AWB Chapter 1234 A Chance Encounter with Xu Banxia
Chapter 1234 A Chance Encounter with Xu Banxia
At around 4 a.m. the next day, the flight from Shanghai to Seoul was about to take off, and Wei Hong and Daisy set off with a small suitcase.
"Big sister, don't you bring bodyguards when you go out? I remember you told us before that we must bring bodyguards when we leave home?" Daisy asked curiously after boarding the plane.
"Of course you need bodyguards when you go out as a group. Why would I need bodyguards? Are you protecting me or am I protecting the bodyguards?" Wei Hong asked Daisy with a disdainful look.
Daisy recalled hearing Wei Qing talk about her eldest sister's glorious deeds, and especially since she had witnessed Wei Qing's skills herself, she suddenly felt that her question seemed somewhat superfluous.
"Don't worry, your older sister brought you out, so she can protect you. But why didn't you bring your little assistant? That girl named Wen Huixin?" Wei Hong asked curiously.
"I arranged for her to be the CFO of Jingyan Group! The foreign trade company has already been sold, and Ye Jinyan was looking for a suitable CFO, so I sent Xiaowen there. After all, I am a major shareholder of Jingyan, and we need to have someone from our own circle here!" Daisy said with a smile.
“You’re all a bunch of business-minded guys, busy all day long without knowing what you’re thinking. Why don’t you learn from Xiao Suizi and Zhuoma?” Wei Hong asked with a smile.
“Big sister, fourth sister-in-law and fifth sister-in-law just think doing business is boring. Besides, everyone has their own hobbies. My hobby is doing business. I like the feeling of being watched. Besides, I don’t know how to do anything else except doing business,” Daisy said with a helpless expression.
"Hey lady, the lady in front of you has the same idea as you!" Just then, a man's voice suddenly came from behind.
"Are you trying to kill me? You're eavesdropping on people's conversation? I'm sorry, my brother is really inconsiderate. He didn't mean to eavesdrop on your conversation!" The woman sitting next to the man slapped him on the back of the head, then quickly apologized to Wei Hong and Daisy.
"It's alright, it's not a secret! Are you also going to Seoul?" Daisy said to the two of them with a smile.
“That’s right, we’re also going to Seoul. I’m a scrap metal collector and I have a batch of steel. I heard that South Korea is a country that imports resources, so I wanted to go there to find a market! My name is Xu Banxia, and this is my younger brother, Tong Xiaoqi. How should I address you two sisters?” The woman gave a brief self-introduction and asked with a smile.
“My name is Daisy, and this is my older sister, Zhao Weihong. We’re also going to South Korea to discuss business! What a coincidence!” Daisy said with a smile.
"What a coincidence! Did you go to South Korea to find a translator? Do you want us to introduce you to one? I have a friend whose daughter is studying in South Korea. We can help her. She has many classmates, and it's inconvenient for her to do anything without a translator there. She could easily be fooled by those Koreans!" Xu Banxia kindly reminded her.
“No need, we’ll be taken care of when we get there. By the way, how much steel did you collect from scrap metal that you need to go to South Korea to find a seller? Can’t you sell it domestically?” Daisy asked.
Wei Hong, who hadn't said a word the whole time, turned her head and looked at the woman named Xu Banxia with a face full of curiosity. She was also very curious about how much scale a woman who collected scrap could have to go abroad to sell steel.
"Pfft!" Tong Xiaoqi, who was sitting next to Daisy, couldn't help but burst out laughing when he heard Daisy's question.
Xu Banxia, who was sitting next to him, slapped him on the back of the head again before turning around somewhat embarrassed and saying to Daisy.
"Actually, it's not that much, just tens of thousands of tons. The main problem is that my steel is a bit special; it's imported scrap steel, which isn't easy to sell domestically, and the price of steel in China doesn't even cover my costs," Xu Banxia said with some melancholy.
"Importing tens of thousands of tons of scrap steel? That shouldn't be that much, right? The domestic market is so big, surely it can't handle it?" Wei Hong asked.
"That batch of steel was imported from Er Mao's family. It was all old tanks and Katyusha rockets that had been stripped of their weapons! After it was brought back, we found that the price of steel in our country had dropped a lot, and it wasn't even enough to cover the cost!" Xu Banxia said somewhat embarrassedly.
Upon hearing her words, Wei Hong and Daisy exchanged bewildered glances. This woman had some nerve, actually going there to import steel? And she actually bought it!
"So how did you come up with the idea of selling in South Korea?" Daisy asked curiously.
"My friend's daughter told me that some group in South Korea built a new steel plant and is offering pretty high prices for scrap steel and ore. I figured if I could sell to them, I could not only get rid of the steel I have, but also make a small profit. So I thought I'd try my luck in South Korea," Xu Banxia said.
"Hehe, I hope your wish comes true!" Daisy said with a smirk. She was really a little embarrassed to discourage Xu Banxia. With the amount of steel you imported, apart from our country, you could probably be accused of arms trafficking in any other country, right?
Daisy didn't know that Xu Banxia's steel shipment had just been unloaded when she was reported for arms trafficking and had to go to the police station to explain. So Xu Banxia was mentally prepared for this, but the steel had been sitting in her hands for a long time, and she had no other choice but to try her luck in South Korea. Otherwise, she could only wait for the price of steel in China to rise.
"Sister Daisy, what are you going to South Korea for? Of course, if it's inconvenient, just pretend I didn't ask." Xu Banxia asked Daisy with a face full of curiosity. Even Tong Xiaoqi was rubbing the back of his head, which had been hit by Xu Banxia, while eavesdropping.
“It’s nothing. We heard that the South Korean Big Rain Group is going to sell their shipping company, and we’re thinking of seeing if we can buy their ships and start our own shipping business,” Daisy said with a smile.
"You're going to buy a boat?" Xu Banxia asked, somewhat surprised.
Although she didn't know anything about shipping companies, she did know the prices of cargo ships. A cargo ship of more than 5,000 tons would basically cost tens of millions of RMB. It seems that this lady is very powerful!
"Well, I can't continue doing export trade for some reasons, so I have to find a way to change careers! My family wants me to start a shipping company, so I went to South Korea to see what the situation was like." The more relaxed and at ease Daisy was, the more Xu Banxia and Tong Xiaoqi felt that the strength of the woman in front of them was unfathomable. But they had never heard of any powerful businessmen with the surname Dai.
"Sister, you just mentioned Jingyan Group? Is it the Jingyan Group in Shanghai that does real estate?" Xu Banxia asked suddenly after thinking for a while.