Dong Qiangqiang sat alone at the dining table beside the window of the restaurant, flirting with Qu Shan’s political notes in a restless manner, but his mind was full of thoughts. After reading for a long time, he couldn’t read the text, so he simply closed the notes, held his cheek and looked at the pedestrians and vehicles on the street, leaving him dazed.

Lao Bai's affairs seemed to be a stubborn stone in his heart, making him absent-minded about other things. He usually became much silent except for class or hunting.

From a biological perspective, human pain is mostly related to growth, and growth will run through the entire life of human life, which means that pain will accompany a person's life. After half a year in the year of coming to Germany, the pain caused by growth often comes silently and fades away silently, making him sometimes panic and sometimes hesitate.

Just as he was in deep thought, snowflakes floated again in the hazy sky. Perhaps because the outdoor temperature was not low, the snowflakes immediately melted as soon as they fell to the ground, and soon the road became muddy.

The regular bells on the roof of the railway station awakened Dong Qiangqiang from his thoughts. He looked at the direction of the big bell, which was exactly 12 o'clock.

Dong Qiangqiang put away those complicated thoughts and forced himself to re-enter the review. After not attending classes for two weeks, there were already many more places in his political notes that he couldn't understand. As expected, learning still requires reviewing the old and learning the new every day, otherwise it would be like sailing against the current, and if he didn't advance, he would retreat.

Time passed unknowingly, another 20 minutes passed, and Dong Qiangqiang gradually became able to read some.

A big red Mercedes-Benz sports car stopped behind Dong Qiangqiang's pickup truck outside the barbecue restaurant with a "ga" sound.

The sound of a sudden brake attracted Dong Qiangqiang's attention. He looked up and looked out the window. He saw that the two headlights of the sports car suddenly went out, the streamlined door slowly opened, and a young man with curly hair, sunglasses, red scarf and brown leather jacket jumped out of the car in agile posture and walked into the barbecue restaurant.

Looking at Duanmu standing in front of him, Dong Qiangqiang didn't recognize him.

"Why are you returning this car now?" Duanmu shook the bright silver car key in his hand and pointed at Dong Qiangqiang's pickup truck, "Volkswagen stocks are falling and rising, are you losing or making money?"

After Dong Qiangqiang bought Volkswagen stocks in the first half of the year, the stock price fell sharply, and fell to the bottom at 911. After lying at the bottom for a week, he slowly slowed back from October. In early December, he climbed back to near Dong Qiangqiang's buying price, which was calculated to be neither rising nor falling. The Volkswagen put options he bought in order to hedge the risk of stock decline, and the option was invalid because the stock price was higher than the exercise price specified in the option face, which meant that he had no loss on the stock, but lost an option fee in vain. But this result was as expected, and he was considered to have paid the tuition fee and heard it. He slowly entered the gate of stocks and options.

Dong Qiangqiang didn't like to talk big about his wealth in public and said lightly: "What should I do if I have to meet and talk about it?"

"Bian General Company has been listed on the Frankfurt Exchange. I sent you the mailbox a few days ago."

"Oh, I haven't checked my emails much recently." Dong Qiangqiang explained, "How is the company doing?"

"German investment institutions are generally cautious about newly listed companies, let alone a foreign company, so they currently have no trading volume and no financial derivatives."

The waiter put the coffee and steak ordered from the wooden table.

Looking at Dong Qiangqiang's slightly sallow face, Duanmu said caringly: "I haven't seen each other for two months. You are a little haggard, my buddy."

Dong Qiangqiang also studied cars when he bought a car before. He knew that the price of Duanmu was between 30,000 and 40,000 marks. He immediately changed the topic and praised: "Your car is very beautiful."

"Thank you." Duanmu turned his head and looked at the sports car outside the window, his face full of joy of harvest. "This is a Christmas gift I gave myself in advance, although Christmas is not here yet."

Dong Qiangqiang knew that many people who make money had a desire to show off, so he asked understandingly: "Did put options make money?"

"Hehe, (earned) less than 100,000 marks, not worth mentioning." Although he said it was not worth mentioning, Duanmu smiled like a flower.

What Dong Qianqiang didn't know was that Duanmu's investment of 240,000 marks finally got back nearly 360,000 marks. In other words, his gross profit was nearly 120,000 marks. After deducting 25% of the capital gains, there was still 90,000 marks of net profit left, which can be said to have won a big victory.

