Chapter 17: Cash Runs Out
There are gold shops in the town of Longta that redeem gold bars and gold jewelry, but Cao Mo is not familiar with the town of Longta.
In addition, the exchange rate of Kanem's currency, the Naira, is extremely unstable, and Cao Mo hopes to have a profit in the future and be able to exchange it for US dollars at any time, so he can only go to Draculamo to find a reliable partner.
Lucy heard that Draculamo already had Chinese merchants stationed in the gold trade, but Cao Mo hadn't been able to find time to contact it before.
Gold bars worth only 5,000 US dollars are nothing, and in the past six months, Cao Mo and Guo Jian have only brought some personal belongings to Draculamo for sale in containers sent by Dongsheng Group from China, and the profit is more than that.
However, Cao Mo's cash in his hand had bottomed out, so he urgently needed to rush back to Draculamo to find a gold shop to exchange it for cash, which would be used for the next purchase of materials and the payment of the weekly salary of the members of the gold mining team, and the company registration procedures had been completed.
This time, Cao Mo was away for nearly twenty days before returning to Draculamo again.
Nearly 500 grams of gold ingots are still a huge amount of money in the local area, and the Chinese in Kanem are too easy to become the target of criminal gangs, so Cao Mo specially brought the tall and strong Kabuja and the veteran Ovema with a fierce and murderous face, and the sense of security was suddenly improved rapidly.
Cao Mo walked into the villa rented by the branch, Song Yuqing saw him surprised and anxious to scream, he knew that he had lived in the jungle for half a month, and he was not conditioned to pay too much attention to personal hygiene, which scared Song Yuqing.
At Cao Mo's age, his beard grows slowly, and he has no problem not shaving for three or four days, but he doesn't shave for twenty days, his hair is unkempt, and his clothes are stained with engine oil and other dirt, so his image is a little rough.
Fortunately, the community is open, unlike domestic communities that will be fenced off with iron fences and two more security guards at the gate, otherwise, Cao Mo and Kabuja and Owema would not be able to enter the community, or they would be swept away by the security guards with guns at the gate.
"Sister Yuqing, it's me. ”
Before Song Yuqing screamed, Cao Mo spoke.
"I was scared to death, I thought I was a robber!" Song Yuqing patted her bulging chest, looking frightened,
"Why are you like this, how many days has your beard not been shaved? How can a handsome young man change like a wild man in the blink of an eye?"
"Living in a shed deep in the primeval forest all day long, and not having the conditions to clean up personal hygiene, isn't it just like a wild man?" Cao Mo smiled, looking at Song Yuqing's snow-white long legs exposed in denim shorts, quite moved.
"Mr. Yang hasn't come back yet, what is Manager Guo busy with these days?" Cao Mo asked at the same time, took out a melon seed gold from his pocket and handed it to Song Yuqing, "Sister Yuqing, I brought you a little toy, pick up some in the mine, it's very beautiful......"
The headquarters of the group does not pay much attention to the business in Africa, they have developed three agents in Kanem to sell Dongsheng's building profiles, and the branch usually contacts these three agents, and assists the three agents to go through the customs procedures for the goods every once in a while, and settles the payment, which is quite leisurely.
Yang Deshan is not resident in Draculamo, Cao Mo and Guo Jian are busy with their own personal work, and it is impossible for Song Yuqing to guard the office with a local employee.
Even if Song Yuqing stands with Yang Deshan and Guo Jian, it is a normal choice, and in any case, Song Yuqing has done the job that belongs to him, so that he can not only continue to receive a salary in the white-collar work of the branch, but also concentrate on his own private work.
should give Song Yuqing the benefits, and Cao Mo will not be stingy.
The gold deposits in the rock formations are mainly distributed in the form of fine gold sand or gold slag, and occasionally naturally occurring gold nuggets. This kind of gold nugget is also called dog's head gold, and the small ones are three to five hundred grams, and the large ones are dozens of kilograms.
If you can pick up a large enough dog's head gold, it can really be said that you are lucky.
The melon seed gold that Cao Mo gave to Song Yuqing is just over four grams, which is not worth much, but it is a natural and simple shape.
"It's so beautiful, like a bear, really give it to me?" Song Yuqing happily took the melon seed gold and held it up in front of her to take a closer look.
The three of them got along fairly well in Draculamo before, and Song Yuqing didn't feel anything.
After Cao Mo and Guo Jian tore their faces, Song Yuqing stood with Yang Deshan and Guo Jian out of realistic considerations, and felt the difference.
Guo Jian can be said to be the kind of person with a feminine and trivial personality, who usually doesn't talk much, and likes to teach local employees a lesson with a straight face, although this has nothing to do with Song Yuqing, but he also feels that Guo Jian is not easy to approach.
And Cao Mo and Guo Jian tore their faces, mainly because Guo Jian had bad intentions.
Even if Song Yuqing didn't want to choose a position between Cao Mo and Guo Jian, so as not to make her situation embarrassing, it was impossible for her heart to be wary of Guo Jian.
And even if Cao Mo gave her a strong sense of strangeness when she turned her face with Guo Jian, it was not wrong for Cao Mo to do this, it was just unexpectedly mature.
is more important because he is three or four years older, which brings Song Yuqing a sense of psychological advantage, so it is still more intimate to see Cao Mo.
It's rare that Cao Mo can still think about her now when she is doing private work, which makes her even happier.
