Rebirth in 1985

Chapter 11 Black Monday ()

Lu Shaohua came to Liu Mingzhang's room and knocked on the door. After a while, Liu Mingzhang's tired voice came. "I'm here."

The door opened, and Lu Shaohua put his ring finger on his lips, making a 'hush' gesture, and looked inside the room, as if to say, "Let's talk inside."

Seeing Lu Shaohua like this, the smart Liu Mingzhang could guess that Lu Shaohua had something important to discuss with him, and he wanted to hide it from Chen Guobang. So, he stepped aside to let Lu Shaohua in, and then glanced at the door of Lu Shaohua's room to see if Chen Guobang had come out. However, the door was locked, so he closed it with confidence.

"Haha, Mr. Liu, please sit down first. I have something to discuss with you." Lu Shaohua glanced at Liu Mingzhang and found that his expression was serious. He probably guessed that he had something to talk to him about. He nodded secretly in his heart. He liked some smart people. He could tell what the other person was going to do next just by one action or one expression.

"Well, do you have something important to talk to me about?" After Liu Mingzhang sat down next to Lu Shaohua, he looked at Lu Shaohua seriously.

"Well, to be precise, there are two things for you to do." Lu Shaohua nodded, and his eyes seemed to suddenly emit a ray of light.

In fact, when I decided to let Liu Mingzhang do the operation alone, I thought a lot. If I gave him such a large sum of money and he took it away, it would not be just about the money. It would also affect future plans. But later I thought about it and decided to trust Liu Mingzhang according to the principle of not doubting people when employing them and not employing people who are suspicious.

"You said, those... two... things." When Liu Mingzhang saw Lu Shaohua's eyes, his heart trembled, because Lu Shao's eyes were too familiar. It appeared once when he was at the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and Lu Shaohua hired him. That feeling seemed to be able to see through his thoughts, which made Liu Mingzhang remember it clearly.

"The first thing." Lu Shaohua didn't waste any words and held up his ring finger. "Go to the securities exchange now and short the Nikkei. The Nikkei will fall tomorrow." Having said this, Lu Shaohua paused to give Liu Mingzhang time to react.

"What about the second thing?" Liu Mingzhang was not stupid. He was a trader. Lu Shaohua came to him so mysteriously. Apart from the stock market, there was nothing else that Lu Shaohua was so cautious about. So when Lu Shaohua mentioned shorting Nikkei, he was not surprised at all and asked Lu Shaohua to tell him the second thing directly.

"Hmm..." This time it was Lu Shaohua's turn to be surprised. He looked at Liu Mingzhang as if he was looking at a monster. Lu Shaohua thought that he should be surprised to be asked to short the Japanese economy, but his expression now seemed to be as if it was something he expected. In fact, Lu Shaohua didn't know that Liu Mingzhang's nerves had been trained to be unusually thick since he came to Japan with him, and his acceptance ability was constantly improving. Otherwise, he would not be able to bear the shock of seeing the growth rate of Lu Shaohua's funds in the morning.

"Haha, tell me, what is the second thing?" Liu Mingzhang finally saw Lu Shaohua's surprised expression and couldn't help but said happily.

"As for the second thing, well, let me ask you first, how many flights are there from Tokyo to Hong Kong every day?" Lu Shaohua reacted quickly. He understood why Liu Mingzhang was not surprised and his expression returned to its previous state.

"There are two flights to Hong Kong, one in the morning and one in the evening." Liu Mingzhang thought about it and nodded to Lu Shaohua affirmatively.

"What time does the flight take off tonight?" Lu Shaohua asked quickly when he heard there was a second flight.

"The evening flight takes off from the airport at 7 o'clock."

"Well, that's good. The second thing is that after you finish your business at the securities exchange, go to the airport and book a flight ticket for tomorrow night. We'll go back to Hong Kong."

"Okay, I'll do it right away." As soon as Lu Shaohua finished speaking, Liu Mingzhang hurriedly stood up and prepared to walk towards the door.

"Wait a minute." Lu Shaohua still had something to tell Liu Mingzhang. Although he found an excuse to buy a plane ticket today, what about tomorrow? He had to go to the securities exchange to clear all the orders tomorrow, so he had to find another excuse. However, Lu Shaohua had already thought of this excuse, and he only needed Liu Mingzhang to cooperate.

"Is there anything else?" Liu Mingzhang turned around and looked at Lu Shaohua strangely. Lu Shaohua just said that there were two things he needed him to do, but weren't the two things already arranged?

"Yes, there is something else. After you buy the plane ticket tonight, find an excuse to tell my eldest brother that you are going out to meet your classmates tomorrow, and then go to the securities exchange in the afternoon to clear all the orders." Lu Shaohua thought about it and felt that this excuse was more reasonable. It was normal for Liu Mingzhang to go out to meet his former classmates when he came to Japan, and Chen Guobang would not suspect anything.

"Haha, don't worry, I still have some acting skills." Liu Mingzhang patted his chest and stretched out his thumb, as if to say that his acting skills are very good.

"Well, go ahead. Oh, by the way, only 10% of the margin will be enough this time." Lu Shaohua patted his head and almost forgot about this matter. The Nikkei index fell 26% throughout the day on the 4th. Lu Shaohua knew the decline but not the number of points. For safety reasons, he could only give up the 75% he used before.

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Liu Mingzhang went out. Lu Shaohua sat in the room for a while and then got up and returned to his room. He didn't dare to stay in there for long, otherwise Chen Guobang would become suspicious again. Since the layout had been made, he felt relieved.

When Lu Shaohua opened the door and came in, Chen Guobang suddenly sat up from the bed, which scared Lu Shaohua. He thought to himself that it was a good thing that he didn't stay away for long, otherwise Chen Guobang would have gone to Liu Mingzhang's room to find him.

"Have you arranged the plane tickets?" Although Chen Guobang was tired, he did not sleep. He was on guard day and night, fearing that Lu Shaohua would run away with Liu Mingzhang again like last time.

"Well, everything has been arranged. Mr. Liu has already gone to buy a plane ticket, which may be for tomorrow night." Lu Shaohua closed the door, walked to the bed, nodded at Chen Guobang, and then spoke.

"Well, let's take a rest. I guess we'll have to queue up to buy the plane ticket, and it will probably be evening when we get back." Chen Guobang saw Lu Shaohua coming back, and thought that it was just as Lu Shaohua said, that Liu Mingzhang just went out to buy a plane ticket. He didn't doubt it and lay down on the bed again.

"Oh! I'm so tired." Lu Shaohua stretched himself, climbed onto the bed, closed his eyes and pretended to sleep. In fact, he was not tired at all. Although his eyes were closed, he was thinking about whether there would be any accidents when he handed over such a large sum of money to Liu Mingzhang. "Oh! Forget it, I don't want to think about it anymore. Anyway, it's too late now. I hope Liu Mingzhang is not that kind of person."

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