Chapter 813 Sure enough, they are mother and daughter

Chapter 813 Sure enough, they are mother and daughter

Kosuke Saeki thought for a moment and said, "Those white people said that there would be no containers at the Chinese port. How did you transport the food here? You can't collect the raw materials in such a short time."

"Ha, speaking of this, I spent a lot of money." Chen Xi took the tea brought by Saori and took a sip.

"Oh? Tell me."

"This batch of goods comes from Russia, Australia, Indonesia, North Korea and other places. I bought them all at high prices. In other words, I sold them to you at a loss..."

"Wait, Northern Korea? Aren't there no ships going to the island country? And they seem to be short of food themselves." Kousuke Saeki keenly discovered the problem.

"You're right, they are indeed short of food themselves, and there are no ships reaching the island country. Although they are restricted by international sanctions, they are in urgent need of earning foreign exchange. North Kimchi will secretly export food, send workers to work abroad, smuggle arms, and even let hackers steal cryptocurrencies and counterfeit US dollars. There is nothing they dare not do, only what you can't think of. It's just food, don't make a fuss." Chen Xi smiled and waved his hand.

Although North Korea is somewhat closed, it does not prohibit foreign tourists from visiting, one of the reasons is to earn US dollars. With US dollars, one can engage in foreign economic activities, which is a necessary means for a country to break the blockade and maintain its economy.

There are still quite a lot of stocks of Matsutake, ginseng, Schisandra, dried fish, corn, potatoes, etc.

"How did you transport the goods from Australia and other places? There is not enough time." Kousuke Saeki asked again.

"I didn't transport them there. I bought them directly at a huge price. The ship unloading at the port is just a trick..." Chen Xi smiled bitterly.

"What about the subsequent goods?"

"Don't worry about that. This batch of goods will be enough for you to hold out for a while. I've also ordered goods from other regions and have already shipped them here. It won't be a big problem to hold out until the reconstruction of Xinjin Port is completed. But the problem now is that I don't think things are that simple."

"I have a bad feeling in my heart. There are some problems with what those white people said before they left..."

The two men's expressions turned serious.

"What do the people in the association think now?" Chen Xi asked in a low voice.

"What else can we do? The foundation of the establishment of the Agricultural Cooperative is to protect the interests of the farmers on the island. To put it bluntly, as long as the farmers live well, they don't care whether other people have food to eat. If it weren't for the government's supervision and fear of public opinion, the Agricultural Cooperative would have started to raise food prices long ago. What Saeki Kamajuo did was not something that no one had done before..." Saeki Kousuke did not feel embarrassed, but said it openly. Now he did not regard Chen Xi as an outsider.

Chen Xi nodded. According to his understanding, the original intention of establishing the farmers' cooperative was to protect the interests of small farmers and resist capital exploitation, but the operating model was alienated in the later period, and it became a complex entity with both political power and economic monopoly.

In other words, the former farmers have now become capitalists. What they care about now is how much rice they can earn. After so many years of accumulation, the agricultural cooperatives have been able to influence the development of the island government.

"The arrival of Americans is an opportunity for some people, but it will also infringe on the interests of some people, so there are both opponents and supporters in the Agricultural Cooperative. Talk about serving the country and the people is just an excuse. I suspect that it was someone in the Agricultural Cooperative who took Saeki Kamji away today." Saeki Kousuke smiled self-deprecatingly.

"I don't think so." Chen Xi shook his head.

"Knock knock." Just then, someone knocked on the office door.

Saiki Shimizu walked in and said, "Chief, I have already appeased the supermarkets, restaurants, and factories. They should be able to hold out for about a week..."

"Thank you for your hard work." Kosuke Saeki waved his hand, motioning the other party to sit down and have some tea.

"President, I just saw a lot of people from the association gathering in groups at the door, and they made an appointment to have dinner in the evening." Saeki Shimizu said secretly.

"As expected, at this critical moment, with Saeki Kamjiro being taken away for investigation, the factions within the association will also be reshuffled..." Saeki Kosuke frowned.

"Then what should we do?"

"We'll talk about this later. I'm going to reorganize the association in the next few days and stabilize the food supply in the market. Balancing the interests of farmers and stabilizing the emotions of the islanders is the most important thing..." Saeki Kosuke said, then looked at Chen Xi and Saori: "You two should go back to Fukuoka first. It's not very safe here. I always feel that the Americans will have other actions."

Saori also knew the seriousness of the matter, so she nodded obediently.

"How's your island language going? You'll have to come here often. It won't do if you don't understand what's being said!"

