The world is in trouble

Chapter 31: Fate and destiny, a match made in heaven

Xia Xi fell into silence while drinking her coffee. As an entrepreneur, she had heard countless stories, all of which were exaggerated.

But I am the first one who is so down-to-earth and so romantic like today.

Of course, from a business logic perspective, this is also the first time that he is so pragmatic.

Xia Xi asked: "Why me? If I don't agree to cooperate, will you do it alone?"

Lin Xiao said: "Yes, but it will be much more difficult. After all, I still have to go to school. In fact, we are a match made in heaven."

In fact, to some extent, Lin Xiao needs Xia Xi as much as she needs him.

Because the other party is the real professional talent, even if his business fails, he is still an absolute elite.

Xia Xi asked: "How much of this two hundred thousand can you take out to start a business?"

Lin Xiao said: "170,000, I need the remaining 30,000 for living."

Xia Xi said: "Then I have to tell you first, I not only have no money now, but I am also in debt. If I really want to start a business, I need to sell that house, and I can only offer a few hundred thousand at most."

In fact, Xia Xi’s current situation is more serious than she said.

Either you obey your family's arrangements, marry someone you don't like, and live a quiet life as a vase from then on.

If I start a business again and pursue my dream, I will have to shoulder all the debts and consequences by myself, which is like cutting myself off from my family.

Anyway, ever since her mother passed away, she has basically completely left that home.

The house is her only property now and also her best memories.

Selling a house to start a business?!

For her, it was truly a life-or-death experience.

People often invest tens or hundreds of millions of dollars.

Even if two people cooperate, the total investment is only a few hundred thousand, which is really a poor guy's start-up. If this amount of money is invested in the most expensive Internet industry, it would be a miracle if it could succeed.

Xia Xi said: "Then let me ask again, why me?"

Lin Xiao said: "If I say that you saved me in my last life, so I want to repay you in this life, do you believe it?"

"I don't believe it!" The owner of the coffee shop next to him brought a fruit plate and placed it in front of Lin Xiao and said, "Little brother, of all the things you said today, this is the only one that is unreliable. It's too abstract."

Boss, you are being too dramatic.

Xia Xi's eyes were fixed on Lin Xiao for a long, long time.

"Give me a moment, okay? I'll call you then."

Lin Xiao said: "Okay!"

Then, Xia Xi wrote a mobile phone number and a QQ number on a napkin and handed it to Lin Xiao.

"Goodbye then." She stood up, picked up her bag, and walked outside.

The coffee shop owner also handed Lin Xiao a business card and said, "This is my business card. When your website goes online, remember to tell me."

"Also, as a person who has experienced this, I advise you that although this woman is very beautiful, she dresses in a neutral style and doesn't like to wear makeup. Moreover, her beauty is full of aggression. She is a typical strong woman and not a good match!"

Then, instead of leaving, the shop owner sat down in front of Lin Xiao.

"Brother, I opened this coffee shop in Zhongguancun. Do you know how many people have experienced ups and downs? And these were ups and downs in just two or three years."

"A duck knows when the river water warms up in spring, and I am that duck. Now is the cold winter of the Internet."

"I have heard so many stories here. You are the youngest, but also the most interesting."

"A few hundred thousand dollars of investment may not be much, but the version I heard here is that tens of thousands of dollars are used to create the next Sohu, the next Baidu. 3721 is the most low-key among these stories."

Lin Xiao said: "How many people died in the huge macro narrative."

The coffee shop owner said, "Isn't it? It's just like starting a company. From the beginning, you want to be grand and high-end. You rent a luxurious office and hire a beautiful female secretary. If you don't go bankrupt, who will?"

Lin Xiao said: "Yes, only liars need grand narratives."

Then he asked, "Are you really a high school student?"

Lin Xiao said: "Yes, the college entrance examination will be held next year. Boss, are you studying in the United States or the United Kingdom?"

The coffee shop owner was shocked and asked, "You can see that?"

