Chapter 2 Chapter 2 First Arrival in Guangdong: Sleeping on the Grass, Picking up Rubbish

I am a person who dares to take responsibility, and I can stand up at critical moments, and I should not be a shrinking turtle.With this spirit, a rogue is no longer a rogue, but a hooligan. I have my own beliefs and ethics. In a place like Guangzhou, if you want to survive, you can do without anything, but you can't lose your personality.You can be trampled on like a dog, but not kneeled.When I first arrived in Guangdong, I brought the "first pot of gold" I earned from selling computers in college.The number is quite considerable, so there is no sense of crisis, and I don’t know how to plan ahead. In addition, the first time I came to such a bustling city as Guangzhou, the first thing I do is to be chic, spend a lot of time, and I have left my presence on many famous sensual occasions.After playing like this for a while, one day, when I found that I only had five yuan with me, I realized the seriousness of the problem.Fortunately, in Guangdong, I still have a relative from the same family, so I went to him with the attitude of "trying it out".

Greetings are unavoidable, and a lot of polite words have been said, and you are very moved by the superficial enthusiasm.The relative said, let's go, let's take you to dinner.When I came to the restaurant, my relatives said, "It's not clean, I'll take you to the gym and forget it."When I came to the gym, my relatives said, the equipment is too old, let me take you to bask in the sun.In the end, he led me to the park, breathed free air on a piece of lawn, and educated me by the way, which was equivalent to giving me a thought lesson.I breathed free air, listened to my relatives' teachings, and was so hungry that I had an ominous premonition.Trying to figure out what my relatives meant, my self-esteem told me that I still had to rely on myself, no matter how hard it was, I couldn’t think of relying on others.Speaking of which, I left without waiting for my relatives to catch up.

I have no money and no place to live, so I can only sleep in the park at night. The benches are occupied by local beggars, so I can only sleep on the grass. Fortunately, the weather in Guangdong is not too bad, so I can sleep well. Although I only have five yuan on me, I still have to live, so I try to make money.Cantonese people have a habit of putting domestic garbage outside, right at the door, in big bags filled with messy, broken copper and iron.The few of us just dragged this kind of garbage bags. After walking all night, we picked up more and more bags, and we were so tired that we almost collapsed.At that time, I thought that after working all night, the "war results" were so outstanding, at least I could earn two or three hundred yuan.As soon as the door of the waste collection station opened, we rushed in, but only exchanged twenty yuan.

Although the money is small, at least we can buy a lot of steamed buns and mustard. We cut the steamed buns lengthwise into several slices and stuffed mustard in the middle, like a homemade hamburger. After picking up junk like this for a while, I finally saved a few hundred yuan, and finally I can not sleep in the park.I can find myself a place to live. The place where I live is an urban village in Guangzhou. One of my classmates started to live there. The rent was 300 yuan a month. When I went there, the rent rose to 350 yuan.The house is so small that it can barely accommodate a bed. You enter the room and you are on the bed, and you get out of the bed to go outside.It's also very humid, with water droplets hanging on the walls all the year round, and green hairs growing in the corners, and people will get rheumatism if they live for a long time.And the location of the window is not very good, it is facing the landlord's air-conditioning fan, once it is turned on, hot air will blow in, inviting you to take a free sauna.Even so, the landlord was not very friendly, secretly calling us "dead Yankees."

In Guangzhou, the geographical scope of "Yanxie" is very wide, not to mention the north, even places like Hunan and Hubei are treated equally.And for some reason, from my own experience, people from our place are not very popular in Guangzhou, or maybe I am too sensitive. I have encountered this kind of thing several times. When I went to find a job and submitted my resume, it was often very good at the beginning. Later, when I saw my hometown, I showed very disdainful eyes and said, "No." I asked him, "Why not?" ?” People got annoyed and said, “If you don’t want it, then you don’t want it!”

Having experienced this many times, I became more discerning, and dared not say where I was from. "I'm from Hebei," I said.Hebei?Cantonese still don't know much about it.I explained to him that Hebei is under the foot of the emperor, and only then did I accept the personal information for the job. When checking the ID card, I asked again: "Why not Hebei?" I said, "I am from Hebei, but I study there." little things. So, the people there are not easy to mix in Guangdong. The northerners and southerners who work and live in Guangdong have generally lost their true colors and have deteriorated because of the difficult times in the world.The oranges from Huainan and Huaibei will all become canned fruit when they arrive here, and there are few essential differences.Of course, there are still subtle differences. For example, southerners are more timid, more content with the status quo, and only dare to take relatively small kickbacks. Even if something happens, it is still a superficial business that will not shake the foundation.Northerners usually have a bright personality, will be impulsive, and have a lot of courage. Once the basket is stabbed, it will be a fatal problem, so it is very risky to use.In other words, it is impossible for southerners to take your money and run away. Even if they run away, they can still find his home and get the stolen goods. The northerners are different, or they don’t do it. For home, you can't even see a person.

