After dinner, Xu Qianqian and Huang Ligong took a walk by the river. Xu Qianqian likes Pingjiang Road very much, and in her memory it is an ordinary stone road with the flavor of the old days. This time, when you return, you can always see the crowds of tourists, bars, and shops selling Yiwu small goods.

Xu Qianqian quickly took Huang Ligong out of Pingjiang Road, followed the river, and walked in the small streets and alleys.

Leaving the commercial street, there are fewer people, and the small streets seem empty. Huang Ligong was a little cramped, looking at the houses on both sides, although the gray walls and black tiles, some appearances, but after all, dilapidated and low, thinking that this famous Suzhou is not as spacious and comfortable as Wushan Town. Before going to the UK, she would come several times a year to enjoy spring and autumn. She stopped and looked up at a tree on the side of the river.

Huang Ligong followed his eyes and looked at it, it was a flower tree, more than five or six meters old, with lush branches and leaves, and a sky full of red flowers.

"What kind of flower is this? It's pretty good. ”

"Fleur." Xu Qianqian said, "The largest hibiscus tree in Suzhou is almost 100 years old. ”

"It's quite big." Huang Ligong honestly said that he had never seen a flower tree that grew to shade. He has no interest in flowers and plants, not to mention that Wushan Town is a new industrial town in his father's era, and the years of trees and flowers are shorter than people.

"I didn't understand it before, I always talked about the arbor of the old country, and the arbor of the old country, I always felt that it was a symbol of a long history to have a towering tree." Xu Qianqian stared at the canny tree trunk, as if watching the rise and fall of Suzhou over the past few decades. The first time she walked down this riverside street, she loved it. When I go to school in the UK, I sit under the majestic tree on campus and read a book, and sometimes I think of this little flower tree in my homeland.

"We also have this saying there, there is a big tree is the family."

"Actually, even if it is an ordinary family, even if it is a shrub, it has gone through the baptism of time and grown into its appearance, it is also g

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"Hey, you don't understand. A person's life is to cultivate a big tree and provide shade. Becoming a talent, becoming a talent, isn't that what it means?! What does the shrub mean? Trees that can become talents, if they look a little longer, are cut down for money. Shrubs can't be exchanged for money, but they are kept for success. It shows that the family is short-sighted and has no precipitation accumulation. ”

Xu Qianqian faintly felt that something was wrong, this was also a bit utilitarian and narrow, but she just nodded obediently.

"It often takes generations to grow into a big tree and provide shelter from the wind and rain. The trees planted by the predecessors must be carried forward in the hands of the descendants, and they are called families. Huang Ligong said. His eyes flashed to the image of his father when he said this to him, helpless but still full of anticipation. When he was a child, he used wood and parts to make all kinds of novel knick-knacks, and the scraps of discarded wood outside the factory warehouse could not meet his requirements, so he used a large kitchen knife to cut down the trees that had been planted in the compound for several years. Naturally, his ass was beaten by his father's strong sturdy. When he graduated from college, he broke into trouble, which caused Liu Ruiyang's misfortune, and once at the dinner table, he accidentally mentioned the matter of cutting down trees when he was a child, and his father said this in a deep voice.

Huang Ligong's heart moved, like a small flame fluttering enthusiastically, his return to his hometown to start a business is due to Liu Fei and Zhang Wenfeng's patience and hard work towards him, but in his heart there may not be no disappointment and expectation of his father's eyes that can never get rid of the following. Xu Qianqian was also moved in her heart, but she was close to palpitations, there was nothing wrong with this, and she agreed with it, but such words, such words gave her a strange sense of familiarity, as if when it had enveloped her, but she didn't remember who told her or where she heard it.

