Chapter 189 Too Far from Heaven, Too Close to the United States
Lin Xiong looked at Qin Zijun, thought about it and didn't refuse, and said to Qin Zijun: "Remember to buy some fruit." β
The two went to the hospital together, Wang Ba had already been discharged, he was waiting for Pang Yu at the gate of the hospital, and shouted loudly after seeing Pang Yu: "Lin Xiong! I will help you keep an eye on Brother Tai during this time, he has long been out of danger of life, and now he can get out of bed and walk around temporarily, I will take you to see him." β
Qin Zijun stared at Wang Ba with some curiosity, she obviously heard that Wang Ba was rushing to send Lin Xiong to prison for the purpose, why did she seem to be very polite to Lin Xiong now.
Lin Xiong and Wang Ba talked to each other and walked into the hospital like old friends for many years, Tai Ge was lying on the bed, first saw Wang Ba enter the room, he immediately mocked: "Why are you here again?!
Wang Ba replied without thinking: "I can't wait to break your body into ten thousand pieces! Of course I don't have a good heart!"
Immediately after Lin Xiong walked into the ward, Brother Tai saw Lin Xiong immediately sit up from the bed, and respectfully shouted to Lin Xiong: "Brother Xiong!"
Lin Xiong found a place to sit down, and Wang Ba walked to the head of Brother Tai's bed and ate all the food that others gave Brother Tai unceremoniously.
Brother Tai was very dissatisfied and accused Wang Ba: "When are you going to leave?!"
Unexpectedly, Wang Ba didn't care about it, and responded mockingly: "I won't get out if I don't you off." β
Brother Tai angrily picked up an apple and threw it at Wang Ba, Wang Ba caught it with one hand, and took out an apple from the fruit basket to feed himself indifferently.
Lin Xiong stepped forward and said to Brother Tai: "Brother Tai, Brother Long has been arrested, and he and his accomplices will be sentenced soon. β
"Are our people alright?" asked Brother Tai with concern.
"Don't worry, He Shuai and Jiang Baicheng are out, our people are fine, the doctor said that you can prepare to be discharged from the hospital during this time, and when you are discharged, accompany me to have two drinks." Lin Xiong comforted Brother Tai.
Brother Tai laughed and responded: "Brother Xiong, then you have to be ready, the doctor has not allowed me to drink alcohol during this time, and I can't be thirsty." β
Lin Xiong laughed and chatted casually with Brother Tai.
Time flies, Lin Xiong has been in the ward for more than two hours, he looked at his watch, the time is not early, so Lin Xiong said goodbye to Brother Tai and left the ward.
Wang Ba said to Brother Tai, who was reluctant: "I'll send Lin Xiong." β
Qin Zijun walked silently behind the two of them, and waited until he walked outside the hospital, and Wang Ba returned to the hospital.
By the time Wang Ba left, Lin Xiong had already seen Qin Zijun's exuberant curiosity, and he smiled: "You must want to ask why, Wang Ba obviously hates us, but he is so close to Brother Tai." β
Qin Zijun nodded busily, as soon as she entered the door, she was extremely curious about Wang Ba's approach.
Lin Xiong explained with a smile: "Wang Ba was full of hatred for us before, but after Wang Ba and Brother Tai got along for a long time, he gradually understood what we did before, and he also knew that his brother went to prison completely by himself, so now Wang Ba still hates us on the surface, but in fact, the hatred has been resolved after this period of time." β
It seems that Wang Ba was completely influenced by Brother Tai.
Qin Zijun covered his mouth and snickered: "I didn't expect this Wang Ba to look like five big and three rough on the surface, but in fact he was so naΓ―ve, and he fell into Brother Tai's trap so quickly." β
Lin Xiong pointed at Qin Zijun and said, "If you let him know that he is described like this, I'm afraid he won't even be able to eat dinner in a fit of anger." β
Qin Zijun laughed dryly: "You will never let him know." β
Lin Xiong looked at the time on his watch: "It's still early, go meet Brother Long?"
"There's no need, seeing him only adds to his annoyance. Qin Zijun reminded Lin Xiong: "The charges collected by He Shuai and Jiang Baicheng are enough for him to stay in it for a few lifetimes, and the previous thing should be regarded as a stomach trouble, since it has been pulled out, then rush him away." β
"I didn't expect you to look polite, but you are reasonable, but you use, pee and fart as an analogy. Lin Xiong laughed.
