On the other side of the walking path, near the woods, there are chairs for people to rest. Sheng Chuncheng and Mr. Lan said:
"Let's go there and sit and watch the river."
Mr. Lan said yes.
The two people walked over and Mr. Lan was about to sit down when Sheng Chuncheng called out "Wait a minute."
Mr. Lan looked at him, wondering what to expect.
Sheng Chuncheng thought that although the sun was shining now, the cement chair in the shade was still cold, and Lan was always a patient.
Sheng Chuncheng took off his outer jacket, folded it twice, put it on the chair, and then said to Mr. Lan:
"You sit here."
Mr. Lan understood and felt a little moved. She sat down, took Sheng Chuncheng's hand, and asked him to sit down beside her. Mr. Lan and Sheng Chuncheng said:
"Xiao Sheng, you are so considerate and good at taking care of others. I will be very happy to be your girlfriend from now on."
Sheng Chuncheng smiled and said, "I have been dumped by others."
Mr. Lan said: "That is her loss, not yours."
Someone was flying a kite on the river embankment. The kite flew very high, and it seemed to be almost reaching the center of the river. When I looked at it against the light, I could only see that the glossy paper used to tie the kite up was a piece of plastic, flickering in the sunlight.
I can't even tell what kind of kite it is.
The kite flyer was an old man. He walked past them, holding a spool in both hands, shouting "咴咴", and taking small steps, as if he was driving the kite, and as if he was being led by the kite in the sky.
Keep walking.
The two of them were talking, and Mr. Lan asked about Sheng Chuncheng's store in Nanjing. She said that she had also watched Yanyan's live broadcast. I will definitely go to your store. It's a good store. It looks better than Hangzhou.
The store is much bigger.
Sheng Chuncheng was right. He said that when he opened the first store in Hangzhou, he had no experience. After opening it, he realized that it was too small. As a result, he now wants to open a second store in Hangzhou.
"Businesses are all like this. They grow from a young age to a big business. Moreover, when you grow a business from a young age to a big business, you are so down-to-earth that you want to eat a big fat man with just one bite, but you find that you either met a liar or you are actually a fool." Lan
He always said, "Mr. Yun and I are like this. We have to endure such hardships."
"Mr. Lan, you are a successful person. When you have time in the future, you must teach me more," Sheng Chuncheng said.
"What kind of successful person am I? Look at me now. Well, to be honest, if you ask me to go back to endure hardships and live a life of worrying about money every day, I can't bear it and I don't want to live it. But now I
Besides having money, what else is left?”
Mr. Lan smiled bitterly: "I sometimes wonder, do I want to be like me now, with no worries about food and clothing, only eating, drinking and sleeping. Or do I want to be like the dishwashers in Mr. Yun's store or the cleaners in the community, with little money?
, I work very hard every day, but I am healthy and have a complete family.
"I always ask myself, if I could choose, which one would I choose to do? As a result, after thinking for a long time, my head hurt and I couldn't think clearly. I couldn't answer this question. Alas, people can't think.
If you think too much, you will overthink. If you think too much, you will become confused. The more you think about it, the less clear you will be.
"I know what I miss the most, Xiao Sheng, do you know when it was?"
"When?" Sheng Chuncheng asked.
"Just like you are now, when you first started your business." Mr. Lan said, "However, at that time, we didn't have the conditions like you to open such a big store from the beginning. How could we have the money at that time?
I scraped together here and there, borrowed money from relatives and friends wherever I could, and finally managed to scrape together more than 20,000 yuan.
"Lao Ni took the money and went to Hang Er Cotton. He spent more than 4,000 and bought two old looms that they had eliminated. He paid the freight and bought polyester yarn and cotton yarn. There was not much.
Money.
"The machine was brought home and lying there, like two piles of scrap metal. It seemed like every part would fall off if you touched it. When I turned on the electricity, the machine didn't move. I was frightened at the time and thought it was over.
, this guy was deceived.