This is the north-south characteristic that I summed up in the future when setting up companies and training personnel, but I didn't realize this at the time, and it simply boiled down to a kind of regional discrimination.In fact, as small as a group or as large as a unit, if you want to get things done, you need to use both types of people and manage them separately. Life at that time was very bitter, and it could no longer be called "life". It is more accurate to define it as "survival".In order to save money, we fought wits and courage with the landlord. The wire of the electric meter was often unplugged, and the landlord came to connect it again.Even so, our monthly electricity bill is actually 500 yuan. Do you think the landlord is black or not?

Even more difficult than the landlord is the mosquito, which bites you so hard that you can’t sleep, and the mosquitoes in urban villages are particularly aggressive. Mosquito coils are their "perfume", and they are useless.I couldn't bear it anymore, so I lit a fire in the house, the red dust was billowing outside, and the wolf smoke was billowing inside, and then I used an electric fan to blow it out.This method is very effective, but the disadvantage is also obvious, that is, it is easier to cause a fire, after all, it is a fire business.Later, I actually burned a hole in the landlord's bed sheet and put the head in it. It happened to be a cassock, which turned out to be a "natural weapon" against mosquitoes.

Guangdong is a big place. To get from one place to another, it is unthinkable to take a taxi. The cheapest way is to take a bus.But the current situation is clear: no money.I had no choice but to rub the bus and be a "rogue".In fact, there is no way. If you have money, who wants to take advantage of the bus.At the beginning, the method of rubbing the bus was very simple, that is, using game coins.A renminbi is placed on it, and the game currency is pasted on it. The bus driver has to take care of both ends, getting on and off the bus, so he takes advantage of this loophole to get away.It went well in the beginning, but then it couldn't be used, because we were several people, and there were a few stupid guys, even the necessary disguise was saved, and the two coins were all game coins.

Of course I was discovered in the end, and those stupid guys saw that the situation was wrong and slipped away, leaving me alone.I said, "Brother, let's be more accommodating, we really have no money." The bus driver looked at me, dressed worse than a beggar, with the invincible temperament of a rascal, so he let the tiger go back to the mountain.Although this matter is small, you can see that I am a person who dares to take responsibility. I can stand up at critical moments and not be a coward.With this spirit, a rogue is no longer a rogue, but a hooligan. When the method of game currency can no longer be used, I changed my strategy and bought a small tape recorder to record the sound of "di" when swiping the bus card.Then I picked up a scrap card, took a photo of the machine when I got in the car, and turned the volume of the tape recorder in my arms to the maximum so that the driver could hear a beep.

