As soon as he finished saying this, he felt that something was wrong: "Eh, no, is it not your parents who told you last night that they don't agree with the two of us falling in love?"

"No, I don't. ”

"Then why are you so worried?"

"I went back so late last night, and my parents waited in the living room to talk to me, and I couldn't guess what they thought about it. If they agree to the two of us, then everything will be fine, but if they object, I'm afraid that if you don't have a good talk with them, you'll mess things up. ”

Xia Xiaona was a little unsatisfactory in her eagerness, and what she subconsciously wanted to express meant that her parents and Li Xin were equally important in her mind, and she didn't want to give up either party for anything.

Even Xia Xiaona couldn't understand her parents' attitude towards this matter, and Li Xin was even more bottomless in her heart. He also knew that if he and Xia Xiaona's affairs were not approved by her parents, the continued relationship between the two would face great difficulties in the future.

This kind of meeting with his girlfriend's parents is also the first time for him, and he doesn't know how to deal with it.

But looking at Xia Xiaona's anxious face, he still deeply felt this girl's affection for him. He thought to himself: As long as Xia Xiaona is of the same mind as himself, what kind of difficulties can't be overcome?

Thinking of this, he reached out and patted Xia Xiaona's hand while driving: "Don't worry, even if your parents scold me, I won't reply, I will tell them patiently." Besides, the last time I met your parents, I think they are reasonable people, and I'm not the kind of street thugs or bad boys, so they shouldn't be me. Things may not be as you feared, don't worry. ”

Li Xin's comfort put Xia Xiaona at ease, and she asked, "Then where are you going to eat after work tonight?"

"You don't have to worry about this, I've eaten it for so many years, are you still worried about this meal tonight?"

"Then you're done eating, the time is almost over, and when the time comes, you call me, and I'll come downstairs to pick you up. ”

"Okay. By the way, what do your parents like and what hobbies do they have?"

"My mom doesn't have any hobbies, she likes to knit sweaters when she is resting, and my dad sometimes practices tai chi, which is not a hobby, just exercising in his spare time. What's wrong?"

"No, you can't go to your house empty-handed. ”

"My parents don't pay attention to these things, they mainly look at whether people are good or not. ”

"Then do you think I'm a good guy or a bad boy?" Li Xin teased Xia Xiaona.

"If you're a bad boy, can I follow you?"

Li Xin smiled: "Then what are you worried about? You don't have to worry about this, you can just come downstairs to pick me up when the time comes." ”

After Li Xin's car drove into the company compound, Xia Xiaona told her before getting out of the car: "Come over early in the evening." ”

Li Xin said: "Got it. ”

In the office of the general manager of the sugar company, Ma Tianming looked at the lower and lower price of sucrose on the computer, and had an ominous premonition in his heart: no matter how you look at it, this trend looks like a rapid decline. No, we have to let them ship it quickly! Calculated at the cost price of the goods in hand, even if they are shipped at the price of the sales area, there are enough profits, and these profits far exceed their own expectations before the Spring Festival. If the price falls as quickly as you judge, these profits will shrink significantly.

When he first came to the sugar company as the general manager, he heard that the price of sugar futures was a bit demonic, and the trend was erratic and unpredictable, but he didn't think so.

But after suffering several big losses in the past few years, he gradually understood that what others said was based on experience. The lesson I learned by taking those words as a deaf ear just verified another old saying: if you don't listen to the old man, you will suffer in front of you.

What you can see now is the excess profit, but what you can't see is what will happen to this price in the future, so what are you waiting for?

He immediately picked up the phone and called Lin Li: "How are the goods in your warehouse over there?"

Lin Li said: "About 1/3 of it was sold. ”

"You have to speed up the progress, as long as the customer wants a large amount, the price is 50 or 100 per ton, you can do it yourself. Ma Tianming said.

Lin Li said, "Okay, I know." However, Mr. Ma, now that the price is rising, why is he in such a hurry to sell? ”

"You know what? Prices can't go up too much this year, and now this position is a bit unexpected. ”

"Mr. Ma, why is this? I always think that this snow disaster should make the price of sugar go up even higher. ”

Lin Li was puzzled by Ma Tianming's repeated instructions to ship quickly, and he couldn't help but ask the reason several times. Now Ma Tianming not only asked to speed up the shipment, but also made relatively large concessions on the price, coupled with the fact that Ma Tianming's tone vaguely showed a confident look, which made Lin Li's curiosity stronger and stronger. Today, even if he risked being scolded by Ma Tianming, he wanted to ask for clarification.

