After returning home, Chen Shi asked Li Yalian what her dream was.

Li Yalian was stunned for a moment, thought for a while and said: "Everything is a dream, everyone's dream is different, some people like money, some people like literature, some people like science, some people like plain, what you like, what you want to achieve, what is a dream." ”

Chen Shi listened carefully, and then listened to Li Yalian ask, "What is your dream?"

Chen Shi shook his head, if he wants to achieve any wishes, then now he has basically achieved it, he doesn't want his family to suffer, his younger brothers and sisters don't have to worry about tuition fees, his parents don't have to worry about his marriage and career, he doesn't have to worry about three cents, he is financially free and materially satisfied.

However, when material things are satisfied and money is free, what other needs does he have? Is it true that the purpose of life is to pursue a little money and material things all his life? Shouldn't money and material things be just the basis of survival? The reason why man is human is that he should have a higher pursuit outside of material things, so that he can be distinguished from other animals, otherwise, what is the difference between man and other animals?

Li Yalian said: "In the past, my dream was to make money, and I made a lot of money, because my family was poor, and of course I had to make money to get rid of poverty, but after meeting you, my dream changed." ”

Chen Shi is no longer Chen Shi in his previous life, he already has enough money to get the two families out of poverty, therefore, Li Yalian no longer has to worry about money, she got rid of the shackles of material, began to enter the spiritual world, and pursued her true dreams.

Chen Shi didn't bother him and listened carefully to her dreams. She said: "I am actually a young person, therefore, my dream is about literature, at first I wanted to write articles, but then I found that my control of words was too superficial, so I changed a direction, I found a good carrier." ”

Chen Shi can probably guess, Li Yalian continued: "I found that the big screen is a good place to express my thoughts, therefore, I can't wait to know everything about the big screen, and I worship Gu Long, so I have the idea of adapting Gu Long's books, this is the first step for me to realize my dream, and then I want to get rid of Gu Long, write my own original story, and let everyone see it on the big screen, let everyone know, and move everyone." ”

Li Yalian's ambitions are great and her dreams are far away, but she is not afraid or retreating, but starts to travel far step by step. She didn't take any courses on film or screenwriting, but she would figure it out for herself, she would read books to enrich herself, she would have her own original ideas, and she would write down each idea in a notebook. Now, with the help of Gu Long's works, she first tries to adapt, then tries to shoot, and only after she has mastered the filming skills and screenwriting skills can she start creating her own original story.

After listening to Li Yalian's dream, Chen Shi's empty heart was no longer so empty, although the heat was not so fulfilling, but he at least knew that people had some ideas in life, but what kind of ideas did they need?

This person must toss himself and toss a little thing to live, otherwise he will be confused. If you are confused, this person will go to depravity, for example, some people will take drugs, some people will go to prostitution, some people will gamble, some people like to find excitement, so that people will live more and more miserable, and even embark on the road of crime, there is no way back, only death awaits in front of them.

A person's dream is not found by instilling a few words from others, of course, when a person has no dream, it is nothing, and a person with a dream is not someone who tells him where his dream is and asks him to find it, but he finds it from the depths of his heart, therefore, whether this person is alive or has a pursuit must rely on himself.

Of course, you can't just imagine it out of thin air, so the spiritual wealth left by the ancestors is very important, and you can draw nourishment from it and find your own spiritual pursuit.

Chen Shi knew this, so he went to the bookstore, ready to buy some books and come back to study and study, ready to find himself in them.

When he went to the bookstore, he was alone, and he didn't let anyone accompany him, because he didn't want other people's opinions to affect him, so now he walked into the bookstore alone, aimlessly wandering back and forth in front of various bookcases, from popular novels to literary theory studies, from history to science, from all kinds of study tutorials to all kinds of miscellaneous textbooks, he looked through them one by one, but he didn't seem to get anything, and he was not interested in anything.

