"You're frowning, but you're giggling, are you worrying, or are you silly?"

Zhou Han didn't know what news Cao Mo and the others had just knew.

She had just drafted the agreement for the acquisition of Beiku Cement Plant and Xintaihua Grinding Station very efficiently, when she walked into Song Yuqing's office and wanted to show the draft agreement to Cao Mo, but saw Song Yuqing standing behind Cao Mo, and Cao Mo was sitting on an office chair, his eyes were staring at the computer screen, seeing that he was obviously frowning, but there was still a smile on the corner of his mouth, and his expression was indescribably weird.

Cao Mo pretended to be stupid and glanced at Song Yuqing, and said, "This has to ask what unsightly things the two of us did in the office just now?"

"Phew, who is doing anything unsightly with you!" Song Yuqing's beautiful eyes glared at Cao Mo, reached out and grabbed his ear and scolded, "You don't want to be cheeky, I still want it!"

"I'll draw up a purchase agreement, and you can take a look at it when you have time, and I won't stop you from flirting. Zhou Han put the draft acquisition agreement on the table and walked out.

Cao Mo did not rush to tell Zhou Han about the gold mine, on the one hand, it may be empty before it is further confirmed, on the other hand, the position of the Democratic Promotion Front in Akwa is not yet stable, and there is even a little chaos inside, even if the news cannot be completely concealed in the end, he must try his best to avoid spreading out too early and causing other consortium forces to covet.

They have signed an exploration cooperation agreement with the Akwa authorities, but Akwa currently prohibits foreign capital from directly entering the development of its domestic minerals, which means that their current preferential rights in the Drake mine are not solid and could be overturned.

After Akwa was ruled by the Sawei Yi military government, the laws imposed in the country were still the ones left over from the colonizers, and there were strict definitions of prospecting and mining of mineral resources in the country.

At present, Cao Mo has signed an exploration cooperation agreement with the Akwa authorities in the name of the Felician family gold mining company, but in legal terms, a complete prospecting right, let alone a mining right, has not yet been formed.

According to Akva's law, in addition to following the legal procedures, the company would need to have a two-year exploration operation in the Drake area, or make new mineral discoveries on top of the existing exploration results in the area, before it can finally form a full transferable prospecting rights.

On the one hand, foreign capital is still strictly restricted from holding more than 20% of the mining companies directly responsible for mineral development, and on the other hand, it is only after one year of development investment that matches the exploration and storage of mineral resources that a complete transferable mining right is finally formed.

Cao Mo is no longer a Wuxia Amon in West Africa at this time, and his investment in Akwa is not afraid of being easily kicked out, but if the opponent really wants to obstruct him, just from the current legal level of Akwa, it can still create a lot of obstacles for them.

Of course, even if no competitors jump out and make a difference, things are far from being as simple as imagined.

First, Akwa's policy on foreign capital to enter mineral development has not yet been completely opened, and there is still a lot of uncertainty about the extent to which the policy will be opened in the next round of economic policy changes in Akwa.

According to the most optimistic estimate, Cao Mo will eventually be able to take a controlling stake in the joint venture mining company, and by providing loans, equipment leasing and technical support to the joint venture company, the profits outside the non-controlling company will also be eaten, but this also means that Cao Mo and they need to bear all the capital, technology and equipment investment in the Drake Gold Mine.

It's okay that there is no super-large copper-gold mine underneath Drake, and if there is, it is actually a matter of joy and worry.

The Ibogu and Oguta gold mines are relatively pure high-grade rock gold mines, and the mining, beneficiation and refining of gold-bearing ores after removing coarse-grained gold are relatively simple, and the investment is limited.

Copper-gold ore is a large number of copper-gold compounds mixed together, after mining and preliminary crushing and selection, it also needs to be sent to copper smelting and refining plants for smelting, refining, gold only exists as a subsidiary product of refined copper.

Cao Mo obviously does not have the ability to build a large-scale copper smelter now, and Drake's industrial supporting base is extremely weak, and he does not have the conditions to build a large-scale copper plant.

This means that the mined copper ore will also be transferred from the port of Pemei to the country for smelting.

