Zhao Daming nodded and said, "It's true! That's right, a batch of cigars in Robte was detained at Havana Customs, and we made a promise to him..."

William burst out with a hearty laugh, interrupting Zhao Daming, and said, "This seems to be a business without money. My friend, when the general told me that it was a group of Chinese people who came to complete this task, please forgive me. I was skeptical at the time, but now I have to apologize for my attitude like you. A businessman who can do business without money is the real businessman. Now, I am full of confidence in your upcoming trip to Vincent Island."

Luo Lie interrupted and asked, "William, so, can you help lift the ban on the goods that Robut was seized in Havana?"

William said: "There is no need to bother the general. When you return successfully, I will call Havana and tell him that Robut is the cigar supplier at our base and the cigars they seized are military supplies for our San Diego military base."

Luo Liexi said: "I will tell Robut that he will give you a few boxes of the best cigars."

William smiled and said, "The top Cuban cigars are very valuable. We have used Robut. It is also worth doing him with a small favor. Don't let him spend money anymore."

Zhao Daming said: "But your call will benefit Robut for a long time. I think it should be a good idea to make him lose some fees."

William shook his head and said, "Even if he benefits for a long time, he will fight for it for granted. He deserves it. And we just made a phone call."

Zhao Daming said: "William, I was moved by you. Thank you, William."

William sighed softly and said, "No, Zhao, my friend, it should be said that you moved me first. Mr. Congressman encountered trouble, and the general was inconvenient to come forward to solve it. Only you are willing to take risks and stand up without regard for gains and losses. This kind of love will be remembered by the General, and he will also remember it in his heart."

Luo Lie asked curiously: "William, take the liberty to ask, Mr. Congressman and General Harris, what is their relationship?"

William replied: "They were comrades-in-arms who crawled out of the pile of dead people in the Civil War, brothers, and they were also godfathers of each other's children. A more intimate relationship was that the general's daughter married the son of Mr. Congressman."

Kingsoft has fallen for the first snow since the beginning of winter.

The whiteness of the auspicious snow covers all the dirty things in the city. In the silver-covered world, people inevitably have the hallucination of peace and tranquility. The burning scene of the 1,800 tons of opium was also covered. At first glance, or if you look closely, it was no different from the surrounding scenes. The scene of crowds and crowds that day might still exist in people's memories, but as time goes by, the memories of most people will gradually blur and finally be completely covered by this heavy snow.

Helen Powell did not encounter any revenge, so he seemed to have lost his meaning in the entrance of Anliangtang. What made her feel even more bored was that although she was physically close to Cao Bin, she was still far away emotionally. She had to go to work, and every day when she went out, Cao Bin was still sleeping soundly. After she got off work, Cao Bin must have locked herself in the study. A week passed by like a flash, and passed by like an ant climbing the mountain, and lived like a year.

This week, Helen only saw Cao Bin and passed by in a hurry.

It is beautiful and happy to like someone. Whenever I think of him, I always feel a sweet feeling in my heart. It is also painful and tormenting to like someone. It is missing when I can’t see him, but it is melancholy when I see him.

After struggling with the pain and suffering for a week, Helen Powell finally chose to give up.

There was once a great poet and philosopher who said that the greatest love is not gain, but giving, not having, but letting go.

Before this, Helen was just ignorant of this sentence, but now she has a deep understanding of it.

She chose to give up because her greatest effort was to let go with all her heart.

When she left the hall, Helen didn't say hello to anyone, for fear that she would not be able to stand up for any words with retention. But the reality was so cruel. None of the men who saw her leaving with her suitcase could come over and say the last retention to her, but just smiled and nodded, as if they had known that sooner or later they would leave.

This is also pretty good.

At least it will not interfere with your determination.

In the study room on the second floor, the fireplace burning with red flames made a sound of charcoal blowing. A figure stood behind the curtains, lifting a gap in the floor curtains, and silently looked at Helen Powell's two lines of footprints left in the snow outside the window. The exhaled heat hit the glass of the window, and finally condensed into a window flower, and his vision was blurred. The owner of the figure was too lazy to reach out to wipe it, but just sighed quietly.

Dong Biao sat on the sofa in the study, pressed out the cigarette butt in his hand, then sighed and said softly: "Brother Bin, why are you doing this?"

Cao Bin put down the curtains, sat opposite Dong Biao, picked up a cup of cold tea in front of him, took a sip, and smiled bitterly: "She is a foreigner!"

Dong Biao lit another cigarette, sprayed the smoke rings out, stared at the smoke rings that slowly rose and constantly changed shape, and sighed: "So what about foreigners? Alice is also a foreigner, why don't you object?"