After the greetings, Duanmu got straight to the point: "Actually, today I will ask you to help you register an investment fund company."

Dong Qiangqiang had guessed this a long time ago and nodded, "No problem, you can prepare the materials first."

"I've prepared all the materials." Duanmu took out the folder from his bag, took out piles of documents from it and spread them in front of Dong Qiangqiang, and handed Dong Qiang a signing pen. "The lawyer has read it. These are the standard agreements of investment companies. You just need to sign on the last page of all the agreements. I'll transfer the money to you in the future."

"So many (documents)?" Dong Qiangqiang glanced at the content a few times, "I need to take it back and read it all before I can sign it."

"Can't you sign now?" Duanmu pushed the pen again.

"You have to let me understand such a big deal, right?" Dong Qiangqiang said slowly.

"Reasonable request." Duanmu was surprised, but he still agreed with a smile. "I don't want to urge you, but I'm leaving Germany next week, so you have to hurry up."

"Return to China for the New Year?" There are less than three weeks left before 2002. Dong Qiangqiang knew that someone had already started booking air tickets to China.

"I won't go back to China," Duanmu used a knife and fork to grilled steak with a grilled outside and tender aroma, "Go to the United States."

"U.S.? You're not at work?"

"It's because I went to the United States because I went to work." Duanmu sipped his coffee, "Do you still remember the company that did the financial audit for Anran?"

"You said Anderson?" The name had been engraved in Dong Qiangqiang's mind, "What's wrong with it?"

"After Anran's accident, our company not only studied Anran, but also put a list of all listed companies that hired Anderson for auditing in the past two years. As a result, it really responded to the old saying, pull out the radish and bring mud. We just passed the list, and another listed company in the United States was involved. According to public information, the United States Global Telecom paid Anderson a total of US$2.3 million in financial audit fees last year. This number was nothing, but what made us interesting was that the consultation fee it paid Anderson was nearly 6 times the audit fee, and the same thing once appeared in Enron's financial statements." Duanmu said while eating, and a large piece of steak was left with a few bones in the blink of an eye.

"What do you mean is that this US Global Telecom also has financial fraud?" Dong Qiangqiang felt unbelievable and teased, "Isn't the US capital market very perfect and regular? Why are there so many fraudulent companies? You happened to be discovered by you?"

"It's not a scam company that can't judge whether it's just sitting in the house to analyze various reports. You have to go there and see it with your own eyes. As the saying goes, you will always feel shallow and you must practice it in your knowledge. So we need to go to the United States for field research."

"You go to the United States for field research?" Dong Qiangqiang roughly knows the meaning of this word, "Then why didn't you check the put options in Munich Re before?"

"I was still a wild way at that time. Isn't I learning the formal process now?" Duanmu closed his smile. "Besides, Munich Re Insurance is not a financial fraud, it is a decline in income, which is different from the cunning Uncle Sam. Our company bought Global Telecom shares and can go to their company for research as a small shareholder to understand its specific production and sales. Of course, we will also collect information we want to know through other channels."

"So you are anxious to set up your investment company as soon as possible, just to short Global Telecom immediately once the conditions are ripe, right?" After being in contact with Duanmu for a long time, Dong Qiangqiang understood the other party's thoughts very well.

A cunning light flashed in Duanmu's eyes. He quietly pushed the folder on the table to Dong Qiangqiang, tapped the folder with his index finger and said, "If this (investment company) can be successfully registered before the end of December, and at the same time, Global Telecom is as bad as I have studied, or even worse than I think, then we both may make their first pot of gold."

"Didn't you earn it?" Dong Qiangqiang said suspiciously, "your put options."

"The first pot of gold is more than that little money," Duanmu looked forward to the future excitedly. "It refers to the first 1 million in your life. By then, we can afford a car that is ten times better than my car."

Dong Qiangqiang suddenly had a thought, and a thought came out of his heart in a silhouette. "Will you go to New York when you go to the United States?"

"Well, I will definitely go, after all, the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq are both in New York. Are you in trouble?" Duanmu asked.

"Well, let's talk about it when you get there." Dong Qiangqiang replied thoughtfully.

The two chatted casually for a few more words, and Duanmu hurriedly left.

Dong Qiangqiang turned his gaze out the window. Amid the roar of the engine, the red sports car disappeared from the corner of the street, and the little snowflakes that had just floated had turned into heavy snow without realizing it, rolling in the howling north wind, blowing into the distance.

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Chapter completed!