Chapter 186 (2/2)
”Have a rest. I won't bother you. I'll call you to dinner at noon -”
Zhao Liangliang saw that Zheng Jianguo was a little tired after he entered the house. He also knew that the goods were not ordinary scholars. In addition to the two stalls in the research, he also had to take into account the domestic laboratory and business. For normal people, any one of them was enough to be busy until dark, but he seemed to be at ease in his hands.
Zhao Liangliang leaves. Zheng Jianguo doesn't squat in the house to blow the air conditioner. Instead, he gets up the chair opposite and looks at the cathedral in the distance in front of the small balcony. At present, because it's not the rush hour of commuting, looking from the sparse vehicles on the main road, he can see that someone is cleaning the cathedral opposite. He thinks of sweeping the house on the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month, Today is an integral part of Comrade Jesus' Christmas, so it's natural to clean it.
Zheng Jianguo stared at the Cathedral for more than 20 minutes. Zheng Jianguo just got up and began to read the documents. He had been staring at the experimental data from the laboratory to the plane. He was most likely to be tired with high-intensity mental use, not to mention that in the past half a month, he had learned all kinds of physical foundations for tutoring.
So Zheng Jianguo made a scientific eye use plan for himself. For two hours of high-intensity eye use and brain use, he needs to look away for more than 20 minutes to alleviate eye fatigue and relax his brain.
Standing at the balcony door, you can see more than half of the street area of the embassy. Zheng Jianguo studied and looked at the incoming and outgoing vehicles. Especially after he had a simple lunch and rested, more than half of all kinds of cars had stopped in the parking lot after he got up again. When he was ready to study after washing his face and drinking water, the closed door was knocked: ”Jianguo, Secretary Cheng asked you to go down, An old friend said he came to you. ”
”Old friend?”
Zheng Jianguo leaned over to the door and opened the door. He looked at Jiang Lu's black face and was curious: ”who?”
”It's Bruce and Mr. Blanc, but don't tell them I told you.”
After looking around at Jiang Lu, Zheng Jianguo nodded, turned around, picked up his coat, put it on, locked the door and accompanied him to the elevator. Seeing that the queliang collar between his neck was wet, he couldn't help but say, ”I'm very busy today?”
”I'm very busy. There's a simple Christmas Eve reception. I've been helping since I picked you up in the morning -”
Hearing Zheng Jianguo's question, Jiang Lu said casually that soon the elevator came. They went down to the first floor. He led Zheng Jianguo to the reception room and knocked. Cheng Mi's face appeared in the open door, looked at him and said with a smile: ”how's the rest? Do you want a cup of coffee?”
”Then give me a cup of coffee ~”
Zheng Jianguo stepped on the carpet into the reception room. This is his first time here. Several groups of sofas and huge floor to ceiling windows can overlook the opposite cathedral. At this time, Blanco and Bruce are standing in front of the floor to ceiling windows with cups. The latter also raised the cup in his hand and smiled: ”Zheng, haven't you closed your gold position yet?”
”Good afternoon, Mr. Bruce, Mr. Blanco!”
Zheng Jianguo also greeted him with a smile. Cheng secretary next to him had brought a cup of coffee to him, handed it to him and smiled at Bruce: ”Jianguo, now Mr. Bruce is the Deputy Consul General of the American Embassy in the Republic. He is going to invite you to attend the mass of the church opposite after the reception here --”
”Oh, thank you, Vice Consul General Bruce -”
Zheng Jianguo was surprised to see Bruce. After understanding the time this year, he knew that there were great differences between the diplomatic officials of China and the United States. If he simply guessed the identity of each other by level, it might make a big joke. For the highest level ambassadors, the ambassadors of the United States are not all diplomats, A few people became ambassadors because of their personal relationship with the president.
Of course, the most direct consequence of this relationship is that one emperor and one courtier, but it is obvious that he can maintain a good personal relationship with the president, which is more important than the level. Now Bruce has become a vice consul general, not because he has been promoted as a second secretary like secretary Cheng, but his relationship with the ambassador and the president has been significantly improved, which is what Zheng Jianguo is concerned about at the moment, Or the mass invitation after the evening reception: ”won't it last late over there?”
”It should be said that it will not be very early. From 9 o'clock to 10 o'clock is an ordinary mass, which is open to the public, and there will be a cross night mass between 11:30 and 12:30 -”
Bruce raised the coffee in his hand and said with a smile. Seeing Zheng Jianguo nodding slowly, he continued to say, ”I heard that you have encountered problems in safety. If you are sure you can go, I will send you back after the mass, so Cheng doesn't have to let people find you ~”
”That's OK. I promised, Cheng MI. I'll be back before one o'clock.”
Zheng Jianguo responded with a smile. Bruce's smile became more and more brilliant. Looking at the smiling Cheng Mi next to him, Cheng said, ”Cheng, I asked Zheng to introduce some friends to him. They are all graduates of Harvard University, that is, Zheng's alumni.”
”Okay, okay ~”
Cheng Mi looked at Zheng Jianguo with a smile, nodded, then looked at Bruce and said, ”I thought you two would continue to talk about gold -”
”Oh, Bruce, I only hold gold to preserve its value, so I will continue to hold it. Of course, if you feel you can get rid of it and make a profit, I remember how much money you bought it?”
Zheng Jianguo sipped his coffee and said with a curious face. Bruce shrugged and smiled: ”well, I bought it late. I forgot that day, so when I bought it, the price had reached $325 an ounce, but now it has exceeded 600. If I sell it now, I should make no more than double.”
”But also remove the handling fee, less than double ~”
Zheng Jianguo nodded and pointed to Bruce. At that time, he and this made an appointment to buy gold together when closing silver. The so-called purpose was to preserve value. In fact, he thought of the hostage incident between the United States and Iraq and felt that the crude oil was volatile and the gold price would rise.
Just before Zheng Jianguo's voice fell, a bell suddenly rang on the table in the room. Cheng Mi looked at the door and picked it up at the desk. Before he opened his mouth, he hid most of his smile. He soon put it down and looked at Bruce: ”just received the news, the troops in the Soviet Southern theater began to mobilize on a large scale -”