Chapter Seventy-Three: The Past
Lao Zhou is an old fritter who has been mixed in this city for decades, selling everything, souvenirs, jade, jewelry, and specialties, basically as long as someone patronizes, they have to be fooled by hundreds. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
In fact, several of them are well-known rich businessmen, and if they are lucky, a stone can be sold for tens of thousands of yuan, but the richer they are, the more low-key they are, they have always been this way of doing business, and only they know the bank deposits.
However, now the money is useless, it was May Day, there was chaos in the trade area, everyone was cleared out of the trade area, Lao Zhou scolded the bad luck, and at the same time pulled a few people with a better relationship over, saying that they wanted to go to his house to drink a drink, these people all happily agreed, and they actually had the idea of touching the bottom of their peers.
On the way back, I happened to meet Yuli and his party, driving a van with a foreign license plate, and naturally I wanted to say hello when I saw it, out of politeness, Lao Zhou also invited them to get together, anyway, language is not an obstacle.
Unexpectedly, Yuli and several people readily agreed, so that Lao Zhou scolded himself in his heart, his side is all peers, and Yuli on the opposite side belongs to customers and peers, if you take Yuli, then you must not be able to explore the bottom of your peers on your side, and industry secrets cannot be known to outsiders.
Fortunately, Lao Zhou's home is big enough, and the building in the new area is not particularly far from the trade zone, but because it is too far away from the city, no one buys it at all, and this building is funded by the government, a few years ago the trade zone was not on fire, so it is in this new building group, who knows that in the past two years for various reasons, there are fewer and fewer foreigners from here, and the trade zone is cold, as if a vicious circle, everyone runs to the lively urban area to do business, and there are fewer and fewer people in the trade zone, and the housing prices here are not low. Naturally, this building will not be sold at all.
The high house price is for ordinary people, businessmen like them are actually a drop in the bucket, gritting their teeth, Lao Zhou directly bought three floors, opened up a large duplex, the decoration inside is quite, the wine cabinet on the red wine is enough to catch up with the value of the house, luxury bathroom, home KTV, fitness room, all kinds of functions are readily available, living here is simply enjoyment, but these entertainment facilities Lao Zhou has never used at all, Lao Zhou had a mother-in-law when he was young, and he did business for the first time, Lao Zhou owed 50,000 yuan in foreign debts, in those days, 50,000 yuan was simply a human life, and the mother-in-law did not hesitate to leave with her two-month-old child, and Lao Zhou was heartbroken by the woman at that time.
At that time, Lao Zhou was just twenty years old, and when he was young and vigorous, his wife was gone, and the child was also taken away, and he wanted to cut the mother-in-law at that time, but at this time, his younger brother, that is, Zhou An's father, appeared and talked to him.
"Brother, don't be too sad, there are still five hundred yuan here, you take it to live first, those debt collectors have recently found our house, I plan to take my parents out to hide for a while, you are so self-conscious, it really can't be done, you can also go with us, hide." This is what his younger brother said to Lao Zhou at that time.
In this way, Lao Zhou pinched 500 yuan and watched his younger brother leave, and for a while, he thought of death, 50,000 yuan, how long will it take? For more than eight years, at that time, the monthly salary was fifty or sixty, and the better places could reach one hundred yuan! 1,000 yuan a year, 10,000 yuan in 10 years, that will take 50 years! Fifty thousand? That's astronomical!
In this way, Lao Zhou hid, hiding with 500 yuan, not daring to show his face, for fear of being recognized, 50,000 yuan but he didn't know how many people borrowed it!
After hiding like this for a month, Lao Zhou did not have a penny of income, and the five hundred yuan was still in his arms without moving, until a Russian appeared in front of him and gave him a lot of money.
Lao Zhou's mind was lively, he wanted to escape to other cities, but why couldn't he escape abroad? In eighty-five years, the Soviet Union did not disintegrate and was still the big brother of China, and that era coincided with the era of rapid economic development of the Soviet Union.
The procedures for going abroad are not so easy, after many circles, finally Lao Zhou set the goal at the travel agency, a one-time passport, plus a train ticket cost a hundred yuan, went to the clothing store to talk about the price for half a day, and finally bought ten big windbreakers at a price of forty yuan, which is all the belongings in Lao Zhou's hands.
The train entered Moscow, due to the language barrier, Lao Zhou did not understand what to say at all, he could only find a local businessman who understood Chinese, and the merchant happily gave the price of eight rubles, in those days a ruble was worth more than thirty yuan, but now one yuan is worth twenty rubles, eight rubles is more than two hundred yuan, Lao Zhou was simply crazy at that time, and later learned that according to the price in Moscow at that time, this windbreaker could be sold for a high price of fifty rubles! That's fifteen hundred dollars!
At that time, the domestic class was obvious, workers, farmers, soldiers, academics, merchants, merchants ranked last, and they were still considered capitalist, so there were few Chinese in business at that time, after all, it was a profession that ****** was still looked down upon.
However, it was this first pot of gold, which made Lao Zhou's mind live, the poor people who were about to die who cared about what reputation was not famous, he began to pour all kinds of things, at that time in the Soviet Union, all kinds of handmade products, light industry, fruits, are rare things, heavy industry in the Soviet Union, scientific and technological products, are rare things in China, because they don't know Russian, there is no market, just back and forth for a year, Lao Zhou still paid off all his debts!
Until 91, the Soviet Union announced its disintegration, at that time Lao Zhou had practiced Russian perfectly, but at that time the chaotic territory of Russia was really not a place for Chinese people to stay, the ruble began to depreciate, Chinese merchants from various places poured into Russia, the appearance of fake and defective products, profits are getting smaller and smaller, sales are getting less and less, business is becoming more and more difficult to do, Lao Zhou lost two small ones, but also received his heart and returned to China.
After Lao Zhou became rich, the mother-in-law once came back and used her son as a bargaining chip to ask Lao Zhou for money, Lao Zhou was obsessed with business, and he was working hard to learn Russian in his spare time, so he completely ignored the woman and gave them a sum of money, and then the woman disappeared forever with his son, and the son's whereabouts have always been a heart disease of Lao Zhou.
The developed Lao Zhou has not forgotten the kindness of his younger brother's 500 yuan, after his younger brother has the child Zhou An, Lao Zhou has no son, and it is also very good to lose Zhou An, and many expenses of his younger brother's family over the years have been solved by Lao Zhou.
Lao Zhou naturally cares about Zhou An, Zhou An was taken as a hostage, Lao Zhou can't help but care!