After she died, Mr. Bo knelt in front of the tombstone and cried like a dog.

She curled her lips: "So what if I'm not honest?"

It seemed like she had a rebellious mentality. The more he tolerated her without limits, the more she wanted to make some splash to prove that he still cared about her.

To accept everything a person does is not indulgence, but the death of hope.

She had teamed up with Sucha to kill him, and he broke six ribs on Capri. Although he didn't care, he was very angry.

That kind of anger was caused by caring enough, and was far from being as calm as it is now.

Xiao Yan snorted expressionlessly: "If you want to die, tell me and I'll give you a quick death."

Don't be so fancy.

Ye Xiaowu felt a chill on his neck and a slight sense of oppression, with a sense of long-lost familiarity.

He seemed angry.

Ye Xiaowu couldn't help but curl up the corners of his mouth. It seemed that there was still hope.

……

She had chosen a flight at 5pm, the latest one of the day. Actually, it didn't matter what time she chose, as she wasn't leaving anyway.

After breakfast, the core members of the base went to a meeting to discuss the mission to Mexico.

She planned to make something delicious for Xiao Yan at noon. Before, when they were at their home in New York, she cooked for him and he was very happy.

She pulled Xiaodouzi over and put on gloves to help her process the prawns.

Xiaodouzi asked in surprise: "You can cook? I thought you were a spoiled young lady."

Ye Xiaowu said: "I'm not a young lady at all. I'm just good at taking good care of myself. I used to live alone, so I definitely know how to cook, but sometimes I'm just too lazy to do it."

The last time Qin Rui asked her to cook, she was lazy and didn't want to.

Before she was sold by her biological parents, she had to cook for her parents and younger brother every day when she was old enough to reach the stove. Because her parents were busy making a living outside, the task of cooking naturally fell to her.

Later, her parents sold her, and she escaped from the traffickers and stayed in an orphanage for several years. When she was 12 years old, Mr. Yan came to the orphanage to do charity and wanted to choose an adopted daughter to provide one-on-one financial support.

In order to stand out from so many children, she pretended to be good and took the initiative to tell Mr. Yan that she could cook, would be very well behaved, and would not fight or make trouble.

Seeing that she was obedient and well-behaved, Mr. Yan probably thought of his own biological daughter who was taken away and separated, so he couldn't help but feel a little more pity for her and adopted her as his adopted daughter.

At that time, if Mr. Yan was free, he would send Butler Du to pick her up to go to the Yan Mansion to play on Saturdays. She would sneak into the kitchen and help the Yan family's chef.

After a few visits, Mr. Yan really felt that this child was a good one, sensible and simple.

In fact, if Mr. Yan had known that she was so naughty and selfish, he probably would not have chosen her. She was indeed not a good person. Most elders liked children like Yan Chen, who were honest, loyal and filial.

Most of the time she doesn't like to cook, she just wants to please others to achieve her own goals. She is used to pleasing others, so it does seem that she is not sincere enough.

But now she cooks for Xiao Yan simply because she hopes that he will be happy, because if he is happy, she will be happy too.

Xiaodouzi reminded him, "There are a lot of people in the base. If you really want to cook, you have to cook a large table. You definitely won't be able to finish before noon."

Ye Xiaowu's mouth twitched slightly, "When did I say I would cook for everyone? I'll just cook for myself and Xiao Yan, but if you help me prepare the prawns, I can bring you some."

Xiao Douzi: "Brother Yan doesn't treat people in the base differently, but you do?"

Ye Xiaowu disagreed: "I'm not an internal staff of your base."

Xiao Douzi was puzzled: "When you marry Brother Yan in the future, won't you be our sister-in-law? Don't you want to marry Brother Yan?"

This is true.

Ye Xiaowu grinned: "That makes sense. You are small but you have a sweet mouth. What do you want to eat? I'll make something for you."

The base has a dedicated chef who cooks basic dishes, but there are cases where people cook their own special dishes, but not many.

Xiaodouzi is young and likes to eat messy things. "Can you make fried chicken wings and French fries?"

Ye Xiaowu said confidently: "Of course, I can also fry rice cakes."

The base’s freezer is fully stocked, and the chef goes down the mountain every day to purchase fresh vegetables.

Xiao Douzi's eyes were shining. She stayed around Ye Xiaowu the whole morning, helping her with this and that, just waiting for the big meal at noon.

……

Over here, in the conference room.

This trip to Mexico is very demanding, with three things to do in total.

Develop a new base in Culiacán, select new mercenaries, and capture the avocado plantation in Tancitaro, Michoacán.

These three things are on the same line.

The avocados produced in the town of Tancitaro in Michoacán, Mexico, supply 80 percent of the avocado export market in the United States, making it the largest avocado exporter in the world.

