Chapter 7 Flowers on the Prairie

Sister Kathy's full name is Kathy Harper. Generally, people of her age whose names contain words with special meanings were mostly born in that special era.

Kathy Harper is definitely a very capable person. She didn't originally work in the bank but was a female worker in a state-owned enterprise. After the state-owned enterprise went bankrupt, she was transferred to the bank and became a front desk teller.

She only worked as a teller for half a year before going to the deposit department. As the name implies, the deposit department is responsible for raising deposits for the bank.

It's a job that requires asking others for favors, and almost no one wants to do it. But Kathy was different. She took the initiative to ask to go to the deposit department.

As a result, every year, she raised the most deposits and received the most bonuses.

Although she earned a lot of money, she really didn't trade stocks. According to her, the risk was too great.

This time, she took the initiative to find Jack and ask about stock trading. At first, she was really afraid that Jack would become the public enemy of everyone. But after hearing what Jack said, she thought that Jack was right and the stock market would definitely soar.

However, the few phone calls she made next made her hesitant again. Almost all of her contacts were not optimistic about the stock market.

After all, Jack had only been working for two years. How could he be so sure that the stock market would definitely soar? But what he said made some sense, and it seemed to be true.

Moreover, regarding the matter that Jack mentioned about 70 million stock investors in the unit, which was related to more than 200 million people, it seemed to be the case.

But all these were what Jack said. Should she believe him?

Kathy fell into deep thought. After thinking for a long time, Kathy decided to help Jack once, and help him in a measured way.

As for why she wanted to help him, first, she was temporarily convinced by Jack's words. Another reason was that in her heart, she still thought that what Jack said was reasonable.

As for herself, it wouldn't be a problem to take out 30,000 to 50,000 dollars to play the stock market. If she lost, she would just consider it as paying tuition fees. If she made a profit, she would splurge once.

In this way, under the intentional or unintentional encouragement of Kathy, who was very popular in the sub-branch, the people in the sub-branch became restless again. They would take advantage of the lunch break to go to the securities company to activate their accounts and then buy various stocks.

And some veteran stock investors had already started researching which stocks would soar like a rocket in the near future.

The atmosphere in the whole bank began to become strange. Naturally, these things couldn't be hidden from the president. So, he started to warn those who were eager to act in various meetings, saying things like that employees of financial institutions were not allowed to trade stocks, that there were risks in the stock market, and that once they entered the market, they had to bear the risks themselves.

However, the result was that even those who had always refused to get involved in the stock market began to buy stocks.

There were just such people. The more you told them not to do something, the more they would do it, deliberately going against the leaders.

The president had no choice but to organize one inspection team after another, checking the accounts and cash all day long, causing the whole unit to work overtime continuously, and everyone was complaining.

At this time, the stock market was still like a "green prairie".

Tom had already started avoiding people. When Kathy saw Jack, there was a worried look on her face. When Emily saw Jack, she also looked like she wanted to say something but held back. In the whole bank, only Jack was smiling every day as if he had found a treasure.

All the worries would turn into the series of numbers in the account.

Jack firmly believed in this.

Another week passed. On this day, Chief Henry suddenly informed Jack to go to the president's office.

Chief Henry's face was getting worse and worse. Jack first advised him to be hospitalized and then asked him what the president wanted from him.

Old Henry waved his hand, put a few pills in his mouth, took a sip of water, and then said, "I don't know what the president wants from you either, but judging from his tone, it doesn't seem to be a bad thing."

Jack was relieved and advised him to be hospitalized again, but Old Henry said that he would go to the hospital after he earned back the money he lost in the stock market.

Old Henry's words made Jack feel an indescribable discomfort in his heart. It wasn't that he thought Old Henry couldn't earn back that money, but Old Henry's stubbornness was really frustrating.

Jack had to say to him, "Old Henry, I've seen what you look like when you're seventy years old. Do you believe me?"

Old Henry smiled and then waved his hand to signal him to leave quickly. Jack also smiled and then left Old Henry's office.

The president's office was on the fifth floor. In the elevator, Jack first tidied up his uniform in front of the mirror in the elevator and combed his hair. When he got out of the elevator, he was already a dashing young man full of energy.

When he reached the door of the president's office, Jack composed himself, took a deep breath, and knocked on the door twice, "Dong, dong."

"Come in." The voice was deep and carried a hint of majesty.

Jack opened the door and went in. He saw President Gao of the sub-branch sitting behind a huge boss's desk.

"President Gao, you were looking for me?"

"Yes, I was looking for you. Jack, I heard from Old Henry that you drive well?"

"Hehe, I just drive casually."

"Driving casually won't do. Didn't I ask your Chief Henry to find someone to get you a license?"

Jack saw that President Gao picked up the teacup, took a sip of tea, and then put it back on the table. He quickly stepped forward, took the teacup, and went to the water dispenser to refill it.

"President Gao, Chief Henry found someone to get me a driver's license. To repay you and Chief Henry for your care of me, in the future, whenever there's something I can do for you, I will spare no effort to do it well."

President Gao nodded in satisfaction and then said, "Jack, it's not just when doing things for us that you should spare no effort. You should also spare no effort when doing things for the bank."

Jack quickly nodded and said, "That's for sure. I will definitely work my hardest for the sub-branch."

"Hahaha—"

While laughing, President Gao stood up. With his short and stocky figure, a chubby round face, a pair of small eyes, and a pair of black-rimmed round glasses on his nose, Jack thought of a character in a movie.

"High. It's really high."

This was the classic line of that movie character.

"President Gao, did you call me here this time because you have something for me to do?"

President Gao nodded and then looked down at the desk.

"Jack, my mother is coming today, and I want you to go to the train station to pick her up—"

Jack got the key to President Gao's special car. According to President Gao, he himself had to rush to the city branch to attend a meeting, and all the other drivers were busy, so he had to ask Jack, a security officer, to make this trip.

But Jack felt that things weren't that simple. Not to mention that there were five or six drivers in the bank, even Xiao Li, who was driving the armored car now, was the nephew of Chief Henry.

This was a personal matter of President Gao's. Presumably, he wouldn't ask Chief Henry's nephew to do it. But Jack had almost no contact with President Gao. Why was he asked to pick up his mother?

After thinking about it, Jack couldn't figure it out. He just assumed that President Gao really couldn't send another driver and had to ask him, a non-professional driver, to go.

However, when Jack was in President Gao's office, he saw that the computer screen on President Gao's desk showed the real-time stock market quotations.

It was still mostly green, but there were a few eye-catching red spots among them, like blooming flowers on the prairie.