Chapter 3 Chapter 3 Crazy Stock Market
Lin Keying's eyelashes trembled slightly across the cold pistol. In her blurry vision, she saw a tall, broad-backed man. Under his brand new black suit was a slightly loose tie and a loose white shirt. When she turned her eyes, she met the man's cold eyes, which complemented his sharp and angular eyes.
The sudden danger made people's hearts tremble, but it also allowed Lin Keying to quickly analyze the situation.
The man was tall, handsome, and dressed in noble clothes. One could tell at a glance that his clothes were expensive. He appeared here late at night, acting like the master of the house...
Lin Keying's brain was working rapidly. She opened her cherry lips and tried to speak: "Young Master?"
The original body's fiancé was born in the mainland and came to Hong Kong with his family when he was in his teens. If it was really him, he would definitely be able to understand what I said.
Sure enough, the man in front of him moved his eyes slightly, and looked Lin Keying up and down. His gaze moved from her clear eyes all the way down, and finally landed on Lin Keying's floral dress that was obviously inconsistent with the current Hong Kong city. He seemed to understand.
Before he could open his mouth, the door to the living room was pushed open. Mrs. Hua and Uncle Zhong heard the noise and got up in the middle of the night. When they saw their eldest young master, they couldn't help but look delighted.
"Master, you are finally here. Have you eaten anything? I will make you some soup!"
"Miss Lin was sent here by Young Master Chen, who said..." Uncle Zhong thought it was ridiculous, but he didn't want to say anything.
Cheng Wanting showed some displeasure between his eyebrows: "This person is really..."
Without her consent, the child bride was sent here.
Lin Keying didn't understand the conversation between the people in front of her, but she could see that Mrs. Hua and Uncle Zhong were loyal to the men, and she was even more certain in her heart - she was not wrong, this man was the owner of the villa, her original fiancé, the eldest young master!
Thinking of this, I feel much more relieved.
Cheng Wanting loosened his grip on the pistol for a moment, but his eyes were still fixed on the woman in front of him, and his cold gaze swept across her pretty face.
Finally, he stared into her almond-shaped eyes, which showed no sign of panic, and asked in Cantonese: "What did you just hear?"
Lin Keying's eyes were filled with doubt. She didn't understand Cantonese at all, so she spoke again in Mandarin: "Master, I don't speak Cantonese."
Cheng Wanting stared at her for a moment, as if trying to determine the truth of her words. After a moment, he folded his hands, retracted the pistol, and turned away.
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After a good night's sleep, Lin Keying was in a good mood thinking that her fiancé had appeared and the one million should be right in front of her.
He muttered to himself, "I don't know if I should give the money today. Should I show some reluctance when the time comes?"
The villa became lively with the return of the owner. Mrs. Hua was busy making soup in the kitchen, vowing to nourish the eldest young master. Uncle Zhong took his servants to take care of the spotless villa, determined to make the young master, who could not tolerate dirt, feel comfortable.
While eating breakfast, Lin Keying glanced at the study on the second floor from time to time. She asked the servants for help and guessed, and finally found out that the eldest master had been busy in the study since early morning and had not gone out at all. He was wondering when he could talk to his fiancé about breaking off the engagement.
Lin Keying on the first floor was slightly moved, and the two men in the study on the second floor were also talking about her.
Sitting at the mahogany table, Cheng Wanting casually threw aside the information about Lin Keying's life in the mainland over the past twenty years that his secretary had collected, and continued to work, finally determining the stock price of Hutchison Whampoa.
After giving Secretary Yang some instructions on stock tracking matters, he called his uncle Chen Guosheng.
Secretary Yang was listening to the phone and remembered that the textile tycoon Chen's family had ordered the Chengjiahuai Xin to transport 2,500 tons of clothing to Africa to develop the market. This was originally an ordinary business transaction, but at this moment, the eldest young master proposed after a few pleasantries that Young Master Chen Songxian should go to Africa on the ship.
Secretary Yang's eyelids twitched. His eldest young master just said a few words and "exiled" Young Master Chen to Africa for a month.
"Master, given Young Master Chen's personality, if he really went to Africa for a month to monitor the Chen family's clothing market expansion, he would probably get sick from boredom."
After Cheng Wanting hung up the phone, he frowned slightly and said coldly: "He has a lot of ideas. He should use his mind on the right path."
Secretary Yang realized that the eldest young master must be punishing Young Master Chen for having taken the initiative to send his child bride to the villa halfway up the mountain.
I couldn't help but click my tongue in my heart at Chen Shao's self-assertion. He was too bold.
Fortunately, the eldest young master did not get angry and drive away Miss Lin downstairs. After all, no matter how angry he was, the problem still had to be resolved. I just wonder how much Chen Shao would cry when he found out that he would have to go to Africa to live a hard life for a month.