Even if the added value of copper ore is much higher than that of iron ore, and the proportion of long-distance shipping costs is not too obvious, in order to save transportation costs as much as possible, the raw ore with a mineral grade of only about 1.5% also needs to be processed to a certain extent, and the copper concentrate with an ore grade of almost 20% or even higher is the most economical to be transported back to the domestic smelter.

Cao Mo originally planned to carry out preliminary exploration of the Drake mine, and as soon as it was confirmed that the underground rock gold reserves were worthwhile, he would invest two to three hundred million US dollars to build a mining site with a daily mining capacity of 3,000 tons of ore and a refinery with equivalent processing capacity.

If Drake is only a small and medium-sized copper-gold mine, and the ore mining scale is controlled at two or three thousand tons, even if a set of beneficiation and enrichment equipment needs to be added, it can also save the investment in building a refinery, and in general, there is no need to add much additional budget.

Even investing in the construction of a small copper-gold smelter with an annual production capacity of one or two thousand tons in the Conero Lake Industrial Park is not a problem at all, and it is all within Cao Mo's budget.

However, if a super-large copper-gold mine is to be discovered in Drake's ground, the scale of ore mining per day is to match, and the scale of new investment is not three or five times, but most likely thirty or fifty times.

Where did he raise the funds for such a large-scale development?

Cao Mo didn't figure out a clue for a long time, so he didn't think about it, and saw that Song Yuqing was still sitting there seriously reviewing the draft acquisition agreement drafted by Zhou Han, and said: "It's too vulgar to think about money all day long, should we find a place to talk about life, ideals or something?"

“......”

Although Song Yuqing is also very infatuated with the extreme feeling that the two are entangled, her aunt and grandmother are both in Xinhai for the New Year, she raised her head and glanced at Cao Mo, stretched out her snow-white wrist, and motioned Cao Mo to look at the time on her watch.

"I booked a table at the hotel at six o'clock, and I have to drive home to pick up my mom and them first—didn't your family move today? You should also go back and help, don't hang out all day......

"What do I call wandering around outside all day?" Cao Mo hugged Song Yuqing from behind and stretched out her hands into her arms.

"Don't make trouble!" Even though it was through the cashmere sweater, but the upright and full peaks made Cao Mo cover it with his hands, Song Yuqing still couldn't help but feel a little weak, and shouted coquettishly.

"If Drake can confirm it further, will you accompany me to Akva this time?" Cao Mo said as she pressed against Song Yuqing's greasy cheeks.

As long as the old exploration shaft excavated by Stroo Gold Company ten years ago can be found, and the existing material is correct, it will be confirmed that there is a copper-gold deposit in the Drake ground – if the size of the reserves is far from being confirmed, but it is still valuable to develop.

Maybe after the Spring Festival, Cao Mo will rush to Akwa to deal with some things first, he doesn't want to be separated before they get together for a few days, and wants to pull Song Yuqing to accompany him.

"What did I do in the past?" Song Yuqing grabbed Cao Mo's hand and didn't let him stretch into his clothes.

"There really is a super-large copper-gold mine in Drake's ground, and the proportion of our investment in Akwa is estimated to soon surpass that of Kanem - you, the financial director, don't even go to the front line to take a look, and don't meet with Akwa's personnel, it's a bit unqualified!" Cao Mo said softly.

"You have to go on a business trip, and I can't refuse, who called you my boss. Song Yuqing agreed "very reluctantly".

"By the way, I'm going to the city library to find some books on copper and gold mining and smelting, you can come with me!" Cao Mo withdrew his hand and said seriously, "There is still a big difference between the mining and smelting of copper and gold mines and gold mines, if we have to leave Xinhai in a hurry after the Spring Festival, we may only be able to borrow some books from the city library this afternoon......"

Cao Mo never interrupted his studies in Draculamo, Song Yuqing did not doubt him, picked up his coat and bag, said hello to Zhou Han and Chen Feng, and left the company with Cao Mo.

Cao Mo didn't let Song Yuqing drive, and drove directly to the city library on a motorcycle.

