The night was getting deeper.

I talked a lot with Xuan, and now from a different perspective, my views have changed about many things in the county.

There is no absolute right or wrong in anything, but relatively different evaluation angles will come to different conclusions, which is the biggest feeling I have after chatting with her.

Is GDI Group wrong? In addition to forcible seizure and illegal crimes, there is nothing wrong with its business model. Are the two good companies doing it right now? Under the cover of various umbrellas, they are also doing a lot of despicable things.

The so-called winner is the king and the loser is the loser, which is also an iron law in business behavior.

Until we finished the topic and Xuan walked out of the tea room for a long time, I was still meditating on the various details of past events, and I was thinking about what fatal mistakes Da Zhifu made during the period when he was operating in the county in the past.

I don't know how long it took.

Lan Gu walked in quietly, she silently changed the pot of tea, and sat quietly opposite me.

Stared at me for a while, and suddenly laughed "poof".

"Are you settled?" , she asked with a smile.

"At first, I thought you and Xuan were chatting, but we were sleepy and asleep."

"No, I'm thinking about things." I yawned, indeed, it was getting late, and I was a little sleepy.

"After chatting for a long time, have you gained anything?" , Lan Gu asked.

"The harvest is very big, and now looking back, when we were working in the county a few years ago, we were a little too weak." , I have some emotion.

"One is that we don't have a good relationship with the local government, and the other is that we don't have the protection of local forces."

"This is the key reason why our business has not been able to continue from the beginning."

After listening to my words, Lan Gu smiled slightly.

"If your point of view is correct, why did the CGI Group fall?"

Yes, the GDI Group did the best in both aspects, and finally collapsed.

I was asked, speechless for a moment.

The Guangtou Group has the care of the government and the support of social forces, but it still ended up ruined, the company went bankrupt, and the trees fell and the macaques scattered.

Does this mean that my summary of past failures is too superficial?

Lan Gu poured a cup of tea and looked at me with a somewhat complicated expression.

"Actually, you have been in business for so many years, and your summary just now is also very reasonable, but you have ignored two key issues."

I took a sip of tea, leaned back in my chair, and looked at her, a little embarrassed.

"In fact, you have two problems that you are concerned about now, and for a company, this is the most fatal factor, but you don't point it out."

"I really didn't think of the two questions you said, what do you mean...?"

"One is a policy issue, and the other is a socio-environmental issue."

"Oh." It dawned on me.

"This is indeed something that I didn't pay much attention to before, and the deep reason for the failure of Da Zhifu is also the social and environmental problems that Lan Gu said."

I thought to myself.

"Have you ever wondered how far a good company can go under the current situation?"

This is indeed a deeper problem.

I was silent.

Lan Gu went on to analyze.

"I don't know if you are concerned, some time ago, the central government just held the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the government's anti-corruption determination is very large, the focus of future governance is the collusion of local officials and businessmen, underworld forces, do you think that the good company is now on the red line, has been in danger?"

"And the mining farm business you mentioned, after the Beijing Olympics, the government organized the establishment of the Ministry of Environmental Protection, increased the environmental remediation efforts of the central government, in recent years, Beijing and the surrounding areas of serious air pollution, it is estimated that the next step, the government will be a heavy blow to remediate heavy polluting enterprises, how far do you think the mining farm can go?"

After listening to Lan Gu's analysis, I couldn't help but secretly admire it in my heart.

Yes, doing business without asking about politics is completely unfeasible in the current society.

However, doing business and participating in politics is also a dead end.

If this scale is grasped well, the enterprise will be a little longer and more stable.

From this point of view, the commercial battlefield of the hometown county, the current seemingly infinite scenery of the two brothers, is destined not to be the final winner. Because it has been involved in too many official forces, it has hurt the vitality of the enterprise, and once there is a problem with an official internal line, it will be a fatal blow to the enterprise.

From the perspective of the social impact of environmental governance, the development of mining farms also seems to be precarious.

The current social environment has sounded the alarm for businessmen who are trying to fish in troubled waters, and it is becoming more and more difficult to get something for nothing.

Xiaowei's business model is destined to be cocooned and self-bound, and being smart is mistaken by being smart.

Thinking of this, I am a little secretly glad that with the help of Lan Gu, I can see the problem clearly, understand the problem, and think about the problem in failure, which will be of great benefit to the future development.

It was late at night, and the clubhouse was closed for rest.

I stood up and prepared to leave.

"Are you leaving again?" Lan Gu glanced at me and looked a little sad.

