He Wenquan was woken up by their conversation, and it was estimated that Xiang Yang and Xu Yiran should be up after a while. I'm still sleeping, and I don't feel very polite. So he sat up and lit a cigarette, wanting to refresh himself first. He remembers that in early 2003, after the outbreak of SARS, the family all returned to their hometown and stayed in Xiangyang's homestay for more than 2 months. Those more than 2 months became the happiest and happiest time he ever spent in his life.

He remembers that year because of SARS, his tour bus company declared bankruptcy due to the complete closure of domestic tourism. More than 60 luxury tourist buses that he mortgaged in the bank were seized by the bank for auction because he had no money to pay the bank's monthly mortgage payment, which instantly turned him from a multimillionaire who had just been a two-year job to a penniless homeless overnight.

He Wenquan even had the heart to die at that time, it was Xiang Yang who had been enlightening him, and he still clearly remembered every word Xiang Yang said to him that day.

That afternoon, they sat in the courtyard drinking tea, and the spring breeze in March blew the crops in the fields and the fragrance of pear blossoms all over the slope. Xiang Yang saw He Wenquan's lost and trance expression, refilled his teacup with some boiling water and said to him: "Brother, I recommend a book to you, I think you will be very inspired after reading it." ”

"What kind of book is it?" He Wenquan was born as a teacher, and when he was teaching at the school, he always loved to read, as long as the school had it and his friends could borrow it, he rushed to read it first. He has basically read all the world's famous books. He had as much of a thirst for knowledge in books then as he did for money now. In the years that he has been in the sea, he basically has little time to read, and has been busy floating in the commercial sea. Staying in the mountains now is like going back to the time when he was teaching at school: leisure, sunshine.

It was written by Jordan Peterson, a professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University, and the book is called "The Twelve Rules of Life", and there is such a sentence in the book, I will recite it to you. Xiang Yang took a sip of tea, cleared his throat, "Mmmmmmmm You deserve respect. You are important to yourself and to others, you play an important role in the development of the world, and therefore you have a moral obligation to take care of yourself as if you were a loved one. You need to respect your own existence. Xiang Yang specially changed the pronunciation of "you" to "you".

He Wenquan fell into deep thought after hearing this, he looked at the pear petals on the hillside that were blown by the afternoon mountain breeze and flew as white as snowflakes, and said with emotion: "Respect your own existence? Look at those pear blossoms, life is so small and helpless in this nature." ”

Xiang Yang heard He Wenquan's sadness, so he said, "Don't underestimate the power of your vision and direction, they can transform seemingly insurmountable obstacles into wide and smooth paths. The pear blossom will eventually land, but this flying dance waiting for the wind to come may be the most brilliant moment of the year in the life of the pear blossom. I'm sure it won't be long before you start another flight in your life. ”

He Wenquan looked back at Xiang Yang with surprised eyes, and suddenly felt that he was very thoughtful. Xiang Yang's words gave him great encouragement.

Xiang Yang saw that his persuasion had an effect, so he asked, "Do you feel like a failure now?"

"yes, this is a failure. He Wenquan replied disheartenedly.

"I don't think so. Let's start by looking at the black-and-white terms of success and failure. You're either in a comprehensive, singular, and generally good state of success, or you're in a total, singular, and incorrigibly bad state of failure. Xiang Yang got up and brought He Wenquan a cup of tea, stood up and said, "The words success and failure rule out all different or compromise possibilities. But in this complex world, this is a naïve, immature, and even malicious way of analysis, and such a binary system obliterates many important value hierarchies and levels, and will inevitably bring bad results. ”

Xiang Yang glanced at He Wenquan and continued: "We have to figure out that we still have many important values. Actually, success or failure is just a game. Success or failure doesn't exist in just one game. There are a lot of games in the world, including a lot of good ones, and maybe those games match your talent. The world allows for a lot of possibilities, and if you don't succeed in one game, you can always switch to another game and choose a game that better matches your unique expertise, strengths, and experiences. ”

Xiang Yang spoke with high spirits, and He Wenquan felt that he was also infected by his passion, and he seemed to see hope in his heart.

"Yes! My game of getting a tour bus company is over!" He Wenquan remembered the scene of a tour bus company three years ago, smiled bitterly, and persuaded himself in his heart: "Forget about this failure, anyway, it's just a game of empty gloves and white wolves." ”

He Wenquan clearly remembers that it was the summer of 2000. At that time, he and his friends owned a travel agency, specializing in local tour services. That afternoon, Wang Limin, the general manager of a state-run long-distance passenger transport company, brought his beautiful manager (vehicle planning dispatcher) to his office to check the cost of their company's tour bus.

