61 To Vietnam (1/2)
”That's right!” Chen Fan nodded.
”Well…” Chen Shuguang glanced at Zhang Xueyang, not knowing whether to continue or not.
”Bro Chen, I'll make a move first. Let's catch up again soon!” How would Zhang Xueyang who grew up among businessmen not know what this guy was thinking. He just wanted Chen Fan to help him smuggle.
”Umm, we'll catch up soon!” Chen Fan waved his hand and then turned to Chen Shuguang. ”Speak your mind!”
”Let's find a tea house. I feel uneasy standing in front of the police station.” Chen Shuguang looked around and then pointed at a tea house a distance away. ”Bro Chen, let me treat you to tea, and we can have a chat?” This guy was like Chen Fan. He felt uneasy seeing police even though he did nothing. They were probably harboring evil thoughts.
”Let's go.” Chen Fan gave a faint smile and gestured for him to go first. Although this guy dressed decently, there was an air of villainy around him.
At the teahouse, Chen Shuguang asked for a small private room with 60 RMB. After tea was served, he said with a treacherous smile, ”Bro, which routes do you do?”
”Usually just the nearby countries, unless it's a huge business. Things become unpredictable when the journey is too long.”
”How about Vietnam?” Chen Shuguang quickly poured them tea. ”I need to deliver some goods from there urgently, but the ship owner who I contacted has been detained by the marine police. Then, when I got invited to the police station just now, I overheard that you have a company doing maritime transportation.”
”Vietnam?” Chen Fan knitted his brows and gave it some thought. Vietnam was much further than Japan. He didn't want to take it up unless the profit was really good.
”How is it, bro?” Chen Shuguang stared at Chen Fan. ”I'll be honest with you. The goods are definitely illegal, but don't treat me as an outsider. I know your company's in this trade from hearing about it. Your company only has four people including yourself, but you have an incredible bodyguard who even the armed police lieutenant colonel addresses him as coach. I guess that you do big scale business.”
”Haha, it's not that I don't do Vietnam. If your price is right, I can even go to South Africa.” Chen Fan put down his cup. ”Even if the price is right, I still need to see what kind of goods you're transporting. I don't touch drugs. If it's other stuff, I can still work things out if caught. But if it's drugs, even just a little will cost me my life.”
”Don't worry, bro. How could I come out from the police station alive if I traffick drugs? I would have been dead long ago.” After some hesitation, Chen Shuguang said, ”As you can see, my business card states that I'm in the medical drug business. On the surface it looks as though I'm selling stuff like notoginseng, angelica and white peony root, but how much can I earn from those things?”
Chen Fan got interested, ”Then what business do you do?”
Chen Shuguang looked around before whispering, ”What's abundant in Vietnam? Mountains and forests of course. Do you know what those villages have hidden in the deep in the mountains to make money?”
”What?”
”You'll get a fright after I tell you. Those people rear neither pigs nor cows, but expensive stuff such as tigers, bears and pythons.”
”What? Tigers, bears and pythons?” Chen Fan was stunned. ”Don't tell me you traffic wild animals?”
”Haha, what would I want those live animals for?” Chen Shuguang gave a hollow laugh and squinted his eyes. ”Tiger bone, tiger's whip, bear gall, snake gall, have all been considered high-grade goods since ancient times. These wild beasts were difficult to catch in ancient times and are difficult to find in modern days.”
”There's almost no one rearing tigers in our country. There are people keeping bears and pythons, but they are all caged up and fed with hormones. In the eyes of truly rich people, only the nouveaux rich will buy this stuff. The real high-grade items are produced in places like Vietnam, Bengal and Myanmar.”
”These?” Chen Fan rubbed his head and said after a long while, ”So how much do you intend to bring over, and at what price?” Other than tiger bone wine which was harder to get, things like bear gall powder and snake gall powder wasn't exactly rare stuff. Packaged ones were readily available at major medical stores, but the quantities were a little diluted. Although it was illegal to transport such stuff, it wouldn't cause too much trouble.