The driver only heard the sound, but the machine didn't respond (heck, if there is a response), he asked what was going on.I pretended to be calm, and said: "The card must have been swiped, and you heard the sound, maybe there is something wrong with the machine." The driver was skeptical, and got away with it. The traffic problem has been solved, but there is still the problem of eating. Eating "homemade burgers" every day is not a solution. Occasionally, I have to find a way to fight teeth.This is thanks to the "tasting activities" in major shopping malls. There are often new products. In order to promote them, a counter is set up to pick up ingredients with toothpicks for customers to try.We are not picky about products (and we can’t be picky), and generally put on the best clothes (at least not like Hong Qigong’s apprentices), and then “organize a group to taste”.After eating, I wiped it with my mouth, it's not bad, and then moved to the next supermarket. On good days, the almanac is accurate, the ancestral graves are smoking, and you can also try beer, which is the best. That was really a very sad time, the whole person and life were extremely wretched. The American "Foreign Affairs Weekly" once had an issue dedicated to discussing the "Ranking List of Failed States".US imperialism is very evil. Their definition of "failed country" in this bimonthly magazine is: "Every country has its own troubles. The main problem of one country may be a sharp economic recession, and the problem of another country may be It’s the lack of first-rate talent.” The editors of the journal specifically listed twelve keywords for failed states, in order: demographics, refugees, illegitimate government, brain drain, public service, ethnic grievances, human rights, economic recession, security Troops, fragmented power blocs, external intervention. My reason for mentioning "Diplomatic Weekly" is that if the concept of "country" is removed and everything is transformed into "individuals", and I specifically list the "twelve key words of failed individuals", I can at least meet ten of them. No one wants to be a rogue, but in order to survive, I did live a life of a rogue.I also look for jobs, I also do small businesses that can make money, and I sell a few broken books on the side of the road.There are two other classmates who hang out with me. Our starting point is the same, both are rogues, but there is a difference between a rogue and a rogue. change the status quo.But they are different. They are the kind of people who can drink a pack of peanuts and a bottle of Erguotou for a day. Their ideal in life is to go to an Internet cafe, find a video room to watch pornographic DVDs, and spend 50 yuan to find a chicken after a long time. The mother-in-law hit a cannon. They are very interested in women and enjoy prostitution. One of them claims to be "every day in Guangzhou".That kid is actually a bit capable. He just started doing business in a company and got a commission of 7,000 yuan. The next day he spent it on women, shopping, and spent nothing left.They once wanted to drag me into the water, but I refused. I told them, I can pay you for whoring, but don't drag me, so I got away. This is also the difference between me and them. I have my own pursuit of life and I don't want to spoil myself.It’s not that I am a high-minded person, but that I am different from them. Although they also came to Guangzhou to work, their family background is better than mine, and they only come out for experience.I can't do it anymore, they have a way out, but I don't, they can go home if they can't get along, but I can only die if I can't get along. So, if they have money, they will find women. When I have money, I will buy books and learn something.Playing with women costs a lot, so they often ask me to borrow money, say they borrow it, but never pay it back.Together with these bragging boys, I am used to seeing them only bragging and not working hard, so of course I have an idea.They are also very prejudiced against me. Everyone plays with women. If you don’t play, you will be fake and gentle, and you will not be brothers. Later, when they borrowed money again, I didn’t agree. It doesn’t hurt to beat a dog with a meat bun, but you will definitely feel distressed if you beat a dog with a cage of buns and the dog is not full.If I don't agree with others and don't lend me money, they will scold me, saying that I only have money in my eyes.That being the case, the brothers couldn't do it anymore. I bought two cigarettes and gave them to them, saying, these cigarettes are a little of my heart. After smoking the cigarettes, we will go our separate ways.Then I moved out of the village in the city.I can no longer be friends with these people. We can work on projects together, but their greatest ambition is to set up a small stall one day to start a small business. If they make money, they can go back to their hometown and marry a beautiful wife. It seems ridiculous. I am a very ambitious person.In a place like Guangzhou, if you don't have ambition, you can't get along at all, so you won't play with women with them.At that time, the villages in the city were surrounded by factories, and the residents were all migrant girls who had come out of the mountains.They go to work during the day, and stand in a long row of warblers at night to receive customers. For those who are new to Guangzhou, if they can see such a row of young warblers in different postures and dressed in cheap clothes, they will think it is very spectacular.Their advantage lies in their low price, for those who are old and bloated, they can be done for 30 yuan.Those who are younger and more attractive may be charged fifty. Those who come here to spend are men without money, those who carry big bags, those who pull carts, and old men in their fifties and sixties.Someone passing through this magnificent line will be teased, and the language is very naked.I was once grabbed by a wandering warbler and asked: "Would you like to play?" I said: "I have no money." She still didn't give up, grabbed my watch and asked: "Do you want to play?" I said with a smile : "I really have no money." She returned the watch to me and said, "The electronic watch is worthless." I already had a girlfriend at that time, and once, I took her to see the magnificent army of wandering warblers in the village in the city, and I could see that she was shocked.I said, "Bringing you here today is to show you how difficult life is." In addition to the "twilight love" I talked about in college, I had a girlfriend when I went to Guangzhou.The reason why I say "has been" is because they broke up later.I was very poor at the time, and because of money, the two of us often quarreled about daily necessities. My biggest wish at the time was to buy her a house in Guangzhou.In order to accomplish this "mission impossible", I worked several jobs at the same time, but I still couldn't make a lot of money.In the meantime, she may not be able to bear this kind of poor life, so she chose to break up. I was in an embarrassing situation at the time, a dilemma.Jobs are available, but they are