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Chapter 17 A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to make money

Everyone on the same plane was waiting at the luggage freight elevator to the flight. Dr. Zhou waved to An Feng from afar and said apologetically: "We are in the front cabin. When we get off the plane, we can't look for you, but I think you don't need it..."

An Feng nodded. Dr. Zhou knew the most about his situation. An Feng, who is very independent, needs no care.

"We will stay in London for a week, maybe longer, it depends on your Aunt Huang's meaning," Dr. Zhou then added: "She wants to have fun in London and get familiar with the environment. It just so happens that there will be a trade delegation in our province in London, and those merchants will accompany her..."

"That means, we can move freely?" An Feng took a deep breath, feeling relaxed all over.

"Yes, I just asked Sister Huang that the hotel she was planning to stay in was very expensive, so we don't need to stay in and spend money. Besides, she couldn't take us everywhere, so I asked myself to find another hotel... Do you have any suggestions?"

The London Airport was very lively, and the people waiting to pick up their luggage were divided into several waves to surround each other in front of their luggage freight elevators. Among the crowds, Huang Yaqing stared at the luggage freight elevator. Chen Wenwen held Huang Yaqing's hand tightly and looked around timidly. Neither of them noticed An Feng's appearance. An Feng took a breath and said in Chinese: "Leave this matter to me, I'll inquire on the plane."

As he was speaking, An Feng waved his hand to the distance. He was greeting a foreigner on the same plane. The foreigner pushed his luggage out and shouted: "Hey, smart little guy, your luggage hasn't arrived yet? What's there to help?"

"Thank you very much, we have nothing to help," Dr. Zhou quickly responded.

The foreigner smiled and waved his farewell without insistence. Next, the foreigners An Feng met on the plane came one after another to say goodbye. Some left contact information, and some just greeted him. After Huang Yaqing got his luggage, the four of them rushed to the hotel in two cars. Huang Yaqing found an opportunity in the car and joked with An Feng, who was in the same car, and said, "Fengfeng, can't tell, are you very popular?"

Huang Yaqing didn't understand English, and she was a little nervous when she first came to London. She had a lot of luggage and couldn't load a car. When she arranged for taxi, she insisted that there was someone who knew English in each car. So An Feng was arranged in his car, and Dr. Zhou took Chen Wenwen to follow him in the car behind the left.

Huang Yaqing's words were a bit pleasing, but... But since this woman decided to go to happy alone, why should An Feng care about her who was about to part ways?

This is an extremely selfish woman who only has power and interests in her eyes. A commoner child like An Feng will not get any benefits no matter how he is a low-key person. Because in the other party's eyes, An Feng should be humble and should try his best to flatter him. This is An Feng's "duty", so An Feng is too lazy to waste his energy. He pretends to be a stubborn autistic patient, staring at the rental behind him with a nervous expression, without answering a word.

Huang Yaqing was stunned for a moment, but her face immediately returned to normal - a patient, a mentally ill, had something to say to him. So she stared at the vehicle behind her as An Feng's eyes.

The car arrived at the hotel, unloaded Huang Yaqing and his son. Huang Yaqing met the business delegation staff in the hotel lobby. She happened to know the team leader, so Huang Yaqing waved farewell to Dr. Zhou without any nostalgia. The two of them walked out of the luxury hotel with their luggage in a little embarrassed manner, and found an empty car at the entrance of the hotel. An Feng, who was boarding the taxi, calmly said a place name, which made the driver stare at An Feng seriously.

The streets were all the way, and as the vehicles got closer and closer to the destination, An Feng felt his breathing became more and more rapid.

This place was once a hiding place for An Feng. He once spent a sweet day in this place. Now he has been revisiting the old place, and he has been here... twenty years.

There is a small alley with Tudor-style three-story brick-concrete buildings on both sides. The buildings on the sun are long and about a hundred meters long apartment buildings. Each unit has a separate small door, with a uniform style. The shade is full of various types of high and low commercial buildings, cafes, restaurants, antique shops, and small hotels.

