Chapter 22 Chapter 21 Miserable, it’s a loss

With mixed feelings, I returned to City C and continued the "beautiful" life that my neighbors considered. The scene of my cousin screaming for the sky and the land is lingering in my mind.I strongly look forward to bringing my parents to my side as soon as possible, reuniting the family, and letting the two elders enjoy the family happiness. What is the greatest joy in life?It is the parents who watch their children grow up, and the children watch their parents grow old. During this process, the family is always together. always together.And my parents and I are separated from each other. If they have three illnesses and two pains, who will take care of them?

My heart is filled with a strong sense of guilt, and I do not yet have the material basis to reunite with my parents. I have to make good money, for me and for my family.With urgency I scoured for business, for opportunities that might yield profits. Because I had a cooperation with Director Mao, I became acquainted with him. He said that I am an honest person. This is really a wonderful evaluation.There are many smart people in this society, but everyone likes to deal with honest people. If we can't find security in society, we can find it in honest people.That's why many smart people rack their brains and get nothing, while those who look like pigs always get something.

Based on this evaluation, when I see him in the future, I always try my best to smile honestly. Director Mao began to ask me about some prices, all kinds of prices, and sometimes he even asked me about cement and river sand. In fact, he knows the price of many things himself. The reason why he asked me was to confirm the moisture of his price. Quoting is actually a very tiring job. There are many names for many things. I have to find out what his names correspond to in order to avoid mistakes. I can't go wrong, with the contacts I had at the time, he was already a person with the right to make decisions.

I quoted a lot of prices, but he basically never bought from me. Day by day passed, and the business did not improve. I am just a tool for others to inquire about prices. When the transaction is completed, others will easily cross my bridge. I have no other choice but to build more channels, hoping that something will be missed to me. I also look forward to the fact that when it becomes a habit for others to ask me for quotations, my importance will be highlighted. So, all I have to do now is to persevere.As long as I can keep at it, everything will be fine. Director Mao called and asked me if I was familiar with the decoration materials.

Familiar—just ask me, and I am familiar. Director Mao sent me a list, saying that a friend of his was going to decorate a computer room and was going to contract it out. I was dumbfounded when I got the list. I have never heard of such things as heat insulation, shielding, waterproof, and lightning protection. But I said that I am familiar with it, so I had to bite the bullet and go to the market to inquire. There are many things that are simply not available in the market, and the price cannot be found out. I went to find a professional decoration company, but the ones I could find were basically home improvement companies, and I was basically not familiar with this kind of tooling business.

I managed to find someone who made tooling, looked at the list, and said they had done it. I am very happy.My mentality at the time was not to think about whether it was possible to make money, but to have an explanation to Director Mao.Now that you have said it, you must honor it. This is the credit you should have as a man. This tooling company quoted me a price, which was unchanged, without adding a penny, so I forwarded it to Director Mao.I just wanted to prove to Director Mao that he was right to look for me, and I can handle anything. This is typical thankless work, but I had to. After the price was reported to Director Mao, I didn't care about it anymore.Anyway, I don't do decoration, even if it is given to me, I can't do it.

In the morning, Director Mao called me and said that his friend had seen my price and thought it was okay, so he asked me to talk to his friend.I was dumbfounded again. I also had to bite the bullet and go.Before I went, I made up some knowledge about decoration. In fact, I just memorized a few professional terms so that the other party would not think that I was too layman. Director Mao's friend, surnamed Liu, works as a supervisor in the logistics department of a large state-owned enterprise. In fact, it is not a serious computer room decoration, that is, maintenance and renovation. After looking at the site, I think it should not be too complicated.

I said, I don't know much about professional things, and I'll bring the technician to take a look later. So I came back and went to the company again and described the scene to them.They are going to watch it on site, but I won't do it. I have to negotiate with them first. They didn't do it either, and they had to watch the scene before they made a promise to me, and things got stalemate there. As a last resort, I can only be a villain.I privately found a technology-savvy person from their company, named Chen Daming, who promised to make a profit of 40% or 60% after the completion of the project, and he agreed.Before going, I signed a paperwork similar to an agreement with him.

Professionalism is professionalism. After watching the scene, Chen Daming spoke clearly to Lao Liu.It seems that Lao Liu trusts us very much, and said: "No problem, it's up to you to do it, just do it well." The matter seems to be settled, but I know that signing the contract is a problem, because I only have the seal of the building materials business department, and Chen Daming was pulled out by me to take on private work, so it is impossible to sign the contract in the name of their company. I can only tell the truth to Lao Liu, I hope that the building materials management department will sign the contract with him, instead of signing the construction maintenance, I will sign the material purchase, and make some flexibility.

Of course, I didn't tell the truth all the time, and I also lied. For example, we do a lot of this kind of projects, and we generally operate in this way for businesses worth tens of thousands of dollars. Chen Daming also chimed in, and casually cited some examples to prove it. Lao Liu actually agreed.Hehe, this is the first contract signed by my building materials business department, but it has nothing to do with building materials. The contract was signed, but many troubles were encountered during the construction process.Chen Daming was working in the company, so he didn't dare to procrastinate casually, so he could only use his off-duty time to go to the construction site for construction, and Party A pressed for the construction period rather tightly, which made me very embarrassed.

In addition, I found that Chen Daming's level is still at the purely technical level, his hands-on ability is very poor, and the combination of theory and practice is not so good.We took a lot of detours throughout the construction, and finally hired another person to barely get this thing done. It turned out that we expected a profit of more than 10,000 yuan from this business, but in the end, we lost more than 4,000 yuan. Chen Daming admits profit but not loss, and I have to bear the loss of more than 4,000 yuan alone. More than 4,000 yuan, which is almost all the profits I made from the bridge business with Director Mao, was wiped out at once.My heart aches.What made my heart hurt even more was that because Lao Liu's construction period was delayed and the quality of the project was not up to standard, Lao Liu told Director Mao about it.Director Mao called me and scolded me, saying that I could only brag and make him lose face in front of his friends, and told me not to look for him again. Losing money and losing an important client can only be imagined.For several days, I was listless.From now on, Director Mao will never trust me again. A big client I worked so hard to build was ruined because of my greed. Am I greedy? A sigh.