At the beginning of the new year, Vientiane is renewed, the town government axe has begun to officially work on the eighth day of the first month, the fifteenth day of the first month, that is, at noon of the Lantern Festival, Tang Yi received a call from his mother in the office, Xiao Jinhua's voice on the phone was very excited, and the first sentence was: "Xiaoyi, come, mom kiss you!" As she spoke, the voice of "Zizi" rang on the phone, thinking that she was kissing the microphone with her mouth.

Tang Yi was taken aback, which tendon is wrong with my mother? I've never seen her so out of shape in my previous life.

"Xiaoyi, mom is right to believe in your true faith, haha, I made money, and my mom accidentally made a war fortune." Tang Yi looked at the calendar on the wall, "February 29", just yesterday the Gulf War was announced, and after 38 days of air raids on Iraq, the joint [***] ended the ground battle in only 4 days, and the elite Iraqi Republican Guard was powerless to fight back, which shocked all military analysts at that time.

"I didn't expect the war to end so soon, haha, my mother has been shorting oil futures, and this time she has made a lot of money!" Xiao Jinhua's voice was extremely excited, Tang Yi smiled, at that time, there were not many people in China who really understood futures, but in the 21st century, even if you don't play stocks and futures, you have a general understanding of this aspect.

Shorting is also known as buying down, because futures are not spot trading, you can buy short and sell short, that is, you have no goods in your hand, or you can sign a contract with someone to sell the goods when the price is high, and then buy the goods to close the position when the price falls, which is buying down.

The war in Iraq started, the price of oil soared, everyone knows that the end of the war is the time when the price of oil falls, everyone knows that it is best to buy a few days before the end of the war, but to buy futures and contracts must be closed when the contract expires, how long will this ground battle be fought? If it lasts for a long time, if you buy and fall for a long time, you will lose money just every time you close the position, and who would have thought that the ground war would end in four days? You must know that before this war, Orientalists even believed that this was another Vietnam War, and the United States would pay an extremely heavy price in ground battles, and even withdraw its troops because of excessive casualties and could not stand the domestic pressure.

After four days of fighting, I am afraid that Tang Yi will believe it, and Xiao Jinhua, who is half-convinced, and believes in his son in order to believe in his son.

On the 28th, the United States announced that oil prices had plummeted by more than $20 at the end of the Gulf War, and you must know that the price of oil was only a dozen dollars a barrel at that time, but during the Gulf War it rose to more than $30, and the profit from shorting reached nearly 200 percent.

"Mom, how much money do you make?" Tang Yi knew that his mother's trading company was very small, and even if he really believed in himself, he wouldn't make much money by putting all the funds into the futures market.

"Haha, I earned this ......." Xiao Jinhua smiled proudly, probably stretched out his finger only to find that his son was not in front of him, coughed, and said in a long voice: "One... Hundred....million! ”

Tang Yileng paused, a million? Somewhat skeptical, he said, "Dollars? ”

Xiao Jinhua said with a smile: "Of course, my mother mortgaged the company beforehand, so I gambled on my son's vision, if you lose the company and prove that you are shallow, how can my mother rest assured that she is running a company outside?" I really want to go back to China to take care of you as the old man said! But I didn't expect that you really have a set, son! Xiao Jinhua smiled heartily, but Tang Yi's heart was warm, he couldn't imagine that his mother was in this mind, and this was probably a kind of bottom draw.

"Mom, it's fifteen today, I thought you missed me before you called!" Tang Yi suddenly complained, in order to dilute the throbbing in his heart.

"Fifteen? Ah, it's really fifteen, I forgot about being so busy, Xiaoyi, you don't know, a few days ago, the white employees under my command looked at me as if I had a problem with my brain, and after yesterday, they looked at me again with a look of admiration, haha, my mother really raised her eyebrows. Xiao Jinhua's thoughts jumped hard, obviously not calming down from the excitement.

"By the way, I sent you some money, buy whatever you like, as a New Year's gift this year." Xiao Jinhua paused and said, "I sent the money to Yanjing, and the old man should get it for you soon." "At that time, foreign personal remittances were still very bad, Western Union had just cooperated with the postal service that had not yet been separated from Telecom, not to mention Yanshan County, even Yanqing City did not have Western Union outlets, so Xiao Jinhua had to remit the money to Yanjing, and then from Yanjing to Tang Yi's account.

