Although there was no money, Chen Xiang's physical furniture store was renewed, but it was not him who paid the fee, but he was the one who paid it. It took a twist and turn. The guy he told Wang Yan last time was interested in opening it, but he didn't have any money, so he swiped two credit cards after he arrived at the store and paid for half a year. Less than a week after swiping the card, he called Chen Xiang, he didn't want to transfer it, and asked Chen Xiang to return the money to him. Chen Xiang didn't have the money to return it. In this way, Chen Xiang is equivalent to "borrowing" money to renew the store rent for the next year.

In recent years, real estate has been bad, and there have been real estate developers jumping off buildings in Guangdong and Zhejiang on the Internet. The house can't be sold, and the furniture can't be sold. Chen Xiang makes customized furniture, but there is no need to press the goods, and there is no need to press any materials. However, the store can't take jobs, and the factory picks up some orders from the Internet sporadically, which is not enough for the wages of the workers. This physical store, Chen Xiang originally wanted to open it if he couldn't turn it out, although he was still a little unwilling in his heart: the store samples were finally adjusted to a better state, and he always felt that this store should be able to make money. Now that the store is open, he has a little more hope. Who knows, the rent of the store has been paid, and new troubles have come.

It turned out that there were two clerks in the store, and the business of the store was not good. On the other hand, I was embarrassed to stay there when I couldn't sell the list, so I quit my job and went to work elsewhere. He could only arrange for the two girls in charge of drawing in the store to go to the store to fill up, and finally received an order of more than 2,000 yuan in a year and three months.

There is no work in the factory, and the salary has to be paid as usual. At the end of the month, Chen Xiang called Wang Yan and said, "The second brother called to ask for money, and they want to buy a house for Yaoyao." After we borrowed their 40,000 yuan and repaid it, we later lent out and paid our salaries, but now we can't pay our salaries?"

There is no list, Wang Yan is also in a hurry, and insists on opening Taobao in class. When I have nothing to do, I think of all kinds of tricks: advertise on various owners' forums, find someone to brush Taobao, open stores in Ganji and 58 City, and find decoration companies to cooperate. All the tricks I could think of were used, and I almost put up advertisements in the school newspaper column to sell furniture. Maybe the effort is not enough, maybe the strength has not yet been used to the place, but there is no list.

Wang Yan could only say to Chen Xiang: "Your second brother can say hello over there, and your second brother should be able to understand." Let's delay the salary for a few days, and when you receive the order, you will pay the salary first. “

Chen Xiang said: "There is no way, then it can only be like this first." A few days later, Chen Xiang called again and said, "The second brother was angry and said that he had known this and would not have lent us the money in the first place." Let me give him the money this week anyway, and he's going to go back and pay the down payment. “

Wang Yan said angrily: "Why is your second brother like this, when we were for Yaoyao to go to school, we didn't care about anything. The debts of the family are also repaid, and the money we spent on the family in those years was no less than 50,000 or 60,000 yuan. They have no conscience!"

Chen Xiang said impatiently: "Don't talk about those useless things, help me think of a way, see where to borrow some money first, and pay him back first." He promised his daughter-in-law to buy a house, but if he didn't buy it, his daughter-in-law wouldn't want to. Wang Yan said, "How can I think about it?" As soon as I heard that we all opened factories outside, we were proud on the outside and empty on the inside, and we owed a lot of debts! I told you not to open a physical store, but you still open it again!"

Chen Xiang said helplessly: "Who knows what this looks like, when you have winter vacation, you come back to stare at the store." Maybe it will be better. "What's wrong with this, wife, you can help me find a way." Wang Yan was also depressed: I was really restless when I went to school, and I was always worried about money.

One day, Wang Yan was in class, and Chen Xiang's second brother called her: "His aunt, you have to give us the money you borrowed from us." I'm in a hurry to make a down payment. You've been using it for so long, and I'm not in a hurry to use it, and I don't ask you for it. I'm going to use this, and you can't help but give it to me. Chen Xiang is really, every time I ask him for it, he pushes it and says a few days later. I'm both: I'm annoyed. Hurry up and find a way to give us the money first. “

Wang Yan answered the phone, her heart was blocked, she couldn't say anything, and she didn't have anything to say, she only said that she was in class, and asked Chen Xiang to give his second brother back, and hung up the phone.

Wang Yan thought that Chen Xiang's second brother would talk to him in this tone, and he would not have anything good to say to Chen Xiang. Chen Xiang must be more annoyed than himself in his heart. She searched her intestines and scraped her stomach, thinking about who to borrow from first to return his second brother's first, so as not to be angry. But there is really nothing to borrow. She was afraid of being embarrassed. In the end, I had no choice, so I sent a text message to one of my college classmates, asking if they could borrow 40,000 yuan to use it urgently. The classmate called back and asked her for an account number, saying that he could send it to her in the afternoon. Wang Yan was really moved in her heart: these days, without saying a word, he is willing to lend money to spend on himself, which is not only a good friend, but also a true respect for his character.