"Yes, there are many small businesses in Europe, which are not well-known, but when you check, they are all century-old family businesses that have been passed down for several generations. In fact, they were just a small workshop at the beginning, and they have been doing it for more than 100 years, and they still make those few things, and now they have a revenue of hundreds of millions or billions of euros, but they occupy a very important position on the modern industrial map. Xu Qianqian said with emotion. She zigzags to reveal her true thoughts, growing shrubs, can also shade, although it is only a small piece of land, but there is also the value of being cherished, there is also the value of investment. Investment, in the end, is also very simple, the comparison of benefits and costs. Future gains, present costs, and risks are in the future and present exposures. Perhaps, most of the time, the so-called shrub has a smaller exposure and is more worth investing in.

Huang Ligong walked forward, and Xu Qianqian followed.

"That's Europe. In China, it can only be a big tree, and the fate of shrubs is that they can be uprooted at any time because of other big trees. ”

"You mean, a big fat tree is better than a sturdy shrub?"

"The Kunpeng will be a big tree."

That strange sense of familiarity shrouded Xu Qianqian's heart again. Could it be that there was really something in her past that she had never noticed? What is it exactly? I don't know when the weed seeds that were inadvertently planted popped up a little bit, squeezing a crack out of the ground. Why is it that her memories are full of sunshine and smiling faces? Xu Qianqian inexplicably thought of Xu Chaoyu's face, the kind, youthful face of her smiling and lovely, and now it suddenly became a little scared to her, but it attracted her.

Isn't it time to look for him? Xu Qianqian felt a panic in her heart, and this thought was equally attractive and frightening.

The two of them were silent, occasionally chatting a few words, and walked towards the main road. It is close to the edge of the old city, and there are fewer people.

Huang Ligong stopped at an intersection. A small path, planted with ordinary trees on both sides and accompanied by ordinary courtyard walls, leads to the depths. The sun was slanting low, and people in twos and threes dragged long shadows out of the path and scattered into the main road.

This kind of sight always attracts Huang Ligong. Crowd. A crowd of people who are flowing and hot, each in their own place and busy with their own things, but who have a common direction, or dominance. He knew what they were busy with in the midst of the chaos. Ferries, stations, and airports are his landscapes, and no matter how many business trips he has, he is content to move between the hotel and customers.

"Go in and have a look?" Xu Qianqian asked tentatively.

Huang Ligong walked into the path. At the end of the road, there is a small garden.

"Lotus Garden." Huang Ligong looked at the ordinary-looking doorway and read it out, "This name is similar to ours over there...... It looks like a farm. ”

Xu Qianqian pursed her lips and smiled and went to the ticket office. The conductor's aunt was lazily looking at her phone, screaming a few times before raising her head, a little surprised, and confirmed to her in a soft voice that it was only half an hour before the museum closed. Xu Qianqian smiled and nodded, and Huang Ligong handed over the money on the side.

The garden is like the door, the old family yard, the path is sparse, a few poles of bamboo at the turn, a pavilion, and leisure. Xu Qianqian's footsteps were brisk, a little bouncing, and time turned back, returning to the appearance of the first time she entered here when she was a girl. Huang Ligong didn't pay attention to her old mood, he greeted the tourists who came out of the park all the way, and he felt like he was swimming against the current. Walking into the pavilion, there was a small lake in front of him, floating with an equally small lotus leaf, Huang Ligong frowned and shook his head, feeling that the name was not deserved, "Just plant this, also called Lotus Garden?!" ”

Xu Qianqian couldn't help but smile again, and sat down on the stone chair along the pavilion, "The name of the garden, there is a lotus root is the garden." ”

Huang Ligong was even more disapproving, "Hey, where there is culture, the soil should be pastoral." ”

Xu Qianqian looked at the lotus leaves in the center of the lake, rippling in the microwave, and in the last slanting sun, the greenery was old. Like a man in his twilight years, he is retreating back into the deep water, back into the soil where he has taken root. Her heart was filled with tenderness that was almost sad.