Lin Xiao said: "The decoration of the store is not luxurious, and the seats are placed randomly. But the coffee machine is very expensive, a typical European and American style. Domestic coffee shops are now following Taiwan's bad habits, and the decoration is fake and magnificent, fake European, with a sense of the style of the island, or the pseudo-elite style of the assembly line Starbucks."

"I'm convinced." The coffee shop owner gave a thumbs up and then asked, "Brother, do you need a mobile phone?"

Lin Xiao was stunned and said, "Yes."

The coffee shop owner said, "I have a spare cell phone here. Do you think it's suitable for you? It's old and worth less than a thousand yuan now. It's a Nokia and it will never break."

"How can I not have it?" Lin Xiao said.

As a result, the coffee shop owner really gave Lin Xiao a Nokia, a model from two years ago, but still quite new.

Once the conversation is over, the temporary relationship is over. There is no need to force yourself to find topics.

"Please sit down." The coffee shop owner said, "I'm going to be busy."

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I used the coffee shop's Internet cable to log into QQ, and found a friend request from someone whose nickname was Bad Peach.

Did she really add it?
Lin Xiao instinctively felt that she should be the young lady in a special industry whom he met in Hangzhou.

Poor people are most likely to smell the scent of their own kind.

Lin Xiao is a strong man psychologically, but at least he still retains this sense of smell.

After passing through, Lin Xiao sent a message: "A lady from Hangzhou? A lady who can help me find the way to West Lake?"

After a while, the other party replied: Yes, why is your name like that?
Please call me Ergou: Shouldn’t you be at work at this time?

Bad Peaches: I don’t want to do this anymore.

Bad Peach: I don’t know why I added you, but there are some things I really can’t find anyone to talk to.

Please call me Ergou: You don’t want to do this anymore because you were beaten or abused?

Bad Peach: Part of the reason is that in our line of work, it's normal to be beaten sometimes.

Please call me Ergou: Has any news reached your hometown?

Bad Peach: What do you do? You can guess this?

Please call me Ergou: The thing you fear most is meeting fellow villagers at your workplace.

Su Tao couldn't believe the words above. Damn, you also know this? Are you a fortune teller?

When she saw Lin Xiao, she was reminded of her high school brother, and felt an inexplicable familiarity with him. And the tissue he handed over after she was beaten that day gave her an inexplicable warmth.

So, she added Lin Xiao’s QQ, thinking that at least they could talk.

Didn’t expect this little brother to be so powerful on the Internet?

Bad Peach: I don’t know if he recognized me. I was so scared at that time. Now I dare not go to work in the store. I can only stay in the Internet cafe to kill time.

Bad Peach: If he recognizes me and goes back home and talks nonsense, letting my parents and my family know, I will be completely finished.

Please call me Ergou: Do you want to do this job?

Bad Peaches: What decent woman would want to do this? Do you look down on me?

Please call me Ergou: You have a younger brother who is good at studying. Or you are also good at studying, but because your family is too poor and your parents favor boys over girls, they let you drop out of school and go out to work to earn money?

Bad Peach: How do you know whether you are a human or a ghost?

Rural tragedies are always the same.

The bad peach seemed to have found a tree hole and told its story.

She was from a rural area in Guizhou, and dropped out of school early to work, working in a factory for a few years. She was then lured to Hangzhou by her fellow villagers, where she started out by washing hair and later became a massage therapist. Seeing how much money others could easily earn, she gradually fell for it.

It would have been fine if she had not been educated, but she had.

In order to maintain her self-esteem while doing this job, she even bought a lot of books to read, as if as long as she enriched her spiritual life, she would not seem so humble.

But I didn’t expect that reading more books not only failed to free me, but made me more and more miserable.

So her service attitude became worse and worse, and she was beaten more and more often.

Until recently, she met a fellow villager and completely broke down and fell into fear.

