71: The "loving" aunts

"Gold Prices Have Gone Crazy! Someone Earned Half a Year's Salary in One Day!"

"Spot Gold Breaks Through $3500 Per Ounce! Shuibei Gold Price Soars by Thirty Yuan in One Day!"

In the afternoon, it hit a high of 838.3 yuan, and by the close, the gold price was locked at 831.4 yuan.

As expected, the moment Ye Su opened his phone in the evening, he was bombarded with news about today's insane surge in gold prices.

"It seems the peak of the gold price was 838.3 yuan."

Scrolling through a news feed, he saw someone who couldn't resist the temptation of the continuous surge in gold prices and dared to enter the market at the 830 yuan level, buying 6 kilograms of gold with 80x leverage; Ye Su could only offer a moment of silence for him in advance.

Past mistakes are lessons for the future.

Taking this investor's situation as a cautionary tale and reminding himself that investment should be steady, Ye Su closed the news platform, opened WeChat, and transferred one hundred thousand yuan to Su Wan.

[Mom: Didn't your brother say you bought a batch of facial masks and asked his online store to help sell them? How do you still have one hundred thousand yuan to transfer to me?]

[Didn't I tell brother that I earned tens of thousands of yuan in gold futures last month?]

[After I mentioned this to a friend, he also wanted to try to see if he could make money by investing, so on the 7th, he asked me to help him buy a lot of gold futures and also borrowed the margin for a lot of futures from me. It turned out we bought exactly at the lowest point.]

Ye Su sent the screenshot of his futures account from noon to Su Wan.

[The gold price kept rising today, and I felt the risk was too high, so I sold all the gold futures.]

[Aside from returning the margin to my friend, we both earned over one hundred and ten thousand yuan each, so I transferred one hundred thousand yuan to you.]

Ye Su was becoming increasingly adept at hoodwinking his own mother.

With a carefully crafted script, he successfully convinced Su Wan that Ye Su had a unique eye for investment and could earn so much money in just one month.

[Mom: Although you were lucky this time and managed to earn so much money, investment definitely carries risks. Even the factory your dad ran for so many years ended up closing down, let alone gold futures, which make money so quickly. You must remember to stop while you're ahead and never keep your mind focused on it all the time.]

Ye Su earning money was naturally something to be happy about.

But as a parent, Su Wan was more worried that Ye Su would get trapped in it and eventually end up on a path of no return.

[Don't worry, I always set a stop-loss line to ensure the loss won't exceed the previous profit.]

Su Wan also knew that when children grow up, they will definitely have their own ideas.

Seeing that Ye Su not only had the ability to earn money but also acted with a sense of proportion, besides feeling relieved, she also felt proud of her youngest son.

[Mom: Your mom is old and doesn't understand you young people's things. Anyway, as long as you know the limits of what you're doing, that's fine.]

[Mom: Also, don't transfer all the money you earned to the family. I'll take fifty thousand of this hundred thousand, and you keep the remaining fifty thousand for yourself to spend.]

[It's okay, I earned over one hundred and ten thousand this time and kept over ten thousand for myself.]

[Besides, by transferring one hundred thousand to you, even if I have something to invest in next time, the most I'll lose is the ten thousand plus I have on me, and I don't have to worry about losing the money I've earned during this period.]

Su Wan knew that one hundred thousand yuan was definitely not a small amount, but she couldn't withstand Ye Su's pestering, and in the end, she had no choice but to accept the one hundred thousand yuan Ye Su transferred.

"Done."

Seeing his mom accept the one hundred thousand yuan, another stone in Ye Su's heart fell to the ground.

Life was becoming better bit by bit, just as he had expected.

"There's 195,000 left; should I spend money to upgrade the fourth level-two intelligence?"

The gold futures position had been cleared, the two hundred thousand yuan worth of facial masks had been stocked, and there was no other place that needed money for the time being. Ye Su felt it was time to spend some money.

"tuesday has already been upgraded to level-two intelligence; it's best to leave a day empty and wait to upgrade thursday's intelligence."

After making up his mind, Ye Su strolled around the campus to reach his daily exercise quota before returning to the dormitory.

...

From the moment the overwhelming news of the gold price surge was released on tuesday night, the gold price had already started a freefall mode.

By the time the market opened on Wednesday, the gold price had fallen from 831.42 to 820.58. By the close, the gold price had plummeted all the way to 784.28. The magnitude of the drop directly wiped out the gains of the previous week.

"It's a good thing the intelligence was upgraded in time. With tuesday's level-two intelligence reminder, if I had been greedy for more profit and held on for another day, I would have earned over seventy thousand less!"

The dramatic turn of the market left even Ye Su, who had experienced it firsthand, stunned.

Holding on for another day and earning seventy thousand less was a small matter. Ye Su estimated that in such a market, no one would be stupid enough to take over someone else's short orders, and he might have had to pay much more just to clear his two lots of gold futures.

"It seems that without [Inside Information], it's better to stay away from things like futures, lest I really get trapped in them one day."

After witnessing and sighing at the dangers of the market, Ye Su called up the system:

"Spend one hundred thousand yuan to upgrade thursday's level-one intelligence to level-two intelligence."

[Deducting payment, please wait, Host...]

Beep—

[XX Bank: Your card ending in 9539 spent 100,000 yuan on April 23 at 20:24.]

After his phone received the deduction text message from the bank, the system's electronic notification sound rang at the same time.

[Ding!]

[Upgrade successful!]

"One hundred thousand yuan, just spent like that."

Spending one hundred thousand yuan all at once, Ye Su still felt a bit of heartache.

But thinking that by upgrading to level-two intelligence early, he could earn the one hundred thousand yuan back in just a few weeks, Ye Su felt relieved instantly.

"Good heavens, it can even deduct money directly from the bank card?"

Ye Su didn't know where the money taken by the system went, but he believed that with the system's vast supernatural powers, it definitely wouldn't cause any problems with his bank card.

[Time until next intelligence refresh: 03:35:02, please wait patiently, Host!]

"Still over three hours left."

It was just like buying a toy at a mall when he was a child, always unable to wait to open it and play with it on the way home.

Having experienced so many level-two intelligence refreshes, Ye Su was still itching with anticipation, hoping time would pass quickly so the system could refresh the first level-two intelligence he had upgraded with one hundred thousand yuan.

[Ding!]

Finally, it arrived after much anticipation.

Ye Su, who didn't sleep when the time came, finally waited for thursday's intelligence refresh.

[Today's Intelligence (Level 2): Tomorrow at 3:00 PM, a group of aunties are meeting to release animals under the Binkengyong Bridge on Jinxi Road. One of the gold-lipped clams contains a natural South Sea golden pearl, worth approximately 40,000 yuan.]

"Aunties are releasing a 40,000 yuan natural South Sea golden pearl!"

He had just spent one hundred thousand yuan in the evening to upgrade to level-two intelligence.

In the blink of an eye, the system had already returned 40,000 yuan of his capital!

"Releasing animals is good, they must release them."

In the past, when watching the news, he would occasionally see old men and women releasing all sorts of strange things. Ye Su used to find it baffling and couldn't understand their behavior.

But now, seeing a natural South Sea golden pearl worth 40,000 yuan about to be released, Ye Su wanted to give these "kind-hearted" aunties a thumbs up from afar.