There had just been a heavy rain in the early morning, and the sky was washed, and the gorgeous morning glow covered the high-rise buildings. Cao Mo opened the car window and let the cool morning breeze blow on his face, feeling that even though they had been apart for several months, they still felt the same.
A breath as familiar as resting on your fingertips.
Kanem, Benin and Akwa are all close to the equator, so even in the rainy season, the weather is sweltering.
Although the air pollution in Xinhai has been relatively serious in recent years, the four distinct seasons, especially in autumn when the sky is high and the air is crisp, are the most refreshing. Compared with the spring when the flowers are blooming, Xinhai after autumn, driving on the Airport Avenue, becomes
The green belt in this area has gradually become clearer, more colorful and more atmospheric.
Soon we drove onto the elevated outer ring road. Cao Mo was in good spirits and could intuitively feel that the focus of Xinhai's urban development and construction in recent years was mainly the space between the middle ring line and the outer ring line.
Looking out, there are new buildings under construction wrapped in scaffolding and green safety nets everywhere.
The area within the Central Ring Road is a very mature urban area. Looking from a distance, there are also many buildings rising from the ground. However, compared with the buildings under construction in the Outer Ring Road, the scale of the new buildings within the Central Ring Road is much smaller.
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This is mainly in the urban areas within the Central Ring Road. There are only some fragmented plots left that can be developed. Another important reason is that the unit prices of new commercial housing projects within the Central Ring Road have generally soared to 24,000 to 5,000 per square meter.
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This also makes the land price for high-rise residential construction land with a scale of more than 100 acres within Central Ring Road reach as high as about 2 to 3 billion. If it wants to encourage more developers to participate in the bidding, the city will naturally prefer to break up the land.
auction.
In addition to the news published in the Xinhai Evening News that "property prices have been reduced and the sales center has been smashed", driving along the road, you can see many newly built properties with banners for price reduction promotions, which is enough to show that the contraction of money caused by the subprime mortgage crisis has deeply affected domestic real estate developers.
I feel that winter is coming.
Cheng Xi's family is well off and her life is relatively simple. She doesn't usually care about the property market, but she knows that her mother has suffered heavy losses in stock investments recently, so she doesn't dare to provoke her mother recently.
Outside of his usual life circle, Cheng Xi has been working in the international department of Xinhai United Bank since graduation, and he can still feel the impact of the subprime mortgage crisis to some extent.
Of course, among the many domestic commercial banks, Bank of China has the strongest international business.
Tianyue's settlement services such as remittances, collections, letters of credit, etc. all open accounts at the Bank of China. Currently, if we want to find an international loan agency, we are also looking for cooperation with the Export-Import Bank of China.
As a regional joint-stock bank, Xinhai United Bank has limited international business. It is impossible to say how deeply Cheng Xi felt the subprime mortgage crisis in his actual work.
If it weren't for Ge Jun's reminder, Cao Mo would have been completely indifferent to the subprime financial crisis two months ago.
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"Why do we have to fly at night? Can we have a good rest on the plane?" Mrs. Cao knew that Cao Mo would arrive in Xinhai early in the morning, so she got up early to prepare breakfast. She always felt that there was really no room for her to perform in the early morning, so she complained that Cao Mo didn't understand.
Cherish your body and take the night flight.
"There is no direct flight, so you have to transfer in the middle. This is the most time-saving, otherwise you will be delayed for an extra day on the road..." Cao Mo wanted to
The itinerary is controlled within 24 hours, and the last stop to Xinhai is basically a night flight. However, he chooses to take the first class cabin of a large passenger plane, which will not affect his rest at all.
As for whether the accompanying staff in economy class will be comfortable, if he has to consider so much, how can he have the heart to exploit their surplus labor in the future?
Although it was the weekend, Jiaying had to go to school after returning to China and restart the operation of Muxiang Capital. After having breakfast, she drove to the University of Finance and Economics Entrepreneurship Park——
Cao Mo was about to ask Cheng Xi how they would spend their time next, whether they were going shopping or going to the movies, when Yu Jing called and asked Cheng Xi where she was and asked her to send the dress over quickly.
"What dress?" Cao Mo asked curiously after Cheng Xi hung up the phone.
"Today a classmate got married. I promised to be a bridesmaid. But you suddenly said you were going back to China the day before yesterday, so I temporarily asked Yu Jing to replace me - I even forgot to give Yu Jing the bridesmaid dress." Cheng Xi pulled Cao Mo.
He rushed to a nearby public underground parking lot, drove to the house rented by Yu Jing and Chen Chang, and delivered the lake blue bridesmaid dress there.
"Last night, we agreed to deliver the dress to me first. Why did you go to the airport to see Cao Mo first? You are such a sober person. Cao Mo gave you some kind of ecstasy, and you forgot all about it.
?" Chen Chang was not in the room, and Yu Jing anxiously took the dress. She didn't forget to make a joke about Cheng Xi before entering the inner room, "Zhou Shan called me twice to urge me to put on makeup. I haven't left yet. She
Definitely full of opinions.”
"What nonsense are you talking about? I went to the airport with Jiaying at six o'clock. Aren't I afraid that you wouldn't wake up by then?" Cheng Xi patted Yu Jing.
"By the way, are you going to take Cao Mo with you to Zhou Shan's wedding later?" Yu Jing asked.
"Are you going?" Cheng Xi tilted his head and asked Cao Mo.
