The leisurely life of the reborn daddy

After Wang Qinghui left, Cao Shujie had already started preparing for the New Year.

This year, his grandfather's health condition was obviously not good, so Cao Shujie did not make any more trouble and did not choose to go out for the New Year. He stayed at home preparing for the New Year.

Mengmeng is also on winter vacation. During this time, she has been wearing the Xiaotiancai children's phone watch that was bought for her and going out to play.

She shows it off to her friends when she sees them, and also calls her father, mother, grandfather or grandmother to brag to her friends how great she is.

Cao Shujie later learned about this from other people, but he didn't care.

Mengmeng is still a child after all.

When a kid has a new gadget, he or she always wants to show it off to his or her friends.

Because of Mengmeng's showing off, many children in Caojiazhuang went home to ask their parents to buy them children's phone watches.

In addition, knowing the benefits of this kind of children's phone watch and the fact that it is not expensive, many parents in Caojiazhuang are indeed planning to buy one for their children.

However, because they didn't understand this new product, when they bought it for their children, they came to Cao Shujie to ask what they should buy.

Cao Shujie told them that for the sake of their children's future, they should never buy phones with too many functions. They should only buy phones that can make calls. All those other messy functions should not be developed for children at all.

The common people were confused after hearing what Secretary Cao said. Finally, someone asked Cao Shujie, "Secretary Cao, why don't you buy one for me? I'll transfer the price to you."

"That's right, Secretary Cao, please buy one for my family, and I won't bother with that."

With this beginning, some other people who wanted to buy children's phone watches also came to ask Cao Shujie for help after learning about this.

Cao Shujie made a final statistics and reported the number directly to Cao Fei, telling him that they were bought by children in the village and he could just give them a preferential price. After figuring out the details, he transferred the money to Cao Fei.

However, some parents insist on buying it for their children. In addition, the children are very persuasive and insist on getting something that can log in to WeChat, add friends, and play games. Parents think that chatting on WeChat or playing games will not harm their children, and finally they can't resist the children's persuasion and buy it.

As for the series of headaches caused by this, that is a story for later.

Facing the upcoming Spring Festival, unlike previous years when everyone celebrated together by distributing New Year's goods, Caojiazhuang also organized their own collective celebration this year, which was indeed much richer than previous years.

Seeing the whole village immersed in the festive atmosphere of the upcoming New Year, Cao Shujie was happy for everyone.

Xuemeng Food Factory is also different from previous years.

This year, because of the extremely bad incident in the purchasing department last month, the entire company was immersed in a tense atmosphere. This year's annual meeting was not organized. However, Cao Shujie still asked Wang Zhifeng to find a place to organize a dinner for everyone and distribute the funds planned for the annual meeting equally to all employees in the company.

This is the second time Xuemeng Food Factory has done this.

In fact, being able to give out money directly like this would definitely make the factory employees happier, and it would also allow them to temporarily forget what happened just last month.

They felt that watching a show was just like that. Even if they invited celebrities, it would only make people in the town envy the strength of their factory and the opportunity to get close to the celebrities. But it would be far less cost-effective than converting those expenses into money and giving it to them.

Even everyone remembers the good things about the company.

In addition, the company was very generous this year. After soliciting opinions from the entire company, it bought Xiaomi tablets for everyone based on the most popular suggestions.

Naturally, this deal was made with Lei Jun, not for any other reason, but mainly because Lei Jun gave him a more favorable price with the same performance.

For example, for a tablet computer that costs more than 3000 yuan, Cao Shujie actually saves more than 1000 yuan. If spread over the more than 3000 employees in the company, this is not a small amount.

In addition to this kind of prize, the company is also generous in distributing New Year's goods.

During the entire period before the Spring Festival, Xuemeng Food Factory has always been the most envied place for other factory employees in Pingyuan County.

And everyone has noticed that in recent years, the company's standards for bonuses and gifts have been getting higher and higher every year.

This is directly related to the company's higher profits year by year.

At this moment, everyone is guessing about the company’s revenue last year and its profits.
They are now looking forward to the company-wide staff meeting when they return to work after the Spring Festival, wondering whether the boss will announce the salary increase for this year at that time?
This is what everyone in the company hopes for.

There are also people who have performed better and want to see if they are on the promotion list this time.

