After drawing Zhongye SSR

Maki and Fitzgerald only met once.

It's still one-sided, the other party probably hasn't heard of "Dazai Maki" before.

In that awful, okonomiyaki-heavy auction, the American tycoon's box was next to Maki's and snatched a ring from Kidd's posing as Saki Fujiwara .

But Maki's impression of Fitzgerald is much more than that.

Fitzgerald is a rich man from the United States. He was in charge of an organization called "Assembly" before, and he seemed to have visited Yokohama last year.

Just after that, without knowing what happened to him in Yokohama, Fitzgerald went bankrupt and even disappeared.

Just when people thought he was dead, Fitzgerald suddenly appeared from nowhere, captured a certain military company in one fell swoop, and then made a comeback in an instant.

——That military company has a face recognition system covering all of Japan, the "God's Eye".

After reading these materials, Maki commented: "Genius."

System: [It's very different from the host of the poor, middle and lower peasants. 】

Maki said, "I'm simple," and then flipped through the documents.

In addition to these basic information, another point that Maki cares about is that Fitzgerald, like her, is also an ability user who needs to borrow money to gain power.

But unlike her, Fitzgerald is better at making money, or he was born for making money, and every vein in his body is full of businessman's blood.

—You can tell from the fact that he can start from scratch every time.

Maki thinks that her business talent is not enough to argue with this kind of people.

So she can only try her best to come up with a condition worthy of the other party's attention, and then see if the other party is willing to accept it.

Simply put, do your best to obey the destiny.

……

"Maki—are you really going to try growing this?"

Hitomi Mishima didn't understand why Maki stopped cultivating new land in Xiongying, but let her retain some of her energy to grow strange-shaped things like shriveled radishes.

The seeds that Maki bought were the most common native ginseng - she couldn't afford the more expensive ones, and there was no need for them.

The value of ginseng is based on age and effectiveness. Artificial ginseng will never compare to wild ones, and 20-year-old ginseng will never compare to [-]-year-old ginseng.

It's just that what she grows is not a baby, but a commodity.

Even the most common artificially ripened native ginseng is still not cheap in traditional Chinese medicine stores.

Maki nodded.

Hitomi Mishima hadn't heard of this kind of thing written like a carrot before, but from Maki's tone, it seemed to be a rare treasure.So he could only suppress the doubts in his heart and apply his personality to the seeds.

But to her surprise, the growth process of ginseng was very slow.

Rice, which normally takes half a year to harvest, takes at most a week to mature in her hands.But half a month has passed, and there is still no movement from ginseng.

"That's why it's so expensive," Maki said. "It usually takes six years for ginseng to mature—could it be faster if it's concentrated on one tree?"

She didn't have months to spend.

Hitomi Mishima nodded: "If you spend more time using your personality, you should be able to manage it within a month. Are you in a hurry to do something?"

Maki said, "I'm in a hurry to see someone."

She had to set aside a month for herself as a buffer—the month before the sports festival, she would not do anything risky, because it was her last chance to enter the hero department.

——So the risky things must be done before then.

Hitomi Mishima's guarantee ticket was indeed not adulterated, although it was a bit reluctant, but a month later, ginseng was really planted.

Maki carefully used a soft brush to sweep away the soil on the thick rhizome, and put it into a very expensive box found by Saki Fujiwara.

In fact, Maki's preparations were not complete, but she still made an appointment application with Fitzgerald's secretary on the same day.

——She must hurry up.

*****

Francis Fitzgerald has a strange guest.

It was a little girl, very pretty, but very young, by her own account she seemed to be only fifteen.

If it weren't for the little girl's familiar surname that shocked him, and the face that was six times like a member of Butei, Fitzgerald might not even meet her.

He is a busy man and has no time to play house with the children.

However, when he actually met Maki, Fitzgerald began to thank himself for not making such a decision impulsively.

Maki is a very special person, special to a little strange.

Fitzgerald found it difficult to define her precisely, which was also a rare thing for him.

Holding an expensive and exquisite gift box in his hand, Maki looked polite and vigilant.

She looked up and gave her a standard smile that was a bit fake: "Good afternoon, Mr. Fitzgerald."

I don't know if it's deliberate, but she uses English—the pronunciation is very American, which is very rare in a country like Japan that is not good at spoken English.

While Fitzgerald looked at her, he asked his subordinate Louisa to pour her a cup of coffee.

Maki first sniffed the coffee, then took a sip without caring about the sugar milk that was put aside.

