Chapter 35: The Prelude Unfolds

  The next morning, Jin Hu and Ding Xianhu each drove a car, taking Zhang Yifan and five other mountain pumpkin eggs to Nan Yun, which is one of the coastal cities in Jiangbian Province and is separated from the metropolis of Hai City by only one river. However, economically, it was much worse than Hai City, not to mention that it was also inferior to several other prefecture-level cities in Jiangbian Province, barely able to enter the top six. In the past, when smuggling cars were hot, but after cracking down on smuggling, they fell into depression again.

  This time, the car arrived at a place that was not on the outskirts of the city, but rather in a small town under a county below. The town was not small, it was five or six times larger than Jin Hu's old home at the foot of the mountain. Everywhere you could see residential areas, which were much more prosperous than Jin Hu's old home.

  Two cars drove through the town and continued for nearly half an hour before arriving at their destination, not on the side of the highway, but along the highway and further down, a narrow stone road that could barely accommodate two cars led to the entrance of the warehouse. The leading Ding Xianhu pressed the horn in front of the gate, and an old man opened the gate, allowing the two cars to drive in one after the other.

  Zhang Yifan jumped down from the car and pointed at Ding Jiantu, saying: "You can also call this a warehouse?"

  Jin Hu looked up and took a rough measurement, the place was quite large, with a length and width of over 100 meters. However, calling it a warehouse was a bit exaggerated. It was just a row of houses along the north wall, about ten or so flat-roofed buildings. The four sides were surrounded by walls over two meters high, with sharp broken glass inserted on top. In the middle of the courtyard were two rows of corrugated iron roofs, some of which had been damaged and had large holes exposed.

  "Steel materials, this is just a transit place. When business is good, it's delivered here and transferred to customers within four or five days. There's no need to build a big house." Ding Jiantao explained with a smile to Zhang Yifan, then handed out cigarettes to Zhang Yifan and Jin Hu, saying to the five young men: "Who wants one?"

  Jin Hu did not expect that the five little ones would actually come forward, each taking out a cigarette from the pack and looking at Jin Hu with their eyes. Dan Bao said: "Learning is tight! From time to time, take a puff to refresh your mind!"

  "This is nonsense," Jin Hu turned his head and said to Ding Jianhu: "Take us to that house over there to take a look."

  Ding Jianhu listened and lifted his foot, taking Jin Hu and a group of people to the back. They arrived at the door of a room, pushed it open, and inside was a space of about 20 square meters. It was empty and spotless, with gray cement floor that could be seen clearly at a glance.

  Ding Jian saw Hu wearing a Jinhu and looked at all the rooms, the last one was a kitchen.

  "This place doesn't even have electricity?" Zhang Yifan touched a switch and looked at the light bulb on his head.

  "There's electricity! How can there be no electricity?" Ding Jiantao said, and then went to open it. Then he turned his head to the door of the house and shouted at the small delivery room: "Old Hu! Close the main switch."

  After waiting for three or four minutes, the light bulb in his head lit up: "You see, electricity has arrived!"

  Zhang Yifan looked at Jin Hu and said: "What do you think?"

  Jintiger thought it was not bad, the crystal could be placed in the courtyard, this thing is not afraid of water, and it would be fine to cover it with an oilcloth. After thinking for a moment, Jintiger asked: "Let's go take another look at the seaside!"

  With a few more people arriving at the seaside, Jin Hu was even more satisfied. The coastline here is all undulating small stone hills, and no one's shadow can be seen for half a day.

  Back from the seaside, Jin Hu arrived at the courtyard and said to Ding Jianhu: "Then it's here, how much is the annual rent?"

  "1.5 million!"

  "Why don't you go rob?" Zhang Yifan pointed around and said: "This rotten place isn't even worth 1.5 million when sold!"

  Ding saw the tiger cry and said with a sad face: "I say brother! You are my own brother! Can't this land be sold for 1.5 million?"

  "1.5 million for three years is about right!" Zhang Yifan said to Ding Jiantao: "Look at this place, just the row of small houses in the back, at most it's over 100,000 to build, and it was built on a rocky beach, 1.5 million for three years isn't too little".

  Ding Jian saw Zhang Yifan and glanced at him, then turned to face Zhang Yifan and said: "If the knife business can be negotiated, I'll give this land to my friend Jin Hu for free. Five million a year is really not worth renting! Big brother!"

  Zhang Yifan looked at Ding Jiantao and said, "Don't try to probe anymore, if Jinhu says he'll get it for you, he definitely will!" Zhang Yifan thought of Jinhu asking him if he wanted to sell M4s on a large scale, and getting some machine tool knives: "You're still talking about sending it in this rotten place? Be more straightforward, old master's house."

  "That's it! Today I'll take a loss, who made me have fate with Jinhu?" Ding Jiantiger said to the two: "Let's go! We'll find a place in town to sign the contract and eat on the way."

  Jin Hu looked at the gatekeeper and said to Ding Jianhu: "I don't want this gatekeeper! You arrange for him to go somewhere else!"

  After hearing Jin Hu's words, Ding Jianhu said with difficulty: "I think you'd better keep him, a lame old man won't cost you much money, 500 or 600 yuan is enough to get rid of him".

  Jin Hu looked at Zhang Yifan and said seriously: "Everyone here is someone I trust, if others come, I won't let them stay! If they do, I'm afraid I'll end up burying them in the sea, don't blame me!"

