8-58 Ten dollars to buy a manor
Liu Ziguang moved the car and asked casually: "Captain Gu, the comrades in your team are very good, why is this kid so sandwiched?" ”
Gu Xiuying smiled bitterly: "He is different from us, he came to gild, he came for less than a month, if it weren't for him, we would have returned to China last month, in order to accompany the prince to study, I had to stay for a few more months, but I didn't expect this company to accompany the accident." ”
"Oh? He's very talented? ”
"It's not just that it has a lot of origin, it's quite a background, the second generation of officials, who grew up being respected since childhood, and has never suffered any setbacks, that's why they are so arrogant."
Liu Ziguang let out a long sigh of understanding, and then spat out the window again.
"Tell me, Mr. Wood, who made such a mess of you?" Liu Ziguang held the steering wheel with one hand, took out a cigarette from his jacket pocket with the other, and handed one to Wood.
"Thanks, I don't smoke this." Wood reached out and took out his pipe from his pocket, but he felt empty, so he had no choice but to take Liu Ziguang's cigarette, lit it and smoked it and said: "In the early hours of the morning, the manor called and said that something was wrong, an American was attacked, I immediately rushed back to deal with it, but I saw that the black men burned my house and killed my housekeeper, I shot them, but there were too many of them, I saved the housekeeper's youngest son and fled all the way back, and when I was about to get to the hotel, I was attacked again, and my car was also burned by them, if you didn't arrive in time." and they will definitely kill me. ”
Liu Ziguang said curiously: "They are now even starting to kill white people? ”
"Young man, Western Sadamaa is no longer a colonial, white lives are as worthless as black lives, I don't want to stay at all, I'll take the nearest flight back to Europe when I go back."
"Good luck, by the way, the American who was attacked, if his name was Anderson, is probably dead, and when we met him on the road, he had already been struck by the poisoned arrows of the natives."
"What? He's dead! Wood's eyes widened, then he shrugged his shoulders and said, "That's nothing, those blacks won't kill him just because he has a U.S. passport, in their eyes, there is no difference between Americans and Russians, poor Anderson still owes me fifty dollars." ”
"You know?" Liu Ziguang asked.
"yes, he works for an American mining exploration firm, and he's been around Africa all year round, and you know, there's a lot of places in Africa that are still in a state of wilderness, and if you dig up diamonds or gold, that's a lot of money."
"So, Anderson was exploring on your estate?"
"Theoretically, that mountain belongs to my estate, because I have an official title deed with legal effect, but in fact that barren land is occupied by a Wendu tribe, probably Anderson was killed because he provoked them, you know, these natives always have some mysterious taboos, even I can't figure it out."
While speaking, the San Juan Hotel was in front of him, seeing them return safely, the lobby manager was overjoyed, hugged Mr. Wood, and thanked Liu Ziguang, at this time the hotel lobby was already full of Caye refugees, these people dragged their children and daughters, carrying luggage, and looked around in panic, in fact, they are also people with status in Western Sadamoa, the hotel is not a refugee camp, and no money can not enter.
The San Juan Hotel is foreign-owned, and pays protection fees to the police all year round, and the usual operation at the critical moment has shown its effect, a team of police came to protect the place, prohibiting the mob from entering, and for a time the San Juan Hotel became a quiet haven in the storm, and the Caya people flocked to them, and the hotel received them as much as possible in the spirit of humanitarianism, providing them with temporary shelter and clean drinking water.
Many of the refugees were wounded and frightened, and the medical team members under the leadership of Wang Guozhong acted urgently, cleaning their wounds and applying potions, and the hotel lobby became a refugee camp, crying and sighing loudly, while the original guests gathered in the bar, discussing the current situation with grim expressions.
Before lunch began, Liu Ziguang also joined the discussion. Wood ceremoniously introduced to everyone, "Gentlemen, please allow me to introduce this valiant Chinese knight, who rescued the entire medical team from Lake Carlos last night, and who saved me from the thugs just now, thank God, thank you, Mr. Liu. ”
Everyone raised their glasses to Liu Ziguang, and one of the bearded men said in German-accented English: "Sir, you have come from Lake Carlos, and you must have heard about the escalation of the war there." ”
"When we came, government forces were massacring villagers, and the situation was terrible," Liu said. ”
The bearded man said: "In fact, Kuba's army also suffered a great loss, it is said that forty elite soldiers died, and those green berets were all Kuba's cronies, if it were not for the defeat on the battlefield, he would not have encouraged all the Wendu people to rebel." ”
Everyone interjected, everyone thought that General Kuba's regime was unstable, in order to keep the fruits of victory, this greedy and cruel butcher simply started a national war, pulled all the Wendu people into his chariot, and provoked this **** with the death of the high priest, and now the incident is getting worse, I am afraid that if it continues, even Kuba himself will not be able to end, so the best choice is to leave San Juan and leave Western Sadamoa as soon as possible.
