Afghanistan, the dusty pearl of Central Asia. This country is rich in minerals, but its citizens live the most unhappy life in the world. The capital, Kabul City, is known as the City of Fruit and is one of the highest capitals in the world.

The Eynak vein in the mountains south of Kabul has the world's third-largest copper reserves, the world's fifth-largest iron ore reserves, and the world's largest gold reserves, as well as the production of rare minerals such as mica and emeralds. Since the mid-to-late nineties, farmers have been investing in mining here. With the investment of a large number of manpower and material resources, initial results have been achieved so far.

Since the outbreak of the war on terror launched by the United States, the country's resources have become the object of competition among the resource-scarce world powers. Because of the early start of the farmer in this area, he was able to occupy a mineral vein with rich reserves, convenient transportation and rich human resources. This has also made them the target of public criticism, and the consortiums interested in making a big difference here are eyeing the vein owned by the farmer.

A convoy of fifteen Hummer jeeps crossed the central street in the south of the city and stopped in front of the gate of Nong's Mine. The door of the first car was wide open, and Ye Haodong stretched out his legs and stepped out of the car. Taking off his sunglasses, he squinted at the Islamic-style building in front of him, and with a casual move behind him, the doors of the fifteen jeeps opened together, and Poly just took the elite men and horses composed of sixty people trained by Huzi to get out of the car and silently gathered behind Ye Haodong.

A Humvee jeep with the flag of the United States drove from a distance, stopped in front of Ye Haodong's jeep, and a man with the rank of colonel got out of the car and came to Ye Haodong, smiling and introducing himself: "I am Colonel Gregory of the United States Embassy in Kabul" Ye Haodong waved his hand to interrupt him and said in Chinese: "I can't understand English, if you want to communicate with me, you must learn Chinese first, otherwise, you go back and tell your superiors to send someone who can understand me to come over, Your Councillor Carr and Speaker Max can speak good Mandarin, and you should learn from them. ”

"Contemptible Gregory? Max, Speaker Max is my cousin, your good friend Mark? Max is my cousin, this is the special pass and weapon carrying permit you need, and as a member of the Max family, I am very happy to meet you, a good friend of the Max family. "This colonel of the United States speaks Mandarin very well, far better than his cousin Mark, Ye Haodong gave him a score of four in his heart.

Ye Haodong came over in person, firstly because he valued Nong Junting, and secondly, to ensure that the secret transaction with the Huaxia Republic was foolproof. The East and West were transported from Tel Aviv, and Kandahar and Kabul were the places where warlords and other nations fought each other.

Since the days of the Soviet invasion, the country's transportation situation has been a worrying one. Due to years of war damage, there is a serious shortage of infrastructure such as roads and railways. There were very few roads in the whole country that could be traversed by vehicles, and the limited resources of highways, after the outbreak of war, became the arteries of the country's economic and military activities, and the United States implemented military traffic control for this purpose. In short, without a special pass issued by the United States and the United Nations, it is illegal to smuggle a screw in this country.

Ye Haodong took a stack of special passes handed over by Gregory's hands and handed them to Polygang behind him. "Thank you for your cousin's great help for me, the friendship between you and me will last forever, Shouichi, give him what I prepared for Mr. Colonel."

Lin Shouyi said yes, then took out a check from his bosom and handed it to Gregory. This non-descendant of the Max family quickly glanced at the face value of the check, and his heart couldn't help but tremble, and he forcibly suppressed his excitement and put the check in his arms. Chong Ye Haodong gave a deep salute and said: "I am very grateful to Mr. Ye for his generosity, I sincerely wish you, may your wishes come true in this city, as the highest-ranking military attache in the embassy, I think it is necessary to remind you, please be careful of Lieutenant Colonel Cox, the Supreme Commander of the CIA in Kabul, his Dawson Councilor's people, are extremely distrustful of you, I am afraid that he will cause you some trouble, I and he are not subordinate to each other, so it is difficult to restrain him." ”

Ye Haodong smiled and thanked him and waved goodbye to Gregory. turned to Nong Junting, who had just gotten out of the car, and said, "Sister, guess why I don't like to learn English?" ”

Nong Junting glanced at Jiang Lan, who was still cleaning up her clothes that had just been messed up by Ye Haodong when she was messing around in the car, and asked with a smile: "Lan Lan, you are his heart and soul treasure, you know him best, but you can talk about it." ”