Qin Zijun responded without thinking: "It's convenient for you to understand this way." β
"I don't understand very well. Lin Xiong hurriedly denied: "Or you can go and discuss with Wang Ba and them." β
The two argued for a while, sat in the car, Lin Xiong started the car and said, "Let's go to Ding Yu's residence, Lana still lives there." β
Hearing Ding Yu's name, Qin Zijun sighed and said, "This is the consequence of seeking skin with the tiger, Ding Yu was actually killed by Brother Long himself." β
"So don't be a villain. Lin Xiong didn't have much fluctuation about Ding Yu's death, and he didn't even have the pleasure of revenge, he only felt that Ding Yu's death was not a pity.
Qin Zijun agreed: "That's right, it's hard to be a villain. β
Lin Xiong drove quickly to Ding Yu's house.
Ding Yu's front door was deserted, and it seemed that because Ding Yu had offended too many people, no one came to give Ding Yu a ride.
Lin Xiong came to the door of Ding Yu's house, knocked on the door of Ding Yu's room, and after a while, Lana in pajamas came to open the door, she looked hazy, and when she opened the door, she saw that it was Lin Xiong, and instantly froze in place, shouting in an uncertain tone: "Lin Lin Xiong?"
Lin Xiong smiled at Lana, "Lana, long time no see. β
Lana felt guilty about her previous behavior, so when she saw Lin Xiong, her expression was uneasy, and she said hesitantly, "Lin Xiong, what are you doing here?"
"Of course I'm taking you home!" Lin Xiong said with a smile, and Qin Zijun was also staring at Lana's actions from behind.
Hearing Lin Xiong say this, Lana's expression became even more embarrassed, she looked left and right, looked at Lin Xiong and said: "Lin Xiong, I didn't know that Ding Yu was that kind of person before, so it caused trouble to your life, I feel very sorry for this, I have decided to leave Zhongxing Entertainment and go back to the United States." β
Hearing Lana say this, Lin Xiong hurriedly admonished: "Don't Lana! Ding Yu is Ding Yu, you are you, you had a good impression of Ding Yu before, so follow Ding Yu, I don't blame you, this is a problem between me and Ding Yu, and it has nothing to do with you." β
Hearing Lin Xiong say this, Lana lowered her head and pondered for a moment.
Qin Zijun also said on the side: "Yes, Lana, why do you care about the matter between men, your songs are popular all over the world, bringing a lot of benefits to the stars and entertainment, how can Lin Xiong dare to offend you!"
Lin Xiong also laughed and said: "That's right, it's too late for you, pack up your things, don't live here, I'll take you home." β
Seeing Lin Xiong's sincere face, Lana finally made up her mind, she nodded and walked towards the house: "You guys wait for me, I'll pack my things and come out immediately!"
Lin Xiong and Qin Zijun glanced at each other, and the two looked at each other and smiled.
Lana quickly packed her bags and hurried out of the room.
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Luo Hao has been very uncomfortable recently, the imported avocados have not caused ripples in the market, some avocados cannot be sold at all, and even some avocados are piled up in the warehouse, and no one comes to buy them.
Luo Hao thought about how to deal with this batch of avocados, otherwise he would lose a lot.
However, this morning, the assistant came with good news, avocado sales in coastal cities have increased by leaps and bounds, and it seems that some people have increased the publicity of avocados, which has made the public's love for avocados rise sharply, and even the supply exceeds demand in the coastal areas.
Luo Hao immediately ordered the avocados he had hoarded in his hands to be sent to the coast for sale.
The sales of avocados on the coast skyrocketed, which was supposed to be a good thing, but Luo Hao was not happy, because at noon, he received another threatening letter from Shenhai City.
Have mixed feelings.
The content of the letter demanded that Luo Hao immediately stop selling avocados in Shenhai City, otherwise the other party would kill Luo Hao at all costs.
Although it was just a simple sentence, Luo Hao, who was now in the shadow of the bow and snake, felt that things were not so simple, and he believed what the letter said.
Luo Hao's assistant comforted Luo Hao on the side: "Brother Hao, it's just a letter." β
Luo Hao was flustered about this because of his previous experience, so although the assistant reminded Luo Hao that this was just an unsurprising threatening letter, Luo Hao still felt scared for no reason.
He was pacing back and forth in the room, Luo Hao was very nervous, after thinking about it, he said to the assistant affirmatively: "You go to drive, let's go see Lin Xiong together!"
The assistant asked with a little confusion: "Brother Hao, why do you want to find Lin Xiong?"
"Lin Xiong is now the leader of Dragon City, if you don't tell him these things, wait until Lin Xiong knows, you can have our good fruit to eat. "Luo Hao has obviously regarded the current Lin Xiong as the backbone of the Dragon City.
The assistant said with a little complaint: "But it's so late, Brother Hao, it's not too late to go to Lin Xiong tomorrow!"
"If you don't want to go, then stay here!" Luo Hao was a little angry, and now he didn't even listen to his assistant's instructions.
