Shengsheng

The night of June 2002, 6 was probably the most restless night for Cao Maocai and Jin Ping in half their lives.

The couple who have been in small business for many years, but in the end they can only barely make ends meet, once they are woken up by outsiders, their minds are half dazed.

But when the couple lay in bed at night and couldn't sleep, no matter how they thought about it, they felt that today's matter was actually a bit interesting.

So much so that after most of the night, what the boy named Liang Sheng said over and over again in his mind.

Finding a factory to make canned horse-head fish, maybe... is really a good way out.

It not only makes use of the largest resources at hand, but also buffers the cost of freezing a large number of slow-moving fresh products in the warehouse.

Whether it is from a short-term or a long-term perspective, it is very profitable.

But is this to be done, or not to be done?

Years later, both of them felt a little strange when they recalled the night when all these incredible things first happened.

In the past, I only heard the old people in my hometown say that a person has a destiny. A single thought may completely achieve or change a person's life.

But it's really my turn, these little people who haven't experienced too many storms and waves will also be at a loss, hesitant and difficult to make a decision.

Fortunately, they will make an extremely correct decision before they know that luck has begun to turn their heads.

But at this moment, Cao Maocai, who was wearing big underpants and a vest, got up hesitantly even though the switch outside the market had been cut off long ago, and leaned against the head of the bed in the dark to say something to his wife.

"A Ping, what A Sheng said today..."

After his vague words fell, Jin Ping, who had been turning her back to him and closed her eyes and pretended to be asleep, also remained silent.

At this time, Liang Sheng had already finished his dinner and had almost gone back to the warehouse to sleep. Only the husband and wife were lying in the store with the shutter door pulled down.

The big and small things in the store are usually decided by the husband and wife together, so Cao Maocai's words were obviously asking for her opinion.

But relying on this sentence alone, Jin Ping, as a woman who took care of her family and settled accounts, seemed to have some worries and worries in her heart that could not dissipate.

Having been in trouble for many years, he must also understand and respect his lover's ideas. Since Cao Maocai wanted to do her ideological work, he could only rack his brains and add in a low voice,

"...I know what you are thinking, but no matter how risky it is to find a factory to make canned food, it is better than continuing to put those horse heads in the warehouse and keep losing money... I have also seen the ledger on the table. The cost is calculated. It’s really not a loss, use your brain carefully, what Ah Sheng did this time is indeed out of righteousness, although he hasn’t been here for a long time, and he doesn’t have an ID card, but his hands and feet are clean and diligent, and his eyes don’t seem to be evil. Yes, this time, he is willing to give us a way to give us an idea. Putting it on ordinary people, how could they be willing to step into the muddy waters of Lao Guan's family, who they are not close to, and we will pay the first blame If it wasn’t him, he wouldn’t be able to…”

"Speaking of which, the two of us have been selling fish in the south for so long. It seems that we haven't made a lot of money. There are so many people in the same village, and we can't catch good opportunities. How many times have people said that There is profit in business, so we think that we dare not dare to be afraid of losing money, and let the opportunity slip away, but now the times are different, the country’s business policy is better, and how many people have left state-owned enterprises to do business in the sea, don’t we Can't you give it a try?"

These words from her own man seemed to bring back some memories of Jin Ping's difficult life in the past.

Perhaps because she understood that it was meaningless to continue pretending to be asleep, Jin Ping, who was on her side in a floral nightgown, turned around and opened her eyes helplessly.

In fact, she is not young anymore. Like her husband, her body and limbs have begun to gain weight, and her face and stomach are full of fat and wrinkles from years of business.

She doesn't like to dress up, and she doesn't have the thought to perm and dye her hair like the lesbians nowadays, and buy fashionable clothes.

Because she has not received much education, Jin Ping has always relied on her years of experience to comprehend business and accounts.

Their two children have been sent back to their hometowns in western Guangdong to be taken care of by their relatives a few years ago.

The reason for not staying with them to take care of and raise them is actually very simple, because they do not have more money at hand, and the rent and life in the store can barely be managed by the two of them, but the children cannot afford to go to better schools in the local area.

In addition, it is difficult for migrants to obtain household registration, so they can only ask parents in their hometown to help take care of the children, and send some money home every Chinese New Year.

For so many years, in order to earn money outside, the couple had to spend less time with their two children.

In the end, the longing for money and the expectation of returning to their hometown are still farther and farther away from them.

But who came out to do business desperately, didn't they think about getting rich in the future, and then completely get rid of the fate of poor people who can't eat hot food, and bring a better life to their families?

Earning money, earning money, that is the greatest dream of their generation.

