Chapter 005: Struggle to Change Destiny
"Uncle, cut a roast duck!" Li Xuan stood at the door of Li Ji's roast meat shop and shouted to the boss inside, he was going to buy some roast meat to go home.
"It's Xuan Zai, I heard that you have been admitted to college! Your old bean has already weighed half of it just now, you don't need to buy it!" The owner of the roast meat shop is called Li Aer, and he is bare-chested and hooking out a freshly roasted fat duck from the oven one by one. The taste of his roasted meat is the best in the neighborhood.
"I haven't started to fill in the university yet, the college entrance examination results are out, and it's not bad! My old bean bought roast goose, so help me cut a pound of barbecued pork!" Li Xuan's family is relatively poor, and even if his parents save some money, they have to keep it for emergencies, and it is rare to buy meat dishes a few times a month.
"Okay! Xuan Zai, you are out of business, and you have started to make money to subsidize your family before you go to college!" Li Aer saw that there was a business, and immediately put aside other things and came to greet the guests first.
Li Xuan has never been a person who is willing to wronged himself, since he has an income now, he often passes by this roast meat shop when he comes home from work, and he will buy some cooked food to improve his food.
By the time he got home, the whole family was already waiting for him to return to work for dinner. Seeing Li Xuan enter the door, the little sister Li Ying immediately pulled a basket and ran out of the door to the toast shop downstairs to buy cold beer and drink soda. There is no refrigerator at home, and I bought it early in the summer, and it didn't freeze in a few minutes. Today's dinner is very sumptuous, there are eight dishes with meat and vegetables, and my mother also specially burned Li Xuan's favorite oyster brand.
Li Xuan's college entrance examination results were confirmed, and the whole family was happy, especially Li Xuan's old bean Li Haichuan, who was usually taciturn, and his voice became louder after drinking, and he kept telling his son to fight for luck after going to college and find a good job in the future.
For Hong Kong children, being admitted to university means having a good future. After graduating from high school, I came out to work, and the starting salary was about 1,000 yuan. After graduating from college, the starting salary is around 25,000 to 3,000.
What's more, jobs that pay well tend to have a better future. Being admitted to HKU and CUHK means that for a low-class family like the Li family, it means that they have found the best stepping stone to the middle and upper class.
"Brother, aren't you sleeping at home tonight?" Li Xuan saw that his eldest brother was about to go out.
"Well, I'll have to stay in the living room and lay the floor at home, so I might as well go back to where I live. Besides, the video hall is all night business, I have to watch it, otherwise the big guy will curse if something goes wrong!" Li Ke took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket, took out a lighter and lit it, put it in his mouth and said with a smile, "When A-Ying called me today, my big guy happened to be next to me, knowing that you took three A and two B's, and asked me if I was born to Lao Dou, why did I send you so much, haha!"
The public housing that the Li family applied for was a very small two-bedroom apartment, and the second bedroom took up a small half of the area with an iron plate bed on the upper and lower floors, and then put a small wardrobe, and there was not much open space for a writing desk.
Such a small bedroom will live Li Xuan and Li Ying, two sisters. Li Ying is a girl, sleeping on the top bunk, with a curtain hanging on the bed, and a little private space when she closes the curtain when she sleeps.
Fortunately, Li Ying is only twelve years old this year, if she is a few years older, Li Xuan will be even more embarrassed. But this is the current housing situation in Hong Kong, and the situation of the Li family is far from the worst. Brothers and sisters are crammed into the same small room.
"Brother!" Li Xuan had something to say, but he didn't know what to say.
"You big guy and I are different from you, I can't study since I was a child, skip class, fight, and I've been a rotten boy for a long time. Let me go to work in the garment factory with Lao Dou, I can't stand the suffering, so I can only come to the club!" Li Ke knew what his brother wanted to say, "Don't worry, your big man, my eyes are bright, anyway, I didn't think about becoming a red stick in the future, I won't compete for anything, and I will definitely be able to take care of myself." ”
Li Xuan naturally understood that these were the words of the eldest brother to comfort him, and he couldn't help himself as soon as he entered the rivers and lakes. To be a troubled boy is poorer and five richer, and if you want to have a lot of money to spend, you need to fight with your life. When the big guy is drying the horse, if you don't rush to the front, why should the big guy hold you and give you the most oily and watery field.
As the saying goes, the sword has no eyes, and there is always a day when you get wet when you walk by the river. Li Xuan also knows that he is not capable of helping his eldest brother now, but he hopes that the boss Huo Junming can win the distribution rights of Epson printers smoothly during his trip to Japan, so that he can get the first pot of gold soon. When you have the 100,000 yuan, take out some of it to find a store for the eldest brother to do business, no matter if you lose money, you will have a serious business first.
He believes that with these memories in his mind that are thirty years ahead of this era, it will not take long for his rapid rise to success. At that time, Lao Dou and his mother will not have to work so hard, they will change to a bigger house, and the little sister A-Ying should also transfer to other prestigious schools with better teaching levels. As for the eldest brother, even if he messes around every day and raises him for the rest of his life, it is not in vain that he stole money to buy fish balls for himself when he was a child.
Although the family is bitter, this kind of warm family affection where blood is thicker than water is something Li Xuan has never enjoyed in his previous life. Home is a special obsession for his soul of two lives, and it also inspires him to work hard and create his own success.
In the next few days, Li Xuan devoted most of his time to the design and development of Hanka, and finally completed the finalization before Huo Junming left for Japan, and handed it over to the boss to go to Japan on his behalf, as a small bargaining chip to show his strength and sincerity during negotiations.
Huo Junming has not been idle these days, as the so-called knowing oneself and knowing the other side can not be defeated in a hundred battles. In the past few days, he has taken a lot of effort to collect relevant information about Epson Corporation in Japan. Epson does not have an office in Hong Kong, although there are some models of micro printers for cashier receipts in supermarkets and department stores. But the market share is very small, and there are no agents to open up the market. This is good news for Hengtai.
In addition to selling a wide range of printers, Epson also manufactures LCD screens. Epson's parent company is Seiko, a well-known Japanese watchmaking company, and Epson's LCD screen is mainly used as the screen for the parent company to produce electronic watches.
This is another piece of good news for Huo Junming. Before he quit his job to start his own company, he worked as a sales manager in an electronic watch factory in Hong Kong, where most of the electronic watches were low-end products, mainly sold to Southeast Asia, the United States and Europe. As far as he knows, there are no local LCD companies in Hong Kong, and the main suppliers of accessories come from Japan and Europe, of which Epson's share should be very small.
If Huo Junming can propose a package agency plan that includes the two major products of printers and LCD screens when negotiating with Epson, and comprehensively develop the Hong Kong market for Epson, then his chances of successfully winning the agency will undoubtedly increase a lot.