Chapter 08: The Long Wait
My ex-fiancΓ©e, Yahan, was one of my best friends in high school, and because she sat in the front and back of the class, and both liked literature, she always got along like buddies. She is very familiar with my family, experience, dreams, and abilities, and it is not so surprising that I was second on her list of later invitations (the No. 1 on the list is her brother-in-law, Manager Niu, who will be mentioned later in this article).
Yahan's Meilu was definitely unexpected by me, because Meilu in 1998 was still a sea of laid-off workers. Before joining Meilu, Yahan was the manager of a well-known foreign-funded fast food chain, and later borrowed 100,000 yuan to set up his own beauty salon. When I just graduated and was still working hard for 500 yuan a month in a travel agency, her monthly income was close to 4,000 yuan, which is a white-collar worker with small financial resources.
Knowing that she was doing Meilu or when she went to her house to play during the Spring Festival in 1998, she slept for more than half a year after being recommended by a stranger in Chengdu, and finally with the unremitting efforts of the leader of Guangdong Mingzhu (later referred to as Chen Zuan), this seedling from thousands of mountains and rivers pulled out tender green shoots. As a successful person later, Yan Zuan cut off all his retreats as soon as he came up, and also resigned from his enviable job in a foreign company, and went all out to devote himself to this "great" cause.
Due to the experience of being followed up at school last time, and being my best friend, I cooperated with the toothpaste demonstration, and then found an excuse to quickly leave. As a natural beauty passer in Yahan's eyes and the male number two on the list, since then, a long four-year follow-up has begun......
In those years, there were many classic conversations between me and Yahan.
Scenario 1:
Xiao Fei: "You can make money by doing Meilu, who needs money the most?" Laid-off workers! β
Yahan: "@Β₯%"
Xiao Fei: "It takes time to be a beautiful road, who has the most time?" Laid-off workers! β
Yahan: "@Β₯%"
Xiao Fei: "So Meilu is made by laid-off workers!" β
Yahan: "@Β₯%"
Scenario 2:
Yahan: "Xiaofei, be a beautiful road!" Meilu can make a lot of money. β
Xiaofei: "But I'm not interested in money!" β
Yahan: "You can do it part-time." β
Xiao Fei: "You see I'm so busy that I don't even have enough time to sleep, how can I have that time!" β
Yahan: "If you do it well, you will travel overseas every year!" Aren't you a big fan of traveling? β
Xiao Fei: "Do you know where I work?" Without waiting for her to reply, I immediately added, "Travel agency! β
Yahan: "@Β₯%"
Xiao Fei: "How many times does Meilu travel every year?" β
Yahan: "Twice." β
Xiao Fei: "Do you know how many times a month I go out of the group?" Twice! β
Yahan: "@Β₯%"
Xiao Fei: "Where do you go for overseas travel on Meilu?" β
Yahan: "Thailand. β
Xiao Fei: "Oh, Xinmatai, China's picturesque rivers and mountains, Huangshan, Guilin, Hanas, which is not better than Thailand!" β
Yahan: "@Β₯%"
Xiao Fei: "How many days does it take to travel on the American road?" β
Yahan: "Five nights and six days." β
Xiao Fei: "Tianjin to Thailand for eight days to offer 2,880 yuan." β
Yahan: "Anyway, the tourism of Meilu is different. β
Xiaofei: "Hehe......"
Scene 3: I was so annoyed that I finally bought a bottle of air freshener......
Yahan: "Xiaofei, let's get a card!" β
Xiao Fei: "I can't buy a few bottles a year, what do I do with a card?" β
Yahan: "If you don't apply for a card, you have to sell it at the original price, and I want to earn 20% of you." β
Xiao Fei: "I go to the supermarket to buy and be made by the supermarket, so it's better to buy from you and be earned by you, at least you still have a love." β
Yahan: "@Β₯%"
When I was in college, I was a director of the school's Speech and Eloquence Association, and a fourth debater on the school's debate team.
Fortunately, the "4.21 MLM Storm" happened soon, and Yahan had only been working full-time for two months at that time, and he had to open a beauty salon without stopping, and I was really happy for a while. It wasn't until September 1999 that Yahan reappeared.
After Yahan reappeared, my harassed life began again. At that time, she influenced another high school classmate of mine, Wu Zi, so the two classmates attacked me left and right. One winter day in December 1999, Wu Zi called me and said that she had something very important to look for me, so she got off work at 7 o'clock, and I didn't even bother to eat, so I hurriedly rode more than 10 kilometers to her house in the cold wind. When I entered the door, I realized that she had actually followed Yahan to do the beautiful road, and my heart was thrown to Antarctica. Without even doing a demonstration, Wu Zi enthusiastically began to introduce the great transnational business: "Two young people ...... in 1949"
I didn't want to listen to it at all, not because I hated Miro, but because her fanatical energy really made me feel a little unbearable. Before she could finish speaking, I quickly found a few loopholes in her logic, and within ten minutes, with my gushing eloquence, she was quickly defeated, and Wu Zi was not in a good state for more than a month.
A year after that follow-up, Wu Zi finally "died". I followed her many times after I left the mountain, and she finally went to the company to renew her contract twice, and finally disappeared into the vast sea of people, leaving only a DD market that later extended to Jiangxi and Guizhou, and I have been taking care of it for many years. I have jokingly said to my colleagues in the Jiangxi team many times: "Back then, your upper-level leader once told me about OPP (i.e., 9 types of 12 bonus plans, Oppo
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Ity), and as a result, I still have to lecture you...... "Dealing with the "corpses" of Miro (i.e., ex-Miro, who left for various reasons) began when I was a small 3%. After that, as my skills continued to increase, I got a lot of Meilu's "corpses" back from the morgue, including several former DDs in the team.