Before hanging up the phone, Tang Yi roughly talked to Xiao Jinhua about the situation in the Soviet Union, although Tang Yi had also heard a little about the United States' Vantaa plan as the main culprit for the collapse of the Soviet economy, but there were many opinions, inconclusive, but mostly rumors. Second, he couldn't act like he was an unpredictable prophet in front of his mother, so he didn't say much about Tang Yi.

However, Tang Yi clearly knew that the ruble had depreciated sharply after the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the decline in the first quarter of the collapse of the Soviet Union reached 900%, and then when the new ruble was issued, it seemed that the new ruble was exchanged for one yuan for the old ruble and one thousand, but in fact, according to the exchange rate between the dollar and the old and new rubles, the old ruble fell by 14,000 times.

Therefore, Tang Yi jokingly said that if the Soviet Union collapsed, the ruble would definitely depreciate sharply, and if it was possible to use high-interest financing in the Soviet Union now, or to obtain a large loan from the National Bank of the Soviet Union, and then use the rubles in hand to buy materials, the privatization securities of the Soviet Union, or even directly converted into dollars, and if the ruble fell sharply when the Soviet Union collapsed, it would definitely be profitable. He also said with a smile that if the old man was willing to say a few words for his mother in front of his old Soviet friends and lend a huge amount of money, then the war money would be nothing more than a drizzle compared to it.

Of course, Tang Yi also smiled and said in the end: "Look at me, this is almost a fool's dream, as if the Soviet Union is really going to disintegrate, Mom, don't laugh at me." ”

Xiao Jinhua didn't laugh, his voice gradually lowered: "Xiaoyi, mom is not by your side, you have to take care of yourself, don't know how to think about politics all day long, don't, don't be too tired......"

Tang Yi nodded vigorously and said in a low voice, "Mom...... Happy Lantern Festival....... "I wanted to say something more, but I felt that my nose was sore, and I couldn't speak....... and both ends of the phone fell into a slightly sad silence.

In the afternoon, Tang Yi, who had not yet gotten rid of the sadness in the conversation with his mother, received another phone call, unexpectedly, the call was from Qi Jie's younger brother Qi Jun, he was very careful on the phone to say that today is the Lantern Festival, and the family has dinner in the evening, saying that his parents have repeatedly opened up the marriage of his sister, and he may invite a man introduced by others to meet his sister at night, Tang Yi listened and smiled: "That's a good thing, your sister should also find a boyfriend!" ”

Having said that, Tang Yi hung up the phone and thought about it, but he was very busy at work, and he didn't have time to take care of it, so he left this matter behind him after a while.

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The north of the winter is dark very early, when Tang Yi came out of the bank, it was not yet six o'clock, the night had fallen, the streets and alleys, the lights were bright, the colorful lanterns reflected each other, it was beautiful, the whole Yanshan County was decorated with fantastic gorgeousness, in comparison, the round of jade plate in the sky was dim, the pedestrians on the street were weaving, and the people of ten miles and eight towns came to the county seat to play and enjoy the lanterns. The Lantern Festival lantern festival in Yanshan starts from the fifteenth and lasts for half a month, and the thirtieth day of the first month is the last day, and many people who have not had time to watch the lanterns also pour into the county on this last day.

Lingering on the street for a while, unconsciously Tang Yi slipped to the Longjing Hotel, there was a sign hanging outside the hotel "closed today", the small restaurant was warm as spring, through the foggy glass, Tang Yi saw a round table inside, there were a few people sitting, the gorgeous Qi Jie was present, in addition to the Qi Jun he knew, there were two old men, who wanted to be Qi Jie's parents, and there was also a young man full of energy, black leather jacket, neat spirit, heroic.

suddenly remembered the phone call Qi Jun made to him that day, this young man is the object of Qi Jie's parents to give her Zhang Luo, right?

Tang Yi frowned, stood silently for a while, looked at Qi Jie who was smiling like a flower inside, smiled, and turned around and walked into the crowd.

watched a video at the workers' club, and when I went to the guest house to book a room, I realized that it was full, Tang Yi smiled bitterly, people are going to be unlucky, drink cold water and stuff their teeth, do you want to sleep on the street today? At that time, the environment of Yanshan was not bad, and Tang Yi didn't want to live in a miscellaneous small hotel, so it was better to wander around the street for a night.

