Fifteen years later. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

After graduating from university, I stayed in Chongqing. I majored in oil painting in college, and it was too difficult to find a job for me, and when I was a freshman, I was very ambitious and wanted to be an artist, and after graduation, I realized that I had thought too much. If you want to engage in art these days, either famous people are willing to take you, or you spend money to hype, I have no connections, and secondly, my family background is not thick, and I have painted some works that I think are good and hang them on the Internet, no one cares about them at all, and I run into walls everywhere, so I understand how deep the water in the art circle is.

In desperation, he worked as an apprentice in an advertising design company in Chongqing for a year, and at the same time prepared for the civil service exam, but his hometown had no connections in the system, and the civil service examination failed, and the design company had no intention of staying any longer, so he had a showdown with the old man, and asked him to take out the money at the bottom of the box and go to work on a project with his friends.

Due to my college major, I often go out to sketch, come and go, have a strong interest in outdoor sports, often go to the deep mountain cave exploration with a few travel friends, and suddenly become addicted, after graduation I have a clear understanding of outdoor equipment, I want to build an outdoor goods store in Chongqing. It just so happened that I had a roommate who was like-minded, and I called him as soon as the idea popped up.

This roommate has a lot of family background, and his father runs a 4S store in Chongqing, and the roommate was pulled in to help take care of the business after graduation. His father was also self-made back then, in order to train him, let him start from the grassroots level, pour tea and water for the client every day, nod his head, he is also a person who studies art, he has a proud backbone, where can he stand it, he asked his old man for a sum of money, saying that he wants to do something on his own.

We also have the same smell, drank a few meals, with the momentum of young people, made up more than 300,000 yuan, found a slightly remote shop, and set up an "Echo Outdoor Sports Club", mainly dealing in some outdoor sports equipment.

Outdoor sports is still a new industry in China, in recent years, the living standards of the Chinese people have advanced by leaps and bounds, and they are no longer satisfied with the mechanical sports of running and playing in the gymnasium, and began to seek greater stimulation. Over the course of a year, although we did not make a lot of money, we gradually got on the right track, through his old man's social relations, signed cooperation contracts in several units, and occasionally took them to engage in some "field development training" and "wilderness survival", and they tasted tea and painted in the store when they had nothing to do.

That afternoon, I was painting an architectural oil painting in Ciqikou, when Liu Chang suddenly called me and told me to go back to the store immediately, saying that there was a big fish. Generally speaking, our customers are mainly a few units introduced by the old man Liu Chang, but the unit activities are relatively few, usually some individual customers, just buy some jackets, backpacks and tents and other small things, very few big customers to talk about cooperation. Liu Chang has always been very accurate when he sees people, and listening to his anxious tone, I think he is basically a rich man. I didn't want to paint, so I packed up my easel, flagged down a taxi, and went straight back to the store.

Ciqikou is a little far from the store, although the master drove very fast, it took half an hour, and as soon as I stepped through the door, I heard a Cantonese accent shouting:

"Make no mistake! Let our boss wait so long, do you want to cooperate! ”

When I walked into the store, I saw two middle-aged people sitting there, one fat and one thin, the thin one was wearing a pair of sunglasses, wearing a white shirt with a flying dragon pattern, looking very ordinary, the fat one had a fat head and big ears, five short figures, and an impatient face, and he was the one who spoke.

Liu Chang has been used to being a son-in-law since he was a child, and I usually do the work of talking about business and serving people, and it is more difficult to do it when I look at these two, no wonder he called me back in such a hurry. I hurriedly took out Yuxi from my pocket, handed it over, and said with a smile:

"Two bosses, I'm sorry, there's a bit of a traffic jam on the road."

Cantonese people love to drink tea when talking about business, so I went to the back of the counter to take out the tea set, and just halfway through it, the thin one waved his hand and said, "I don't have time to drink tea, let's leave after talking." ”

The thin boss was wearing sunglasses, and I couldn't see his expression clearly, but I saw him beckoning to the fat man, and the fat man understood and said to me:

"If it wasn't for someone recommending it, we wouldn't have come to your store, such a small store, I don't know if it's an expert or not."

I said someone recommended it? We have only been open for a year, and we are not familiar with the relevant aspects, who recommended two Guangdong bosses to us? When I saw that the fat man was impatient and could not ramble any longer, I said:

"Two bosses, don't look at my small shop, but I have a lot of experience, and I don't talk nonsense with you, just by looking at my complexion, you know that I often run outside, and I am familiar ......with the equipment configuration."

"What's not fierce! We're not here to buy gear! The fat man waved his hand and interrupted me, looking really impatient.

As soon as I heard it, I said that you two melon babies came to my outdoor goods store, and if you didn't come to buy equipment, did you come to find fault? Why don't you ask me to be a team leader? When I thought about it, I was immediately deflated. Being a team leader is a thankless job, not only can you not make any money, but also depends on the face of the person, under normal circumstances, it is the customer who buys a large number of equipment in our store, and I can provide free team leader service.

