Chapter 32: Ye Jianguo's Story

"Do you want to know what I've been through all these years?" Ye Jianguo moved his gaze back to Li Zhi from the window.

"Don't want to know. Li Zhi chose to skin it, but in his heart he was actually full of curiosity about Ye Jianguo's road to fortune.

"I wasn't that rich in the beginning, or I was just as poor as you in the early days. Ye Jianguo said and tapped Li Zhi with his finger.

This made Li Zhi very unhappy in his heart, haven't you heard of what is called 'don't bully young people to be poor'? But this time Li Zhi only complained in his heart, and did not say this sentence directly. After all, it's okay to have a little skin, but if you have more skin, it's going to be a big deal.

"When I was a child, my family was poor, and my only thought at that time was to study hard, although I didn't know what learning could bring me, but at that time I loved learning.

At the end of the high school entrance examination, I was admitted to the best high school in the county, and those three years were the easiest three years of my life. Because the leaders of the township specially allocated rations for all the students in our township who could be admitted to the county No. 1 middle school at that time, I only had one task in those three years, which was to study.

Three years passed quickly, and the coveted college entrance examination finally came, but in the end, my grades were not very satisfactory.

But that's not because I don't work hard, but because our county is so backward that the best English teachers in the county can't understand the English test questions of the college entrance examination.

However, because of my good grades in other subjects, I still received an admission letter from a junior college when my English was holding me back.

This was the best time for me to change my fate, and the junior college at that time was much more difficult than the current undergraduate. But in the end, I gave in to reality, because my family really couldn't afford it.

So I chose to give up my university and go out on my own, and it happened that there was a wave of recruitment in the coastal areas in those years, and I took all the money I had to buy a train ticket and left my hometown.

At that time, I worked as a dock porter and went out to sea to catch fish, but when my body couldn't stand the humidity of the seaside, I turned around and went to work as a laborer in a garment factory and a coolie in a wholesale market.

Later, a boss finally took a fancy to me and asked me to take charge of the management of a small warehouse.

At that time, I worked as a janitor, a cashier, and a porter, and I worked hard for two years. I went to my boss and borrowed a sum of money and set up a warehouse myself.

Then it didn't take long to lose money and almost jumped off the building. But that's when I got to know Hibiscus and his mother.

Hibiscus's mother is an accountant, and she is the accountant of the company that came to me for money. In the days when I handed over the property, my food was cold water with steamed buns, and then Xiao Jin's mother saw that I was pitiful and brought me steamed buns from her home, and since then I have fallen in love with that beautiful girl uncontrollably.

But at that time, I knew that I didn't look worthy of such a girl, so I went through my previous boss's relationship to become a truck driver.

At that time, the status of truck drivers was similar to that of today's programmers, and they were all high-wage, high-risk, occupations.

Programmers are 996 all day long, and sudden deaths occur from time to time. But the lives of our big truck drivers are far more dangerous than them, not to mention the car accidents that can happen at any time, and the car bandits and road rage alone are a headache for us.

After a year of surviving, I not only paid off all my foreign debts, but also saved a decent amount of income. So I frantically began to pursue Hibiscus's mother, and half a year later we got married.

I still had to be out and running cars all those years, and I didn't have much time to go home in a year. So when I found out that Hibiscus's mother was pregnant with a child, I immediately applied to the company to go back to work as a small clerk and stopped running outside.

The next four or five years were the happiest time of my life, and the child was born, which was Hibiscus. My position is also moving up step by step, and Hibiscus's mother has also begun to try this and start writing, and I can also receive a monthly manuscript fee.

But this life always has to toss you and he is willing, when Xiao Jin was 5 years old, our company went bankrupt, and I became what people call a laid-off worker.

Since then, the family has been strapped for money, and there were no job opportunities in the inland cities at that time, so if you want to earn money, you have to go out. But at this time, I already have a family and a room, and it is unrealistic to buy a train ticket and go out like I did back then.

So in desperation, I chose to fight hard, and I took out a loan with a mortgage on my house. In order not to drag down the mother and daughter, I took out half of the money and gave it to Xiaojin's mother and forced her to sign a divorce agreement.

Then I used the remaining money to find someone to partner in the warehouse of a bankrupt company and started our warehousing and logistics business.

But at that time, the environment was really sluggish, although a few of us ran business day and night to talk about projects, but this was only to maintain a loss, at that time we worked hard for a month and the last money was not as high as the salary of the cleaning aunt we hired.

Later, the brothers in the partnership couldn't bear it and left, and I was the only one who was still struggling.

At this time, Hibiscus's mother appeared in front of me again with Hibiscus, and our family of three lived in that dilapidated warehouse for three years from that time.

In order to save money, we fired everyone else, and Xiaojin's mother took on all the work of cleaning, accounting, and customer service alone. At that time, we really worked as soon as we opened our eyes, and there was no time to rest at all, and we never even went to Hibiscus's parent-teacher conference.

After two years of hard work, we finally waited for the opportunity to turn around. Two large supermarkets have settled in the local area, and I have won the merchandise storage business of two supermarket liquor agents.

That's when my liver started to fail, and the reason was very simple, I drank too much. For almost half a month, I was drunk every night with the agent.

The day after signing the contract, I was admitted to the hospital with a perforated stomach and vomiting blood.

Later, I used the money I earned to buy half of the city's large warehouses, and this time God finally took care of me. A new highway passes through our city, making our city the largest logistics transfer point in the region. And I successfully turned around and became a famous entrepreneur in the city.

But only three years after that, the greatest tragedy of my life struck. Hibiscus's mother was driving out with her friend when she was rear-ended by a drunk driver. Hibiscus's mother's car was crashed into the river, and in the end, I used all my connections to find Hibiscus's mother, and the bodies of the other two people were found, but I didn't find Hibiscus's mother.

After that, I started to abuse my body like crazy, drinking heavily, smoking, and doing whatever I could to anesthetize myself. Half a year later, the doctor gave me a critical illness notice.

Now I finally came to my senses, and I realized that I couldn't go on like this, and I still had to take care of Hibiscus, and my mission was not finished.

It's a pity that it's too late to say anything at this time. I'm already terminally ill, but fortunately I have the money and can stay alive with the medical equipment I have now.

But I know in my heart that there is not much left of my road, and the only thing I can't worry about is Hibiscus. Tears flowed from Ye Jianguo's eyes, and outside the window, the midsummer acquaintance was happy.