Cao Bin put down the teacup, picked up half of the cigar leaning against the ashtray, took two sips, and made the cigar ignite the open flame again. "Alice is just an exception, not every foreigner is as kind as Alice."

Dong Biao shook his head and said, "But Helen is definitely an upright person. An upright person must be a kind person."

Cao Bin sighed and said, "Integrity cannot be equated with kindness!"

Dong Biao said helplessly: "But if you don't try, how can you conclude that Helen is not a kind woman?"

Cao Bin said: "I'm too late to try the answer?"

Dong Biao took another sip of cigarette and asked back, "It's really too late to wait. Will you regret it?"

Cao Bin was stunned.

Dong Biao flicked the ashes and continued: "It's been twenty years since Brother Bin, it's been twenty years since his sister-in-law left. Finally, there's another woman who can make you fall in love with you. But how can you be so cowardly? Isn't it just a matter of race? Foreigners look down on us Chinese, but Brother Bin, we can't look down on ourselves!"

Cao Bin raised the cigar and placed it on his lips, but slowly shook his head, with a bitter smile on his face.

Dong Biao continued: "She left with despair. Brother Bin, if you don't chase after him, I can guarantee that you will lose her forever."

Cao Bin put down the cigar, picked up the teacup, opened the lid, and scraped the tea leaves that had already sunk to the bottom of the cup. "What's wrong with the old man who lost his horse? She can't give up her career as a journalist, and I will never be able to truly get rid of the constraints of the world. It's like two straight lines in different directions. Even if they meet at a certain moment, they form a little unforgettable mark, but they still have to go their separate ways. Life is long, so why bring endless troubles for a temporary joy?"

Dong Biao stubbornly said: "What if she was willing to give up her career for you?"

Cao Bin was slightly stunned, then smiled bitterly and asked, "Do you think this is possible?"

Dong Biao responded and asked back: "What if this is really possible?"

Cao Bin sighed and said, "I have had the same dream three times this week. She gave up her career, and I have also handed over Anliangtang to you. We went to a beautiful island, where there were only streams and flowers everywhere. I could no longer hear the sound of guns and cannons, and I could no longer see the lights and swords..." Cao Bin closed his eyes slightly, took a deep breath, and then slowly exhaled. When he opened his eyes again, there were some crystal tears in his eyes: "Even if she could do it, can I do it?"

Dong Biao was silent.

Cao Bin picked up the cigar again and took a few sips silently. It seemed that it was difficult to calm down the depression in his chest. He stood up and walked to the window and opened a window leaf. A cold wind blew towards him, blowing down the snow on the window frame and falling on Cao Bin's cheek. "Can An Liangtang completely transform in ten or eight years? Can An Liangtang completely escape from the world? Not to mention far, just talk about the current situation, can An Liangtang get peace? Can Eston and the group of people who collude with him give up? People in the world are in the world, and they can't help themselves. Twenty years ago, I just thought this sentence was just a pretentious sentence. As long as you are strong enough, how can you not help yourself? However, after twenty years, I have to admit that no matter how powerful you are, you will never be able to dominate the world. More powerful enemies will appear anytime and anywhere. You can only walk every step with fear and fear."

Dong Biao suddenly laughed and said, "Brother Bin, I'm talking far, this has nothing to do with Helen."

Cao Bin vomited depression in his chest, closed the window, returned to his original position, smiled faintly, and said, "Why is it okay? When you really like a woman, the first thing you have to do is not let her follow you and be frightened, right?"

Dong Biao could not refute, so he could only respond with a nod.

Cao Bin continued: "So, giving up is my most correct choice."

Dong Biao frowned, pondered for a moment, and said in confusion: "Brother Bin, I really admire you, I admire you so much. At the beginning, I felt that I had the most reason, but why did you lead me to the wrong way as I said it? Wait, let me sort out my thoughts."

Cao Bin smiled and said, "You, don't worry about it anymore. It's yours, it's yours, it's yours, it's never yours, it's not yours, you will never get it. Even if you already have it, it will be lost sooner or later."

Dong Biao hugged his head, sighed, and said mercilessly, "Okay, I admit that you can leave me a few streets in terms of reasoning. I can't tell you, and I don't plan to talk to you anymore, but Dong Biao is a person who is right. I believe that Helen is the most suitable woman to be my sister-in-law. If you don't go and get her back, then I'll go for you. Whether you are angry or not, it's all that way. At worst, you can just hit me!" Before he finished speaking, Dong Biao had already stood up and was about to walk out of the door.

Cao Bin still sat down, but shouted in a deep voice: "Do you dare!?"

Dong Biao was stunned at the door as if he had been lit with a hole.

Cao Bin pointed to the sofa opposite and said in a deep voice: "Come back and sit here!"