Don’t underestimate the fact that it is just a fruit, and a not very delicious one at that, but it is expected to have a global market size of over 100 billion in two years.

In the early years, local drug lords in Mexico grew opium and smuggled the finished products to the United States. However, as the United States implemented the legalization policy of various drugs, the United States began to grow opium, poppies and other plants on its own.

The drug supply market in Mexico was weakened in this way, and local drug dealers had a hard time, so they set their sights on this fruit called avocado.

The name avocado sounds worthless, so it was changed to avocado in order to make it sell at a higher price.

Michoacan, Mexico, is the avocado capital of the world.

There, avocados cost $2 a kilo.

But in the United States, an avocado can be sold for anywhere from $3 to $7. If the quality is excellent, it may not be a problem to sell it for $7 or more.

Even if the fruit is exported to the US market via the normal route, after deducting all the costs of planting, picking, packaging and transportation, the net profit can still be three times as much.

If it is transported by water, transportation tariffs and some transaction costs can be exempted, and the profit can be greater than that of drug trafficking.

Because this area is profitable enough, the local drug lords have stopped growing it and have switched to growing avocados. They don't necessarily contract the cultivation themselves, but directly intercept the plantation's transport vehicles and rob them with AKs.

This time, Xiao Yan is going to Michoacan to discuss business with Haye, the largest local landlord. Haye is old and has been looking for a suitable party to sell his industry.

Too many people were eyeing this piece of "green gold". Haye did not have enough power to suppress the local gangs. Every year, he had to pay protection fees to the local gangs alone of several million US dollars. He was exploited by them at every step from planting to harvesting the fruits. In addition, the goods were robbed. After a year of hard work, he suffered huge losses.

If there is a financial sponsor who can offer an ideal price, Haye will quickly sell this piece of green gold that is profitable but hot enough to handle, and then immigrate to the United States with his family to enjoy his retirement.

It's not difficult to make this deal.

The trouble is that after the deal is done, there will be various problems to be faced. When taking over, a fight with local robbers is inevitable, and it is necessary to kill a chicken to scare the monkeys.

If Xiao Yan wanted to do this business, he would never pay protection fees like Haye did. Not to mention protection fees, he would not pay a penny even for road fees.

The transportation on the road represents absolute power.

Without the right to transport goods on a road section, you are just a sheep to be slaughtered by others.

The most troublesome thing is not negotiating business, but after the negotiation, taking back the nearby roads and territories from the robbers to ensure absolute control and voice.

Therefore, Mexico must build a base to fight against local drug lords.

Selecting new mercenary members is also to ensure that this business can get on track as soon as possible.

The base is located in the distant Culiacán because Culiacán is located on the US-Mexico border and is one of the most important checkpoints for export transportation.

In addition, the base is located in Culiacán, and the gangs in Michoacan have no way of knowing the exact location of the base, so they have no chance to blow up the base.

After the entire line is sorted out, we will continue the meeting in the afternoon and make a clear division of labor.

The key point of this business is that the entire process, from fruit germination to packaging and transportation, must be managed in a militarized manner.

The meeting finally ended before lunch.

Ye Xiaowu and Xiao Douzi had just finished frying some delicious food. They fried a small pot of all kinds of things, including fried chicken wings, fried rice cakes, and fried French fries...

She just walked over with something in her arms, and Oscar and his group just came out of the conference room, and a burst of fragrance filled the air.

They gathered around.

"smell good!"

"My sister-in-law also prepared snacks for us. The chicken wings were fried golden!"

"Give me a taste!"

"I want me too!"

Ye Xiaowu wasn't so stingy that he didn't want to give them food, but if you took a few and he took a few, there wouldn't be much left.

"Oh, it's almost gone. I'll fry it for you next time. Don't rush to grab it if it's gone!"

She quickly waved away those hands and protected the thing.

Hearing this, Oscar's eyes widened: "There will be a next time? Sister-in-law, you're not leaving?"

Ye Xiaowu always runs.

The people at the base didn't think she could stay for a few days this time.

Ye Xiaowu said: "I'm leaving, but it doesn't mean I won't come back."

Chen Anran also took a piece of fried rice cake and ate it. He bluntly told her: "I didn't realize you had such skills. Next time, buy some sauce for the rice cake and sprinkle some sesame seeds on it."

Ye Xiaowu rolled his eyes at her and said, "Some of them are good to eat, and you picked them."

She carried her things to the conference room to find Xiao Yan.

Xiao Yan leaned lazily in his chair, a lit cigarette loosely held between his slender fingers, staring at the deployment plan on the whiteboard next to him, checking for omissions and gaps.

If half of the goods go through the normal transportation checkpoints and the other half go through the waterway of Culiacán, it will make a lot of money and can also greatly conceal the truth.

