Chapter 26: Things Have Changed

  Jin Hu listened to Zhang Yi Fan's words, and followed the person who was pulling his hand to sit down beside the table. He took out a cigarette from his pocket and handed one to Zhang Yi Fan, then lit one himself. After taking a puff, he said to Zhang Yi Fan: "This thing is very expensive, it costs 1.4 million to 1.5 million per unit." The price was just something Jin Hu made up on the spot, as warships could now produce these things without consuming any energy, so the price was whatever Jin Hu said it was.

  "It's not necessary to have such good ones, having two or three decent ones is enough to save face. Can't the imitation military knives be used instead?" Zhang Yifan asked Jin Hu.

  "With the same quality as genuine products, but not cheap" Jin Hu looked at Zhang Yi Fan and said: "The US military's 1095 high-carbon steel thirty-centimeter-long bayonet I can get for $120 a piece". Jin Hu knew this price, it was what Lautrenso used to like, but now replaced by Dog Leg.

  "This price is a bit high," Zhang Yifan thought for a moment.

  "This price is fine with quality as good as genuine products."

  Zhang Yifan tapped on the table: "The price is controlled within one hundred, it can be done".

  "This is over a thousand, I estimate the price to be around one hundred US dollars." Jin Hu heard this and said to Zhang Yi Fan: "A small knife for over a thousand, will it sell well?" According to Jin Hu's thinking, who would spend over a thousand on a knife just for fun?

  Zhang Yifan pointed at Jin Hu and said: "You're underestimating the consumption capacity of our people. Those little devil companies that make cars used to look down on the domestic market, but Volkswagen seized the opportunity. Now take a look at the streets, are there more Volkswagens or devil cars?"

  Jin Hu smiled and waved his hand, saying: "I'm not a little devil, you said it's good to sell, how much do you want?"

  Zhang Yifan thought for a moment: "I need to consider this, and also get me a high-quality imitation of the steel mouthpiece at a lower price, no problem, cheaper, control the cost at around 300-400".

  "This cost is rubbish!" Jin Hu looked at Zhang Yifan and said, "This is used to look at it, cutting small trees, even cutting bones with a rolling motion."

  Zhang Yifan stared at Jin Hu and said: "What do you know about doing business? You just get this route sorted out, the rest leave it to me."

  Jin Hu nodded after listening, and said with his eyes open that Jin Hu's ability to talk nonsense was not as good as Zhang Yi Fan's. Since he said so, then do it: "Okay! I'll transport it for you later, can you get a picture of what you want, mark the bottom price on it, and I'll have the factory imitate it."

  "Alright! I'll make your bed first, and then I'll go online to find some general styles," Zhang Yifan said to Jin Hu.

  In less than five minutes, Zhang Yifan had made Jin Hu's bed and slipped into his own room to start searching for pictures online.

  Jin Hu suddenly remembered he had something to attend to and walked to Zhang Yi Fan's door: "Where is the crystal produced domestically?"

  "What's the point of asking this?" Zhang Yifan looked at Jin Hu and asked.

  "I have a friend who wants to buy crystal ore, the natural kind," said Jin Hu.

  Zhang Yifan listened to Jin Hu's words and said: "How much is your friend planning to buy? I have an acquaintance in our Donghai, where the crystal business is booming."

  "Over 60,000 tons of good quality, and tens of thousands of tons of poor quality," said Jin Hu.

  "What the...!" Zhang Yifan stared at Jin Hu, who had pulled out his phone and was holding it mid-air: "What kind of friend is this that you know? This is so extravagant! This is crystal, not rice!"

  "It's not a one-time purchase, but rather in batches," Jin Hu said: "The total amount is just like this!"

  "Alright! I'll ask for you." Zhang Yifan hung up the phone and asked Jin Hu, "Do you want domestic or imported ones? The imported ones are a bit more expensive."

  "Of course it's domestic," Jin Hu said. Why buy foreign? I'm not related to them, and when buying goods, it's better to be cheap for our own people.

  After hearing Jin Hu's words, Zhang Yifan said a sentence into the phone and asked: "White or colored, colored is more expensive!"

  "White"

  Zhang Yifan hung up the phone and said to Jin Hu, "The price is around 170,000 to 180,000 per ton. However, your friend wants several thousand tons at once, which is a considerable quantity."

  "Buy slowly!" Jin Hu heard and thought for a moment before saying: "Then I'll go back first."

  Following Zhang Yifan's gesture, Jin Hu returned to his own room, lay on the bed and began to ponder this matter. If he bought it slowly, he would definitely need to rent a warehouse in China or something. After renting a warehouse, he would have to find someone to watch it. Calculating the money in his hands, he had more than 2.5 million US dollars, so he should start buying now. Just like Zhang Yifan said, crystal is not rice, and it's better to buy a few thousand tons of raw ore slowly without drawing attention.

  After a nap, Jin Hu said something to Zhang Yi Fan who was still sleeping with his head covered on the bed, then drove to the construction site. When he arrived at the entrance of the site, his former colleagues had already started working. Jin Hu parked the car at the gate and walked inside.

  He saw Old Qi pushing a cart of bricks coming towards him, Old Qi looked at Jin Hu, stunned for a moment, forgot to put down the cart, and blinked his eyes: "Little Tiger?"

  "Uncle Qi! It's been so long that you can't recognize me?" Jin Hu said with a smile to Old Qi.