Chen Xiang and Wang Yan borrowed 40,000 yuan from a friend to repay his second brother. This thing of "demolishing the east wall and making up the west wall", the two of them have done a lot of work, there is no way!

Before the factory opened, Chen Xiang's fun was to eat and drink with a few comrades after work, and occasionally go to KTV. Now Chen Xiang's only pleasure is to accompany the child, he is physically and mentally exhausted, and he can experience a trace of happiness of simple innocence with the child. Chen Xiang sometimes said himself: "The child suffers with me, and he can't eat a good meal."

The children eat in the canteen, and the factory itself has no money, and the food is average. Workers can go back to their own canteens to open a small stove after receiving their wages, and they can go to outside restaurants to get some delicious food to treat themselves. However, sometimes he doesn't even have money to buy rice, where can he take his children to eat outside. Both children are thin.

Chen Xiang looked at the two daughters who were scarny and felt distressed, Xiaomu was still young, and it was nothing to eat enough, so he was jubilant. Rong Rong is in the sixth grade, and it is the time to grow his body. Chen Xiang thought, one day when he earns money, he has to work hard to buy some delicious food for the two children, and the children can buy whatever they want to eat!

The factory is like this, half-dead, and so is the storefront. When the economy is bad, not every furniture factory has a bad business, and there are good businesses. People can open a Tmall on Taobao, open a store on Jingdong, or hire some salesmen to run the community, all of which can bring more or less business. However, these are all things that cost money, and Chen Xiang didn't think about it, but now he can't move if he wants to move without money.

Chen Xiang gradually understood the meaning of that sentence, it really is: the richer the richer the richer the richer, and the less rich the richer the less rich.

It's the end of the year, and now that the New Year is coming, the workers have to go back early. This small factory is different from large enterprises, and sometimes it can't be on the rules if you want to. You go to the rules and people leave, this is a year of labor shortage, sometimes in order to recruit a carpenter, it takes more than half a year, the layman may think it is exaggerated when he hears it, but this kind of thing does not happen in Chen Xiang's side: these years the workers are also good at that, the wages are low, the living is poor, the food is out of oil and water, and the work is too much. Workers are really hard to serve!

Chen Xiang sometimes feels cold, I really miss the days when I used to work, when I felt tired from work and didn't make money, now I think about it, there is a class, someone pays salary, don't worry about not having enough to eat, it's really comfortable!

It seems that the sky is endless, and when Chen Xiang feels cornered, God gives him a glimmer of light. On this day, a customer on the Internet called Chen Xiang to measure, this customer is a young woman, bought a villa, and she is in the United States all the year round. This female customer wants to customize solid wood wine cabinets, hall cabinets, and wardrobes. Chen Xiang gave people a price, with a total price of more than 140,000 points. The customer only wiped the odds, and the female customer remitted 100,000 yuan in advance, and said that the rest would be paid when the delivery was made. Later, Chen Xiang used his salary for two months, paid off the material arrears, and paid off some debts. There were soon more than two thousand points left in hand. This money can't go back to my hometown for the New Year, go home for the New Year, give some gifts to this relative, and give some New Year's money to that relative's child, it's not enough.

They decided, as usual, to stay at the factory for the New Year. Of course, Wang Yan hasn't had a holiday yet, and the New Year hasn't arrived yet. In addition to studying, Wang Yan is also thinking about how to do a good job in the factory.

Chen Xiang and Wang Yan have also discussed it countless times, and they believe that the economic downturn is a big factor, and the general environment is such that no matter how hard they try, it will be in vain if there is no passenger flow. Of course, 'changes in people's spending habits' are also a key factor in the poor business of their stores. If there is a flow of customers in the store, no matter how poor the clerk is, he should still be able to take some orders. The state has gradually implemented housing control, and the furniture business is even more difficult.

In recent years, Chen Xiang's factory usually has no workers when there are jobs; When workers are found, it is usually the case that other furniture factories have collapsed, and their business is naturally not good, and it is difficult to recruit workers but there is no list. The simple summary is: no one does it when there is work, and no one does it when there is work. Wang Yan thought about asking Chen Xiang to transfer the factory and withdraw the store, so as not to do this. Chen Xiang asked, "What are you doing if you don't do this?" There is no such thing as a job that is not tiring. ”

Wang Yan didn't know what Chen Xiang could do if he didn't do this. I started my own business, although sometimes there are no days and nights, after all, the time is controlled by myself, relatively casually, and I really have to go back to work, and I may not be able to adapt to it.

Originally, Chen Xiang hoped that after the store was renewed, he would be able to receive an order, but now it is good, the store is renewed, and new worries are coming. The store is constantly losing money, watching the loopholes get bigger and bigger, but it is helpless.

Difficult days will always pass. Will their hard days pass? In what way will it pass?