Rebirth of the 80s

Chapter 26 [No.028] The Story of Watermelon
After the middle-aged man parked the car, Xie Wenjun followed him to the river. The middle-aged man stretched out his hand and said, "Hello, I am Zeng Wei's father, Zeng Hongzhang."

Xie Wenjun shook hands with Zeng Hongzhang, thinking that it would be great, and Zeng Guofan added Li Hongzhang.

Zeng Hongzhang lit a cigarette, and handed another one to Xie Wenjun: "Don't say you can't."

Xie Wenjun took the cigarette and lit it quickly: "Uncle, what do you want from me?"

"What do you think?" Zeng Hongzhang's smile seemed extremely terrifying to Xie Wenjun, as if he could see through everything.

"Oh, uncle, do you want to know about Zeng Wei's study situation? Zeng Wei is the monitor of our class. He studies so-so and gets along with his classmates. He loves to work..."

Zeng Hongzhang did not interrupt Xie Wenjun's nonsense, but waited for him to finish, and then laughed: "I was not sure about some things at first, but now I am sure after listening to you, do you know the flower and bird market?" Why would someone sell a chameleon, because no matter how well it is disguised, it will always be spotted by smart people."

"Uh... Uncle's words are so philosophical!" Xie Wenjun really didn't know what to say now.

Seeing that the time was right, Zeng Hongzhang said straight to the point: "Why did Zeng Wei spend more than 1 yuan on a pile of rubbish? I think you should know the answer. The money... I have no intention of getting it back. It's fair to buy and sell. The things Wei bought are worthless, no wonder who, that's his own problem, but if I don't get an answer today, your teachers, principals and even parents will know about it right away, I don't think it's okay in their opinion It's a good thing."

Zeng Hongzhang has already talked about this point, is there any need to hide it, Xie Wenjun asked: "In the eyes of uncle, this is a good thing?"

"More than that, at least it's not a bad thing in the eyes of a shrewd businessman." Zeng Hongzhang smiled, shook his head and said, "Oh! I'm getting old, and I'm boasting in front of children, haha..."

"Uncle, I want to ask you a question first. You want to know about Zeng Wei's purchase of foreign paintings. Why don't you ask someone else to ask me?" Xie Wenjun first wanted to know the answer.

"The one who started this incident was Li Qiang, and the only one who sold foreign paintings was Zheng Gang. I remember correctly, these two students are from your class, and their best friend is you, Xie Wenjun. , I don't know how capable you are among the three, but Zeng Wei knows." Zeng Hongzhang patted Xie Wenjun on the head, "So it's not difficult to guess."

Indeed, if the idiot Zeng Wei hadn't intervened, absolutely no adult would have taken care of this shit, nor would he have guessed that they did it, but Zeng Wei's 3000 yuan is too conspicuous, parents just need After careful scrutiny, it is easy to understand the truth, it is all caused by greed!Anyway, Zeng Hongzhang didn't intend to take the money back anyway, so he just confessed, so Xie Wenjun told the whole process of selling foreign paintings, and finally added: "Everything was planned by me, it doesn't matter. Regarding other people's affairs, no matter what your plans are, I hope you will not implicate other people."

"You really planned it? No one else is behind it?" Zeng Hongzhang only guessed one thing, but he never thought that this plan came from a junior high school student.

Xie Wenjun nodded: "Yes uncle, I've finished my confession, if you want to be beaten or punished, it's up to you."

Zeng Hongzhang laughed and said, "It's against the law to beat you, and you have no money to fine you. What do you think should I do?"

"Actually, I never thought that Zeng Wei would spend so much money to buy foreign paintings, but it's my greed, so I'll return the money to you." Xie Wenjun didn't want to spend any more time with him.

"Using the set in the stock market for small foreign paintings, you are No. 1," Zeng Hongzhang became more and more interested in Xie Wenjun, "I just said that I don't plan to get the money back, but I want Do you know how you came up with the idea of ​​selling foreign paintings like this?"

Of course this can’t tell the truth, but it can’t be said that I thought of it out of thin air. Isn’t this really a genius? Xie Wenjun thought about it for a while, and started to make nonsense: “My family is poor, and I was often hungry when I was young, so I just thought about it. To earn more money, I often go to the stock market after studying, chat with some adults, gradually have my own views on these things, and imagine that one day I can make a fortune from it, and I will see a lot in the second middle school I came up with this idea when I was playing with foreign paintings."

Of course Zeng Hongzhang did not believe that Xie Wenjun was poor or hungry, but he believed that the kid in front of him really had his own views on the stock market, otherwise he would not have thought of selling foreign paintings, so he said: "Because I also trade in stocks. , so I want to hear your opinion on the stock market."

Having said so much, Xie Wenjun found a clean place to sit down and said, "The stock market is too complicated. Let me simplify it. Let me tell you a story about watermelons. Suppose there is a In the fruit market, there are only two people selling watermelons. Let’s call them Watermelon A and Watermelon B. First, their watermelon prices are not supervised by the Price Bureau. Selling a watermelon for one yuan can keep your capital; third, they have the same amount of watermelons. Suppose their business is not good, and there is no one who buys watermelons, and the two of them stand boringly for a long time..."

"Wait," Zeng Hongzhang felt that this kind of saying was very fresh, but he was afraid that he could not hear clearly, so he took out a pen and paper from his briefcase, "Go on."

Xie Wenjun chuckled, and continued: "The weather is hot and there is no business. Both Watermelon A and Watermelon B are bored. This shows that the market is not very active at this time. In order to make everyone not bored, Watermelon A suggested that Watermelon B play a game." , Watermelon B agrees, so the story begins..."

"What, you haven't started talking for a long time?" Zeng Hongzhang was puzzled.

"Hehe, uncle, please don't keep interrupting, okay, you'll understand after listening," Xie Wenjun lit his cigarette, and continued, "A bought B's watermelon for one yuan, and B also bought A's for one yuan. A watermelon is all delivered in cash; then A spends two yuan to buy a watermelon from B, and B also pays two yuan to buy a watermelon from A, which is also delivered in cash... The two kept playing like this, so they came to the fruit market Everyone has seen that the price of watermelons is soaring, and it rose to 60 yuan per watermelon in a short while, but as long as the number of watermelons in the hands of watermelon A and watermelon B is the same, then no one makes money, and no one loses money, but they Assets have 'appreciated', both of them have 'wealth' many times higher than in the past, their worth has increased a lot, and their 'market value' has also increased a lot. Right, uncle."

Zeng Hongzhang looked at the written content, nodded: "Yes."

"At this time, a passer-by C came. He remembered that when he passed by an hour ago, the watermelon was still 60 yuan a piece, but now it has become 100 yuan a piece. He was surprised. After another hour, the passerby C found that the watermelon was already 120 yuan. One, he opened his mouth wide in surprise, when Passerby C passed by the watermelon stall again, the watermelon was already [-] yuan a piece, so he bought one without hesitation, because Passerby C, a kid who likes to speculate and rake , he is sure that the price of watermelon will continue to rise. Under the demonstration effect of watermelon A, watermelon B and even passer-by C seeming to "make money", more and more passers-by are buying watermelon, and the price of watermelon is also rising steadily. Everyone is very happy, because it is strange that no one is losing money, and everyone's assets are increasing in value." Seeing that Zeng Hongzhang frowned, Xie Wenjun must have been thinking carefully, so he stopped and took a rest.

(End of this chapter)