Brilliant Years 1991

Chapter 40 Half True, Half False, Half Probing

March 1992, 3, Thursday, the second day of the second month in the lunar calendar, is the day when the dragon raises its head.

At the same time, today is Jingzhe.

There was a drizzle outside the window. It started in the morning and continued until after lunch.

On the narrow, shabby table with mottled red paint, many newspapers were spread out in a mess. The one on top was the second special issue of the Oriental Morning Post this year.

This time, there are 88 pages, and every page is filled with dense numbers - all of them are the winning numbers of the new shares issued by Shanghai United Textile Industry Co., Ltd. in the lottery. A total of .

The second share this year.

In fact, the first stock to be listed this year was not the previous Shanghai Light Industry Machinery. The first and second were both creative B shares specifically for foreign investment. Shanghai Light Industry Machinery was only the first A share.

Following closely behind is Shanghai United Textile, which is of course also an A-share.

As soon as the newspaper came out in the morning, Cao Yukun went to buy a copy. After returning and counting, he found that he had won 12496 shares. In other words, he needed to pay another 53 yuan to buy back these shares.

However, in fact, the subscription for new shares of Shanghai Light Industry Machinery has not yet ended.

The subscription period for Shanghai Light Industry Machinery's new shares starts from March 3nd and lasts until March 2th this Sunday. The shares will be officially listed and allowed to be traded on March 3th.

The second newly issued stock, Shanghai United Textile, will start selling new shares from March 3, which is next Monday. The subscription period is also one week, and it will be officially listed and allowed to be traded on the Tuesday of the following week.

The window was open and a cool breeze blew in from time to time.

Cao Yukun was still wearing the same leather jacket.

At this moment, he was standing in front of the table by the window, with his hands in his pockets, his body straight, a cigarette in his mouth. With every breath, puffs of smoke came out from his nose, mouth, and other places, and were blown away by the gentle breeze.

My eyes would squint slightly from time to time because of the smoke.

But he didn't move.

The house has been rented and the keys are in hand. He has even asked the agent, Aniu, to help find two aunties who specialize in part-time jobs to clean the room inside and out. It is very clean and tidy. In fact, he can just buy some bedding and move in at any time - but Cao Yukun still chooses to continue living in this small hotel which costs only eight dollars a night.

That house is for rent to everyone.

He had clearly realized that he could no longer handle the next things on his own and had to find someone to help him. Even if he didn't, before he subscribed for his first stock, he had to find a few trustworthy people from his hometown to serve as his bodyguards.

Although the entire society has experienced several rounds of severe crackdowns, especially in a place like Shanghai, it is still relatively safe, but that is only safety under normal circumstances. Once the interests involved are too huge, as high as tens of millions, any good social security will be meaningless if it happens to you!

It is certainly good to have a plan to get rich, and it is okay to have a more radical plan, but you must first ensure that you are not put into a sack and sunk into the Huangpu River!
But fortunately, I still have a few bad friends.

Huang Jiapeng would definitely come as soon as he was called. Besides him, the original owner had two good friends. Although he had not taken the initiative to contact those two people since he traveled through time, that was only because they all returned to their hometown to farm after graduating from high school and there was no need for them to have dealings with each other.

There is now.

There is no need to mention money. Just based on the original owner's appeal, they will definitely come at his call!
Don’t worry, we’ll just bring a truck over when the time comes.

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Suddenly the cigarette butt felt hot in his mouth, and Cao Yukun came to his senses. He took the cigarette butt and put it out in the ashtray. Then he looked at the misty street outside the hotel again.

A few minutes later, he patted his pockets and found they were empty. He raised his hand to close the window and turned to go out.

When he went downstairs, the cleaning lady took the initiative to greet him, "Hello, young man, you are going out! It's raining, why don't you bring an umbrella?" When he arrived at the front desk of the hotel, the proprietress saw that Cao Yukun was going out but had no umbrella, and she also said, "I'll lend you an umbrella! Don't get wet!"

Cao Yukun waved his hand, "Xiashi! Let's get some rain!" However, after walking on the street in the rain for only a minute, he subconsciously began to quicken his pace.

The rain in the south of the Yangtze River at this time of year is still icy cold. Looking down from the upstairs, it feels like just a drizzle, but once you walk into the rain, you will immediately feel the chill.

He bought a box of cigarettes from a street shop and was about to tear it open, but then he felt that he had smoked too much in the past two days, so he put it back in his pocket. After thinking for a while, he walked into the drizzle again.

In just five or seven minutes, we arrived at Ah Hong Tea Restaurant.

I have been staying in Shanghai for some time recently, and I would go to the store almost every day to sit and listen to various news on the market. Gradually, I became more and more familiar with the place.

Hu Zihong saw that his face was covered with raindrops and his clothes were also covered with raindrops. She immediately complained, "Why don't you take an umbrella?" She bent down, took out a clean towel after a while, and handed it to him, "Wipe your hair, be careful not to catch a cold!" She also said, "I'll heat you a cup of milk!"

"Thank you!"

Cao Yukun took the towel and wiped his hair. While listening to her complaints, he turned half way and took a quick look at the situation in Ah Hong Tea Restaurant. Sure enough, Xu Delu and several of his friends were there.

Just in time, he looked over, so Cao Yukun raised his chin as a greeting, wiped the raindrops off his hair in a few strokes, folded the towel simply, put it on the counter, and walked towards Xu Delu's table.

Behind him was Hu Zihong's complaint, "Oh my..."

They did not talk about the new stock Shanghai United Textile. Instead, they were all looking forward to the arrival of the 12th as soon as possible, wanting to see how high Shanghai Light Industry Machinery could climb once the market opened.

The subscription started on March 3nd. You could take your subscription certificate to every branch of the underwriter Shanghai Shenyin Securities to subscribe. There were long queues in the first two days, but they were no longer necessary soon.

Cao Yukun went to observe this morning and found that it only takes half an hour to queue up.

After all, there are only 80 shares in total, and some people buy as few as ten or eight shares, while others buy dozens or even hundreds of shares. The total number of people is even more limited. It can be said that the emergence of stock subscription certificates, regardless of other things, at least really solves the problem of having to queue up a few days in advance.

However...Cao Yukun hasn't gone yet.

He is still waiting for the money.

Someone asked: "A Kun hasn't subscribed yet?"

Cao Yukun smiled, calm and composed, "No hurry, wait until there are fewer people."

After a while, Hu Zihong came over with a cup of steaming hot milk in her hand, "Drink a few sips quickly, be careful of the heat! You will get sick if you get caught in the rain!"

Cao Yukun thanked him, took it and took a small sip.

It’s warm and very comfortable.

But at this time, someone was already making a fuss, "Oh my, boss lady, why didn't I know you sell hot milk in your store? I want one too, I want to get wet in the rain too!"

Hu Zihong was not afraid at all, "If there is milk tea, of course there must be milk! Who can you blame if you don't order it? A cup of milk tea is three yuan, and a cup of milk is thirty yuan. Do you want to order?"

"Oh, so this is the special treatment for my lover?"

"If you say so, then so be it!"

She smiled half-truthfully and half-tentatively, "I won't lose anything anyway!"

Then everyone started to make noise again, and for a moment the store was filled with a joyful atmosphere.

(End of this chapter)