Rebirth in 1985

Chapter 4 Black Monday ()

The next morning, Lu Shaohua got up early, washed up, woke up Chen Guobang and Liu Mingzhang, and then started the return journey. When the three climbed back to the foot of Mount Fuji, it was already past 10 o'clock in the morning. When they got back to the hotel by car, it was just time for lunch. Perhaps because of the morning climb, the appetite of the three of them was opened, and each of them ate twice the usual amount.

"Oh! I'm so full!" Lu Shaohua touched his bloated stomach.

"Hahaha, I'm very full too." Chen Guobang also touched his stomach.

"Me too."

"Oh, this meal should be considered as two meals. I will go back to the room to rest for a while, then take a shower and go to bed. I guess I won't be able to get up for dinner." Lu Shaohua shook his head. What he said was indeed true. He would rest for an hour after dinner, take a shower, and blow-dry his hair, which would also take about an hour. The actual sleeping time would be around two o'clock in the afternoon. By dinner time, he would only sleep for four or five hours, so he would definitely not be able to get up.

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As Lu Shaohua said, when Lu Shaohua woke up, it was already past six o'clock the next morning. Perhaps because he was too tired from climbing the mountain, he slept for more than ten hours. He put on his clothes contentedly, washed up, and woke up Chen Guobang. Today was a critical day. He had to go to the stock exchange when the stock market opened to see if there were any changes in history.

"Brother! Hurry up, we're about to set off." Lu Shaohua watched the time pass by bit by bit, while Chen Guobang was still dragging his feet, feeling a little impatient.

"Why are you in such a hurry? It's just a little after 6 o'clock. You don't have to go out to play so early." Chen Guobang was very confused. Why did Lu Shaohua wake people up so early? He didn't know what he was doing?

"Oh! Hurry up, I'll go call Mr. Liu." Lu Shaohua had no choice but to go to the opposite room with a bitter face to call Liu Mingzhang.

Not long after Lu Shaohua knocked on Liu Mingzhang's door, Liu Mingzhang opened it. He looked like he had gotten up a long time ago. "Mr. Liu, are you up?"

"Well, I've been up for a long time. Today is Monday, and the stock market will open at 8 o'clock." When saying this, Liu Mingzhang's face was full of worry.

"Haha! Don't worry, I believe we will be the winner in the end."

"hope so."

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When Liu Mingzhang brought Lu Shaohua and Chen Guobang to the door of the securities exchange, it was only 7:50. The stock market had not yet opened, but the door of the securities exchange had been opened and the hall was full of retail investors.

Chen Guobang was a little confused. He thought Lu Shaohua got him up so early because he wanted to go out and play, but he didn't expect that the place they came to was the securities exchange. He really didn't understand why they had to come to the securities exchange. He wanted to ask Lu Shaohua, but there were too many people and it was very noisy. He could only hold back the doubts in his heart and followed Lu Shaohua and Mingzhang.

Walking into VIP Room 88 on the second floor, Lu Shaohua sat on the sofa and said seriously without waiting for Chen Guobang to ask, "Brother, I know you have a lot of questions in your head, but now is not the time to explain. You will know later."

"Yeah." Chen Guobang was a soldier after all, and his mental quality was much better than that of ordinary people. He nodded expressionlessly. In fact, when he walked into the VIP room No. 88, and recalled that Lu Shaohua read financial books in Shenzhen, he guessed that Lu Shaohua wanted to speculate in stocks.

"The market will open soon." Liu Mingzhang was very nervous at this moment. He knew that if the stock market continued to rise today, Lu Shaohua would be finished, so he spoke intermittently, with cold sweat on his forehead, his hands clenched into fists, and his eyes fixed on the screen.

At eight o'clock in the morning, the stock market opened as scheduled.

Lu Shaohua also stood up from the sofa, staring at the screen. The numbers on the screen kept scrolling, but there was a '-' sign in front of the numbers. Seeing this, Lu Shaohua sat back on the sofa.

"It fell, it fell, it really fell." Liu Mingzhang seemed very excited and turned around and shouted at Lu Shaohua.

Lu Shaohua, who was sitting on the sofa, just nodded lightly in response to Liu Mingzhang's words. In fact, he also breathed a sigh of relief. History has not changed. On the 19th, global stock markets fell across the board, led by the Dow Jones Industrial Average in New York. The Japanese stock market was affected and followed suit.

"It fell again, it fell again." Liu Mingzhang shouted happily like a little child.

"Okay, sit down first. If I'm not mistaken, the Nikkei will fall between 600 and 620 points at the close today." Lu Shaohua was not so sure. If history had not changed, it should have fallen by 620 points.

"A drop of 600 to 620 points? Impossible." Liu Mingzhang did not believe what Lu Shaohua said at all. No matter how knowledgeable a person is about the stock market, it is impossible for him to report a difference of 20 points like Lu Shaohua did. So in his heart, he thought Lu Shaohua's words were a joke.

"That's right." Lu Shaohua nodded, but secretly added in his heart: "If history doesn't change."

"What are you hiding from me?" Seeing Liu Mingzhang's excited expression, no matter how good Chen Guobang's mental quality was or how calm he was, he couldn't help but ask.

"Mr. Liu, please explain it to my elder brother." After saying that, Lu Shaohua closed his eyes. He knew that history had not changed much, and he did not intend to hide it from Chen Guobang anymore.

"Hahaha! Brother Guobang, speaking of this matter has to start from the afternoon of the day before yesterday..." Liu Mingzhang said with some pride that the day before yesterday he and Lu Shaohua secretly ran to the securities exchange to short the Japanese Nikkei futures.

"What? You came to the stock exchange instead of going out for a walk." Chen Guobang seemed a little angry and his face turned cold.

However, Liu Mingzhang seemed not to notice Chen Guobang's cold face, and still proudly said that he used 100 million US dollars with a 5% margin to place a 2000 million US dollar order...

While Liu Mingzhang and Chen Guobang were explaining everything, Lu Shaohua was imagining what the hall looked like at this moment. "Perhaps those people who were laughing so happily a few days ago should be in tears now."

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As time passed, the market index continued to fall. Seeing that the situation was not right, some investors and major shareholders began to sell off their holdings, making the market even worse.

Time passed bit by bit, and soon more than an hour had passed. The morning stock market was about to close, and at this time Liu Mingzhang told Chen Guobang everything. Chen Guobang was also a rookie when it came to the stock market, so he asked a question from time to time when he talked about that. Liu Mingzhang was also in a good mood, and he carefully answered all the questions raised by Chen Guobang one by one, so when he finished, more than an hour had passed.

When the time hand jumped to 10:00, the stock market finally closed. Lu Shaohua said directly without even looking at the screen: "Let's go and find a place to celebrate."

"Yes, we should celebrate." Liu Mingzhang also agreed.

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