Thinking like this, Jin Ping, who didn't have any sleepiness on her face, didn't respond to her husband in a hurry, she only pulled up the sheets under the two of them to cover her heart, then turned sideways, frowning and sighing unsurely,

"A Cai."

"Eh, what's wrong?"

"Tell me, why is Liang Sheng's mind so sharp... How come we haven't been able to come up with such a good way all these years?"

"what?"

"Such a good idea, if we had taken the initiative to have this idea in our hearts two years earlier, we would be able to buy the store in the south after 90 years, and we would have our own fish store already, and the boss and the second would not need it." Go back to your hometown to go to school with your father-in-law..."

Cao Maocai, who was still flustered in his heart, was taken aback by his wife's silent exclamation.

It took a long time to realize that Jin Ping had been pretending to be asleep and not making a sound, so it was not because she wanted to object to her opinion, but because she had been puzzled by this in her heart.

And for a while, he didn't know whether to sigh or say something else. Boss Cao, who was touching the back of his head helplessly, only thought for a while before replying with a puzzled smile,

"Hey, brains are something that we are born with. Ordinary people like us can't covet them, otherwise there will be a lot of money outside? However, Liang Sheng's ideas are indeed many and good. If the canned food What happened last time was really done, we have to thank him well, this guy is really worth looking for this time..."

"Yeah, it's worth it. Ah Sheng is indeed righteous, and this idea is really good...But, do you think we can really accomplish something?"

When she asked this sentence, Jin Ping's tone seemed to be hesitant.

Because everything in front of her eyes seemed to indicate that she and her husband, who had been honest and responsible for a lifetime, were about to embark on a road that they might not know whether they could make money.

And Cao Maocai was also silent when he heard this. After looking at the dark roof for a long time, he lay down and patted his wife's pale and soft woman's palm, and then sighed again and said,

"You just talked about the store. Do you remember what happened three years ago, Aping? Your second cousin asked us to pay for a store in the south. We had money but didn't dare to take it out. Afraid of revealing money, it turned out to be such a good store, with a large flow of people and a good market entrance, so we just missed it because we were timid at the beginning..."

"..."

"When people are timid, it can be said that we lack opportunities, but it happens every time. It can only be said that we really don't have the luck and courage to make a fortune in this life. But think about it, if we continue like this, the boss and the boss In the future, we can still afford the money for studying and marrying a wife. We can’t spend half of our lives in western Guangdong, and let our children spend half of their lives in western Guangdong. Health, what do you think?"

After this sentence fell, there was a few seconds of silence between the husband and wife who were in an inexplicably tense atmosphere.

Jin Ping, who had clenched her palms tightly for a long time, nodded lightly beside her husband with a trace of compromise.

Neither of them spoke again.

But some of the things they were thinking about in their hearts seemed to be understood and persuaded so logically.

The next morning, it was less than seven o'clock.

When Liang Sheng came to Cao Maocai and Jin Ping's store to deliver the goods, he found that the shutter door outside the market had been opened.

He was a little surprised at first, then raised his eyebrows, stopped at the door for three rounds and walked in, only to find that most of the warehouse, which originally had insufficient space in the back, had been vacated, and even the position of the large freezer inside had been fully mobilized.

Needless to elaborate on this scene, he could roughly guess that it was the two couples who gave him the answer about finding a factory to make canned food.

Everything seems to be developing in a positive and ambitious direction.

Even Liang Sheng himself didn't expect that the couple who were originally benevolent to him would really trust him so much in this matter.

This moved him a little unconsciously.

The heart that has not found a sense of belonging for a long time is also because of the actions of the couple as if they have once again found the momentum to fight for it.

So next, Liang Sheng, who was greeted by Jin Ping as usual to sit down and have some breakfast, didn't act recklessly anymore, just smiled and said, and found a small stool next to Cao Maocai at the door, eating and talking together up.

White porridge, deep-fried dough sticks and home-made sweet artichoke.

Liang Sheng was sweating on his forehead after eating this early meal, which was very characteristic of their locals.

As a southerner, he loves Jerusalem artichoke very much, especially when it is made into sweet and sour pieces and packed in his own pickle bottle, the taste is even more unique.

There is an old saying that eating ginger in the morning is ginseng, and eating ginger at night is poison.

In the past, when Liang Sheng was a gangster, he was hungry and had nothing to eat all day long, so he remembered this, so this sweet mouthful of ginger in the early morning has always been better than ginseng in his heart.

But he was eating by himself, and his mind was thinking about his family again.

I don't know if that kid ate well this morning, and if he has this delicious Yang Jiang.

