May 1, 1999, Sunday, Labor Day, sunny, not sunny or sunny, what better weather than a holiday!

In the morning, I ate a bowl of very enjoyable beef noodles as usual, and then Comrade Wang Maoli came belatedly.

Since the festival must be the peak period of play, Li's father and Li mother had to stay to watch the bouncy castle, but Chen's father and Chen's mother were very relieved of Li Xiaoming and Chen Wu, so they did not go together.

"Heh, two boys, have you eaten?" Comrade Wang Maoli's face did not seem to look very good.

"Yes, uncle, let's go?" Chen Wu didn't pay attention

"What's the matter? Are you going to starve your brother-in-law to death? It's only half past eight! Little comrade! Just because you usually get up early to read doesn't mean that I can toss like you young, okay?"

"Come on, uncle, take a seat, Uncle Ma, come to a big bowl of beef noodles!"

Comrade Wang Maoli sat down with a golden knife and took out a pair of chopsticks from the chopsticks: "This is about the same, you give money, for the sake of me to be a coolie for you in the next few days, two little millionaires." ”

"Hehe, don't worry, uncle, I promise it's okay!"

After Wang Maoli finished eating the noodles, the three of them were ready to set off.

There was a black Santana parked on the side of the street, and looking at Wang Maoli's sassy face, he knew how much this car made him nervous.

In this era, Santana is really a local tyrant. In the era when the per capita annual income of the unit was only a few thousand yuan, this car would be sold for more than 100,000 yuan, which was not something that ordinary families could afford. This is a proper BBA for the next generation!

And even in later generations, when they saw Santana in this era, they all knew that this was faith.

"Get in the car, let's find a commissary to buy some dry food and water, the road time is too long, even if there is no traffic jam in Rongcheng today is estimated to go to five or six o'clock in the afternoon, if there is a traffic jam, it is possible to spend the night in the mountains." Wang Maoli opened the car door and greeted Li Xiaoming and Chen Wu.

A few people bought a lot of bread on the way, crisp noodles, drinks and mineral water, as for instant noodles are no play now, in this era, barreled instant noodles have not yet been born.

Next, a few people began to embark on the road to Rongcheng......

The current National Highway 108 is not like when the Iasi Expressway was opened to traffic in the future, and it only takes forty or fifty minutes from Anya to Yuancheng. After driving for more than an hour, I only arrived at the foot of the mud mountain, which is not only high in altitude and full of winding mountain roads, but also has only two lanes, one on each side, and there are many trucks of all kinds, resulting in frequent collapses of the road surface and very bad road conditions. This is also the reason why it is necessary to prepare enough dry food, in case of a traffic jam, it will be blind.

When the vehicle reaches the bottom of the mountain, the speed can't get up, and there are a large number of buses and trucks on both sides of the lane, and there are not many small cars. Although Comrade Wang Maoli is not very reliable in doing other things, he is still very stable in driving. At least there was no rush to occupy the road to overtake.

You must know that once this place occupies the road, most of the consequences will be blocked on both sides, and no one should think about it.

"Hey, uncle, I didn't see it, high-quality old driver!" Li Xiaoming praised sincerely, and he assured that he absolutely had absolutely no other meaning.

"That's convenient for others and for yourself!"

"Uncle, your consciousness is quite high, give you a thumbs up!" Chen Wu also gave a thumbs up.

"What do you mean?"

"That's what you mean by being 6. ”

"What do you mean?"

"That's what you mean by being very powerful. ”

"What do you mean?"

“…… When I didn't say. ”

"Hahahaha!" Li Xiaoming couldn't help but laugh out loud as he listened to the conversation between the two living treasures.

……

Today's luck is good, although the road is relatively slow, stop and go, but there is no car accident and road closure, toss until six o'clock in the afternoon, the three entered the city of Rongcheng.

Li Xiaoming looked at Rongcheng, which can only be regarded as a third-tier small city compared to later generations, and said with emotion: "If I have money, I want to buy land and buy a house here, and in more than ten years, I don't know how rich I am." ”

Comrade Wang glanced at him: "Are you dreaming? What are you buying for? Now this house price is about 1,000 yuan per square meter, and it is so expensive, where can you make any more money?"

Li Xiaoming looked at Comrade Wang speechlessly, thinking: "If you also come back from 20 years, you will know what a wise decision it is to buy a house in this era." ”

The average house price in Rongcheng City is now less than 2,000, who would have thought that in the future, the housing prices in these places in the city center will be more than 20,000 yuan, and it is not uncommon for the high places to be 50,000 or 60,000.

Thinking of this, Li Xiaoming touched his chin and thought to himself: "In the future, the general direction of Rongcheng is to develop to the south, and the places in the later generations that I saw when I came here just now are still full of fields, if I can really do it, it is not impossible to invest the money I earn here in the future, anyway, if I don't make money, there are always people who want to earn, why do I cheapen others." But that's going to have to wait a few years. ”

When the three of them arrived near the South First Ring Road, they found a hotel to open a room, and after putting away all their luggage, Comrade Wang led the team and went out to forage for food.

