Chapter Seventy-Three Master

  Xiao Fei drove away with Liu Fu and the others. After they left, Hei Zi arranged for the remaining people to quickly clean up the remaining ore. They couldn't stay here any longer.

  Liu Fulai was sent to a city hospital for a craniotomy and his life was saved, but the doctor said he might be a bit foolish in the future.

  Liu Fulaide's younger brother's wound on his face was sutured and he was fine.

  After Xiao Fei paid the medical expenses and drove back to the mining point, he briefed Heizi on the situation. Heizi remained silent for a few minutes before saying, "Call Liu's brother and tell him that from now on, this mining point belongs to them. Let's leave tonight and have them send someone to take over tomorrow."

  Xiao Fei didn't know why Heizi wanted to give this mining point to Liu Fu, but he knew clearly that Heizi wouldn't be afraid of such a small matter.

  "Lao Wu, why give it to them?" asked Zhuo Xiaofei.

  "Heizi looked up at the high slag slope and said, 'If we withdraw from this mining point, it will be abandoned. It's just a matter of giving it to someone, and even if we don't give it to anyone, someone will come to occupy it sooner or later. We still want to mix in Xinglong County.'"

  "Will this make them think we're afraid of them?" Zhū Xiǎofēi asked worriedly.

  "Hei Zi shook his head and said: 'No way, they won't dare to bother us again in the future. Tomorrow when they come, I'll beat them up again.'"

  The evacuation work accelerated, and by nightfall, the remaining ore was almost all pulled away. Hei Zi asked the excavator driver to drive the excavator to his own dressing plant, and let Da Gui and others lock the gate here well. The several of them drove away from this mining point.

  At night, Hei Zi informed Meng Fei that he had finished picking up the mine. He said that someone was seriously injured in the fight upstairs and was worried about revenge, so he wanted to avoid trouble for a while. For these days, he wanted to focus on managing the bus company in the small town.

  Meng Fei was very grateful to Heizi. In a year and a half, he had earned over 50 million yuan. This money came easily with little risk. Recently, the situation in the open-pit mining area was also chaotic, and Meng Fei knew that if things continued like this, the country would not stand idly by. It was good that Heizi stopped.

  Hei Zi and his brothers rested in the small town for a few days, Wu Mei hadn't seen Zhuo Xiao Fei for a long time. Recently, she had been staying at home taking care of her child and rarely went out. Secretary Xiao and his wife were very happy, thinking that Wu Mei had changed and no longer gambled, so they relaxed their control over her.

  Xiao Fei returned to his hometown and Wu Mei arrived. Hei Zi saw Wu Mei smile and said, "Wu Mei, you're out of prison?"

  The fifth sister said proudly: "Why say such unpleasant things? I'm out of the pass, my training is complete, and now I'm also a master."

  "Practicing what? Is it One Yang Finger or the Tathagata Palm?" Zhu Xiao Fei curiously asked Wu Mei as he leaned in closer.

  The fifth sister slapped the table and said: "Bring me a huqin, I'll give everyone a performance."

  Hei Zi had a lot of gambling equipment from the casinos that were opened two years ago, including mahjong and dice. Er Cheng and Yi Ting Wu Mei wanted to perform a dice-throwing act, so he quickly took out several sets of dice and a large bowl from the cabinet.

  The fifth sister flipped over the colored silk, picked out two pairs, and held one pair in each hand. Then, as if using her breath, she shouted a few times and said: "Shout out what you want, and it will come to you."

  "Three flowers five, six six six, three leopard children, five leopard children, come a monkey to pull diarrhea." A group of people shouted in unison.

  Only then did Wu Mei stretch out her two hands to the left and right, shouting "Come on!" and stunning everyone in the house.

  Someone suspected that Wu Mei's color was haunted and said: "Fifth sister, we must test the color."

  The fifth sister threw down the colored silk in her hand and picked out another one, still shouting "come a few, go a few".

  Then came mahjong and cards, in less than an hour, everyone was amazed and said: "Gambling god, Wu Mei is the gambling god."

  Hei Zi suddenly remembered something, Wu Mei's gambling skills were indeed exquisite, it seemed that her master had taught her a lot of real things. Hei Zi and their gang still had an intermittent game going on, if Wu Mei's exquisite gambling skills spread out, who would play with her then?

  Everyone made a fuss for a while, and Hei Zi said: "Wu Mei, your gambling skills are indeed superb, but this matter cannot be known to outsiders."

  "Why?" asked Da Gui, puzzled.

  "Hei Zi smiled and said: 'You think, if you knew that Wu Mei had such a great gambling technique, would you still play with her? You'd be giving away your money.'"

  Everyone nodded in agreement with Hei Zi's analysis, and Hei Zi continued: "Listen up, everyone present today. This matter cannot be told to anyone else. Since Yin Le and his two brothers are not here today, they also must not be told."

  Everyone nodded in understanding, and Wu Mei sighed and said: "It's really boring, such good skills can't be known to others."

  Xiao Fei comforted Wu Mei, saying: "Sister, let's quietly win the money, don't loudly refuse."

  They stopped picking up the mine, and the black sons were idle. During the day, Hei Zi and Zhu Xiao Fei took everyone to the county town to drink with Liu Peng Fei. At night, they occasionally opened a gambling den in a house next to the reservoir. Of course, nowadays, the gambling den is not just about making money from running errands and keeping watch. Each time, he handed over one million cash to Wu Mei, letting Wu Mei be the banker, and then deliberately losing or winning.

  At first, Wu Mei was reluctant to lose, but later she found that controlling the game alone and being able to win or lose at will was more interesting than just winning money.

  Winter is approaching, and the iron mine needs coal to be transported by Hei Zi. When he has nothing to do, he goes to Zhao Weiguo and Liu Deputy Mine with Zhu Xiaofei. Both of them remind him to ensure the quality of the coal.

  Because of Hei Zi's generosity, his relationship with Deputy Manager Liu far surpassed Zhao Weiguo. Now they were like friends who could talk about anything. Hei Zi followed a principle: he would discuss anything related to the iron mine with Deputy Mine Director Liu, but keep him in the dark about things unrelated to the iron mine. Hei Zi knew that corrupt officials could fall at any time, and he didn't want to be dragged down with them.

  After the mining point was stopped, Heizi's pelletizing plant built next to the ore dressing plant also started construction. The foundation work can be completed before winter, and equipment will be installed in the spring of next year. It is expected to go into production in summer, which means that Heizi's income will increase significantly by next spring.

  The more income, the bigger the burden. Hei Zi feels overwhelmed and thinks that the people around him are not good at doing business. These people are good at fighting, but it's unrealistic to let them manage a company. Now Hei Zi urgently needs enterprise management talent.

  Hei Zi's ideas, apart from telling Zhu Xiao Fei to pay attention to managing personnel, were to find and hire high-salary management talent. He planned to merge his two mines, one ore dressing plant, and one pelletizing factory near the open-pit mine into a single mining company, making it easier to manage and freeing himself up to work on other projects.

  Talent is the hardest thing to find in the world. Sometimes it's not something you can find just because you want to, like a natural-born gambler like Wu Mei, and even Hei Zi has only met one in his lifetime.