-like.
It was still dark when Jimmy followed the tree into the house, and fell asleep on his bed until that night.
Jimmy is so tired.
One day I was in the Golan Valley worrying about the trees after the avalanche, and the next day I had to fight wits and courage in the hospital in Saltwater City and the local medical system with insufficient supplies.
Worst of all, when he finally woke up in Lin Mu's bed, he found that it was already dark, but he couldn't do anything about Lin Mu—the negotiation date he had agreed with potential buyers of uranium raw materials was today, at about Dream Garden after dusk, a well-known tourist attraction.
Of course, what he said to Lin Mu was "talking about business", but he didn't emphasize what kind of business it was.He purposely dressed in an exaggeratedly formal way, hoping to dispel some Lin Mu's suspicions.
Who would sell arms in a three-piece suit?
— After all, it is so tight that even bulletproof vests can't fit in it.
Lin Mu stood half a step behind Jimmy, pointing his shoulder at the full-length mirror.
Then Lin Mu skillfully tied his tie into a Windsor knot in front of Lin Mu.
It's not a complicated style of play, but it's enough to make someone like Jimmy, who hates all formal clothes and etiquette since childhood, feel overwhelmed.
Jimmy couldn't help asking: "You pilots, when did you learn to wear a tie?"
Lin Mu replied: "The year before last, we were in a detachment of pacesetters in order to strive for the creation of civilization."
Jimmy: "Just dress like 007 every day? Who are you going to hook up with?"
Lin Mu was speechless: "Who can I hook up with? There are only four...five people in the team."
Facing the mirror, Lin Mu put his chin on Jimmy's shoulder, then turned his face slightly, and kissed him intently: "It's a pity that your forehead is too big. Otherwise, you can take it off and put it on tomorrow after you finish wearing it today."
Jimmy refused to accept: "Blessed is a big brain!"
Lin Mu smiled: "It's full of water. It's a blessing."
Jimmy turned down the collar of his white shirt by himself: "Then you are lucky! I will hang up the safe that you go to Swiss Bank to report my name someday. The password is six digits, and it is National Day of Country Y."
Lin Mu suddenly let him go, circling around the room like a squirrel, finally found the wooden desk lamp, and knocked on it.
"Don't talk nonsense." Lin Mu hugged him tightly from behind again.
Jimmy suddenly remembered to ask: "Wait a minute, how many people are in your team? Did your leader ask you to wear a suit?"
After thinking for a while, he said forcefully, "No, this tie is for me."
Before Jimmy left, he made a deal with Lin Mu. After talking with his acquaintances, he flew back to Taal directly.
Lin Mu also promised him to submit an application to Jianxin within two days, so as to find a reason to transfer back to Tar.
Embarrassment is embarrassment, but the leader can't help it - the scarce heavy pilots always have the right to speak.
Jimmy waved goodbye to the captain casually.He didn't look back, afraid that if he did, it would be the last time he saw him.
Nine fifteen, Dream Garden.
Dream Garden is the name given by the American colonists—the Garden of Dreams, which is full of American-style daydreams, so stupid and naive that it breaks your heart.
Of all the buildings in Saltwater, Jimmy liked this one the most.
He remembered that he went to a boarding school summer camp in Switzerland in the summer of high school. He was very unhappy. He sneaked out of school for the last time, took out his passport directly from the principal's office, and flew to Saltwater City to find Edison Chan.
His adoptive father was busy with work so of course he didn't have time to be a tour guide for him, but he assigned a personal secretary to take him to see Dream Garden.
Jimmy just took one look and fell in love with it.
In the continuous wars of the three southern countries, Mengyuan is like an outdoor paradise, with pure white marble columns supporting the last hope of civilization.
Among them are tall and straight green plane trees, like the dream paintings of impressionist painters.
At that time, little Jimmy finally understood one thing: power and money can even shelter a person in the flames of war and live like an aristocrat.
This world is so unfair.
Jimmy's butler, Jeremy, made an appointment for him to meet the buyer at exactly nine o'clock.
The other party did not disclose their identity and name, so for the sake of safety, they chose Mengyuan with a lot of tourists and many escape exits with extra care.
A construction company of Edison Chan occupies a small western-style building just behind the west wall of Dream Garden.Armed bodyguards are behind the wall at the ready.
Jimmy sat at the coffee table in the marble colonnade and ordered ice cream.
He saw several waiters discussing something cautiously, only to realize that the long table next door seemed to be holding a banquet.
A group of men in military uniforms sat around a man in civilian clothes, all of them were from country Z.
What are they doing here?
Jimmy was vigilant, and hearing that they were speaking English, he couldn't help realizing that there must be someone who was not from country Z during the dinner.
This group of people seemed to have no worries about eating and drinking, which distinguished most ordinary people in the three southern countries, even the urban middle class.
They are officials and chiefs of armies...
Jimmy wanted to take a closer look, but the ice cream was already on the table, and he didn't have an excuse to keep looking around, so he buried himself in the spoon and picked it up.
