Chapter 45: Life is Better Than Death
Chen Yong's workshop is located in a relatively secluded T-junction in the south of the street, and a building that condenses most of Chen Yong's life's work constitutes a simple tofu processing factory. The building sits in the south and faces north, and it is rare to have a ray of sunshine all year round.
The first floor of the building is a façade covering an area of more than 40 square meters, and coking coal, soybeans, tofu boxes, dry firewood, wooden barrels and other things are piled up on the ground all year round. On the walls of the façade and under the ceiling, there are some snakeskin bags, plastic bags, eco-friendly bags and other bags. Although the ground is paved with cement, it is waterlogged all year round, and some places have potholes, and in some places there has been a layer of green moss. Chickens walking on the ground covered with green moss may wrestle at any time. People shuttling on it are inevitably guaranteed to be very peaceful.
The front door leads to the front and back door, and the staircase of the back door leads to the four-storey house upstairs. Because the horizontal area of the house is narrow, the four-story house does not have a living room, and the staircase is used as the dividing line, and there is a house in the front and back. Chen Yong's two children live on the third floor, Zhao Yan lives on the fourth floor, Chen Zhujun and Chen Yong live on the second floor because they are in a hurry to work every day, and the fifth floor is vacant.
The town is located at the junction of three counties, and there are floating people shuttling on the streets all day long. In the past few years, Chen Yong and his wife have relied on the advantage of "this one alone, no other branch", and the business once dominated the limelight in the town. Five years later, because of the rise of a peer business in the west of the street, their business gradually went into recession. In order to return to the old glory of the business field and defeat the opponents in the business field, Chen Yong and his wife were once exhausted. They have put a lot of effort into the source, processing and sales of products, but the results have been very little. Later, Chen Zhujun came, and they almost regarded Chen Zhujun as the god of wealth who turned the tide - they asked Chen Zhujun to sit in front of the store every day to make live signboards for products, with heavy makeup and sweet words, like a prostitute soliciting customers, but business was still not very good.
"These customers who don't know what to do are really disappointed by my hard work," Chen Yong said indignantly one night, looking at a pile of leftover tofu, "I don't believe it, consumers don't know that the tofu of the house in the west of the street is adulterated, and they rush to buy the tofu of that house one by one, isn't it because their tofu has less money and more portions? There is no free lunch in the world, the amount is large and the price is small, you can imagine it, what is sold! We honest people are not adulterated, but have no business!" In this case, I will also do something in the product in the future, including those fools who will scramble to step on our threshold. ”
So Chen Yong changed the honest and trustworthy style of businessmen in the past, and began to explore a set of deceptive ways to make a fortune. He added a chemical to the tofu that can increase the amount of tofu, a dye that looks good to make the tofu look good, and a flavor that tastes mellow, and grinds the leftover rice he eats every day into soy milk. The tofu made is really different. Sure enough, Chen Yong's family's business gradually boomed again.
"I know that those consumers don't know what to do," Chen Yong looked at the backs of the customers who came later, and sneered, "It's better to tell a story with a stone than to tell a story to you fools." ”
As soon as Chen Zhujun saw that the leftover rice eaten by Chen Yong's family was poured into soybeans and ground into a slurry together, and the guy who hadn't been cleaned for several days was still loading tofu, she stood there stunned and didn't know what to do.
"Why are you stunned, we didn't add poison to it," Chen Yong shouted with a glare, "What's the point of mixing some leftover rice, if we don't poison it, we are already worthy of the conscience of heaven and earth." Those consumers who don't know whether they live or die don't treat them like this, they are all dogs biting Lu Dongbin. ”
That kind of unfair competition really brought an unprecedented brilliant situation to Chen Yong's business, just like a patient's return to the light before he died. Later, until a customer ate a fish bone in his family's tofu, Chen Yong's family's business fell into a situation where the sun was declining. The customer took the tofu with fish bones and went directly to Chen's house to ask for an explanation. When Chen Yong and his wife saw it, they were immediately shocked, but immediately denied it. Later, another customer ate a button in the tofu, and the Chen family's tofu was officially declared to be dead in the town, and the townspeople no longer patronized his family's workshop.
Chen Yong's tofu was officially declared bankrupt in the town, and since then they have regarded everyone on the street as an invincible enemy. Chen Yong's family has to pull tofu to the countryside every day to sell it, which means that they have to drive more than ten miles or even dozens of miles of mountain roads every day, which means that they have to invest in greater sales costs for their products. They blame the increase in costs entirely on customers who don't buy their products, and they come up with a plan to deliberately make noise in the middle of the night to make it impossible for neighbors near and far to sleep.
"These enemies want to fight me, how do I see how they fight me?" Chen Yong said, "In the future, I will make a big fuss in the Heavenly Palace every night, and see who can help me!"
Chen Yong did what he said. He went to the roof of his house and built a tin wall, and fed two pigs, three dogs, five geese, ten chickens, and twenty ducks in the wall. During the day, geese, ducks and pigs keep barking, and at night, chickens and dogs keep barking, just like a zoo. He deliberately put a dog in an iron chain in an empty room on the fifth floor, deliberately not feeding it. The dog screamed in the room late at night. After two months of screaming, the voice was a little hoarse, and it sounded indistinguishable from the howl of a wolf in the desert. The whole town almost lost sleep for a while because of the wolf-like dog. For this reason, some nearby residents have complained to the government department, but the complaint has not been successful.
"Complaints, this is not a legal practice, even if the complaint is filed with the central government, I am not afraid! I have not killed anyone, and I have not set fires, who dares to do anything to me?" Chen Yong scoffed when he saw someone complaining, "Whoever told you not to buy my tofu will make you feel better in the future." ”
After the noise of Chen Yong's "zoo" made the nearby residents accept that there were no complaints, he deliberately used the high audio of the TV to make the residents suffer.
"I want to make those enemies who don't buy my products suffer from sleepless pain," Chen Yong said, "and whoever can't get along with me, I want him to be unable to live." My television set would be called up all night every night to see who could help me! As long as two-thirds of the enemies on the street crawled out of the bed late at night and poked out of the window, I would be satisfied. That's what happens when they don't buy my product. ”
Since then, Chen Yong's TV has really been on the screen from 8 o'clock in the evening to 8 o'clock the next day, first the host plays, and then the frequency is automatically tuned. is a bullet-whistling battle film, then a quintessential Peking Opera anti-series, and then a vigorous classical romance film...... The cry of the woman, the scream of terror, the laughter of haha....... All kinds of sounds, you name it.
Chen Yong and his wife got up at three o'clock and were busy going to the countryside to sell tofu, and Chen Zhujun also got up at three o'clock. Chen Yong deliberately threw the guy who should be put in the car so that the neighbors who slept soundly in the middle of the night would wake up with a shock. Then he made unscrupulous calls to his mobile phone, and then mixed with his deliberate shouting of "Or, or?" and asked his family if they wanted to take something. Before he set off, he deliberately played the loudspeaker with the recording "Sell Tofu, Sell Tofu" at the door every time to tune the rhythm. The neighbors were woken up in the middle of the night.
Chen Zhujun lived in Chen Yong's house, and he also suffered from sleepless sleep every night, and felt that life was really worse than death for a while.