After some greetings, He Wenquan asked the finance department to send the car report to Wang Limin for checking.

"Mr. He, I see that you have paid more than 3 million fares in less than a year, and you can sell ten tourist cars by yourself. ”

"Is it? Ha! Ha!" He Wenquan felt very proud when he heard Wang Limin's words, and he laughed happily.

"Of course, now a 21-seater medium-sized mid-level tourist car can be bought for only 210,000 yuan. In the future, you will no longer have to pay for the freight, and the car will still be your own property. Wang Limin said emphatically.

"So cheap?" He Wenquan asked in surprise.

"Do you want to buy it? If you really want to buy it, I will call the sales manager of the manufacturer with a phone call immediately, and you can still negotiate the price with him." In order to prove that what he said was true, Wang Limin took out his Samsung flip phone from his pants bag.

"Call to talk. He Wenquan was also immediately interested. He thought to himself that if he sold 10 units, he would no longer have to beg people for cars everywhere during the May Day and National Day tourism "Golden Week".

"Hey, Manager Cai. You can come to Jiangdu Mansion right now. I'll introduce you to a friend who wants to buy ten coaches. Wang Limin was on the phone in front of the floor-to-ceiling window of He Wenquan's office, "By the way, bring all the information of the car, and ask for 21 seats." ”

He Wenquan watched Wang Limin finish the phone call, and hurriedly beckoned him to sit down, "Drink tea, drink tea!" picked up a pack of Chinese cigarettes from the table, took out one and handed it over. "Pump!"

Wang Limin took the cigarette and said, "He will come soon, and you can negotiate the price yourself." He took out his lighter, lit the cigarette, sat down, and spat out a smoke ring, knowing in his heart that it was basically done.

The reason why Wang Limin came to He Wenquan today was actually planned in advance. Their state-run long-distance passenger transport company is not doing well now, and many of the customers have been snatched away by the newly established county convoys in the local cities and counties. In recent years, the business of tourist vehicles has been particularly hot, and the drivers of tourist buses can earn three or four thousand yuan by pulling a group and running for seven days. And his senior brothers and younger brothers only earned more than 1,000 yuan after running a month, and they were really envious of them, so they were clamoring to drive a tourist bus in front of Wang Limin all day long. Wang Limin can't help it, there are only so many tourist cars in the company, they are all a radish and a pit, and the driver who originally drove the tourist car can't be replaced for no reason. If you want to add a new tourist car, the company has no money, which really makes Wang Limin worry for a long time.

A few days ago, a senior brother who drove a tour bus in their company came back from a group and insisted on pulling him to drink a night beer. After a few glasses of wine, he asked, "Senior brother, you kid must have earned a lot this trip, right?"

"Mr. Wang, although you are my leader, you are also my junior brother. I won't hide it from you. The elder brother took a sip of a large glass of beer, slapped the most popular leather wrap bag tied to his waist with his left hand, put down the cup with his right hand, opened his index finger and mother finger and said proudly: "I earned this amount this time." ”

"Eight thousand?" Wang Limin asked in surprise.

"Yes, Yachi!" the elder brother picked up a bottle of beer on the ground and poured it into his glass. "Mr. Wang, do you know? This is the most money I have earned in my life. That's the equivalent of a year's salary. With that, he raised his glass. "Come, Mr. Wang, I will toast you. If it weren't for you to contact Mr. He's tour group, my ticket today would have become someone else's. So I'm going to toast you. ”

Wang Limin listened to the senior brother's slightly drunk words, and thought: No wonder those senior brothers and junior brothers are making noise about driving a tourist bus all day long, it turns out that the oil and water in it are so big!

"Senior brother, do they use a lot of cars?" he hurriedly asked Senior Brother.

"Of course, there are seven or eight regiments every day, and one regiment runs for seven or eight days, you count, seven seven forty-nine, at least forty or fifty of his regiments run on the road every day. ”

"Senior brother, it seems that you are drunk and understand. Wang Limin already had a solution in his heart to solve the problem of his senior brothers and junior brothers driving a tourist bus, and he happily raised his glass: "Senior brother, come, do it!"

Early the next morning, he called a few usually good brothers and sisters to his office.

His junior brother was the last to come in, and when he saw that several senior brothers were there, he asked, "Mr. Wang, what do you call us?"