I'm in the county town, and you say I'm a big shot?

Chapter 405, Page 404: "Let's play a game of cat and mouse. Who's the mouse and who's the cat?"

Forty minutes later, Shi Guangrong rushed over.

"Come, have some tea." Fang Qingye greeted with a smile: "As the saying goes, 'Drink green tea in summer and oolong tea in autumn.' Here comes the newly launched Da Hong Pao."

After saying that, he poured Shi Guangrong a cup of tea.

The aroma wafted and lingered, and Shi Guangrong felt much more at ease after taking a sip.

Fang Qingye then asked, "Speak, what is it?"

"It seems that Li Wei of Baoying Fund already knows that their huge losses at Zixin Pharmaceutical are related to us. Also, someone has found that the IP address of your article published on Tianya Forum is in Nanxin, so some people suspect that it was you who did it."

"Heh? You know quite a bit? Whatever." Fang Qingye said casually, "Did I lie about the content of the article? No!"

"Did I violate any rules by hyping up Zixin Pharmaceutical? No! What am I worried about?"

"Afraid they'll file a complaint with the China Securities Regulatory Commission? Or afraid they'll send a lawyer's letter? Bring it on! I've got nothing better to do."

Shi Guangrong laughed after hearing this.

“Neither Baoying Fund nor Zixin Pharmaceutical Company dare to do it. What I’m worried about now is that Li Wei will be on guard, making it even harder for you to grasp his holdings information,” Shi Guangrong added.

"You don't need to worry about that at all." Fang Qingye smiled slightly: "You rushed here so urgently just for this?"

"Not entirely. Shall we go fishing?" Shi Guangrong said with a smile.

"Haha! Oh, it's this urgent matter. Okay! Did you bring your fishing gear?"

"Bring it."

“Let’s go! To Dianshan Lake!” Fang Qingye stood up.

After leaving the office, Fang Qingye went to say goodbye to Wei Xinghua, who was working overtime, and told her to leave work early as well. As they walked out of the company toward the elevator, they suddenly discovered that someone at the neighboring Baoying Company was also working overtime!

"Hey, that's weird. It's Sunday, the stock and futures markets are closed. What are they doing working overtime?" Shi Guangrong said in a low voice, looking at the employees in the opposite building's corridor.

“Maybe they’re researching investment opportunities and preparing to make a big splash,” Fang Qingye said as she entered the elevator.

Fang Qingye was right. Li Wei didn't rest today either. He was having a meeting with his confidants in the conference room to discuss the next steps.

"Let's buy copper futures." Yang Yongliang, the investment manager, opened his laptop, projected the screen onto the monitor, and analyzed:
"Based on my research over this period, I believe Shanghai copper is worth speculating on." Yang Xianliang opened the Shanghai copper candlestick chart:

"As you can see from a technical perspective, after the decline in August, copper prices consolidated in a range before continuing to fall. In September, they experienced another sharp drop, with a monthly decline of 19.8%. This large drop is the second largest monthly decline since 1996, second only to the more than 40% drop in October during the 2008 financial crisis."

"So you think Shanghai copper prices will rise in November?" Feng Jing asked.

"No," Yang Xianliang shook his head. "Although Shanghai copper futures have fundamental support for price increases, such as production restrictions at mines due to weather or severe strikes, there are also unfavorable factors such as the European debt crisis, US debt, and the domestic macroeconomic situation. Therefore, I believe that Shanghai copper futures will experience a 'bungee jump' phenomenon in the next two months."

"Bungee jumping?" Li Wei and Feng Jing were a little confused.

"The price fluctuates back and forth between the upper and lower limits, and the conversion speed is very fast. This requires us to enter and exit quickly. When we go long, we should also be prepared to go short, and vice versa," Yang Yongliang explained.

Feng Jing frowned immediately after hearing this.

Yang Xianliang was responsible for finding investment strategies and selecting investment products, but the actual operation was done by him and Ye Haifeng. This kind of bungee jumping stock price was really terrifying!

