When the bell rang, Wei Qingfan breathed a long sigh of relief again, stretched out, and came to the corridor window, looking at the first and second grade students in the square below who were swarming out of the school gate.
"I'm so envious!"
Lin Zhaohai also walked over and sighed, "I want to finish school too... Unfortunately we have to wait until ten o'clock to finish class."
Wang Kai next to him said: "You leave at half past nine and no one cares about you."
Two years have passed since Wei Qingfan took care of him at the beginning of his second year of high school. He was much more honest than Wei Qingfan remembered in his previous life. Now he has long since gotten rid of the shadow of the original, and his relationship with his classmates is still manageable.
Unlike his previous life, he was disliked by people and dogs.
Wei Qingfan closed his eyes and breathed the fresh air for a while. After a while, he suddenly smelled a familiar aroma. He opened his eyes and saw Li Miaoyu coming to his side.
She also walked down the corridor to look downstairs, and then turned to look at him. The light reflected her clear and pure eyes, which seemed to have a dreamlike brilliance. She puffed her cheeks slightly and said coquettishly: "
I also want to go home~"
Wei Qingfan smiled and said: "Okay, you can go home, I will grant you leave."
Of course Li Miaoyu would not really leave, so she rolled her eyes at him.
Wei Qingfan turned around and saw that the others were very sensible and did not move towards him, so he moved towards Li Miaoyu.
Seeing that he seemed to have something to say, Li Miaoyu came over and Wei Qingfan asked in a low voice: "Have you told your parents about Bear Stearns?"
Li Miaoyu thought for a moment, then showed an embarrassed smile and said, "I forgot."
"..."
In order to gain enough weight and allow his future father-in-law and mother-in-law to trust him, Wei Qingfan has been consciously showing his "prescience" during this period.
As early as the Spring Festival, which is February in the Gregorian calendar, as HSBC announced that its North American home loan mortgage business had suffered huge losses, the subprime mortgage crisis that was about to sweep the world had already begun.
The real financial crisis would have to wait until the second half of 2008, but by this time it was already beginning to show its power.
In April, U.S. second-largest subprime mortgage company New Century Financial Corporation filed for bankruptcy due to its inability to repay its debts, along with several other mortgage companies.
It is a pity that Wei Qingfan did not remember the name of this company before, and could only convey the news that "the subprime mortgage crisis is coming, and the US stock market will fall."
This sentence is only half true at present, because it seems that the subprime mortgage crisis is indeed coming, but the US stock market not only does not fall, but is still rising.
Wei Qingfan is not surprised by this, because there will be another peak in the US stock market this year. He intends to establish prestige, but it is impossible to get all the small details right. That would be a bit too evil.
If I remember correctly, the U.S. stock market began to plummet in late July.
During this period of time, Bear Stearns, the fifth-ranked investment bank on Wall Street, would be a good sheep. Then it seemed that after the stock plummeted, it was sold at an ultra-low price of more than 3 US dollars per share.
acquisition.
After the college entrance examination next month, he seems to have a chance to catch up.
This was the first sheep he targeted. He had the impression that it would be acquired in early 2008, and the stock price would plummet in the two days after the acquisition.
The next few others will have to be picked up later, such as Lehman Brothers, which is frequently mentioned and is extremely well-known. This company went bankrupt and was almost a business without capital.
Of course, start-up capital is definitely needed, including deposits and handling fees.
Li Miaoyu puffed up her cheeks and said, "I'll tell them when I get home."
"It's okay, don't worry."
Wei Qingfan smiled at her and said, "Please pass it on casually."
"Oh, I understand."
Li Miaoyu raised her chin confidently and patted her chest lightly, "Don't worry, I definitely won't let them see that I told them on purpose."
Wei Qingfan gave her a thumbs up gesture.
They quickly went back to the classroom to continue working on the questions, and left one after another when it was close to ten o'clock. Many students in the dormitory still did not leave, and they had to wait until the lights were turned off at ten thirty before returning to the dormitory.
Wei Qingfan and Li Miaoyu walked out of the school gate together and saw her BMW waiting on the roadside, so she waved to Li Miaoyu and left with Cao Ze.
Li Shuqing and Zhao Yaquan both came. As usual, they sent Xie Yao home first, and then went to their own homes.
Li Miaoyu sat in the back row, thought for a while, and asked, "Dad, how are your stocks?"
"It's still rising."
Li Shuqing tried his best to sound cheerful and relaxed. This was the most exciting year for him to buy stocks because all the stocks he bought were rising.
This was originally a very happy thing, but as the saying goes, it is not about scarcity but inequality. Compared with Wei Qingfan's rising trend, he was not happy at all.
Especially when asked by my daughter, I became even more unhappy. I always felt that when she asked, she wanted to secretly compare Wei Qingfan with Wei Qingfan, and then come to the conclusion that Wei Qingfan was more powerful.
Which father can be happy?
"Why do you think of asking this?"
Although he felt unhappy in his heart, she was her precious daughter after all. Li Shuqing still smiled and said, "Did that Wei Qingfan say something to you?"
"Um."
Li Miaoyu was secretly happy and a little proud. She felt that the task given by Wei Qingfan was too simple. Didn't his father take the initiative to ask?
Isn't this very casual?
She pursed her lips quietly, hiding her little pride, and said in a very casual tone: "He was watching the news a few days ago, which was about the subprime mortgage crisis. It said that many stocks were going to fall. Of course he was talking about the US stock market.
, but he didn’t buy it either, so he hoped it would fall.”
Zhao Yaquan exchanged glances with her husband and asked with a smile: "Did he say anything specific?"
"Hmm... let me think about it."
