With the sound of "squeak" brakes, the brand-new black Audi 90 sedan stopped outside a small villa, Ryan sat in the co-pilot's seat and kept grinning, in his eyes, Nicole's driving skills are really rotten to a certain level, he is very doubtful that the newly bought car can hold on to the end of the run-in period.

"Nicole, did you bribe the examiner when you took the driving test?"

"Shut up, Ryan." Nicole sharpened her snow-white teeth, "If you talk more, when you're done visiting, you'll walk back to Los Angeles from Santa Monica by yourself!" ”

Ryan stuck out his tongue, swallowed back the next sarcastic sentence, unbuckled his seatbelt, got out of the car first, and walked towards the small villa, which was small but looked extremely elegant.

It was a day in Zuihou in August, and he and Nicole came to the seaside town of Santa Monica to visit the retired Dean Katie, after all, when he was in the welfare home, the old dean was the only person who really cared for and helped him, and the subsequent lawsuit also helped a lot.

"Aunt Katie, it's a pleasure to meet you."

Although they occasionally corresponded, they hadn't seen each other for two years, and the old dean looked a lot older, and most of his hair was gray.

"Ryan, you've grown taller and you've grown up." Dean Katie was a little emotional, after the nanny served juice and coffee, she looked at Nicole, "I didn't expect two years to pass in a blink of an eye, is the little guy easy to take care of?" With his temper and personality, it should give you a lot of headaches. ”

"Mrs. Katie, we get along very well, and adopting Ryan is the best decision I've ever made in my life." Nicole smiled and rubbed Ryan's hair, "Ryan is my only relative in the United States. ”

"Then I'm relieved."

The old dean asked a few words about Ryan's current situation, and after chatting with Nicole for a while, his energy was obviously a little low, Ryan and Nicole had to leave, but before going out, she pulled Nicole and said, "Ryan is the smartest and most talented child I have ever seen, take good care of him, so that he can grow up healthily, if there are difficulties that cannot be solved, call me directly, although I am old, I still have a lot of relatives and friends." ”

After a trip around the beach in Santa Monica and a seafood restaurant for lunch, Nicole drove Ryan toward downtown Los Angeles, where the boy had a date in the afternoon at Wilson's office.

Mr. Wilson is a well-known name in the greater Los Angeles area, and although he runs a barely mid-sized law firm, he does a decent job, renting a separate two-story office building near City Hall.

In a small, enclosed conference room, two white men were waiting for him, some balding middle-aged men were Mr. Wilson, Ryan's lawyer, and the other was a tall, muscular, much younger-looking brown-haired man, who was the stock and investment broker that Mr. Wilson had introduced him to last year.

"It's a pleasure to meet you, Mr. Scott, we've been on the phone quite a few times, and I never thought you'd be so high." In Ryan's eyesight, the guy must have been at least six feet three inches tall.

"Ryan, I didn't expect you to be even less than ten years old." Mr. Scott's expression was somewhat exaggerated.

The next thing to talk about was investment, and Mr. Wilson, a lawyer with excellent professional ethics, left the conference room on his own initiative, and after Nicole dropped him off in the building, he went to the health club and only came to pick him up before the office closed for work.

"Mr. Scott, I heard Uncle Wilson say you're going back to New York soon?"

"That's right, I plan to go back to Merrill Lynch in a few days, and I may resign from my current job."

"Quitting your job? weishenme？ Ryan scratched his head, and said in his heart, isn't this playing with me, and finally hired a reliable investment broker, and he actually had to pick and choose.

Mr. Scott smiled helplessly, but his smile was full of warmth and sweetness, "My wife is pregnant, and I will be a father in December, and we are going to return to Montgomery, Pennsylvania, to wait for the birth of our child." ”

"I see." Ryan muttered, then continued, "Congratulations, Mr. Scott. ”

Things are really troublesome, and I finally persuaded Nicole, do you just give up? Ryan rolled his eyes, "Mr. Scott, in fact, what you said is not contrary to what you said to help me do, you just need to operate a sum of money for me and buy some stocks." ”

"In that case......"

In Ryan flickered again...... Ah no, it was a few words of persuasion, and it really didn't take much time to do it, and Scott finally nodded in response.

"Wait, Ryan!"

Scott abruptly interrupted the foaming boy, who had been amazed at his precociousness and intelligence since entering the room, and it was only at this moment that he realized that he was indeed an innocent child.

