51 Back to Zhongyun (1/2)
After swallowing half of the shark's body and throwing out its tank-size head, Chen Fan controlled the electric eel to the seabed before shifting his thoughts back to himself. He took a glance at the time before covering himself with the blanket and slept. After his busy day, Chen Fan was exhausted. He needed to rest, and so did the electric eel.
Chen Fan slept to his heart's content and only woke up at five plus in the evening with his eyes squinting. He rubbed away his eye gunk and washed himself up before saying to Wang Bing who was doing push-ups in the living room, ”Go get some hot food and buns, and also a few cans of milk from the supermarket.”
”Yes...” Wang Bing replied lifelessly before putting on his jacket and walked out of the house. Leaning on the couch, Chen Fan took out his phone and dialled Zhang Xueyang's number.
”Hello, Bro Zhang? My ship has already reached Japan. When will your goods arrive?”
”So fast?” Zhang Xueyang's elated voice came from the other end of the phone. ”Bro Chen, you're really efficient. Don't worry! I won't let your ship wait too long. I've just talked to my classmate in Japan over the phone and he said the goods have been packaged and are now on the way to Mogine Port. They will be able to transport the goods to the beach around two to three hours later.”
”We have to be professional in our business! My ship will fetch your stuff away once they arrive. You'll be able to see those three machine tools in less than two days.”
”Sure, sure!” Zhang Xueyang's voice trembled with excitement. ”I'll make another call now to get them to speed up!”
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Inside Zhongyun City's Jinyuan Villa was a three-story villa with a total area of more than 500 square meters of Baroque architecture.
”Yangyang, are you certain that the man you're contacting has such capabilities?” A middle aged man was sitting on the recliner chair in the spacious study room as he said with some doubt to Zhang Xueyang who was standing beside him. He had a rosy complexion with some fine wrinkles at the corner of his eyes. Wearing a black, fitting and tastefully-designed traditional Chinese long robe, he was poised and full of vigor.
”Dad, I don't think he's faking it!” Zhang Xueyang walked to the side table and poured a cup of tea. ”He didn't even take a cent for deposit, so our biggest fear is already eliminated.”
”Not anyone can move three huge machine tools from Japan without being discovered. If he really has the ability to bring them back, then the 20 million machines are nothing to him!””Remember this, Yangyang, if he really gets those machines back from Japan, you'll have to build a good relationship with him in future!” Zhang Aiguo took the cup and sipped some tea. ”You know how the domestic market for high-precision machine tools is, if there's a way, everyone will be willing to spend a little more to import from overseas. But developed countries are very stringent in this area, I went to look for Ma Rongtao last week to ask for his help to get the three machine tools back from Japan. Guess what he said?”
”What did Uncle Ma say?” Zhang Xueyang looked at his father like a curious child.
”Your Uncle Ma said that it's not that he doesn't wanna help, but there's really nothing that he can do. Japan is getting crazier by the day, other than the various types of testing methods that they have, their marine inspection team in the territorial waters is already enough to cause serious trouble. The stringency of items that they check on is enough to make one's hair stand. Even a faulty air-conditioning in the crew's cabin is punishable.”
”Even Uncle Ma can't get them back?” Zhang Xueyang was shocked. ”I'd thought that you didn't want to trouble him…”