Game within game: chess player

"People's hearts?!" Ye Fang said thoughtfully.

"Yes, it's the people's hearts!" Old Mrs. Xu nodded and continued, "I don't understand the indicators of stocks, nor can I understand stock trends. I can't understand those professional terms either. I can only sell tea eggs. I Know to buy stocks when everyone is desperate, sell stocks when everyone gets carried away, and the rest of the time, either hold stocks or cash, and that’s it.”

"Grandma, do you also buy stocks?" Ye Fang asked curiously.

"I've been watching and hearing about it a lot at the door of the securities company, so of course I will buy it. Most of the money in my bankbook was earned from stock trading over the years. Otherwise, do you think you can save so much money just by selling tea eggs?" Xu The old lady said with a slightly proud expression.

"Grandma, have you ever done anything in the stock market?" Ye Fang asked.

At this time, Mrs. Xu stretched out a finger and said slowly, "I only cut it once. I remember it was the first time I bought stocks, and I was a little excited. I ended up buying the wrong stock, and I sold it the next day." , I lost some handling fees. The handling fees were enough to make me feel distressed for several days."

"Just this once? Then you have never made any compensation again?" Ye Fang was a little unbelievable. He only paid a handling fee. From Ye Fang's point of view, this cannot be called a flesh-cutting.

Mrs. Xu shook her head and said, "No, I stick to my trading rules and have never lost money in so many years."

"Grandma, so you are the stock god!" Ye Fang did not expect that the stock god was right next to him.

"I'm not a stock god, I'm just an old lady selling tea eggs." Mrs. Xu said modestly.

"Grandma, I think I know what you are going to tell me. I'm going to go back and summarize it. It's already past ten o'clock. You should go to bed early." After saying that, Ye Fang turned around and walked out of Mrs. Xu's room.

Mrs. Xu noticed that Ye Fang did not go back to her room, but walked back and forth in the courtyard by herself, sometimes stopping to think, sometimes staring up at the sky. What Mrs. Xu pointed out to Ye Fang that night was enough to benefit him for the rest of his life. .

The stock market has always been a game field for people's hearts and human nature, and the ultimate winning formula is often hidden in the simplest truth.

But even this simplest truth is not something that everyone can stick to. Ye Fang believes that even if he tells a hundred people about this method of buying tea eggs, there may not be one person who will stick to this trading principle. The temptation in this gaming field is too great, and people's hearts are being tested all the time.

The reason why this trading method is suitable for Grandma Xu is because she sells tea eggs without any distractions and sticks to her business. If investors are like those who soak in the halls of securities companies every day, under the influence of their ears and eyes, they may forget this trading principle in three to five days. This is a test of human nature.

Grandma Xu's method of buying and selling is more like a medium and long-term investment method. Only one person who can endure loneliness and hold on to desires can truly execute it, but this investment method has opened up for Ye Fang. A new investment world, which made Ye Fang's investment transactions more and more stable. He was not greedy for success and not aggressive. This formed Ye Fang's stable and measured investment style in the following decades.

Whenever Ye Fang is affected by his emotions and wants to take risks, he will think of this notebook. It tells Ye Fang that investing requires being lonely, and any investment that is influenced by emotions is risky. From then on, this yellowed notebook became even more popular with Ye Fang. It was regarded as a grand ceremony and would accompany Ye Fang for decades to come.

Since Ye Fang found this investment method from Mrs. Xu, Ye Fang no longer thinks about buying stocks every day, because he found that the stock market has become overheated due to the recent reduction in stamp duty, so that the door of the securities company There were tons of bicycles parked everywhere, and many people thought of entering the market when they saw the boom. With the rapid increase in trading volume, the stock market also hit new highs.

Ye Fang sensitively felt that a danger was coming quietly.

On July 7, the central bank decided to cut interest rates for the fifth time since 1, but the stock market remained unmoved. Coupled with the impact of the floods in the south, China's stock market finally lost ground and began to fall.

一个月之后的18日，沪指跌到1043点；深成指跌到2978点，3000点大关自1996年12月24日后首次失守。

At the same time, as the Asian financial crisis intensified in August, state speculators began to target the Hang Seng Index in Hong Kong. The lowest point of the Hang Seng Index reached more than 6600 points. Later, with the intervention of the state, the Hang Seng Index slowly stabilized, but the serious injury has not healed, and the entire Asia is in chaos. The wailing caused the Chinese stock market to remain weak until the end of 98.

Here Ye Fang is also very grateful to Mrs. Xu for her guidance, which gave him a keen sense of financial risks and thus avoided the bear market. For half a year, Ye Fang concentrated on running a small supermarket. Live a life of more than what is lacking and more than what is below.

During the summer vacation, Gu Zhuoyi came back to the courtyard to stay for a few days, and she hit it off with Mrs. Xu. Later, she and her classmates went on a trip to Hainan Island and did not come back until the start of school.

Mrs. Xu's body is getting thinner day by day. Especially since September, the dry air in Beijing has made her lung cancer worse. As a last resort, Ye Fang took the old man to the hospital for treatment twice. However, the hospital's diagnosis and treatment method was still conservative treatment, and the old man did not agree to surgical treatment. When she felt a little better, Mrs. Xu was discharged from the hospital and returned to live in the courtyard.

When he was about to be discharged from the hospital, the doctor told Ye Fang that he had to prepare for the funeral of the old man. According to the development of his condition, the old man might not survive this winter.

Although Ye Fang and Mrs. Xu lived briefly for a few months, they already had a relationship like family members. When Ye Fang heard that the old man might not be able to survive this winter, Ye Fang still shed tears. These two hospitalizations almost wiped out all of Ye Fang's savings. Despite this, Ye Fang did not use the savings in the old man's passbook. Instead, he devoted himself to running the supermarket to maintain the daily consumption expenses of the two.

Wang Kai and Gu Zhuoyi knew that Ye Fang was busy with the supermarket and taking care of Grandma Xu, so they would come back to help whenever they had time. The only two friends Ye Fang has known since he was released from prison are Wang Kai and Gu Zhuoyi. Wang Kai is a close friend of life and death, and Gu Zhuoyi is because of Gu Yuanqing's relationship. The three of them have become closer and closer through taking care of Grandma Xu. The better.

Just after the National Day, Grandma Xu was hospitalized again. On the night of the rescue, the hospital issued two critical illness notifications.

When the old man was dying, he called Ye Fang to him, held Ye Fang's hand and said with a smile, "Don't cry... everyone will have this day... I am very happy to have you, my eldest grandson, to die for me..." .This is the fate of our grandparents and grandchildren..."

"Grandma, you will be fine." Ye Fang cried and held Grandma Xu's hand.

"I know, I have reached the end. You have to be good, you know?" Grandma Xu took out the passbook from her arms with difficulty and handed it to Ye Fang, and said slowly, "Give me the money in it." Buy a cemetery... on a high mountain... I want to watch you carve out a world in this land of hidden dragons and crouching tigers... Don't live up to my expectations..."

After speaking, the old man loosened his hands and slowly closed his eyes.

"Grandma—" Ye Fang threw herself on Grandma Xu and cried bitterly. Ye Fang knew that his only relative in this world was gone.