The next day after returning to Hannover, Dong Qiangqiang called Du Lan and wanted to explain to her that he left without saying goodbye last night, but Du Lan didn't answer his call for some reason.
Dong Qiangqiang didn't know if she was angry with him or if she was really busy. He sent a sincere apology text message to Du Lan, in which he admitted his ill-considered and reckless mistakes in this action and promised not to do it again. Of course, Dong Qiangqiang did not think that he had really done anything wrong. If he had, it was because he underestimated the enemy and overestimated his own strength, which resulted in multiple injuries to himself.
In fact, Dong Qiangqiang has been injured since the first day in Laide. The injury itself cannot be said to be a common occurrence for him, but it is almost normal. However, the impact of this injury on Dong Qiangqiang is stronger than before. He deeply realizes that for him now, although the injury will not affect his classes or stock trading, it will affect his ability to lead tour groups and catch wild boars. In other words, the biggest problem caused by the injury is reduced income. .
Dong Qiangqiang is not obsessed with money, but money is indispensable in life in Dezhou. In addition to the fixed monthly rent, water and electricity bills, living expenses, insurance premiums, Internet fees, and mobile phone fees, there are also endless gasoline fees, vehicle maintenance fees, transportation fees, printing fees, social expenses, etc. Every day when he opens his eyes, in addition to thinking about studying, he also thinks about how to make money, which is something he never had to worry about in the past 20 years. Now without the direct protection of his parents, he must solve everything on his own.
Although Lei Lanting had given him a large sum of money from the 10 pigs during the summer vacation, and Dong Yiqing still owed him a sum, Dong Qiangqiang knew that the most important thing in increasing revenue and reducing expenditure was to increase revenue, otherwise no matter how much money he had, he would be left in vain .
Through this injury, he fully understood that learning some necessary self-defense skills when alone outside could not only protect himself at critical moments, but also protect those in need of help when necessary.
Dong Qiangqiang is the kind of person who does things neatly and never sloppily. After clarifying his needs, he immediately visited all the well-known fighting skills training gyms in the city center after school on Monday. After confirming, he immediately paid for the registration and waited for his injuries to heal. As soon as you recover, start training immediately.
Time flies and it's Tuesday. Dong Qiangqiang is reading in the preparatory library after lunch. Duanmu sent him a few more copies of the Enron investment report, and the context of Enron's fraud became clearer in his mind. After getting tired of reading, he wandered to the computer room to surf the Internet. As soon as he read a few financial news, a bold red-letter headline jumped into his eyes: Enron announced that its total loss this year has reached more than 600 million US dollars!
Dong Qiangqiang quickly clicked in and studied line by line carefully.
Enron's third-quarter financial report was just as expected by Wall Street's elite investment institutions. In addition to the expected huge financial losses, it also reluctantly disclosed the fact that the company's shareholders' assets had shrunk significantly due to poor management of its partnerships.
Enron's stock price began to plummet from the moment the financial report was released. If some investors in the past still harbored the illusion of buying the bottom, now investors have the same action in mind: sell.
As the saying goes, when a tree falls, the monkey will scatter, when the wall falls, everyone pushes it, and when the drum breaks, thousands of people beat it. With the faith and "support" of global investors, Enron's stock price perfectly explained what is meant by a cliff-like plunge. Dong Qiangqiang was also the first Feel the earthquake in the financial market up close for the first time.
Because there are no price limits on the U.S. stock market, there is no so-called bottom for Enron's stock price. When you think $35 is the bottom, the stock price reaches 28 in the blink of an eye, and 22 in the next blink of an eye. At this time, no one will want to buy the bottom, and it depends on who can run faster. It's pity for those large institutions holding tens of millions of shares, they really don't have time to run.
But if I don't run away, I'm afraid I'll lose even the coffin. If there is a transaction price, I have to be grateful and thankful to God. Everyone knows that they cannot care about whether Enron will have a tomorrow, they must first take care of themselves.