For safety and to avoid being seen, it is best to take a half open and half hidden route near the plantation.

Therefore, a tunnel must be dug from the plantation to connect to the outside road, allowing some transport vehicles to secretly cross the road. This will reduce robberies and gunfights nearby.

He caught a glimpse of the figure out of the corner of his eye and put out his cigarette in the ashtray.

Ye Xiaowu came over with something in his arms and complained, "I fried a lot of food, and they took a lot of it. I'd better not let them see it next time."

She picked up a fried chicken wing and handed it to him.

Xiao Yan looked at her and held her wrist. A few small blisters appeared on the back of her fair hand. "Who asked you to work?"

"For me, when I fry something, oil will splash out, which is normal..."

"Does it hurt?"

Just as she was about to say it didn't hurt, she looked up at him again and changed her words: "Yes, it hurts a little."

Xiao Yan didn't say anything. He held her wrist and walked towards the infirmary.

Ye Xiaowu still held the small pot in his other hand, "You haven't eaten yet..."

"Eat later."

Chen Anran went to the cafeteria.

Xiao Yan flipped over the burn ointment and said, "Give me your hand."

Ye Xiaowu obediently stretched out his hand.

He held her hand with one hand and used the other hand to apply the medicine with a cotton swab. He didn't say anything harsh, but just ordered: "Don't fry anything next time. If you want to eat, ask the cook to make it. Do you hear me?"

"I, I fried it for you. I also cooked for you."

The last time I cooked for him and showed him such courtesy was in New York, and a few days later he did something shocking.

The cotton swab paused on the back of her hand for half a second, and then quickly returned to normal. Xiao Yan asked lazily, "What do you want to do now?"

"I don't want to do anything. Didn't you say that my cooking is delicious? Last time you said that my cheese baked prawns were good, so I made them again today."

Two years have passed, and she still remembers these words.

Capable.

Actually, he doesn't like shrimp, but he eats whatever she cooks.

After applying the medicine, he pulled her away: "Hold the pot, let's go eat."

Ye Xiaowu followed him to the cafeteria and said, "While you were at the meeting, I was busy preparing the live shrimps. I spent a long time picking out the shrimp threads and only made five dishes, which took me the whole morning... If you have anything special you want to eat, you can order it next time."

He is not picky, “I eat whatever is cooked.”

Holding her wrist, Xiao Yan walked a little ahead.

He glanced sideways at the glass window next to him that reflected the figures of two people.

Tsk.

The one behind him was mumbling something and staring at him as if he was seeking credit.

Xiao Yan curled the corners of his lips.

Arrived at the cafeteria.

Ye Xiaowu brought over the five prepared dishes.

The others at the table were dumbfounded.

"No, why do we have to cook separately when we eat together?"

"Sister-in-law, you have ulterior motives! You are deliberately tempting us!"

Chopsticks were extended to me.

Ye Xiaowu opened it.

She dragged the five plates of food in front of Xiao Yan and said, "You guys almost snatched up all the fried food just now. You are not allowed to take this dish!"

Seeing her guarding the food, Xiao Yan suddenly felt playful and said, "I can't finish it all by myself."

"And me."

"You and I combined can't finish five dishes."

Ye Xiaowu: "You can't bring others to eat."

Tsk.

Very domineering.

Chen Anran looked at the cheese baked prawns, which she had made about ten of. "Ayan doesn't really like to eat prawns, but I do. Give me two. It would be a waste if I can't finish them."

Ye Xiaowu turned his head and looked at Xiao Yan: "You don't like shrimp?"

Xiao Yan raised his eyebrows, "Look at the shrimp."

“What about this shrimp?”

"good."

Ye Xiaowu picked up a cheese-baked prawn and put it in his bowl, "Then eat more."

Remembering that Chen Anran would help her go to Culiacán, Ye Xiaowu generously gave her two.

Chen Anran joked with a hint of meaning: "Zhou Paopi is quite generous."

Ye Xiaowu glared at her and said, "Who are you calling Zhou Paopi? How can I be that stingy?"

One million dollars!

That's one million dollars!

Ye Xiaowu said angrily: "Chen Anran, doesn't your conscience hurt?"

Chen Anran ate the shrimps and didn't answer. She just raised her hands in surrender and said to her perfunctorily, "The shrimps are good."

She hated it most when people called her Zhou Paopi because there were always people who slandered her behind her back when she was in Fengxing.

Although half of it is true.

Seeing her angry look, Xiao Yan put his hand on her chair, dragged it closer to him, and said in a lazy and indulgent voice: "Eat quickly, Xiao Zhou will peel the skin."

Ye Xiaowu: “…”

Okay, he said it was acceptable.