My Lord, you need to stand up!

Chapter 31 Whoever leaves is not leaving

Originally, Weidong wanted his parents to go with him. It was already mid-January, and there were still more than ten days before the Spring Festival. It would be better for them to go back together for the holiday and come back after the holiday.

But the couple who are obsessed with the cold dish spicy hot pot business are reluctant to give up their business and want to continue the good situation until the Spring Festival.

Even the neighborhood committee and Uncle Hat came to eat, so it was safe and there was no problem.

Weidong had no choice but to take his father, who used to go to the river to buy vegetables every morning, to take the ferry again and teach him how to buy tickets to take the boat back to Shangzhou and back to the countryside of the county.

Lao Rang was still impatient: "I have to go back to buy some vegetables. I have an appointment with that old waiter. His dishes are quite good. You were not even here when I joined the army. You were still snotty when I was laying bricks!"

The sixty-year-old young man burst out laughing and coaxed his father to go to the tobacco factory store to buy a few Shancheng cigarettes. He took them away for his father to show off to his fellow villagers during the Spring Festival.

He also packed the remaining tape recorders, a dozen rolls of various fabrics, silk quilts, a large bag of various bed sheets and quilt covers, and dozens of pairs of suede shoes of various sizes in the truck bed with tarpaulin before setting off.

Withdraw money from a nearby savings bank, just like the 10,000 yuan deposited in Shanghai as a reserve, keep 10,000 yuan here, and bring the rest to the city center and deposit them in several large banks.

He now has a principal of 65,000 yuan at the end of the year.

This means that in the past six months, I made 13,000 yuan from selling bacon and other things, plus 7,000 yuan from selling tape recorders, which covered the money for the one ton of titanium and the 3,000 yuan contract fee.

The net profit was 66,000 yuan, and I only spent a few thousand yuan on this and that in the past six months.

Those who came from the tax compound certainly know that no matter how they check the accounts, the bank is not connected to the Internet and does not have a real-name system, so decentralized storage is still a way to conceal wealth in a low-key manner.

In the end, he only took 5,000 yuan in cash with him, which he used as business capital before returning to Shangzhou to wait for You Qili to come out.

The 60,000 is basically real estate, and it will not be withdrawn until you can buy a house or tons of titanium.

It was already afternoon when we were happily planning to leave the city. Brother Hat, who had been there before, said the road conditions were pretty good and the entire journey on the national highway would take about three hours.

This was his first time driving a long distance, which made Weidong a little excited.

Even filling up the tank on the outskirts of the city, I couldn't help but smile.

I also took a tape recorder, installed dry batteries, and played music on the road.

This extremely simple carriage also has a bit of the warm atmosphere of later private cars.

You have to know how much Weidong envied this kind of free life where he could go wherever he wanted during those years.

My mother happily accepted the formal photo frame and hung it in the couple's upstairs bedroom. She then carefully wrapped the pillows and bedding in cloth and fixed them on her son's chair.

In the absence of high-density sponge, the bumpiness of this hard-bridge and hard-horse truck is minimized.

Even national and provincial highways often have potholes on the road. Coupled with irregular meals, most long-distance truck drivers suffer from stomach problems, which are all caused by the food shortage.

What makes Weidong not afraid of the bumps is the freshness of shaking his head throughout the whole process. He is like the bird released from the security room.

The car was in good condition and we arrived at the town marked on the map just after dark.

Children who grew up in the countryside would definitely be surprised.

It is a very ordinary country town beside the national highway. Turning to the fork in the road on the hillside that looks like a field, a group of factories and dormitories suddenly appear in the depression of this rolling hilly and mountainous area.

It is not very neat and conspicuous. The scattered brick and concrete buildings of different heights are distributed among various terraces and vegetable fields, ensuring that it is no different from the surrounding rural areas when viewed from the air.

Only when the road that branches off from the national highway reaches a certain level and becomes a cement road surface does a little bit of information emerge.

Even the train has a station in this seemingly inconspicuous mountain town.

Let Weidong drive the car into this independent and hidden town, where the liveliness and laughter far exceed that of the nominal town outside.

As night falls, the vegetable market, department store, staff canteen, school, kindergarten, guesthouse, hospital, bathhouse, cinema, library, and even the lighted stadium!
The atmosphere here is something that even the county town doesn't have. It's dark at night and there are few entertainment venues, but here it's prosperous and lively.

There were also children running and playing behind the brand new truck, as if they had entered a paradise, forcing Weidong to slow down.

Because he knew that this place would probably become an empty ghost town in a few years.

Soon someone came over and asked, "Who are you looking for, comrade?"

Rang Weidong reached out and patted the white painted words on the car door: "I'm from Hongguang Factory, and I'm here to see the camera sales department."

Soon, the sales chief wearing a military coat and even the factory leaders rushed to the conference room in the office building to meet with the salesperson from the sister factory.

Although they have nothing to do with the non-ferrous metal factories that produce titanium ingots.

