0005 入彀
A new day doesn't mean a new good mood, and of course, it doesn't mean new good weather. After a pause in yesterday's rain, it began to rain again in the early morning, accompanied by a westerly wind.
And for many people who speculate in stocks, it is not only the weather that is bad today, but also the performance of the stock market.
The New York Stock Exchange, since the opening of the morning market, the circular price broadcast board in the center of the main hall has brought a lot of bad news to people, and some stocks that have risen very well seem to have suffered a general decline as if they have suffered some blow. Of course, if Adel had been here, he would have been well aware that this was just an early reaction of the stock market to market conditions before the Great Depression. This decline will not last, because people have not yet sensed the coming of the recession and are still confident in the economic outlook, so the stock market will be temporarily supported by this confidence in the coming months.
Unlike many people's gloomy faces, Bella's bright face was full of surprise, she did a correct choice question yesterday, and this correct choice finally paid off today.
Mississippi Coal's stock price has been on a downward trajectory since the opening of the session, falling 17.94 cents in one morning, and it seems that this downward trend has no intention of stopping anytime soon.
Correspondingly, the stock price of Texas Refining is rushing up like crazy, and on the trading market, the shares sold by Texas Refining cannot stay at all, as long as there is a sale, it will be eaten immediately. In just one morning, Texas Refining's stock price soared 13 points, each by more than 30 cents to 31.73 cents, which made Bella thousands of dollars.
A few thousand dollars, in this era when the average family's annual income is only more than a thousand dollars, this is a large amount of income, a large amount of income that no one can ignore.
People are greedy, after tasting the sweetness of any thing once, the first thing that comes to mind is the next time, and it is precisely because of this that there will be habitual thieves and habitual offenders, and the vast majority of people are not exempt from vulgarity, and Bella is naturally the same.
Unfortunately, Bella had not been able to see the Mr. Adel all morning, much to her regret. And apart from this regret, everything else is so perfect, the stock makes money, and at the same time, in the small circle she is familiar with, she has become a small star because of the timely sale of Mississippi coal and the purchase of Texas refining. All of this greatly satisfied Bella's vanity, and now all she was thinking about was to see Mr. Adel again, and preferably to make friends with him, so as to obtain a stable source of information.
It's so good to think about the future, get acquainted with a capable person with inside information, and then make money in the stock market, become a celebrity in your social circle, everyone comes to consult with you about the experience of buying stocks, you come to please yourself, you flatter yourself, ah, what a perfect life will it be?
A morning passed slowly in Bella's complicated and expectant mood, and she didn't even go home for lunch, nor did she take a comfortable nap as usual, but waited in front of the stock exchange, hoping that Mr. Adel would appear.
Fortunately, Bella's wait was not in vain, just at four o'clock in the afternoon, when the rain slowed down, Mr. Adel finally appeared, he did not hold an umbrella, he appeared so abruptly next to the HSD statue not far from the opposite side of the exchange, if it wasn't for Bella has been paying attention to the situation on the street, it is estimated that he would not have been seen.
"Mr. Adair, Mr. Adelle!" Pulling the hem of her skirt in one hand and holding an umbrella in the other, Bella quickly ran down the steps, crossed the small square in front of the stock exchange, and trotted all the way to Adele.
"Oh, you're ...... Oh, Lady Bella?" said Adel as he put down his hand over his head to protect him from the rain, tilted his head to look at Bella, and pretended to recognize her, and said in a tone of uncertainty that he was not very sure.
"My husband has died," Bella said thoughtfully, stepping forward and standing next to Adel so that the umbrella she was holding could cover him.
"I'm sorry, Miss Bella," Adel said abruptly.
"It's okay," Bella said with a smile, "yes, why are you here, are you waiting for someone? Why don't you bring an umbrella?"
"Oh......" Adair let out a long voice, pretending to be unspecific.
