Courtyard House: My Wife is Xu Huizhen

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He Yuzhu said very seriously, "Your big eyes, your straight nose, your thin lips, your delicate skin..."

Hearing He Yuzhu describe her beauty, Elena was very moved and leaned over to kiss him on the lips.

He said with some regret, "It's a pity you're already married, otherwise I wouldn't mind starting a cross-border romance with you."

"Yes, I also regret not meeting you sooner."

After another two weeks of monotonous train travel, they finally arrived at their final destination. Elena had already sent a telegram to gather people and transport the goods to a warehouse in the suburbs.

He Yuzhu was busy from beginning to end, then went to Elena's villa, took a nice hot shower, and then the two discussed things together.

He Yuzhu asked first, "Why is there no one else at home?"

Elena said, "My father is a soldier and is serving in the military, so there is no one at home."

Although He Yuzhu found it strange, as his only relative was his father, he didn't ask any further questions. He then said, "The goods have arrived. What should we do now?"

I knew before that Elena had limited capital and originally planned to purchase less than 1/5 of the current amount of supplies. However, He Yuzhu's involvement later made the scale of the shipment gradually larger, leading to the current situation of a partnership.

Elena said, "My original plan was to sell small batches of goods, which would be easy to move, but right now we have too much stock, so we can only wholesale to distributors."

"This is also a possible path."

Elena's main strengths lie in the military, where she relies on her father's position to handle international transportation, but she can't do sales in the capital.

Besides, after this batch of goods is sold out, Elena will have to return to Beijing with He Yuzhu, so she won't have much energy left for sales.

After discussing it, Elena went to find the distributor the next day.

The Russian bear country has a well-developed heavy industry, while light industry is not valued at all. After all, the main resources are used for war, and no one knows when the third world war will break out again. As a result, there is not much fabric on the market, let alone such expensive fabrics as silk and satin.

The two first visited Andrei, who owned a wholesale market that mainly dealt in the wholesale and retail of daily necessities, including fabrics.

Looking at the samples He Yuzhu brought out, Andrei's eyes lit up. Although the Russian country at that time was vast and sparsely populated, it was not the cotton and grain producing area of ​​later generations.

Even in the 1970s and 80s, there were still food shortages and a food crisis, during which the US took advantage of us.

Right now, there isn't enough grain or cotton, and the popular fabrics on the market are actually made from chemical raw materials.

In previous years, there were large quantities of high-end silk on the market, but that supply has dwindled since then. Now that high-end silk is available again, any businessman knows that there are substantial profits to be made.

"You mean, there's a large quantity of this silk?"

Elena said, "Yes, we have quite a few. I wonder if Mr. Andrei is interested in this shipment?"

"Of course! As long as the price is right, I'll take all your storage space."

Elena and He Yuzhu exchanged a smile. If they could sell the goods successfully, they could earn two or three times the profit. They could then purchase another batch of goods and bring them back to the capital, making a considerable profit in the future.

Cross-border business is still the most profitable! He Yuzhu felt a surge of excitement. It was only 59, and the Sino-Soviet split would not occur until 4, a full four years. During that time, he could do business.

Before, my braised meat business was just a small-scale operation; this kind of international business is much more profitable.

Elena smiled and said, "As long as the price is right, I'll give you this batch of goods."

Both parties were interested in promoting the business, and the next step was to negotiate the details. It was only at this point that He Yuzhu realized that his earlier thoughts were too optimistic.

Andrei initially demanded that the goods be delivered first, and that payment be made after they were sold. Elena, of course, refused and argued against this proposal.

Elena compromised, saying that since Andrei didn't have much working capital, he could deliver the goods according to the amount he had, and Andrei could put the goods on the shelves for sale first.

After several rounds of negotiations, Andrei finally agreed to this method, and agreed to use the money to purchase a batch of goods for sale.

Then the two parties negotiated the price. They had already discussed it with He Yuzhu and the wholesale price had been determined.

After all, only Elena can provide such high-end silk on the market, so there's no worry about selling the goods.

After some discussion, Elena stuck to her bottom line and did not offer too many concessions.

Seeing Elena's firm resolve, Andrei could only say, "It's a pleasure to cooperate!"

"It's a pleasure working with you!" Elena smiled victoriously.

Encouraged by Andrei, the two left, and He Yuzhu said, "I feel that Andrei is not a good person. Maybe we should look for other distributors in a couple of days."

Elena also said, "I felt it too. He probably thinks we are weak and wants to control us."

He Yuzhu had no choice. After all, this was Moscow, and most of the people who could do business here had connections. Unfortunately, Elena's connections were ordinary; her father wasn't even a general. He Yuzhu just hoped that this first business deal would go smoothly and that nothing else would go wrong.

On the second day at the appointed time, the two men arrived at the warehouse with Andrei's men, collected the money, and then had them take away a cartload of silk fabric.

The two confirmed that the warehouse had instructed the guards to proceed before heading to the city to find a distributor.

However, the process did not go smoothly. They worked all day but still couldn't reach an agreement. The other party's demands were even more outrageous than Andrei's, wanting to get something for nothing.

"This is too much. They're willing to set any conditions."

"Yes, I didn't expect the business environment here to be so terrible."

He Yuzhu hadn't expected the people here to be so eccentric. Compared to them, it was already good that Andrei could come up with cash to buy goods. It turned out that the others actually demanded that the goods be supplied first and then the payment be settled.

