Lu Yuan recuperated from his injuries with peace of mind, but the newspapers seemed to be in chaos, and every day there would be news that the remnants of the underground party organization in Shanghai had been broken by the Japanese army or that some anti-Japanese elements had been captured. Lu Yuan's mood was also like riding a roller coaster, sometimes angry and sometimes excited as the news published in the newspaper approached, and as the time to go to Germany approached, Lu Yuan's mood became more and more complicated. Lu Yuan's emotional changes in the past few days were all seen by Schuchman, and at noon on the first day of Hogg's return to Shanghai from Nanjing, he was forcibly dragged away by Schuchman from his family and dragged to Lu Yuan's study.

"Boss, it's just the three of us here, and Hogg and I should be the ones you can trust, so no matter what we say here, I promise that no fourth person will know." Shu Heman forcibly pulled Hogg into the study, and Lu Yuan noticed Shu Heman's abnormality, which saw Shu Heman's righteous words and demeanor, and felt the difference even more, and said that this thing had a bad stomach in the morning, and it affected the brain.

The surprise in Lu Yuan's eyes was clearly seen by Hogg, and then he turned his head and smiled at Schuhman, "What are you crazy about, what do you want to say?" Or what do you want your boss to say? Hogg's words seemed to be accusing Schuchmann, but in fact he was looking for an excuse for Schuchman, who was suddenly a little dazed. Sure enough, after listening to Hogg's words, Schuchmann grinned, he had already thought about what he should say next.

"Hogg, don't bother with him, sit down, I have a good cigar here, we are discussing going to Germany, Lukka has already called, he may come to the house for dinner tonight to discuss the specific time of leaving." The singing and harmony between Hogg and Schuchman did not escape Lu Yuan's eyes, so before Schuchman, who had already found a good reason, opened his mouth to speak, Lu Yuan beckoned to Hogg and smiled, causing Schuchman, who was about to speak, to be stunned in front of Lu Yuan's desk.

Lu Yuan smiled and took out a cigar and handed it to Hogg, then glared at Schuchman angrily, and finally threw a cigar to Schuchman. "Okay, you can sit down too, I know what you mean, didn't I already promise you and Fauber that I wouldn't sneak out alone anymore, what do you want me to do? Is it just to be a good boy in the study all day? Oh my God, I'm going to go crazy like that. Lu Yuan's stormy complaint did not attract Shu Heman's pity, but after Lu Yuan said the last sentence, he nodded solemnly at Lu Yuan.

Such a dispute had broken out between Lu Yuan and Schuchmann many times before Hogg returned, but with the support of Aunt Fubberford, Schuchmann always had the upper hand. Hogg just came back, and Schuhman couldn't wait to pull Hogg into his own camp, so Lu Yuan complained so wildly, he tried to get Hogg on his side.

Looking at the childish confrontation and complaining between Lu Yuan and Schuchmann, Hogg secretly expressed his displeasure, and said in his heart that the two of you are arguing about this, and I can't be with my family, and there is no conscience. However, Hogg's complaint can only be secretly thought about in his heart, he will never say it in front of Lu Yuan and Shu Heman, after all, it is not easy to find a generous boss like Xiang Lu Yuan, and he still has a large family to support.

Lu Yuan and Schuchman argued, but Hogg remained silent, and after a while, Hogg figured out why Schuchman forbade Lu Yuan to go out, daring to love his own boss who was simply a troublemaker. "Boss, you've been talking for a long time, and I think I've figured out what this is all about." Seeing that Lu Yuan had already made a crazy move, Hogg interjected at the right time, and at the same time made a vague look at Schuchmann, signaling the other party to be calm.

Hogg coughed lightly, and after Lu Yuan and Shu Heman stopped talking, Shi Shiran smiled at the two, "From my standpoint, boss, you are naturally not wrong, but what I want to say is that Shu Heman is not wrong either." Why do I say this, although you are the boss, but Shuchman is your personally selected bodyguard, as a bodyguard, he naturally has to consider the boss and your safety, so I said that what Shuchman did cannot be wrong. ”

Hogg's rhetoric of playing fifty boards each made Lu Yuan immediately squint, and the cunning Hogg immediately changed his tone, and then glared at Schuhman and said, "Schuhman, don't think I'm talking for you, you must know that Lu is our boss." Why do you want to be like this to the boss, you must know that this is a lease, no matter how cruel the Japanese are, they don't dare to be too rampant in the concession. You know, our boss will soon become the nobleman of Berlin's aristocratic lords, do you think the Japanese will be stupid to provoke our boss? ”

When Hogg said this, he deliberately squeezed his eyebrows at Schuchman, so that Lu Yuan finally saw the embarrassment that Schuchman was forced to show as he wished. Of course, what Hogg said was not wrong, but Schuhman was completely frightened because of what happened in Kwai Yuan that night, if he hadn't intervened to intercept the Japanese troops who came to help, if he hadn't arrived in Kwai Yuan in time, maybe Lu Yuan would have already been the target of torture in the hands of the Japanese.