"Master, I have confirmed with Uncle Zhong and Mrs. Hua that Miss Lin has been staying here for a few days and has behaved herself well. She really can't understand or speak Cantonese."
Cheng Wanting responded with a "Yeah" without even raising his head.
"Then how do we deal with Miss Lin's matter?" Secretary Yang asked again.
A woman suddenly moved into the villa halfway up the mountain. She was the child bride of Cheng Wanting's cousin, so it was naturally time to deal with her as soon as possible.
Cheng Wanting picked up the contract and looked through it, not caring much: "Send the person back to the mainland in a month, and let Chen Songxian pay for the compensation himself, but don't tell him that the matter has been resolved during this period."
Secretary Yang understood, but Young Master Chen would have to live in fear for another month.
This is what happens when you offend the eldest young master!
After getting the approval from his eldest young master, Secretary Yang went downstairs to meet Chen Shao's child bride.
Cheng Wanting's mother is from mainland China, so Cheng Wanting can speak fluent standard Mandarin. Secretary Yang has followed Cheng Wanting for many years and can also communicate in standard Mandarin.
He politely said to Lin Keying: "Miss Lin, you can live here peacefully for the time being. As for the past engagement, it is probably a feudal remnant. I am afraid that Master Chen will not be able to fulfill it. But don't worry, the engagement will be annulled and you will be compensated with an additional 200,000 yuan."
Lin Keying was excited and only captured the key words: It’s coming, it’s finally coming! One million in compensation is coming!
She didn't show joy, but a bit of sadness on her face: "I came here from the mainland to find my relatives... I want to stay in Hong Kong..."
Secretary Yang did not comment on this, but just followed the instructions: "Ms. Lin, Hong Kong now advocates free love. How can there be happiness in a feudal marriage?"
Lin Keying pretended to be sad and talked to Secretary Yang for a few words. After the people left, the arc that had been suppressed at the corners of her mouth finally returned to normal.
She remembered the plot in the book. The fiancé was going to give 200,000 yuan to get rid of the original body at first, but the original body was obsessed with her, expressed love to her with words, and even had some physical contact with her. In the end, the fiancé was so annoyed that he kept increasing the amount of compensation. In the end, he gave her one million yuan and was determined to reject the engagement.
Lin Keying looked up at the closed door of the study on the second floor and decided to follow the plot of the original book.
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Cheng Wanting only stayed in the villa halfway up the mountain for half a day and left in a hurry with his secretary in the afternoon. Mrs. Hua prepared a traditional Chinese soup early in the morning and watched the young master drink a bowl of it before she smiled.
"Mrs. Hua, you can drink the soup by yourself. You don't have to be too tired in the villa." Cheng Wanting and his family live in the Deep Water Bay Villa and don't spend much time in the private villa in Mid-Levels.
There was a lot of soup left over from the old-fashioned pot, and it ended up being eaten by the housekeeper and servants in the villa as usual.
Oh, there’s another Miss Lin this time.
The pigeon is stewed with yam and poria cocos. After a long period of slow cooking, the soup becomes delicious and nourishing to the spleen and stomach.
Lin Keying had heard that the soups in the Guangdong and Hong Kong areas were famous. After taking a sip, she felt that the soups were well-deserved.
Mrs. Hua was talking to the servant Ah Mei in a babble. Lin Keying couldn't understand what she was saying, but she could vaguely make out words like "young master". She gestured with her hands, pointed to the study where the eldest young master had been that morning, and asked Mrs. Hua when the eldest young master would be back.
Mrs. Hua understood what he meant. Although she didn't know what the relationship between this girl and Young Master Chen was, or why she was sent to her eldest young master's villa, Yang Minghui had told her not to ask, so she naturally didn't say anything.
He only managed to explain: "I will definitely be back in a few days."
After all, every year on his wife’s death anniversary, the eldest young master would leave his villa in Deep Water Bay and come to his villa in Mid-Levels alone.
Lin Keying felt relieved thinking that she would be able to see her fiancé in a few days. Secretary Yang did not tell her the specific date for the cancellation of the engagement, so she was not in a hurry, after all, the compensation had not been doubled yet.
Thinking about getting one million in a while and looking down at the harbor city, she took great pains to explain to Uncle Zhong and expressed her desire to go out for a walk.
Now that you are here, how can you not see the prosperous port city in the 1980s?
Since guests are welcome, the eldest young master did not allow Miss Lin to be detained. Uncle Zhong considerately found a map of Hong Kong City for Lin Keying, and watched the figure who seemed out of place in Hong Kong City disappear on the tree-lined road of the villa halfway up the mountain.
The Hong Kong city has risen rapidly in the past few years and has become one of the four Asian tigers. Its economy has taken off, and it is prosperous with high-rise buildings everywhere.
The Mid-Levels Villa is located on Hong Kong Island. After leaving the Mid-Levels Villa, Lin Keying took a taxi with the fifty-dollar coin provided by Uncle Zhong.