After walking a short distance, they saw a hot pot called Dezhuang on the side of the road, and the three of them walked directly inside.

"Welcome, how many do you have?" greeted the lady at the door warmly.

"Just the three of us, find a table by the window. ”

"Okay, please come with me. ”

After taking a seat, Comrade Wang took the menu handed over by the waiter, opened his mouth and said: "Mandarin duck pot, and then ......"

"Wait!" Li Xiaoming and Chen Wu said at the same time.

"What's wrong?"

"Uncle, it's terrible to be uneducated! As a native of Sichuan, you actually order mandarin duck pot when eating hot pot, haven't you heard of a word? Slightly spicy is the last compromise!" Chen Wu said seriously.

The beautiful waitress next to her couldn't hold back for a while when she heard this, and burst out laughing.

"......" Comrade Wang looked at Li Xiaoming and Chen Wu on the opposite side with black lines on his face, while they looked at Comrade Wang with a look of course.

"Yes. Comrade Wang stretched out his hand and directly handed over the menu: "You two are educated, you two come and order." ”

"Okay! waiter, medium and spicy pot bottom, then mille-feuille belly, hairy belly, spicy beef, duck intestines, quail eggs, crab meat sticks, yellow throat, jungan (this word should be [Yuejun], read jun, a sound, southwest dialect.) However, it can't be hit, it can't be played anyway...... ), kidney flower, brain flower, fat beef roll, hoof tendon, shrimp slippery, fat sausage, luncheon meat, and then the material is a potato chip. ”

Comrade Wang was shocked: "You two have been here before?"

"I've never eaten pork and haven't seen a pig run!" Chen Wu was about to speak, but Li Xiaoming was afraid that his kid would show his stuffing, so he interrupted.

"Okay, whatever you say is what, by the way, what to drink?" Comrade Wang resolutely gave up struggling.

"Beer!" shouted Chen Wu with his hands raised.

"Heh, you two drink beer, how old are you?"

"I said uncle, don't look down on people, Xiao Ming and I are the successors of socialism tested by alcohol!"

"You two just blow it, then try it?"

"Try it!"

……

Two hours later, Li Xiaoming and Chen Wu were left and right, hehe. Comrade Wang Maoli drank and ......

The price of goods in this era is so close to the people, and it is only less than 300 for three people to have so many dishes and two beers. If you want to do this in the future, I'm afraid you won't be able to stop five hundred.

The next day, everyone got up late, and they all got up slowly after about ten o'clock. Then they washed up, went to the hotel to find a restaurant casually, ate some steamed buns and drank some porridge, and began to prepare to set off to Bainaohui, after all, the computer is a big deal.

The three of them didn't drive, after all, although Rongcheng doesn't have as many cars as in later generations, there are still not many places to park, and it will be troublesome if you don't drive out and park.

Li Xiaoming and Chen Wu know where to park, but the problem is that they can't say.

The three of them took a taxi to the downstairs of Bainaohui, Li Xiaoming looked up at this ten-storey building full of modern atmosphere, it is hard to imagine that such a lively computer mall in this era is almost impossible to do in the future, and the exterior walls are full of the smell of time......

As soon as the three of them entered the hall, many merchants gathered around: "Boss, do you want to buy a computer? Lenovo brand machine, the configuration is high and the price is fair!"

"Do you need a camera, boss?"

"The boss pager is on sale!"

"Big brother boss, big brother clears the warehouse, only 8,000 yuan a unit!"

The enthusiastic appearance of these merchants made the three of them stunned for a while. It wasn't until Li Xiaoming saw the motherboard memory modules piled up on a shop not far away that he reacted.

"Let me let you trouble, no need to thank you. ”

After sending away these enthusiastic merchants, the three of them came to the shop with all kinds of computer accessories, and Li Xiaoming began to look around: "Well, the motherboard, the memory module, this is the CPU, the fan also has it, and the power supply, well, it's basically all right." Don't think about the graphics card, Nvidia only released GeForce 256 in the second half of this year, but now the game doesn't use a graphics card, and it's barely a problem, and the motherboard is a little better, and it can be purchased and installed directly in the second half of the year. ”

After walking here for a while, no one came to greet him, so Li Xiaoming began to shout: "Boss, boss?"

Suddenly, a head sticks out from behind a mess of parts piled up on an old desk, with unkempt hair and a pair of gold-rimmed glasses on the bridge of the nose, but judging by the thickness of the lenses, this must be at least 800 degrees, right?

"How many, what's the matter?"

"......" Li Xiaoming was stunned for a moment, I went to your shop What are you talking about, is this guy reliable?

"Alas, forget it, who will let someone ask for it?" Li Xiaoming comforted himself: "I plan to equip my own computer, you have a good thing, can you take a look and introduce it to us?"

Only then did the man stand up, walked out from behind the desk, and rubbed his hands together unnaturally: "Bosses, what kind of computer do you want to have?"

