Chapter 122: Financing Completed, An Interesting Person
"Don’t worry."
"I definitely won’t let your investment go to waste. I’m confident about that, at least!"
Lin Feng promised with a smile.
Lin Feng had a great first impression of Chen Lei.
Plus, he’d generously put up ten million right off the bat.
So, Lin Feng gave Chen Lei his firm assurance.
However, Chen Lei didn’t quite believe him.
After all, nothing in the stock market was ever certain.
It was like the deep sea; no one knew when the next tide would turn or when the next wave would crest.
The best you could do was make some educated guesses.
But since he’d already put the money in, Chen Lei wasn’t about to lose sleep over it.
"I’m not as loaded as Brother Lei, but I’ve got some savings socked away."
"I’ll put in five million."
Beside them, Zhang Chi chuckled and asked for the company’s account information.
Not long after, five million was transferred over.
For an ordinary person, five million was enough to buy a house in a first-tier city.
But for Zhang Chi and the others,
it was just small change. They got more than that for New Year’s.
They didn’t feel the slightest sting when they pulled out that money to invest.
At the end of the day, it wasn’t like any of them were hurting for cash.
They all considered Lin Feng a friend now.
This bit of money was just to support a friend and help him get things off the ground.
Ultimately, they weren’t that optimistic about the current stock market environment.
After all, this was their brother’s first time starting a business.
They were just doing it out of a sense of support.
Most of the others invested around the same amount as Zhang Chi.
Lin Feng did a quick calculation. In just one night,
from this group of people,
he had raised nearly thirty million in funds.
Chen Lei had contributed the lion’s share, of course,
but the others had pitched in a significant amount too.
Talk about a relaxing evening. It had been very relaxing.
It had brought Lin Feng and Yang Qiniang a breezy thirty million in funding.
Yang Qiniang slung an arm around Chen Lei’s shoulder. "I’ll have to treat you all to a proper night out some other day!"
By now, Zhang Chi had already warmed up to Lin Feng and the group.
He chimed in right after Yang Qiniang, shouting, "Brother Feng, you’d better not let Yang Qiniang slack off."
"Keep him busy! We’re all his creditors now, so he’d better work hard and make us some money!"
Zhang Chi’s joke made everyone burst out laughing.
And it was true, in a way.
These guys had put up a ton of cash because they were all friends.
By putting it into the investment firm, they were technically clients now.
So, rounding up, Yang Qiniang really had become their unofficial employee.
"You capitalists! Squeezing me for my surplus value!"
Yang Qiniang clutched his chest, feigning heartache.
"Xiaofeng, I’m a few years older than you. You can call me Brother Chen or Brother Lei, either is fine."
As the party was winding down,
Chen Lei walked beside Lin Feng with a smile.
Hearing this, Lin Feng turned and offered a faint smile.
It was clear that Chen Lei admired him greatly.
In fact, during the party earlier, Chen Lei had looked out for him, not letting the others pressure him to drink too much.
Yang Qiniang wasn’t so lucky.
They were all trying to drink him under the table,
just to see him get drunk and make a fool of himself.
Lin Feng looked at their faces.
’They’ll become part of my circle in the future.’
So when Lin Feng left, he was in a good mood.
Sitting in the car, Lin Feng mentally ran the numbers.
Aunt Tang’s thirty million.
Yang Tianming’s fifty million.
Chen Lei and his friends’ thirty million.
Then there were the loans from mortgaging his own assets: the RV, the fifty-million-yuan villa, the storefront, and his other vehicles...
A very large number formed in Lin Feng’s mind.
Those loans would total around sixty million.
All told, that came to around one hundred and seventy million.
Even for someone like Lin Feng, who had seen his share of high-stakes situations, the thought made him a little excited.
This was nearly two hundred million in capital!
In the coming days, he would invest these funds in the stock market.
Lin Feng knew perfectly well that with the Stock Market Trend Card from the system,
there was no way this money could be lost. It was a guaranteed win.
With that in mind, Lin Feng’s ambition couldn’t help but double in size.
’Then... the bigger the better!’
Lin Feng smiled faintly, a look of absolute confidence on his face.
With such a massive amount of capital as his foundation,
Lin Feng knew that the waves he was about to make in the stock market would be no small splash.
He never imagined that, without even realizing it, he’d come to hold nearly two hundred million in capital.
After Lin Feng and Yang Qiniang left,
Chen Lei returned to his bar.
Toying with a small wine glass in his hand, he dialed a number.
"Bro, I saw someone today who’s a lot like you."
"A very interesting person."
This evening’s gathering had made Chen Lei very interested in Lin Feng.
How could Chen Lei have missed what Zhang Chi had noticed?
For years, Chen Lei had cultivated a devil-may-care attitude.
There were even rumors that he, Chen Lei, had been kicked out of his family.
Some people even imagined a grand drama of brothers turning against each other, fighting over the family fortune.
When Chen Lei heard this, he just felt that those people had wild imaginations.
Chen Lei was playful by nature; he wouldn’t want to inherit the company even if he were asked.
On the other end of the line, Chen Lei’s older brother ended the call with his younger brother.
He was also a bit curious about the person his brother was praising so highly.
So, on a whim, he had someone look into this Lin Feng.
"Yang City University..."
"Stock market investment..."
Thanks to the system, no matter who came investigating,
every aspect of his story was watertight.
The system had provided legitimate-looking sources for all of Lin Feng’s funds.
If anything, the background check only improved the older brother’s impression of Lin Feng.
’He seems like a decent young man.’
Chen Lei’s older brother looked at the file in his hand, then deleted the related materials.
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