The words are divided into two ends, one for each side.

But the other protagonist of the story is in the summer on the 30th to inspect the production and operation of flower bonsai at the Municipal Agricultural Science Center located in Xiangmi Lake. In the summer, I arrived at the site from eight o'clock, and while inspecting, I bought a pot of dragon boat flowers, a golden amber, and a pot of black beauties and threw them in the car, and I didn't drive the car to my home until five o'clock in the afternoon.

After returning home for dinner, Summer quickly discussed with Fan Ting what she thought about running a flower business.

Summer pointed to the pot of potted flowers named Hulk on the balcony and said: "Look, this pot of Hulk, I bought it back for 90 yuan at the Hongtu flower shop downstairs, do you know what the price is in the plantation? The plastic pot is 15 yuan, if you change to a gold-plated plastic red pot like ours and add 12 yuan, then, plus the freight, the cost is 30 yuan, and the difference between 30 and 90 is several times, which is really interlaced like a mountain!"

Fan Ting asked, "Have you seen the wholesale flower market?"

Summer said: "Haven't found it yet." I heard that it was in Lotus Mountain, but I kept looking at the intersection of Lotus Mountain when I returned to it, but I didn't see it. ”

"This afternoon, I got in touch with Gao Jinping, a high school classmate, and she said that a friend had a flower shop next to Lychee Park, and I would ask her for a favor when the time came," Fan said. ”

Xia said: "I think I can try to do a flower business, I have a small garden, which can be rotated to reduce losses." It's time to make up your mind. Now the top priority is to choose to rent a shop near the house, the price is not too high, first transition, wait for our shop to be delivered, you can also move to a new shop, you can also rent someone else's, while renting your own, so that the account is the same. ”

Fan Ting said: "None of us have ever done business, and everything is difficult at the beginning. It's inevitable that we will lose money, how long can we afford to lose money?"

Xia said: "If you rent a room with a monthly rent of 2,000 yuan, plus industrial and commercial taxes, water and electricity bills and other expenses of about 500 yuan, please ask a person to look at the store for 500 yuan, so that the fixed expenditure of 3,000 yuan per month, I think, considering the loss for half a year, that is, the loss of 20,000 yuan in tuition, should be acceptable." ”

Fan Ting said: "Nowadays, many shops are rented to others during the time period when they are not very busy, and if the shops we rent are in the market, we can also rent them to Tamsui Town in the morning to sell side dishes in Shenzhen, so as to reduce the pressure on rent." ”

Summer said: "This is a good way, some things are done while thinking about it." However, there are a few points that must be clear now: First, we must have a firm will and determination in our thinking, and do not have the idea of being embarrassed and not eating millet. I recently read a book that said that General Xiao Ke was the founding general of the People's Republic of China, because he was persecuted by the 'Gang of Four', and at the age of 60, he was still considering learning to be a carpenter to solve the problem of survival in his old age. Therefore, there will be no shame in labor and health. Second, don't have the idea of getting rich and stealing customers, on the contrary, because the gross profit margin of flower business is very high, we must sell at a lower price and control the gross profit margin. In this way, it seems that I have suffered a loss, but in response to the saying that 'good wine is not afraid of deep alleys', in the future, we will have our own customer base. The third is not to be obsessed with the losses at the beginning, generally a new enterprise will lose money in the early stage of growth. As for us, renting out a shop and renting someone else's shop, we still make money. I invited someone to eat at best, and I hired a nanny at home!"

Fan Ting said: "Don't be afraid! We have come to Shenzhen, and no matter how difficult the period is, we have come over, let alone now. Tomorrow I will contact Gao Jinping again and ask her to take me to the Lychee Park flower shop to learn how to wrap flowers for a few days to see how they do it. Once you've learned, you'll know what to expect!"

The couple unified their thoughts, and their hearts suddenly felt much lighter.

Friday, 31 December 1999.

After getting up in the morning in summer, I went to my rooftop garden, carefully watered all kinds of potted plants, and after browsing the surrounding buildings, I felt refreshed and returned home to eat breakfast with satisfaction.