Song Yuqing still likes to wear jeans, but it is convenient to sit in the back seat of the motorcycle and hug Cao Mo tightly, her body is close to her, and there is an indescribable sweetness in her heart.

"You ......" Song Yuqing bit her lip and glared at Cao Mo angrily for a while, seeing that he had no shame at all, she had to half-push and half-push Cao Mo to open a room in the hotel.

Although the two of them have already been happily in love once when they returned to Xinhai, Cao Mo, who knows the taste of the marrow, looked at Song Yuqing's charming and beautiful face in the office in the afternoon, as well as her bumpy figure wrapped in a base shirt and jeans, listening to her soft and soft voice, where can I calm down and not think about it?

At this time in the hotel room, Cao Mo saw Song Yuqing walking in as a thief, as if she was seen by other people's strange eyes, and her crimson cheeks were still a little hot, so she couldn't wait to help her take off her coat and push the undershirt up together.

"Ah, haven't bathed yet......"

Song Yuqing wanted to push Cao Mo away and take a bath first, and then in Cao Mo's impatient movements, her heart fire was quickly and completely ignited, and she was cleaned up by Cao Mo in a daze, and after being happily combined, it was like suddenly surfacing after a long time of drowning, slightly out of the strong sense of suffocation, and relieved.

Song Yuqing is at the most beautiful age, in order to please her lover, she lightly applied thin dai to cover up the shallow spots on the wings of her nose that were almost flawless, her pink and fair cheeks were radiant, and the spring waves flowed in her big and bright eyes.

Her body can be called stunningly beautiful, the peaks are erect, the skin is snow-white and delicate as if it will be broken when you blow it, Cao Mo's movements at the beginning were a little rude, leaving a deep or light red mark on her skin; her legs are slender and plump, white as clotted fat but also have just the right place of tightness, uncontrollable throbbing, and she pushed herself up to the ethereal clouds that are higher than the waves early, and this also brings Cao Mo an indescribable extreme wonderful feeling.

Song Yuqing happened to have a safe menstrual cycle today, the two of them were combined together without a trace of restraint, and they were even more hearty, and they didn't know how long it lasted after the whole thing, Song Yuqing intuitively wanted to pass out, and slept on the big bed with a pillow to rest, and I don't know how long it was, when I heard the sound of the mobile phone ringing in the bag, I came back to my senses slightly.

"What time is it?" Song Yuqing asked a little confused.

"It's six o'clock!" Cao Mo took out his mobile phone and glanced at it, and said.

"Dead, dead, I said I'd go home at six o'clock to pick up my mother and them, they must call to urge me!" Song Yuqing got up from the bedside in a panic, and complained while flipping through her phone from her bag, "Why are you so long this time?"

The first few times I was with Song Yuqing, maybe it was because it was too jerky, and the time was not very long, but Cao Mo seemed to be clicking on a new talent this time, immersed in that extremely strong wonderful feeling, and before he knew it, an hour had passed, and he himself felt a special sense of accomplishment, if he hadn't been scolded by Song Yuqing, he would have wanted to smoke afterwards.

Song Yuqing flipped out her mobile phone and saw that it was Zhou Han's phone, and felt a little relieved.

"I haven't forgotten about dinner at night, which hotel are you in, I'll drive over to pick you up?

"Cao Mo and I are in the city library, you drive to pick up my mother and them first, and then meet directly at the hotel in a while. Song Yuqing said calmly.

"Pull it down-Cao Mo's grandson pulled you out of the company, the monkey is in a hurry, the ghost believes that you really go to the library, and you think he is pure-minded. Zhou Han said with a smile on the phone.

"......" Song Yuqing saw that Zhou Han had seen through it, covered the call hole, and asked Cao Mo in a low voice, "What hotel are we?"

"How old are you, you don't know which hotel you were deceived by Cao Mo, aren't you afraid of being sold by him?" Zhou Han heard it clearly on the phone and laughed.

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During the Spring Festival, it is the peak season of the B&B hotel industry, and the employees of the Wood Elephant B&B should not expect to enjoy any Spring Festival holiday - the Wood Elephant B&B has a car, and the move is fast, Cao Mo rushed back to Tianzifang, and the new house has been almost cleaned up.

