"Qingqing, what do you want to do by calling your uncle up here?" Li Xunjin asked cheerfully as he lifted Shen Qingqing onto the sofa.
Shen Qingqing sat down on the sofa, looked at her uncle sitting next to her, and said something surprising: "Uncle, I want to buy stocks."
Li Xunjin was taken aback for a moment, but instead of accusing Shen Qingqing of being silly, he smiled and said, "You're so young, how do you know what stocks are?"
Shen Qingqing nodded triumphantly: "Of course I know! I saw it in the school newspaper today! I want to buy A-shares!"
When the words "A-shares" were uttered, Li Xunjin was surprised. He hadn't expected that Shen Qingqing actually knew.
"Uncle~ please~ I brought all my New Year's money today! Please buy it for me!" Shen Qingqing threw herself onto Li Xunjin's lap, looking at him pitifully.
Li Xunjin himself studied business in college. After starting his company, he would occasionally try his hand at stocks, but he lost more often than he made money, so he gradually stopped buying them.
However, buying less doesn't mean he wasn't paying attention. He knew about A-shares from what Shen Qingqing mentioned.
Among the more than 1,000 A-shares, quite a few have seen gains exceeding 100%.
However, with the stock market slump of last year still fresh in his mind, Li Xunjin was really hesitant to invest any more money.
"Qingqing, do you know how dangerous the stock market is? You've saved up your New Year's money year after year. If you're not careful, you'll lose it all. Are you willing to do that?" Li Xunjin did not agree to Shen Qingqing's request.
Shen Qingqing retorted, "I saw it in the newspaper! High risk, high reward! I'm not buying much. I'll use my New Year's money now, and I'll get more in the future! But this opportunity to make money only comes once, and if I miss it, it'll be gone!"
"Look! Five hundred yuan! That's definitely enough to buy stocks!" Shen Qingqing took out her New Year's money.
"Uncle, you're sure you'll buy stocks, right? I want to buy some! Please buy them for me!" Shen Qingqing started to whine again.
Li Xunjin was so pestered by her that he had no choice but to pretend to accept her New Year's money and say, "Okay, okay, Uncle will buy it for you. You can leave the money with Uncle first, and Uncle will buy it for you when he has time."
Shen Qingqing isn't a real child; how could such words possibly fool her?
"No! Buy it now! I saw on TV that you can buy stocks with a computer! Uncle, you have a computer too, can you buy it for me now?" Shen Qingqing jumped off the sofa, grabbed Li Xunjin's hands and pulled him up.
Li Xunjin did not expect that Shen Qingqing could not be coaxed, and he had always doted on Shen Qingqing.
Left with no other choice, he took Shen Qingqing back to the master bedroom and turned on the computer in front of her.
At that time, computers were still those bulky desktop computers, just like televisions.
Even the laptops were thick, almost as thick as two of the ultrabooks of later generations.
Shen Qingqing sat down next to him excitedly to watch him operate the machine.
The computer started up, and the old Windows XP desktop appeared, leaving Shen Qingqing somewhat dazed.
Li Xunjin thought that once he entered the stock market page, the operation would be complicated, and Shen Qingqing wouldn't be able to tell whether he had bought anything or not. He would just pretend to know.
Shen Qingqing was unaware of her uncle's intentions. As soon as the page redirected, she quickly searched for the stocks of the banks mentioned in the newspaper. Unexpectedly, she also saw the stock of Moutai!
Shen Qingqing carefully selected two stocks, pointed her little finger at the computer screen, and said to Li Xunjin, "Uncle, I want to buy these two stocks!"
Li Xunjin was surprised to find that many stocks were rising when he entered the stock market today.
After seeing clearly the two stocks Shen Qingqing had chosen, he looked at Shen Qingqing with even greater surprise.
Hesitantly, he wondered: Was it just a coincidence that his little niece pointed it out, or...?
"Uncle! Uncle! Quickly buy it for me!" Shen Qingqing waved five hundred yuan frantically in front of Li Xunjin.
Looking at the computer screen that had turned red, Li Xunjin felt a long-lost stirring in his heart.
Or... should he try buying it with his little niece?
"Okay, okay, your uncle will buy it for you right away. Give me the money." Li Xunjin held out his hand, gesturing for Shen Qingqing to hand over the money.
Shen Qingqing handed it to him without hesitation, then pointed to the stocks she had selected on the computer: "Uncle, look carefully, it's these two!"
"Okay, Uncle knows!" With Shen Qingqing's repeated urging and the computer screen turning bright red, Li Xunjin put aside his previous idea of just fooling around.
With her bulky desktop computer and slow wired broadband, Shen Qingqing was getting a little anxious watching the spinning circles on the trading page.
When the words "transaction successful" finally appeared, Shen Qingqing smiled with satisfaction.
"Thank you, Uncle!"
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