Return To 1990

What Am I Missing?  

“Lu Feng, you know, I have been alone for several years; after all, I am a woman. Men can just marry again as if nothing happened, but women become helpless. A water pipe leaked and I can’t even handle it alone. I have to find a man to rely on. “

 He Yanli placed a hand on Lu Feng’s shoulder, winking like silk, and whispered, “A woman is a flower and needs a man to moisturize; otherwise, the flower will wither. I know that you and Jiang Xiaoyan are both a couple in name but not in reality….”

 ” What? How do you know? Do you eavesdrop on us?”

 “Everyone in this building knows. I don’t want much, just wants a shoulder to lean on.” He Yanli spoke as she sat on Lu Feng’s lap.

 When Lu Feng heard this he smiled, reached out his shoulder and picked her up.

 He Yanli was very excited, her pair of winking eyes straightened out and she stretched her hands around Lu Feng’s neck, looking forward to what happened next.

 Lu Feng then picked her up and threw her on the bed without reserving his arm strength. Standing by the bed and looking at the water under his feet, he said coldly, “It’s a lot of water, please clean it up!”

 Watching Lu Feng leave, He Yanli didn’t fight. This guy’s head is sick. All this trouble for nothing. I didn’t even mention that people have to pay for what I was giving him for free. Didn’t someone say that he still spend money to go out for prostitution?

 Lu Feng didn’t have time to waste on He Yanli. Even if he was going to cheat, he would not like this kind of stuff. Now, the most important thing is the canned bottles.

 Yesterday, he learned about some glass bottle factories from Zhou Jianguo. The unit price of canned bottles can be as low as a cent. It was also the ideal price he set in his mind.

 The weather was warm today, so Lu Feng only wore a shirt. He found Datou(Big Head), sat in his rickshaw, and they went straight to the printing shop.

 “Brother Feng, what are you going to do at the print shop?” Datou wondered.

 “Going to get some information!” Lu Feng replied vaguely.

 “What? Are you going to do something like that again?” Datou felt that Lu Feng had changed too much recently. The previous brother Feng would give him a silly look, was naive and very loyal, but this present Lu Feng makes people around him confused. For Datou, this Lu Feng’s peaks are as deep as the vast ocean.

 “Don’t ask too much. Datou, what are you doing nowadays?”

 “Farming, my family has 40 acres of land, and the granary is almost full every year!” Datou said, with happiness on his face. Farming is the best choice for young people who graduated from elementary school only.

 Lu Feng remembered that the migrant worker boom only appeared in the mid-1990s, and people didn’t have many choices in 1990. The best thing is to go to the city every day to have fun.

 “Datou, you have to help Brother Feng for a few days, okay?”

 “No problem. I’m strong, so I can do everything quickly!” Datou said honestly.

 There are not many print shops in the city. Now, there is little to no demand in this area.

Lu Feng and Datou reached the shop and entered. The owner was a young man. Seeing Lu Feng coming in, he asked rudely, “What do you want?”

 “I want to print some documents, and can you synthesize some photos?” Lu Feng asked.

 “Synthesis of photos is costly, fifty cents apiece. Fifty cents per typesetting, and five cents a piece of paper for printing.” The owner’s voice was lazy and somewhat arrogant as if he was superior to others.

 “Fifty cents for a photo!?” Datou yelled, “Let’s go to the photo studio; the family portrait is only 30 cents!”

 “Do you want to do it? Get out if you don’t want to!”

 This kind of service attitude made Lu Feng frown a little, but now, this service is high-end, and the boss’s perspective is also standard. A little girl is standing next to him, watching the owner with admiration on her face.

 “This price is fine.”

 Fortunately, Lu Feng didn’t turn over the money he received from Stationmaster Wang to his wife last night; otherwise, he would have been embarrassed today.

 Lu Feng walked out with a folder at three o’clock in the afternoon. Datou said in a painful voice, “Just a few things, he asked for three dollars? We’ve been robbed!”

 “This is still typewriter typesetting. If it is a computer, it would have been even more expensive.”

 “Brother Feng, what is a computer?”

 “Um….” Lu Feng didn’t know how to explain, so he said, “With your IQ, it is difficult for me to explain clearly to you.”

 “Is it an electric typewriter?” Datou asked curiously.

 Lu Feng nodded, not wanting to be entangled with this issue, looked at the Datou and said, “From now on, you call me Mr. Lu, understand?”

 “What?”

 “Just remember, alright!?”

