"…Mr. Liu...You are so excited! Are you still in a leisurely mood to have breakfast?"
The fat middle-aged man was soaking fried dough sticks in soy milk and drinking while eating. He raised his head and saw the figure he had been talking to him recently.
Looking at the other party's Wu Qing's eyes, he was carrying a chair on his shoulders, so tired that he was sweating profusely, and his body was quite embarrassed. The fat middle-aged man opened his eyes so fat that he narrowed his slits.
"What's wrong with you? It's like this?" The fat middle-aged man was a little confused and asked with a confused look on his face.
"You didn't read the newspaper? Something happened to Lan Wei'ai. Those people secretly transported all the silver away, and there was only a shelf left in the silver warehouse!"
"…Ah…" The fat middle-aged man was also shocked, but immediately recovered as usual, and was still a little puzzled, asking, "Isn't that much?"
"What's wrong? All our money was taken away!" The embarrassed man shouted anxiously, feeling a little helpless.
"…Play… Fortunately, I went in time and snatched a chair from it, otherwise! That would be really too much hair left."
"...Okay, okay...Sit down first, sit down first, talk about things while resting, and eat some together!" Fat middle-aged man didn't refute, and asked someone to sit down first.
Looking at Mr. Liu, his fat body was sitting still, and he was in a mood to let the store add food, the embarrassed man was speechless.
But I didn't say much, so I quickly put down the chair, put it aside, and moved the bench by the table and sat directly on the Taishi chair.
The soy milk was brought up, and the embarrassed man quickly took a few sips first. It was useless to not eat it. From now on, he was afraid he would not be willing to eat it like this.
When he thought of this, the embarrassed man ate with a sad face. Almost all his money, including what he earned, was used to speculate on silver, but now what he exchanged for was only a few pieces of waste paper.
Yes, there is also this chair, which is probably worth a few dollars, but it is only enough for him and his family to last for many days. After that...
As he thought about it, a big man had tears in his eyes. Seeing this, the fat middle-aged man quickly asked and diverted his attention.
The embarrassed man was in no mood to make any suspense, so he gave a general explanation of what happened.
"Mr. Liu, you won't sell those deeds early, right?" Seeing the fat middle-aged man with a calm look, the embarrassed man was a little curious.
"Where can you sell it? It's all left at home! Who will buy it at this time?" The fat middle-aged man had no choice but to spread his hands, and said he didn't believe it and could go and see it.
He is a small landlord in the surrounding area. When he was young, he came to Shanghai for a while. However, within a few years, the old man left and went back to take over the property.
As a landlord! The main disciples are renting land, lending, and running small shops. If the land is not easy to buy, he dare not buy too much, for fear that he will not be able to keep it, so he spent more of his thoughts on running the shops.
In the past 10 or 20 years, he has opened several pawn shops with good performance, money shops, etc., which is a small amount of money and has a lot of spare money. He is not very brave enough to open more.
Moreover, I have seen the bright lights and wines of big cities, and the countryside is really boring. Of course, I don’t want to enjoy the bright lights and wines. But he earns money from it one by one, so he can’t bear to leave it.
I just wanted to stay in this environment and see if there was any opportunity to make more money. I looked at the workshops, factories, and shops, but unfortunately it didn't suit him very much.
He has no background and wants to manage these things, but he just earns some hard money. The risk is not low. If something happens, he has no ability to resist and is not willing to invest.
Until recently, a trend of speculating on silver was set off here. He was unwilling to mix it up, but he couldn't resist countless people around him and made a lot of money all day long.
Finally, I couldn't help but invested some money and tried it. As a result, I really made a lot of money. I subsequently invested a lot of spare money in it. As a result, the silver price suddenly plummeted and I exchanged it for a pile of paper.
Of course, he felt extremely distressed, but at least he had encountered many storms, so he would not be worried about gains and losses like others, as if he had become a gambler who had lost his eyes.
"Then don't care at all? Those people have swept away all our money!" The embarrassed man still couldn't help but ask again.
"What's our silver?" The fat middle-aged man shook his head and said, "The silver price has long fallen below the mortgaged price. If you want to get the silver back, you have to pay back the money at the original price and pay interest before you can redeem it.
Once we calculate that we still owe others money! Can we take out the large amount of money we redeem? Are you willing to redeem? No one is willing to lose money, so those silver is long overdue!"
The embarrassed man was stunned. It seemed that this was indeed the reason. He didn't know much about this matter. He only knew that he had bought the gift, and the silver written on it was his.
But before taking it, he had to pay a large sum of money to the bank. He didn't take it, so he bought the deeds and waited for the silver price to rise, and then sold it at a higher price.
This guy got involved in a daze, but he listened to others following the crowd and saying that their money had been smuggled away, so he was also impatient to participate in the trouble.
Among the troublemakers, many of them were like him, and of course there were also many, who deliberately encouraged them with other ideas, such as Men Qing himself compensated, but he was unwilling to do so, and wanted to rush in and take the opportunity to get some.