So he couldn't help but say, "Old Yang, if it's really like this, our operations will be very difficult, as we'll have to keep an eye on the market all the time."

"Only in this way can we seize this opportunity, and more importantly, evade Fang Qingye and his gang's pursuit and even encirclement!" Yang Xianliang's tone was somewhat cold. Feng Jing fell into deep thought after listening, while Li Wei, who had been silent until now, was slightly moved.

Yang Xianliang's last words struck a chord with him.

He only recently realized that he made a fatal mistake in the latter half of his hype of Zixin Pharmaceutical. He originally thought it was due to his greed and misjudgment, but later he found out that someone had set him up!

Please enter the urn!

The article that suddenly appeared online criticizing Zixin Pharmaceutical was very likely also the work of Fang Qingye!
He never expected that such a seemingly gentle and refined young man could be so ruthless!

Furthermore, he still doesn't understand how Fang Qingye knew he was the one who stabbed him in the back, let alone how the other party had such precise knowledge of the stocks he bought and his holdings!
It felt as if a pair of cold eyes were silently watching him from some corner as he made every move.

This gave him a creepy feeling.

Now that Yang Xianliang has proposed this approach, the difficulty of hype has certainly increased, but isn't the other side facing the same challenge?
The other party seems to have a greater difficulty, because they have the initiative in buying and selling, and can lead the other party by the nose.

“Just do as Lao Yang says! We’ll dump Zixin Pharmaceutical shares while we start building up our positions!” Li Wei said with a sneer.

"Let's play a game of cat and mouse and see who's the mouse and who's the cat!"

"Got it!" Fang Qingye lifted the rod, and a grass carp, jumping and wriggling, was hooked out of the water.

The fish wasn't big, maybe two inches at most.

Fang Qingye shook his head.

Normally, he would have ignored such a small fish and simply thrown it back into the water, but for some reason, he was having a really bad day.

Several times the fish seemed to take the bait, only to escape in the end. He was busy until the afternoon and only caught 3 fish. Of course, Shi Guangrong fared even worse, having completely failed to catch any fish.

Since the fish couldn't be brought back to the hotel, Fang Qingye usually just released them. However, Shi Guangrong grabbed one from his plastic bucket and put it in his own, pretending to pick it up and throw it into the water.
Then I wouldn't be considered part of the Air Force anymore!
Fang Qingye rode in Shi Guangrong's car back to the city, casually found a restaurant to have dinner, and then returned to the hotel. Bai Ou had already returned as well.

"Did you see Meiduo?" Fang Qingye asked.

"Yes, she said she really liked the University of Political Science and Law. We walked around the campus for a long time and ended up having lunch together in the fifth canteen." Bai Ou said excitedly, "It's been more than a year since I ate there. It felt like I was back in school!"

"It's alright, just come often in the future," Fang Qingye said with a smile.

After recounting the happy things that happened on campus, Bai Ou asked Fang Qingye, "What did Shi Guangrong want to talk to you about? Was it about futures trading?"

“Yes, Li Wei of Baoying Company already knows that we conspired to frame him.” Fang Qingye simply repeated what Shi Guangrong had said.

“Your covert war has turned into an open battle,” Bai Ou said.

"Yes, but I'm still in the shadows," Fang Qingye said with a smile.

Bai Ou has to go to work tomorrow, so the two of them checked out of the hotel and left. The journey from Shencheng to Nanxin involves passing through Jinghai, so Fang Qingye took the girl directly to her dormitory at her workplace and then went back to the county town alone.

After everything was packed up, Fang Qingye called Huang Hua, who was far away in Yanjing, to tell him that he could start working.

“OK! You’ll get what you need in an hour!” Huang Hua said on the phone.

Fang Qingye wasn't in a hurry. He lay in bed and scrolled through his phone for a while. Sure enough, an hour later he received a text message from Huang Hua.
All done!
He opened his laptop and, sure enough, found a newly sent email in his inbox. He was somewhat surprised after opening it.

Shanghai copper?!
Li Wei is actually trading Shanghai copper!
(End of this chapter)