 Although Datou didn’t know what he wanted to or should do, he nodded. Recently, he has become more admiring of Lu Feng, looking up to him as an idol.

They then Rode the rickshaw straight to the glass factory.

 The gatekeeper of the glass factory looked at the two and asked, “What do you two want?”

 “I’m looking for your boss!” Spoke Datou arrogantly.

 “Who are you? Why do you want to see him?”

 “We are from a cannery and wish to order a batch of canned bottles.”

 A few minutes later, Lu Feng sat in a reception room and told Datou, who was beside him, “Remember what I said. Also, I will put this folder on the table. Don’t take it when we go, you understand? “

 Datou nodded sincerely.

 The room door opened, and a man in his forties walked in. He wore a gray suit, a little loose, looked at Lu Feng and asked, “You want to order canned bottles?”

 “Hello, I’m the person in charge of Jiamei Canned Food Co. Ltd, and my name is Lu Feng!” Lu Feng stretched out his hand for a handshake, standing straight. His momentum was a bit stronger than necessary.

 Looking at Lu Feng with wide-eyed eyes, Datou was full of doubts. Why did Brother Feng become the person in charge again?

 Datou discovered that no matter what identity Lu Feng touched, the temperament and self-confidence he showed always convinced people instantly. Even Datou could not figure out whether he was lying or not.

 As a businessman, lying is the most basic professional quality!

 The other party didn’t dare to be slow and hurriedly stretched out his hand and shook Lu Feng’s, “I am the general manager of this glass factory, Zhao Buhuan. Please sit down, Mr. Lu.”

 Both parties got seated. Mr. Zhao then took the lead and said, “Do you want to customize your canned bottles? Did you come with the design of your drawings?”

 “We will not customize it at first. We will get the same canning bottles you mass-produce. Later, we will customize some of our products.” Lu Feng said straightforwardly, “I don’t know how your prices are?”

 “Mr. Lu, as you also must know that the price depends on the quantity, and the prices can be negotiated when the quantity is large.”

 “But the quantity I need in the early stage is not large; can the price be kept down? The amount will be substantial in the later stage.” Lu Feng groaned for a while. “It’s a good product, there will be a big demand in the future, and I can assure you that I will do business only with you.”

 Mr. Zhao smiled when he heard this. Everyone who came to talk with him said so and said, “How much do you need every month right now?”

 “About a thousand.”

 “Three cents each, if there is a great demand in the later period, we can talk about it.”

 Three cents?

In Lu Feng’s heart, the price he imagined was a cent, but the cost had increased three times, which is unacceptable to him. After thinking about it, he asked, “Can the payment be settled monthly?”

 Mr. Zhao had no interest anymore. The month-end is impossible, he stood up and declared, “Forget it, I have something to do, I can’t support your offer.”

 “All right, I’ll talk to other factories.” Lu Feng stood up and said to Datou, “Go and bring the car around.”

 Datou froze for a moment and went out. Lu Feng and Mr. Zhao politely exchanged a few words. He strolled, and when he went out, he was nervous in his heart. He secretly thought, come out and chase me, hurry up!

 Zhao Buhuan was a little disdainful when he saw Lu Feng’s smile. It was just funny when he ran to put a white wolf here. As he was about to go back to the office, he suddenly saw a folder on the table.

 He picked it up and took a look. He was shocked. Inside the folder was an investment evaluation report, starting with the Hong Kong Island Ansitu Food Group’s research and evaluation on investment in the mainland market.

 First: assess market risks, conduct pilot production, and integrate local supply chains. If feasible, invest 300 million US dollars in the next three years to build a large-scale factory with over one million bottles of cans annually.

 The internal research report was exceptionally well made. From market research, consumer power evaluation, canned taste surveys, brand establishment, product development to the intensity of market competition.

 Zhao Buhuan became more and more frightened as he turned the pages. This perfect report is not something ordinary people can fake; even he couldn’t write it out like this. Looking down, he saw a few photos fell out of the folder.

 The first photo was of a few men in suits. Behind them is a building with the words Ansitu Group Building. Lu Feng is in the picture. The second photo showed even more than the first one. Zhao Buhuan’s legs grew weak. It was a group photo, there was a man in his sixties or seventies, wearing glasses.

 “Jiacheng?”

 “My God!” Zhao Buhuan cried, covering his head with his hands, “What did I miss!?”

 After saying that, he rushed out the door, he must chase Lu Feng and bring him back!