"I've learned a little bit. I can't understand anything that's too fast, but I'm pretty good at swearing. I'll ask Saori to teach me more tonight, haha."

Seeing his father-in-law asking questions, Chen Xi grinned, which made Saori's face blush slightly.

"You little brat, I really want to beat you up." How could Kousuke Saeki not know what this guy was thinking? Does he have to choose the evening to learn a foreign language?

Tokyo Special Investigation Department.

The Special Investigation Department is the island country’s anti-corruption agency, similar to Hong Kong’s ICAC.

"My name is Hiroshi Kimura, and I will be the presiding judge today. Saeki Kamji, let's talk about how you and other senior executives of the Agricultural Cooperative abused their positions to embezzle funds and accept kickbacks," a middle-aged man asked after he sat down.

"What to talk about? Those things on the Internet? Don't you know that these can be faked?" Saeki Kamji leaned back in his chair, his attitude extremely perfunctory.

"Haha, the evidence is solid but you're still being stubborn. Let's not talk about your problem for now and talk about other people's problems." Hiroji Kimura smiled, as if he had known the result would be like this.

"Others? Who?"

"Let's talk about the people in the Agricultural Cooperative."

"I don't know who you mean."

"As long as they are high-ranking officials, we can talk. For example, those who are at odds with you..."

"Hey, do you want me to betray the Agricultural Cooperative and be criticized by everyone in the future?" Saeki Kamajui said sarcastically.

He is not a fool. If he makes public some of the scandals in the Farmers' Association, he will have no chance of getting married in the future.

Hearing this, Hiroshi Kimura winked at the person next to him.

Soon, they were the only two left in the interrogation room.

Seeing that everyone had left, Kimura Hiroshi stood up and walked in front of the other person, lowering his voice and saying, "This matter is not as simple as you think..."

Before he could finish his words, the door of the interrogation room was opened.

Looking at the crowd of people at the door, Hiroshi Kimura frowned.

There were people from the Special Investigation Department, as well as a few other unfamiliar faces.

"We will try this case." One of them said after Hiroshi Kimura was called outside.

"Why? I captured him."

"This is the instruction from above."

"Above? Above which? The Special Investigation Department is a special department."

Hiroshi Kimura shouted somewhat unconvinced.

The other party took out a document from his clothes and handed it over. After taking a look at it, Hiroshi Kimura said no more, but his eyes were full of unwillingness.

"I know you want the credit. Don't worry, you won't lose anything." The man holding the paper smiled and patted his arm.

"Credit? Oh, you really think too much." Kimura Hiroshi glanced at Saeki Kamji in the room, threw down the paper in his hand with contempt, and turned away. "Always such a bad temper." The man looked at Kimura Hiroshi who was leaving and shook his head helplessly.

Two days later, in Fukuoka Prefecture, at the Saeki household.

"Oh, I didn't expect that. America's sky garden project is actually doing better than Tokyo's." Chen Xi sat on the tatami, flipping through the files on the computer.

Saori used the resources of the Saeki family and Ma Yueling to make great progress in America, which made Chen Xi look at her with admiration.

"That's right, don't you see who I am!" Saori puffed out her chest proudly and listened happily to her boyfriend's compliments.

"It seems that novelty and the internet celebrity model are suitable in every country, but I guess this model will not last long in America and can only be hyped in the stock market. Because the Sky Gardens were originally created by Americans, yours is just a modification using props such as drones and cultivation vehicles. There is actually no difference in essence..." Chen Xi looked at it for a while and began to summarize.

"So you mean you don't want to do it anymore?" Saori's face turned bitter. This was something she had worked so hard to earn.

"To put it bluntly, this is just like my chain of graphic stores. If I continue to run it, I will definitely not make money, and I will even lose money. It's better to sell it. But this is from the perspective of an investor. You Japanese people like to pursue the spirit of craftsmanship, and the two are in conflict..."

Chen Xi has always wanted to find someone to take over the graphic design store, but no one has appeared so far.

But the day before yesterday, I heard from my father-in-law that ABCD asked to acquire the Saeki family's business in America at the negotiating table.

It would be better to pick out some businesses that have no development prospects and sell them to them.

"I see that you and father seem very worried. Are you afraid that those Americans will do bad things?" Saori, who is always careful, asked tentatively.

"No, I not only suspect Americans, but also the top leaders of your island country..." Chen Xi shook his head slightly.

Saeki Kamjiro was taken away so suddenly, as if everything was planned.

According to common sense, even if the evidence was made public online, given the relationship between the Agricultural Cooperative and the government, and Saeki Kamji's position in the Agricultural Cooperative, it is impossible for him to be called in for an investigation just because of some public opinion that had just arisen.