And Cao Maocai, who had been tidying up the warehouse for half a day in the morning, and his stomach was empty, saw him in a daze, and hurriedly gestured with his chopsticks to ask him to eat more, then paused for a while before holding up his chopsticks and asking nervously dryly road,

"Um, Ah Sheng, I want to ask you something alone. Look at the warehouse that was emptied in the morning and it's almost packed. The store has always had a sanitation permit, so don't worry about it. I'm talking about the preparations for canned food production. You and I Sister-in-law doesn't quite understand either, that morning... shall we go to the processing factory first? Or should we go and inquire about the retail outlets first...?"

After being asked by Cao Maocai, Liang Sheng's attention, which had almost drifted away, also returned.

He guessed early in the morning that these two couples had nothing to do business with outsiders other than selling fish. With experience in negotiating contracts, it was inevitable that they would be stage fright and even lack self-confidence for the first time.

After all, at the end of the 90s and the beginning of [-], when it comes to making a fortune, everyone who has not developed information to that extent actually still lacks a concept.

Last night to Cao Maocai and his wife was probably the most difficult moment in half his life, but since they believed in him, he didn't intend to let them down.

So Liang Sheng, who had planned everything for the two of them last night, just smiled calmly when he heard this, and replied like this, wagging his fingers,

"Yes, I've already thought about this. We have to visit a suitable processing factory this morning. It's easy to compare the prices by shopping around. There is a food factory in the southern district that can make canned meat products. There are not many, and there are only three companies, Meilan, Dongdong and Guangguangxiang. These three companies only have small assembly lines. They usually make canned fruits for small workshops. They must have experience, but the taste and price It must have its own merits..."

He said so, but in fact, Liang Sheng had already secretly compared the price and cost of this house in his heart, but at this moment, he was not in a hurry to tell Cao Maocai everything, and just continued,

"After we've done a detailed home inspection, if you really like it, you can give me a hint at that time, you have been selling fish for so many years, is the fish taste good? Laoguan, you must be an old world, I Today, I will be your driver, horse boy and negotiator, and everything will follow you and listen to your instructions. As for the retail outlets and the like, it will be convenient for us to promote and introduce people after we have samples on hand, but The samples from each factory are definitely free, so you can rest assured."

"...Okay, I can handle this, but this driver, Ma Zai... talk, negotiator? Yes, but we don't recognize people from their factory, can they let us in casually?"

"Haha, why don't you let us in, Laoguan? We are looking for them to do business with the banknotes of the dam, can those factories drive us away? And you are the boss at first glance, I think, just It's only a little bit away from a decent outfit and the most important thing!"

"..."

Cao Maocai was dumbfounded by these words, and just as Jin Ping went in to clean up the washbasin for washing in the morning, he didn't dare to make a loud noise.

But he and his wife have been selling fish in the market for so long, only when they are unkempt and considered dirty and fishy, ​​how come they turn around and look like a boss.

But this kind of flattery is easy to listen to, so even if you are a little timid, Boss Cao, who was praised so much for the first time, still scratched his head and said with a simple smile,

"You, you are talking nonsense again, Asheng, how can I be a big boss, I am only a few years older than you, and I am a little fatter than ordinary people... But, what do you mean by this decent outfit and the most important things? ah?"

This question sounds a little curious, and Cao Maocai himself wants to know what the so-called outfit and key things are.

But Liang Sheng, who rolled his eyes like a thief, laughed when he heard the words, and then he slapped his legs and winked quietly at his big brother, saying,

"The boss is going out to discuss business. With the driver, horse boy and negotiator, there is a need for a beautiful accompanying secretary. As for the most important thing, of course, we have to let you and sister-in-law give us the first A mouthful of canned food waiting to be born has a famous name! Don’t you think so?”

The author has something to say:

Comrade Liang Sheng, a big liar who loves to eat ginger and pick his feet, can be regarded as a mudslide in so many people I have written... After all, Uncle Jiang and Aunt Jiang are all exquisite boys who pay attention to appearance and figure haha.

By the way, I saw a girl in a comment yesterday saying that this is the first time I have seen me write this kind of subject matter, yes, it is indeed the first time, and it is probably the only time in my writing career.

Because I used to write more about fantasy and supernatural, so I am also used to the overhead world view, but this article is more about writing a little bit of the old times in my heart.

Writing about familiar people, cities and lifestyles is like looking back on the past 20 years. Of course, love may not be so fast.

After all, how can a person risk his life to go back to the past to find his past self, how could he patronize and want to fall in love, right? There must be too many shortcomings and loves that he wants to express in his heart.

And love is a big word, not limited to men, women or individuals, I hope I can convey to everyone what I want to express in the end, this is also an attempt to break through my own limitations, of course, it may be very useful It may be an extremely failed attempt, but I will still work hard, haha.