Chapter 75: Uncle Lu Tian's Strategy
The voice...... Especially the phrase "Hey, little ghost", but I can't remember where I've heard it for a while, I just know that we must have seen it.
I asked again, "Who are you?"
He asked, "I can't imagine that it's been so long, your phone number hasn't changed, I thought it would be an empty number!" He chuckled, and the vicissitudes of life continued: "Little guy, don't you really remember who I am?"
"We know for sure, uh, but I ......" I scratched my hair, reminiscing wildly in my head.
"You didn't throw away the erhu that the old man gave you, did you?"
Wait! Erhu? He, he's ...... The wandering uncle who used to solve my problems on the overpass! My mind was immediately fixed in that memory, and his familiar face appeared.
"Uncle, it turned out to be you!you, are you back?" I said in surprise, then looked at Wen Shuya and Xu Qing, smiled a little awkwardly, and said that I would go out of the small private room to make a phone call first.
"Yes, the old man went out for a big walk, with the sky as the quilt, the earth as the pillow, went around and finally came back to Guangzhou, only to find that my territory was occupied by people at that time, and it took a lot of effort to come back. He sighed, "Little ghost, I'm hungry, do you want to come and bring me something to eat?"
I immediately readily agreed: "No problem, wait, I'll go over." β
After hanging up the phone, Wen Shuya and Xu Qing and I explained that we were going out to meet an old friend and would contact them later, but they just nodded and didn't say anything more.
It wasn't long before I drove to the familiar flyover, and trotted up, and sure enough, I saw my uncle around that familiar cornerβhe was still dressed in tatters, but his hair was much better than before, and it used to be almost up to the shoulders, and now he had a short haircut, which looked much fresher.
"Uncle, let's go, I'll take you to find something delicious. I walked up and said with a smile.
He propped one hand on the railing and slowly stood up, and I hurriedly walked over to help him. The uncle glanced at me, "Good boy, I knew you would definitely do it, and now you are dressed like a dog and have driven a car for four laps." β
I knew that he was referring to the Audi I had just driven, and I smiled, "Hey, that's just a company-owned car, not exactly my own." β
After stepping off the overpass, I asked, "Uncle, didn't you just say that you were hungry?" Tell me, what do you want to eat, I'll take you over to eat." β
"Don't worry, don't worry, you can give me a cigarette to smoke first. He glanced into my pocket and motioned for me to give him a cigarette.
I smiled helplessly, took out the box of red Nanjing from my pocket and handed it to him, he took out a cigarette and lit it, and took a deep "hiss" puff of cigarette, "Ah, Bashi! It's still that familiar taste, that's what I want!"
"Yo, I can speak Sichuan. β
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He squinted his eyes and a cigarette in his mouth, and looked at the restaurant opposite, then he stretched out his finger and pointed in one direction, "I think that old man looks like me, I guess I'll look like that when I'm older, let's go eat there." β
"Where?" I looked in the direction he was pointing just now, I'll go! It turned out that he was talking about KFC, and I hurriedly chased after the uncle who had already taken a step.
Got into KFC and I asked, "What to eat?"
"I want this, three copies. β
I couldn't help but laugh as he put his index finger on the children's menu, "Why three servings, just two of us." β
"Because I'm going to eat two servings, and the rest is yours. β
"All three are children's menus, so what if I want to eat something else?"
"Mode, you have to eat with me. β
Me: "......" Why didn't I find out that this uncle still has such a child-like side!
The two of us sat facing each other, eating the children's meal at the table, completely ignoring the strange eyes of the people around us, maybe in the eyes of others he was a sloppyly dressed vagabond, but to me he was a trusted elder, so I didn't pay attention to the strange stares of others.
After a while, when we were all finished, he held the Coke in both hands and a straw in his mouth, then took out the habit with a cigarette gesture, opened the lid and drank it directly.
"Drink slowly, it's not wine, and straws aren't smoke!" I was angry and funny.
"Hiccup~ Okay, let's go, let's go out and find a place to walk. β
Leaving KFC, we walked to a small park nearby and sat down on a bench. Uncle took out the box of cigarettes I had just given him and smoked two, one for me and one for himself.