While eating ice cream, he pretended to study the lines of poetry engraved on the marble wall, but in fact continued to eavesdrop on the conversations of the Z people on the long table.
Unexpectedly, as if the other party had discovered the eavesdropper, he paid the bill quickly and left.
Jimmy glanced down at his pager. At 26:[-], the buyer hadn't shown up yet.
"Young man, do you want to eat ice cream in winter?"
Here it comes again, Jimmy rolled his eyes in his heart, how can he be so lenient, like his own mother.
He looked sideways at the man who came to strike up a conversation—he had a big belly and was half bald on the top of his head. The dark blue casual clothes managed to cover his belly, but it was hard to hide his habit of straightening his back.
He was the leader of the table of soldiers, the only one among them who didn't wear military uniform or rank.
Jimmy clacked his fork on the table: "You're late."
When doing business and negotiating terms, what is important is an aura. If the other party is half an hour late and the party has no intention of leaving, it will reveal the urgency of wanting to sell things, and people will be caught before the negotiation begins. Hold on, half the battle has already been lost.
Jimmy's waiter who called the check also happened to be late with the bill at the moment.
The fat man took out a card and stuffed it into the bill, he laughed loudly and said, "Didn't you see it too, young man, there are so many people eating, you can't help yourself."
Jimmy asked, "How did you recognize me?"
The fat man slowly pointed at the wall: "Not everyone understands Latin. You know Edison Chan, don't you? Tell me what is written on it. I try to understand it every time I come here, but I don't recognize it. Character."
The fat man sat down at the table sincerely, staring at the strange symbols on a wall that seemed to him too fancy.
Jimmy saw that he was missing a finger on his right hand, and knew that he must have participated in the War of Independence three years ago, so he moved his chair forward calmly, pointed to the lines of poetry on the wall, and read each line to the fat veteran listen.
"Long sigh, the spring day must die with the rose,
And the chapter of youth and sweetness is also closed.
The nightingale sings on the branches,
When the flowers will reopen is unknown.
The love of the rest of my life, fate conspired to make you and me,
Tighten this apologetic plot thoroughly.
But it should be smashed to pieces,
Reassemble again, close to your desire in my heart.
The moon of my joy, not yet full,
And the moon of heaven is rising again.
How far she shall see in vain,
This usual garden loses me and still lives forever. "
After Jimmy finished reading, he couldn't help laughing, talking about business is business, if Lin Mu knew that he read a love poem to the man he met for the first time in his life, he might not be able to punish him.
Punishment...torture...it tastes like execution...Jimmy thinks it's a good idea.He wanted to be punished and wanted to be chained to the bed by his captain for this and that, but he was still in a hurry to fly the plane.
However, Jimmy said to himself in his heart, in this usual garden, in this chapter of youth, he thought he had missed it.
He thought that after Edison Chan passed away, he would also bury his bones in a foreign country ahead of time, and he lived only for one breath and to avenge him.
But Jimmy thought of the cool touch of Lin Mu's fingers when he tied his tie...
It turned out that it was not missed after all.
The fat veteran rubbed his eyes, wiped away a few tears with a tissue, cleared his throat, and said to Jimmy in heavily accented English, "I'm Drop."
Derop, Deputy Minister of Defense of Country Z.If I remember correctly, the Minister of Defense of Country Z has passed away in the earthquake, and the Deputy Minister's successor is just around the corner after being elected.
That is the second highest position in country Z, which is ruled by the military, after the president.
Jimmy suddenly realized that he hadn't come to discuss business with him in his personal capacity at all—he had probably got the president's authorization.
This means that country Z devotes all its efforts to create light weapons at the risk of being condemned or even sanctioned by the international community.
Based on this information alone, he can buy short several related oil stocks and earn enough for him and Lin Mu for the rest of their lives.
"If you know Edison Chan, you must also know that in the three southern countries, there are many things that everyone wants: water, food, wife—"
Jimmy interrupted him, reminding, "Women are human too."
The fat man then added: "——and a husband. But no one wants a husband. Believe me, a husband just means endless housework and one child a year that can't be finished in ten years. This is the country Z. The status quo. We have no way to develop our economy, no way to develop our education so that people, men and women, count and live happily. Why?"
Without even thinking about it, Jimmy sold him a face: "Because of the threat from country Y."
The deputy minister nodded and said: "When the U.S. military was here, the situation was stable for ten years. But once the U.S. military withdrew from the three southern countries, look what happened? Country Y actually became independent! Independence means independence, and they want to take Tal as well. Take it away. Taal has been our territory for 800 years in history."
Jimmy understood.
If it was the state behavior of country Z, then the two parties in the transaction were evenly matched, and he no longer worried that the other party had no money.
No, just as I was thinking about it, I heard the deputy minister say: "According to Edison Chan's rules, cash transactions, whichever border you choose to ship over, you can choose."
Jimmy looked at him, and after a while, he said, "How do you know Edison Chan's rules?"
"Young man, if it wasn't for the assassination of Edison Chan back then. Would we still have to wait until now to find you to buy something? He would have agreed to sell it to us a long time ago."
