The Years of Chaos

Author: Xu Jiangang pieced together things here and there, and finally opened his own company.

Although it is small, it is indeed a company. No matter how small it is, it is still its own company.

On the night of the century in 2000, which was celebrated all over the world, I hid alone in my office, eating pickles and porridge and playing "Xuanyuan Sword" to pass the heavy and boring time.

In the afternoon, Deng Songlin, who also runs a small company next door, took the initiative to invite me to follow him to Liulichang in the southern suburbs of Chengdu to run business. In fact, I have made great contributions to mankind. He once drew hexagrams, which included various situations of heaven and earth, so humans at that time used them to record various things that happened in life. Don't want to go. Because I know clearly that the next day is the Sunday of the New Year's holiday, and not many companies are working. In addition, the Chinese New Year is coming soon, and no company will print promotional materials at this time. And even if there is business, given the current situation of lack of business, , it is also impossible to conduct business. But how can I say no to Deng Songlin’s enthusiastic help?

Deng Songlin’s hometown is Yuechi, Guang’an. After graduating from Sichuan Normal University, he went to teach at the Panzhihua Iron and Steel Plant Technical School. However, this teacher could not be a good teacher at all. As a result, a serious teacher-student relationship occurred while providing vocational education to the employees of the Panzhihua Steel Plant. As a result, one student became pregnant, and the father of this student was the principal of the technical school.

Uncooked rice becomes cooked rice, this "Well, young man," said the Eagle King, "this is exactly the place you are looking for. Don't you know that the king has recruited Bai Ma, until I take that big tree?" Can't Death control me and my relatives before the last root of the tree is dug out? Young man, it will be more than a hundred years before you marry me! "Daughter, live a carefree life with us until our last moment." The principal could do nothing but give the daring Deng Songlin a hard education. First of all, one is his daughter, and the other is his subordinate. No matter how much trouble he makes, he has unshirkable responsibility, so he turned a blind eye and agreed to this "wrong family" business. marriage.

Deng Songlin immediately changed from a penniless bachelor to a man with a house, a family and a wife. This was also his first "empty-handed" brilliant achievement.

In 1993, after teaching in Panzhihua for two years, Deng Songlin decided to give up teaching and go to Shenzhen to try his luck. During the two years in Shenzhen, Deng Songlin performed exceptionally well. He and his friends engaged in the calendar business and achieved a brilliant record of 200,000 yuan. After returning to Chengdu, he opened a small company that made calendars in Chengdu. One of the salesmen he recruited was me, who was just born into the society. For Deng Songlin's experience of starting from scratch, I was very young and ignorant. Worship and reverence.

However, the calendar business did not achieve any success, so Deng Songlin returned to his hometown and opened a washing powder manufacturer. Although the quality was not very good, Deng Songlin's talent for doing business has been fully demonstrated. He quickly opened up sales channels in nearby counties, cities and towns, and basically monopolized the local low-price washing powder market in a short period of time.

However, with the aggressive entry of foreign washing powder manufacturers and the sharp drop in the price of washing powder, this small private factory with no guarantee of quality soon lost its market.

Deng Songlin immediately moved to Chengdu, rented an office in Chengdu and opened a small "Chun Chuan Company" to produce shoe polishing machines. Soon his shoe polishing machine became He entered major banks, supermarkets, and hotels in Chengdu. Later, when the market was almost developed, he went to renovate leather sofas in tanneries. In a word, he was looking for project business everywhere.

As Deng Songlin often taught me: Doing business must be flexible, and do whatever makes money. This sentence has been my mantra for a long time.

Unexpectedly, one day in 1999, while I was running business all over Chengdu, I met my former idol in this shabby office building in Liangjia Lane. I was extremely surprised at that time, and Deng Songlin was also very surprised. What surprised him was not that he met me, but that I was still so mediocre after many years. I can still sincerely accept Deng Songlin’s criticism and education. First, he is several years older than me, so he has achieved much better results than me. , is also understandable and acceptable.

Of course, after his criticism and education, he will behave like the boss - treat me to a big meal!

With his encouragement and instigation, I listened to his suggestions and cobbled together a "company" with only two people, two desks, one phone, and one computer. Obviously the issue of business license has not been considered yet!