Although U.S. stocks do not have price limits, they do have an automatic trading halt mechanism, which is often referred to as a circuit breaker. In 2001, the U.S. stock market had just experienced the bursting of the speculative bubble of global Internet technology companies. Many ".com" U.S. Internet listed companies suffered delisting and bankruptcy. The U.S. stock market had not yet completely recovered from the bubble squeeze and was facing another crisis. Here came An Ran's heavy blow and counterattack.
But what makes Dong Qiangqiang feel amazing is that although Enron's stock price plummeted that day, it did not trigger a circuit breaker in the US stock market. However, its herd effect was still very obvious, and the US stock market was full of disasters that day. Just when Dong Qiangqiang was shocked by the collapse of the Enron empire, someone whispered behind him: "A good student just loves to study. Do you have time? Say a few words."
Dong Qiangqiang recognized that the speaker was Qu Shan. He turned around and skillfully locked the computer screen and whispered: "Let's go."
The two of them left the computer room and walked to a quiet place. Dong Qiangqiang asked: "What is so mysterious?"
"Test results." Qu Shan said angrily, "You got 1 point in all five subjects in this monthly test, right?"
"How do you know?" Dong Qiangqiang indirectly admitted, "The teacher did not disclose everyone's results."
"Come on, I lent you your political class notes. Why did I get 2 points in the exam, but you got 1 point?" Qu Shan said unconvinced, "How did you get the exam?"
"There are many possibilities." Dong Qiangqiang was amused by Qu Shan's question, but he couldn't directly say that the other party didn't review carefully, so he could only interrupt, "Maybe I was blinded by a dead mouse this time, and got shit luck. .”
"It's okay if you have bad luck in one class, but you have bad luck in all five classes?" Qu Shan rolled her eyes at him, "If you still want to copy my political notes, you must agree to my request."
"Do you want to add more money?" Dong Qiangqiang had a premonition that she was going to raise the price, "Tell me, how much more?"
"No more money." Qu Shan said with a domineering attitude, "But I will review with you before the next exam. You tell me everything you think is important."
"This..." Dong Qiangqiang felt embarrassed, "I..."
"Don't be nagging!" Seeing Dong Qiangqiang's evasion, Qu Shan said, "That's it. I'll find you next time."
Looking at her back, Dong Qiangqiang shook his head helplessly.
Before he could return to the computer room, Duanmu's cell phone number and another unfamiliar cell phone number were dialed at the same time. Dong Qiangqiang thought about it and answered the unfamiliar cell phone number first.
"Hello. Who are you looking for?"
"Oh, hello, I'm looking for Mr. Dong Qiangqiang." The other person's Chinese sounded very poor, and he sounded like a foreigner who had just learned Chinese but was not familiar with the four tones.
"I am, who are you?" Dong Qiangqiang felt that the other party's voice sounded familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had heard it.
"I am the owner of Wanfu Restaurant." The other party said politely, "We met in Hamburg a month ago. You were the one who translated for me when the German police came to search."
After hearing what he said, Dong Qiangqiang immediately remembered what happened that night. Time flew by so fast. Almost a month had passed since the trip to Hamburg. But he couldn't help but wonder, how did the other party get his mobile phone number? And why call yourself? "Oh, hello. I remember you. Are you okay?"
"That's right, I heard from Qi Ying that you are a tour guide and often take tour groups around, so... I would like to ask you a favor."
Since the other party listened to what Qi Ying said, it seems that Qi Ying also told the other party his mobile phone number. Dong Qiangqiang didn't know what the other party wanted him to do, so he said politely: "You are too polite. I am just an ordinary international student. I have just arrived..."
"Mr. Dong, you are so humble. I still remember the scene of you reasoning with the Germans that day, and I remember that you also called Consul Sun over that day." Although the other party was not very good at Chinese, the two of them were very friendly. This sentence put a high hat on Dong Qiangqiang, "I think people can't be wrong. I have to ask you for help in this matter."
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