After more than two months of classes, Hu Youmin learned very easily, the course was very simple, most of it was high school content, which was a top student, no need to prepare, no need to review, he could digest it in class.

He was not satisfied with the teaching in the classroom, bought a lot of economic and management books, such as "Economics and Management", "Enterprise Reengineering", "Internal Overall Control Framework", etc., and used his spare time to study, and asked the teacher who taught political economy for advice if he didn't understand.

Hu Youmin was not active in the class, he listened carefully in class, and after class, he either asked the teacher for questions, or sat in his seat and read thick extracurricular books. Even so, there are still two male classmates in the class who play well with him, one is named Chen Guoliang, thin and tall, about 1.78 meters tall, maybe his parents wanted him to become a pillar of the country so they took this name, but it backfired, in his own words, not only did he not become a pillar, not even bricks and tiles, and became an unemployed vagrant who set up a stall.

The other is named Liu Xinyuan, who is about the same size as him, also very thin, does not talk much, with a faint and polite smile on his face, and is a lathe worker of Tanglin City Axle Factory. Hu Youmin can't figure out how he played with them, maybe he could chat after class, and he drank a few times outside, for them who just entered the society, they are still relatively simple, and they can become friends with their temperament, and their friendship has always been maintained.

Hu Youmin followed Chen Guoliang to set up a stall several times, on a night market street near his home. The stalls in the night market seem to be set up first, but in fact they are not like this, they have been agreed with the market management and urban management in advance, and the relevant fees have been paid. If any daredevils go to occupy a stall and put it up, not to mention the original stall owner, the chengguan will also come to find you, drive you away or confiscate your things.

Chen Guoliang sells used clothes, which in later words are foreign garbage clothes. Foreign garbage clothing is a common name in the society, generally referring to imported second-hand clothing, or smuggling, entrainment and other ways to import clothing prohibited by the country or unauthorized import of clothing that is restricted from import.

It is also said that foreign garbage clothing comes from foreign garbage dumps and even hospital morgues, and there are various foreign diseases and infectious sources hidden on these foreign garbage clothing. Foreign garbage clothing has always been strictly forbidden to enter the country. These garments that appear on the market are smuggled into our country without inspection and quarantine.

These foreign garbage are generally priced by the pound, the cost is low, and after being transported to the market, they are sold at a price of about 10 yuan per piece. There are stains, mildew spots, and unpleasant smells on the clothing, and some clothes have even been rotted, usually a pound of money.

Merchants come back from the goods, pick and choose, and put them out for sale after a little processing, and two-thirds of them become the goods on the stalls, which is still a lucrative industry, so even if it violates moral laws and regulations, there are still many illegal traders buying and selling.

Chen Guoliang can be regarded as a conscientious profiteer, he buys goods from Guangzhou, and he picks good and expensive old clothes, which cost two yuan a catty. After the old clothes come in, they are first classified and selected, and they are divided into three categories: one is relatively good, the second is basically wearable, and the third is too bad to sell.

The first two types of clothing are disinfected and cleaned twice, first scalded with boiling water once, then rinsed with disinfectant once, ironed with an electric iron after drying, pasted with a self-made fake trademark, sealed with a plastic bag, said to be a backlog of clothing in the garment factory warehouse, a good one sells for more than 30, and generally sells for ten to twenty yuan a piece. The third type is to sell to the mop factory to make mops, so that he can earn about ten yuan on average for a piece of clothing, and if he is lucky enough to sell seven or eight pieces in one night, he can sell two or three pieces at worst, which is much stronger than going to work.

When washing, you can dig out coins from clothes, including Korean won, Japanese yen, US dollars, British pounds, and some coins from unknown countries, and at most you can turn over ten dollars in a piece of clothing, and these windfalls add up to a lot, and sometimes they are worth the payment for goods.

On a Saturday night, I made an appointment with Liu Xinyuan to accompany Chen Guoliang to set up a stall, in November, the weather was a little cold, and there were not many people who came out to shop, and most of the people who patronized his stall were migrant workers who were not particular about dressing and could not pay attention to the clothes, and the clothes on their bodies were really impossible to wear, so they went to a stall like him to buy a few clothes.

Chen Guoliang does not shout the price, so naturally the empty price of the counteroffer is small, and some migrant workers mostly buy it from him after comparing the stalls. The most valuable thing for migrant workers is time and energy, and sometimes they can run two or three miles more to buy things in order to save a few cents of the difference.

Today, I sold three pieces of clothing and earned more than 20 yuan. Now it's past ten o'clock, there are no people on the street, they began to collect the stall home, the clothes stall is very simple, a few hangers assembled with tap water pipes, put away and put on the tricycle, a few people push the tricycle to Chen Guoliang's house, only more than ten minutes away.

Among the three, only Chen Guoliang's pocket is solid, and he usually pays for eating and drinking together, but this time he bought a lot of appetizers such as edamame, chicken racks, braised pig ears, braised chicken feet, peanuts, etc., and three bottles of liquor, ready to go back and drink to the fullest.

Chen Guoliang's parents worked in the same factory and had to work two shifts, so in order not to affect the rest of the other party, they chose to work the day shift or night shift at the same time, and Hu Youmin chose to go to his parents on the night shift.

The three of them set up the wine and food, turned on the video recorder, put a tape with a plot, and began to watch and drink and talk about the mountains. Among the three, Chen Guoliang is the kind of heartless and heartless, although he is in business, he is sincere, Liu Xinyuan is a little introverted, knowledgeable, but a little stingy, and loves to care about some small things. When the three of them chatted, it was generally Chen Guoliang who bragged, Liu Xinyuan echoed, and Hu Youmin was on the side.