The taxi braked to Queen's Road and cost Lin Keying twelve Hong Kong dollars.
Hong Kong has a developed stock market. Although it was hit hard by the stock market crash seven years ago, the Hang Seng Index has slowly climbed after several years of recovery, but it still cannot stop the dream of all Hong Kong citizens to get rich.
Lin Keying weighed the remaining thirty-eight Hong Kong dollars in her hand and resolutely walked into the Far East Exchange.
As the first Chinese stock exchange in Hong Kong, the Far East Stock Exchange was always crowded with people. Not only elite officials frequented it, but also countless housewives, security guards, and vegetable sellers were all very interested in stocks.
Everyone is investing in stocks and everyone is deeply involved in it.
Although she was planning to leave after receiving the compensation for breaking off the engagement, Lin Keying still planned to take advantage of this gap to earn some money to support herself.
After all, the original body only had a little over one yuan on him, which was RMB, and he couldn't spend it in Hong Kong City at all.
The exchange is as busy as a vegetable market, with countless retail investors confirming stock purchase information with Sequoia, taking steps towards their dream of getting rich.
Lin Keying did not have a Hong Kong hukou, so naturally she could not buy stocks. She looked around and caught a glimpse of a housewife not far away who was hesitant about the stock information on the blackboard in the front of the lobby. She was asking several other housewives about the stock market in her not-so-fluent Cantonese.
Countless full-time housewives also have the dream of investing in stocks, but investing in stocks is risky. Which stocks are the right ones to buy? It's really confusing.
When the person was left alone and still unable to make up his mind, Lin Keying approached and asked tentatively: "Sister, are you from the mainland?"
The few sentences she just heard allowed Lin Keying to guess about 80% of what she meant. It was obvious that this lady learned Cantonese later and her accent was noticeable.
He Xiuyun, who had sneaked into Hong Kong 20 years ago, was shocked when she heard this. She talked with Lin Keying for a few words, especially when she heard Lin Keying talk about the most popular eight o'clock TV series in Hong Kong from the mainland, she suddenly felt a sense of closeness.
He Xiuyun and her husband were both illegal immigrants. After settling down in Hong Kong, they could only do hard labor jobs with the lowest salary. Later, her husband did hard labor while she set up a stall to sell sweet soup. In addition, she raised two children and applied for a public housing unit that was as small as a pigeon cage.
Now that their daughter is sick, they have borrowed from everyone they can, but still cannot save enough money for the surgery. Seeing that the child is about to stop treatment, the couple decided to take a risk and went to the stock market with the only 500 Hong Kong dollars they had left.
Lin Keying could understand the gambler mentality of people when they were at their wits' end, so she turned to look at the stock information written on the blackboard.
She remembered that her immediate boss before she traveled through time once lamented that he did not have the vision to buy stocks when he went to Hong Kong to do business, and regrettably missed the surge in Wharf Holdings' shares in early June.
Calculating the time and taking a look at the current price of 10 dollars per share of Wharf Holdings on the blackboard, she was determined and handed over her 37 Hong Kong dollars: "Sister He, buy Wharf Holdings, and I'll bet my 37 dollars with you."
I left a dollar for the bus ride.
If the journey back to the villa wasn't so long, Lin Keying wouldn't even want to keep this dollar.
He Xiuyun was used to doing her duty, so she was timid when buying stocks for the first time. After a fierce ideological struggle, she finally agreed: "Okay!"
Confirmed the stock purchase information with Sequoia and paid the money.
At the same time, in the VIP room on the second floor of Far East Trading, big clients holding huge amounts of stocks were sitting there.
In the room with the door closed, Secretary Yang was reporting to Cheng Wanting: "Master, Wharf Holdings has purchased one million shares in a dispersed manner."
"Yeah." Cheng Wanting stood in front of the glass window. He caught a glimpse of a figure with dark blue floral patterns on the outermost edge. His eyes moved slightly. "Liu Zhigao is about to make a move. Wharf shares will rise sharply soon."
Although he was prepared to let Liu Zhigao and Yihe fight first, Cheng Wanting was not prepared to sit idly by and watch. He thought it would be a good idea to take the opportunity to make some money first.
After leaving the Far East Exchange with Sister Ho, Lin Keying was ready to look for a bus stop with the only Hong Kong dollar she had left. Unexpectedly, in the bustling Central district with its heavy traffic, a luxury car on the side of the road caught her eye first.
What attracted her attention even more was the tall man in a neat suit, preparing to get in the car. Who else could that be but her fiancé!
"Young Master!" Lin Keying was overjoyed and approached in small steps.
According to the plot, she has to interact more with her fiancé and express her love for him, so as to annoy him and increase the compensation to one million.
But now, Lin Keying is even happier because she will have a ride and can save a penny!
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