Looking at the watch, it was already past nine o'clock, the lights were flickering on the street, and the tourists were gradually becoming scarce, Tang Yi stood next to the light box in front of the wrought iron gate of the guest house, sighing, it was really not only to find a clean hotel.

"Don ...... Tang Yi? Why are you here? The woman's crisp and coquettish voice is very familiar, you don't have to look back to know who it is, Tang Yi sighed in his heart, the county is really small, and you can meet it for a while.

Looking back, on the brick road next to the guest house, Qi Jie was walking with surprise on her face, today she wore a black leather coat, black cotton stockings under her knees tightly wrapped her delicate legs, delicate black leather boots, more mature and charming peach taste.

Tang Yi never expressed his joy, anger and sorrow easily, and smiled: "How can you watch the lights alone?" ”

Qi Jie walked up to Tang Yi's side, took Tang Yi's arm affectionately, and said angrily, "Then who else can I watch with?" Besides, how long has it been since this happened? You don't want to come to the county seat to see your sister! ”

Qi Jie's body was warm and peaceful, which helped Tang Yi drive away a little chill. Tang Yi looked her up and down and smiled, "You are dressed very beautifully today, what?" Deliberately dressed up? ”

Qi Jie straightened her chest and said angrily, "Sister, when will I not be beautiful?" Is it that you don't pay attention...... Hey? I don't think you're right! ”

Tang Yi scratched his head, secretly scolded himself for being useless, how could he speak sourly?

"Giggles, jealous?" Qi Jie looked at Tang Yi's expression, and suddenly giggled, "What?" Know of someone who introduced me to someone? Don't want me to get married? ”

laughed a few times, and seeing that Tang Yi's expression was wrong, he hurriedly restrained his smile, put his red lips into Tang Yi's ear and whispered, "Don't worry, I'm sending him away...... This guy is annoying, and he always comes to the restaurant to find me in the name of my parents! ”

The words were ambiguous, Tang Yi's heart was clear and at the same time, he suddenly felt funny, who was she, how could she feel so weird.

Qi Jie blinked her charming eyes again and asked, "Hey, I said, why are you standing here stupidly by yourself?" ”

Tang Yi smiled bitterly: "Unlucky? No, there is no room in the guest house, and I am about to find a small hotel to deal with for a night. ”

Qi Jie frowned and said, "Then what is it?" The small hostel was too dirty. After thinking about it for a while, he smiled and said, "Why don't you go to my place for a night?" ”

Tang Yi hesitated, but Qi Jie didn't care if he agreed or not, he took his arm and walked in the direction of the restaurant, and said, "What are you still doing?" It's cold to death this day, and the lights are nothing new, so it's not bearable, let's go home and warm up! ”

The small restaurant is a two-story building rented by Qi Jie, there are several empty rooms on the second floor as a utility room, Qi Jieping also eats and lives in the hotel, a room near the west is her bedroom, elegant and tidy, the dresser is full of cosmetics, the purple bedspread on the double bed is gorgeous, the table lamp emits a faint pink halo, plus a faint woman's fragrance, it is very charming.

Tang Yi pushed open a utility room, looked at the mess inside, took it with him, and frowned: "How do you sleep here?" ”

Qi Jie smiled: "Who let you sleep here?" You sleep in my room. Tang Yi was taken aback, and stammered: "I, I'm not used to living with people......" After speaking, he almost gave himself a big mouth, what kind of words did he say, why did he seem to become a fool in front of her?

Qi Jie smiled deliciously: "Yo, who sleeps in the same room with you?" Look at how beautiful you are! I went downstairs to build a bed to sleep, Xiaoling sometimes doesn't go home, so I bought a spring bed, it's in the utility room, don't you see? ”

Old Tang Yi's face turned red, and he hurriedly said, "I'll go downstairs and make a bed to sleep." ”

Qi Jie said: "That's not possible, there is only electric heating downstairs, the door is not strict, the wind is swishing, it is cold in the early morning, which one can you stand with delicate flesh?" ”

Tang Yi couldn't cry or laugh when he heard it, was this the tone of persuading himself to live in her room?

