Liang Yuan, Guo Jian, Cheng Xi, and Wu Ruifang are not the only four people playing cards in front of this gambling table, but the others are not disgusted by Cao Mo's arrogant-sounding words, or they are not qualified to be disgusted, and they all responded with a smile: "If you want to go to the table, we will let you play at this table, and it is enough for us to stand aside and open our eyes." ”

"Avenna is my half-sister...... Sturgeon Foster stepped forward and introduced the blonde to Cao Mo.

"Avena Foster, an investigative reporter from the European Financial Times, recently came to Kanem for a vacation, and by the way, take a look at Sturgeon's investment in Kanem, whether there is an irresponsible squandering of the family's hard-earned wealth," the blonde was dissatisfied with Sturgeon's ambiguous identity when she introduced her, and directly introduced herself to Cao Mo, "I have a few questions I would like to ask Mr. Cao to answer, why do you think Conero Newport City is a good project with good development prospects?"

Dealing with Volkov's investment and the Nez Oppenheimer and Sturgeon Foster behind it, Cao Mo of course arranged for someone to investigate the situation of the Foster family.

The Foster family has a long history, the first generation of Foster in the 19th century engaged in trade between Liverpool and Draculamo in England and accumulated a huge fortune, and later obtained extraordinary political status in the British mainland and the British colonies, and the family also had children who served as Draculamo.

The Foster family, as an old family plutocracy in Britain, once spread its industries throughout Western Europe and the coast of the Gulf of Guinea.

It was during the anti-colonial struggle and independence movement in Africa in the fifties and sixties that the Foster family withdrew their family business from the countries along the Gulf of Guinea.

In the mid-to-late nineties, European and American industries shifted to the Asia-Pacific region, and the Foster family completely gave up the direct management of the industry, and mainly put the family assets on the holdings of several well-known financial institutions in Western Europe, and at the same time, they were also incorporated into the Foster Family Foundation for unified management.

At present, except for Mr. Foster Sr., the head of the Foster family, who is the chairman of the foundation, the other members of the Foster family either have different occupations, or they rely on the shadow of the family to live a luxurious life of drunkenness, and only a few children of Sturgeon Foster work in the foundation or foundation-related institutions.

Cao Mo arranged for someone to investigate the members of the Foster family, and of course obtained some information about Avenna Foster.

Avenna, who is Chinese New Year's Eve years old now, is the former wife of the elder Foster and the fourth wife in the elder Foster's life.

Avenna and Sturgeon Foster were half-situated at Harvard University in the United States, and after graduating, they worked as a journalist for a French media outlet, and it is rumored that she had a brief marriage to a French man, and soon divorced and single.

Avenna is a non-existent character in the Foster family, and she does not serve in the Foster Family Foundation.

Her mother and Forster Sr. parted ways long ago, and Avenna, although she retained a small part of the continuation rights in the family foundation, had little contact with the Foster family after leaving the UK while studying at university - she and Sturgeon had no so-called sibling relationship.

Therefore, the previous investigation of Avenna was very brief, and it was impossible to spend too much energy and resources, and it was not even found that she was an old acquaintance with Maye Mantal.

Energy and resources are limited, and the investigation of everything must be focused.

It now appears that previous investigations into the Foster family had apparently left out some rather crucial information.

Cao Mo didn't care whether Avena intended to suppress Sturgeon, or what changes occurred within the Foster family, but he didn't know if Avenna's aggressive questioning tone to himself was due to her professional habits, or whether this foreign girl was just this stinky temper?

His instincts told him that Avena was not a good person this time.

"When did I say that Cornello Newport City is a good project?" Cao Mo asked with a curious look in his trouser pocket.

Cao Mo stressed to Sturgeon that he did not want to see many projects on the south shore of Conero Lake become a mess, and did not want to see any negative impact on Chinese businessmen in West Africa, and believed that Sturgeon would also convey this to other members of the Foster family.

In the end, everyone also worked together - during this period, Huamao did not show any aggression, and was very cooperative in pushing things forward, mainly integrating the project on the south bank of Conero into the Volkov Petrochemical Group and Conero Newport City, and even Huamao took the initiative to promote Huang Hebin to supplement manpower on the basis of the original Taihua team to preside over the construction and operation of Volkov Petroleum Group and Conero Newport City.