Then he went to the study, opened the diary, skimmed through the records of the last two months, and wrote:

December 31, 1999

Today is the last day of the century, and Yu is at home.

No matter whether your mood is pleasant or heavy, whether you are willing or unwilling, our generation has unconsciously become a cross-century person. In the long river of life, people of my age do not have too much sorrow, not too much misfortune. Because, after all, we are born and grown in a lucky era. Take me as an example, although there are always unsatisfactory in one or another major life key points, setbacks can motivate people to forge ahead. Because of this, the trajectory of his own growth is still remarkable.

In the last decade of this century, when I was middle-aged, I moved my family to Shenzhen and started my second venture in the Special Economic Zone. It can be said that with my loyalty and dedication to my career, with my frankness and integrity, God treats me well, and society has given me many opportunities. And I seized some of these opportunities to achieve a historic turnaround. First of all, from a state cadre with an iron rice bowl to a contract white-collar worker, leading the senior managers of enterprises who are powerful and can fire people every minute, and at the same time may be fired by people every minute. Second, a decision-maker of a large or medium-sized state-owned enterprise who is supported by the top and bottom has voluntarily become an ordinary member of a collective financial enterprise. Then, from white-collar workers who are relatively unfettered and can achieve the complete expression of their personal will and obtain profits by giving commands, they will become self-employed people who can achieve the set goals by themselves and are full of business risks.

Yes, I can't help but say: While the times are progressing, individuals are also experiencing major leaps and bounds. The good news is that I was able to take on the challenge and adapt to the pace of the times. After working in Shenzhen for eight years, it can be said that it has fulfilled a word that Cantonese people like: the meaning of 'eight-hair'. In the past eight years, I have changed from a wage earner who received a salary of 480 yuan when I first came here and could not make ends meet every month to a self-supporting person who has certain assets and can take considerable risks, and has the first pot of gold to maintain my family and operate independently. From this point of view, I can be considered a success. But on the other hand, because of his benevolent nature and his affection for others, helping customers lend funds and invest 1.09 million yuan is almost in vain, which cannot but be said to be a lesson.

Successes and failures, experiences and lessons are all valuable assets in life. At a time when the dawn of the new century is about to come, it is recorded here and used as a reference, which is conducive to the development of the business in the new century.

After writing in the summer, I read it in detail and closed the diary. Then, I called Xie Feng, who also bought a shop, to go to Omori Real Estate Company to discuss the payment of the down payment of the shop.

Look at the official, you see that when the summer was squeezed out by Hu Hui, he still had a tolerant bearing and optimistic feelings, and he couldn't help but say that the cultivation of being a man in the summer has reached the realm of perfection: looking at the overall situation, knowing the advance and retreat, light utilitarianism, and far from being a villain. Yes, personnel are impermanent, gathering and scattering, dividing and merging, praising and praising bullets, this is the discussion in the topic.

However, in the summer, when I was thinking about having to leave the Hubei branch and even the citizen banking system, the future of the Hubei branch was not optimistic. The small one borrowed half of Ouyang Xiu's "Waves and Sands" in the Song Dynasty and expressed his thoughts.

Ouyang Xiu's original words:

Gathering and scattering are in a hurry, and this hatred is endless.

This year's flowers are better than last year's red, but unfortunately next year's flowers are better, who do you know with?

Official: I don't know if you will be too wordy, the small meaning is still unfinished, I feel that if you change the above words slightly, it will be closer to the artistic conception of the Hubei branch:

The fireflies are the most hurried, and they don't love the flowers.

This year's flowers are red last year, but I hope that next year's flowers will be good?

In addition, the small one also wants to borrow the poems in Wang Yuanliang's "Huzhou Song" of the Song Dynasty to speculate on the mood of summer at this time, whether it is appropriate or not, can only be decomposed later:

Looking north at Yanyun is endless, and the east of the river goes to the water.

The sunset is outside the jackdaw, and the eyes are cut off from the four hundred states in the southeast.