Whether the money is yours, fat middle-aged people can still understand it. At least they run pawn shops, money shops, etc., and they don’t mention professional financial literacy, but at least they understand it in a simple way.
"The other party transported the silver away, probably because he was worried about today's affairs. However, if he transported all the silver away, the other party was indeed cruel and greedy. He probably left some of them to redeem them, and it would not have become like this today."
"So, are we wrong?" The embarrassed man was a little disappointed when he said this. He was originally on the moral high ground, but now he has become the party at the fault.
"How can there be so many right or wrong things? It's just for our own interests. If the other party wants interest, and if we want silver to increase the price, we have to take risks.
Now that the silver price has fallen, we lose all our money, it is wrong to be dissatisfied with chaos, but they take away silver, and it is estimated that the silver price will fall even harder, and they are also wrong.
And the other party is not sure, and they will force us to repay the loan when the silver price is lower. You must know that if the silver price falls, they will lose money with the silver, so they will definitely not give up, so there is no need to worry about right or wrong in this kind of thing."
The fat middle-aged man comforted the other party for a few words, of course, not only comforted him, but also this was the main concern he had before. Forget it, if he really wanted to pay the money, he would not post a small amount.
"So, those deeds can't be kept anymore? Otherwise, they will have to pay for money?" The embarrassed young man looked surprised and worried.
"...Not..." The fat middle-aged man shook his head and explained: "The deeds offered by the other party can be traded privately, and the other party probably doesn't know who is holding them.
You said you wouldn't keep it, so we could not help but throw it away. I guess they might ask us to pay back the money when the silver price was lower, and then set a time to do it directly without paying the contract.
It is also a good thing for you to penetrate the other party and smuggle the silver. Maybe you can delay time on this grounds. When the silver price rises again, these gifts will still be useful, and we may be able to make a profit."
"…ah…" The man in a mess was stunned for a while, and then he thought for a while before he could figure it out, and said, "You said the silver price will rise again. If you keep this, you can still sell it in the future?"
The fat middle-aged man nodded and said, "The silver price has risen. I heard that the US government is buying silver and wants to raise the silver price. Although I don't know why it suddenly fell, it probably won't keep falling. It may rise back later, but I don't know how much it can rise."
"It's time to eat!" As soon as the fat middle-aged man finished speaking, a thin and short young man immediately greeted him and came to the table, staring at the unfinished food on the table, swallowing his saliva.
The two of them could hear the sound clearly, and their mouths twitched. This guy usually got together with them, but he was forced to squeeze in. Compared to speculative trading, this guy had more motivation to eat and drink.
"Let's have something together!" Seeing that the person had no intention of leaving, the fat middle-aged man had no choice but to speak helplessly.
This guy is a man who is a good person and has no news before. Now? Don't make it too ugly. He has no shame, but he always has to take care of it.
"What were you talking about just now? Seeing that you were so engrossed in your conversation?" The skinny monkey was not embarrassed at all. She sat on the other side with a smile, asked, and ordered dishes from the store.
Seeing that the fat middle-aged man did not stop him, the embarrassed man did not interrupt. He also ate and drank freely, and he was not better than others! He also told the other party about the conversation.
"It's good that I didn't sell my contract, otherwise it would be a big loss!" After hearing this, the skinny monkey patted her chest and smiled.
"There are still people who buy the gift?" After hearing this, the fat middle-aged man asked curiously.
"Yes! Someone is buying Lan Wei'ai, but the price is very low. A silver dollar is worth at least a few hundred or even thousands of taels of deeds. My little bit is not worth a few silver dollars, so I didn't sell it. Master Liu, can we really pay for the money?"
Mr. Liu shook his head and said, "I can't say it, it's just a guess. It depends on what the price of silver will be in the future. Moreover, whether the gift will be invalidated will not be counted.
If the silver price rises back, it will be useless to be invalid. On the contrary, it will be the same if the silver price rises back. However, since there are still people who accept the Qizi now, it is probably possible."
"…Well..." The skinny monkey nodded while eating, stopped a little, and said, "From the people who were receiving, their identities were probably extraordinary. Moreover, some people had accepted them before, but they were secretly collected from the surrounding area. I don't know the specifics, but they really might be in trouble."
After saying that, the thin monkey quickly took a few bites and continued, "But there is news. I heard that the batch of silver that had been secretly transported was robbed by those from Nanjing. I don't know if it is true."
The fat middle-aged man frowned when he heard this, and the embarrassed man became nervous and asked, "If he was really robbed, the silver price would rise back. Isn't this deed the same waste paper?"
The fat middle-aged man thought for a while before shook his head and said, "I can't understand this matter, but if someone fights with the Japanese in this matter, it's not sure that it will turn around. Otherwise, if only the Japanese make the decision, we will definitely not benefit us."
Chapter completed!