"Isn't there that iron plate on the machine? I took a closer look and saw that it was manufactured in 1957. Damn it, I started crying at that time. I almost fainted and scolded Lao Ni. Haha, at that time, I was still Xiao Ni.
, I scolded him, you took the money and bought back a pile of garbage, what should you do now? Are you going to force me to jump into the river?
"Lao Ni just asked me to scold him, but keep silent. Isn't he originally a mechanic? He invited his master over, and the two of them took the machine apart and put it back together. They worked here and there for more than half a month, and finally the last one
Power on, hey, the machine beeped and started to move. At that moment, my tears couldn’t stop flowing down again, and I really wanted to hold the machine and kiss it all.”
"Is this how you started?" Sheng Chuncheng asked.
"That's right, that's how we started." Mr. Lan said, "Twenty or thirty yuan a month, I can't remember. I rented two barns in the original production brigade. The production brigade has not been there for many years.
, that house has been empty for a long time, and there are seventeen or eight holes in the roof tiles, leaking everywhere. Take the linoleum felt, spread it out, and use bricks to weigh it down. It will not leak and it can be used.
"We can't afford to hire anyone. It's just the two of us. When we are really too busy, we ask his parents and my parents to come over and help. Anyway, we are all members of our own family, and we don't need to pay. That's it, finally.
With our factory now in place, we can start weaving.
"The old machine can't make anything good, it can only weave lining cloth, and that kind of crappy plain cloth, which sells for more than two yuan per meter, and the lining cloth is more than one piece. After weaving it, I make two bicycles every day.
One, Lao Ni, rode more than ten miles to the Textile City to sell.
“At that time, we didn’t even have a stall in the Textile City, so we had to go to the open space between the two markets. There was a smelly ditch next to it. The water was so black and oily that it smelled so bad that I rode on my bike when I went home.
While driving the car, I could still smell the stench in my own hair.
"There are no stalls in that place. It's just a piece of plastic sheet spread on the ground, just like a street stall. There are no fixed seats. You have to grab them by yourself. If you go early, you can grab a better seat, such as a seat by the bridge.
, when customers come over on the bridge, they can see your stall. It’s late, it’s just in the corner.
"So every day, we rode there in the middle of the night. When we got there, we unloaded the cloth from the back seat of the bicycle and laid it out. It was still early before dawn, and there was not a single customer in the market. I just lay down on the pile of cloth and held on tight.
Time to sleep.
"Hey, yeah, just like that, I pressed the bag with change under my body, fell down and fell asleep. It was dark and dark, and I didn't know anything. I slept so soundly in that sleep. How could it be like later, when life was better and I was still nervous?
I was weak and had insomnia. I lay on the bed tossing and turning and couldn't fall asleep. There is no such thing as this. I really just fell down and fell asleep.
"It doesn't matter. When you sleep, spread out your seat a little, and collapse the piece of cloth under your body to take up more space. When there are more people in the market, the people who come after you can't find a good seat.
Haha, he will wake you up and discuss with you whether you can give him a more even seat, and they will wake you up.
"Of course it's hard to collect money, and the place doesn't belong to you. There are people who come to collect management fees every day. But if you give your seats to others, they know how good you are, and they also know that you came so early to occupy a seat.
, you must have not eaten breakfast, so he will buy breakfast for you. I even saved the money for breakfast.
"When Lao Ni got there, he unloaded the goods and was about to ride back. He had to continue working when he got back to the factory. He was afraid that the cloth would be sold out when it got dark, so he called back to ask for replenishment. As a result, there was no cloth in the factory.
The business was ruined.
"Production must not be stopped. If we can use those two machines, we would like to produce them 24 hours a day. Using two machines, we can produce the output of four or five other machines. But it is impossible. The machines are too old.
Five or so years ago, when this machine came into being, we didn’t even know where it was, and we didn’t even have a hair on it.
"These two machines are always broken. Often one machine is producing while the other is being repaired.
This machine was repaired, and that machine broke down. That's it. Lao Ni was weaving and repairing the machine at the same time every day, so he rushed back after sending me and the cloth, without any delay on the way."