Wind Rises 2005

Chapter 654 Even Ding Crab has to kneel down when he comes

Hong Kong, near Central, Queen's Road.

This is the first major coastal city center road built after the opening of Xiangjiang as a port. The nearby area is a proper city center, and everything it passes through is an elite commercial and financial district.

Queen's Road is divided into three sections: West, Central and East, with the east section being the most famous.

After all, Luo Dayou, the godfather of music in the Chinese entertainment industry, once had a song named after this section of the road. It was once widely sung, but was banned for more than 20 years.

It can be said that Queen's Road has completely witnessed the development and changes of Xiangjiang over the past decades.

Although it is one of the world's financial centers, Hong Kong is like many international metropolises. Behind the prosperity of high-rise buildings are the ordinary people working on the streets and at the bottom.

This is still the case even on Queen's Road in the city centre.

The small shops hidden in the lanes or alleys on both sides of the avenue are the most authentic side of Xiangjiang.

Chunyuan Street is such a small road.

There are almost dilapidated old residential buildings on both sides of the road, with various convenience stores opening underneath.

Grocery stores, milk tea shops, real estate agencies, flower shops, hair salons, aquatic products wholesale, bakeries, hardware stores, tea restaurants, etc.

It's just a short road and has quite a variety of businesses.

Wangji Tea Restaurant is just a small restaurant on Chunyuan Street. There are only five or six tables in the store, and most of the business it does is from nearby neighbors.

There are not even 10,000 but thousands of small street tea restaurants like this in Xiangjiang. They are the favorites of the people of old Xiangjiang.

Neighbors come to the tea restaurant to eat with a sense of custom and ease. Various set breakfasts are prepared for you. The biggest decision is no more than coffee or milk tea, ice or sugar.

The waiters in the store are notoriously aloof and arrogant. The best thing about them is that they can memorize all the various orders without writing.

If you really put pen to paper, it is also the most efficient ordering language in the world. The abbreviation of frozen lemon tea is homophonic "frozen 0T", but it is almost impossible to make mistakes when serving it.

Because of the love of the neighbors, Wang Kee Tea Restaurant's business has always been very good, and the shop is rarely empty from morning to night.

Even if it's not a meal, there will be customers gathering in the store, ordering a cup of silk stocking milk tea or frozen lemon tea, blowing on the water, talking about their ideas, and sitting there all afternoon.

Today is Friday, which is still a working day. The business of most stores is definitely not as good as on weekends.

But Wangji Tea Restaurant was still the same as usual, with seven or eight old neighbors sitting in the shop chatting and bragging.

Most of them are retired uncles and aunts, sitting around in twos and threes.

In Xiangjiang, an international metropolis with a super fast pace of life, it is estimated that only these people can be so leisurely.

Originally, everyone was reading newspapers and watching football on TV, but suddenly a shout surprised everyone.

"Ah! I got hit..."

The person who shouted out was an old man with gray hair.

I saw him wearing reading glasses and looking at the messages on his mobile phone with a surprised look on his face, as if he had won a big prize. He was so happy.

"Uncle Fang, Lei Jing, did you win the Mark Six Lottery?"

The neighbors on the side were all frightened by this old man, and one of them, a middle-aged man, couldn't help but asked on the spot.

After all, if you really win the Mark Six Lottery, everyone will definitely be invited to this afternoon tea today.

Fang Bingwen, also known as Uncle Fang, has been retired for more than ten years. His biggest hobby is stock trading, so he buys several financial newspapers every day and comes to Wangji to drink tea and read the newspapers in order to keep abreast of all news.

Although he lost more and gained less, he still enjoyed it.

Today, Uncle Fang was drinking milk tea and reading the newspaper in the store. Suddenly, he received a message on his phone, which made him shout out in surprise.

As a result, it didn't matter what he shouted, but it shocked the neighbors in the store.

Seeing everyone looking at him in bewilderment, Fang Bingwen responded proudly: "Hey Mark Six Lottery, I won a new lottery!"

In his mind, winning a new stock lottery is much more satisfying than winning the Mark Six Lottery.

After all, making money from stock trading shows that you are still a treasure trove, which is far more fulfilling than making money from lottery tickets and relying on luck. "Isn't that right, Uncle Fang, Zhongwan?"