The shop is very quiet and there are few customers. The awning extends from the store covers most of the walkways. Under the awning is a small table and two chairs. Most of the tables and chairs are empty. Occasionally, there is a guest who often sits there alone to flip through newspapers.

There are no cars coming and going in the alley. In the lazy sunshine in the afternoon, pedestrians are not panicked and look leisurely. Sometimes they may walk by on bicycles, and the speed is not fast. From the room on the roadside, the restaurant suddenly pops up to entertain guests, and the sound of greeting guests is not loud, full of a lazy and leisurely atmosphere.

The taxi parked in front of a mini hotel, at the end of the long apartment building on the sun, and there were two units separated from the entire building to run a hotel, so this "alley hotel" was found.

This building is very long, from the alley to the end of the alley, it can be said that the alley is made up of this building. Along the way, the taxi passed by more than a dozen unit doors, and many units had signs for rent hanging at the doors. After the car stopped, the driver got out of the car and carried his luggage. Dr. Zhou went over to help, while An Feng took his hand and looked at the rental unit behind him - the house in Unit 11, with a sign for "Lease or Sale" - which was where An Feng once lived.

What does it feel like to touch the "was" again at such a close distance?

Anyway, An Feng felt strange in his heart. He felt that his heart was beating particularly strongly and could not breathe. He always liked to hide himself, but this time the emotional fluctuations could hardly be concealed, so that Dr. Zhou felt it.

But Dr. Zhou thought An Feng had arrived in a strange environment and felt nervous. He looked at the small hotel where he was preparing to live, and comforted him repeatedly, "Don't be afraid, this place is very good."

The small hotel is not big. The first floor is a public activity area, so only the second and third floors are for rent. The public activity area occupies part of the space on the second floor, making it only four rooms on the second floor, and the entire hotel has only twelve rooms, making it seem small and quiet.

Although the store is small, the rooms are not bad. The floor height of the guest rooms is more than three meters. When you enter, you feel cheerful and comfortable. The room is also very clean and simple, with shiny furniture painted, and the fabric sofa seems to have been purchased. There is no stain found. The crystal lamp on the top of your head is bright and luxurious...

Because the room is a large and small suite, Dr. Zhou only has one house, so the sofa is An Feng's habitat.

Dr. Zhou placed his luggage and immediately said with distress: "It's hard to go out. I thought I had a lot of money, but this kind of room fee was probably cheap. I had to spend more than 10,000 yuan per month (RMB), which is 200,000 a year. This..., how much is enough to spend."

"The monthly rent for renting a house in London is about 6,000 or 7,000 yuan (RMB). We are staying in a hotel now. We cannot measure accommodation fees by hotel room rates." An Feng flipped the newspaper beside the sofa, answering without raising his head.

"There is not enough money", as the saying goes, money is a coward. When you are in a strange environment, even if you use Zhou Tao's IQ, you still feel nervous and still worry about not enough money. And you have no way to make money. Then you will be completely finished.

"I was so nervous when I saw the money flying out." The opposite was a child, a child who had experienced hardships. In addition, the only child could speak ten thousand miles around. Dr. Zhou had no scruples when speaking: "It is impossible to increase revenue and reduce expenditure now, so we need to reduce expenditure."

"Go to the bank first", An Feng suggested: "We deposit the cash first and ask what financial management projects are there - I read the bank financial management advertisements in the newspaper."

Since boarding the plane, An Feng's behavior was to flip newspapers and magazines around and search for all valuable information. He had nothing to say about An Feng's prophetic Dr. Zhou. He thought that everything An Feng knew was learned from the newspaper, so he was not surprised - he was not surprised what An Feng did now. So without saying a word, he took out his backpack in cash and followed An Feng out of the door.

A city savings bank is on the corner of the road. Here, a one-year-old child has the right to apply for a savings card and a debit card. There is no need for too many documents to apply for a savings card. The child An Feng requested to apply for a card did not cause much surprise. But such a big child carries such a large amount of cash, which surprised the bank staff. However, no matter where they go, customers like Dr. Zhou and An Feng are popular...