"That's it, you take a shower, rest early, don't you have to catch the morning train at 6 o'clock tomorrow?" Qi Jie said to introduce him to the layout of the second floor, next to Qi Jie's room is the bathroom, installed with an electric water heater, can shower, Tang Yi smiled: "Why don't you have a bathtub, I haven't taken a comfortable bath for a long time." This is true, Tang Yi really still thinks about the life of the twenty-first century, Qi Jie glanced at him: "Wait for you to buy it for me, don't look at how big the land is, can you put it down?" ”

To say that in the town, after all, it is a public bathhouse, Tang Yi really didn't wash so comfortably, looking at the well-defined muscles on his body washed by the hot water, Tang Yi smiled smugly, it seems that his body has become more and more robust since he was reborn, and his energy is a little scary, he once wrote a report for one night in a row, and the next day he was still in good spirits, without feeling tired at all.

Smearing the "Lux" bath gel all over the body, Tang Yi felt weird, this is Qi Jie's personal belongings, and then look at the bathroom, in the white and narrow space, Qi Jie takes a bath here every day? Tang Yi had a picture of a woman with a bewitching surname coming out of the bath in his mind, and he hurriedly waved his head vigorously to put aside his cranky thoughts.

Flushed away the shower gel on his body, in the misty mirror, Tang Yi put a few poses complacently, and then slowly dried himself with a towel, on the sink table for washing, a brand new toothbrush had already squeezed the toothpaste, and it was placed on the water cup, Tang Yi's heart warmed, Qi Jie was really careful, it must have been set up for herself when she just cleaned up the bathroom, and she was still strange at the time, thinking that there was something that could not be seen by herself, and she was busy in it for a while.

Just brushed his teeth and spit out the water in his mouth, the light bulb in the bathroom suddenly flashed a few times and then went out, and the hut was pitch black, Tang Yi hurriedly shouted: "Hey, don't make trouble!" I can't see anything. After speaking, I found that outside the window of the bathroom, the entire county had fallen into a dead darkness, and the lights and trees on the street were gradually extinguished.

Why is there a power outage in the first month, or the end of the Lantern Festival, Tang Yi shook his head, reached out and groped for the towel, but accidentally touched a ball of soft clothes, and then snapped, the thing fell to the ground, Tang Yi suddenly remembered that this was the underwear he took off and put it on the washing machine next to the sink.

With an exclamation, he squatted down to touch it, the ground was wet, and his underwear and underwear were all soaked, but he heard Qi Jie shouting outside: "What's it called?" I haven't called it yet, isn't it just a power outage? Afraid of what? ”

Tang Yi touched the wet underwear in his hand, and smiled bitterly, this is called the house leak is even rainy, and the broken boat also encounters the head wind, and he is unlucky to get home today.

I only heard Qi Jie urging again: "Hey, I said that you will come out quickly after you have washed, I will wash my face, brush my teeth, and lie down while it is still a little hot below, and it will be cold and snowy downstairs in a while!" ”

Tang Yi is so embarrassed, he hesitated for a long time, he can't stay here until his clothes are dry, right? stammered: "I said Qi, Qi Jie, do you have a change of underwear at home?" Me, I accidentally got my underwear dirty......"

"Huh?" Qi Jie sighed and then giggled: "Hey, I said that you are deliberately taking advantage of me, what's the matter?" How can I have men's underwear here, why don't you change my underwear? ”

"Forget it, forget it!"

"Well, if not, I'll make the bed, and then go downstairs, you hurry up and bury the quilt for me, and I'll come back to dry your clothes." After a while, Qi Jie had an idea, and Tang Yi pondered it, and it could only be like this.

After waiting for a while, I heard the sound of Qi Jie kicking his high heels and walking downstairs, giggling as he walked: "Hey, I said you hurry up, or I will come up to Chunguang and leak out, don't blame me if I take advantage of me." ”

Tang Yi ignored her ridicule, heard her footsteps gradually came downstairs, hurriedly opened the door, rushed into Qi Jie's room with a few arrows, lifted the quilt, got in, and used both hands and feet to press the soft quilt, and then shouted loudly: "Okay!" You're good to come up! ”

This time, Qi Jie didn't go into the house to tease him, listening to the squirming in the bathroom, it should be Qi Jie helping him sort out his clothes.