"You don't need me to follow the courtesy. I'll eat and drink with you. Of course I want to go. You don't know how thick-skinned I am." Cao Mo said jokingly.
"You have met Zhou Shan. After she graduated, she applied to work at Xinlian Bank with me, but her relationship is not as close as Yu Jing and I - her husband is also related to our bank and is the son of one of our vice presidents...
Cheng Xi looked at Cao Mo with wide, moving eyes and said seriously.
"ah……"
Cao Mo was slightly startled.
Both the man and woman who are getting married have a great relationship with Xinlian Bank, especially the man's parents are also the vice president of Xinlian Bank - this means that the banquet at the woman's family at noon may not be anything, but the wedding banquet at the man's family in the evening will be large and small.
Little Xinlian Bank doesn’t even know how many leaders and employees will participate.
In this case, if he and Cheng Xi were to attend the wedding, it would not be as simple as just eating and drinking.
"Actually, my relationship with Zhou Shan is very normal. I was pestered by Zhou Shan before I agreed to be her wedding companion. I finally found an excuse to blame Yu Jing. I didn't even want to go to the wedding banquet——
Just ask Yu Jing to bring the gift to me." Cheng Xi said quietly.
Seeing the look of extinguished expectation in Cheng Xi's eyes, Cao Mo couldn't bear to let her feel disappointed. He smiled and said: "You have already followed the courtesy, how can you not eat? That's a big thank you! I was just thinking, you
There must be a lot of people coveting you at work. If I follow you here dressed like this, I don’t know how many sarcastic comments you will hear. Should I buy two Rolexes and put them on later? I must also buy a gold watch. Who has passed it?
When he comes to make sarcastic remarks, he will be blinded by rolling up his sleeves!"
Early autumn is the time to dress randomly.
Cheng Xi got up early and went with Jiaying to pick up Cao Mo at the airport, and even put on a thin sweatshirt, but Cao Mo had come all the way from the tropics, and half-cropped jeans and a T-shirt were just comfortable.
"You definitely can't dress like this, it makes me look so bad!" Cheng Xi said with a smile, "Anyway, I've left all the hard work to Yu Jing. We will be responsible for eating and drinking today, and we will go to the mall to buy you some clothes later.
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The rainy season in West Africa is long and humid. Cao Mo usually doesn't wear formal clothes, and he didn't prepare formal clothes because there were moths in the kitchen. He didn't have any formal clothes in China, so he really wanted to buy them now.
Yu Jing is slightly shorter than Cheng Xi. She usually wears loose clothes. It's hard to tell how hot her figure is. When she walked out wearing Cheng Xi's tailor-made low-cut dress, Cao Mo couldn't help but said in shock: "
If you dress like this, the bride will definitely think that you came to ruin the scene!"
"Take care of your men..." Yu Jing and Cheng Xi said angrily.
At this time, Chen Chang rushed back with the breakfast he had just bought. Seeing Yu Jing like this, he also laughed at her for wearing something inappropriate for children.
The bride is colleagues and classmates with Cheng Xi, and classmates with Yu Jing, but has nothing to do with Chen Chang; Chen Chang will not attend the wedding.
Cheng Xi made an excuse and put the bridesmaid's errands on Yu Jing. He didn't want the bride Zhou Shan to see and have any objections, so she couldn't ask Cao Mo to drive Yu Jing to the makeup location to meet her.
Seeing Yu Jing taking breakfast and hurriedly taking a taxi to leave, it was still early. Cao Mo was not in a hurry to go to the mall to pick out clothes. He sat down and asked Chen Chang: "I heard that Cheng Xi said that you just bought a house. What are the properties in Xinhai now?"
Is there any better new disk that you would recommend?”
Chen Chang asked curiously: "Why are you asking this? Isn't your house not enough for living? You don't want to prepare a wedding room with Cheng Xi, then you can't ask me - I gritted my teeth and collected fifty
The down payment is 10,000 yuan, and the house is only 70 square meters. Can you and Cheng Xi like the neighborhood I choose for the house?"
"I'm not in a hurry to consider a wedding house for now. I may invest in it when I come back this time, but I'm not familiar with the domestic property market. I want to find a few typical properties to take a look at first..." Cao Mo said.
After Cao Mo and his family moved into the new house in Tianzifang, the old house on Xikang Road was also renovated and renovated. Cao Mo did not consider whether the house at home was enough to live in, nor did he consider whether he would move out, but he had looked at it before
There is a lot of information on the domestic real estate market, including many investigation reports prepared by Tianyue Investment's professional team, but his intuitive experience of the domestic real estate market is not very deep.
When he came back this time, he would first choose a few typical real estate properties in Xinhai and nearby cities to experience the current real estate market atmosphere before he could formally discuss cooperation with Ding Zhaoqiang.
Not only did the Ding family mainly put their core assets other than listed companies into Dongsheng Real Estate, Chen Rong also reduced her personal holdings of listed company stocks to 2.5% in the past few years, and invested all the cash-out funds in Dongsheng Real Estate.
Sheng Real Estate currently holds 4% of the shares of Dongsheng Real Estate and is also one of the major shareholders of Dongsheng Real Estate in addition to the Ding family.
Dongsheng Real Estate is currently facing a debt crisis. If Cao Mo can help, of course he can't just sit back and watch, but there are interests that he can fight for, and he won't stop fighting because of shame...