The winter rain drifted away, and the bare branches of the tall plane trees on both sides of the street swayed in the bitter northwest wind.

It's not even 7 p.m. before night falls.

After Li Xin got off work, he did not go back to the dormitory, but went to the bookstore.

He looked aimlessly in the bookstore for a while, until his eyes were a little sour, and then he came out of the bookstore, held up his umbrella, and walked towards the dormitory in the wind and rain.

It was past mealtime, but he didn't feel hungry in the slightest. It was the smell of fried chestnuts on the side of the road that aroused his appetite.

He stopped, bought some, and went to the street snack bar to buy three steamed buns, a cup of soy milk, and a braised egg.

That's going to be dinner tonight.

He thought to himself, he had to eat something, or the night would be even harder.

At this moment, his mood is also a little desolate like this cold winter day.

In the past half a month, the futures price of cane sugar on the exchange has been slowly declining, and Li Xin's expectations have gradually drifted away.

After the market closed this afternoon, Zhang Jin called to remind Li Xin to pay attention to the current price and position.

His words were very tactful, but Li Xin knew exactly what he meant.

There were other people in the office at the time, so Li Xin didn't say much on the phone, just answered hesitantly.

It is estimated that Zhang Jin also heard that Li Xin was here, and it was inconvenient to speak, so he briefly said for a while and hung up.

The price of the T709 contract has fallen below 3,180 yuan, and Li Xin's average opening price of 600 long orders on this contract is 3,235 yuan, which is a floating loss of 330,000 yuan according to today's closing price.

These circumstances have made him very depressed in recent times.

After entering the house, Li Xin peeled chestnuts and ate them while turning on the TV.

The news has been broadcast, and several stations have been changed, but there are no good-looking programs. He opened the drawer, took out a few RTHK TV series videotapes, and put them into the VCR to play.

I rely on it to pass the time tonight, and I can't sleep at all if I don't see one or two o'clock in the night.

My eyes are looking at the screen, but my mind has been thinking about the loss.

The preset bottom line of 1 million has now reached one-third, will the price accelerate its decline? Should you reduce your position, or close your position and leave the market, so as not to continue to expand your losses?

These questions haunted him and kept him from thinking about it.

Li Ying often went on business trips to sales outlets in other places during this time, and she couldn't see each other for a long time.

After eating the chestnuts, the buns were already cold, especially the soy milk, which was cold and smelled of beans, so he took a sip and put it down.

The TV series in front of me is not very interesting, a few groups of people beat me today, and I will beat him tomorrow, the plot is not attractive, how can it be filmed in more than 40 episodes!

But what are you looking at if you don't look at this?

At three o'clock in the night, Li Xin, who was in a daze, was woken up by freezing on the sofa, the video tape had already been played, he got up and turned off the TV and VCR, and went into the bedroom to sleep.

The next morning, all the employees of the company gathered in the conference room to study, and an inspector of the Light Industry Department came to make a report, and the topic of the lecture was "Modern Enterprise Management".

Li Xin listened to it for a while, and really felt that it was a bit ironic for this person to talk about this topic.

He didn't have the heart to continue listening, and he hadn't slept well recently, so he was a little sleepy after a while, and his eyelids were getting heavier and heavier, so he put his hand on his forehead, covered his eyes, and closed his eyes to recuperate.

Lin Li saw him dozing off next to him, so he quietly pushed him.

Li Xin opened her sleepy eyes, and in a trance she had the feeling of being caught by a teacher while sleeping in middle school class.

He looked left and right, and was relieved to see that everyone was bowing their heads and no one was paying attention to him.

"Be careful of being named!" Lin Li whispered, handing over a cigarette.

Li Xin rubbed his eyes, took a cigarette, lit it, took a puff, and asked, "How long do you have to talk?"

Lin Li said: "Who knows, but it is estimated that it is almost over, and it has been more than an hour!"

Li Xin held back her temper and continued to listen to this boring lecture. After more than half an hour, the boring study was finally over, and everyone was relieved and got up to leave the smoky conference room.

As soon as Li Xin entered the office, Lin Li also followed, and he said with a smile: "You kid almost snored in the conference room just now, haha!"

Li Xin smiled and said, "No, right? I just squinted for a while." ”

Xia Xiaona quipped: "You don't have a good attitude, you sleep in a meeting, what did you do last night......?"

Li Xin said: "I didn't sleep well last night, and I couldn't open my eyes when I listened to the buzzing sound on the stage in the conference room just now, like sleeping pills." ”

Lin Li said with a smile: "Do you know what he said? I didn't listen to a word, did you? Seeing that you slept so soundly, I knew that I wouldn't wake you up, let you snore like thunder in the conference room, and let everyone enjoy it, hahaha!"

