Diary of the poorest guy in China

Chapter 25 Earnings at the Year End

Earnings at the end of Chapter 25

Cloudy Monday, September 2007, 1
My younger brother's computer repair business is getting worse and worse, and he can't make ends meet every month. Basically, I help him subsidize the money.

At the beginning of the twelfth lunar month, I said to my younger brother: "It's better to do it together."

The younger brother hesitated.

I know he has always had a knot in his heart.

Shortly after I was discharged from the hospital, my younger brother made the decision to separate from me, and that was the most difficult time for me.

Although I understand his decision, he seems to feel a little guilty himself.

After the separation, he and I never talked about this matter, as if it never happened.

My brother finally agreed to the partnership proposal, but he said something that broke me down.

He said: "It's not that I want to partner with you, it's you who forced me to partner."

I understand what he means, now that I can support myself, if he takes the initiative to partner with me, he will seem snobbish.

I smiled and said, "I originally wanted to partner with you. Don't think about it so much, think about the situation when we two fought with others."

Brothers are brothers, but brothers are also human beings. Just because we are brothers, we should not allow each other to have a little selfish thoughts.

I still give half of the shares to my brother, let my brother be in charge of contacting upstream merchants, and I am in charge of sales.

Contacting upstream merchants is not an easy task.The things we make are really complicated. As long as customers need it, we can sell everything. This is actually a test for my brother.Once a customer asks me for something, he can get it back as quickly as possible.

Without any inventory, purely buying short and selling short.

Fortunately, my brother has been with me for so long, and he is very clear about some of them.

With my younger brother supporting me, I concentrated on running my business outside.

When we run business, we really run and use our legs; but we don't really run, but walk and walk.

Usually I will take the bus to a general place, then get off and walk.Whenever you come across a place where you might generate business, stop and ask.

In fact, this is no different from a beggar.Beggars are begging blatantly, but we are just putting on a coat of doing business, and there is no difference in essence.

On February 2007, 2, the 6th Tuesday of the twelfth lunar month was sunny

It's the end of the year, and I'm starting to take stock of my earnings for the year.

Some receivables were not collected, and two customers simply disappeared.After deducting all payables, I have more than 1 yuan in cash.

With money in hand, I have mixed feelings in my heart.

In the past year, we have been in the wind and rain, there is no distinction between holidays, and there is no distinction between commuting and get off work. We are always cautious and smiling everywhere, just because of these few pieces of paper.

But just a few pieces of paper determine a person's quality of life, as well as a person's status and identity.

How many people have taken risks for money, and how many people have fallen on the way to make money.

Money, money, life is connected.

However, what can this little money be used for?You can't buy a house, and you can't provide for the elderly.To put it in an unlucky word, a minor illness may wipe out this little money.

So my heart is not safe.

But anyway, compared to before, we have made progress.

I suggested finding a restaurant to have a good meal with my brother, which is considered a reunion year.

It's been a long time since I dined out seriously.Before, if we were going to eat out, it was usually a box lunch, or noodles at a roadside restaurant.

This time, we ordered four dishes and one soup, and a bottle of Luzhou Laojiao, which cost more than [-] yuan.

We ate and discussed our future.

I said to my younger brother: "Now, we have reined in the horse at the edge of the cliff. From next year, we will let the horse go on the right path."

Which way is the right way for us?

I have carefully analyzed that our building materials business department is actually a moving organization.What we earn is nothing more than the transportation fee between the building materials market and the user unit.

In fact, our living space is very limited.

I think we have to identify an industry.Enter this industry first, and then find a way to gain a foothold and develop slowly.Finally, we must have our own status in this industry.

I listed many well-known companies to my brother, all focusing on a certain product in a certain industry, and then slowly developing and growing.There are those engaged in production, and there are also those engaged in distribution.

But now, we have a hammer here and a stick here, and sell what others want. We are exhausted all day long, but in the end we can only maintain a livelihood.

In fact, we couldn't even make ends meet.

The most basic thing for subsistence-house, do we have it?

My younger brother also knows this, but suffers from being unable to accurately find a certain industry that suits us.

No matter which industry needs enough capital, we don't have it.

The younger brother also listed some industries with relatively low entry costs, which I found inappropriate.

After eating a meal for two or three hours, we still haven't reached a conclusion.

Thursday, December 2007, February 2, 15 was cloudy
During the Spring Festival, my younger brother did not go back to his hometown. The reason why he did not go back was that the roads were crowded during the Spring Festival travel season, and the fare was also expensive.

But I know it's just an excuse.

The younger brother is almost 28 years old and has no girlfriend yet.The reason why he didn't go home was to avoid being questioned by his neighbors.

In our hometown, 28 is already a very young age.

If you are not married at this age, everyone will help you in a hurry, take turns to ask questions, and take turns to help out with ideas, as if this has become everyone's business.

And the mother will keep begging everyone for introductions. She is already very worried that her youngest son will not be able to find a girlfriend.

My younger brother is already very familiar with this situation. When he returned home during the Spring Festival last year, he had already encountered such a "encirclement and suppression".

He said at the time: "Next year's Spring Festival must bring one back."

My younger brother actually wanted to take one home too.In the middle of this year, my younger brother had a girlfriend, but they broke up after only two months.

My younger brother didn't tell me the specific reason. I just remember that my younger brother was very tired and listless during that time.

Later, the younger brother kept trying to submit another one, but there was no suitable one.

Once, my brother said angrily in the office that he didn't want to find a girlfriend again in this life.He said that the women nowadays are very realistic. They ask you how much money you earn a month, whether you have a house, or a car after two days of dating.

In my eyes, my younger brother is a man worthy of a woman's entrustment. He is honest, willing to work, and willing to endure hardships.These are the excellent qualities of Chinese men, but these qualities are invisible to many women, they only see money.

In fact, what if you don't get married?When you have money in the future, are you afraid that no women will come to look for you?

It's just that the younger brother needs to give an explanation to his parents and traditional concepts.

After all, women should marry when they go to college, and men should get married when they go to college.

When he couldn't confess, the only way was to escape.

(End of this chapter)