However, while the employees of Xuemeng Food Factory were celebrating another bumper harvest, the external environment was not optimistic, and even seemed more difficult than the first month of the year.

Especially when the Spring Festival was approaching, the stock market taught investors a good lesson.

Ever since the market index reached its highest point of 3588 points at the end of last month, everyone has been immersed in the festive atmosphere of "New Year's red envelopes". Who knew that the stock market would take a sharp turn for the worse at this time, closing the day with a medium-sized negative line, with an amplitude of nearly three points during the period. However, this was just the beginning. After only 9 trading days, the market fell to a low of 3062 points, a drop of 500 points.

The reason for this sharp drop was the pessimistic predictions from the market about a trade war on the other side of the ocean.

Following the last time the United States imposed tariffs on imported large washing machines and photovoltaic products, this time it imposed an anti-dumping tariff of 109.9% on cast iron sewage pipe fittings imported from the country.

In the same month, it announced the imposition of anti-dumping duties ranging from 48.64% to 106.09% and countervailing duties of 17.14% and 80.97% on domestic aluminum foil product manufacturers.

These two pieces of news came from the other side of the ocean. Although they have not yet been officially implemented, they have already indicated that this invisible war has just begun and is far from over.

Because of this, a group of people started to short sell.

It's just a pity for those lovely investors who still believe that the economy will definitely get better.

Moreover, after the market briefly fell to 3062 points, it did not end. However, the Spring Festival was approaching at this time, which gave these investors a chance to breathe temporarily. Otherwise, this year would have caused their families to break up.

Cao Zhen just came back from the city, and when he caught Cao Shujie, he complained to him: "Shujie, you don't know, there is no good thing in that bastard market, there are a lot of short sellers, fuck him, I won't play in it anymore after I get out."

When Cao Shujie heard him say this, his eyes became weird: "Dude, are you still playing with stocks? Are you stupid?"

"Aren't you playing too? I just took 30 and went in to have some fun." Cao Zhen said.

It seemed that these 30 yuan were as easy as sprinkling water to him.

Cao Shujie didn't know how to say good things about him.

"Even if you take this money into the casino, those people will still call you 'Brother Zhen' and 'Master Cao', and you won't even listen. I find that you are really a typical financial consumer." Cao Shujie's words were full of sarcasm.

Cao Zhen didn’t know what financial consumers were and asked him what they meant.
"Use the money to spend in the financial market. Don't you have to spend money when you go to the supermarket to buy things? Isn't it normal to lose some money when you buy some stocks?" Cao Shujie said. After hearing his explanation, Cao Zhen immediately understood what he meant.

He even felt that his childhood friend Cao Shujie's description was very vivid.

"Financial consumers, exactly." Cao Zhen complained.

Cao Shujie asked him which stock he bought, and then heard Cao Zhen tell him that he bought Shuangjie Electric.

"Shuangjie Electric?" Cao Shujie had never heard of this stock. It sounded quite niche.

Cao Zhen told him that when this stock was first listed in 2015, it rose from more than 10 yuan to 140 yuan in one go. When he bought it, it was 24 yuan. Cao Zhen also felt that this stock had been falling since 1 until now, and it had been falling for almost three years. He felt that whether in terms of stock price or decline cycle, the stock had been cut in half again at this position, and he should be able to make a profit if he bought it at this time.

"How much is it now? Cao Shujie remembered something and asked him."

As soon as I asked, I saw Cao Zhen said weakly: "Don't mention it. The stock was suspended before the New Year. It was 17 yuan per share before the suspension. I have lost 7 yuan per share. I am so angry."

Hearing him say this, Cao Shujie really admired him. He had good vision and could even choose such top-notch products. What else could he say good about him?

Cao Shujie also asked him why he didn't stop the loss in time. As a result, in Cao Zhen's words, he had already lost so much and didn't know what to buy. Just hold it and wait for it to grow back slowly.

"No, why do you think it can go up?" Cao Shujie thought this was a very strange and magical argument?

"Have you ever thought that it might fall even harder later?" Cao Shujie asked him.

Cao Zhen was frightened by his question. Up to now, based on his cost price, he has lost 30%, which is 10 yuan.

"Do you mean I still have to pay compensation?" Cao Zhen asked him.