He had no interest in reading them after one glance, and if he were to study them, he would rather go back in time or even sleep on the road. For books that are not interested, they can only be used as hypnotic drugs, and when you can't sleep, you will definitely be hypnotized if you read two pages. Therefore, Chen Shi believes that hypnotic drugs can actually be produced without production, it is said that people eat too much and there are side effects, if a person can't sleep, take a book that he doesn't understand and is not interested in reading, not half an hour, to ensure that he can fall asleep.

He used to do this, in his previous life, when he couldn't sleep, he read online novels, those novels were so poorly written, he just had to look at them twice and he couldn't read them, but when he forced himself to read two pages, sleep would always come unconsciously.

While he was wandering around, the clerk at the bookstore came up and asked, "Sir, what books do you need?" ”

Chen Shi shook his head and said, "I don't know what books I need, just come and see, just take a look, you can be busy yourself!"

The staff didn't dwell too much, but they stood and watched him, which made him a little uncomfortable. It's always bad to be stared at, there is a feeling of being seen through, he is really uncomfortable, so he has to step aside. However, what he didn't expect was that this staff member always followed him for some reason, could it be that he suspected that he wanted to do something bad and stared at him like this?

Chen Shi was suspicious, but he smiled bitterly, it is really troublesome to be misunderstood, and he is not easy to explain, so if you want to follow, you can follow! Anyway, you are open in your heart, what is there to worry about? The so-called do not do bad things, not afraid of ghosts knocking on the door, as long as this person has no ghosts in his heart, no matter what others think of you, you will not be afraid.

But let a person be guarded like a thief, he always feels uncomfortable, so in desperation, he casually took a book from the bookshelf and went to the cashier to check out and leave.

When he came out of the account, he didn't know what book he was holding in his hand, anyway, he picked it up easily, and didn't even look at it, and when he took a closer look, he found that it was a book about philosophy, which seemed to be just an outline. The name is an outline of ancient philosophy, but what is it? He looked at it and saw that it was a book that introduced the history of ancient philosophy, but it didn't explain much, but like the name, it was really just an outline.

It can be seen from the table of contents that this book starts from the hundred schools of thought in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, of course, the first one is Confucius, followed by Taoism, Mojia, Bingjia, Legalism, etc., as well as later Zhu Chengli, Mingyang Xinxue, and so on.

Chen Shi was not interested in philosophy, so he closed the book and took it home and threw it on the table, without even looking at it. Although he has returned home in the heat, his spiritual world is still empty, and he has not yet found his inner belonging, nor has he found his dream.

Just when he was anxious, the fat man came, because Li Qiu called him to come, he didn't know why he came, but his cousin called him, he naturally had to come quickly, so he bought a ticket that day.

Li Qiu called him to go because of this, he didn't know what Li Qiu was going to do, but he always felt that it would be a very important thing in his heart, so he didn't excuse himself, and even came in advance.

When he came to Yipintang, Chen Shi saw a fat man who he hadn't seen for a long time. He is still the same as before, with a round face, eyes narrowed into a line, and people are flattened, but Chen Shi is used to it, he must stay away from the fat man, or keep a little distance from him, and never get too close, he is originally a nihilistic person, if the decadence on the fat man is contaminated, then maybe he will be scrapped immediately and become a degenerate person.

In fact, the fat man is not degenerate, but the wound in his heart is too great, and it has not healed, Chen Shi observed, the fat man is still very wise sometimes, if he is completely depraved, he will not invest in Chen Shi's Yipintang.

Seeing Chen Shi, the fat man leaned on the chair, he smoked a cigarette, and asked Chen Shi if he wanted it, Chen Shi shook his head, it's okay to drink, socialize, or he himself wants to drink a little, but even if he smokes, he really can't understand, what is there to smoke in the smoke? If you don't pay attention, you will be choked, and after smoking regularly, your lungs will be poisoned.

The two chatted for a while, and Li Qiu came. As soon as she came, the two of them shut up, because they both knew that this woman was not easy to mess with, and they both knew that this woman's temper was sometimes very short-tempered, and of course they didn't want to provoke her.