Jiang Lan: "I still need to guess, this guy often hangs a sentence on his lips, money can make ghosts grind, and he will become rich to make foreign devils speak Chinese, he doesn't speak English or rely on the crooked ideas in his brain, people are begging him, so naturally he has to accommodate his language habits." ”

Nong Junting looked at Ye Haodong: "Is that so?" ”。

Ye Haodong: "That's roughly right, there is another reason she didn't say, the Han culture is broad and profound, and she has been extremely poor all her life, and the person who can comprehend it is only the tip of the iceberg, how can I waste my energy on English?" ”

Jiang Lan smiled at Nong Junting and said: "I learned a belly of crooked ideas, but unfortunately Haodong is just an example, we are too far behind, the country is too weak and the individual is too strong, it is not a good thing, this tightrope-like way of living, there is only one big boss Ye in the world, Sister Ting, you are his wife, this guy offended big people all over the world, and now people are begging him, so he has to accommodate him, and he will have no use value in the future, and he will be indispensable to trouble, guarding such a husband who can make trouble, you will have it in the future." ”

Ye Haodong walked inside, while breaking his fingers and calculating: "Mitsui and Yamaguchi-gumi, who offended the little devils in Canada; offended the FBI in the United States; Now I'm told that the CIA doesn't like me either; In the export of minerals, I have offended all the traders in Europe and the forces behind them; In Russia, on the assassination list of Wozesson, Lao Tzu is at the top of the list; Northern Energy Group regards me as a thorn in the side because of the competition between Far East Haotian Energy and them in terms of mining rights; In the equity transfer incident of Hualong clothing, Luo Baolong's father and son also offended me very much; Domestically, I offended red magnates like the Yang family and the Zhao family; Seriously, it's a miracle that I'm still fucking alive in this world, don't you think? ”

Nong Junting frowned when she heard this, and her face was worried. Jiang Lan chuckled: "Sister, don't listen to what he says scary, he is the most cunning, he offends people on the one hand, and at the same time forms alliances with many big forces, he is safe, in Canada he became the leader of the red stick of Hongmen, the Yamaguchi group naturally did not dare to treat him, in the United States he is a hardcore ally with the Max family, and has close contacts with many high-level politicians in the United States, it is not so easy for the FBI and CIA to deal with him, it is even simpler in Russia, his good buddy Zhang Tianpeng, Now he is the largest Chinese businessman in Russia in Russia, and Ayeshyev, the senior assistant to the iron-fisted leader of Russia, is a good friend of the partner, and there are Russian military and police guards in and out, as for the country, there is you, the eldest lady from a red capitalist, as his wife, and Xie Fuyun, the proud daughter of the emerging political family, is willing to be his ****, the forces behind your two families are supporting him, and even our Director Peng has stood up to speak for him, so don't you send me to protect him closely. ”

Nong Junting was relieved by what she said, and teased her: "It's really close." ”

Ye Haodong, Yang Junhu, Poly Gang and Lin Shouyi, four brothers, seven people sat in Nong Weiyi's office to discuss the matter of finding Nong Weiyi. Nong Junting washed her head briefly inside, wiped her hair, and walked into the office.

"Lithium mines?" Ye Haodong took a new mineral resource report issued by an engineer from Nong's Mining a month ago, and asked Nong Junting in surprise: "Is this report reliable?" ”。

Nong Junting: "Of course, the person who issued this report is a well-known mineral expert in our country, and the Qiao family in Jin Province knows that these experts are all invited from their family. ”

Ye Haodong: "Such a large reserve, even the United States will be tempted, battery energy is the foundation of the electronics industry, is the future development direction of new energy in the automobile manufacturing industry, such a large lithium reserves, coveted it must be indispensable." ”

Several people discussed for a long time, but they had no clue, Ye Haodong decided to follow the original plan first, and let Gangzi lead people to pick out important people from the suspicious forces tomorrow and get a few back.

At night, the moon is empty. Ye Haodong sat on a recliner on the roof of the building, enjoying the night view of Kabul. Jiang Lan and Nong Junting were on the left and right, lying on the other two chairs to accompany him.