Cao Mo did not show a particularly strong interest in Xingang City from beginning to end, and he was very simple and decisive at the beginning to replace the corresponding holdings from the listed company Tianyue Industrial.

The Blake family, the Rupert family, Abacha, and Ojosan are willing to take a part of the equity of Conero Energy and Cao Mo together to replace their assets, in addition to Cao Mo's consideration that they will give them certain benefits from other aspects of compensation, more importantly, they still have some feelings for this land, and they feel that they have to take greater responsibility, and they want to promote the construction of the project along the shore of Lake Conero.

Cao Mo didn't know where Avena judged that he had a stronger interest in Cornello Newport City?

However, his instincts told him that Avena was not cheating on him, and even when they met for the first time, Avena did have some research on him.

Cao Mo understated, but also noticed that Avenna's eyes drifted behind him unnaturally, and behind him, Liang Yuan and Guo Jian sat on the other side of the gaming table - Avenna saw him for the first time today, theoretically she should not know Liang Yuan and Guo Jian, it is hard to imagine that they have been in contact before?

Cao Mo's brows furrowed slightly, his body turned to the side slightly, and his eyes saw Liang Yuan sorting out the chips in his hand, and with a curious look, he looked at Avenna and Mei Yi's faces - but he was sure that Guo Jian was the first time he had seen Avenna.

How did Liang Yuan get together with Avenna, and he deliberately concealed this from Han Shaorong, so Guo Jiancai didn't know about it?

"I seem to have just introduced me, or do you not know much about the European Financial Times, and confuse investigative journalists with ordinary journalists?" Avenna, who has a pair of beautiful amber eyes, is very dissatisfied with Cao Mo's carelessness, and is not willing to let Cao Mo go easily, and continues to ask aggressively.

Listening to Avenna's tone, it seems that the "European Financial Times" is very famous, and "investigative journalist" is a very special profession that makes him proud, but Cao Mo just smiled faintly, and decided to dry this arrogant and rude blonde first, looked at Mei Yi and said with a warm greeting:

"When will Miss May arrive at Draculamo and not tell us so that I can arrange a hospitality?" he put his hand on Cheng Xi's shoulder and introduced them, "Miss May Mantar is the chief secretary of the Front for the Promotion of Democracy in Akwa, and Miss Domonmei Mantar takes care of her father, Mr. Juan Mantal, Miss May, this is my fiancée, Miss Cheng Xi. ”

"Hello, Mr. Cheng, I have heard about your beauty for a long time, and I only saw it today as I wished,"

Mei Yi greeted Cheng Xi, and as if she was a peacemaker, she eased the tense atmosphere that Cao Mo and Avenna had just met, and said,

"Miss Forster is a dear friend I made when I was studying and working in France. She had stayed for two days the day before yesterday in Port Pemet to visit Mr. Syvière, a classmate with whom she had studied at Harvard, but I had the misfortune that I was in Kruno and could not make it back to meet Miss Foster. As a sign of humility, I took time to accompany her to Draculamo for two days. ”

May Mantar was also a little unclear about the purpose of Avenna's trip to Africa, and why she behaved so aggressively when she first met Cao Mo.

However, no matter what, she still told Cao Mo everything she knew.

Cao Mo couldn't help frowning: Maye Mantal's simple sentences can be said to convey quite a lot of information.

President Akwa Saweiyi has three sons, only the second son, Saweiyi Jr., studied at Harvard University in the United States, and has stayed in the United States to work and live in recent years until the economic crisis swept the world.

Not only did Avina just meet with Saviyi Jr. before this, but even when they met with Saviyi, they discussed Tianyue's investment in Akwa and Kanem?

Intuition told Cao Mo that it was definitely not a good thing that his investment in Akwa had attracted the attention of the members of the Saweiyi family?

The point is that Avenna had little contact with the Foster family before, and in what position did she come in so aggressively?

For a while, information was limited, and even if Cao Mo had an almost telepathic intuition, there was no way to get a glimpse of the whole picture.