Dong Biao gritted his teeth, gasped for a few breaths, but he still obediently returned to his original position and sat down.

"You're not called OK, that's called causing trouble!" Cao Bin put out the cigar, got up and changed to a cup of hot tea, and said, "Do you think I'm really willing to let go? A Biao, I don't dare! I'm afraid that I can repeat the tragedy twenty years ago. I can't have any weaknesses to be caught in my opponent's hands. Why should I send Luo Lie away? Do you think he really has the ability to clean up the mess? We brothers, after tides and rain, have already taken life and death indifferent, but Luo Lie is still young and has experienced too little. I can't bear to see that he has a shortcoming. This is my only weakness. Now I have deceived him away and eliminated this only weakness. Do you have to add another weakness to me?"

Dong Biao looked at Cao Bin blankly, knocked on the forehead, and said, "Then you'll say it earlier!"

Cao Bin snorted and said, "Why should I say it earlier?"

Dong Biao suddenly laughed and said, "I understand. This must be the reason you just came up with, right?"

Cao Bin followed and laughed and said, "Don't worry about when I came up with it, I'll ask you if this reason is sufficient or not?"

Dong Biao put away his smile, nodded, and said, "Actually, this reason is not sufficient, it is just barely acceptable."

A heavy snow eased the anxiety of Eston, Stander and Cooper a lot.

The environment can certainly affect people's mood, but the more important factor is that on the night before the snow, Stand finally waited for the positive response from the new buyer.

It was different from the three of them. When contacting the buyers, Stander almost had a mental breakdown. Fifteen years ago, it was not illegal to sell opium in the United States of America. At that time, as long as you have goods in your hands, buyers would come one after another. Stander was only a lieutenant and had no source of goods, but the navy at that time had to do some private work for these opium merchants, so Stander had the opportunity to make friends with many buyers.

However, the damn Senate and the House of Representatives actually signed a law to prohibit citizens from smoking opium across the country, let alone selling opium. After the Spanish-American War, the anti-smoking movement was upgraded again. The federal government established the Federal Drug Enforcement Agency and attacked heavily, targeting the opium merchants across the country. For a time, the news of the tide was heard, and all opium merchants changed to underground trading modes.

The opium dealers who had worked with Stander at the time, except for Li Xilu Tanlia, others turned a blind eye to most of the olive branches that Stander had thrown. Because these individuals knew that Stander was a soldier and had a very close relationship with Eston of the Kingsoft Police Department. God knew if this was a trap they set, and no one wanted to spend their lives for the sake of immediate interests.

For a week, Stander contacted nearly ten buyers, either he could not even hear the sound, or he was rejected, and the other party would lied that he had already left the business.

Just when Stander was at a loss, a New York buyer finally sent a positive response. The other party expressed his trust in Stander and was willing to eat the goods in one bite at a price of fifteen cents per ounce, but he had to agree to them with an additional condition. The other party also stated that the additional condition could only be face-to-face communication. If Stander was willing to negotiate, the other party would immediately send a representative to Kingsoft.

Compared to the highest price of one ounce and fourteen cents offered by Li Xilu, the buyer directly offered a purchase price of one ounce and fifteen cents. That is to say, this batch of goods can make an extra $70,000, which is definitely a great joy. It is completely understandable that the other party puts additional conditions. So Stand immediately agreed to the other party's request for a detailed discussion.

The heavy snow fell all night, and the next morning, before the stop was over. Stander didn't care about the thick snow and drove to the police station to pick up Eston, and then rushed to Cooper's military camp. In the private room, Stander informed Eston and Cooper about his communication with the buyer in New York last night.

"That man is Ballmer. More than ten years ago, I worked with him when I was a captain, but we were not very familiar with each other. This time I didn't expect much from him, but unexpectedly, he conveyed me the clearest intention." Stander summarized, and his expression showed pride.

Cooper said: "It is indeed a matter of celebration to find a buyer. Since we have the hope of successfully removing this batch of goods, I still recommend letting go of Tom and Jack. What we want is dollars, and their lives are worthless to us."

Eston said: "If we can sell that batch of goods safely and get the payment we deserve, of course I support your suggestions. Tom and Jack are not simple. They have the power of a wolf's olfactory lion. It is indeed not an easy thing to get rid of them. But the problem is that if we cannot get rid of them, we will not be able to transport the batch of goods safely out of Jinshan and deliver them to the designated delivery location."

Cooper smiled and said, "I have a way! I have bribed my quartermaster. When the goods need to be delivered, he can sign and send the caravan to the damn delivery site. That Tom and Jack, if they are more keen, they will turn a blind eye to us. If the two of them are still entangled, then I can shoot them on the spot on the charge of interfering with military operations."
Chapter completed!