Jimmy's heart sank: No, people from country Z and country Y are going to start throwing blame at each other.
Then, as expected, the fat man explained: "I know you are Edison Chan's adopted son, so you don't have to be afraid of me telling the truth. He had a sudden stomach bleed, but he was actually drugged. He wants to sell our things—those candies." ——They were all taken away by people from Country Y.”
"People from country Y say you took it away."
"That old thing..." The fat man suddenly held back his kindness, showing a bit of indescribable fatigue.He took out a gold pocket watch from his coat pocket, snapped it open, revealed a miniature photo inside, and pointed it out to Jimmy.
"It's him. Old Lahimi, Lahimi, my old captain..."
The pocket watch was already worn out, and it was obviously a personal commemoration for him, so it was worn on him.
Jimmy pinched and looked, there were three people in the black and white group photo, all wearing exactly the same military uniform.
He immediately recognized that the most handsome young man on the far left had grown into a fat man with unclear features beside him today.
He didn't know the local people in the middle.
The one on the far right with an obvious Tal-like appearance is Rahimi's father, the old Rahimi who put a knife on his neck.
The leader of the "Vulture" terrorists lurking in country Y was hung in a pocket watch around his neck by the vice minister of defense of the enemy country...
The more Jimmy thought about it, the more he found it difficult to explain.
Even if he is not silenced for canceling the transaction, Bao Buqi will be silenced for knowing this unspeakable secret.
Unexpectedly, the deputy minister seemed to see through him, and said without hesitation: "Both the president and I know what kind of people from country Y are. They are not the kind of people that American reporters wrote about."
Not a terrorist?Not insane, disregarding the lives of women and children?
Jimmy heard the Minister of Defense continue to say: "I knew people from country Y when I was a young soldier. Of course, there was no distinction between country Z and country Y at that time. Our regiment leader, Rahimi, is a Thar."
"Our family is poor, and we are all mercenaries. We fought wars together. When we were young, we were very good at defeating al-Qaeda for the Americans."
"But...the Americans...they only think of us as mercenaries. Counting by the head, if one person dies and pays some money to the villagers, it will be dismissed."
"We couldn't find another job, so we had to come back and serve as soldiers for country Z. Later, country Y wanted to establish an independent country, and all people from country Y were kicked out of the army. So the position of head of our regiment was vacant, and I took over."
"Later, the Americans supported the independence of country Y, but pushed the map of the country's border to our hands. I was responsible for drawing the map. What an important responsibility that is. I carefully studied the population and ethnicity of every village near the Thar Desert. , resources, and history...but when the map was handed over to the Americans, they were still dissatisfied."
Jimmy seemed to suddenly understand something.Americans are certainly not satisfied!
Colonists have always planted the seeds of ethnic conflicts without exception when abandoning their colonies!
If the borders are too perfect, how can the Americans find excuses to stir up troubles and maintain their interests in the three southern countries in the future?
"The Americans praised my map and said I drew it well. They said there was only one thing that needed to be changed: Taal should not be given to country Y, but should belong to country Z. Country Z is stronger and better able to take care of Taal. "
This can explain why old Rahimi hates the people of Z country to the bone.
Losing Tal is the bloody feud of the Tal people.
Three years ago, on October [-]th, country Y became independent, but there was no Tal, which they valued the most, on the territory.
As a result, country Y split into the ruling faction and the radical faction.The main appeal of the radicals is to recapture Thar, redraw the national border, and intentionally create many violent activities against the people of country Z, which is why the international community defines it as a terrorist organization.
Country Y and Country Z have been at odds since then, and this has hit the Americans' plan.
Jimmy clicked on the tiger-headed young man in the middle of the photo: "What about him?"
"died."
The two who are alive now are also standing on both sides of the border, and will never see each other again in their lives.
Jimmy said seriously: "Which port will I choose to ship to you, I will go back and discuss with the board of directors. Although I inherited Edison Chan's company, there are still some troublesome people who always get in the way. I hope you can understand."
He took the carry-on bag pushed by the deputy minister, and just by the sound of the bag sliding on the table, he knew that it contained gold bars.
The three southern countries are subject to foreign exchange controls by the international community, and they cannot even get US dollar cash.He couldn't help feeling sorry for them.
Jimmy ordered another ice cream to take home for Lin Mu.
The city of Saltwater is struggling economically, and there is only Dream Garden where you can buy ice cream, which is still made with pure natural cream, apricots and persimmons.
Although Lin Mu doesn't like to eat sweet food on weekdays, the unique fruit flavor of this local area may be able to seduce his appetite.
Jimmy waved to the Deputy Minister of Defense of Country Z, and told him his real name by the way: "Mr. Amir, goodbye. Your Latin is also good."
Just now he deliberately mistranslated a few words, but the sudden confusion on the fat man's face did not escape his observation.If he didn't know Latin, how could he have noticed that he had mistranslated a word and looked confused?
What's more, Jimmy remembers very clearly that when the old Rahimi locked him in the air-raid shelter, he once said, "My best friend is very learned, and he is the first student in the village who learns Latin at a school run by Americans." ".