The assistant muttered, "I'm just worried about you, Brother Hao." β
"I'm worried about it, so I'll hurry up and prepare the car! My intuition tells me that this letter is not small, and I have to find a backer!" Luo Hao always felt uneasy, and he told the assistant what he thought.
Seeing that Luo Hao was so nervous, the assistant could only rush to prepare the car.
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Lin Xiong and Qin Zijun took Lana back to the villa, Lana looked very guilty along the way, and did not say a word, Qin Zijun tried his best to fight Lana to speak, so as not to be silent Lana, but obviously, Lana did not want to communicate too much, she responded to Qin Zijun with a perfunctory attitude.
In the end, Qin Zijun was not interested in chatting with Lana anymore.
After bringing Lana back to the villa, Lin Xiong said to Lana: "You continue to sleep in that room, just go directly to Auntie if you need anything." β
Lana nodded, carrying her luggage back to her room.
Lin Xiong and Qin Zijun sat on the sofa and talked about Huawei.
Qin Zijun asked Lin Xiong a little strangely: "I still don't understand why you said that remark in the meeting room." β
"Maybe I always put the country first in my heart. Lin Xiong said unceremoniously, Qin Zijun is not a traverser, she will not know that other countries will blockade our mobile phone market in the future, preventing it from turning into a manufacturing chip.
Qin Zijun really didn't understand, after hearing Lin Xiong's words, Qin Zijun said with a smile: "To be honest Lin Xiong, you are the first entrepreneur I have seen who put the country first, although the previous entrepreneurs will more or less talk about patriotism, but their real purpose is actually to use the guise of patriotism to achieve interests." β
Lin Xiong smiled and asked, "Do you think I'm also such a person?"
"No! quite the opposite. Wei Mengjia immediately explained: "On the contrary, it is what you say that makes it more real and credible!"
"But everybody thought I couldn't do it. Lin Xiong is a little helpless, the status quo is indeed the case, if you want to independently manufacture it into a chip, it is even more difficult than ascending to the sky.
Qin Zijun encouraged Lin Xiong and said: "Maybe I don't believe others doing this, but if you want to do it, I believe you can definitely achieve it!"
Lin Xiong smiled: "Thank you for your trust." β
Qin Zijun stood up, and Lin Xiong suddenly asked, "I think it's a little strange, why are you still wearing the pajamas that your ex-boyfriend bought for you?"
Hearing her ex-boyfriend, Qin Zijun's eyes dimmed, the joy just now was swept away, suppressing the curiosity in his heart, Lin Xiong immediately diverted the topic: "How long have you not had a good rest?"
"Huh?" Hearing Lin Xiong's question, Qin Zijun raised his fingers and counted carefully: "Since I came to you, after being arranged to work by you, I began to work all year round, and the salary you gave was quite high, so I also admitted it all year round." β
"Then you can rest tomorrow and don't have to go to the company. Lin Xiong didn't expect that he was so unconscionable, and he didn't notice that Qin Zijun hadn't rested for a long time.
Qin Zijun denied: "No need, if you don't let me work, I feel that life is boring, and I have to sign a takeaway APP research and development contract with the operator tomorrow, and I can't rest!"
Before the smartphone went on sale, he applied for a network technology company, named Zhongxing Network, and explained to his programmers all kinds of mobile APP research, similar to takeaway platforms, taxi platforms and various online short video platforms.
Lin Xiong must seize the opportunity! Be the first to wipe out all these markets.
"Whatever you want, since you don't want to rest, it's up to you to decide and give you a salary increase, lest you say that the unscrupulous boss will deduct you. β
Hearing Lin Xiong say this, Qin Zijun couldn't hide her smile, and she said happily: "I never said that you are an unscrupulous boss, you think so yourself!"
Lin Xiong nodded hurriedly: "Mmmmmmmm, it's me who feels guilty." β
As he was talking, a bodyguard outside entered the house, and he said respectfully beside Lin Xiong: "Brother Xiong, Luo Hao is here." β
Seeing that it was getting dark outside, Lin Xiong asked a little strangely: "What is he doing so late?" Although he was puzzled, Lin Xiong hurriedly said: "Hurry up and invite him in." β
The bodyguard understood, turned around and went out to invite Luo Hao into the house.
As soon as Luo Hao entered the house, he immediately bowed his hand to Lin Xiong: "Brother Xiong, I haven't seen you for a long time!
"It's not bad!" Lin Xiong responded politely.
Luo Hao saw Qin Zijun standing behind Lin Xiong, Lin Xiong found Luo Hao's gaze, and immediately smiled and said: "It's all my own people, it doesn't hurt to say anything." β
Luo Hao nodded: "Brother Xiong! Some time ago, I was engaged in avocado sales, and there was a great demand for avocados in coastal cities, and my business was booming, but just today, my people received an anonymous letter. β
Luo Hao took out the anonymous letter from his pocket and handed it to Lin Xiong.
