Chapter 33 (1/2)

Investment

That’s why he had decided that aside from a small sum to be sent back to his family, the rest of this money will be completely used to buy Yun Tai Pharmaceutical Company’s shares.

Zhou Jian didn’t understood much about stock market speculation. However, he still had some rough idea about it. He had once speculated in the stock market before during his high school time. Zhou Jian was very bullish on an online game after he’d played it. So, he registered for an account in the Pengcheng’s Security Exchange and bought the stock of this game company.  Later, it really rose in value. During his second year, he’d sold his stock to pay for his tuition fees.

Zhou Jian had looked up at the history of Yun Tai Company. At its peak, its market value used to be 20 times of its present value. Now with the secret formula at hand, Zhou Jian believed that Chu Qing Yun could certainly bring Yun Tai Pharmaceutical Company back to its glory, even surpa.s.sing its past peak.

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These two days, Chu Qing Yun had been busy producing the new formula, acquiring various materials, debugging equipments, developing channels and so on. After all, the company had been in the ditch for too long. For it to start up again in a short time was easier said than done.

That evening, Chu Qing Yun was wearing a nightgown. She was holding a gla.s.s of Blue Mountain coffee and sitting in front of her computer to look at the stock market. She discovered that her Yun Tai Pharmaceutical Company’s stock price had been rising sharply on huge volume. The stock price was now up to HK$1.42.

Now, the market capital for Yun Tai Pharmaceutical was only 150 million. Among the listed companies, it couldn’t be any smaller. In addition to its poor performance and losing money on every month, Yun Tai Company had scared away most of the investors. Very few would give attention to this stock. Now, the only few still holding onto Yun Tai Pharmaceutical Company shares are Chu Qing Yun and a few major shareholders. On the retail side, there are only a few unfortunate trapped punters. They are probably aware that they were stuck. Even if they sold off now, the price would still be like cabbage price. So, they are just keeping it on hand, hoping that the price would eventually go up.

At this moment, someone from the corporate finance called. “Leader Chu, according to our financial statistics, someone had been ma.s.sively purchasing our stocks this afternoon. The person had already purchased 3.3 percent of the company and was already eligible to attend our company’s shareholder meeting. Could it be a banker that was trying to wash the plate?” (tl: lol, term for stock manipulation)

The so called banker was.h.i.+ng the plate was actually someone trying to invest a large sum of money to manipulate the stock market movement from a low price and pushed it higher. Then, there would be a ma.s.sive sell-off to earn a sudden and huge profit. Generally, if one didn’t had a billion or even several billions in fund, they shouldn’t try this.

However, Yun Tai Company’s market value was too small. 3.3 percent sounded very grand but if one calculated carefully, it would only amount up to a fund of 4.7 million.

The first thing that Chu Qing Yun thought of was Sun De Guang. Only Sun De Guang knew that she had attained the secret formula. Although his dream of annexing Yun Tai Company was shattered. But if he began purchasing Yun Tai Company stock now, he could still earn a fortune.

Chu Qing Yun didn’t had any capital herself. If not, she would had started repurchasing the stock.

But soon, Chu Qing Yun denied this idea. Sun De Guang was too paranoid. He wouldn’t dared to buy up large amount of Yun Tai Company’s shares because he wasn’t sure what his next move would be.

Truthfull speaking, Yun Tai Company was just an empty sh.e.l.l. It’s heavily in debt. Even those investors were tied down because they were forced to. Otherwise, who would be willing to continue to hold Yun Tai Company’s shares.

Chu Qing Yun also acknowledged that if someone was willing to acquire Yun Tai Company (no one would be so silly to do so), she would sell her own stock to earn the capital and then used her father’s secret formula to start another company. This would maximize the profit.

But she wasn’t willing to do so because Yun Tai Company’s was her father’s painstaking effort.

But Sun De Guang wouldn’t think so. A schemer wouldn’t believe in human sentiment. Therefore, he wouldn’t dare to make a move. Because once he used a large sum to buy Yun Tai Company’s shares, the price would go up. And then, when the price reached till certain level, Chu Qing Yun could take the money and leave. At that time, Sun De Guang would had purchased a pile of sc.r.a.p paper. Then, he would be the real sucker.

Now, Sun De Guang was already defeated because he’d lost the secret recipe. The initiative was back under Chu Qing Yun’s control.