The full moon is like a disk, it is the middle of the seventh month of the Chinese lunar calendar, the Ghost Festival. The nights in Kabul are cool and somewhat shaded.

"Homesick?" Nong Junting's face had the brilliance of intellectual beauty, and her gentle gaze fell on Ye Haodong's face.

Ye Haodong nodded, "Today is Halloween, I miss my father, when my father was alive in the past, every day I had to take our brothers and sisters to prepare to burn paper and send money to the deceased elders, at that time there was a big copper coin at home, my father used it to pad, smashed a money mark on the yellow paper, and then led us to find a crossroads to burn these papers, at that time I felt that this thing was very stupid, knowing that people die like lights going out, this paper will be burned and there will be ashes, how can anyone come to withdraw money, so I don't understand, I always want to find an excuse not to go, Dad doesn't allow it, also said, is it still a Chinese person if you don't burn paper for your ancestors? Burning paper is not to give money, but to remind us that we must not forget our roots, without our ancestors there would be no us! This is the tradition of the Chinese people, and now when I think of him in a foreign land, it is really like this. ”

Jiang Lan was dressed in a white nightdress, barefoot, lying on the chair and indecently raising a pair of cute little feet, ten white as jade toes swaying, like a dancing beauty in the Moon Palace, and like a poet shaking his head. "When is the bright moon, ask the wine to the sky, I don't know how many miles to win; I lived for twenty-four years, hated my father for twenty years, and finally I was told that he was a hero, nameless! Yin and sunny are full of joys and sorrows, life is short, it is not worth living in hatred, I really regret it, stinky man, how about we go and burn paper for the two fathers together? ”

Ye Haodong turned over and stood up, and shouted downstairs: "Huzi, call Gangzi to take a few people, prepare the car, find an intersection, let's burn paper." ”

Nong Junting hurriedly stopped him: "There is a curfew here, you go out and set fire like this, it is terrible to be regarded as a Taliban, besides, this is not Huaxia, where can you find paper to burn?" ”

Ye Haodong: "Who said that you have to burn paper, didn't you say it, burning paper is also a form of sorrow, no yellow paper, don't we still have dollar bills, send some beautiful children to the dads, and avoid the risk of inflation." ”

Nong Junting tilted her head and looked at him appreciatively, and asked in a provocative tone: "What about the curfew, aren't you afraid?" ”

"The curfew of bullshit, we don't have the habit of being with foreign devils."

An intersection in the south of the city.

The burning bills were swept away by the wind, and several soldiers of the local armed forces in Kabul patrolled each holding a large handful of dollars in their hands, staring stupidly at the flames in front of them. The flames that turned the colorful paper money into ashes illuminated their faces, and their hearts, which had long been cold and numb with the fate of the country, seemed to have a bit of passion and eagerness. It was as if the flames were destroying the country of the giants that weighed down on their hearts.

Ye Haodong: "I have never been depressed, I have never hated it, although I have achieved nothing, but my father has a unique taste of living in this life, he likes to read, likes to talk rhetorically, likes to tell us the truth, he made me understand the transience and impermanence of life, how to cherish and grasp, he also taught me to straighten my waist and laugh at the joys and sorrows of life." ”

Nong Junting took his hand: "He is an amazing father, you are an amazing man, it is your luck to have such a father, and it is my luck to marry a man like you." ”

Jiang Lan squatted down and flicked the flame a few times, and the fragrance of the burning ink was plucked out by her. "Dad gave everything he had to the country, he almost never lived for himself, there was love and hate in his world, he may love his mother and us, but I believe he loved the country more, he taught me how to hate someone, but in the end it was like the money in this fire, burning life to leave us with fragrance and warmth, he told me in this way, life is like fire, burning with love, it can warm people's hearts, use hate as fuel, it will destroy people's hearts."

Ye Haodong pulled her up: "Are you tired?" ”。 Jiang Lan nodded: "I've been with you for a long time, I will feel that I am very useless, no matter what difficulties I encounter, I always think that you will have a way, I have been poisoned by you, dependence, and I can't wait to retire now." ”

Next.

East Asia Mining, Maxwell Minerals, and the West Turkistan base outside the city, were attacked on the same day. The main person in charge was taken away by the raiders during the raid. The raiders are highly skilled, well-equipped, well-targeted, and very well coordinated.