However, after Hogg's "mediation", the worry in Schuchmann's heart has dissipated a lot, after all, Hogg has also returned, and the persuasion of the two people is always better than his own. "Boss, I mean seriously, strictly speaking, there's really nothing wrong with Schuchmann. After you return to Shanghai, don't you realize that the Japanese are now a dominant company in Shanghai? I know you're very good boss, but you're only one person after all, and being outnumbered is not a good idea. ”

Hogg's persuasion did not annoy Lu Yuan, but replied with a normal face, "Mr. Hogg, can you not always lecture me like Mr. Schuchmann, I am no longer a child, gentlemen, I am about to be 20 years old, in China, at my age, I can get married and have children." Lu Yuan's serious answer caused Hogg and Schuchmann to burst into laughter, because in the eyes of the two of them, Lu Yuan was just a child, at most a big child.

The hilarity of Hogg and Schuchman made Lu Yuan speechless, but he knew in his heart that if it weren't for his concern, Hogg and Schuchman would not have said what they just said to him. "Okay, you two don't laugh, Luca will come to dinner in the evening, let's discuss going to Germany first, I have a plan to make a lot of money here, do you two want to listen to it?" In desperation, Lu Yuan had no choice but to sacrifice his killer weapon, trying to divert the attention of Hogg and Schuchmann with a money-making plan, and at the same time free himself from the dilemma of being teased by the two of them.

As soon as it came to making a lot of money, Hogg immediately came to his senses, and he always felt that Hogg's greatest wish for treating his family badly was to earn a lot of money, enough money for his family not to worry about living security for the rest of his life. "That's the case, the Nanjing incident has exhausted all the family funds I accumulated earlier, and now the daily consumption of our family is all from Old Hansen. I said I would send you to the United States to start a new life, but the United States is a highly capitalist country, and you can't live in the United States without money. ”

As he spoke, Lu Yuan opened the drawer, took out a file bag and handed it to Hogg. "This is a geological survey data that I bought from an American geological prospector before I returned to China, and the news that Alaska has amazing gold reserves has been confirmed by the Americans. However, this information says that there is a large amount of direct gold sand on the Bering Coast, which means that these gold sands can be obtained by direct washing, directly from the sediment on the seabed. ”

When Hogg and Schuchmann first heard about gold, they were still a little refreshed, but when they heard that Lu Yuan and his gang were about to wash the gold sand from the bottom of the sea, they suddenly lost interest. No one knows how deep the Bering Sea is, but Hogg and Schuchmann know how difficult it can be to wash the sediment from the bottom of the Bering Sea. Lu Yuan is completely sure of this, because a documentary about the Bering Sea gold panning in later generations can be said to be popular all over the world, and the Alaskan town called Nome has become a blessed place for many gold diggers.

"Gentlemen, I'm not just saying that you should go to Alaska to pan for gold now, but that it is difficult to live and settle in Alaska as a German. What I want to say is, can't you buy a piece of land near the sea in advance, and maybe your descendants will get unexpected gains from it? Lu Yuan smiled and took out the second document and handed it to the two of them, which were the drawings of the two combined gold panning ships.

"God, boss, you're such a genius." Schuchmann was not interested in the drawings, but Hogg immediately exclaimed. "Yes, if we put the machinery on the sand carrier, we have a gold panning ship that can move, and with this air pump, we can pump the sediment from the bottom of the sea in the shallow sea and wash it. It's amazing, we're sure to get a lot of gold from the bottom of the sea, boss, we're going to be rich. ”

Hogg's excitement infected Schuchmann, and the two immediately started a series of discussions, but Lu Yuan fell silent at this time. Pointing out the location of the town of Nome for Hogg and Schuchmann is a back road that Lu Yuan prepared for them in advance, and it is not in vain that Hogg and Schuchman have done their best to help those refugees in Nanjing, Lu Yuan has always been friendly and generous to his friends, but he himself does not enjoy this kind of preferential treatment.