Fitzgerald thought that Maki just wanted to appear more mature and stable by drinking this way - after all, how could a girl of this age be able to stand the bitter and sour taste of black coffee, but there were many things in order to prove that she was already an adult. Drink the drink you don't like.

But Maki just praised the coffee's aroma and refreshing effect succinctly, without frowning - as if she usually drank this kind of coffee every day.

Fitzgerald becomes a little interested in Maki.

He said: "Miss Dazai, you shouldn't just be looking for me for a cup of coffee in the sunset?"

"Of course it's not bad."

Maki replied, but kept opening the box with his hands: "It's a pity that I still have some business to talk to you, so I can't continue the relaxing afternoon tea party."

Fitzgerald's eyes stopped on the things in the box for a few seconds, and his narrow eyes narrowed slightly: "Ginseng—I mean, the kind that grows flowers?"

Maki's smile didn't change.

Fitzgerald motioned for Louisa to pass the ginseng box into his hand.He looked at the thick rhizomes and long filaments inside.

Not the best, but definitely a good thing.

After the accidental death of his daughter, his wife who suffered from mental problems suffered from many physical diseases at the same time, most of which were debilitated due to psychological reasons, so Fitzgerald once considered a world famous doctor.

... Even now, he is not without such supplements.

So he motioned to Louisa to put the box away first, but was stopped by Maki in the middle.

Fitzgerald raised half of his eyebrows: "Miss Dazai?"

"It's just a sample."

Maki said flatly: "If you want to use it yourself, this quality is really unattainable-I want to sell this kind of ginseng on a large scale."

Fitzgerald froze for a moment.

"Is this quality... mass produced?" He looked at Maki suspiciously, "How did the supply come from?"

Maki smiled and said, "It's a commercial secret."

This makes it impossible to go any further.

Fitzgerald let out a sigh of relief: "You want me to provide sales channels."

Maki didn't deny it.

She knew that a smart man like Fitzgerald could read her mind at a glance.

However, Fitzgerald felt a little strange.

On the surface, he only has a security company in his hands now, and there is no good channel to help Shinji sell this kind of medicine-of course he will not let go of a good opportunity to make profits, but that is another matter.

The point now is why Maki found him.

Maki slowly drank his coffee.

She was waiting for Fitzgerald to ask first—this required a lot of patience, so she, who was calm on the surface, had actually talked to the system several times in her head.

Maki: "You said what if he let me go back without a word?"

System: [Then there is no need for cooperation, the host just patted his ass and left after taking the ginseng. 】

Finally, Fitzgerald said, "Why?"

He asked tersely, but Maki understood.

She relaxed her back a little, and stretched out a finger: "I will give you [-]% of the profit—on the condition that I want to borrow the eye of God."

Fitzgerald stared at her, the false smile on the girl's face disappeared at some point, and the indifferent she now seemed to be the real Dazai Maki.

He smiled and asked, "Who are you looking for?"

Maki took a deep breath and said, "Dostoevsky—you should have heard of him."

Of course Fitzgerald had heard of him.

This guy even cheated him once, although he cheated him back in the end, but he can remember such a big grudge until now.

"for what?"

Maki turned the coffee cup around.

"For the 'book'."

The temperament of Fitzgerald's whole body changed terribly. His eyes on Maki changed from looking at the partner to looking at the competitor.

Maki smiled: "You don't have to be nervous - I don't think finding the book is for making a wish, and the book is not Aladdin's magic lamp, you can only make three wishes."

She looked relaxed, even a little flirtatious.

But in fact, the whole person is stretched like a string - she has no useful information about the book at all, so everything can only be guessed based on the few words she has heard.

Maki is actually very uncertain.

Although she has a bold guess about the relationship between Tosi and Lifa - but this guess is probably wrong.

Fitzgerald suddenly laughed.He smiled brightly, and Luisa, who looked shy next to him, was taken aback.

He stood up and commented: "Naive."

"Even if you can find him, do you still think he will tell you the real information?" He stared at Maki from the corner of his eye, and squinted his eyes after seeing the little girl's stiff movements, "What do you want to find?" But that devil—could it be that you have some important bargaining chip?"

Maki was silent.

Fitzgerald asked again, "What do you want a book for?"

Maki remained silent.She quietly refilled her cup of coffee and said, "The bargaining chip... is myself."

Fitzgerald looked back in surprise.

There was no expression on the girl's face, she looked half confused and half sure and said: "You can't find the book, you just lost a chance to realize your wish."

"And if I can't find the book—" She raised her eyes.

"I will die."

The author has something to say:

What Maki said is half true and half false

ps I’m busy three times today, the third one will be later, around eleven o’clock√