Brilliant Years 1991

Chapter 137 The trend of blowing pigs to the sky
"You want to... make instant noodles?"

"Yes! Make instant noodles."

When Song Yuqian was sent back, it was almost dark. Everyone was so familiar and close now, it was certainly not appropriate to just drop someone off and leave. What's more, while accompanying Song Yuqian to eat a packet of instant noodles for dinner, Cao Yukun had thought about countless business ideas in his mind. He had already considered what to do next, so he might as well stop by the house and have a chat with the father and son of the Song family in person.

As a result, when they heard that Cao Yukun was planning to make instant noodles, not to mention that the father and son of the Song family had different expressions, when this key word came out, it was Song Yuqian who was frightened first. When she came to her senses and realized that Cao Yukun was not going to complain that she had just eaten instant noodles, she secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

But soon, she realized that something was wrong with her father and elder brother's expressions.

Cao Yukun has been coming to our house more often recently and has become more familiar with us. He likes to talk nonsense all the time, always saying that we should go out and have a relationship. Now Song Yuqian has become thick-skinned. Even in front of her parents, brothers and sisters-in-law, she is not restrained. She sits next to him casually, picks up her eldest nephew, and takes out a chocolate bar that she took from Cao Yukun to coax him.

However, Song Hongxing hesitated for several seconds before saying, "Will there be a market for instant noodles?"

Cao Yukun was busy lighting a cigarette for his elder brother-in-law Song Yuhuai. He was stunned for a moment when he heard the words. Then he came to his senses and lit up the cigarette in his mouth. Only then did he figure out the subtext of Song Hongxing's words.

The father-in-law was shocked by the huge losses of the beverage factory.

To some extent, it can be said that they were extremely optimistic when they dared to invest so much in the beginning. However, facts have proved that during the few years that the beverage factory was run by the father and son, it basically lost all the profits he had made from brewing wine in recent years - beverages and instant noodles are actually adjacent to each other and are both daily consumer products.

However, Cao Yukun did not intend to convince anyone.

He was indeed planning to make instant noodles - in the past six months, since he was still in the county, he had been carefully observing and thinking about this era. Now, especially with the success of the Hongkong trip, he thought he had a rough idea of ​​it. In this era, the easiest and most convenient business to start is food and beverages!
It's okay, he's happy to do it.

As for making money, do whatever you want to do. Once you have made the money, you will be qualified to consider whether you should prepare for something in advance. Before you have made the money, thinking about other things is completely unnecessary.

So, in the next thirty years in China, what can we do as long as we succeed and make money?

In the 1990s, we were engaged in food and drink, such as instant noodles, sausages, spicy noodles, tea eggs, beverages, liquor, beer...

At the turn of the century, there was a fast train of the Internet. You could follow it or do it yourself.

Also at the turn of the century, the hardware sector consisted of VCDs, telephones, mobile phones, PHS, computers, and screens.

Entering the 21st century, the two main axes are car manufacturing and real estate.

These two main axes have driven the rapid development of the entire country.

What followed was the booming era of online shopping, mobile wireless communications, and then the era of smart phones and 4G networks.

These combined are called the general trend.

The absolute trend that has lasted for thirty years, as long as you follow it and work hard, even a pig can blow you up to the sky in this era.

And now, the trend is instant noodles.

It seems that Master Kong and Uni-President and the like have not risen yet, but they will probably rise soon. This thing is very easy to produce. Although I have not paid attention to it before, I think I know that in the most basic areas of people's livelihood, there is actually no real technical threshold. Just buy the equipment and get started!

Let them adjust the taste over and over again without considering anything else, and just make the braised beef noodles taste authentic. Not to mention killing Master Kong in its embryonic stage, at least they have to grab a large piece of the market from him - we don't ask for a lot, as long as they can take over 20% of the domestic market, that's already a lot.

After a few years of establishing ourselves, we started making traditional pickled vegetables.

As long as you can pave the way and establish the brand, you will make a lot of money within ten years. Ten years later, as other industries also begin to make efforts, this industry may not be so conspicuous. But just like Lao Gan Ma, it is a good business that can maintain a stable market share all year round and make steady profits!

It can even be said that if this can be accomplished, it would be like having a Wahaha or Nongfu Spring in the left hand and a Master Kong in the right hand - these are all excellent cash cows!
So, it must be done.

If the Song father and son are not interested, then forget it. Cao Yukun plans to do it himself.

