Return to Singapore 1995

When Li Xiaofan and Zhu Junda arrived at the futures trading hall, the afternoon futures trading had already opened.

Li Xiaofan stared at the market. Today's 327 Treasury Bond futures have been fluctuating between 147.4 and 147.6 since the opening in the morning, and the market has been calm.

"Ada, open a long order for me. Buy 327 Treasury bonds for 750,000 at a price of around 147.5! Don't touch the remaining 750,000 in cash for the time being. Wait for my phone call before proceeding!"

"Okay, then I'll make the deal!"

"Don't worry! I can rest assured that you can do things!"

After Zhu Junda completed the transaction and opened a long order to buy 327 treasury bonds with RMB 750,000, Li Xiaofan said goodbye to Zhu Junda.

After leaving Mingzhou National Trust Company, Li Xiaofan went to Mingzhou University College of Adult Education. The teacher in the office of the Adult Education College was very enthusiastic after hearing what Li Xiaofan wanted to do. He quickly issued a simple graduation certificate for Li Xiaofan and attached a transcript. Then Li Xiaofan took this graduation certificate and went to the notary office nearby to apply for expedited notarization, which would be available in three days.

After finishing these things, Li Xiaofan returned to the ship terminal, picked up his luggage, rushed to the South Bus Station, and got on a bus bound for his hometown of Ningdong County.

Sitting on the bus, Li Xiaofan took out the notebook again and recorded what he saw and thought in the past two days:

1. The income generated from investing in 10,000-word tickets is 300,000 Singapore dollars, of which 290,000 Singapore dollars has been converted into 1.624 million yuan. 1.624 million yuan of 1.5 million yuan entered Zhu Junda's futures trading account. In the afternoon, 750,000 yuan was opened to buy 327 treasury bond futures. The average purchase price was around 147.5 yuan.

Currently, I still have 124,000 yuan and 10,000 Singapore dollars in cash on hand.

2. Regarding the optometry industry related to eye health. Li Xiaofan felt that after a brief exchange with Pan Zhenming today, classmate Pan Zhenming is still in the research and data collection stage for the automatic edge grinding machine project. He recalled his exchanges with Pan Zhenming in his previous life. He might have to wait for Pan Zhenming's father's watch and glasses store to buy the Japanese Takubo brand automatic edge grinding machine, and wait for Pan Zhenming to take apart this fully automatic machine. Only after thorough research can we imitate and develop a similar machine, which currently seems to take time. It's still early to invest in Pan Zhenming's equipment industry project, just keep tracking...

However, according to Pan Zhenming, glasses-related glasses frames, sunglasses and other industries have already developed in Wenzhou. It is said that some large European and American companies have already started purchasing and placing orders there. You can go and investigate when you have time.

3. If I have time these days, I would also like to go to Hainan to inspect the huanghuali and agarwood markets.

4. The medium and long-term optional investment project library has been added:

1. Game industry, for example, in 2001, we acted as agent for the online game "Legend" of South Korean Actoz Company.

2. Industrial and technological real estate, park operations, etc...

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It was past five-thirty in the evening when the bus Li Xiaofan took arrived at the gate of Ningdong County. At this time, the lights in the small county town were already starting to turn on, and the streets began to become lively.

It takes about ten minutes to walk from Chengguan Bus Station to my uncle's house.

As soon as he got off the bus station, Li Xiaofan smelled the unique smell of his hometown. It was dinner time, and the aroma of firewood and food wafted in the air.

This is a unique flavor of nostalgia.

On the road next to the bus station, Li Xiaofan found that the most lively thing was that there were several video stores along the road.

TVs and speakers are set up at the entrance of the video store to play popular European and American blockbusters or music. Various music CDs and VCDs are displayed inside, 99% of which are probably pirated goods.

The VCD discs inside can be purchased or rented in a flexible way.

Li Xiaofan went in and took a look. The price of VCD discs was basically 4 to 10 yuan a set. Why do I say one set? Because at that time, a movie usually required at least two VCD discs, and a longer plot required three VCD discs. If you want to rent a VCD, you can make a card, which costs 50 cents a day for old discs and one yuan a day for new discs.

Looking at the prices, they are not expensive. Li Xiaofan picked out a few "Forrest Gump", "The Shawshank Redemption", "Basic Instinct", "Domestic Lingling Paint", "Chungking Express", "The Lion King" and more than a dozen blockbusters in the video store. I even found the latest "Red Rose and White Rose" VCD, as well as the latest albums released by Andy Lau and Jacky Cheung.

Li Xiaofan feels that the prices of CDs and VCDs here in China are incredibly cheap compared to those in Singapore! The cheapest price to buy a CD album in Singapore is more than 20 Singapore dollars, totaling more than 100 yuan. You can buy more than 20 copies here. Because mainland China is full of pirated copies, there is no need to pay copyright fees.

Cross the busy main road and enter the quiet alley.

Chengguan Town in Ningdong County is an ancient town surrounded by mountains and rivers. It has a long history. There is a saying that "every house has carved beams, and every household has running water." Since ancient times, streams here have flowed into homes along canals, and gurgling streams circulate from door to door. The Bagua water system is a quiet place, not a water town, but better than a water town.

In the 1990s, this county town had not yet begun large-scale demolition, and it still retained a large number of old buildings and old town atmosphere.

Along the road of the town, there are many green vines, white walls and black tiles, carved stone windows, and carved gatehouses. In the dusk, the former prosperity of the ancient town can be vaguely revealed.

The walls of the old house from the Ming and Qing Dynasties with white walls and black tiles have become colorful and peeling, but the beautifully carved stone windows are so unique but show the vicissitudes of life, highlighting the life style of the ancestors in an authentic way.

Walking slowly in the ancient town where I lived in my childhood again, it seems that the worldly impetuousness and worldly desires have been filtered by the breeze and water in the alleys of the ancient town, making my heart as calm as a mirror.

The path paved with cobblestones has been polished by time to be round and smooth, exuding a warm and graceful patina.

Beside the path is a clear stream made of bluestone slabs, flowing around the house. Hearing the gurgling sound of the water, it seems to be rippling with ancient ballads, making Li Xiaofan seem to have returned to his childhood...

Seeing an old lady gently patting clothes on the slabs by the stream to wash clothes, Li Xiaofan suddenly had a sense of dreaming back to his childhood.

It seemed as if he saw the scene of his mother washing clothes on the bluestone slabs by the stream in his childhood. Thinking of his mother who died of illness in his early years, he burst into tears instantly!

Tears burst down like a waterfall...

While sobbing, "Brother!" A girl waved at Li Xiaofan from a distance at the alley.

Li Xiaofan looked carefully and found that it was his cousin Tang Qianqian, his uncle's only precious daughter, who was now a senior high school student at Ningdong Middle School.

He quickly took out a handkerchief to wipe away his tears and rushed over.

Tang Qianqian came forward affectionately and took one of Li Xiaofan's luggage: "Brother, why are you so late? I have been waiting for you here for a long time, looking forward to it!"

Li Xiaofan explained: "After the ship arrived in Mingzhou this morning, I went to see some old classmates, so I was delayed for a while..."

Before returning to China, Li Xiaofan wrote a letter to his uncle and others, telling them that he would be back today. After arriving at the ship dock in the morning, he called his aunt to report that he was safe.