Chen Guoliang's family has a lot of videotapes, domestic, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Western, and many other that are not suitable for children, which are brought back by the clothes when they go to Guangzhou to buy goods. At first, it was with a story, and then it was a Western blockbuster, and it was a century war with no prelude or storyline.

The first time Youmin watched this kind of thing, he saw that his face was red, his mouth was dry, and he was better with the level, there was a story foreshadowing, half-concealed and half-hidden, and the short-handed battles, although exciting, were boring, and he was disgusted by some perverted plots, and felt disgusting, I don't know if our Hu classmates are traditional or lack appreciation level. After watching it a few times, Hu Youmin didn't want to watch this kind of video, so Chen Guoliang looked for some Hong Kong and Taiwan gunfight movies to watch.

His house is a small bungalow, a one-bedroom, a living room, a bathroom and a kitchen, with a small yard, which is very rare in the city, it is said that they will soon be demolished here, you can make up a lot of money, you can also make up the house.

Generally, it is half a unit of a five-story building, that is to say, a house with two bedrooms, two living rooms, a kitchen and one bathroom can be made up of five sets, and these houses are rented out to a large amount of income at the time, and China's demolition policy has made many people rich overnight.

The house has no beds at home, and there is a large earthen kang in the bedroom and living room. The first time Hu Youmin saw such a kang of earth, how wide the house was, how wide the kang was, and three sides were against the wall. The large kang in the living room is nearly four meters wide, and can sleep seven or eight people side by side, and there is a square dining table on the kang, less than 50 centimeters high, you can sit cross-legged on the kang to eat, and take the dining table down when sleeping. There is no heating at home, so I rely on a kang and a chimney for heating.

After drinking until one o'clock in turn, there was still half a bottle of liquor, and everyone was a little drunk, so they proposed not to drink it. Everyone didn't wash their hands and faces, they didn't clean up the wine and food, they climbed onto the kang and prepared to sleep, watching the video and the TV were still on, Hu Youmin was about to go to the close, but Chen Guoliang didn't let him, saying that he was sleeping while watching.

Sleeping on the soil kang at night is not covered with cotton wool, there is no pad, only a layer of floor leather, Hu Youmin from the south slept on such a soil kang for the first time, and began to be a little uncomfortable, the hard soil kang panicked, fortunately, he was young, and he watched the video late, he was too sleepy, and he fell asleep quickly.

Hu Youmin, who was accustomed to getting up early, went to the yard to fight a set of punches, and when he saw that they were sleeping soundly, he didn't wake them up, turned off the video and television, pushed his bicycle, and went back to the factory with the courtyard door covered. Because it was Sunday, there was only Lao Liang, the doorman in the factory, and Hu Youmin said hello to Lao Liang and returned to the dormitory. The sun rose and shone warmly on his body, Hu Youmin moved a chair and sat in the sunlight at the door, reading a book.

He is a substitute reading, that is, he imagines himself as the author or the protagonist of the book, and thinks about what he will do in some scenes, is it the only choice, what are the loopholes, what are the areas that need to be improved, and this kind of reading can have a lot of resonance, and there is also a lot of confusion, but it understands more than others.

Now Hu Youmin thinks about making money the most, he reads a lot of it to find some inspiration to make a fortune, and thinks of many ideas, which are rejected by him one by one, either difficult or unrealistic, and he can't make a fortune by selling coolies to make some hard money, and he can't do illegal business, that's the bottom line of his life, it's not that he is timid, he doesn't want to live the kind of life condemned by his conscience and fear.

He also wants to set up a stall like Chen Guoliang, if Chen Guoliang is considered a self-employed person, this is his first close contact and understanding of self-employed people: free time, earning more money, flexible mind, keen vision, able to endure hardships, good at drilling, but most of the time there is no principle and bottom line, no long-term vision, no planning, what to make money.

Like the later gutter oil, sulfur smoked fungus, poisonous dog meat, female pork, fruit bubble preservatives, vegetables sprinkled with contraceptives, etc., it is shocking and impossible to prevent. Even some large enterprises are greedy for profit and make fakes, such as the Wuyang Dairy Factory, which contains excessive ammonia in milk powder, poisoning many innocent babies.

Hu Youmin thought about it for a long time, but still gave up this idea, most of the industries engaged in by self-employed people have small technical content and low entry barriers, and basically rely on information asymmetry, opportunism, shoddy, fraud and so on to make money.

He doesn't want to fall into this short-term temptation, so that although he can get rich quickly, he limits his horizons, loses himself, and is difficult to become bigger and stronger, and more importantly, he doesn't want to make these black-hearted money with no bottom line, he can't sell his conscience, and he must have principles in his heart.

The book said that entrepreneurship should start from the industry that he is familiar with, because he is currently engaged in the production of electric furnace industry, but the investment in the electric furnace factory is too large, and he has no technical reserves, no relationship with customers, and does not understand marketing, he reluctantly vetoed this idea.

I want to go back to my hometown to engage in farming or breeding, but also because I have no technology, and second, the per capita arable land in my hometown is only eight points of land, and there is no space, so I have to give up. Hu Youmin knows that the opportunity to start a business cannot be forced, and he can only be a caring person and wait for the opportunity to appear.

This opportunity did not take long to appear, the factory made a high-frequency furnace for a furniture factory, Hu Youmin had close contact with the furniture industry, and felt the huge profits inside.