In Chen Xi's mind, this kind of thing must have happened many times in history, and it is estimated that they were all turned into small things. As the head of the Agricultural Cooperative Supervisory Committee, this position is very important in the island country.

"The island country's top leaders?" Saori asked puzzledly.

"Well, do you know much about the relationship between the Agricultural Cooperative and the island government? Tell me about what happened in the past and some conflicts that broke out between the two." Chen Xi took a sip of water.

"I know a little." Saori nodded, and then told everything she knew.

noon the next day.

"What is this?" Chen Xi asked curiously, looking at the food on the table.

"These are all delicacies from our Kyushu, spicy cod roe, grilled cod milt, Hakata mizuki pot... they were all specially made by someone my mother." Saori first introduced, and then added in a low voice.

Chen Xi looked at Masako Saeki who was sitting not far away with an expressionless face, and couldn't help but wonder: "Hasn't your mother always disliked me? And now she seems to be indifferent, why did she prepare food for me?"

"My mother is like this. There are some things she doesn't like to say out loud, and she always expresses them through actions. Even though she looks cold now, she is actually very happy in her heart."

"Oh, I see. This is the legendary tsundere, pretending to be cool!"

"Not really. Mother is the mistress of the Saeki family. She usually has to act dignified. You'll get used to it in the future..."

The two of them covered their mouths and whispered.

Not far away, Masako Saeki was still eating with her head down, as if she didn't hear anything at all.

Looking at these two mother and daughter with completely opposite personalities, Chen Xi found it a little funny.

"Don't run around these days. This is an extraordinary period. Any word and action of the Saeki family may be seized upon and used to make a fuss, especially since your identity is very sensitive. I won't say much more, you are a smart person." After finishing her meal, Masako Saeki wiped her mouth gracefully, left in a hurry after saying a few words.

"Your mother is so cool! Why do I feel like your mother is the head of the Saeki family?" Only after seeing the difficult mother-in-law leave did Chen Xi dare to speak freely.

"My mother takes care of all the small matters in the family. The women in my family take care of the warehouse, do the bookkeeping and other tasks. The men are the ones who work in the agricultural cooperatives and production."

"Oh~ The division of labor is so clear. I always thought that women in island countries had a very low status, but it seems that's not entirely true."

"My great-grandmother was born into a high-class family. She married into the Saeki family. They set a lot of rules before. One of them was: when a man entered the agricultural cooperative to compete for a position, the wife had to hold three rice shops tightly."

"Anyway, those rules are to ensure the status of women in the Saeki family, right? Then when you marry me in the future, do you also have to set rules?" Chen Xi teased.

As soon as he finished speaking, he was pressed down on the tatami by someone.

Saori looked down at him and said, "Of course. If I don't set some rules for people like you, wouldn't that be rebellious? Don't think I don't know anything. That woman Zhao Lingshan opened a restaurant near us, and it was your instruction. Humph, if I don't take care of it, I don't know how many other women you will bring out for me."

"Wow, baby, you're so cool. I thought you looked nothing like your mother before, but now it seems you are indeed her biological child."

"Stop changing the subject. The women in my Saeki family have always been the boss at home." Saori stood up and stepped on his chest with her little feet.

"Um... after dinner, let's learn a foreign language. Didn't your father tell me to study hard the day before yesterday?"

"Screw you."

Saori's heavy punches were like hitting cotton. Facing such a rogue man, she had no idea what to do.

Her face flushed at the thought of learning a foreign language.

It’s not like there haven’t been cram schools before, but Chen Xi only wanted to learn some sex talk.

"Sister, this must be your Chinese fiancé. I've seen him before at the celebration." A sweet and coquettish voice suddenly came from the door, startling Chen Xi so much that he jumped up from the tatami.

The two of them were busy tidying up their messy clothes, and then they remembered that they had forgotten to close the door.

A graceful girl was leaning against the door, her exquisite figure wrapped in a light pink furisode kimono.

The girl was about twenty years old. She had a pair of slightly upturned fox eyes on her palm-sized oval face, and her eyes were charming in their movements.

Her nose is small and delicate, and her cherry lips are painted with crystal lip gloss.

Chen Xi glanced at the other person and felt that the woman looked very seductive, like the legendary vixen.

"Yeah." Saori replied lightly, and transformed herself into the arrogant eldest daughter of the Saeki family. Her demeanor was as if they were carved from the same mold as Saeki Masako.

Chen Xi couldn't help but give a thumbs up in his heart.

They are indeed mother and daughter.

Women really change their expressions faster than turning the pages of a book! (End of this chapter)