In order to dispel my worries, Deng Songlin often boasted in front of me: Xiao Xu, don’t worry, I will help you! I also thank you all the time. Thank you Brother Deng for your help. I will definitely thank Brother Deng for your help in the future when I get rich. At midnight, the village suddenly became full of people. The Zhang family and her daughter got up to see the young man and replied confidently: "The manor now has the names of the men, the names of the women, and the total number of people." Halfway up the mountainside, flames shot up into the sky, and it turned out to be the God of Locusts. There was a fire in the temple. Everyone tried to put out the fire several times, but they couldn't get in because the fire was too strong. Fang Ming was nowhere to be seen. I think a crazy and mute person must have been burned to death inside if he ran for his life. At this time, Deng Songlin would smile lightly and say: "Say this! We are brothers. Another morning, according to regulations, all civil and military officials brought special products from their hometown for the emperor to see. The emperor saw the treasures and rare things from various places, He was very happy. There was an official who lived in Qixian County and had nothing to do, so he brought a ten-pound radish to the emperor. After the emperor looked at it, he suddenly remembered that Gu Yushi also wanted to offer a large radish, so he directly named him. Asked. When Gu Zuo asked, he calmly took out a double, shriveled radish from his sleeve and offered it with both hands. When the emperor saw it, he said unhappily: "Teacher, you said you are too well off." The county is rich in large radishes, why did you get so little? Gu Zuo said: "I just said that the radishes in our county are big enough. Who knows that others are bigger than mine." This is the biggest carrot in our county. well! Taikang County is full of poor nitrate-alkali land, and it seems that even a few acres can’t equal another person’s acres! "The emperor said: "How many acres do you think can equal other people's acres? "Gu Zuo said: "It's good if a mother can stand up to other people's mothers. "The emperor said with a bit of ridicule: "How can there be just as many acres as there are acres, and even if every inch is equal to every inch, then it won't hit the mark? When Gu Zuo heard this, he hurriedly knelt down and said repeatedly: "Zhongzhongzhong, thank you Lord for your kindness!" According to the imperial edict, the land in Taikang County will be calculated according to acres! "What the emperor said was originally a joke, but Gu Zuo was already kowtow to thank him. The emperor spoke with eloquent words, and it was inconvenient to change his words in front of the civil and military officials of the court, so he had to make mistakes. From then on, the people of Taikang County paid royal grain taxes according to mu. Pay per mu! Hahaha——"

How dare I say that I don’t have the money and I won’t go to Deng Songlin’s enthusiastic help!

The next day, January 2nd, before dawn, I got up - I should say got up from the sofa. At that time, I had to make two kinds of preparations. First, if Deng Songlin was just joking and didn't come to call me the first day, I wouldn't have to go; at the same time, if he came to call me and I haven't gotten up yet, he would definitely be disappointed and would not go in the future. Will help me - who would help a person who has no ambition, no pursuit, and no goal. So although I got up, I didn’t open the door, I was ready and waiting for His call. The old woman was so anxious that she cried and said: "Master, please ask someone to help me. If I can't hold the stone mill and it falls, my son and daughter-in-law will be dead!"

At first I heard people walking in the aisle. I heard a voice, "Is this guy up yet?"

Bang bang bang - someone knocked on the door! The second he knocked on the door, I opened the door.

Deng Songlin said: "Let's go, hurry up! I thought you didn't get up -" I smiled and said: "I got up long ago!"

Deng Songlin took me to Liulichang in his Changan van. There used to be many brick and tile yards in Liulichang, which have a long history of making bricks and tiles for house construction in Chengdu. In recent years, countless sofa factories have suddenly emerged. The sofa factory in Liulichang and the sofa factory in Jiangjunbei in the northern suburbs form an obvious north-south trend, and these seemingly small-scale sofa factories have an annual turnover of tens of millions.

I really don’t understand, isn’t it just a few things padded under the ***, why can it easily cost hundreds or thousands? Isn't money money? It seems that there are some rich people in this society. The county magistrate heard the truth, and immediately turned cloudy, and ordered the master to handle the matter personally. ! This is what Deng Songlin taught me. If I say "Don't go," the two sisters replied, "Why should we go? It's already very late, and the dew at night will make our breasts wet."

"You must make money from the rich!

When they arrived at Liulichang, Deng Songlin and his nephew went into the business of renovating sofas. According to him, renovating a single sofa costs fifty yuan for a double sofa. One hundred yuan, he can earn three to four hundred yuan a day, and he will give twenty yuan to his nephew. The cost of any potion and paint will not exceed fifty yuan. In this way, he can earn seven to eight thousand a month, which is countless times better than working. I knew that the average salary at that time was only six to seven hundred yuan.

I braved the heavy fog and visited a few clients, but as I had expected, I didn't get much.

