Brother Hui: "I'll handle the team formation and personnel distribution, and Xiao Sheng will be in charge of coordination, technical support, and the handover after docking. Xiao Sheng, do you have any difficulties?"
I said: "Uncle Hui, these are my strengths, no problem."
Brother Hui: "Good, with your words, Uncle Hui has confidence. Let's act separately. Tomorrow at noon, we will have another conference call to update on the team building progress. We aim to immediately start with the second batch of goods, meaning our first batch of goods embarks on its mysterious journey, right after this batch is handed over!"
I said okay and see you tomorrow at noon.
After hanging up the phone, I said goodbye to Xie Jiahui, saying I was going to coordinate overseas affairs, and left the processing plant.
Xie Nana stood up. She knew I was leaving and looked at me with a bit of reluctance. I said: "Nana, I have to go and get busy. You heard it too, Uncle has given me a heavy responsibility. I need to hurry and get it done. I might not be back in Ruili tonight. If I come back early, I'll go home, otherwise I won't. I'll rest at the hotel."
Xie Nana nodded, let go of my hand, and watched me leave.
After I went downstairs, I said to Wen Siqiang in the car: "Quick, to the border!"
Young Master Wu had gathered the team waiting for me opposite. We still had over 700 kilometers to go. The road conditions on the other side were very bad, and we had to reach our destination before midnight.
Twelve hours for over 700 kilometers might not seem like much, but with extremely poor road conditions, traveling fifty to sixty kilometers in an hour would be considered very fast.
Therefore, time was extremely tight.
I glanced at the time, it was ten thirty in the morning. Deducting the time for customs clearance, it was about an hour's drive.
We had to depart by twelve o'clock sharp.
I said to Wen Siqiang, "Step on the gas!"
I rarely urged Wen Siqiang to drive fast, unless it was something particularly urgent.
Wen Siqiang knew the situation was critical and the car roared and sped off.
Customs clearance was not smooth; there were too many trucks, it was very slow.
I kept looking at the time, watching the minutes and seconds tick by. The convoy was like a winding snake, forming a long, meandering queue.
Wen Siqiang said: "I have a connection, I don't know if it can help, it's a distant relative of mine."
I said: "We can only try. Look at this scene, we won't get through in less than an hour or two, it's not moving at all."
Wen Siqiang took out his phone, flipped through his contacts for a while, and made a call.
It seemed Wen Siqiang didn't contact him often, only keeping his number, otherwise he wouldn't have searched for so long to find it.
The phone rang several times, and a girl's voice came from the receiver.
I didn't expect Wen Siqiang's distant relative to be a girl.
Wen Siqiang: "Cousin, it's Ah Qiang. We're stuck at customs, and it's urgent. Can you use your green channel? It's really urgent."
The other side hesitated for a moment, then seemed to suddenly remember: "Oh, cousin Siqiang, I'm not at work. I'll call my supervisor and see if they can make an exception and let you through."
Wen Siqiang hung up the phone and waited for his cousin to intercede for us.
Time is strange; when you're waiting, it passes very slowly. These few minutes of waiting were very agonizing.
I checked the time, it was ten fifty.
I calculated the time; after customs clearance, there was still twenty minutes of driving. We had to clear customs within half an hour to ensure we arrived before twelve o'clock.
In the long wait, the phone finally rang.
Wen Siqiang nervously pressed to answer. The person on the other end said: "Cousin Siqiang, go to Gate 6. There's a Police Officer Zhang there who is responsible for receiving you."