Qi Jie's quilt is light and warm, it is a goose down double quilt, and the bed is a soft Simmons bed, it seems that she will enjoy life, Tang Yi has been lying on the hard bed in the town axe dormitory for more than a month, and it is rare to enjoy the previous petty bourgeois life.

The quilt is fragrant, it is the fragrance of Qi Jie's body, Tang Yiguang is lying down, smelling the faint fragrance on the pillow, he can't help but feel a burst of heart, a candle is lit on the dresser in the bedroom, the candlelight is soft, bringing people a faint reverie.

"Hey, the clothes are all dry, they should be able to dry tomorrow morning, you go to bed early, I'll go to sleep too!" Qi Jie's figure appeared next to the bedroom door, looking at Tang Yi with a smile on her face.

Tang Yi was looked at her uncomfortably, as if she could see her bare body under the quilt.

"Then I'll go down." Qi Jie smiled and was about to go downstairs, Tang Yi nodded lightly, and suddenly remembered something: "Qi Jie, isn't there a power outage?" Can the electric heater work? ”

"Nonsense, do you think it can be used? Even if you still have a little conscience, you still know that you are worried about me, but don't worry, just one night, and it will be over. Qi Jie smiled indifferently.

Not to mention the electric heater, now the heating on the second floor is gradually cooling down, the whole city is out of power, there is no hair dryer, the boiler can't burn at all, Tang Yi also felt that the indoor temperature was dropping a little bit, and couldn't help frowning: "I don't think he wants to do this power supply director!" Isn't this a discredit to the county party committee? There was such a big mistake on the last day of the Lantern Festival. ”

Qi Jie said with a smile: "Yes, these should be kept for you to nag during the meeting, and you can't nag with me, a little common person." ”

Tang Yi was so choked by her that she couldn't speak, but who told him to be at a loss now, okay, he didn't have a place to go today, and his clothes were wet again, and he couldn't open his mouth if he wanted to change places with her, and he had to swallow this mouthful.

"Qi Jie, otherwise, let's both stop sleeping and stay in this house for one night......"

"Go, go, what's the matter with lonely men and widows?" Qi Jie glanced at him, turned around and pedaled downstairs.

Smelling the faint sweet fragrance in his nose, Tang Yi tossed and turned, sleeping naked for the first time, but in an unusually charming woman's bed, the strange feeling could not linger, "poof", the flame of the candle jumped a few times, gradually extinguished, and began to be dark in front of him, the full moon outside the window was as clear as water, and the faint moonlight sprinkled on the head of the bed.

Tang Yi didn't know how many times he turned over, in a trance, he heard the sound of subtle footsteps coming from downstairs, and slowly reached the second floor, and then the door was pushed, the cold wind blew in, and a black shadow flashed in, Tang Yi was taken aback, and looked fixedly, under the moonlight, Qi Jie's face was a little blue, she curled up her hands in front of her chest, rubbing her hands and sighing, it seemed that she couldn't stand the cold.

Tang Yi couldn't help but laugh: "What? Didn't you stay in this house? Rather to suffer. ”

Qi Jie returned his hand and closed the wooden door of the bedroom hard, his whole body was still trembling, Tang Yiqi said, "Is it so cold?" "Seeing that Qi Jie is dressed quite thickly, the black leather coat is also draped on her body.

Qi Jie said angrily: "I'll just have this quilt, and I don't like to cover Xiaoling's quilt, so I asked you to lie downstairs with your clothes on and try it for a while!" ”

The heating has long been cold, although the bedroom is warmer than downstairs, but it is not a little stronger, Qi Jie paced back and forth, driving away the chill on his body, and suddenly shouted: "No matter what, it's better to be embarrassed than to be frozen to death!" As he spoke, he took off his black fur coat and threw it on the dresser, took a few steps to the side of the bed, kicked off the flannel cotton slippers on his little feet, lifted the quilt in Tang Yi's stunned, and slipped into the quilt with a squeak.

Tang Yi was so frightened that he almost didn't jump up, but fortunately, the double quilt was wide enough, and Qi Jie took up less than half of it, and compacted the quilt between the two, and said, "Don't worry, I can't touch you!" Just deal with it all night, you can't ruin your innocence! ”

Tang Yi smiled bitterly: "I'm afraid of ruining your innocence." ”

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