"The Hunan fellow that Mr. Yang is looking for, went to Draculamo today, and Guo Jian drove to the airport to pick him up. ”
Song Yuqing told the truth, Guo Jian had not made any progress there for a month, and she didn't have much expectation for the benefits that Yang Deshan promised her.
Besides, since Yang Deshan didn't want to tear his face with Cao Mo, and thought that everyone was looking for private work in Kanem, she felt that there was no need to be caught in the middle of it and be a villain.
And Cao Mo was happy with her today, so she told Guo Jian's whereabouts straightforwardly.
"So, Manager Guo hasn't made any progress this month?" Cao Mo asked with a smile.
"Where can you be so lucky, there happens to be a gold mine waiting for him? Guo Jian is not a professional in prospecting and exploration, he borrowed a few broken books, and he has no equipment, what can he find?" Song Yuqing was a little disappointed, and asked Cao Mo curiously, "How is your mine over there?"
"It's not very good," Cao Mo handed Song Yuqing the gold ingot in the black plastic bag and said, "After a month of tossing and turning, I became like a wild man, and all the gold mined is here." ”
"Ah, it's not much!" Song Yuqing took the black plastic bag, opened it and looked at it, weighed it again, and said with some disappointment.
In her impression, if she finds a gold mine, she should immediately soar.
If it was only this income every month, Guo Jian would have left Cao Mo, who didn't know his life and death, in Yibo Ancient Village, it would be even more inauthentic.
"Isn't it......" Cao Mo said with a sigh.
Even if Song Yuqing's relationship with Yang Deshan and Guo Jian is also unfamiliar, since Cao Mo chooses to be Gou, he naturally wants to Gou to the end.
At present, so much placer gold has been mined, and the whole thing can continue, Cao Mo himself is satisfied, but when Song Yuqing is a little discouraged, in addition to not revealing his wealth, he also thinks that when Yang Deshan and Guo Jian inquire about the news of him through Song Yuqing, they can feel better, and everyone can continue to live together peacefully.
In any case, the monthly salary paid to him by the West African branch plus overseas allowances was also 14,500 dollars.
At this juncture, the gold mine in the village of Ibogu is very important to invest an additional $14,500 a month.
This time, Cao Mo wanted to get a salary, add a second-hand pickup truck to the mine, and make it more convenient to purchase materials from the Longta market. The two light off-road motorcycles have been tossed for them this month, and the loading capacity is definitely not comparable to that of a pickup.
Of course, Cao Mo needs an excavator, so that he can feed three or four simple placer machines at the same time, and the output is considerable.
However, the speed of infrastructure construction in Kanem has also accelerated in the past two years, and there are no second-hand excavators for sale on the market, and a brand-new excavator, imported to Draculamo, costs 60,000 or 70,000 US dollars.
Cao Mo doubted that before the end of the year, he could make up an excavator, the speed was still slow, and he didn't know where the young model of the club beckoned to him.
"You're just getting started, and when it stabilizes, the production of placer gold will definitely increase. Song Yuqing also felt that a month of tossing and turning would produce this little dust gold, which was a little less, but she still comforted Cao Mo and said.
Cao Mo intuitively felt that Song Yuqing was somewhat gloating in his heart, and complained in his heart that the Chinese were not good at this virtue.
This is called the allure of Song Yuqing's snow-white long legs, and it suddenly dropped a lot in his eyes, and he said perfunctorily: "Do it slowly, it should be slightly stronger than being a little white-collar worker in Dongsheng......"
"That's right, you're a boss anyway," Song Yuqing said with a smile, "You want to invite me to dinner!"
"What's the boss, we also serve the local tribal leaders and make a little money - but when it comes to inviting you to eat, that's definitely okay, are there any new restaurants nearby that Sister Yuqing is eye-catching?" Cao Mo asked.
He stayed up in the primeval jungle for a month, and when he returned to Draculamo, he also wanted to rest, and invited Song Yuqing, who was vacillating, to eat, even if he didn't think about anything else, he had long legs and snowy skin and big breasts, and he was very eye-catching to look at.
"Really, then I'll take it seriously. There's a new seafood restaurant on the other side of the strait, and I've heard it's pretty good......," Song Yuqing said.
The Kennett Building, where the branch is located, is located on the west coast of the mainland, on the mouth of the sea, across a slender strait from Draculamo's commercial center, Salt Lake Island.
The territory of the salt-lake island area is still too small, benefiting from the continuous rise in international crude oil prices, and Kanem's financial income has also been considerable in the past two years, and there is a tendency to build the old capital Draculamo, and there is a tendency to expand construction to the west coast area, and the area along the strait is the first to benefit.
The slums near the strait are almost bulldozed, and several restaurants and hotels have been built, all of which look authentic and give the impression of being in a bustling city.
Kabuja made a rare trip back to Draculamo to be reunited with his family.
After Cao Mo plans to exchange some of the cash, he will directly let him bring it back to Yibogu Village for the next purchase of diesel and other materials, so that the gold mining operation can continue uninterruptedly.
However, he couldn't accompany Song Yuqing to dinner, so he left Lucy behind.
Seeing that Song Yuqing happily agreed, Cao Mo saw that it was not too early, so she went upstairs to clean up briefly, and then directly pulled Song Yuqing and Lucy up, and accompanied them to the gold shop where Lucy had stepped on it before to redeem and sell gold bars.