She doesn't want to do this for the rest of her life, so after her brother graduates from college, she will find an ordinary job and marry someone.

Bad Peach: I heard that if you work in this line of work for a long time, you will have a chicken smell on your body that can’t be washed off and others can tell it at a glance.

Bad Peach: I’m really afraid that I will have this smell, then my life will be over.

Bad Peach: I want to leave this industry and work in a factory, but the income is too low and the work is too hard. I'm used to making this kind of quick money and I really can't go back.

Bad Peach: I really don’t know what to do. I’m afraid of losing my reputation in my hometown. I don’t want to go to work, but I have to make money. I still need to support my parents and pay for my younger brother’s schooling.

Please call me Ergou: How much do you earn per month now?

Bad Peaches: About six thousand.

Please call me Ergou: Are there many sisters like you who don’t want to work in this industry?

Bad Peach: Of course there are a lot. They are all decent girls from the countryside. Who would want to do this?

This statement in 2001 is still credible.

Twenty years later, the girls in Shang K will not have this story. Instead, they will tell you that they are here to have fun and earn some pocket money, and the key is that what they say is true.

There are also people who date two or three boyfriends at the same time, one is responsible for the rent, and one is responsible for food and drink. They ask you if you are interested in joining them?
Some of them start their own businesses and open shops. When their business is not so good, they occasionally come to Shang K to work and supplement their business. After leaving Shang K, she acts like a goddess and ignores the dogs who work for her.

But most of the poor people twenty years ago were truly poor people.

Please call me Ergou: Are you willing to work for me? The base salary is 3,000 yuan, and most of the income comes from commissions. The monthly income can easily exceed 10,000 yuan, or even 20,000 or 30,000 yuan.

Bad Peach: Aren’t you a student?

Please call me Ergou: Yes, what’s wrong?
Bad Peaches: Can students also open a chicken shop?

Please call me Ergou: Who said I run a chicken shop? Internet, high technology, do you understand?

It was a rare occasion that Lin Xiao got so angry.

Bad Peach: Although I have attended junior high school and my grades are pretty good, isn’t it a bit funny that you asked me to work in high-tech?
Please call me Ergou: You don’t have to work in high technology.

Bad Peach: Then what am I here for?
Please call me Ergou: model, sexy goddess, alternative star, radiant.

Bad Peach: Humph! Liar!

Bad Peach: Fooling, just fooling! I am a country girl, I didn’t finish junior high school, and I am a model and a sexy goddess.

Bad Peach: If you have the ability, give me three thousand yuan first.

Please call me Ergou: Account.

Taozi sent a bank card number out of anger. She had seen many scammers, so it was impossible for them to really transfer money to her.

About ten minutes later.

Please call me Ergou: The money has been transferred, please check it.

Taozi ran downstairs with her bank card and found an ATM machine. She was immediately in disbelief.

There is really an extra three thousand yuan in the bank.

Hey!
If you really transfer the money to me, you're crazy.

She hurried back to the Internet cafe and asked: What on earth are you doing?

Please call me Ergou: I opened an Internet company.

Bad Peach: You said you wanted me to be a model, a sexy goddess, is that true?

Please call me Ergou: It’s true.

Please call me Ergou: There will be countless people who will lick your ass and give you money. I will also arrange for you to appear on major portals and TV stations, change your destiny, and make you achieve a different life.

Please call me Ergou: I will take you into the door to another world.

Bad Peach: A desperate woman like me is very crazy. I will believe whatever others say. When we really come to find you, you won’t be able to get rid of us.

Lin Xiao took out the mobile SIM card he bought in Kecheng and installed it into his mobile phone.

Please call me Ergou: This is my mobile number, please remember it. Call me when you want to come to me for help, otherwise don't call me and don't let me convince you.

Bad Peach: Don’t fool me. If I come, I won’t come alone. I will bring a group of sisters with me.

Please call me Ergou: Call me before you come, otherwise our relationship will end here.

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(End of this chapter)