Those who travel back in time

Chapter 34 The Stock Market God

"I don't think President Li is the kind of person who acts on emotion," Chen Qing said after thinking for a moment. "The reason you still asked me to come back, besides the rescue, is probably because I can really get clues about Tuibei Tower from this rescue."

"But the person who wanted to kill Dr. Chu had no connection with Tuibeilou," Li Mengfei said.

"Perhaps Dr. Chu is connected to Tuibeilou?" Li Qilin guessed.

"If you had any leads on Dr. Chu, you should have told me directly nine days later that you had leads and asked me to save him, instead of saying that Yuan Tiangang attacked him," Chen Qing said.

"If Dr. Chu has no clues, then where else can we find clues?" Li Mengfei said.

"Perhaps we can find clues at the place where Dr. Chu was rescued?" Chen Qing suggested. "President Li sent me to Binhu Park nine days later because this place is important; rescuing the doctor was just a side benefit."

"Same question," Li Mengfei said. "If there were clues in Binhu Park, why didn't Dad tell you nine days later? He could have just told you directly, and we wouldn't have to keep guessing here."

"Was it really just to trick me into coming back so I could save someone?" Chen Qing was no longer sure after Li Mengfei said that.

"Perhaps there really are other clues, but I didn't reveal them nine days later for some reason we don't yet know. We can ignore them for now if we can't figure them out; the reason might come to light as time goes by," Li Qilin said after organizing his thoughts. "Let's assume for now that there are clues about the Tuibei Tower on Dr. Chu's person, or perhaps in Binhu Park."

"Mr. Li, let's split up. You and Mengfei, you know Dr. Chu, so you go find Dr. Chu. I'll go to Binhu Park," Chen Qing said after thinking for a moment. He wasn't sure if he could find any clues at Binhu Park, but he was just trying his luck. Since he had already come all this way, he might as well look around. It was better than going back empty-handed.

This morning, Dr. Chu's activity area in Binhu Park was limited to that running track, so Chen Qing's main search area was also the running track.

Upon arriving again, he walked along the track, scanning the ground inch by inch with his eyes. Apart from some cigarette butts and fallen leaves, there was nothing there.

He then searched through the grass beside the track again, but still found nothing.

He even rummaged through the trash cans, but found nothing useful.

"Could there be a clue on this bulletin board?" Finally, Chen Qing came to a bulletin board standing next to the track.

The bulletin board is divided into two parts. Some notices are posted on the left side. Perhaps the park management felt that it was a waste to only post a few notices on such a large bulletin board and leave the rest of the space empty, so they pasted some newspapers in the blank spaces.

Chen Qing looked through the newspapers one by one. They were all from the Jiangxin Daily. He checked the dates and found that the latest one was a month old, indicating that the newspaper hadn't been replaced for a long time.

Chen Qing hadn't had high hopes, but surprisingly, he actually found a useful piece of information in these old newspapers.

That was the finance section, and there was an article written by a financial reporter titled "What is the investment secret of Zhao Dezhu, the 'market stock god'?"

"In the capitalist jungle filled with Ivy League elites and mathematical geniuses, Zhao Dezhu's appearance is like a discordant puzzle."

Three months ago, when "Dezhu Capital" raked in nearly two billion US dollars with a precise short-selling deal against the world's largest shipping company, the identity of its behind-the-scenes controller, Zhao Dezhu, first came into the public eye. Surprisingly, this newly minted financial tycoon was just an unknown vegetable vendor in a market five years ago…

The article wasn't long, but Chen Qing immediately recognized the author as someone from the Tuibeilou (推背楼) building.

According to the article, the story of this wealthy man named Zhao Dezhu is nothing short of miraculous. He only had a primary school education and started out as a vegetable vendor. His first pot of gold came from winning the lottery, where he won a huge sum of 800 million yuan.

After winning the lottery, he did not squander the money or deposit it in the bank, but instead made 17 stock and futures investments over the next three years.

The key point is that all 17 investments were profitable, with not a single failure! Moreover, many of them were contrarian moves that went against the market consensus at the time, and the results proved that he was right.

In just a few years, his identity transformed from a vegetable vendor into a mysterious tycoon who controls billions of dollars and invests across the globe.

There is only one plausible explanation for Zhao Dezhu's rise to wealth—he had advance knowledge of future financial information.

"Mr. Li, I found it!" Chen Qing casually tore the newspaper out and then called Li Qilin: "There really is a clue about the Tuibei Building at Binhu Park!"

"What kind of clue?" Li Qilin, who had just left Dr. Chu's house, was quite curious. He had also been to Binhu Park that morning, but he couldn't recall anything that could be called a clue.

"Yes..." Before Chen Qing could answer, he disappeared from the spot.

"Mr. Chen? Huh? Mr. Chen?" Li Qilin held the phone up to his eyes and saw that the call screen was stuck there, and then suddenly showed that the call had ended.

"Dad, Mr. Chen called. Did he find any clues?" Li Mengfei asked.

"Yes, Mr. Chen told me there was a clue at Binhu Park, but when I asked him what the clue was, he didn't answer. It must be that he went back to 2044."

"Huh? He went back? It's just a matter of a few words, couldn't he have told you first before going back?"

"Perhaps something urgent happened in 2044 that forced him to go back immediately."

"What should we say to Mr. Chen when he comes nine days later?"

"Let's stick to the original story: Yuan Tiangang attacked a doctor in Binhu Park, and the statement also mentions Tuibeilou," Li Qilin said after thinking for a while.

"Dad, aren't you going to tell him there's a clue at Binhu Park?" Li Mengfei asked.

"If I knew exactly what the clue was, of course I would tell him. But right now, I don't know what the clue is either. Even if I told him there was a clue at Binhu Park, he wouldn't know what it was and could only search little by little. What if Mr. Chen remembered this clue because of his experience saving Dr. Chu, or what if the clue was actually generated because of the rescue? If I said something, wouldn't that clue be lost? Mr. Chen said that any small change in the past could have an immeasurable impact on the future. If I said something, the butterfly effect might change the fact that Mr. Chen found the clue. Since it has now been proven that Mr. Chen can eventually find the correct clue through this 'wrong' clue, the safest approach is to not change anything and let everything happen as planned."