"The gardens in Suzhou, the Humble Administrator's Garden is the most famous, people who know how to stay in the garden, but I love this little-known lotus garden." She said distractedly. There is a lotus root is a garden. Naturally, the lotus root garden is not named after the lotus root, its owner, I don't remember which dynasty it was, after getting tired of fame, returned to his hometown to build this small garden, in which he spent his spare time with his wife. The lotus root means that the puppet is the person who accompanies it. With love and companionship, it becomes a home.

"Isn't the Humble Administrator's Garden one of the four famous gardens in China?" Huang Ligong stood by the pavilion pillar and glanced at Xu Qianqian.

"The Humble Administrator's Garden is very good, a masterpiece, like a garden textbook, you can think of it, it has been done, and it is first-class. But with such a reckless mind, I can't wait to put all the good things in the world into it, which is really unlikeable. ”

Huang Ligong thought to himself, it sounds like an appetite for me. Naturally, he didn't say it, but asked, "If you were given the Humble Administrator's Garden and the Lotus Garden, and only one would be picked, which one would you choose?" ”

Xu Qianqian didn't need to look at his face, she knew that there must be that smile on the corner of his mouth. This question did hit her, she looked down and thought for a while, nodded, and said seriously, "Humble Administrator's Garden." ”

Huang Ligong laughed.

"It was used to receive guests. Then I bought the lotus root garden and lived here. ”

Huang Ligong swallowed back the words that came to his lips, and said with a wry smile, "You are very good at having the best of both worlds." ”

"How can there be so many problems in this world?! How do you say it, either/or...... Loyalty and righteousness can't be both......" Xu Qianqian stuck out her tongue with a smile and said, "Well, a dilemma. ”

"You'll find out if you create a business."

"As far as I can see, don't you make decisions at every important juncture? At least most of them are good decisions. ”

Huang Ligong was silent, and after a while, he said in a low voice, "Many times, things are good, but people's hearts are not good. ”

The sky was still bright, but the twilight was already on the ground, the waves of the lake were faintly glowing, and the trees, the houses, and everything around them were fading their colors and their details, waiting to become the outline of the night. Huang Ligong's face, along with his sharpness, seemed to melt into the twilight. Xu Qianqian rarely saw his low appearance, she leaned back against the pillar, put her feet on the bench, and held her hands. The wind at dusk was gentle.

"What is the vocation of a business? Profit. To put it bluntly, it's money. To make money, you have to mobilize a lot of resources, a lot of people. If there are people, there is power. Where money and power gather, hehe, in China, it's ......" Huang Ligong's face twitched and stared ahead, "I have read "Churchill's Biography", there is a sentence in it - those big people, big people who influence history, if you look closely, they are all big bastards. I didn't think so, I, Huang Ligong, want to be an upright person. After a long pause, he continued, "Only now do I understand that nothing can change if you don't be a bastard. The good position has long been crowded with bastards. ”

The twilight is getting thicker and thicker. The clearers shouted and walked over, not noticing them.

Huang Ligong continued, "Those successful entrepreneurs like to say that the thing they regret the most is to run a business. At first, I thought they were hypocritical, but now that I have set up a business, I know that they are telling the truth. As long as you open your eyes every day, the responsibility will be pressed, and the enterprise is at the moment of life and death every day. Hundreds of thousands of people, tens of millions of investments, are in your hands. As long as you can live, you are willing to do anything. ”

Xu Qianqian suddenly thought of her father, did he also experience the same situation? She doesn't have much memory of her father in her childhood, and most of the images she remembers are waking up in the middle of the night in a daze to see her father's back leaving her room. Is it because of such pressure that he struggles in the company day and night, and always comes home late at night, when she is already asleep?

"People who run a business have everything, but they don't have themselves."

"There's always going to be someone who wants you to be yourself." Xu Qianqian said softly.

Huang Ligong covered himself with the night, and shook his head lightly.