Looking at Maye Mantal's expression, she and Avena should have only known each other before, and were by no means close friends, perhaps because of Avenna's request to be strong, or perhaps because of the request of little Saviyi, she reluctantly accompanied Avenna to Draculamo as a "friend".

Thinking that there was such an unexpected situation just now in Draculamore, Cao Mo also had a secret headache, but at the moment he also looked at Sturgeon and Ensange quietly and asked:

"What a coincidence, I have dinner dinner at the beach open-air restaurant at Lana Dere Resort in the evening, and if I don't mind, I'll wash the dust together for Miss May and Miss Foster?"

"Okay, then I'll trouble you, I'll save you from arranging. Sturgeon agreed before Avenna.

"It's still early, do you want to sit down and play two?" Cao Mo asked as she pulled the chair from the gaming table.

Even if the Lana Dere Beach Casino was not his territory, as soon as Cao Mo's words fell, the gamblers on the left and right politely stood up and gave up their seats.

"Okay, I'll see how Mr. Cao's poker skills are...... Texas Hold'em?" Avenna Foster was not happy that Sturgeon had made the decision for him, but she did not sit idly by, pulling out her chair and sitting down at the table, wanting to see what kind of person could rise so quickly on this savage continent in just three or five years.

"It's just entertainment, it doesn't matter what happens," Cao Mo smiled in his heart when he saw Liang Yuan packing up his chips and leaving with Guo Jian, "Miss Avenna of the Foster family, Mr. Liang really didn't have the idea of getting acquainted at all, so he was in a hurry to leave so soon?"

"If you don't worry about us, then it doesn't hurt us to stay,"

Liang Yuan would not lose his momentum in front of Cao Mo, and stretched out his hand to Avena very politely,

Liang Yuan, who had the privilege of running the Atlantic Union Oil Trading Company for a period of time on behalf of the Foster family, now works for Huamao Capital in China. Mr. Guo Jian, who also represents Huamao Capital, serves on the board of directors of Volkov Petrochemical Group and Cornello Newport City, and is a friend of Mr. Sturgeon - if Miss Avenna wants to know more about Folkov Petrochemical Group and Cornello Newport City, Mr. Guo Jian may know more about it......"

"I've heard of you—I've heard that you ruined the Gidam family, which was once prominent in Draculamo, and I hope that knowing you won't bring bad luck to us Fosters. Avenna stretched out her hand and shook Liang Yuan gently, then withdrew her hand, and her words were also sharp.

"Miss Avenna is really joking, and if there is anyone present who is most capable of bringing bad luck to others, there is really no one who can compare with this Mr. Cao. Liang Yuan smiled lightly and continued to bring the topic to Cao Mo.

Cao Mo no longer had the heart to compete with a character like Liang Yuan, so he turned his head and said to Yan Ming: "You come to be a dealer for us, you won't delay you anything, right?"

"It's my pleasure to serve Mr. Cao!" Yan Ming replaced the Black Girl dealer, walked to the other side of the big table and stood still, looked at everyone and asked, "Do you play according to the rules of this table, or do you agree otherwise?"

Of course, Cheng Xi could sense that the situation was a little delicate, and looked at Cao Mo with some concern.

Cao Mo grabbed her little hand, told her not to worry about anything, and said to Yan Ming: "I'll accompany Miss Avenna just to learn a little poker skills, and prepare 20,000 U.S. dollars in chips for me and Avenna, Sturgeon, and Nsange - just play a few handfuls, and everyone will enjoy the beautiful scenery of Lana Dere Beach when you have time!"

Cao Mo took a deck of cards, drew one from them, faced Avenna, and said with a smile: "Chinese people have special functions, especially when playing cards, they will change magic - whether this card is big or small, in fact, it has been touched when I made a move, Miss Avenna dares to bet with me on the size of this card?"

"This kind of little trick can probably only trick girls into bed," Avenna let go of Cao Mo's hand, drew a card casually, turned her back to Cao Mo and asked, "Is this card in my hand big or small?"

"I'll bet ten dollars, big!" Cao Mo picked up a chip from Cheng Xi's table and placed it on the table with a "pop".