"What's wrong?" What Ryan was selling was the pitiful bit of knowledge he had seen on the Internet in his previous life, and he didn't understand that Scott Weishenme had interrupted him.

"Ryan, is Cisco a network equipment vendor?" After getting the boy's affirmative answer, Scott suddenly laughed, "Cisco isn't listed!" ”

The corners of Ryan's mouth twitched unconsciously, and his face was full of black lines, at this moment he really wanted to run to the beach in Malibu and dig a sand pit to bury himself, God! He actually made such a big oolong, if he let those powerful people who crossed over and broke the bull see it, they would definitely treat him as a joke for the ages.

"There are also Microsoft stocks, and now almost all investors are optimistic about Microsoft's rising momentum, and it is very difficult to absorb large Microsoft shares from the market, and then Apple ......"

Scott briefly analyzed the financial and investment markets, and the more thoroughly he spoke, the more cold sweat appeared on Ryan's forehead, and he couldn't stop feeling a burst of happiness in his heart.

Fortunately, he has a little self-knowledge, knowing that the knowledge of financial crises and currency wars that he has seen on the Internet in his previous life may not be reliable, and he has never thought that he can kill the Quartet with these, if he is really like those who cross the cows, he goes to shear sheep and fry yen with a hot head, it is estimated that there will be one more person who jumps off the Golden Gate Bridge.

All right! I'm not the business and finance guy at all. Ryan can only sigh, it is really embarrassing to make such a big oolong, fortunately he is still a child, and his cheek has been practiced over the years, otherwise he must be ashamed, fortunately Nicole is not here, otherwise he will use the guardian's authority to manage his money bag tightly.

"Is there no other way?" Ryan asked reluctantly.

"I'm going to keep an eye on the market and absorb as much Microsoft stock as I can. And Cisco, I've heard that it's likely to go public next year, and if you're sure you're going to buy its shares, I'll do my best. Although Mr. Scott did not give any assurances, there was a certain amount of self-confidence in his words.

"So be it, we'll call if there's anything."

Ryan sighed, it can only be like this, anyway, it is better to buy as much as you want, than to keep the paper money in your hand to depreciate, besides, it is not easy to find reliable and capable stocks and investment managers these days, not to mention those small companies, even among the large investment companies on Wall Street, there are not scammers everywhere.

If it weren't for Dean Katie and Lawyer Wilson's introduction, Ryan would never have trusted him, and even then, there would have been no shortage of necessary oversight measures.

"Ryan, if you have the chance, you can visit Pennsylvania, where I have a big farm where I can ride horses." When it was time to leave, Mr. Scott warmly extended an invitation.

"If I go to the East Coast, I'm going to definitely visit." Ryan smiled back.

To put it bluntly, the meeting in the afternoon hit Ryan to a certain extent, and made him lose face, and at the same time made him more sober to recognize himself, understand what kind of path he is suitable to take, and completely throw some things from YY on the Internet in his previous life to the clouds.

To hell with the Plaza Accord, what the yen crisis, what the sheep shearing operation, what cut the flesh from the giant red bear, what the Southeast Asian financial turmoil, what the subprime mortgage crisis! I'm still able to make my own movies in peace.

Back at home, Ryan sat at his desk, only a wry smile on his face, his greedy heart had just begun to swell before he was ruthlessly punctured by an awl.

In fact, how could he not know that his best talent in art is not known in two lives, and this life is several times stronger than in his previous life, but people will always be blinded by greed and unrealistic fantasies, in a sense, Scott? Mr. Swift is the stick that fell from his head.

It's just that weishenme suddenly feels that this name is a little familiar? Ryan scratched his head, tossed the thought aside, waved his pen, and rustled onto the paper.

The hot summer has come to an end, and Ryan, who transferred from London? Jenkins walked into the American campus for the first time, Nicole chose a private school for him, called St. John's Elementary School, don't be surprised, this is not a church school, although he was born again, but Ryan is an agnostic at best, if he is sent to a Catholic school with strict rules, it is better to kill him.

"Ryan, get along with your classmates at school, don't always do things that are inexplicable, if I am invited to the school by the principal, I will definitely send you to boarding school, I swear!"

After sending the boy to school, Nicole? Miss Kidman warned in no uncertain terms, even though she knew it didn't help.

"Come on, Nicole, am I the kind of kid who doesn't know what to call a child?" As soon as Nicole finished speaking, Ryan reflexively began to retort. "Don't worry, as long as those little kids and weird teachers don't provoke me, I won't be as knowledgeable as them."