But as long as you look at the work permit, letter of introduction, and the big truck with words spray-painted on it, you can tell that we are brothers in the same trench.

The attitudes are different.

Rang Weidong didn't beat around the bush: "I was out doing sales and heard you had a backlog of cameras, so I came to see if there were any sales opportunities."

He was clearly skilled at smoking. He also showed off the tape recorder he had just taken out of the cab: "This is a portable two-band single-cassette recorder we just shipped from northern Jiangsu. Hundreds of them sold out in two days, so I wanted to see if your product could be sold this way."

A group of people immediately gathered around the tape recorder in a cloud of smoke to watch, and one guy even took out a screwdriver and tried to take it apart!
The person next to him stopped his instinctive reaction.

Someone immediately pulled back the red silk cloth covering the long table next to the conference room to reveal the products listed on it.

Wei Dong noticed that there were several cameras of different brands but similar appearances.

The sales manager was very proud: "This is a SLR camera we developed and improved with an annual output of 20,000 units. It has won a series of research achievement awards from the provincial, ministerial, and National Defense Science and Technology Commission..."

The market price is more than 300 yuan per unit!
At this moment, Weidong wanted to leave.

So expensive!
There are more than ten or twenty kinds of accessories on the table, just for a few camera models.

It also includes a top-down viewfinder, a forward-reverse adapter, a lens hood, an external camera box, a selfie stand, and more than ten types of removable and replaceable lenses.

I'm afraid buying this bunch could easily cost thousands of yuan.

He scratched his head a bit and said, "This...I'm afraid it's not suitable. This is not the kind of camera the market wants."

It is said that Jean Weidong has never used a camera.

What can one finger do? Even pressing the shutter button feels awkward.

But later, the common practice of having one mobile phone per capita for taking photos gave him his own opinion: "We should make products that are affordable for the general public. For example, the tape recorders we purchased this time actually have many larger and better models than this one. But now, most people just want to listen to music, learn foreign languages, and listen to the radio. So they will buy it even if they have to scrape together enough money for 99 yuan."

At this moment, some of the other party's faces were already unhappy.

Wei Dong, not quite able to read the other person's expression, continued to say the most touching sentence: "I think a camera should just be able to snap, to record the moment. Why make it so complicated? Few ordinary people know about aperture and so on..."

The people in the conference room could no longer contain their cursing. Some people even slammed the table. The leader, wearing a military coat, scolded them for talking nonsense. Some people even walked away angrily.

Everyone was off work and had a break, so they gathered for a meeting thinking there was something serious going on, but it turned out to be just a bunch of nonsense from laymen!

If Weidong was not a salesman from a "brother factory", he would have been arrested and tortured to determine if he was a spy causing trouble.

Anyway, the meeting room that was filled with smoke and bustling just now was quickly cleared out!

Only the salesperson who helped to uncover the silk cloth of the camera slowly covered it back and stole a few glances at it, which made Weidong speechless.

Let Weidong scratch his head.

He didn't think of himself as a sales champion or a master at selling things; he just said whatever came to his mind.

He is indeed a complete amateur in photography.

But I really remember that the best-selling camera in the next ten years was probably the point-and-shoot camera.

Then film cameras will be completely replaced by digital cameras and mobile phones.

From the 2000s to the 2010s, a lot of people in the Taxation Bureau bought SLR cameras to show off their abilities. It seemed to be a popular trend among civil servants throughout the city.

After a gust of wind, few people continued to carry on.

So deep down he didn't take it too seriously.

If you can tinker with a point-and-shoot camera and sell it to make money, that can be a good business. But can this expensive set of SLR cameras outsell foreign brands?
He stood up angrily, picked up the tape recorder and left, asking casually, "Do you have a guesthouse here?"

The master at the transportation company had taught him that with the candle-like lighting capability of these headlights, he should never drive at night unless absolutely necessary, especially in areas with many rugged mountain roads. If there is even a slight problem, there will be no one to help.

The hesitant salesman pointed him in a direction.

As a result, I don’t know if they were very dissatisfied with this outspoken foreign salesperson, but the hotel actually said that there were no beds available.

This isn't some tourist attraction for the May Day or National Day holiday.

There are no outsiders at all.

Weidong could only be thankful that at least he was allowed to eat, so he found a snack bar and had a bowl of noodles.

I simply went back to my car to sleep. The narrow three-person seat was not comfortable to sleep in, so I spread out the tarpaulin, put down the raincoat, and covered myself with the silk quilt I brought with me to sleep in the cargo compartment. It was very comfortable.

Before closing my eyes, I was still vaguely thinking that in the future, wouldn't there be beds, kitchens, and bathrooms that can be used when traveling by car? I could make a half-canopy on this big truck, take Goudan with me, and spend ten days or half a month on a long-distance trip to deliver goods and enjoy the scenery. Wouldn't that be fun?

I didn't worry about the camera at all and fell into a sound sleep.

Then I was woken up early in the morning.

　I'm asking for monthly tickets, follow-up reading, and recommendation tickets in the new year. Thank you all.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)