  "Really a little tiger!" Old Qi put down the car in his hand, took two steps forward, looked at Jinhu and then looked at the car at the door, saying: "Little Tiger, you've made a mess of things." After that, he whispered to Jinhu: "After you left, the person who came to pick you up came back after a while looking for you, with a bad tone. The boss and his wife were both scared, saying you'd gotten into big trouble!"

  Jin Hu listened and said: "They're looking for trouble at the construction site?"

  "That's all right, just let them know as soon as you have any news," Lao Qi said to Jin Hu.

  Jin Hu looked at Lao Qi just as he was about to speak, and saw the boss's wife walking towards them. Jin Hu greeted her with a nod: "Boss's wife!"

  "Jintiger?" The boss's wife looked at Jintiger's round face with a bit of embarrassment: "You're back?" After finishing, she turned her head and shouted into the workshop: "Big niece! Bring Jintiger's things over!" Then she said to Jintiger: "Hurry up and leave, I've inquired about the person you offended, we can't afford to provoke them!"

  Jin Hu was taken aback, turned his head to look around, and the boss's wife shouted. The workers on the construction site all looked over, but when they saw him, no one came up to talk to him. A sense of strangeness emerged from his heart.

  From a small account's hand, he took over his own small package, Jin Huai hung it on his shoulder: "Then I'll be off!"

  Lao Qi took a look at Jin Hu: "I'll send you out." After finishing speaking, he followed up.

  Arriving beside the car, Jin Hu tossed the small package onto the car and pulled out a cigarette from his pocket, handing one to Old Qi: "Aren't you afraid, Uncle Qi?"

  Lao Qi took a puff of smoke: "I, an old rascal, am not afraid of him! If I don't send you off, my heart won't be at peace. Don't blame the boss and his wife, they're not afraid of fighting with some ordinary little punk, but this person has power and influence, it's not something they can handle."

  Jin Hu smiled and said, "What can I blame them for? This is all my fault anyway." After finishing speaking, he took a cigarette from the car and put it in Lao Qi's hand: "Now you won't be afraid with this."

  "It's indeed that the bold ones get to eat their fill, while the timid ones starve. You're really enjoying the best of the best by the river, 100 yuan a pack! In the past, when I was selling cigarettes, it was just for looking." Old Qi said with a smile as he looked at the cigarette.

  Jin Hu smiled and said, "I don't usually smoke this either, a friend gave me two." This was Sun Gang's gift to Jin Hu, as a return gift for the sword. After finishing speaking, Jin Hu opened the car door and got in, started the engine, and stuck his head out: "What is Yu Qin still doing here?"

  Lao Qi said: "A month ago, she was no longer here. Now she has found a local man in Linjiang. The man is very good, driving a small van to transport goods for people. The boss's wife introduced them, and they have a house in Linjiang. He doesn't mind that Yu Qian has children and treats both of them well. I've also visited the little girl twice! They're happy every day." After finishing speaking, he gave Jin Hu an address.

  Lao Qi obviously didn't know much about Jin Hu and Yu Qin, and he spilled the beans like a overturned basket of peas.

  After listening to Lao Qi's words, Jin Hu nodded: "Uncle Qi, you go back! I'm leaving" After finishing, he turned the car around and drove onto the highway.

  Lao Qi watched as the car drove away, then lit a cigarette and headed towards the dormitory. When he reached the entrance, a group of people gathered around him, looking at the cigarettes under his arm and saying: "Have one, have one".

  "Come on, fart!" Old Qi glanced at the kid who wanted to smoke: "You have the guts to come forward, it's just a cigarette!" After finishing speaking, he walked into the dormitory with his cigarette, threw it on his bed, and went downstairs to continue pushing bricks.

  Jin Hu was driving his car aimlessly, and had called Zou He Ming in the morning to arrange lunch together. Jin Hu had thought he could stay on the construction site with everyone for a while, and it wouldn't be a problem until noon, but this suddenly disrupted his plans.

  Driving aimlessly until noon, Jin Hu invited Zou He Ming to lunch at the foot of his office building.

  Jin Hu sat at a table near the door, saw Zou He Ming pushed open the door, stuck his head in the doorway, looked around, he was dressed neatly, but still had a slightly shrinking posture, and was talking to the female waitress by the door.

  "Crane's cry!" Jin Hu raised his hand and beckoned towards the doorway.

  Zou He Ming heard Jin Hu's voice and a smile appeared on his face as he ran over: "Ge, Tiger!"

  As Zou He Ming sat down in front of him, with a joyful smile on his face, Jin Hu asked: "Has anyone ever asked you about me?"

  "Ah!" Zou He Ming said to Jin Hu: "A few months ago someone asked, I said I didn't know, and they left."

  "Aren't you afraid? They are powerful," Jin Hu looked at him and asked with a smile.

  Zou He Ming listened and blinked his eyes: "Tiger brother, what you want to do must be something you're confident about, what's there for me to be afraid of?" His face still had a hint of confusion.

  Jin Hu listened and smiled, handing over the menu in his hand: "You order! Whatever you want to eat, just point!"

  "Hmm!" He said, looking at the menu and ordering. Jin Hu heard that he had ordered neither green vegetables nor seaweed, and smiled, saying: "Let me do it instead." He beckoned to the waiter, flipped through the menu, reported four or five dish names, and finished ordering.

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