Cao Shujie really didn’t understand this stock. He said to Cao Zhen, “I really don’t understand it. You’ve already lost so much. You should either stop the loss now or never play with it again.”

"Either you sell it quickly if there is a rebound and a high price later, or you buy more if there is a low price."

Cao Zhen rolled his eyes and asked Cao Shujie where he thought the low point was.
"How the hell should I know, Cao Zhen? I'm telling you this, it was a mistake for you to buy stocks. Just make some money last time. You shouldn't buy now." Cao Shujie said earnestly.

Cao Zhen also regrets it now, but fortunately the 30 is a piece of cake for him.

The Xinjiang Hotel in the city helped him make a lot of money throughout the year. The speed at which the Xinjiang Hotel branch opened in Caojiazhuang made money during the peak tourist season made him even more scared. Fortunately, 30% of the shares were owned by his childhood friend Cao Shujie, otherwise he would really feel that the money was too hot to handle.

"Have you bought it yet?" Cao Zhen asked Cao Shujie.

Then I heard Cao Shujie say, "I sold them all a long time ago and never bought any."

He wouldn't recommend stocks anyway.

"So what are you investing in now?" Cao Zhen was very curious.

He remembered something and asked Cao Shujie if he had ever invested in Bitcoin?

Seeing Cao Shujie shaking his head and denying it, Cao Zhen said to him, "Shujie, I'm not trying to scare you, but it's better not to buy that crap. You don't know, it went from $2 a coin before the New Year to below $7000 now. In less than two months, it's dropped by more than half. My god, it went up fast, but it went down even faster. It's killing me."

Ever since Cao Shujie sold the 8400 bitcoins some time ago, he has not paid any attention to this market and he had no idea that it had fallen so much recently.

This is a sudden drop back to the starting point when he started selling Bitcoin. It's really a magical feeling.

"Did it fall so hard?" He asked in a pretentious manner. Cao Zhen was still frightened by the incident.

He took the initiative to tell Cao Shujie: "I saw it rise to 1 US dollars, and I wanted to buy two for fun, but fortunately I didn't buy them."

But just after he finished speaking, Cao Zhen couldn't help but complain: "In the end, I bought stocks, but I didn't expect them to fall so much. Damn it!"

Cao Shujie couldn't hold it in any longer and burst out laughing.

Cao Zhen was so angry that he said, "What are you laughing at? Are you happy that I'm paying you money?"

"Stop laughing." Cao Shujie managed to hold back his laughter.

When he asked about Cao Zhen's situation in the city, Cao Shujie felt relieved when he heard Cao Zhen tell him that everything was fine outside.

"Shujie, when will our sister get married?" Cao Zhen asked.

Especially after seeing Cao Huifang and Tong Jiayi shopping for clothes together at the Five Star Department Store last time, Cao Zhen called his childhood friend Cao Shujie at that time and has been paying attention to this matter ever since.

Cao Shujie told him: "We have to wait a little longer. The two old people haven't met yet."

"The guy I met last time, is he really Fangfang's boyfriend?" Cao Zhen asked.

When he saw his childhood friend nodding, Cao Zhen said, "I think that person is pretty good too. It's okay for them to get married."

"Yes, he works in my factory and I pay him an annual salary of 100 million yuan," said Cao Shujie.

Cao Zhen really didn't know about this. After hearing his father say this income figure, Cao Zhen paused for a while before coming to his senses: "In this case, that person is also a talent."

He is not stupid. He knows that even if he can get an annual salary of 100 million in other places, he is still a talent, let alone here with his childhood friend Cao Shujie.

According to his understanding, Cao Shujie is a shrewd man, a typical person who would not give up until he sees the rabbit. The fact that he can offer such a high price to the other party can only mean that the person can create more value.

Cao Shujie also acknowledged Tong Jiayi's ability. He nodded and said to Cao Zhen, "Not bad."

When Cao Zhen received the call and was about to go home, he also told Cao Shujie that they should take some time to get together in the next few days.

He came back earlier this year than in previous years, mainly because his wife gave birth to their second child, who is only half a year old. They also gave the store a holiday this year. He has been busy from beginning to end all year, so this time he plans to give himself a good rest.

In addition, many employees in the store have to return to Xinjiang Changji.

"Okay, let's get together again when they all come back." Cao Shujie readily agreed. (End of this chapter)