After having a lunch at Fok Chung-ming's, Fok Yiu-man said goodbye, and then drove towards the Kowloon Ferry Pier, ready to take the ferry back to Hong Kong Island.

Today and tomorrow are the days when the University of Hong Kong holds a Christmas party, Fok Yaowen didn't want to participate, so he took two days off, anyway, the school will not open these days, after Christmas, there will be a New Year's Day holiday, and in another month, the University of Hong Kong will officially have a long Spring Festival holiday, and most of the students are immersed in the joyful atmosphere of the upcoming long vacation, and most of them have no intention of studying.

Dozens of minutes later.

The car slowly drove to the boarding gate of the Kowloon Pier, and there were already seven or eight cars waiting silently in front of it, and many drivers got out of the car and began to talk and smoke cigarettes at the entrance while the ship had not yet left.

Maybe it was the closed car that made Huo Yaowen feel a little dull, and opened the window a little, when a cool sea breeze blew, he couldn't help but shiver.

"Huo Yaowen!"

Suddenly, a voice rang in my ears.

Huo Yaowen looked in the direction of the voice, and saw a young man about the same age as himself walking over with a surprised face, looking at the familiar and unfamiliar face, Huo Yaowen recalled it carefully, and then he came over in a trance who was coming to him.

As soon as Huo Yaowen opened the car door, the man walked over, "Teacher Huo hasn't seen you for a long time." ”

"Xudong, why are you here?" Looking at Quan Xudong, Huo Yaowen looked curious.

Quan Xudong said with a smile: "Oh, I came to Kowloon to visit relatives, and I was ready to go back after eating at my relatives' house at noon." ”

While speaking, Quan Xudong took out a box of cigarettes from the inner pocket of his jacket and suit, took out one from it and gave it to Huo Yaowen and said, "Teacher Huo, come with one." ”

Huo Yaowen, who has quit smoking for more than a year, said that he no longer smoked, but the other party handed over all the cigarettes, and he was embarrassed to refuse, took it and put it in his hand, looked at Quan Xudong's face, remembered what his old bean said, and asked with a smile: "I heard that Mr. Quan said that you have been working in East Asia Securities recently, how are you doing?"

Quan Xudong's father is a mathematics teacher at the University of Hong Kong, and he also knows Huo Yaowen.

"Not bad. Quan Xudong may have heard Huo Yaowen mention work, his face was a little wrong, he took out a cigarette from the cigarette case, took out the matchbox, lit it for himself with the sea breeze, took a deep breath, and spit it out, seeing that Huo Yaowen only held a cigarette in his hand, he said with a smile: "Teacher Huo, I'll light it for you." ”

After that, ignoring Huo Yaowen, he took out another match and lit it, blocking the wind with his hand, and brought the small flame to Huo Yaowen.

Seeing that Quan Xudong had handed over the fire, Huo Yaowen smiled, and did not refuse, he leaned up and took two puffs of "let's chirp" and "haw", and after lighting the cigarette, he took a puff and slowly spit out a cloud of smoke, which was instantly blown away by the sea breeze and disappeared between heaven and earth.

I haven't smoked much in more than a year, Huo Yaowen looked at the cigarette lit in his hand, and chuckled: "Speaking of which, I haven't smoked much for almost a year." ”

"Teacher Huo is quitting smoking?" Quan Xudong was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly apologized: "I'm sorry, Mr. Huo, I didn't know you quit smoking." ”

"It's okay, smoke one once in a while to relieve boredom. Fok Yaowen looked at the sea in the distance, the wind in winter was biting, even if Hong Kong belongs to the subtropical monsoon climate, but staying at the beach, he could still feel the coolness through the bones.

On the undulating sea, many cargo ships came one after another, stopped at the cargo ship dock in the distance, and the workers walked down from the ship step by step with heavy goods in the cold wind.

Nowadays, the wharf part of Hong Kong is still in the era of manpower, and it will take seven or eight years for machinery to gradually rise to transport goods, and then these wharf workers who do hard work will probably be unemployed.

Before Huo Yaowen could sigh with emotion, comprehend the sufferings of the world, and appreciate the warmth and coldness of human feelings, Quan Xudong on the side hesitated and said, "Teacher Huo, I have something I want to ask you. ”

"What's the matter?" Huo Yaowen glanced at him sideways.

Quan Xudong said: "It's a matter of work, a few days ago a friend came to me and asked me to resign and work at the Far Eastern Securities Exchange, and I can't make up my mind now." ”

"Far Eastern Exchange?"

Huo Yaowen stared at Quan Xudong in surprise.

Quan Xudong nodded: "Yes, my friend is now working as a securities trader on the Far East Exchange, and he told me that the Far East Exchange is developing rapidly, and more than 20 Chinese companies have been listed, and more Chinese companies will be listed in the future. ”

Although I don't know why Quan Xudong asked himself, Huo Yaowen still helped think about it, and when he thought of the vigorous development of the Hong Kong stock market in the next few years, he couldn't help but say euphemistically: "In the past, there was only one Hong Kong Stock Exchange in Hong Kong, and most of the listed companies were ghost companies. ”

Quan Xudong himself is in this business, naturally knows the things on the stock market, listening to Huo Yaowen say this, he immediately understood, thinking that his daily work in East Asia Securities Company is to call and answer the phone, for a while, the balance in his heart tilted to resign and go to the Far East Exchange to become a trader.