Both of them were very angry. Elena took He Yuzhu to a bar, where they drank strong liquor and sang Katyusha, releasing all the pent-up frustration of the past two days.

The two drunkards helped each other into the villa. He Yuzhu threw Elena onto the bed, his mind was foggy, and he collapsed onto the double bed as well, overcome by the alcohol.

A piercing ringtone sounded, and He Yuzhu shivered. He opened his eyes and saw Elena lying in his arms.

To his embarrassment, Elena had also come to her senses and was looking at him.

He Yuzhu quickly removed his hand from the mountain and said awkwardly, "I don't know what happened either."

"Alright, I'm not blaming you." Elena wasn't angry. Instead, she kissed He Yuzhu on the lips and said, "Anyway, we've both had too much to drink, it's fine."

Ignoring the fact that her body was exposed, she pressed her body against He Yuzhu's face before finally getting the receiver.

Then He Yuzhu heard a voice coming from the microphone that made him feel as if he had fallen into an ice cave, a chill rising up, and all traces of romance vanished.

"What did you say?" Elena couldn't believe what she was hearing and couldn't help but ask.

"Miss, this is not my fault. They were all armed and just took the warehouse keys. Then more than ten trucks came and took all the goods away."

After listening to it again, Elena finally confirmed that the goods she had painstakingly brought from the capital had been stolen.

The microphone slipped from Elena's hand, and she sat dejectedly on the edge of the bed, staring blankly into space.

He Yuzhu also sat up, wanting to put the receiver back, and then hugged Elena to comfort her.

"Elena, you have to believe me. I can solve anything."

"But...but this is all my savings, and someone actually stole it all."

"Don't worry, I will get it back. No one can take my things away from me," He Yuzhu said fiercely.

He Yuzhu refused to believe it. Not only had he mastered martial arts to the level of Huajin, but he also possessed the powerful weapon of spatial manipulation. As long as he could find the robber, He Yuzhu would not hesitate to wreak havoc in this foreign land.

Even if the goods are lost, I can still use my spatial storage ability to rob someone here and make up for my losses.

He Yuzhu's comforting words put Elena at ease, and she finally regained some confidence, saying, "Let's go check the warehouse first."

Previously, Elena had borrowed a Jeep through connections, and He Yuzhu drove Elena to the warehouse.

Elena said with a sigh, "How can it be so difficult to do business? We haven't offended anyone."

"It's because we had a large batch of goods that some people with ulterior motives saw it and tried to steal our goods."

"Yes, this time we were too high-profile. If we had ordered less stock, it wouldn't have attracted their attention."

He Yuzhu was also a little annoyed. He had indeed been too reckless, thinking only of investing all his savings in this batch of goods. In addition, Ye Qingmo also brought in an extra batch of goods, resulting in a total of two railcars carrying 60 tons of silk.

It's important to know that silk is a precious and high-end fabric, and these two train cars of goods are enough to make many people's hearts flutter.

As the two talked, they soon arrived at the warehouse. The warehouse, which used to be packed full of thousands of items, was now empty, without even a single piece of cloth.

After taking a quick look inside, the two men came out of the warehouse, and the guards, trembling with fear, came forward to explain.

After listening carefully for a while, it turned out that he was just apologizing over and over again. The other party was wearing a mask with only his eyes showing, and he was wearing ordinary work clothes, so it was impossible to tell what kind of person he was.

Elena said worriedly, "What are we going to do now? There's no way to investigate."

He Yuzhu thought for a moment and said, "I think the most likely possibility is that it's Andrei's men. Only he has already taken away a batch of goods and knows the location of our warehouse."

Although I talked to a few distributors during the day, they didn't know where the goods were, so it's unlikely they were the ones who did it.

On the contrary, Andrei knew how much of the goods there were and could easily calculate their total value.

Furthermore, Elena is outnumbered and outmatched. Even if there are suspicions, as long as she does things cleanly, no one can find any fault with her.

Andrei himself had been running a wholesale business for many years and had enough connections in both political and business circles, so Elena couldn't cause any trouble at all.

Elena thought about it and realized that there was a high possibility that Andrei wanted to double-cross her, but that was just a suspicion. What should she do now?

"Then what are we going to do?"

He Yuzhu said, "Let's go back first; we still need to gather some intelligence."

Back home, neither of them felt sleepy. Elena introduced Andrei's background, which was basically about which general he had allied with, how many men he had, and how he wielded considerable power in Moscow.

He Yuzhu was dismissive of all of this. Conventional firearms and ammunition posed no threat to him. He had previously conducted experiments and found that bullets fired from his pistol could be directly stored in his spatial storage through his mental perception.

In other words, if an ordinary person were to shoot themselves with a gun, they would have enough reaction time to collect the bullets.

Fortunately, He Yuzhu had reached the Transformation Realm, which was due to his high-speed reaction brought about by martial arts training. Otherwise, He Yuzhu would not have been able to collect the bullets.

Unless He Yuzhu enters the blast radius and the high explosive is suddenly detonated, He Yuzhu will not be harmed.

The prime suspect right now is Andrei. I'm not a policeman, so all I need to do is find out where his warehouse is, then sneak in and search it.

If the goods can be found, it would prove that Andrei was the one who took revenge on himself, making it perfectly logical for him to do so.