"Did you really buy a Huachen motorcycle?" Chen Rong was wearing an apron, dressed at home and helping Mrs. Cao move the flower pot to the yard, when she saw Cao Mo directly pushing the motorcycle in, she asked curiously, "How can you get all the license plates in this day?"

Cao Mo told Cheng Xi about this yesterday, and when she looked into the house, Jia Ying and Lily were busy, and she didn't see Cheng Xi's figure, so she asked curiously: "Cheng Xi is not here, Aunt Rong, how do you know that I want to buy a Huachen motorcycle? There are a few Huachen motorcycles in the Tianyue office, I took one directly, I have been riding in front of Dongsheng Building for a day today, haven't you noticed?!"

"It was still there just now - that girl named Chen Chang, her parents came to Xinhai for the Spring Festival, and called Cheng Xi and Yu Jing over for dinner...... Chen Rong said.

Cao Mo thought that he only heard Chen Chang mention yesterday that he would book the marriage with Ding Xuerong during the Spring Festival, thinking that this should be a meeting between the parents on both sides, Cheng Xi and Yu Jing are Chen Chang's best friends in Xinhai, and it is natural that they will be pulled over to accompany them.

"Aunt Rong is celebrating the Spring Festival at our house this year," Jiaying ran out, grabbed Chen Rong's arm affectionately, and shouted happily and proudly, "Look, my decision is right, right?"

"Really?" Cao Mo was also very happy to see that Chen Rong and his father could officially make their relationship public, rubbing his hands and asking, "Aunt Rong, when do you and my father plan to get the certificate, or I will do wine during the Spring Festival while I am in Xinhai—or I will rush back from Africa, but it will be troublesome,"

"What age are you and I doing, and what kind of wine do you do?" Since Chen Rong had made up her mind to go with Cao Xiong, she was not embarrassed in front of Cao Mo and Jiaying, and said, "I have discussed it with your father, and I don't have to talk about it, let's make do with it first, if one day your father will see that I am annoyed, or I will see that your father is annoyed, clap my hands and separate......"

"My dad can't expect to be annoyed by you, he has finally been around such a beautiful rich woman for half his life, and he still doesn't hug him to death? I think Aunt Rong, it will be difficult for you to get rid of my dad in the future!" Cao Mo said with a smile.

"You kid, what are you talking about behind your back?" Cao Xiong stretched out his hand from behind and twitched Cao Mo's brain, "What have you done in Africa all these years, and what else are you hiding from me?"

Come on, Cao Mo didn't have to think about it, she knew that Chen Rong had made up her mind to be with his father, and she had already sold him a fine light.

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I was moving to a new house all day, a lot of sundries and clothes had to be cleaned up, and the sheets and quilt covers in each room had to be replaced with new ones, Cao Mo didn't take care of things, Jiaying and Mrs. Cao were busy, Chen Rong also came over and was busy all afternoon, and no one had the heart to buy vegetables and cook.

As soon as she moved into her new home, Mrs. Cao insisted on having her first meal in her new home, so she directly ordered a table of Benbang dishes to be delivered to the door. Cao Mo didn't eat anything at noon, opened Moutai and poured it for everyone - even poured a small half cup for Lily, he was holding chopsticks and holding a piece of three-yellow chicken and stuffing it in his mouth, and saw Mrs. Cao walking out of the room slowly, dragging a red cloth bag in her hand, which was opened quite sentimentally, but it was a delicate and oily mutton fat jade bracelet, stuffed into Chen Rong's hand:

"The ancestor of the old Cao family can be regarded as a beautiful one, but when he arrived at Cao Xiong's grandfather's generation, he fell down, and he didn't leave anything good, and he could get his hands on this jade bracelet;

Seeing this jade bracelet, Cao Mo couldn't help but feel a tingle in his heart, when he was young, he still remembered that when his mother left, he dragged it desperately, and in the end he could only drag this jade bracelet down.

He didn't want to indulge in the past, and said with a smile: "This jade bracelet is an heirloom of our family, my grandmother will give this to you, but I expect you to be the master of our family in the future!"