"Where did you get such confidence, if I hadn't had my eyes on this card, I might have been tricked by you!" Avenna put a Five of Hearts on the table, took the chip, and said, "I'm kind of convinced that you're a master at playing Texas now!"

"Cao Mo, he obviously guessed wrong, how can he see that he is good at playing cards?" Yu Jing saw that Cao Jiaying and Cheng Xin were also shocked by what happened here and came over, and asked curiously.

Texas was originally popular among people returning from studying in Xinhai, and now many people in the financial circle also play, Wu Ruifang, Cheng Xin and Cao Jiaying sometimes play Texas pastime, but they haven't had the opportunity to catch Cao Mo to play with them.

"The most important thing in the Texas high-end game is not to guess the cards in other people's hands, but not to be seen through by the opponent in their own hole cards, and even to deliberately mislead others to guess the wrong hole cards in their hands," Cao Mo turned his head and explained to Yu Jing, "This well-dressed Mr. Liang made a fortune by fraud, so it is easy for him to bully you, but just now I bet ten dollars, and he believed it, which shows that my means of playing Texas are much better than him." However, Miss Avenna can see this, and it can be seen that it is also above the level!"

Avenna complained in her heart: The old lady was sarcastic about you just now, can't you hear it?

However, she turned her head to see Liang Yuan, who was acting personaly, but at this time, she was impetuous by Cao Mo's words, and she felt strange in her heart, could it be that he was really deceived by Cao Mo just now?

Cao Mo intuitively felt that Liang Yuan had contact with Avenna, but Avenna looked down on Liang Yuan from the bottom of her heart, so in the next inconsequential games, he intentionally or unintentionally targeted Liang Yuan, making him lose his entry and exit, and be even more embarrassed in front of Avenna.

He didn't think about sweeping away the chips in front of Avenna, Sturgeon, or Nsanger.

After playing for more than an hour, Cao Mo saw that there were 60,000 US dollars in chips in his hand, so he suggested ending the game, saying:

"Standing on the beach of Lana Dere Resort at this time, looking out at the sunset over the Atlantic Ocean, is the most magnificent and beautiful, if Miss Avenna is visiting Kanem for the first time, she should not miss this beautiful scenery, which is completely different from the sunset over Port Pemei. ”

Then Cao Mo casually handed over the 60,000 US dollars of chips to Ade beside him, and said: "In the past two months, Draculamo and Longta have been killed by gangsters when the police were fighting crime......

After the explanation, Cao Mo smiled at Avenna: "I play cards, and occasionally play some tricks, but I have a rule, that is, the money I earn by playing tricks never falls into my own pocket - the Chinese are very superstitious, there are gods in their heads, and they don't believe that these will be retributed sooner or later!"

Liang Yuan's forehead jumped.

Cao Mo invited May, Avenna, Sturgeon, and Nsanger to leave the casino with them, and walked directly through the beach to the open-air restaurant, but no longer looked at Liang Yuan and Guo Jian.

Standing on the beach outside Lana del Rey Resort and looking out at the sunset in the distance is truly spectacular, with thousands of golden rays falling on the azure sea.

Although Avena was a little aggressive when they first met, Volkov Investment and Tianyue had a close cooperative relationship, and Tianyue had a closer relationship with the Democratic Front in Akva, with Sturgeon, May, and Nsange in the middle of the atmosphere, and everyone walked on the beach, talked and laughed, and there was no more unpleasantness.

Especially Ensang, others don't have much ability, and their temperament is frivolous, but they have a mouth that can speak well, and when they get into the girls' pile, they make the girls "giggle" and laugh.

Cao Jiaying, Wu Ruifang, and Yu Jing had already recovered from the disappointment and panic when they just got off the plane, but they didn't expect that although most of the places in Draculamo were dilapidated and dirty, the high-end resort hotels built next to the beach were not slightly worse than the five-star hotels in Xinhai.

"Mr. Cao, Abacha and Mr. Bram have arrived, and they are with Miss Tubman......" said to Little Kuski, who leaned over and whispered to Cao Mo.

"I'll come when I go!" Cao Mo patted Cheng Xi's hand and asked her to stay here to continue chatting with a group of people, and he quietly walked towards the coconut grove on the east side of the beach......