As the bus slowly moved forward.
Over an hour later, Su Yi got off the bus, turned into a nearby urban village, and returned to his rented place.
It was dinnertime, and the old residential buildings were filled with the smell of cooking oil.
Su Yi opened the door amidst the pervasive smell of oil fumes, looking at the cramped, dimly lit room in front of him.
At the same time, he heard the sound of a couple arguing in the neighboring rental unit, the intermittent noises of surrounding tenants stir-frying, washing vegetables, chopping vegetables, and felt the unbearable stuffiness in the room.
Even though he wasn't someone who enjoyed an easy life, he found it a little unbearable.
"Once I make money, I should quickly change my living environment," Su Yi thought to himself.
As his thoughts wandered, he followed his memory, rummaged through the clutter box on the computer desk in his room, found the air conditioner remote, and turned on the air conditioner.
Immediately after, he closed the door, trying to block out the arguing sounds and oil fumes from outside.
He was about to turn on his computer to review the market conditions and make some subsequent plans, but the air conditioner he had just turned on hummed twice and then completely stopped working before the indoor temperature had dropped at all.
Facing the completely defunct air conditioner and the unbearably stuffy indoor environment.
Su Yi finally sighed helplessly and dialed his landlord's number.
But when the call connected, before he could fully explain the situation, the sound of mahjong from the landlord's side had already drowned out everything.
Immediately, the other party simply gave him a perfunctory reply or two and then hung up directly.
After that, when Su Yi called again, it went straight to a busy signal.
"Holy shit!" Su Yi threw down his phone and couldn't help but curse.
However, facing the helplessness of this life, he temporarily had no way to change it.
He could only find a way to make money quickly and escape this living environment.
The argument next door continued.
The smell of oil fumes seeped in through the door cracks, impossible to block.
The stuffy environment made him sweat profusely.
The old laptop he had already turned on had a cooling system that wheezed like a bellows.
Even before any software started running on the desktop, the machine itself began to heat up.
Su Yi endured for a while, but ultimately chose to go out for a bit, waiting until the room was a little cooler and quieter before returning.
He changed into some slightly cooler clothes, casually went to a small restaurant downstairs, had a quick dinner, and then walked to an ATM machine near the urban village to check his card balance and send a sum of money to his parents back home.
"Son, didn't I tell you not to send money home?"
Shortly after his transfer, the phone from home rang.
"Dad, this money is for Mom's medical treatment,"
Su Yi said on the phone.
"Don't worry about me here, my monthly salary is ten to twenty thousand now. I eat well, live well, and dress well every day."
His mother had uremia and, due to the family's financial situation, had always been reluctant to spend money on medical care.
She passed away very early.
This was an eternal pain in Su Yi's heart.
"Alas, we're a burden to you,"
Su Yi's father said after a moment of silence.
Su Yi replied with a smile,
"Dad, what are you saying? I'm your son. No matter when, I should always think of home. How can you say you're a burden to me? How's Mom... Is Mom doing okay?"
"She's fine,"
Su Yi's father replied, then handed the phone to Su Yi's mother.
"Yi, your dad is right, don't send money home. Your dad does odd jobs and can still earn some money, enough for us,"
Su Yi's mother's voice came through the receiver.
"You must take good care of yourself over there. It's getting hot lately, so be careful to prevent heatstroke. Also, if you need anything, tell Mom, and I'll send it to you.
Don't worry about Mom's health. The doctors said that as long as I take my medicine on time and get my check-ups regularly, living to seventy or eighty is no problem. Also, don't work too hard, don't stay up late all the time..."
Listening to his mother's nagging, countless past images flashed through Su Yi's mind.
Unconsciously, his eyes welled up with tears, and he responded intermittently,
"Mom, I know, don't worry, I'm doing really well in Modu. Just today, my manager even talked to me, affirming my work ability and planning to give me a raise."
Like all young people who leave home.
As a 'Hupiao', no matter how difficult life was in reality, when talking to their parents on the phone, they always reported good news and hid the bad.
Before his rebirth, he had struggled in this city for ten years, but ultimately failed to cross the wealth divide, break into the so-called social elite class, and achieve class transcendence.
Nor had he been able to fulfill those secret promises to his parents.
But now, starting over, he believed that with his ten years of experience in the financial market, everything would be different.
After finishing the call with his parents, Su Yi went to an internet cafe to pass the time and carefully plan his future development.
Since he had decided to short stock index futures, he needed to have corresponding preparations and plans.
Of course, most importantly, he needed capital.
After one year of graduation and working for two companies, deducting the money he sent home each month, he had saved a total of 50,000 yuan through his frugal lifestyle.
However, if he focused on the 'Huazheng 500 Index' stock index futures main contract.
The amount of 50,000 yuan was not even enough for the margin for one lot of the 'Huazheng 500 Index' stock index futures main contract.
According to exchange regulations.
Based on the current points of the 'Huazheng 500 Index' futures main contract, shorting one such contract required a margin of at least 150,000 yuan.
Su Yi's total savings were still exactly 100,000 short of this amount.
In other words, with his current capital, he couldn't even meet the minimum trading threshold to short stock index futures in the market.
However, since the opportunity was at hand, if the capital was insufficient, there was always a way to find a solution.
Su Yi still held three credit cards, with a total credit limit of about 120,000 yuan.
He felt that... at this time, this limit could be put to good use.
As for accumulating enough capital to buy and sell one lot of the 'Huazheng 500 Index' futures main contract, he still faced the problem of not meeting the account opening conditions required for stock index futures contract trading.
He also had a clear solution in mind for this.
That was to find off-exchange leverage providers who could facilitate stock index futures contract trading and complete the transactions through them.
In the booming bull market of the A-share market, off-exchange leverage providers flourished due to the strong demand from numerous retail investors to amplify their capital leverage.
As far as Su Yi knew, there were hundreds, even thousands, of such institutions in Lujiazui Financial City alone.
Having formulated the plan to participate in shorting stock index futures.
Su Yi searched online for several reputable leverage providers located in the financial city that offered stock index futures contract trading.
After a comprehensive comparison, he selected the most reliable one, planning to personally visit the company another day to inquire about leveraged trading.
After finishing these tasks, Su Yi logged off the computer and returned to his rented room to sleep.
For the next three days, he continuously spent 100,000 yuan on his credit cards, converting almost all of his credit limit into cash.
Then, when June 12th arrived, and the Shanghai Composite Index once again opened higher, continuously setting new highs for the bull market.
Su Yi, holding 150,000 yuan in cash, rushed into a leverage provider company named 'Yinghui Financial', located in Modu Lujiazui Financial City.
(End of Chapter)
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