On the other side of the walking path, close to the woods, there are chairs for people to relax. Sheng Chuncheng and Mr. Lan said:

"Let's go, let's go there and sit and watch the river."

Mr. Lan said yes.

The two of them walked over, Mr. Lan was about to sit down, and Sheng Chuncheng shouted and waited.

Mr. Lan looked at him, wondering what to wait for.

Sheng Chuncheng thought that although the sun is shining now, the cement chairs in the shade of the trees are still cold, and Lan is always a patient.

Sheng Chuncheng took off his jacket outside, folded it two stacks, and placed it on a chair, and then told Mr. Lan:

"You sit on this."

Mr. Lan understood and felt a little moved. She sat down, took Sheng Chuncheng's hand, and asked him to sit down by his side. Mr. Lan and Sheng Chuncheng said:

"Xiao Sheng, you are so meticulous and very good at taking care of others. You will definitely be very happy to be your girlfriend in the future."

Sheng Chuncheng smiled and said, "I've been dumped by others."

Mr. Lan said: "That's her loss, not yours."

Someone flew kites on the river embankment. The kites flew very high and looked almost to the middle of the river. When I looked back on the light, I only saw the glossy paper or plastic sheets of the kite, flashing in the sunshine, and I couldn't even see any type of kite.

The kite was flying an old man. He walked past them, holding the spool in both hands, shouting "shoulder" in his mouth, taking small steps, as if driving the kite, or as if he was being led by a kite in the sky.

As the two talked, Mr. Lan asked about Sheng Chuncheng's Nanjing store. She said she also watched Yanyan and the others live broadcast. I will definitely go to see your store. The store is good and looks much bigger than the store in Hangzhou.

Sheng Chuncheng was right, saying 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 wanted to open a second store in Hangzhou.

"Business is like this, we have been growing up since childhood, and we have been doing big business since childhood, and we are down-to-earth. You want to eat a big fat man in one bite, but you either meet a liar or you are actually a fool." Mr. Lan said, "This is how Mr. Yun and I are. I have never eaten such a bitter end."

"Mr. Lan, you are a successful person. If you have time in the future, you must teach me more." Sheng Chuncheng said.

"I am a successful person. Look at me now. Oh, to be honest, you told me to go back and endure hardships now, and I can't stand the life of worrying about money every day, and I don't want to live. But what else is left besides having money?"

Mr. Lan smiled bitterly: "Sometimes I think I am like this now, having no worries about food and clothing, and having nothing to worry about, and having nothing to worry about. I am still like Mr. Yun’s store dishwasher or community cleaners. I don’t have much money and work hard every day, but I am healthy and have a complete home.

"I always ask myself, if I could choose, which one would I choose to make? As a result, after thinking for a long time, my mind hurts and I can't answer this question. Alas, people cannot think about it. If you think about it, you will think too much. If you think about it, you will feel lustful. The more you think about it, the more you think about it, the less you will be unclear.

"I just knew, Xiaosheng, do you know when I missed the most?"

"When?" Sheng Chuncheng asked.

"Just like you are now, when you first started your business," said Mr. Lan, "But, at that time, we had no such conditions as you, and we could open such a big store from the beginning. At that time, we had no money, we had everything, and we borrowed everything from relatives and friends, and we finally raised more than 20,000 yuan.

"Old Ni took the money and went to Hangzhou Ermian Cotton. After spending more than 4,000 yuan, he bought two old looms that they had eliminated, paid the shipping fee, and then went to get polyester silk and cotton yarn, which was not much money.

"The machine was pulled home and lying there, like two piles of scrap iron, as if each part would fall off as soon as you touch it, powered up, the machine didn't move, I was frightened at that time, thinking that it was over, this guy was cheated.

"Isn't there an iron card on the machine? I went closer and saw it. It was sold out in 1957. Oh, and I started crying at that time. People were almost fainting. I scolded Lao Ni, haha, at that time, it was still Xiao Ni, so I scolded him, you took the money and bought a bunch of garbage. What should I do now? Do you want to force me to jump into the river?

"Old Ni asked me to scold me, but it didn't sound. He was just a mechanic. He invited his master to come over. The two of them took the machine and put it back in. They made it here and there for more than half a month. After the last power was turned on, hey, the machine rang and started moving. At that time, my tears couldn't stop flowing again. I really wanted to hold the machine and kiss it enough."

"That's how you did it?" Sheng Chuncheng asked.

"Yes, that's how it starts." Mr. Lan said, "It's twenty or thirty yuan a month. I can't remember it anymore. I rented two barns in the production brigade. The production brigade hasn't been for many years. The house was empty enough. The tiles on the roof were broken and leaking everywhere. I took the oil felt and spread it. I pressed it with bricks on it. It won't leak anymore. It's ready to use it.

"We can't afford to hire people, we are only two of us. When we really can't get busy, we will ask our parents and my parents to come and help. Anyway, we are all our family members and we don't have to pay wages. In this way, we finally have our factory and we can start weaving.

"The old machine can't make any good things, so I can only weave cloth inside, and there are also very crappy flat cloths that cost more than two yuan per meter, and cloth inside. After we woven, we have two bicycles every day, one of me and one of Lao Ni, riding 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 could only go to the side. There was a smelly ditch in the middle of the two markets. The water was black and oily, so smelly that I rode my bike when I went home and could smell the stench in my hair.

"There is no stall in that place, just lay a piece of plastic cloth on the ground, like a street stall. There is no fixed seat. You have to grab it yourself. If you go early, you can grab a better seat. If you come by, the seat on the bridge, and the guests will come over on the bridge and you can see your stall. If you go late, you will be at the corner.

"So every day, we rode over in the middle of the night, got there, took off the cloth from the back seat of the bicycle, and put it in place. It was still early before dawn, and there was not a single customer in the market, so I lay on the stack of cloth and took the time to sleep.

"Jiang, just like that, I pressed my change bag under my body, fell down and fell asleep, it was dark and I didn't know anything. That sleep was so good that I slept like later. Life was better, I still had neurasthenia, and I had insomnia. I was lying on the bed and couldn't sleep. There was no such thing, I really fell asleep.

"It doesn't matter. When you sleep, spread the seat a little bit, and put the cloth under your body a little bit, and then the more places you take up. When there are more people in the market, people who will not find a good seat later. Haha, he will wake you up and discuss with you whether you can give him a little bit of seat, and they will wake you up.

"Of course, money is not easy to collect, and the place is not yours. There are people who come to charge management fees every day. However, if you give the seat evenly, they know that you are good, and you know that you have come to take up a seat so early, so you definitely didn't eat breakfast, so he would buy breakfast and treat you. I even saved the money for breakfast.

"Old Ni got there, unloaded the goods and had to ride a bicycle back. He returned to the factory and continued to work. He was afraid that when the cloth was sold out, he called to replenish the goods. As a result, there was no cloth in the factory and the business was ruined.

"Production must not be stopped. If those two machines are possible, we would rather produce 24 hours a day. We use two machines to produce four or five machines. But it is impossible. The machine is too old. In the past five years, when we had this machine, we didn't know where we were, and we didn't have a single hair.

"These two machines are always broken, and one machine is often produced and the other is repaired.

This one was repaired, and the other one was broken again. That's it. Lao Ni weaves cloth and repairs machines every day, so he sends me and the cloth and runs back, and he doesn't dare to delay the road at all."
Chapter completed!