Then, who else actually had the guts at this time to invest. In addition to herself, there’re only three other person who were aware that she had the secret recipe – her younger sister, Sun De Guang and Zhou Jian.

Chu Qing Yun’s heart was stirred, and said to the finance: “Can you help me check where is the account from?”

“I’d already looked up. It’s from Pengcheng Guangfa Securities.” (tl: Guangfa is one of the large banks in China. I practically know almost all the large tier and mid tier banks there.) Finance could check where the account belong to, but couldn’t check for the owners.h.i.+p of the account. The security company has its own principle of confidentiality.

Sure enough. Chu Qing Yun’s mouth curved slightly upwards. Pengcheng, 4.7 million…… shouldn’t be wrong.

This fellow really won’t let others to be free from worry. At least, he should had informed beforehand. Otherwise, no one would even know how he died. She really wanted to choke him. Chu Qing Yun had some wicked thought. She was even thinking of calling Zhou Jian to scare him a bit.

But she had to admit, he won again this time. Who called herself to be so kindhearted. (tl: cause she gave him the money herself) She didn’t knew if this guy was smart, or had good luck……

She thought for a while. Chu Qing Yun still decided to give Zhou Jian a call, and gave him some advice.

“h.e.l.lo, is it Zhou Jian?” After a few days of contact, Chu Qing Yun was already very familiar with Zhou Jian. She naturally wouldn’t called him Mr. Zhou anymore.

“Oh. Sis Chu. How come you are so free to give me a call today.”

Chu Qing Yun said: “I felt a bit wrong listening to your this statement . These last few days, I’d been calling you several times.”

“It’s like just two. The first was when I just came back from Hong Kong that day. After we had agreed to have dinner together, you called me to let me know of the place. And there was still yesterday when you were too heavily engaged with work. You called me to help pick up your sister. Was this the few calls that you spoke of?”

Chu Qing Yun ill-humoredly said: “It’s not good for a man to be so calculative with a girl. No wonder you don’t have a girlfriend until now.”

“I’m still waiting for Sis Chu to introduce to me. If you didn’t say it, I would already have forgotten. That time, the gamble…..you should still fulfill it.” Zhou Jian half-jokingly said.

“It’s not that I don’t want to fulfill. There’re a lot of beauties in my company. I’m just afraid that none was to your liking.” Chu Qing Yun said this like it was a fact. In the company, the girls who are still single, attractive and have good conditions should only be her secretary, Su Xiao Qian. But she was a little worse off when matched with Zhou Jian. Not to mention, she didn’t know what sort of family background that Zhou Jian had.

That said, Zhou Jian was a really nice boy. His character was good. It’s needless to say about his skill and his mind was very flexible. Unfortunately, he was young. Faint. What are you thinking about? Chu Qing Yun patted her own smooth forehead. “That’s it. Let’s get down to proper business. Did you purchased my Yun Tai Company’s stock?”

Zhou Jian gawked. “You can even discover this?”

“I’d guessed correctly that it was you. Zhou Jian, this elder sister will give you an advice. The water of the stock market is very deep. if you just want to play then it’s fine. But if you want to throw millions into it, you must think some more. To play in the stock market, one must study it for several years. Continuous practice and keep on drawing lessons from it. Or, unless you have super good luck. Otherwise, you’ll be going into the bag.”

“Even if you and everyone else are bullish on the stock. It can be a beautiful trap laid out by the banker because you won’t know about what the banker was thinking. Take this time for example. You probably thought that the Yun Tai Company’s stock will appreciate. Actually, this isn’t necessarily so. If Sun De Guang was to buy the shares. I still have some ways to make him pay for it!”

Zhou Jian truly had little knowledge of the stock market. Actually, he didn’t plan to study the stock market. He would spent too much time on it and wouldn’t necessarily make money out of it. This wasn’t his forte. He said: “Thank you, Sis Chu. Actually, I bought Yun Tai Company’s stock was not to sell it after it appreciate. But, I want a stake in the company so that I can follow Sis Chu later to eat the dividend. Hahaha.”

“You think it’s so beautiful.” Chu Qing Yun smiled. “I will slowly released the new drugs out so that the stock price will rebound as slow as possible. I’d also planned to look for some channels to raise funds and repurchase the stocks while the shares are slumping. But if I moved, Sun De Guang will possibly move as well. He won’t let me be satisfied.”

“That’s right. Sis Chu. That time, you mentioned about an underground bounty hunter bank. Where is it actually?”