Chapter 1033: A Promise Most Men Cannot Keep

When the drunk Cooper returned home, his wife was already sitting on the sofa watching TV, waiting for him.

Usually when he came back, his wife would smile at him, but today, she just had a cold face.

Because Cooper rarely came back so late, and it looked like he had drunk too much.

She knew very well how much the wine cost now. If he was consuming it with others, it would be fine, but if he was consuming it himself, he must have spent a lot of money.

"You didn't say you were going to be late tonight."

Alcohol had long begun to take effect in his body. Cooper, with a red face, threw his tie casually onto the tray by the door used for putting these things.

Middle-class life is just so exquisite and particular. They will put these things that have been worn and are not intended to be worn tomorrow on this small tray, and then dispose of them by category.

These things will be put into a small bag according to their category, and then sent to the service point inside the community specifically for cleaning these things tomorrow.

He kicked off his shoes, walked unsteadily to the sofa next to his wife, and sat down, instead of sitting beside her.

They actually faced almost all the problems that middle-class people have to face in this period: frigidity between husband and wife, and boredom with each other.

Just like... William and Emily, before William's career improved, the situation between him and Emily was also this bad.

Perhaps William was still in a relatively stable state, but Emily, it was possible she would cheat, of course, only possible.

With the huge development of William's career, the husband and wife sparked new sparks because of the improvement in power and social status, and even gave birth to a boy like Victor.

Cooper and his wife also faced such problems. They hadn't had liquid exchange behavior for about two years.

Seeing each other felt a bit bored, no matter who it was, they wouldn't take the initiative to mention it.

As long as no one took the initiative to mention it, the other person would breathe a sigh of relief. Although they slept in the same bed, they were more like family, not husband and wife.

Sitting on the sofa and leaning back, the feeling of the whole world spinning was reduced a lot. He raised his head and looked at his wife. "There were some social engagements tonight."

"I have something I want to tell you."

His wife was an accountant. Originally, female accountants were not very popular in the accounting industry—now it was not the period of the rise of feminism, people believed more in the responsibility and ability of men, rather than those women who didn't know anything.

Undoubtedly, this was a stereotypical prejudice, but it did exist in Federal society, just like any man could be in many important positions, even a stupid man.

But in this position, it absolutely could not be a woman, even if the woman was extremely smart.

But with the outbreak of the war, the Federation's tax revenue underwent a huge reform. Even homeless people needed to report taxes, and the business of all accounting firms ushered in an explosive period.

Countless people wanted to figure out how much personal income tax they had to pay, and how to make themselves pay less, so they could only go to professional accountants or tax consultants.

Finding these people required paying fees.

Like those big accountants and well-known tax consultants, they couldn't serve those bottom-level people who only had an income of fifty or sixty dollars a month. Their service fees were high, but such a market did indeed exist.

So some female accountants who were not valued before, and some students, began to come in handy.

Every time they finished a personal tax declaration form, they could get an income of about two dollars, and the firm could get one dollar.

The city they lived in had about 1.2 million people who needed to declare taxes. In other words, four million in revenue would be generated every year, and accumulated, it was a huge revenue.

Cooper's wife handled about three hundred to four hundred tax returns per month, and she could get an income of about seven hundred dollars from the accounting firm along with her basic salary.

This income was considered very high among the middle class in the Federation.

Originally, Cooper's income in the family was the highest, but now, the highest had become his wife.

Who is the one who speaks loudly in a middle-class family is not looking at how loud their voice is, but looking at who can make more contributions to this family.

Undoubtedly, Cooper had lost his status as the head of the family in the past two years. Even if he hadn't completely lost it, after all, this was a patriarchal society, it was also precarious.

His wife sat there with a calm and serious look at him. "You'd better be able to make it clear what you want to say before you talk to me."

Cooper was stunned for a moment, then thought of something. "Sorry, I'll go change my clothes."

He took a shower, then changed into home clothes, and came back again.

After taking a shower, he became much clearer. "I have quit my job."

He looked at his wife, but she didn't show any displeasure or angry look, just looked at him calmly.

"I... you know our workshop has a new supervisor."

His wife nodded and said, "Yes, you told me, a young man more than ten years younger than you."

"I have a conflict with him.", Cooper said bluntly, "Today the conflict between us completely broke out, so I left the company."

His wife still didn't have much expression on her face. "That doesn't matter, my income is enough to support us to continue to maintain the decent life we have now."