"I used to feel righteous. Ruiyang said that I have been a righteous child since I was a child, and I am very proud. He continued, "How can you be righteous when you are a business?!" You can't even tell the truth. Dozens or hundreds of people follow me, the salary is not much, day and night in the factory, can I tell them that the manufacturing industry is too expensive, and after three months, there will really be no money, and if you can't find any money, the company will be dissolved? Can I tell them that the manufacturing environment is so bad, and the company's current big development strategy, in fact, I don't know the bottom in my heart? To do business, that is, the first step has not yet been adjusted, and it has gone to the third step; It is often in the fourth and fifth steps that the foundation of the first step is gradually made up and a little more solid. Every step is a deception, and every step I will firmly tell them that this is the way that China's industry must go, that is, the road of Kunpeng. ”

"It's not without integrity. Enterprises have corporate ethics, and personal ethics are inherently different. ”

"But if anything goes wrong, people will only blame the individual. It is also the individual who bears the responsibility. ”

Xu Qianqian thought of her father again, and God knows how much pressure Chinese entrepreneurs are under and what price they have paid.

"It's not so easy to get down when you get on a thief ship." Huang Ligong's tone was faintly raised, and he was a little angry, "You also know the situation of Kunpeng now, you have technology, you have the heart, and you have no money." However, industrial robots are now the best opportunity period, and it is difficult for China's manufacturing industry to encounter such a good opportunity. I'm going to have to catch it. ”

"It's a great opportunity."

"I figured it out. If I can't make an investment in the short term, I'm going to take risks. ”

"What's in danger?"

"Now the market opportunities are really good, and the Jiangcheng government has also begun to pay attention to industrial robots. They are not very experienced in this area and need confidence and proof in the market. As for capital, don't they all like the outlet? Since they prefer to congregate in places that have been proven by others, then I give them an outlet. Both sides can be on the same side, work together, and don't worry about big things. ”

"You're writing blank checks on both sides?"

"It's called fighting left and right!" Huang Ligong said ambitiously. Xu Qianqian's comprehension ability exceeded his expectations, he wanted to move, create an outlet, and create a proof. Left and right hands fight each other, left hand expansion, to a larger place, larger plants, better R & D conditions, at least with the promise of government and policy support; Right-hand financing, with outlets and policy support to strive for better financing conditions.

"It's gambling."

"We are at our peak morale right now, and the company has to not only grow, but thrive. The window period is only a few years, very short, not seized, is the regret of China's manufacturing industry, will also be the regret of my life. ”

"What if it fails?" Xu Qianqian asked. Making something out of nothing, it is naturally a master's means, Xu Qianqian has heard her father say it, and she has seen it in person, and the creation of something out of nothing in the capital circle will only be more exaggerated and weird. It's just that the majority of things are broken, and if they lose, they are really ruined.

"The investment is ten times that of other industries, the pressure is ten times that of other industries, and only one-tenth of what enterprises and individuals can earn. This is the fate of China's manufacturing industry. Someone has to take on this responsibility, someone has to sacrifice. Huang Ligong said in the end, a little impassioned.

Xu Qianqian looked at him intently. The night breeze blew and the leaves rustled softly, and she felt a chill in her arms, and suddenly realized that the night had completely shrouded her. She looked left and right, but there was no movement, only the occasional chirping of insects. There were only two of them in the garden.

"It looks like it's closed."

"Let's flip out."

Xu Qianqian thought to herself, there may be a janitor at the door, and he can open the door at night. But she didn't say anything, got up and followed Huang Ligong to the edge of the garden.

On the way, Xu Qianqian mentioned lightly that a friend introduced her to a fund, which happened to be very interested in the emerging manufacturing industry, and she could meet it tomorrow.

Huang Ligong said yes nonchalantly, walked forward quickly, found a low wall, tried it with his hands, turned over, turned around and pulled Xu Qianqian up the wall. He jumped down, opened his arms, and said to Xu Qianqian, "Jump down." ”

In the faint light of the night, Huang Ligong saw Xu Qianqian's eyes flickering as she stared at him.