After depositing the money, bank staff inevitably recommended several financial value-added products, so the topic naturally unfolded.

The first time I started talking to a serious foreigner, especially when talking about such professional financial management knowledge, Dr. Zhou said a little stuttering, but An Feng seemed to have little emotional fluctuation.

Dr. Zhou stuttered and asked: "The stock market here..."

The two of them had their first pot of gold dug in the "stock market", so Dr. Zhou inevitably had some thinking direction.

"If you invest simply, the stock market is an ideal investment location. The stock price of the London stock market is very stable. It will fluctuate violently unless you encounter a major event. However, such a major event will not happen once every ten years..." The bank employee said diligently: "Sir, I can recommend a trader to you. He is a senior trader in this industry. Don't you mind leaving a contact information? I'll let him visit you?"

The bankruptcy of Bahrain has only three years before it happened. It was a big incident, but An Feng couldn't wait. He interrupted and asked: "Can your bank handle trading accounts on the U.S. Nasdaq stock market? Oh, I brought US dollars and I also need a U.S. foreign exchange market trading account..."

I want to buy some stocks from Microsoft, Google, Apple.... Of course, this is slow to take effect and is suitable for long-term holding.

As a result, the deposits in the two people's accounts were only more than 20,000 yuan, and the remaining 50,000 yuan had become various types of American stocks.

After leaving the bank, An Feng was relaxed and Dr. Zhou was in a heavy mood.

"The total amount of activity money for you and me is only 50,000 US dollars. I don't know what the price in Leeds City is like? I don't know if the money is enough for a year's living expenses..." Dr. Zhou glanced at the surrounding shops and continued: "Where is a civilian supermarket nearby, let's buy some instant noodles and go back..."

"Wait, let's add up to 50,000 US dollars," An Feng looked sad: "We actually leave 5,000 US dollars, no, 3,000 US dollars is enough. The remaining money is invested in the foreign exchange market. I want to short the Soviet ruble?"

Dr. Zhou was shocked, but his thoughts changed and he asked, "Are you sure?"

After a moment of pause, he immediately asked: "Is it effective quickly? Why choose rubles? What do you say in the newspaper?"

"The exchange rate of the ruble has been slowly falling recently. In the newspaper, some analysts believe that it has fallen to the bottom and may rebound; but some analysts believe that the central bank of the Soviet Union will intervene in time... In any case, the ruble is the foreign currency with the largest exchange rate fluctuations recently. Although the overall trend is a downward trend, it has also had great ups and downs in the middle.

As Christmas is coming, Christmas and New Year are a long holiday, and the exchange is about to close. Many people dare not spend their money on the exchange market to celebrate the New Year, especially for currencies with such great fluctuations. For the sake of caution, they will choose the time to clear their positions. This is a good time to make wind and rain."

Dr. Zhou agreed with An Feng's judgment, but he was unsure: "Can you do it? Foreigners have been engaged in futures for hundreds of years. How long have you been exposed to this thing? Can you play with the tricks in it? I don't worry about you in China, because everyone is a novice, but here, there are too many century-old veterans, you..."

Say you dare to say that you can play futures? Bahrain Bank, Lehman Brothers Bank, Enron Trust... and other veteran financial companies, their most mature traders will also make simple and fatal mistakes. The mental and physical strength spent on playing this game is really more difficult than a war. If it weren't for being embarrassed and desperate, An Feng would never be involved in this game.

A total of 80,000 US dollars in deposits is a fortune for ordinary people, but if you want to transport five tons of gold worth 100 million US dollars from the desert, this amount of money is far from enough.

However, An Feng believed in his IQ level. In this life, he began to work hard to develop his brain since he was a baby. He believed that with his two-life experience and extraordinary development of his brain, he might achieve something with all concentration.

Besides, he knew the big trend - this Christmas, the CIS treaty was signed, the Soviet Union collapsed completely, and the ruble became a piece of waste paper.