"Don't worry, I've informed the French consulate and they said they would send a plane to pick us up." A Frenchwoman, a zoologist who studied local monkeys in Western Sadamoa, joined the discussion, and everyone knew Anna.
"How did you get in touch with the consulate?" Liu Ziguang asked her.
"The Internet, I asked them for help on the Internet, but now it doesn't work, the telephone line is broken, the network is also broken, San Juan has become an island of civilization, and there is no other way to communicate with the outside world except carrier pigeons." Anna said.
But she added: "Don't worry, since the French consulate knows about the situation here, then naturally others will also know about the international community information sharing." ”
After some discussion, the whites came up with a plan: to take a car to San Juan International Airport, where they waited for rescue planes to arrive, and if the situation in the city deteriorated again, they might not even be able to go to the airport.
When lunch time came, everyone poured into the restaurant to eat, and the white people's food was still abundant, sea fish, lobster, steak, red wine, and the refugees in the lobby only had soy sauce soaked rice to eat, and this kind of food was still given by the restaurant, because most of these refugees had lost their property and were penniless.
In the restaurant, black waiters in tuxedos and white gloves politely shuttle back and forth, serving a large dish to the guests, and the white people whisper while enjoying the food, sipping red wine, playing the piano to the soothing and smooth blue Danube, and if it were not for the faint sound of gunfire in the distance, it would be a corner of some high-end hotel in Europe.
Liu Ziguang stood on the top floor of the hotel, looking down on the city of San Juan in the midst of the riots, there was thick smoke and fire everywhere, the roads were blocked by burning cars, the black smoke from burning tires covered the sky, groups of thugs looted everywhere, killing people and setting fires, and from time to time the sound of continuous automatic rifle fire came, it seemed that the soldiers finally couldn't bear it anymore and joined the ranks of looting.
The road to the airport is full of difficulties, the most terrible thing is those red-eyed mobs, in their eyes, white people are rich people with thousands of pockets, they dare not do evil under the rule of law, but in this anarchy everyone's courage will be infinitely magnified, I am afraid that it is not a good choice to go out at this time.
But the white people did not hesitate, and after the meal they boarded the hotel bus with their luggage, and a kind wife persuaded the medical team to go with them, but the captain of the valley pointed to the wounded all over the ground and said: "My patients are here, I cannot leave them behind." ”
"God bless you." The wife made a cross on her chest and got into the car.
"Bruce, aren't you going to go with you either?" Mr. Wood asked, carrying a large bag.
"I'm with them, yes, thank you for the gun." Mr. Lau said that Mr. Wood had given him the shotgun, along with two boxes of No. 12 bullets.
"If you insist on staying here, I have something for you." Mr. Wood put down his bag and pulled out a folder containing a stack of printed papers.
"Sign here, and Wood Manor will be yours, dear friend."
Liu Ziguang raised his eyebrows: "I don't quite understand, Mr. Wood, are you saying that you want to sell the manor to me?" ”
"Yes, Bruce, I should sell you rather than leave it to those scoundrels, my plantation is the largest and best in Western Sadamoa."
"However, I'm afraid I don't have that interest, and besides, I don't have that much money." Liu Ziguang said in embarrassment, but suddenly thought of those black ores, and his heart thumped.
"How much money do you have?" George. Wood asked nonchalantly.
"Probably...... I'll see, 10,000 pesos. Liu Ziguang took out a crumpled banknote from his trouser pocket and said that this banknote is only worth about ten yuan if it is converted into * RMB.
"Enough, I'll sell the estate to you for ten thousand pesos, and if you agree, I'll get a lawyer to testify now, and I think Mr. Douglas and Mr. House must be more than willing to testify to our deal."
Liu Ziguang shrugged his shoulders, made a look of indifference and said, "Since you insist, why not?" ”
"Great, I'll call them over." Old George danced with joy, and called two well-dressed white men over and gave them a brief introduction to the situation, and both agreed, but they had to be quick, for they were still in a hurry.
George. Wood spread out his contract and said, "It's been months since this contract was drawn up, and I haven't found the right person to sell, and now God has me met you, Bruce. Mr. Liu, you must be a good plantation owner, by the way, your name is signed here, can you show your passport? ”
Liu Ziguang took out his passport and took a cursory look at the contract, in fact, he couldn't read the Portuguese on the contract at all, but his intuition told him that there should be no problem with the contract.
The contract stated that the transaction amount was 10,000 West Sadamacan pesos, and a map of the plantation was attached, and a look at the scale showed that the estate was shockingly large, and Liu Ziguang took the pen and signed his name, and then Mr. Wood signed his name.
The two lawyers notarized the transaction, signed the contract, shook hands and left, Mr. Wood patted Liu Ziguang on the shoulder and said, "Good luck, my friend." ”
"I wish you a nice trip. Mr. Wood. Liu Ziguang smiled and waved goodbye to them.
Wood boarded the bus with his big bag, and when he sat down, the lawyer Douglas, who had just done a notarization, lifted his glasses and said, "George, don't you think it's too black-hearted." ”
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