Wu Zi, who was working as a receptionist at a four-star hotel at the time, joined Meilu because she had difficulty adapting to the complex interpersonal relationships in the company, thinking that Meilu was a pure paradise, and the unforgiving reality finally shattered her childish dreams. At that time, I simply thought that Wu Zi was too perfectionist, and thought that she had a bad mentality...... After Wu Zi's "death", a large group was left behind, and our later Jiangxi market, Guizhou market and "Canadian market" were all derived from her. Because it is an elephant's leg (i.e., there is only one market), Wuzi has no money. Wu Zi finally completed her historical mission in Meilu, like an old hen who can no longer lay eggs, Meilu is so cruel!
Yahan still asked me to have a meeting as always, and I would not refuse. Even if I didn't get off work until half past eight in the evening, I would go out of my way to the venue to show my face. I'm a person who gives face to my friends, and I will definitely do what I promise my friends. At that time, I thought that it would be nice to learn something from Miro. Meilu, I don't do it! Self-use, meetings, follow-up, borrowing, almost all methods have been tried, and Yahan has no way to take me.
So the Sparrow War became Yahan's only tactic against me. At that time, I lived alone outside the home, because I was very involved in traveling, and it became common for me to get off work at 11 or 2 o'clock at night. Yahan often came to my house at half-past twelve at midnight to sit down after following up, and I was usually just getting home at that time. First, it was a small talk, and then it was a change of way to pull on the road to the United States. In this regard, the skills of Meilu people are very powerful. This tug-of-war went on for several years, and the real turning point of Yahan finally appeared.
It was an early morning in April 2001, and just after 7 a.m., the phone at home began ringing. I had just flown back from Myanmar that day, and I was already exhausted after 10 days of traveling. Because the plane suddenly encountered a mechanical failure when it was stopping in Zhengzhou, it tossed until 4 o'clock in the morning before stepping into the house. When I took the phone, I realized that it was a successful person (who later learned that it was the later crown ambassador and Mr. Chen, who was the double diamond at that time) who came to Tianjin from Australia, and it was very important, I had to go! I remember that I was angry at the time, this Meilu is too bullying. But Yahan also has a killer feature, if you don't come, you will break off! I had to do my part. I later learned that it was the third day of Chenggong Ling, Yahan booked ten tickets, each ticket was 300 yuan, but the people who made the appointment either released pigeons or skipped class, and Yahan had almost no one else except me that day. And I'm her last choice, to be a substitute, so let's be a dead horse doctor.
When I arrived at the venue near the water park, I found that there were crowds of people everywhere, not to mention thousands of people "dancing around". My real psychology at the time was "a bunch of people who have never seen money" - even if Meilu could really make money, it wouldn't be crazy! So I hid by a pillar at the back of the venue all day to make up for sleep - Yahan's face still has to be given somewhat.
Even though I was almost asleep all day, I was still poured into some of it. Especially when the silver medal was commended, I found that Yahan was also honorably standing on the stage, and I almost didn't believe my eyes. When I was in high school, I was the head of the life department of the school's student union, and Yahan was not even a class representative; I was in the top three in the class, and Yahan was third from the bottom. A comrade who didn't have my help to make up for classes and even had some difficulties in graduating from high school actually got the silver medal, and my heart began to have a strange feeling, how can I be better than her!
A more powerful shock was still to come, and when the meeting was coming to an end, the host suddenly announced that Mr. Chen, a double diamond, had arrived at the venue. After a brush, the whole audience of 1,000 people almost stood up collectively (unlike the current venue, where the host has to announce international etiquette...... The thunderous applause was like the waves of the sea, and it lasted for five minutes. Mr. Chan was short, and it wasn't until he stepped on stage that I finally didn't have to stand on my tiptoes.
Because it was the last day of the conference, he didn't talk about "aircraft cannons" that day, but how to do product demonstrations, and I didn't understand very well. But my heart has begun to turn upside down. I didn't know how successful Mr. Chen was at that time, and I didn't know how much money Mr. Chen had at that time, but I suddenly realized that I could get such respect by doing Meilu. At that time, I had been working hard in Tianjin's tourism industry for more than three years, and my career was up and down, as the youngest department manager in the industry, as a victim of the company's high-level infighting, I was not even as good as a dog when I was used up and abandoned by the boss. At that time, I was already planning to study abroad to change my life, but Mr. Chen came back from overseas to work as a Meilu ......
Next is the post-meeting meeting, which is the most uncomfortable part for me, and I finally have to have another meeting now? Nerve!
The only thing that surprised me at the meeting after the meeting was Xu Future-Yahan's college classmate, a person who had studied in the UK for five years and returned to China with 300,000 pounds of angel investment to start a business, was actually ready to start a business in the United States. I'm finally starting to get a little nervous.
Next, Yahan's follow-up seems to be quite effective, and a person who is almost hypnotized is like a little lamb to the slaughter, only obediently tied up.
But when I got back, I couldn't resist asking two of my best friends from junior high school. One is Luo Wei, who was a professional OPP lecturer at Sunhope (at that time, only Meilu people in the direct selling industry spoke about OPP), and in my eyes he was a standard direct selling expert, he told me that Meilu was a pyramid scheme, and you are only starting to do it now, it's too late! The other is Xue Tao (we were planning to study in Switzerland together and now live in France), Xue Tao was very resolute and said that if I did Meilu, I wouldn't go to him again. As a result, Xuetao became the first good friend I lost after becoming a beautiful road.
Two buckets of cold water were poured down, and my newly burning ambition quickly vanished, and I was ready to study abroad for my EMBA. Yahan finally despaired.