A woman lives to make others afraid of her, there are only two possibilities, one may be too ugly, the other is too beautiful, Li Qiu is the latter, so beautiful that she wraps herself with irritability, uses coldness to protect herself, and after forming a habit, everyone will unconsciously have a feeling of resistance and fear when facing her.

She beckoned to Chen Shi and the fat man and said, "Let's go to the conference room." ”

The conference room in Yipintang is not large, only enough for four or five people to hold a meeting, but the three of them are not too crowded. A rectangular conference table, with chairs on both sides, Li Qiu sat on the seat presiding over the meeting, Chen Shi and the fat man sat on one side, facing each other, they didn't face Li Qiu, I don't know if it was because they were afraid or what the reason.

Li Qiu held a stack of information in her hand, she spread out the information and said, "This is the situation of the Sichuan Shu food store that I collected, you can take a look." ”

Chen Shi and Fat Man took the information and opened it to see, but it was a market research report, not only the data, but also the summary report, the audit survey and the sampling survey. Moreover, some professional investigation terms made Chen Shi and the fat man incomprehensible, so Li Qiu marked them with straightforward words and even made a summary.

Such a large pile of information, and finally summarized the situation is that the fast food restaurant market in Sichuan and Shu is very scarce, not nothing, some are large international restaurants, such stores are only in big cities, provincial capitals or next-level cities, and they are all Western-style, Chinese food is not. Chen Shi even suspected that there were no Chinese-style fast food restaurants in the country, but he didn't ask Li Qiu.

After Chen Shi looked at it casually, he seemed to understand the purpose of Li Qiu's approach, and asked, "What do you mean? Do you want to enter Sichuan and Shu?"

Li Qiu nodded, and the fat man was surprised on the side: "Cousin, how big are we? There are only two or three stores, how much liquidity do you have? One million is not bad, right? One million can you enter Sichuan and Shu? Don't be kidding, you know, you are going to rob other people's business, if KFC and McDonald's join forces to deal with you, what will you do?"

Li Qiu was unmoved, didn't even explain, just looked at Chen Shi and said, "What about you, what do you think?"

Expansion is inevitable, but if you expand too fast, you will fall and fight, of course Chen Shi doesn't want to fall, he is very conservative now, so he shook his head and said: "Lack of funds, wait!"

Li Qiu seemed to have been prepared, only to see her smile slightly, and said disdainfully: "I know that you two don't have the guts, and now you feel great if you have a little achievement, you can eat and wait for death, right? But I'm not unprepared, didn't you say that the funds are insufficient? I have a way." ”

Chen Shi thought that Li Qiu wanted to borrow from a loan shark, because he couldn't think of any other way to raise funds, so he said, "You don't want to borrow money, do you?"

Li Qiu nodded and said, "That's right, if we don't have money, we'll borrow it." ”

Chen Shi immediately stood up and objected: "No, borrowing money just to repay the interest is enough to drink a pot, and the profits are endless, I don't want to be contaminated with usury, besides, don't you look at who the usurers are? Such people had better not have anything to do with them, otherwise sooner or later they will be swallowed up to the point that there are no bones left." ”

The fat man looked surprised, he looked at Li Qiu and said, "Of course usury can't be borrowed. ”

Li Qiu snorted coldly and said, "Who said I was going to borrow a loan shark?"

Chen Shi and the fat man sighed at the same time, and then Li Qiu said slowly: "It's not a loan shark, but a bank loan, we have a small business of this size, if there is a mortgage, we can borrow millions in the bank to ensure that there are funds for expansion." ”

What is the difference between a bank and a loan shark? For Chen Shi, it is just the difference between high and low interest, and of course the banking department will carry a sickle and axe to collect accounts like a loan shark, but will take a court summons to confiscate your property.

He said, "What's the difference? It's not about interest. ”

Li Qiu said: "We can afford this interest, because we earn more than that, you have to understand that you can make more money after borrowing money, although you pay some interest, but generally speaking, you still earn, so it is imperative to expand the loan." ”