After dinner, the dishes were stuffed into the dishwasher, Mrs. Cao happily drank an extra glass of liquor, and went back to the room to sleep if she couldn't hold it early, Cao Mo sat in the tea room in the backyard with his father, Chen Rong and Jiaying.

Lily was very interested in kneeling in front of the back window, looking at the Qingtang River outside the window.

The tea room is a single-storey annex with a patio remodel, and there are three annexes in total, one is converted into a tea room, one is converted into a kitchen--dining room, and one is retained as an independent study.

The back window of the tea room is opened to the Qingtang River, and the district government has done lighting projects along both sides of the river.

Under the bright light strip, the waves are rippling, occasionally a cruise ship passes by, diagonally opposite is the newly built imitation Ming and Qing Dynasty stone bridges leading to Houtang Lane and Qingtang Lane, and there are many tourists standing on it to watch the night view of Qingtang River.

Cao Mo doesn't pay attention to any tea art, opens a can of Jin Junmei black tea, and when the water boils, he directly brews a pot, distributes it to everyone, and says to his father:

"I was in Kanem, and I had a good relationship with Lily's family very early, first mining the local gold mines, and then investing in the construction of two cement plants, a small power company, and a food company. As for this house, you guessed it right, I bought it with my funds, and you had just been released from prison at that time, so I was afraid that your old self-esteem would not be able to bear it for a while, so I didn't tell the truth......"

"Are you afraid that my self-esteem will not be able to bear it?" Cao Xiong saw his daughter sitting silently, knocked her on the skull angrily, and asked, "When did you know that you were still hiding from me with this little bastard?"

"Aunt Rong knew before me, and she didn't tell you," Jiaying touched her head aggrievedly and said, "I just went to Kanem to play with my brother during the summer vacation, and I only found out, he was still ...... at the time."

"Ahem!" Cao Mo hurriedly interrupted Jia Ying's words, not wanting to leak out all the things about his gunshot wound in Kanem.

"So, I bothered to run the Wood Elephant B&B and leave something for you brothers and sisters, but I was blind?" Cao Xiong asked, "How much money have you saved in Africa in the past few years?"

"The situation in Africa is more complicated, and the estimation of assets is a little different from that in China, so I have to give an estimate, and there should be more than 200 million US dollars," Cao Mo took a breath, looked at his father with a look of disbelief, and asked, "Hit hard?" Don't you think there's no need to bother trying to plot Aunt Rong's property?"

"Go, you boy, why haven't you spoken properly?" Cao Xiong scolded with a smile.

"I have relatively little investment in China, and at present, there is a special team in the management of a food factory and the corresponding trading company, and the follow-up profits will also be used for the development of the company itself," Cao Mo said, "In the short term, I will transfer some of the shares, and I can probably cash out 30 or 40 million yuan." If the family wants to use the money, they can use it first......"

In addition to transferring 10% of the shares of Tianyue Trade to Xu Bin and Xu Lizheng, Cao Mo also plans to take out a small part of the shares of Conero Foods and transfer them to Chen Feng and Guo Donghu at a low price, so that the management team can do their job more conscientiously and share more dividends from the development of the enterprise.

However, no matter how low the price is, Xu Bin, Chen Feng, and Guo Donghu have to use real money to buy this part of the shares from him, whether they are looking for a bank mortgage loan, or raising funds from other channels.

In this way, they can truly take on the responsibility of enterprise development.

This is also equivalent to cashing out a portion of the option to them.

Cao Mo can probably get 30 or 40 million yuan in cash in China.

Cao Mo himself has no place to use money in China, and there is no need to convert this part of the cash into dollars and transfer it to Kanem, so he plans to put it directly at home.

"Since you are doing so well yourself, I will take care of the Wooden Elephant B&B slowly, and I don't need to use your money. Cao Xiong said.

"Give me, give me this money!" Jia Ying said impatiently.

"What do you want this money for?" Cao Xiong asked.

"I'm learning to invest, but it's too boring to talk on paper, and it's good to fight with this money!" Jia Ying said.