Huo Yaowen saw that Quan Xudong didn't speak, patted him on the shoulder and said: "Although I don't know much about finance and economics, I also know that Hong Kong's economy has gradually improved in the past two years, and many large and small companies will go public in order to develop." ”

"I know Mr. Huo. ”

Quan Xudong seemed to have made up his mind, and looked at Huo Yaowen gratefully and said, "Thank you, Mr. Huo." ”

"There's nothing to thank you for. ”

Huo Yaowen smiled and was about to say something more, when he suddenly heard a long dripping sound from the sea, and turned his head to look, the ferry was slowly approaching the shore.

"Get in the car, I'll give you a ride. ”

Quan Xudong was a little embarrassed and said, "Won't it be too troublesome for you, Mr. Huo." ”

Huo Yaowen replied as he opened the car door, "No, I'm going to Central too, it just happened to be smooth." ”

...

Sending Quan Xudong home, Huo Yaowen turned around and drove back.

Meeting Quan Xudong by chance was just an episode, but when they were talking, it also reminded Huo Yaowen of some things that he was about to forget before.

With the establishment of the Far East Stock Exchange, in two years, Hong Kong will successively set up two exchanges, Gold and Silver and Kowloon, and together with the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, it will completely enter the "great era" of Hong Kong's four major exchanges.

It was also in the era of these four major exchanges that Hong Kong's stock market would become more and more prosperous, until a major stock market crash broke out in 1973, which slowed down the pace of Hong Kong's economic take-off.

Huo Yaowen didn't know a lot about the stock market crash, when he was writing the script, he just simply read the relevant information, after all, he wrote a gangster-themed script, there is no need to check it in so detail, as long as he has a superficial understanding of the stock market crash, Hong Kong has bred a lot of bad teenagers.

The stock market crash has nothing to do with Huo Yaowen, and he never thought that in the stock market crash, it would be the same as in the network, and he would leverage dozens of times and hundreds of times at every turn, and make hundreds of millions and billions at once, because it was too unrealistic.

However, on the eve of the stock market crash, when the Hong Kong stock market caused investors to go crazy, they were able to make some money from it.

Huo Yaowen drove back while pondering this matter, and after a short while, he soon arrived at Bonham West Street.

When I arrived at the door, as soon as I opened the door, I saw that in the living room, my sister Huo Tingting was writing something on the table.

Grandma, who heard the movement, glanced at the person who came, and immediately said happily: "Yaowen, you are back." ”

"Brother!"

When Huo Tingting heard this, she immediately looked up, and sure enough, she saw Huo Yaowen, who she hadn't seen for a long time, and ran over happily, took the briefcase in his hand, and said happily: "Brother, I haven't seen you for a long time." ”

"Isn't this busy!" Looking at the little sister snuggled next to him, Huo Yaowen rubbed her hair dotingly.

Speaking of which, since Huo Tingting went to the academy, Huo Yaowen has indeed not seen her for a while, mainly because she is busy during this time, and when she goes home, she always eats lunch and leaves after a while.

When the grandson came back, Grandma didn't mention how happy she was, she cleaned up the needle and thread on the table, immediately walked to the kitchen and walked out with a vegetable basket, and smiled at Huo Yaowen: "Yaowen, you sit down first, Grandma goes downstairs to see if there are any fresh vegetables in the vegetable market, buy some and come back to eat at night." ”

The vegetable market is not very far, just across the street more than a hundred meters, Huo Yaowen did not stop Grandma from going to buy vegetables, smiled and nodded in response.

When the old lady went out happily,

Huo Tingting dragged Huo Yaowen to the sofa and sat down, and said with a serious face: "Brother, let me tell you something, don't tell others." ”

Looking at the little girl's little face, with a serious expression, Huo Yaowen sneered: "What's the matter? ”

"Promise me, don't tell anyone!"

"Okay, okay, you can say it, I won't tell anyone. ”

When the younger sister heard Huo Yaowen's promise, she blinked her eyes, showing a hint of pride and joy on her face, and said, "Brother, do you know? Su Zhen seems to like you!"

Hearing this, Huo Yaowen raised his eyebrows and looked at Huo Tingting in surprise, "How do you know?"

"Don't worry how I know!

Huo Tingting didn't want to say more about this, but said with a smile: "I'm too stupid, when Su Zhen asked me out to go shopping, she always asked about you, I didn't think about it at the time, but now that I think about it, Su Zhen seems to have started liking you a long time ago, and often asks me about you." ”

Huo Yaowen glanced at the little sister who was inexplicably excited, rubbed her face and said, "Okay, you don't care about this matter, you are better than asking someone Suzhen, it may just be a temporary favor." ”

Huo Tingting still wanted to say something, but seeing that her brother's eyes kept staring at her, she pouted and held back the words she was about to blurt out.

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