  Ding Jianhu heard this and shuddered all over, forcing a smile on his face: "Then I'll go tell Old Hu to go work on that side now." After saying that, he turned around and walked towards the delivery room.

  Zhang Yifan said to Jin Hu, "You've smuggled so many people across this border, it's like you haven't seen anything at all." Then he leaned in close and said, "Cars may not be smuggled anymore, but motorcycles are still being smuggled quite a bit."

  "I don't trust outsiders, it's better to use our own people," Jin Hu said with a shake of his head. It wasn't just about smuggling goods over, the guns used by the young ones for training also needed to be transported, and those weren't toys, but real deal firearms. You couldn't just leave them anywhere, not at this time when you couldn't afford to be too kind. He turned his head to glance at the door of the transmission room, where Ding Jian was chatting with the old man.

  Half an hour later, the old man carried his own package out of the gate and walked along the stone road towards the main road. Ding Xiantao took back the key and handed it to Jinhu.

  Jin Hu handed over the key and turned to give it to Shan Bao: "Take it, when you arrive at the town, go buy a few more locks, and also lock the doors inside."

  Before he could finish speaking, Zhang Yifan asked Jin Hu: "Are you moving in today?"

  "Of course," Jin Hu said, looking at Zhang Yifan, "just go to the town now and buy some furniture, and we'll take care of the rest later."

  Zhang Yifan nodded after listening.

  These few people got on the car and arrived at the town, Ding Xianhu directly took them to a restaurant, after eating, they naturally went shopping for furniture in the town. Jin Hu added two high-rise beds to each room, Wang Jun's room had a double bed, and all kinds of electrical appliances were bought in a big procurement, and they were delivered directly to the place.

  Zhang Yifan and Ding Jiantiger returned to Jianglin in the afternoon, while Jinhu brought five little ones to start cleaning up. They were busy until nightfall, and now the place was like a person's home, with everything they needed. As for cooking, which of the mountain children didn't know how?

  Ma Yào went to the kitchen, and in more than half an hour, two large basins of meat dishes and rice were on the table. A group of young men holding bowls looked at Jin Hu, who smiled and said: "What are you looking at me for? Do you want me to give orders before you eat?"

  After hearing Jin Hu say that, the few kids directly started moving, each with a large bowl of rice, grabbing big chunks of meat and gnawing on them. The days spent in the mountains were tough, and being able to eat pork once a week was already not bad. It's just that they ate more rabbit and things like that, but wild rabbits didn't have much fat either.

  Looking at several young men eating with their heads down, Jin Hu said: "Every day is like this, don't eat too much at once." After finishing speaking, he poured some meat soup into his bowl and mixed it with rice. Just as he picked up the bowl, the phone in his pocket rang, and he took it out to answer it.

  "Everything is fine here, where are you?"

  Jin Hu was taken aback by Wang Jun's words: "So fast, can it be done in just one day?"

  "Wearing this outfit is quite refreshing," said Wang Jun with a smile.

  Jin Hu gave Wang Jun the address on this side and said it once, Wang Jun happily said: "Tomorrow!" Then the two chatted for a couple of sentences before hanging up the phone.

  Putting down the phone in his hand, Jin Hu said to the five little guys: "Tomorrow, the shooting instructor I found for you will arrive. When I'm not around, you'd better follow Jun Ge and learn something honestly, don't run around! Whoever makes trouble will go back to the village!"

  Lü Cheng swallowed the food in his mouth: "Tiger brother, when will our guys arrive?"

  "In two weeks, at most two weeks' time will arrive, but no matter how you use it, you must listen to the instructor Wang Jun who I found for you, and can only follow his requirements. Whatever he wants is what we'll do. None of the things that happen here can be mentioned to outsiders. Did you hear? Having guns isn't a joke." Jin Hu said, looking at several young men.

  "Got it," Jin Hu nodded after listening to a few kids say so.

  After finishing a meal, the dishes were all empty, and Jin Hu looked at the shiny bowl and said: "Tomorrow, cook more, when we get here, meat is enough for every meal." After finishing speaking, he saw several little ones grinning.

  Now that he had found a house, Jin Hu dialed the phone number of his hometown and asked them to send a message to his old father, and the other five kids could also come over.

  Lying on the bed, Jin Hu closed his eyes and began to contact Explorer No. 1, asking No. 3 and No. 5 to find a suitable place nearby.

  The next afternoon, Jin Hu drove to pick up Wang Jun. Wang Jun had already driven to the town and didn't know the way to the warehouse, so he was picked up by the instructor and brought back. Jin Hu stayed in the warehouse for almost seven days, not only waiting for all ten little ones from the village to arrive, but also because his plan had changed.

  Originally, Jin Hu had prepared a sealed box, but it was no longer needed. The Explorer discovered an uninhabited small island not far from the nearby sea surface. Jin Hu directly handed over the gold to Zhang Yifan and sold it off, exchanging it for a second-hand fiberglass near-sea small boat. The remaining money was handed over to Wang Jun for management. From now on, the Explorer would put things on this small deserted island, and Wang Jun would take people to sail to the island to pick up goods.

  The crazy smuggling of high-end special steel by Jin Hu officially kicked off. From that day on, foreign capital, especially from Japan and Germany, which had been making a fortune in the domestic market with special steel, began to have a hard time.

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