I was about to refuse, but the thin man suddenly stood up, took off his sunglasses, looked at me from head to toe, and said: "Hou Shengzi, we have a project over there, we need an expert in cave exploration, the price is not a problem, I will buy another batch of equipment in your store if the negotiation is good, and the consultation fee will be paid separately, but we are more tight this time, you can go with us after the negotiation!" ”

My heart was tight, it turned out to be to explore the cave, although I have a deep shadow of the cave, but that incident has passed so many years, plus I selectively forget, except for a few details, basically no longer torture me, in the past few years, I have also gone to the cave with Liu Chang a few times, and I have also taken customers to a few times, so it can be said that it is not a big problem. However, caving is a dangerous outdoor sport, once something happens, I don't know if I have civil liability, and seeing that they are so anxious, I don't know what is boring.

So I tried to say:

"Caving? This is very dangerous, and if you want me to be the team leader, you have to obey my arrangement. ”

The fat man was anxious: "What arrangement is not arranged, what do you mean?" If you don't do business, if you don't do it, we'll leave! ”

The fat man spoke without leaving steps, which made the atmosphere quite awkward, but fortunately the thin man waved his hand to stop him, and said to me:

"In terms of expertise, we can listen to your guidance!"

He looked at his watch and said, "Now we are very short of time, if you want to cooperate, hurry up!" ”

I see that they are in such a hurry, and I don't know what to do, anyway, seeing that they look very angry, I want to take care of the fuck, make a fortune first, and then say, clear my throat, and pretend to squeeze out a sentence:

"The consultation fee ......"

Before I could finish twisting, the thin man asked, "How much do you want?" ”

I said at least five thousand, gritted my teeth, and stretched out a hand to them.

The two of them were stunned at the same time, and the thin boss nodded to the fat man.

The fat man muttered as he picked up the leather bag from the table:

"Hou Shengzi, you're too dark!"

As soon as I saw the play, I said in my heart that this time it was indeed a little dark, who let you rush to reincarnate.

Although the fat man complained a little, and his hands were not ambiguous, I saw him open his leather bag, and pulled out 5 thick hundred-dollar bills from it in a row, and smashed them on my table one by one!

I was going to ask them to pay 5,000 yuan for the consultation, but I was a little scared, but I didn't know that these two would mistake me and throw 50,000 yuan directly on my desk. In the past few years, I have also seen a little bit of the world, and I have a lot of experience in the rivers and lakes, although my heart is full of turbulence, but on the surface, I pretended to be calm, so I took the money into my arms, gave Liu Chang a look, and asked him to receive the money at the counter.

The two Guangdong bosses were quite anxious and didn't care about greeting me, so they picked up more than 10,000 pieces of equipment in the store and asked me to help move them to the car outside. The two of them drove a BMW SUV, I don't have a deep study of the car, just looking at the grade, at least a million miles away. I took a big order this time, and I was excited, and I didn't care what they were in such a hurry, so I quickly packed my things and got into the car with them according to their instructions.

On the way, we made a brief introduction, the fat man's surname is Huang, and the thin man's surname is Chen, both of which are big surnames. Judging from their behavior, the fat man surnamed Huang is obviously the boss of the Chen, they told me that both of them are cave exploration enthusiasts, recently heard from the donkey friends that Chongqing and Guizhou have found a new pothole, although it is not big, but no one has come to the end, they went to explore the cave this time, on the one hand, it is a scientific investigation, on the other hand, they also want to get the naming right of the pothole, afraid that others will take the lead, so they are very anxious.

As soon as I heard it, I knew that there were ghosts among them, and since they were cave enthusiasts, they should have a lot of experience in caving, so why bother to spend a lot of money to invite me over. At first glance, he is a novice, and he wants to pretend to be x in front of me, and I know it, and it is not easy to debunk.

The fat man drove fast and steadily, and after more than half an hour, he drove out of Chongqing, they didn't talk much, and I didn't bother to talk to them, so I leaned on the back seat and squinted and napped. Maybe I stayed up too late watching the movie last night, and as soon as I relaxed, I fell asleep after a while.

I don't know how long later, the car suddenly stopped, only to hear the fat man say:

"Pretty boy, don't sleep! Let's go have a meal and we'll be in the mountains right away! ”

When I opened my eyes, the car had driven into a small town. Although I am familiar with the surrounding areas of Chongqing, the cities and towns in China look similar, and I may have been here before, but I really don't have much of an impression. After we got off the bus, we found a random restaurant, Cantonese people don't eat spicy, ordered a few vegetarian dishes, the fat man was also understanding, handed me the menu, let me order two dishes with the right taste.

At this time, it was a meal, and the business of the small shop was not bad, but it was noisy, which made me feel a little uncomfortable. The customers in the store are basically from out of town, and the accents can be heard from all over the country, and it is obvious that this town is developing tourism. We sat two travelers at the table, wearing summer jackets, lean, dark-skinned, with many sun spots on their faces, looking very old, probably college students. They chatted while drinking cold beer, and listened to the accent like Hebei people, only to hear one of them:

"The miasma is too heavy at night, we can't get in and out, let's eat quickly, and go in when we're done."

