Volume 1: Little People Return 2014 Chapter 008: Entrepreneurship
Half a month passed in a flash, and it was already July, which meant summer vacation for students.
For World Cup viewers, the quarter-finals schedule is already halfway through. In the early morning of July 1, France defeated Nigeria 2:0 and Germany defeated Algeria 2:1, both advancing to the quarter-finals.
This carnival of football fans around the world is gradually coming to an end, and there are still eight days left until the semi-final that is destined to go down in the history of the World Cup.
Ms. Liu Huaiying's patience with Zhou Dongsheng is about to reach its limit.
Half a month has passed. Although Zhou Dongsheng maintained the good habit of jogging every morning and rushed to do the housework, what did it matter?
In Ms. Liu Huaiying's eyes, these are all unprofessional. If Zhou Dongsheng doesn't find something serious to do, it would be wrong for him to even step into the house with his left foot first.
Zhou Dongsheng also has a lot of grievances about this, even though he has been busy these days, getting up early and staying up late to follow the World Cup schedule.
Relying on vague fragments of memory and prudent financial management, he refused to take chances with teams he couldn't even name, and only attacked teams he was sure of.
Even so, the steady Zhou Dongsheng could only barely win more and lose less, otherwise it would be said that nine out of ten times he would lose.
With this advantage, the balance in Zhou Dongsheng's bank card quietly turned into a six-digit number starting with 2.
Although the source of this money is reasonable and legal, it is sports lottery winnings that are subject to tax according to the law.
However, Zhou Dongsheng could not tell Ms. Liu Huaiying that he made so much money by just buying lottery tickets while watching the World Cup.
You earned $200,000 through a legitimate job. Your mother was ecstatic, pleased, full of praise, and proud of you.
If you win $200,000 in the lottery, your mother will be happy but also worried because she’s afraid that you’ll do something stupid, so she’ll help you save the money, just like the New Year’s money you received in those years.
Although your old mother is good, when you realize that your parents are not omnipotent, but just ordinary people who have their limitations, it means that you have taken an important step on the road to growth.
But Zhou Dongsheng had already stepped over it.
That day, Zhou Dongsheng came home after running, feeling refreshed. The mother and son happily ate breakfast .
Ms. Liu Huaiying
"Mom, I haven't been idle these days. I have been working on e-commerce with a friend. We open a store online to sell things." Zhou Dongsheng said seriously.
If he were reborn in school, Zhou Dongsheng might really choose to study hard, not just because he had suffered enough from being uneducated in society.
The nostalgia and yearning for campus life have become the eternal white moonlight in Zhou Dongsheng's heart, but real life is just a mess.
However, now that I have entered society and have plans and ambitions for the future, I don’t want to spend my precious time on campus.
When it comes to becoming the pride of his old mother, getting into a key university or making a lot of money, for Zhou Dongsheng now, the former is obviously much more difficult.
"Oh, you mean this? I often hear people at the factory say that buying clothes and other things online is so cheap. Is there any future in this?"
"It's very promising, don't worry." Zhou Dongsheng patted his chest and assured.
"Okay, it's good that you have this idea, but you must not do anything illegal or criminal, okay? The Internet is a mess."
"I see. Don't you know who your son is? I don't have the guts to commit a crime."
"Since we are going to do business together, we can't take advantage of others. Just pay as much as you should. Mom will give you the money!"
"It's okay to lose. You're still young, so just consider it as gaining experience. There will be plenty of opportunities in the future."
The old Zhou Dongsheng would have been annoyed by his mother’s heartfelt advice and earnest teachings, but now he only feels warmth.
"Okay, but it doesn't cost much to do business online. We already have a computer at home, so we don't need to invest too much in the early stages..."
"It's good that you have an idea. Mom doesn't understand these things. Wash the dishes after dinner. Mom will go to work first."
Liu Huaiying drove his scooter towards Gu Town with a smile on his face.
Zhou Dongsheng’s hometown is a small village under Gu Town. In the 1980s and 1990s, Gu Town was just an unknown small town doing timber business.
However, under the spring breeze of reform, textile factories of all sizes sprang up like mushrooms after a rain, not only making a group of people rich, but also providing more jobs and attracting a lot of outsiders.
Because Guzhen's main textile products are underwear, it is also known as the "famous underwear town".
Thanks to the job provided by the factory, Liu Huaiying, a single mother, was able to raise Zhou Dongsheng with her hard-working hands, and she also had some savings by living frugally.
After so many years in the textile factory, Liu Huaiying also became a small leader in the workshop. Although he no longer had to sit on the sewing machine day and night, it was still very hard work.
After all, the factory's work and rest schedule is 8107, so 996 is really a "blessing" in their eyes.
It is not easy to let a working woman who has worked hard all her life take a break all of a sudden. Zhou Dongsheng plans to wait until the e-commerce business is well established, and then let his old mother retreat to the second line and help him take care of things.
As for the e-commerce matter, Zhou Dongsheng had no intention of hiding it from his mother.
At first, Zhang Xuhui thought Zhou Dongsheng was just joking, but after many exchanges, the two of them took it seriously and treated it as a serious matter. During the communication, they hit it off now consider themselves partners.
After discussion, the two decided on the initial business plan, which was naturally to open an online store to sell goods. It can be said to be a simple and unpretentious business venture, and it is also in line with common sense.
After all, with a textile industrial town like Guzhen as its backing, there is a natural advantage in supply and products are easy to find. And as a local, you always have a relative who has made a fortune, which is your connection.
The first step in starting a business is naturally to integrate your own resources and find ways to utilize and give full play to the advantages of resources, just like Deng Bin and others, who brought resources to Chuncheng on the plateau.
They chose to open an online store. Zhou Dongsheng was responsible for setting up the online store, while Zhang Xuhui found a cooperative factory and found products to test the waters and then put them on the online store.
Zhou Dongsheng also used the PS skills he had accumulated in his previous life to create detailed product pictures and related introductions. In addition to setting up the online store, Zhang Xuhui also went to learn from his peers.
Zhang Xuhui copied and applied what an online store needs to operate, the need to have keywords in the title, the need to generate orders and traffic in the early stages, and the idea that everything would be fine if a hit product could be produced, etc., but with little success.
Zhou Dongsheng has invested 4,000 yuan of his own salary into the business, and Zhang Xuhui, with the support of his family, has also invested 4,000 yuan. Currently, the store is still in a half-dead state.
After all, with such a simple entrepreneurial prototype, they naturally couldn't be the first to try it out, and the factories in Gu Town that had completed the original capital accumulation were not pushovers either.
It is not difficult to open an online store. Just find someone to manage it. What difficulty can it be? If it doesn’t work, just spend money. Factories with deep pockets have plenty of confidence.
In the circle of friends and classmates, there are countless people who will work in the e-commerce industry in the future, but only Zhang Xuhui stands out from the crowd and has transformed from a worker into an entrepreneur.
Why?
Many people can’t figure it out, Zhou Dongsheng can’t figure it out either, so they are all ordinary people and can only envy.
But in this life, Zhou Dongsheng has already held on to a big thigh, so he can just win without doing anything.
Zhou Dongsheng was not panicked at all and just waited for Zhang Xuhui to take off.
At this time, Zhou Dongsheng's phone rang. When he picked it up, he heard Zhang Xuhui's somewhat embarrassed voice on the other end .
"Brother Sheng, I have something to discuss with you. I found a product that I think has great potential, but..."
A breakthrough was found so quickly? Zhou Dongsheng was very surprised. Is this what it feels like to win without doing anything?
"What product? I'm at home right now. You can come directly to my house and we can talk in person."