It was almost noon. At that time, I found Deng Songlin, and he enthusiastically invited me to dinner. In order to increase his enthusiasm, I deliberately exaggerated the results of the morning and told him that at least three companies would print a batch of picture albums during the New Year, and he could earn at least 20,000 to 30,000 yuan. ! Deng Songlin smiled proudly, "How about it! Brother, I didn’t lie to you! Fang Xiaojiao, Fang Yuanwai’s daughter, is neither ugly nor disabled. Why is Fang Yuanwai so anxious to marry her off? It turned out that Fang Xiaojiao, who was always smart and lovely, suddenly suffered from an evil illness the year before last and she was in a state of dementia all day long. Seeking medical attention everywhere was of no avail. Mr. Fang's first wife had been dead for many years. Someone suggested that Mr. Fang take a concubine to celebrate the occasion. However, he took a concubine, and Fang Xiaojiao's illness did not improve. Instead, she made noise and noise all day long, making the family uneasy. Oh my god, the old lady’s concubine was frightened to death by Fang Xiaojiao. Is the charming concubine still sick? Fang Yuanwai spent a lot of money to hire a famous doctor to save her, and bought a century-old wild ginseng to bring her back to life. This concubine was crying and making trouble, so she had to ask Fang Yuanwai to drive Fang Xiaojiao out of the house. Fang Yuan was helpless. He couldn't bear to let go of his concubine, but he couldn't bear to let his little daughter suffer, so he spread the word and found an in-law for his little girl Fang Xiaojiao, which finally put an end to this worry. "By the way, I'm very familiar with the bosses of these sofa factories -" This, I believe Deng Songlin has this ability! I nodded and said, "Thank you, Brother Deng, for your help!" In the future, when I get rich, I must invite Brother Deng to have a good game! "Deng Songlin smiled and said, "Say this! We are brothers--"

In the afternoon, my family did not go out for a run, but just wandered around boredly. When it was almost four o'clock, I went to find someone like Deng Songlin again and said: "Why! This yellow man looks like a human being! "Some people who understand will say: "It's like a Buddhist. "After hearing the seal, they would bow their hands and help it practice, and it would repay this person in the future. But he disappeared. I became anxious and asked around for his whereabouts. What should I do? I kept asking Myself.

Suddenly I remembered Deng Songlin’s mobile phone number that I had written down in my notebook. At that time, mobile phones cost several thousand yuan and were not affordable for ordinary people. I found a public phone. , called according to the number, but it was Deng Songlin's younger brother Deng Kuo who answered the phone. His brother said that he had returned to his hometown in Yuechi. I immediately asked for Deng Songlin's number and hung up immediately after Deng Kuo said the number.

Thanks to my genius memory, I remembered this number and called it immediately. But Deng Songlin said, "I thought you had gone back!" I'm in Bayi Furniture Mall now. You can catch the one-dollar bus right away and pass by the toll station at Liulichang. That night, Tian Xiucai didn't fall asleep and paid attention to what was going on in the monk's house. Suddenly, the sound of "gurgling" water was faintly heard. Tian Xiucai got up and saw a surprising scene through the cracks in the wall: in front of the monk's bed, there were sparkling crystals, a miniature paddy field, and crisscrossing streets. There were many little people working there, some were riding water carts and pouring water into the paddy fields; some were holding rakes and driving oxen to plow the fields. After a while, the field was ready, and the monk sowed the rice seeds. Green seedlings immediately grew and soon produced heavy grains. A few villains harvested the rice, pounded the rice, ground it into rice flour, and finally made fragrant rice cakes. I'll come to pick you up right away -"

I suddenly panicked again. How far is the Liulichang toll station from here? If he doesn't see me when he comes, or he doesn't come at all, then I What should I do?

I immediately ran along the highway toward the city. After a while, I finally passed the toll station and looked around, waiting for the savior. Appeared.

The gray sky gradually darkened, and at this time, there was a drizzle. I was disappointed and anxious. After a long time, I headed towards Chengdu in the cold wind and autumn rain. Walking in the same direction.

Suddenly, I heard someone shouting: "Xu Jiangang--" My heart felt hot, and I followed the sound and saw Deng Songlin waving to me. I took a deep breath and said. The van ran away.

After getting in the car, Deng Songlin said: "I thought you couldn't wait to catch the car and leave! I just went back to the sofa factory in Liulichang to collect money - why didn't you catch the car -"< /p>

I smiled bitterly and said: "The bus doesn't stop halfway -" I don't know if he understood the meaning of this sentence!

I don’t think Deng Songlin ever dreamed that Manager Xu, who became his brother every day, only had one dollar, and he just spent 60 cents on two phone calls (many years ago, Chengdu’s public telephones cost three cents for three minutes), how can I catch the bus with the remaining forty cents.

Thanks to Deng Songlin for coming to save me, otherwise I would have to walk forty or fifty miles to Liangjia Lane at least all night, and I would be hungry, exposed to wind and rain, which would be really miserable!

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