The other grinned, with metal braces in his mouth, and listened to him:

"Hey! I'm afraid of a JI ba, when Lao Tzu was in Yunnan, he had been even more powerful, although the miasma was poisonous, but it was not very toxic, it was OK to wear a mask, how could the locals spread it so terrifying! ”

The two of them didn't have a few serious words, and they began to brag, and I was too lazy to listen to it anymore, so I ate with my head bored. Halfway through eating, the two Cantonese people suddenly stood up and said that they were going to the toilet, and said that they were really not used to eating food in the southwest. I said in my heart, what kind of plane are you two hammers doing, isn't it disgusting to me? They went for a long time before they came out with their belts in their belts, looking smug and looking relaxed.

At this time, I noticed a large man in a white vest walking through the store. This person has very dark skin, his clothes are dirty, but his muscles are very developed, his arms are thicker than my legs, and he is about 1.9 meters tall, and he looks like a local.

Such a big man is rare in Chongqing, I couldn't help but look at it twice, and I saw him walk to the counter and say to the restaurant owner: "Boss, check out!" ”

The shopkeeper also replied in the Chongqing dialect:

"Little man, you're here?" As he spoke, he counted a few pieces of money from the drawer and handed them to him.

I was taken aback when I heard this, and said in my heart that such a big man, why still call him "little man", this is too abnormal. Could it be that he was very small when he was a child, and only later grew taller?

The "little man" took the money and didn't say much, so he walked outside, and when he walked to the door, he seemed to suddenly remember something, and suddenly turned his head to look at me a few times, his face was a little unnatural, he looked at it for a few seconds, and then walked out of the store and drove away in a broken bread.

We finished eating, it was already past 4 o'clock, and the fat man was a little anxious, saying that it was getting dark and we should hurry into the mountains and find a camping spot. Although I had some doubts in my heart, I didn't say anything, and I obeyed their wishes. After all, I took so much money from them, and if I was long-winded, I was afraid that they would go crazy.

The two of them seem to have stepped on the point before, and they are familiar with it, and they do not hesitate at the fork. We drove out of town and soon turned into a country road, which was concrete and narrow. After driving through the mountains for about an hour, passing through several villages, it turned into an uneven dirt road, which was built in the mountains and winded, and it seemed that there were no villages in this place, and there was no need to spend money on paving the road.

The car drove along the pothole road for more than 20 minutes, and there were no villages in sight around, all rolling hills, and the mountains were covered with mist.

At the end of the pothole road is a parking lot, about 50 square meters, parked a broken bread, I look a little familiar, and immediately remember that this is not the "little man" car just now? Does he live here?

We pulled into the parking lot, opened the trunk, changed into outdoor clothes and shoes, put on our backpacks, and started walking into the mountains. According to Mr. Chen, after walking along the path of the valley for an hour and a half, and then climbing over a mountain, we are very close to the pothole. I told him that there were few mosquitoes and poisonous insects in the pothole, and that it would be more appropriate for us to go camping inside, and the temperature should be suitable, neither hot nor cold. They also nodded yes. We trekked all the way through the valleys of the two mountains narrower and narrower, and for about an hour, a dense forest appeared in front of us, and the trees were very tall and looked a bit like primeval jungle. By this time the forest had begun to fog up, and there was a very strange fishy smell that made people smell sick.

I often run outside and know a little about the miasma of the primeval jungle, and smelling the smell, I know that it is a miasma formed by the carrion of animals and plants, a poisonous gas that is harmful to people. I wondered if I should take a detour, but when I looked around, the slopes of the two mountains were too steep for the detour to work. To be on the safe side, I had to ask both of them to wear an extra mask.

The miasma in the forest is very heavy, and the visibility is very low, but fortunately there is a mountain road that is faintly visible, and it seems that there may be people living behind the forest. The more we walked in, the more the miasma became, and the rancid smell passed through the masks and into the nose, and after walking for less than half an hour, the two Cantonese guests couldn't stand it.

"How long is this forest?" I asked.

The fat man put on a mask and said sullenly, "Mu knows, we haven't come in either!" ”

I said how do you know the route, and they told me that they had read the route map drawn by the traveler on the Internet, and according to the traveler, the forest is about two hours' walk.

I said if you couldn't stand it and go back, we'd camp out in the woods and wait until dawn before we set off. They shook their heads and said that the miasma was worse in the morning, and we passed it through with gusto.

We continued to walk, and after walking for another ten minutes, I gradually felt a slight fainting in my head, and I said to myself that this miasma was much more powerful than I had imagined, and that if we continued like this, we would have to faint. I was about to ask them to put on two more masks, but when I looked back, the two Cantonese customers didn't know when they were gone.