"yes, it's too late, you... It's time for you to rest, too. I put on my coat and began to pack my things.

"You... Do you really want to leave now and not stay for a while? In her tone, there was some reluctance.

"It's too late, I have to go to work tomorrow." I sensed her abnormality and couldn't help but stop and take a look at her.

"Actually, today... Today is a special day for me. Lan Gu looked at me and lowered her head a little embarrassed.

"What day?" I still didn't react, confused.

"It's my birthday."

I couldn't help but be very ashamed when I heard her.

My memory of the date has always been confused.

When I'm so busy at work, I don't even remember my parents' birthdays or my own birthdays, but that doesn't mean I don't love them.

However, I really have never paid attention to Langu's birthday.

"Your birthday, you... Why didn't you say it earlier? I said something extremely confused, how can this kind of thing be waiting for others to tell you?

After speaking, I secretly scolded myself for having too low emotional intelligence.

Lan Gu didn't seem to care.

"I'm sorry, I did forget, you were leaving just now, I just remembered that today is my birthday." Her face flushed.

"I think, it's quite sad to celebrate a birthday alone, if you can stay and stay with me for a while, it will be a little better."

"Look, in two hours, my birthday will be over." , she said self-deprecatingly.

"Let's talk a little longer, shall we?"

There was a hint of expectation in Lan Gu's eyes.

I felt a pang of sadness in my heart.

Even without our original emotional entanglements, simple friends, how can such a request be refused?

I nodded and sat back down.

Lan Gu was like a little girl, cheering.

It seems that she really doesn't care, I don't know it's her birthday.

"We don't drink tea anymore, how about a change of environment?"

She proposed.

"Okay." , I don't have any reason to refuse.

"Let's go next door to the tea room." , she said softly.

I followed her into another cabin.

Everything there is déjà vu, even if it's an illusory electronic simulation, it looks real and illusory, so real.

The space of the hut is a little narrow, with an earthen bed and a small window on the side wall, through which you can see the melon field with stereoscopic projection outside the house.

Outside the house, you can clearly hear the sound of simulated thunderstorms and frogs.

I seem to have walked into the cottage at the head of the dry water bridge in my hometown more than ten years ago.

Lan Gu glanced back at me and smiled like a flower.

"Did you feel like you'd be seeing me for the first time?" , she asked with a smile.

I knew her intentions, and I couldn't help but feel excited, like falling into a dream, as if I had returned to my teenage years.

"I made my own cake."

She gestured to the small table on the earthen bed.

There was a cake and two glasses of red wine on the table.

"You see, the simulation technology is limited, and the melon can still be bought, but I think today, we still eat cake and drink the red bar, it's too late, if you really eat the melon, it is estimated that your stomach can't stand it, and you should not sleep well at night." After all, you're all old and old. Lan Gu giggled.

It's true that I'm old, but the dreamlike environment has brought me back to more than a decade ago, and I feel like I've become younger.

"I'm not old, am I?"

"No matter how old I am, you are an aunt, and I am not as old as you." , I quipped, the joke was so similar to what it was more than a decade ago.

The environment designed by Lan Gu to celebrate her birthday is very chic, and I love it.

"I think it's not your birthday, it's my birthday. The design of this cottage environment is awesome. I smiled and said to her.

Lan Gu couldn't help but be a little surprised when she saw that I liked such an environment.

She stepped forward and took me in her arms.

"Like it? Do you really like it? She looked at me affectionately.

I was a little caught off guard, and in her arms, I was a little flustered for a moment.

A charming body scent greeted you, very different from the taste of the black earth more than ten years ago.

In Lan Gu's soft embrace, I felt her bumpy body, and the pent-up desire in my heart was awakened little by little.

More than ten years of lovesickness slowly woke up in a deep sleep, impacting my senses.

"Do you still eat cake?" Instead of answering her question, I asked rhetorically, while sealing her fiery red lips with my mouth.

"Whatever you want." She snorted, closed her eyes, and a faint flush welled up on her face.

At the same time, the whole body burned like fire.

I picked her up and walked to the dirt bed.

The earthen bed is real, a taste of the black earth of the homeland.

A tear glistened from the corner of Lan Gu's eye.

She looked at me and kissed me affectionately, as if she wanted to vent her emotions for more than ten years without reservation.

Outside, it started to rain at some point, mixed with lightning and thunder, and the crackling sound of the rain gradually drowned out the illusory electronic sound set up in the hut.

However, everything in the world outside the house seems to be very far away from us at the moment.

Even if everything is so real.