On the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, the young man came to Shen Dongliang's rental house carrying gifts.
"Lao Shen, happy New Year."
The young man had an eager smile on his face. Even though the rental house was very mediocre and shabby, he didn't have any objection at all.
Who doesn’t celebrate the New Year like this?
Five years ago, when he first arrived in Pengcheng, the place he lived in was not as good as Shen Dongliang's.
Besides, he came with a mission today.
Invite Shen Dongliang to join his team!
Bigger and stronger!
Create 'brilliance' again!
"Old Wu, you are too polite."
Seeing the New Year's greetings in the hands of the young man, Shen Dongliang also had a smile on his face.
How many years had it been, how many years had no one wished him New Year greetings?
"Ouch."
"We are all fellow villagers. We are away from home. It doesn't matter if we move around a lot."
As the young man spoke, he put the things on the table, and then took the cup from Shen Dongliang's hand.
"Besides, this isn't something expensive."
"What's that old saying about?"
"Meeting an old friend in a foreign country is one of the four great joys in life."
"Yes Yes Yes."
Shen Dongliang agreed with a smile on his face, and then the two chatted about home affairs for a while.
While we were chatting, the young man suddenly changed the subject and got straight to the point.
"Old Shen, how have you considered what I told you before?"
"How about it?"
"Do it with me."
"Although you can't get rich in this industry, you can still make a little money."
"This is what I relied on when I bought a house in Pengcheng."
As soon as he heard the word 'buy a house', Shen Dongliang's heartstrings were plucked.
The house, that was his pain.
After returning from prison, not only was his wife and children gone, but his house was also sold.
After all these years, he has never been able to buy a house.
If he had the opportunity to buy a house in Pengcheng, he would definitely be willing to do so.
Only when you have a house, you have a home.
Even if he is the only one at home, it is better than renting houses everywhere.
He even thought that after making money, he would buy a house first and then find a wife. He was still 'young' and could have another one.
However, although Shen Dongliang was moved, he still looked embarrassed.
"Old Wu, that...that thing you mentioned, I...I have never done it..."
"Can it be done?"
"Besides, I don't have any capital either."
The young man chuckled and waved his hand indifferently.
"Nothing will do."
"I think back then, I had never done this before. At that time, I just came to Pengcheng and I only had 300 yuan in my pocket. I didn't even have enough money to buy goods."
"Guess what happened next?"
"What's wrong?"
Shen Dongliang is a good complimenter and said curiously.
"Later, I asked my relatives and friends to borrow money, and asked my grandfather and grandma to borrow money. In total, I borrowed more than a thousand yuan."
"Then, I used more than a thousand yuan to buy more than a hundred pairs of jeans at the wholesale market."
"The remaining money is only enough to buy a round-trip ticket to the Northeast."
“That’s when I made up my mind!”
"If you don't succeed, you will succeed!"
"Fortunately, I succeeded."
Speaking of this, the young man couldn't help but feel a bit sad in his tone. If he would have encountered the same experience as last time, then he would be truly 'benevolent'.
More than a thousand yuan is nothing to him now, but to him at that time, it was a huge sum of money, an unbearable huge sum of money.
If it really goes away, he can only work part-time and pay off the debt slowly.
And then, once bitten by a snake, I am afraid that I will not dare to do the business of selling goods again after ten years of being afraid of the rope.
The encounters in life are so mysterious.
The same thing, placed at different points in time, may bring about completely different reactions.
After a moment of emotion, the young man resumed his conversation. He had not forgotten the purpose of coming here today.
"Old Shen, you don't have to worry too much about money."
"Let's do this. For the first transaction, you get four thousand, brother, I get six thousand, and we both get ten thousand together."
"With these ten thousand yuan, I won't buy anything else, just a Walkman."
"Walkman?"
Shen Dongliang looked confused and said: "What is that?"
The world's first Walkman was the Walkman portable tape player developed by Sony in 1979.
By 1999, after twenty years of development, the Walkman had gone through several rounds of iterations, from tapes to CDs and then to high-quality CDs.
Last year, MP3, the 'little brother' of the Walkman family, also came out.
In 1998, Bangzi Guoshihan Company released the world's first MP3 player.
However, MP3 has not attracted enough attention yet, at least among consumers, but companies in the industry are very concerned about it.
Nowadays, all major music player manufacturers are focusing on 'developing' their own MP3s.
It won't be long before MP3 is bound to take the stage.
However, compared with foreign countries, the domestic electronic product market is still a bit closed, and the most popular product on the market is still the Walkman.
The most shipped products are also Walkmans, especially those that listen to cassettes.
CD-player players are expensive and bulky. Only those who are not short of money will buy CD-player players.
After a while, the young man picked up the cup and took a sip of hot water.
"Old Shen, now you know what a Walkman is, right?"
Seeing that Shen Dongliang was still a little confused, the young man smiled.
"It doesn't matter if I don't understand."
"All you need to know is that the Walkman is very popular."
"Forget it, in other words, do you know how much a Walkman costs?"
"I have no idea."
Shen Dongliang shook his head, how could he know that thing.
"Sony, Sony, you know, right?"
The young man smiled, with a hint of superiority in his expression.
"A major international company!"
"A Sony Walkman costs more than a thousand!"
"ha?"
"So expensive?"
I have to say that this price shocked Shen Dongliang.
What is the concept of more than one thousand yuan?
Ordinary workers, without food or drink, have to save for months to get enough.
Thinking of this, Shen Dongliang began to murmur in his heart.
It’s so expensive, who are you selling it to?
Is this business reliable?
"Yes, it's so expensive!"
The young man sighed: "Although people in my childhood are bastards, when it comes to technology, they are really great."
"But we don't sell that."
"More than a thousand yuan, sell it to a ghost!"
"We sell domestic products. If someone recommends them, the price will only be over 200. If we work harder and travel to the northeast, we can sell them for 400 to 500 per unit. It won't be a problem."
Shen Dongliang almost jumped up, looked at the young man with a shocked expression, and lost his voice.
"Four or five hundred??"
If you flip the hand, you will double the profit?
Invest 10,000 and get 20,000?
Is business that easy to do?
"ah!"
The young man nodded calmly: "Four or five hundred, we still sell with conscience."
"Those evil-hearted people would dare to sell it for seven hundred, eight hundred, or even thousands if they put a sign on it!"