"Ah, yes, I want to thank you," Bella could see, she thought that someone like Adel who had inside information must be very mysterious, and he was waiting here in the rain, maybe there was something important and difficult to mention to outsiders. So, she changed the subject and said, "I overheard your proposal yesterday, which cost me a lot of money, and of course, I made some money. ”
"This ...... I didn't have any proposals for you," Adair smirked, pretending not to bring it up.
And his performance was seen by Bella, which obviously added a bit of mystery.
"I know very well if there is one," Bella smiled mysteriously, and invited her, "Mr. Adel has time? I would like to treat you to dinner as a thank you." ”
"Oh, I might ......," Adel refused.
"It's rude to turn down a lady's invitation, Mr. Adair, and of course I don't mind if you have any friends to come," Bella interrupted him, preemptively.
"Well, well," Adair said after a moment's hesitation, "it looks like the person I'm waiting for won't come, and I'll have some time." ”
After a pause, he looked down at his almost soaked clothes, and said, "However, I'm going to go back first, and as you can see, my body is soaked, and I have to change my clothes." ”
"Where do you live?" Bella asked casually, nodding.
"I'm staying in Bushwick for the time being," Adair said.
The Bushwicks were on the east side of West New York, a bit far from Manhattan, and it took more than two hours to go back and forth.
"Stay?" Bella frowned, grasping a word sensitively.
"Ah, I've only been in New York for a short time, and I don't have my own place to live, so I'm staying at a friend's house now," Adel said, a statement he had already planned.
"Wouldn't it be very inconvenient for you to get to Manhattan?" asked Bella.
"It's okay," Adel said vaguely.
"And what do you do?" asked Bella, curious.
"Well, it's a securities business, helping others take care of some financial matters. Adel was still slurred, and his eyes twinkled as he spoke, so that people could tell at a glance that he was lying.
He was lying, because he was just a bum, but Bella would never think so, in her opinion, Adel should be for the big bankers, otherwise, how could he have inside information?
"I see," said Bella, who quickly had a plan in mind, "but the Bushwicks are too far away to go back and forth, so why don't you go to my house, Mr. Adair, and change for a moment into my husband's clothes, who are about your size." I have a dryer there, and I can ask the maid to dry your clothes for you, what do you think?"
"Well, isn't that right?" Adair hesitated.
"What's so bad about that," said Bella, in an unquestioning tone, "I can consider you a friend, do you want to go to the car in such a soaked suit? ”
After saying that, she didn't wait for Adel to refuse, reached out and grabbed his wrist, pulled him away, and said, "Let's go, my house is not far from here, two blocks away." ”
Bella's home is not very far from here, just on John Street, not far from the Methodist church, a two-story building facing the street. The small building is located next to the street and has a garden at the back of the building with a swimming pool. In Adele's opinion, in the era in which he once lived, if nothing else, the money from selling this house would be enough to eat and drink for a lifetime - this is a truly prime location, less than 500 meters from Broadway.
According to Bella, the house was left to her by her husband and, of course, her husband's ancestral property, and it is said to be hundreds of years old, having been in existence when the United States did not exist.
Bella doesn't live alone, she also has two maids, both of whom are Mexican immigrants, and in today's New York, there are a large number of Mexican maids, just as it is common for Hong Kong people to use Filipino maids.
Followed Bella into her house, this was only the second part of Adele's plan, and the next thing he had to do was to stay here and win Bella's trust as much as possible.
After taking a shower in the bathroom on the second floor of Bella's house, and wearing the casual clothes that Bella's husband used to wear, Adair took care of his makeup in the mirror in the bathroom, mainly combing his hair to see if the beard was too long, after that, he whistled at the handsome guy in the mirror, and then lazily opened the door and walked out of the bathroom.
Outside the bathroom, the middle-aged Mexican maid was still waiting quietly in the corridor, and when she saw Adel coming out, she bowed down slightly and said, "Sir, Miss is waiting for you in the living room." ”
Adel nodded, and from the servant's attitude, he finally found a little shadow of his previous life. He likes to be respected by others, and he likes to be the kind of person who is superior, and after being reborn in this era, this time and space, he has to try to find his life again, even if it is by some less glorious means.