Li Xin said seriously: "At the beginning, I really went with the mentality of learning, and listened carefully, but later found that in addition to reading from the book, many concepts were wrong, so I didn't have the heart to listen." ”

Xia Xiaona glanced at Li Xin and said with a smile: "Qubble!"

Li Xin said with a straight face: "It's really not a quibble! Don't you hear it? He made a conceptual mistake at the beginning, and he didn't even understand the most basic concepts of which of the two is a human being and which is not a human being, but he still talked on and on for more than an hour, which is really unbearable, and it is really admirable that his psychological quality is so strong! If it were me, how could I be embarrassed to give a lecture on the stage!"

Xia Xiaona smiled: "As far as you can say, what about tongue twisters." ”

Lin Li said: "I also noticed that when he talked about this, several little girls in the finance department were also laughing in private. ”

Li Xin said: "Who arranged this? Can't you invite a few people with a certain level to talk about it?"

Xia Xiaona said: "It is estimated that it was arranged by the hall, and such meetings and studies are indispensable in the future." ”

As he was talking, a salesman from the sugar branch greeted Lin Li at the door and said, "Manager Lin, all departments organize discussions and studies, let you go over quickly." ”

Lin Li said, "Okay, I'll go over now." ”

Before going out, he turned around and grimaced at Li Xin and said, "See? This is the main job now!"

After seeing him go out, Li Xin said to Xia Xiaona: "Won't we organize a discussion and study here in our office?

Xia Xiaona joked: "I don't know, if you continue to discuss and study, you can continue to doze off, hehe." ”

While the two were talking, Yu Shuhua greeted at the door: "Li Xin, Mr. Ma is looking for you and wants you to go to his office." ”

"Looking for me?" Li Xin asked in surprise.

"Yes, he's in the office and wants you to come over now. Yu Shuhua said.

"Okay, I'll go over it. Li Xin replied. After seeing Yu Shuhua leave, Li Xin whispered to Xia Xiaona: "You are the general manager's secretary, Mr. Ma should be looking for you, what are you looking for?"

Xia Xiaona said: "If you look for you, you can go, maybe it's a good thing." ”

Li Xin said disapprerovingly: "I can't think of any good things that the sugar company will have now." After speaking, he went out and walked to the general manager's office.

At the door of the general manager's office, Li Xin raised his hand and knocked on the door, and heard Ma Tianming say inside: "Please come in." ”

Li Xin pushed the door in and asked, "Mr. Ma, are you looking for me?"

Ma Tianming nodded and said, "Yes, you can sit." ”

After Li Xin sat down across from his desk, Ma Tianming said, "Li Xin, how long have you been in the company?"

Li Xin said: "It's been almost three and a half years. ”

Ma Tianming said: "I just came to the company, I am not too familiar with the company's situation, today I came to talk to you, I want to hear what you think?"

Li Xin originally thought that he would let him do something specific, but now when he heard him say this, he couldn't figure out what kind of medicine he was selling in his gourd, and he couldn't think of how to answer him for a while, so he said: "I don't have any ideas, I just think it's a bit anxious that the company's business can't be carried out now." ”

After hearing this, Ma Tianming said: "Yes, this is the company's top priority at present, and I hope everyone will work together to tide over the difficulties." ”

Then, he changed the subject and asked, "Have you been in the head office for the past few years?"

Li Xin said: "Yes. ”

Ma Tianming asked again: "Do you still often go to the futures exchange now?"

Li Xin said: "I don't go often, I go once or twice a week." ”

Ma Tianming said: "Let go of the things on the futures exchange's side for a while, and we still have to concentrate on our own work." ”

When Li Xin heard this, he immediately understood that someone was hitting his own small report behind his back, so he said: "Mr. Ma, I went to the futures exchange was also a task given to me by the company at the beginning, in order to observe and understand the price trend of sugar futures, and I did not affect my work because of this." ”

"But the current situation shows that observing and understanding the price trend of sugar futures has not brought any benefit to the company's business," Ma said. You don't have to go in the future, just accept their price information through the fax machine. ”

Li Xin was very surprised when he heard this, in his own opinion, the most fundamental reason why the sugar company has come to this point is due to a lack of understanding of the market and making wrong judgments about price trends.

The new general manager in front of him does not seem to have found the reason for the company's huge loss.

Thinking of this, he said euphemistically: "Mr. Ma, in fact, a trading company like the sugar company earns the difference between purchase and sale prices, and I think observing and understanding the trend of futures prices is still very helpful to the company's business." The company's huge loss this time was due to the collapse of sugar prices, but before the fall in sugar prices, there were many unusual signs in the futures market. Later, when the price fell, I suggested that the company should immediately sell the sugar in the futures market to prevent the price from continuing to fall and causing the loss to expand. When I said this, Mr. Wu and the three branch managers were present, but no one listened to these opinions. If I had listened to my advice at the time, the company's losses would probably have been one-third of what it is now, or even less. ”