"It's not one, it's many. ”

"It's ...... Oh oh sorry, but do you have any requirements for the configuration?"

"If you can play CS and StarCraft. ”

"CS, isn't there only a demo version now?" the boss was a little confused.

"Really?" Li Xiaoming was obviously stunned for a moment, he really didn't pay attention: "When will the official version of "CS" come out?"

"Now I should have seen the news of V Society in these two months, and it will be too late to equip the computer now. ”

"Okay, you can follow the configuration of this game that can be played, we will have about eighty units in the early stage, and we may find you hundreds of units in a year. Li Xiaoming said with a serious face.

"How many ...... How many hundred?" The boss was obviously not calm, and thought, "These bosses are not here to entertain me, right?"

It's no wonder he thinks so, in the current era, there are few Internet cafes, and private individuals or units buy computers because this is a new thing, most of them choose brand machines, and few of them assemble compatible machines by themselves.

"Yes, boss, please rest assured, we brought 200,000 yuan here this time, as long as you can meet our requirements here, we will look for you in the future." ”

"Oh, hello bosses, my surname is Zhang, you can call me Xiao Zhang, come and sit down. As soon as Li Xiaoming said his words, Boss Zhang, who was not very good at doing business at first glance, hurriedly dragged a few stools out, wiped them directly with his sleeve, and handed them to a few people.

"Brother Zhang, then let's get straight to the point. That's right, we are going to allocate the first batch of 80 computers, and then add 30 computers every month for the next three months, but we will only give a 50% deposit in the first batch, that is, 200,000 yuan, and we will agree to settle the payment within half a year. What do you think. ”

Boss Zhang rubbed his hands and said with a look of embarrassment: "This...... This one...... I don't have that many accessories...... I can have about 10 units at most. ”

Li Xiaoming and Chen Wu looked at the boss with a surprised expression: "Boss, you won't buy your accessories in full, right?"

Boss Zhang had a strange expression on his face: "Of course, otherwise who will sell you?"

“……”

Sure enough, this is a boss who doesn't know how to do business.

"That's it, let's give you an idea, we will pay you the 200,000 in advance, and then let's sign a contract, so good, from today in the next year, we will purchase no less than 500 compatible machines as planned, what about you, take this contract to the major accessories manufacturers to talk about them to give you advances, sell and then settle the payment." If the sales volume is not reached, we will bear the liquidated damages, and the liquidated damages will be agreed to be twice the price of the goods, what do you think?"

"This ...... Can it still be like this?" Boss Zhang was obviously very hesitant.

"Boss Zhang, if you ask these merchants around you, how many of them are bought in full to sell, as long as you have sales, most of them are distributed by manufacturers for you!"

In this way, Boss Zhang understood, he thought to himself: "No wonder! No wonder those businesses around me started with me and even some of them started later than me, obviously the money is not as much as mine, why are the goods so sufficient!"

"Okay, by the way, may I ask your last name?"

"My name is Li Xiaoming, this is my buddy's name is Chen Wu, this is our brother-in-law, called Wang Maoli, our brother-in-law will talk to you about things like signing contracts and payments, seeing that you don't have any business, let's invite you to have a meal at noon!"

"No, no, I'm here to make do. ”

"It's okay, it's needed, we can be regarded as strategic partners in the future. Li Xiaoming said: "By the way, let my uncle drive him Santana over, and let Boss Zhang see our strength so that he can feel at ease." ”

"Uncle, you go and drive the car over, let's pick up Boss Zhang for dinner, let's discuss with him here about the computer configuration or something. ”

"Okay, you sit down, I'll come when I go. ”

In the following time, Li Xiaoming and Chen Wu chatted with Boss Zhang for a long time, don't look at him is not very proficient in business, but for computer software and hardware, even Li Xiaoming and Chen Wu in later generations have to say two words: "professional." ”

In this era, to have this kind of insight, to be able to foresee the future trend of graphics cards and the birth of multi-core CPUs, it can be said that it is a computer ghost. This made Li Xiaoming and Chen Wu even more confident in handing over the computer to this brother to assemble.

……

At noon, Comrade Wang led the team to drive the car that he thought was Sao Bao Santana, and took Boss Zhang to have a sumptuous meal, which completely calmed Boss Zhang. At least looking at the car and consumption, the strength of these bosses is still good, and they will not come to entertain him, a small boss who sells computers.

In the next two days, Comrade Wang signed the contract with Boss Zhang, paid the money to Boss Zhang, and by the way, he also became his driver, taking him to help him negotiate with those suppliers, and things were advancing in an orderly manner. However, according to Boss Zhang's words, it may take another month for these computer accessories to be assembled one after another. But this is about the same, after all, the decoration of the rented shop has not been done yet, and Dad Chen is helping to worry about these things.

4 May 1999. After Li Xiaoming and Chen Wu took the Olympiad exam, they sat in Comrade Wang's Santana and embarked on the return journey home.