Several of the people here are old neighbors, and everyone knows everything about it. How could they not know the situation of the other man?

Due to the impact of the subprime mortgage crisis, the Hong Kong stock market has been in a state of decline in the past two years.

It is normal for an old retail investor like Fang Bingwen to lose money. Especially in the past few months, I lost a lot of money, and I just decided to cut myself off and leave the market at the end of the year.

Everyone was worried when they heard that this old gambler was preparing to return to the gambling scene at the beginning of the new year.

As a result, Fang Bingwen was unhappy on the spot when he heard this. He responded proudly: "You know what, the new stocks I bought this time are completely different..."

"What's the difference? Newspapers and magazines tell you this every time, and only a fool would believe them."

"That's it, that's it! Uncle Fang, the financial crisis has not passed yet, and the new stocks are of no use, so be careful and lose all the money..."

Before Uncle Fang could say anything, everyone started to persuade him again.

These words made Fang Bingwen angry, and he immediately said with a look of disdain: "It's really like a duck to talk to you. Just look at my new stock next Monday..."

"Uncle Fang, calm down first! I forgot, what drama is being broadcast on TVB these days?"

"Yes, yes, Uncle Fang, "The Great Era" is being replayed. You must not buy new shares at this time!"

"The Ding Crab effect, let me ask Uncle Fang if you are surprised?"

The old neighbors were afraid that he would lose money again, so they even moved out of the drama "Big Time", and they tried to persuade him to stop him.

As a result, Fang Bingwen was indifferent and ignored it at all: "Surprise!

This time is different from the past. This stock has been rare for decades. Even if you visit the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in person, you won't be able to..."

You must know that he has been chasing this new stock for many days and finally won the lottery.

In the past, very few people participated in the Hong Kong stock market, and the winning rate was very high. But this time it's different. The winning rate is actually less than one percent, which shows how crazy it is.

After all, the process of issuing new shares in Hong Kong is different from that in the mainland. With the "red shoe mechanism", the winning rate of new shares was even as high as 80%.

But this time even if there is a "red shoe mechanism", it will not work, because the number of people applying to subscribe for this new stock has increased countless times. According to rumors, the winning rate is not even one thousandth.

Such a grand occasion is unprecedented in the Hong Kong stock market in decades.

And this time, his luck was so good that he actually won the lottery. How could Fang Bingwen not be excited?

But the neighbors didn't understand what he was most proud of, but they made him angry!

Do you know how many financial newspapers and magazines are crazily touting it? Do you know how many investors are rushing to subscribe this time?

That is the company known as China's number one business genius. If you grab it, you will make money...

Seeing the doubts from his neighbors, Fang Bingwen suddenly felt a sense of intellectual superiority, and for a while he was having fun again.

"You guys are idiots, you don't know anything."

He muttered to himself, then slowly picked up the newspaper, and walked out of the tea restaurant with a proud look on his face. Before leaving, he said the next sentence generously,

"I'm happy today. I've invited everyone to have afternoon tea, hahahaha..."

After Fang Bingwen finished speaking, he walked away without bothering to explain to everyone. After winning the lottery for a new stock, he was eager to exchange his thoughts with fellow stock traders.

How many times can I earn this time?
double? three times? Or five times?
He can't wait to analyze and discuss with a few old guys who trade stocks together, at what price can he gain the most by selling.

As for the concerns of the neighbors in the tea restaurant, Fang Bingwen didn't take it to heart at all.

At this time, in his mind, the "Big Era" and the Ding Crab Effect were all smelly shit.

Even if Ding Xie himself jumps out of the TV, you have to kneel down to him!
Oh...no, I'm not kneeling to him.

It should be kneeling down to our Chinese business genius, what is his name? It seems to be called Ma Liang?
Ma Liang? What a name! Is there a magic pen coming?
Fang Bingwen was thinking wildly as he walked towards the house of his old buddy who was trading stocks together. What he doesn't know is that next Monday he will witness with his own eyes a historic moment since the Hong Kong stock market opened.
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PS: I’ll post two chapters first. I’m not feeling strong lately and can’t keep up with the coding.

I will try to update more tomorrow and try my best to finish this book this month. Thank you for your support!
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