After half a cigarette, I turned my head to look at him, "Uncle, we've known each other for two or three years, but I still don't know what to call you." β
Uncle slowly exhaled a puff of cigarette, was silent for a while, and then turned his head to glance at me, "My name is Lu Tian, you can call me 'Uncle Tian'." Stinky boy, I haven't seen you for more than a year, and you've mixed so well, okay!" he lifted a hand to my shoulder.
I smiled self-deprecatingly, "What's good, it's just that it looks good on the surface, what level will be what level should have troubles, now with its own company, responsibility and pressure have also ushered in, the more you go forward, the more difficult it feels, but in the difficult situation of riding a tiger, you have to go hard." β
Uncle Tian spit out the cigarette and said, "Then, what troubles are you encountering now? Can you talk to Uncle about it?"
I thought about it for a while, and now it's no longer as simple as before, and the nature of the troubles I encountered has also changed a lot, such as the murder of Mr. An now, although I am very distressed, I can't just say it to others.
So, I chose to talk about my other trouble, "Of course, let me make a long story short, the general situation is that our company has been preparing for several months to launch a project on the market, and now it is seriously hit by the business of competitors, whose background and economic strength are much stronger than ours." Judging from the current situation, the other party's next plan is very likely to be to fight a subsidy war with us, and we will have a hard time burning money, what I am distressed about is that I don't know what other way to bypass this business war, Uncle Tian, do you have any good suggestions?"
"Xiao Cheng, when I called you, didn't I tell you that I had 'driven away' the other homeless man who had occupied my territory before? Then guess how I managed to get him to give me his place?" Uncle Tian looked at me with a smile on his face.
"Oh, Uncle Tian, how did you manage to get him to leave willingly?" I said, "Oh no, what does this have to do with the question I just said?"
"Of course, there is a relationship, there is a word called 'dark Chen Cang', which is suitable for life and business warfare. He frowned slightly, and the crow's feet in his eyes became clearer, "The day I came back, I found that my original territory was occupied by him, but I still think that the original position is better, and I want to get it back." That guy is a craft like me, I know erhu, he can play guitar, that's his advantage, and I'm aiming for that. So I went to the wholesale clothing market and used the little money I had earned from my previous performance to buy a set of cheaper clothes, at least to make myself look less like a bum. After getting dressed, I found him and told him that I used to be a homeless man, but then I succeeded in counterattacking. β
I became interested and quickly asked, "Well, then what?"
"Yes, you're interested, aren't you? He asked me the words 'then', just like you, and I went on to say that I had tried to make some money by singing in this position, but I found that the bridge was full of pedestrians who used the bridge to pass to the other side, and they wouldn't have had the time to stop and appreciate your talents, so I went to a small square about eight kilometers from here, where there was a lot of traffic, especially at night, and in good times, I could earn a few hundred dollars a night. Well, when I said this, I noticed that his eyes were shining, and he looked at me like a lifesaver. β
"So, he's gone to the little square eight kilometers away you mentioned now?"
"If I'm not mistaken, I guess it's right, anyway, the others are no longer there, and I have managed to get back the territory that once belonged to me. β
I thought about it and still felt that it was unreasonable, so I expressed my doubts: "Is that little square really nice? What if one day he notices that something is wrong and turns back here?"
"First, I just analyzed the small square, you also think it makes sense, right? There is a lot of traffic, that's true, but I've also investigated, that area is really too chaotic, stalls, dancing, whatever, anyway, it's very chaotic, there was a brawl not long ago, like this situation, do you think the relevant departments will always sit idly by? No. Second, if you want to manage it, you will definitely manage it, but it will also take a time period, but when he finds that it is not easy to mix over there, and it is too late to come back to the original place, I have already occupied this place, is it possible that he wants to drive me away? Impossible, the person who wants to go is decided by himself, and the income from the small square must be good in the short term, and after he comes back, he will either be helpless and unconvinced, or continue to ask me if I have any other places to recommend. β
He flicked away the long section of cigarette ash, "The story is over, if you are smart enough, I believe you will know what you have to do, maybe everyone's understanding is different, but understand human nature and psychology, you can basically solve a lot of things." β
I was silent as I went back to the whole story he had just told me, and after a while, the thoughts in my mind gradually became clearer, and I felt like I was empowered.
"I see!!"