Li Miaoyu felt that he was becoming more and more cunning. He had learned bad things from Wei Qingfan, and he also knew how to pretend to recall things deliberately.
She thought for a moment, and then said: "It seems that there was a company mentioned, what is it called... Bei, what... Oh, Bei, Bei... Bear Stearns!"
She pretended to be struggling, and finally thought about it. She felt a little embarrassed to lie to her parents like this. Fortunately, it was dark in the car and she was not afraid of being seen by her parents.
"He said that this company will also be affected by the subprime mortgage crisis, and the stock will fall."
She finally finished what Wei Qingfan asked her to say, then moved forward and blinked her eyes innocently, "Dad, do you think what he said makes sense?"
Zhao Yaquan smiled and said: "Isn't his vision for buying stocks better than your father's? Are you asking your father?"
"He's just lucky."
Li Miaoyu's words were meant to belittle Wei Qingfan, but no matter how he heard them, he felt humble for him, which made Li Shuqing feel even more depressed.
However, Wei Qingfan showed amazing acumen in the matter of the subprime mortgage crisis, and coupled with his achievements in buying stocks, Li Shuqing did not dare to underestimate him anymore. He thought for a while and said: "I have only heard of this company. What is it specifically?
I don’t know the situation either.”
He had never heard of the name Bear Stearns before, but he naturally refused to say it in front of his daughter.
Doesn't that make it clear that I really don't know as much as Wei Qingfan, a little brat?
"oh."
Li Miaoyu nodded, "I'll just say it casually...Mom, I'm a little hungry."
"Then what do you want to eat?"
"Hmm... make instant noodles and ask for poached eggs."
"You're quite picky."
"Hey hey hey~"
After returning home, Li Miaoyu went to her room first and waited for her mother to bring the cooked noodles with poached eggs to her room. This is the right and benefit of candidates taking the exam.
Zhao Yaquan chose some green vegetables and prepared to cook instant noodles for her daughter, while Li Shuqing leaned against the kitchen door and thought: "Tell me, what does this guy mean when he asked Miaomiao to tell me that Bear Stearns' stock was going to fall?"
Zhao Yaquan said with a smile: "He falls when he says he will fall?"
"That's hard to say."
Li Shuqing stroked his beard and continued to ponder, "Daughter-in-law, let me tell you, I have grown up like this for half my life. Do you know what the biggest gain is?"
"What?"
"That's it...of course it's you, and then Miaomiao."
Li Shuqing quickly patched it up, and then continued: "After that, I realized something. People, sometimes you have to believe in evil! If you don't believe in evil, how can you survive if you hit it with a stone?"
Zhao Yaquan added water and started to boil it. She laughed and said, "You mean, do you think what Wei Qingfan said makes sense?"
"Regardless of whether it makes sense or not, he bought lottery tickets and borrowed money to buy lottery tickets, and he won, right?
"Then he bought a house... We all know this, the price of the house will definitely increase, otherwise I wouldn't have to put so much effort into the real estate business, right?
"Then he bought stocks again, and he spent all his money to buy stocks, so he went straight to it..."
When Li Shuqing said this, he frowned and sighed, "I don't understand why this kid is so evil, but he made money by buying stocks... He wants to marry our daughter, so he deliberately sent this news. He couldn't be trying to trick him.
Me?"
"It's definitely not a trap. Maybe he wants to show us his ability."
Zhao Yaquan smiled, "That child is too precocious, and Miaomiao is a heartless person. I guess he has already understood that if he wants to marry Miaomiao, good grades are not enough, so he wants to use this method to give him
Increase your chips yourself so that you don't have to fight against each other again."
"Why are you just a mandarin duck?"
Li Shuqing glared at his wife with dissatisfaction, and then said: "Then do you think that Bear Stearns... stock will fall?"
Zhao Yaquan laughed and said: "Then how do I know? I don't understand this either."
Li Shuqing said: "Let me put it another way, do you think he will lie to us?"
Zhao Yaquan thought about it seriously, shook his head and said, "Probably not."
Li Shuqing nodded but didn't speak. Zhao Yaquan looked at him a little strangely, but saw that he was thinking about something and didn't bother him.
After a while, while she was serving instant noodles, Li Shuqing suddenly slapped the door frame and said, "Then I've decided!"
Zhao Yaquan said angrily: "Miao Miao is reading a book."
"Oh oh."
Li Shuqing smiled awkwardly, and then said: "I have decided."
"What?"
“Short!”
Li Shuqing said, "Did I tell you about short selling? Even if you know that the stock will fall, you can still make money... Since this stock will fall, I will buy it and give it a try."
Zhao Yaquan looked at him and said with a smile: "This is your decision."
"Then I will call Shen Rong later... uh, call Liu Zhiyuan and ask for his opinion. If possible, I will directly transfer 20,000 to him... Isn't it a bit small? It's only 3,000 US dollars.
?”
"Let's try it first."
Zhao Yaquan went to deliver the face to her daughter, talked to her again, then closed the door and came out.
Li Shuqing was still on the phone, and she didn't bother him. After a while, she went to take the bowl that her daughter had finished eating, washed it, and put it away. Li Shuqing finally finished the call.
"deal?"
"Well, I'll remit 10,000 to him tomorrow to try first."
"Dollar?"
"Um."
"Isn't it a bit much?"
Today, the exchange rate of the US dollar to the RMB is around 7.6, so US$10,000 is more than 70,000 yuan.
"Anyway, I have made some profits in stocks during this period, so I have to be more courageous... Although it is true that I am your classmate, I am an American after all, and I cannot let foreigners look down on me."
Li Shuqing looked like this was not just about my personal honor and disgrace, and continued: "I bet this kid won't cheat me, I bet he is really evil!"