"And you are a member of the Labor Union, you can let them arrange a new job for you."

The Labor Union has a transcendent status in the industrial field. After all, the operation, setting, and maintenance of industrial machines all require very professional skills.

This is unlike workers on light industrial assembly lines, who can be competent for any position after simple training.

In the field of industry, especially heavy industry, the gold content of skilled workers is just like the word "gold content," there is really gold in it!

As long as Cooper talks to the Labor Union, he can quickly get a new job through internal recommendation, and maybe the salary will be higher.

Even if it's not much higher, it won't be much less. After all, with the Labor Union and the union behind him, those capitalists dare not mess around too much.

So he doesn't work now, quit his job, it's not a problem for this family.

Cooper shook his head. "I don't plan to continue working for the time being."

Before his wife could say anything, he took the initiative to say, "Actually, this is the thing I plan to tell you."

"Don't we have one hundred thousand dollars in savings?"

His wife nodded, very calm, but in the calmness, it seemed to hide a trace of instability. She asked in a tone that was slightly uncertain or even threatening, "Don't tell me you moved this money!"

Cooper was suddenly a bit embarrassed. He scratched his head, but the embarrassment came fast and went fast. "Sorry, I did move this money, I used it for financial investment."

"Now it is two hundred thousand, and it will soon become three hundred thousand, or even more!"

Originally his wife wanted to blame him for not using the family's core savings, but the words he said, those numbers, made her completely unable to say any words of blame.

She opened her mouth slightly, somewhat at a loss, and then asked closely, "How did it become so much?"

Cooper drank some wine. Although he took a shower, the alcohol was still taking effect, just not as intense as just now.

"You know, I have been studying financial things during this period."

"I bought a lot of books and participated in some salons and seminars."

His wife nodded repeatedly. It was indeed like this. She had also participated with him. Those who looked like their class, and even people who were half or one class higher than them, gathered together to discuss the magic of finance.

She knew that her husband had an investment dream.

Cooper's hands were clapped together, held tightly, and there was a trace of excited redness on his face. "Now, I succeeded!"

"After my selection, I chose a stock, it is like a madman constantly rushing up, now my assets have doubled!"

His wife suddenly said at this time, "It's our assets."

This interruption made Cooper stunned for a moment, then he rolled his eyes. "Don't interrupt me!"

"I admit, it's our assets, in short, it has doubled, and it will continue to increase!"

"Dear, think about it, we used twenty years to have these, but it only took two or three months, and we achieved a leap in wealth. This is the most wonderful thing about finance!"

His wife also had more smiles on her face, but the smile was not so enthusiastic, unlike him, almost showing all his teeth, which was a very impolite and reckless behavior.

And she was still very calm. "Any investment has risks, my suggestion is that you'd better take half of it out now, ensure that our property is stable, and then you continue to do your investment with the remaining part."

Now her attitude when speaking also became gentle and soft. This is the truest side of a middle-class family—

whoever can bring more wealth to this family is the one who is the master of this family.

This period was Cooper's wife, but now it was him, so his wife became not so tough and tried to grasp the initiative.

Cooper shook his head. "I have inside news, and it is real inside news, this stock will still rise!"

His wife only then focused on the point. "Which stock?"

"Hope Mining!"

"I have heard of this name!", his wife nodded. "They indeed said its development is very good, but you can't be careless, understand?"

"This is our family's twenty years of savings, I believe you don't want our twenty years of effort to become a thing of the past in an instant."

"Also, you'd better consider my suggestion, take a part of it out."

Cooper knew that if he didn't agree on this matter, his wife would mention this matter to him from time to time, so he immediately agreed. "I will handle this matter when I go to Deruixi on Monday."

"You are going to Deruixi?", his wife got up and walked to the restaurant, brewed a cup of coffee for him, and brought back some small pastries.

"What are you going to do?"

Cooper picked up a piece of pastry and ate it, eating while drinking a cup of hot coffee, the whole person seemed to be much more comfortable. "Hope Mining wants to pay dividends to investors. People with an investment of more than fifty thousand dollars can go to the scene to communicate closely with their president and board members."

"You know, those capitalists always like to do this kind of thing, and then let reporters report it. They wish the whole world knew they were making a lot of money!"

When his wife heard this, she didn't think much, just nodded and said, "I will pack your luggage, when do you plan to leave?"