Lin Xiong opened the letter and read it carefully from top to bottom.
After reading the contents of the letter, Lin Xiong folded the letter, he squinted slightly, looked at Luo Hao and asked, "Do you have any business opponents recently?!"
"Brother Xiong! Since the last incident, I have been keeping a low profile, and the Luo family is now working under you, of course I don't dare to provoke other people, so I immediately rushed to you after receiving this letter!" Luo Hao is now more like a vassal under Lin Xiong.
Lin Xiong nodded, he didn't accuse Luo Hao, he thought about it quickly in his mind, and remembered some news about avocados in his previous life.
Due to the publicity of avocados, the price of avocados has skyrocketed, because of the harsh conditions of avocado planting, so the world is basically imported from Mosukgo.
However, as we all know, Mosucko is a city surrounded by drugs, and it is rich in all kinds of poisons.
There are also a lot of mercenaries here, fighting each other because of the poison.
At present, Brother Mo's drug trafficking group has more than 100,000 troops, and you must know that the number of troops in the hands of Brother Mo's ** army is only about 130,000, this comparison is simply a naked irony. It can be said that being a police officer in Mosago is a more dangerous existence than being a mercenary in the Middle East. Once his identity is revealed, it is not only himself who suffers, but his family will also be dealt with by this group of vicious gangsters.
There are countless things about the wreckage officials of this country, too far from heaven and too close to the United States, this is a true portrayal of Brother Mosu.
However, it was not long before these ruthless drug dealers discovered that producing avocados was more profitable than selling them.
In recent years, the global demand for avocados has led to a rise in prices, with profits per acre exceeding those of the plant.
Mosukco is the world's largest producer of avocados, supplying more than 30% of the world's avocados. In the state of MichoacΓ‘n in Mosucko, there is a small town called Tancitaro known as the "Avocado Capital of the World". In 2016, the town, with a population of just 30,000, generated more than $1.5 billion in revenue for Mosucko.
Such high profits are fatal to the attraction of criminal groups. In order to support their own drug smuggling activities, drug trafficking organizations extort and extort fruit farmers, taking a cut from various production links such as picking, packaging, and sales, and kidnapping and murdering those who do not accept it, and even directly robbing avocado orchards and burning avocado packaging factories. According to BBC News, the Knights Templar, a local criminal organization, was able to scavenge $150 million a year from the avocado business, more than five times their drug trafficking revenue.
In addition, the avocado tree is an extremely water-intensive plant, and hundreds of thousands of liters of water in a standard swimming pool are only enough for four avocado trees in a year. And an avocado tree takes 3-5 years to bear fruit.
Therefore, the benefits of the blood shed behind the avocado are comparable to those of the "blood diamond".
According to Lin Xiong's memory of his previous life, there is no reason for avocado to become popular so quickly, and after thinking about it, Lin Xiong is also a little relieved, after all, many things have happened in advance, and it seems that his appearance has caused changes in the world line.
So after seeing this letter, Lin Xiong quickly realized that the group competing with Luo Hao to sell avocados was even more arrogant and complicated than Brother Long, and he didn't want to get into these troubles for no reason, so Lin Xiong reminded Luo Hao: "It's best to stop selling avocados, the people in Shenhai City can't afford to mess with them." β
Luo Hao lowered his head and thought about it, and seemed to have made a big decision and nodded: "Brother Xiong! β
However, the assistant who came with Luo Hao said with some resentment: "Brother Xiong! We respect you as the number one enterprise in Longcheng, so we came to tell you about the crisis we encountered, but you directly told us to stop! Forgive me for not convincing! Before this, we purchased, imported, and sold, which did not cost anything? Now that the avocado market is prosperous, you suddenly asked us to stop selling! Who will bear the loss!"
The assistant was right, Lin Xiong said a word, but Luo Hao had to lose a lot of money.
Luo Hao blackened his face to stop the assistant from saying, "Shut up!"
The assistant muttered in a low voice: "I even suspect that Brother Xiong is making trouble behind your back, and you don't want us to get benefits." β
The assistant's words made Lin Xiong curious and funny, and he responded simply: "This matter really has nothing to do with me, your avocados are imported from Brother Mo, right? D dealers are rampant over there, because the world's pursuit of avocados has led to more profitable avocados than drug P, so many D dealers have changed to avocados, but they still use bullets to speak like they used to sell D, I don't need to say the stakes here, you should be able to think clearly, those poisonous people who kill people without blinking, they even dare to kill President Mo Sugo!"
Luo Hao's face was complicated, what Lin Xiong said was indeed right, and he understood it in his own heart.