Disguise

"How despicable!" Chu Xiaoxiao was also quite incensed.

Although Chu Feng was angry, she quickly calmed down. She had seen plenty of deceit in the business world and was not about to lose her composure over this.

"They are doing this simply to cause us some trouble. If we lose our suppliers, we can find others, and customs cannot keep holding up our qualifications indefinitely.

These things can be resolved with time, but time is exactly what we lack!

The several deals we have already negotiated involve major overseas clients that we worked hard to secure. If we breach the contract on our first collaboration, it will be a severe blow to our reputation, and business will not be easy to conduct in the future!" Chu Feng frowned.

"Hmm, Riyao Group has been operating in overseas trade for many years; they must have spent a fortune to influence customs. It's also our fault for not being more vigilant in this regard." Chu Xiaoxiao frowned and began to think of a solution.

At only seventeen years old, she had been assisting her mother in managing the company since she was a child. Having defeated countless opponents in the brutal world of commercial competition, her intellect was far beyond that of her peers.

When facing setbacks, she did not complain or blame others, but instead began to reflect on herself. Perhaps this was the fundamental reason she was able to build the massive foundation of the Chu Group alongside Chu Feng.

Watching her daughter frown in deep thought, even while facing such a huge predicament, Chu Feng could not help but reveal a satisfied smile.

She truly could not be more satisfied with this daughter.

Wait! Perhaps there was one thing that didn't satisfy her! Chu Feng's brow furrowed.

Today was Monday, and for Chu Xiaoxiao to appear here at this time could only mean...

"Xiaoxiao! Did you skip class again?" Chu Feng asked with a stern face.

"Uh..." Chu Xiaoxiao looked up and gave an awkward smile upon hearing this.

Could she say that she really had nothing in common with those childish classmates?

Can you imagine the feeling of having just interviewed a batch of Ph.D. returnees, only to be surrounded by a group of shy high school students handing you love letters?

Therefore, frequent truancy had become the only thing Chu Feng was dissatisfied with regarding Chu Xiaoxiao.

"Mom! I've even started self-studying university courses; what's the point of going to high school every day?" Chu Xiaoxiao grabbed Chu Feng's arm and acted spoiled.

"I let you go to school not for you to listen to lectures, but at least for you to learn how to get along with your peers! It's all my fault for letting you get involved in company affairs too early; now you don't even have a single normal friend." Chu Feng sighed and shook her head.

"Who says I don't! Sister Ye is my good bestie now, and there's also Nie..." Chu Xiaoxiao paused. She wasn't shy, but she wasn't sure if Nie Yun could really be considered a "normal" friend.

No matter how you look at it, Nie Yun couldn't be associated with "normal." Have you ever seen a fisherman who sells nuclear fuel?

Oh! Right! Nuclear fuel!

Chu Xiaoxiao slapped her forehead, finally remembering why she had come!

"Mom, I didn't skip class on purpose today; there is a reason why I had to!" Chu Xiaoxiao said seriously.

She couldn't help but be serious—this involved nuclear fuel! Even national leaders would have to be serious about this!

"Thump!" "Ouch!" A chestnut was immediately flicked onto the forehead of the serious-faced Chu Xiaoxiao by her own mother!

"Using this trick again? Do you think the same move can work on your mother twice?" Chu Feng sneered.

Chu Xiaoxiao rubbed her forehead, dumbfounded. She only then remembered that she seemed to have used this trick the last time she skipped class. What was the excuse again? Oh! Right, it was that her period had come!

"Mom, believe me, this time it's real!" Chu Xiaoxiao said, laughing through her tears.

"Oh, so this time it's really your period? The timing is off, isn't it? Is your endocrine system out of balance?" Chu Feng was stunned.

"No... it's not that! It's something else!" Chu Xiaoxiao felt she couldn't keep her serious face anymore.