unskilled and the wages are low.The friends who traveled together in Guangdong parted ways, and the friendship was gone.Then there was a rift in the relationship with his girlfriend, and his personal life had never been worse. I remembered a story of "I can't advance or retreat": a brother walked into the house, and when he opened the door, he was stunned. The sister-in-law who was taking a bath said, "Are you sorry for your elder brother?" The brother turned to leave, and the sister-in-law said again: "You Are you worthy of me?" So the brother stayed there, unable to advance or retreat, and finally the sister-in-law said: "Are you worthy of yourself?" I couldn't advance, I couldn't retreat, and I couldn't stay where I was. This was my dilemma at the time. That relationship hit me hard, and it can be said that I was disheartened.I am a person who does not show my feelings very much, but I would give up my life to her.I could die for her, but she didn't choose me, like a black humor. I was emotionally specific when I was working as a tutor in the home of a divorced woman, helping her son with his homework.She treats me very well, and expresses different styles from time to time.She is a relatively wealthy single woman who got a property when she divorced and some real estate.Every time I go to tutor, she will invite me to eat, especially prepare some delicious meals.At that time, in order to make money, I worked several jobs at the same time, and I was busy running around, and I felt very warm when I could eat a hot meal.Out of the idea of ​​repaying my kindness, I also pay special attention to her son, sometimes tutoring until late at night.After the counseling is over, the woman will offer a supper to show her gratitude.For these extra concerns, I mostly declined politely or pretended to be confused, but I was very clear in my heart.Once, her son had already fallen asleep and I was leaving, so she went out to see me off.It was raining in Guangdong at that time, and the season was very humid. She was wearing a very sexy pajamas, stopped me at the door, and said, "I won't leave tonight, okay?" Her eyes were full of longing, and her body exuded desire , the faint scent of perfume disturbs the mind.I said: "I understand what you mean, but I can't do this. I have a girlfriend." She sighed softly and said, "I know your hard work now, and I know that you are not satisfied with the status quo. If you If you stay, I'll pay you to start your business." I said, "That might be a good idea, but I can't do it, and thank you very much, really." The next day, I quit my job as a tutor. Even though I needed the money badly, badly, I quit my job as a tutor.In those days of despair, I did not follow the crowd, "never abandon or give up", taught myself a foreign language, did not play with women, and insisted on being an upright person. In addition, "Being a man while learning to be a man", I also learned from many friends, seniors, and even my opponents.This is a habit of mine, and my talent, to be honest, can only be above average.But I can make up for it with hard work. While being a man, I cast pious eyes around me. Being a man is a never-ending knowledge. I have my own beliefs and ethics. In a place like Guangzhou, if you want to survive, you can do without anything, but you can't lose your personality.You can be trampled on like a dog, but not kneeled.Similarly, I don't know how to eat soft rice. I can't digest it after eating it, and I will have diarrhea all my life.Before my girlfriend and I broke up, there was a violent physical altercation, I mean, her body was violently bumped on me.She slapped me twenty times, but I didn't fight back. As a result, one ear always hurts later, which is a sequelae. I don't hit women. I am a good person with all the flaws, a man who refuses to admit defeat.I like this world, but it is difficult to participate in it. For the people and things in this world, I see more from the perspective of the third eye, and I have less self-experience, because too much self-experience is too tiring . Light rain on June 10, 2011 A farmer has only been in junior high school for two years, and his family has no money to continue his education.He dropped out of school and went home to help his father cultivate three acres of Susukida.When he was nineteen years old, his father died, and the burden of the family was all on his shoulders.He has to take care of his mother who is not in good health, and a grandmother who is paralyzed in bed. In the 1980s, farmland was contracted to households.He dug a puddle into a pond and wanted to raise fish.But the cadres in the village told him that the paddy fields could not raise fish, but could only grow crops, so he had to fill up the pond again.This incident became a joke. In the eyes of others, he was a very stupid person who wanted to get rich. Hearing that raising chickens can make money, he borrowed 500 yuan from relatives and started raising chickens.But after a flood, the chickens got roup and all died within a few days.Five hundred yuan may not be a big deal to others, but it is an astronomical figure for a family living on three acres of Susukida.His mother couldn't stand the stimulation, and died of depression. He later brewed wine, caught fish, and even helped people drill holes in the cliffs of the quarry...but he didn't make any money. At the age of thirty-five, he had not yet married a wife.Even divorced women with children look down on him.Because he only has one earthen house, which may collapse after a heavy rain at any time.A man who can't marry a wife is not valued in rural areas. But he still wanted to give it a try, so he borrowed money from everywhere to buy a walking tractor.Unexpectedly, within half a month of being on the road, the tractor rushed him into a river.He broke a leg and became lame.And the tractor, after being picked up, was already in pieces, so he could only disassemble it and sell it as scrap iron. Almost everyone said that his life was over. But later he became the boss of a company in the city where I lived, with assets of 200 million yuan in his hands.Now, many people know his miserable past and legendary entrepreneurial experience.He has been interviewed by many media and described by many reports.But I only remember such a plot—— The reporter asked him: "In the days of suffering, why did you never flinch again and again?" He sat behind the large and luxurious boss desk and finished drinking the glass of water in his hand.Then, holding the glass in his hand, he asked the reporter, "What will happen to this glass if I let go?" The reporter said: "It fell to the ground and broke." "Then let's try it," he said. As soon as he let go of his hand, the cup fell to the ground with a crisp sound, but it was not broken, but intact.He said: "Even if there are ten people present, they will all think that this glass will definitely break. However, this glass is not an ordinary glass, but made of fiberglass." So, I remembered this classic and wonderful dialogue.Such a person, even if he has only one breath, he will try his best to hold the hand of success, unless God deprives him of his life...