This is the general trend, but there will be ups and downs when it reaches its final end. These ups and downs will engulf small retail investors who enter the market for tens of thousands of yuan and not even left. An Feng now knows the general trend. As long as he is careful to control the steering wheel, avoid the reefs on the way, and then, when the big collapse comes, it will be the harvest season.

This year, the mainstream computer model in China was 386 computer. The 486 computer was born only two years ago. The price in China reached tens of thousands of dollars, and it could be sold in the UK for nearly a thousand US dollars. However, in order to keep a close eye on the changes in the foreign exchange market, Dr. Zhou had to temporarily purchase a 486 computer... The two of them lived a very hard life in the following days.

Although the two of them had enough pocket money to spend their time at hand, An Feng stayed in front of the computer most of the time every day. Even at night, he had to check a lot of information and hype across the ocean. For this reason, he didn't care about anything, and sat in front of the computer with his eyes open, without leaving the table without leaving the meal.

In order to take care of An Feng, Dr. Zhou had almost no time to go out for a stroll.

What's amazing is that Huang Yaqing was also very quiet during this period. Shortly after checking in this hotel, Dr. Zhou took the time to go to Huang Yaqing's luxury hotel. The two exchanged addresses and contact information. After that, the two parties never contacted each other again. She seemed to have completely forgotten Dr. Zhou.

This is better.

Occasionally, An Feng mocked Dr. Zhou for staying at home and said, "It's really 'using people forward, not backward,' and you're just a stingy fart in her eyes."

When An Feng said this, Dr. Zhou was watching the movie "Rain Man", which was a movie three years ago. Because of this movie, autistic patients have since obtained an nickname - "Rain Man". This movie has not been introduced in China. In the past, Dr. Zhou watched the Hong Kong version in China, but now he is watching the original English version. During this period, he mainly watched the original English movie to exercise listening and be familiar with the words used by real foreigners.

"Isn't this just right?" Dr. Zhou replied without raising his head: "I went to her hotel when you were watching the market. I heard several times that local Chinese were treating her. She took Chen Wenwen around every day and introduced the children to the locals frequently... You said, what's the point of following me?"

Dr. Zhou is very smart. He knows why Huang Yaqing wants to leave him alone.

He is an adult and will study in the world-renowned psychology institute. If he and Chen Wenwen appear in front of local Chinese at the same time... Who is Chen Wenwen? A little brat. Although his parents are awesome, the local Chinese are thousands of miles apart from them. Who will go thousands of miles away to invest? Therefore, they must rely on the care of the couple?

As Chinese people like to "one friend more and one more way" when doing things, and like to lose money and avoid disasters. Although the couple has nothing to do with local Chinese, they are not able to accomplish anything, and the disaster is more than enough. In order not to offend them to death, they invite the mother and son to have a meal and become familiar with each other. Anyway, it doesn't cost much to invite a meal. But that's all.

In this case, if Dr. Zhou was also introduced to local Chinese at the same time, Huang Yaqing's relationship would immediately become Dr. Zhou's relationship household, while Huang Yaqing's IQ to solve problems was not high, and he was very high in preventing people from being able to prevent people. Of course, this phenomenon would not happen. In her heart, she kept Dr. Zhou aside completely. In the future, the relationship network of Chinese people would belong to Chen Wenwen. From then on, Dr. Zhou could only rely on Chen Wenwen like a vine.

This is her purpose.

However, Huang Yaqing probably will never understand: there is still a place where wisdom is stronger than power in this world. Even if An Feng does not appear, people like Dr. Zhou will not rely on someone to spend the rest of their lives.

"...I came here for research. In the next few years, laboratories and classrooms will be my main activity area. Do I need to establish relationships among local Chinese?" Dr. Zhou sneered and continued: "Sister Huang underestimated me too much. She ate and drank, wasted my time, and I wouldn't even go to invite me, and I'm just hiding from me. Why bother?"
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