By this time, Ma Tianming already knew that Li Xin had missed this wave of gains and had not made money in sucrose futures, so he no longer hid the secret in his heart. After listening to Lin Li's question, he asked Lin Li: "What do you think is the root cause of the snow disaster that will push up the price of sugar?"

Lin Li didn't understand what Ma Tianming's question meant, isn't the answer obvious, and he hesitated for a while and said, "Even the yield of sugarcane planting may be greatly reduced due to the snow disaster." ”

Ma Tianming said: "Don't think that I don't know the history of your sugar company, you think that the snow disaster will affect the price of sugar, causing the price of sugar to rise sharply, the most direct reason is to refer to the example of the flood in the south that year caused a sharp reduction in sugarcane production, and then caused the price of sugar to skyrocket, is this the case?"

Ma Tianming subconsciously said the words "your sugar company" here, which naturally showed that when this incident happened, he was still outside the provincial sugar company.

Lin Li heard Ma Tianming say this, he thought about it carefully, it was really what Ma Tianming said, he subconsciously really compared this snow disaster with that flood, and then made an inference that the price of sugar would rise when the data was incomplete.

Because anyone in the sugar company is very impressed by the flood that caused the price of sugar to skyrocket. It was a rare opportunity to make a lot of money in more than ten years, but it made the sugar company insolvent.

The good days of the sugar company before that, coupled with the unpopular situation in the Southern Group now, made the old employees of Lin Li's sugar company forget the flood.

And from Ma Tianming's words, Lin Li clearly felt that he seemed to have seen something different from these two natural disasters, instead of just making a simple comparison as he subconsciously came to the same conclusion as before. He very much wanted to know what Ma Tianming thought.

So he replied, "Yes." ”

Ma Tianming said: "I not only know that you think so, but I also know that Li Xin thinks so." ”

"It should be like this, otherwise he wouldn't have come to my office to ask me for statistics. But Mr. Ma, is there anything wrong with this?" Lin Li asked.

"You're stupid! I ask you, what month did the flood happen that year?"

Lin Li thought for a while: "It seems to be July or August, right? Yes, that's right, it was about this time, when I was selling cane sugar in East China, and many customers were talking about it at that time, and I remember this matter very clearly." ”

"Then let me ask you again, when was the snow disaster this year?"

"It's from mid-January to early February. Lin Li replied without thinking.

"You're not stupid, but do you see what's wrong?"

Lin Li was a little confused by Ma Tianming's question: "I still don't understand, Mr. Ma, why don't you point out?"

Ma Tianming said with some hatred: "You kid has eaten this bowl of rice for nothing for so many years! I can't even see this, how can you be the district manager?"

Lin Li was speechless by Ma Tianming's reprimand, so he had to laugh awkwardly "hehe" twice on the phone.

Ma Tianming explained: "The floods in July and August of that year caused a large area of sugarcane lodging, and the long-term floods did not recede, which soaked the roots of sugarcane, so that the sugarcane production was greatly reduced, right?"

"That's right. Lin Li nodded and said.

"However, this year's snowstorm occurred after mid-January, when almost all the sugarcane was ripe. If this snow disaster had come earlier, for example, around November, even if the temperature did not reach the level of the snow disaster, it would have had a fatal impact on the sugar content of sugar cane, and then eventually affect the production of sugar, which would have caused a sharp increase in sugar prices. However, although the snowstorm after mid-January is relatively strong, it will not have much impact on the sugar content and harvesting of mature sugarcane, which means that the raw materials will not be affected too much, so how can the price of sugar rise sharply?"

"It seems to be the truth!" Lin Li suddenly realized.

"That's why I said that the price of sugar has risen to the current position, completely relying on the news to speculate, and the specific data does not support the price of sugar to rise so high. Now you know why I asked you to hurry up and sell sugar, even if the price is 50 or 100 yuan per ton lower, you have to hurry up the time to ship, right?"

"Mr. Ma, I seem to understand!"

"If you understand, hurry up and do what I instructed, and hurry up the shipment as soon as possible. In another week or two, by the time everyone reacts, the price will not hold!"