Yu Jianguo worked in the tailor shop for five years, and in the fifth year, he followed the pot-bellied Nuanzhou merchant to do the hardware business. Of course, he was still an apprentice, but this apprentice was not the same as an apprentice in a tailor's shop. The apprentice manager in the tailor shop is called the master, while the guy in the hardware store is called the general manager.

Yu Jianguo is a diligent and hard-working person who can use his brains, otherwise General Manager Yan, who can afford to drive a car, would not have taken him out of the tailor shop. He took out the strength to serve the master and served the boss and customers, serving tea and pouring water to wash the toilet; took out the patience of sewing buttons to inventory and bookkeeping, and soon became famous in the hardware store and became the most effective assistant by Boss Yan's side. But this offended the old employees of the store and the boss's little lover.

Because the boss is very busy, often have to socialize, but also to go to the south to buy, the staff in the store often take advantage of the boss's absence to get some oil and water and cat greasy, but since Yu Jianguo came, sales and inventory have been sorted out clearly, and there is no oil and water to fish. The old employee hated him so much, but there was no way, Yu Jianguo was clean and there was nothing wrong with him, and the boss appreciated him, so he couldn't drive him away for nothing.

Boss Yan's home is in the south and he has a little lover in this city. This woman is docile like a cat in front of the boss, and when the boss is away, she becomes a dominatrix. She knew that her position could not be corrected, so she often secretly took the money from the store, and the old employees turned a blind eye. But after Yu Jianguo came, the accounts and inventory were remembered to death, and there was no mistake at all. Although women are the ones who take care of the accounts, they can't do anything when they are watched by Yu Jianguo.

The old employee and the little lover set up a bureau together, drunk Yu Jianguo, and pushed the little lover's body. The little lover showed a fragrant shoulder, and fell into Yu Jianguo's arms half-pushed and half-fell on the spot.

Yu Jianguo, a seventeen or eighteen-year-old boy, couldn't stand this, plus he drank alcohol, and his brain was muddy, so he hugged the boss's little lover. When the boss came back, he saw this scene, and the little lover shouted for help and said that Yu Jianguo was bullying her. The employees also testified for the little lover, saying that Yu Jianguo had a bad heart for a long time, and some people saw him peeking at the boss's lady taking a bath several times, so cloudy.

Boss Yan got angry and slapped Yu Jianguo out. The old employees who had seen him for a long time followed suit and beat him up again at the door of the store.

Yu Jianguo was penniless, and he didn't even wear a coat and was left on the streets in winter again.

Of course, Yu Jianguo didn't know Zhao Pengcheng at that time, Zhao Pengcheng was still a baby who ran around the mountains in open crotch pants, but Yu Jianguo knew Zhao Pengcheng's father.

During the years when he was an apprentice in the city, the people in their village still begged for food outside, and among these people was Zhao Pengcheng's father.

Zhao Pengcheng's father is more than ten years older than Yu Jianguo, but the two are considered to be the same generation, and Yu Jianguo calls him Lao Zhao. In the third year of Yu Jianguo's apprenticeship, Lao Zhao came to the city to meet him. Yu Jianguo asked him why he came out to ask for food again. Lao Zhao said that this year's weather is not good, the harvest in the field is small, and the daughter-in-law has given birth to an extra girl, and the family can't open the pot.

At that time, Yu Jianguo was also a primary school apprentice who fed his family and was not hungry, but he still persuaded Lao Zhao not to ask for food, and it was better to work than to ask for food. Lao Zhao felt that what Yu Jianguo said was reasonable, so he broke away from the food queue and started working as a small worker on a construction site in the city.

In the winter when Yu Jianguo was beaten, after being hungry in the ice and snow for two days, he really had no choice, so he went to the construction site to find Lao Zhao. Lao Zhao was very righteous, and without saying a word, he took him in and let him stutter first on the construction site. Yu Jianguo couldn't swallow the breath of being framed, so he was very angry and did any job. The foreman saw that although Yu Jianguo was thin, he was diligent and sincere, and his brain was bright, so he asked him to help with procurement.

Yu Jianguo worked on the construction site for three years, and finally found an opportunity to contract the purchase of small hardware in the later stage of the entire project. This order made him turn over, and since then he has started a business of hardware and ceramic sanitary ware, and also opened his own shop.

He and Boss Yan have become competitors, and the two of you come and go is an advertising war and a price war, and you fight to the death. In the end, Boss Yan was killed by the fake accounts made by his little lover.

When he and Yu Jianguo fought a price war, the store bought a lot of fake goods to shoddy in order to fill the deficit and prevent exposure. Yu Jianguo knew this clearly, but he didn't say anything about it, until they became more and more emboldened, and all the funds went into fakes, that he anonymously reported it to the Industrial and Commercial Bureau and notified the media.

So Boss Yan went bankrupt, and his little lover and those employees who beat Jianguo were arrested and sentenced for embezzlement, economic fraud and other crimes. Yu Jianguo took revenge and was full of spirit, of course he would not have thought that he would be imprisoned one day.

That was in that year, a stone beam on the construction site broke, and it crushed Lao Zhao's waist with a click.

Lao Zhao couldn't do heavy work from then on, so he had to leave the construction site. Yu Jianguo originally intended to let Lao Zhao come to him to work, but Lao Zhao would only do rough work, and he was a little homesick when he was away from home all the year round, so he went back to the countryside with his savings.

The down-and-out Boss Yan owes a lot of debt and is dragged up from the cold railroad tracks by Yu Jianguo. Yu Jianguo said that you are a dignified general manager, there is a family and business in the south, why is it that a store here is closed and you are looking for death. Boss Yan said that he no longer had a home, for the sake of his little lover, he divorced his original wife, and all the property in the south belonged to his wife, and the money earned here was squandered by the little lover, and he lost a lot of money in the price war with him.

Yu Jianguo told Boss Yan about being framed, saying that I never forgot Mr. Yan's kindness for you to bring me to my debut, and I will pay off the debt you owe for you, let's do it together. Boss Yan cried after hearing this, and the dozens of years old man was crying on the train platform with a young man in his arms.

Yu Jianguo and Mr. Yan joined forces and soon made the business of hardware and sanitary ware bigger. Yu Jianguo opened the branch back to his hometown and became a man of the hour in that backward county.

He remembered the scene when he went to Lao Zhao in the winter, and the bowl of spicy soup that Lao Zhao cooked for him always warmed his heart. He helped Lao Zhao's family a lot, and he also paid for the two children's education. But Lao Zhao is a stubborn donkey, and it's okay to help occasionally, but if he gives more, he won't want to live or die.

Later, Lao Zhao said to him: "Don't give me money anymore, my old face can't hang up, if you want to help, let Pengcheng go to work with you." ”

At that time, Zhao Pengcheng was the same age as Yu Jianguo when he was an apprentice in a tailor shop. Although Yu Jianguo felt that this child should study, Lao Zhao insisted, and he didn't say anything, so he took Zhao Pengcheng away.

Zhao Pengcheng is also diligent and clever, every time Yu Jianguo sees him, he seems to see himself back then. He said: "Your baby is useless if he stays in the county, either he will go back to study, or if he doesn't study, he will go to the south." So, he handed over Zhao Pengcheng to Lao Yan and let Lao Yan take him to Shenzhen to see the world.