"Weekend."

The original "family crisis" passed like this. At night, the two lay on the bed chatting about if their dream came true, ten thousand dollars became fifty thousand in a period of time, what they were going to do.

The two chatted a lot, about wealth, dreams, and many things. It seemed that a special vitality was constantly sprouting, growing, and strengthening in their bodies.

The two also gradually leaned together, Cooper's hand subconsciously pressed on her chest, in the room with only faint light, the two looked at each other for a while, and then like a volcano that had been silent for a long time suddenly erupted, destroying the world!

They came twice, used more than forty minutes, and after the event, Cooper was completely awake. He leaned on the head of the bed, looking at his wife who was smoking, somewhat surprised. "I didn't know you started smoking now."

His wife exhaled a puff of smoke. "Smoking can help me relax my spirit. If it were you, facing countless bills every day, and those people who don't even know how to fill in materials, you would know how irritable I am now!"

Not everyone knows that those things need to be declared, those things can not be declared, so most people's tax returns are wrong.

She needs to correct these mistakes, and then make the client satisfied.

Sometimes she feels that she is actually no different from ordinary workers in other jobs, just that others are on the assembly line, and she sits in the office, and may even be more irritable than workers on the assembly line.

Hearing his wife talk about complaints at work, the two had just completed two rounds of the most primitive fusion, and the emotional frequency of the two was still on the same channel. He immediately comforted, "After we are financially free, you can completely end your work."

His wife shook her head. "More than three thousand dollars after tax every year, I can't bear to part with this income."

Now the Federation's tax is very high, because it also added "war tax." Of course, they won't say so. They just lowered the starting amount and increased the tax rate.

Some states strictly calculate, sixty dollars out of one hundred dollars is tax. Obviously, the wages have increased, but the feeling given to people is that the disposable part has become less.

At this time, an accountant is needed to help them think of ways to reduce some taxes, legal tax avoidance, although it is only two dollars, but this itself is not too complicated.

It is like a process of inquiry, asking them how many children they have, whether they all have jobs, whether they have done some social welfare work, or whether they have donated to charity.

Capitalists have capitalists' tax avoidance methods, and ordinary people also have ordinary people's tax avoidance methods. For example, some states, if a family has two or more children, can reduce part of the tax by "providing an educational foundation environment for family members."

There are also some states that will subsidize families with multiple children according to the number of children. Although this is not a tax reduction, in essence, it is equivalent to an extra tax-free income, which is equivalent to a tax reduction.

These things have been made into a form by the accounting firm. She only needs to ask, and then fill in according to the √ or × on the form.

It is not troublesome, it is just tiring, because some clients' brains are really not very good. What you say and what they say are not on the same frequency at all.

Looking at the fatigue on his wife's face, Cooper pursed his lips. "I will become an amazing person, so you can throw away this job, and the only thing you need to do every day is to enjoy life."

His wife seemed to enjoy such a promise. "I hope you can realize this promise, don't be like those things you promised me before we got married, not a single one was realized."

Cooper was in a state of male chauvinism at this time. The thing he couldn't stand most was this kind of provocation. "Is there anything I said but didn't do?"

"I feel that the things I promised you, I have done them!"

His wife took a puff of smoke, and then exhaled slowly. "You said you wanted to fuck me until I couldn't get out of bed, at any time."

Cooper was stunned there. After a few seconds, he explained somewhat awkwardly, "I was too young at that time..."

His wife smiled and curled her lips. "So I hope you can fulfill your promise this time!"

For the next two days, Cooper had been resting, adjusting himself, and reading some financial books, but he couldn't understand them, all in the clouds.

The strangest thing about these financial books to him was that they often refuted themselves.

If one book refuted the point of view of another book, he thought it was possible. After all, it is normal to have different positions and points of view in academic discussions.

But in some books, what the author wrote later refuted what was written before, inconsistent from beginning to end.

Sometimes he felt that the more he read these books, the more he couldn't figure out what finance was, and what the rules of its operation were.

Sunday noon, after he finished his meal, he said goodbye to his children, carried his luggage, and took the train to New Jincheng.

The place where he lived was not far from New Jincheng. He arrived in New Jincheng in three hours and successfully checked into the booked hotel.

He contacted his stockbroker, and the two agreed to meet at 9:30 on Monday morning. At 9:45, they would hold an investor dividend meeting. ===== CHAPTER 1034 =====