"Heh! Then tell me, what is the reason you had to skip class this time? Could it be that you have an 'uncle' coming too?" Chu Feng crossed her arms, looking like she was saying, "Please, start your performance."

Chu Xiaoxiao covered her face; she had a bad premonition.

"If I said someone wants to sell us nuclear fuel, would you believe me?"

"I believe you, why wouldn't I! Forget nuclear fuel, even if you said someone wanted to sell us a nuke, I'd believe it! Tell me, how much for one? Get me a dozen first!" Chu Feng sneered.

Chu Feng's unintentional sarcastic remark had accidentally hit the truth. If she really wanted to buy one, Nie Yun could actually build her a dozen!

"Mom! I'm serious! Your daughter is really not joking!" Chu Xiaoxiao looked constipated.

"You're serious?" Chu Feng saw that her daughter didn't seem to be joking and suddenly became a bit serious herself.

"Really! I'll bet a whole year of not skipping class on it!" Chu Xiaoxiao said, going all out.

"Hmm? Someone really wants to sell nuclear fuel? But how is that possible?!" Chu Feng believed her immediately; the stakes of this bet were too high!

"It's... it's Nie Yun." Chu Xiaoxiao confessed honestly.

"It's him? But isn't he just a fisherman? Could there be any connection between the two?"

That was a good question. After all, regarding the concept of a "nuclear fisherman," since Nie Yun, for five thousand years, one could only ask, "Who else?!"

"He said it was his friend who builds aircraft carriers..."

"Hmm, do you believe what he said?" Chu Feng stared at Chu Xiaoxiao.

According to common sense, someone who said such things would either be treated as a fool or a madman, yet Chu Xiaoxiao clearly didn't think so.

"I believe him!" Chu Xiaoxiao's small face was full of determination.

"Do you like him?" Chu Feng asked suddenly.

Chu Xiaoxiao's face turned red instantly. "Mom, what... what are you saying! I just... I just think he is very reliable..."

Her voice grew quieter and quieter.

Chu Feng clutched her forehead with a look of sorrow. When a woman starts to find a man reliable, can falling for him be far behind? Could it be that her precious daughter was about to be snatched away by someone?

A fire instantly ignited in Chu Feng's heart!

"Fine! I'll trust you this once. I'm arranging for a nuclear expert from the country to go over and inspect the goods right now! If it's fake, you're going to attend every single one of your classes for a year! And absolutely no puppy love allowed!

If it's real, you can skip as many classes as you want from now on! Do you dare to take that bet?"

"What's there to be afraid of!" Chu Xiaoxiao puffed out her full chest, refusing to back down!

I'll definitely go have some puppy love just to show you!

The influence of the Chu Group was truly extraordinary. Within just one hour, they had sourced a senior expert from the Atomic Energy Research Institute at Xiacheng University, who then set sail with Ye Min, carrying professional testing equipment.

Chu Xiaoxiao had originally wanted to go along to see Nie Yun, but Chu Feng had locked her up without a word of explanation.

"My little ancestor, every time you go out to sea, you get kidnapped. Can't you just give me some peace of mind?"

Helpless, Chu Xiaoxiao could only entrust Ye Min to go and meet Nie Yun with a face full of grievance.

It was the same old spot as last time, and Nie Yun hadn't changed a bit: jeans, a small vest, and that dilapidated fishing boat, the Sea Wolf.

"This is the nuclear fuel your company was talking about?" The nearly 70-year-old professor with graying hair looked at the thermos in his hand with an expression that clearly said, Are you kidding me?

Ye Min didn't say a word, her eye twitching as she looked at Nie Yun.

"Ahem! Well, yes! It's a form of camouflage! Disguised like this, who would ever guess what's actually inside?"

The old professor and Ye Min stared at Nie Yun with black lines running down their foreheads. We would have believed the camouflage excuse, but did you really have to look so obviously pleased with yourself, as if you'd just come up with that lie on the spot?!