In fact, after sending out this invitation, Cao Yukun felt that he had repaid all the favors he owed to his father-in-law in the past. In fact, the factory that was only quoted at 2 million yuan before was bought back by him at a high price of 5 million yuan. In theory, he didn't owe anything. But Cao Yukun always felt that they had helped him with a very important step when he was starting out, so he always wanted to give them something back, even if it was just to make up for Song Yuqian's grievance. And this time, the instant noodles, as long as they were given the opportunity to come in and get on the bus, in Cao Yukun's opinion, were far more than the price of 3 million more for their factory. Of course, they bought it all!
"I think there will be! And it's not small."

Cao Yukun answered calmly.

There is neither the slightest intention of exaggerating to attract the other party's investment, nor any intention of getting unhappy as soon as the other party's words are not in line with my intention - in short, the opportunity has been given, and it is up to you whether to get on board or not!
"Well... I have considered the instant noodles thing, but I see that the best-selling Huafeng, their Sanxian Yimian, is also sold for 40 cents a bag, which is actually... not cost-effective! Rice is only 60 cents a pound, wheat is less than 40 cents a pound, and flour is only 60 cents. They sell a bag of noodles for less than 2 taels, but they sell it for 40 cents... Well, A-Kun, do you think instant noodles... will sell well in the future?"

Cao Yukun pursed his lips, as if thinking.

Everyone looked at him.

At this time, Song Yuqian had already realized that she had insisted on dragging Cao Yukun to eat instant noodles with her in the evening, and actually developed a business out of it. So, she immediately lost interest in teasing her nephew and just turned to look at Cao Yukun - of course she was happy for the two families to cooperate.

Although they are not very old, having lived in the countryside for a long time, Song Hongxing has never spoiled the three siblings with the standards of the rich second generation. Therefore, Song Yuqian, who was born and raised there, has actually been exposed to many things since a very early age, some good and some bad. In addition, she is a thoughtful person, so she is actually aware of many things.

For example, ever since he started dating Cao Yukun, he has been hearing almost constantly from his brother and sister-in-law about Cao Yukun's various romantic affairs - first, he heard that when he was in Shanghai, he had a mistress and was flirting with other women. Later, he heard that he had an unclear relationship with his most important assistant, a girl named Huang Jiaying. Recently, he also heard that he seemed to be having an affair with Xie Xiaoyu, the daughter of Xie Zhaofang, a county silk weaving businessman and a famous beauty.

In short, this kind of news about him has basically never stopped.

But Song Yuqian didn't ask.

Never asked once.

But not asking doesn’t mean she doesn’t understand. In fact, it is precisely because she doesn’t ask that it proves that she actually understands it very well.

These are the things that are most abundant in the countryside.

Moreover, when she was in elementary school and junior high school, similar things actually happened in her family, but they were later settled without any smoke of war, so the three siblings tacitly pretended that nothing had happened.

If you don't like him, then that's fine. The college entrance examination is over anyway, and the notification letter should arrive in the next few days. You can then fly out and the things you agreed upon can be carried out naturally. From now on, you will be you and I will be me, so it's no big deal.

But over the past six months, even though I haven't dated him many times, I have gradually fallen in love with him without realizing it. Now that things have come to a point where I can no longer let him go - this is a problem!

It would be a good idea if the two companies could join forces to do business.

There is no problem with the relationship. If you can add the fact that they are bound by interests, then the rest is that he is a little philandering and likes to play outside - Mom said that men are like this when they are young, not to mention that he is good-looking? As long as you hold on, when he gets older, he will be honest. At that time, you don't need to urge or control him. He will come back to you obediently and guard the child you gave birth to for him.

This is simply the way women survive.

Especially if the man you like is particularly great and powerful, you must master this skill and apply it from time to time - as my mother said, the more powerful the man is, the bigger his ambition is, and when he is ambitious, he doesn't just want money, he wants everything he sets his eyes on.

But it seems that he is a good person now. My father said at the dinner table that he wanted my eldest brother to do business with him. It seems that he has considered it and is willing to do so.

That's good.

This shows that he really likes me and values ​​me, and wants to get married, not just play around.

This is completely consistent with my understanding of him.

“Whether others sell well or not… I don’t know.”

After thinking for a few seconds, Cao Yukun suddenly spoke again, "But I am sure of one thing, I can definitely accomplish what I want to do! I can definitely sell the instant noodles I produce!"

(End of this chapter)