Reborn King of Marketing

"Big pot, big pot, wake up and eat!"

Zhang Xuebing was shaken awake from his sleep. Hey, it sounded like Xin'er's voice. She obviously died of illness more than 20 years ago. Could it be that he was dreaming of her again?

I opened my eyes and looked at the sound. Standing in front of me was a girl in her late teens, wearing a blue gown full of patches but very clean.

The slender braid lines the thin and beautiful cheeks, and the big, watery eyes are slightly green. This is not the person who has been dead for more than 20 years - Su Xin'er!

Yes, it's her. This girl has been biting her tongue since she was a child. She can't tell the difference between brother and pot, but what's going on?

The dim sunset shines in through the dilapidated and leaky window, giving the small house a dull color and a very old feel.

There are clay walls, a brown trampoline, a table with one missing leg and a few rough porcelain tea bowls, and the only household appliance is a light bulb!

The walls are covered with dark yellow newspapers, and the latest headline clearly reads "Warmly Celebrate the Convening of the 11th Asian Games"!

This is one day in 1991!

I actually returned to the old house in my hometown Zhangjiacun in the Ludong Mountain District thirty-two years ago!

My hometown is located in a deep mountain ravine, and the grain production is extremely low. It is ranked at the bottom of the poverty-stricken counties. The villagers rely on relief grains every year to survive.

There are only two brothers in the Zhang family, but they are considered wealthy in the village. They have contracted several acres of hillside land, and they also raise cattle, goats, and native chickens. They live a happy life and are envied by many fellow villagers.

In the fourteenth year of Zhang Xuebing's life, his brother married a beautiful sister-in-law who was famous in every village.

But on the day he just left the house, his brother accidentally fell off the cliff and died.

It is rare to remarry in this era, and it is even more impossible in the mountains. The uncle and sister-in-law, together with the sister-in-law's sister Su Xin'er, make do with each other as a family of three.

My sister-in-law became depressed and became a drug addict. In order to make ends meet for treatment, she sold her cattle and sheep a few years later. The family situation deteriorated and became increasingly poor.

At first, the output from the fields plus the relief grains could barely sustain a living. However, after 1990, the relief grains from above became less and less, and the whole family was about to go hungry.

I didn’t know the reason at the time, but many years later, Zhang Xuebing accidentally heard from a fellow villager that it was because the village chief Zhang Yongzhong had withheld relief food.

What is happening right in front of us is that a few acres of land will definitely not be enough to support a family of three!

During Su Xin'er's college entrance examination year, Zhang Xuebing left without saying goodbye and went to the city penniless. In order to make money, he moved bricks at construction sites, worked as a security guard in the city, was deceived by pyramid schemes, and did all the low-level jobs in the past few years.

, endured all human suffering.

But he endured it and worked hard day and night. In order to save money, he didn't even go home once in three years. He wanted to make his sister-in-law and Xin'er live a good life.

Three years later, he actually earned more than 30,000 yuan. In the mountainous area in the early 1990s, this was considered a lot of money, enough to build a new house and marry a wife!

He happily rushed back to his hometown with all his savings!

What I saw was that the house at home collapsed, the land was barren, and my sister-in-law and Xin'er became two graves on the barren mountain!

I learned from a neighbor that two years ago, Xin'er had excellent scores in the college entrance examination, but had no money to go to school. She suffered a heart attack and was sent to the county hospital without rescue. The poor little girl passed away at a young age.

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Not long after, my sister-in-law's old illness relapsed, her health deteriorated, and she passed away in a bitterly cold winter.

Zhang Xuebing sat at the grave for three days and three nights without eating or drinking. He looked as if he had aged more than ten years.

Three days later, he thanked the kind folks who had helped to prepare for the future, left some money with them, and resolutely left his hometown and never returned to this sad place.

From then on, he used those savings to start various small businesses. He lived a frugal and focused life, which made his business grow bigger and bigger.

But his lost youth and relatives could never come back. Every night, he fell into deep self-blame and guilt. If he hadn't left without hearing from him for three years, nothing would have happened to his sister-in-law and Xin'er.

How many times had he seen them in his dreams, only to wake up with pillows soaked in tears!

This time, is it another dream?

I pinched my arm, it really hurt, it was not a dream!

Today, my dream came true and I was reborn!

Zhang Xuebing jumped up from the bed, held the little girl's face like a treasure, put his forehead against hers, and whispered: "It's so good, it's so good to see you again!"

"Big Guo, are you stupid?" Su Xin'er raised her little pink fist and gave him a brain-destroying blow. She turned away from her blushing face and ran to the door like a deer, pinching her waist and pouting.

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"Huh, I won't call you Big Pot anymore. Zhang Xuebing, hurry up and eat. Our sister is waiting in a hurry!" After saying this, he ran into the small courtyard with his long braid swinging.

Her figure was very long under the sunset and she looked even thinner. Zhang Xuebing couldn't help but feel heartbroken!

"Eat, cough, cough, cough, Xin'er, wash your hands quickly!" Sister-in-law Su Waner coughed violently and came out of the smoky kitchen.

There was steam and the aroma of sweet potato porridge in the cracked earth-yellow pottery, and there were a few dark pickles in the enamel plate whose color was unclear. These were the dinners for the three members of the Zhang family.

In front of Zhang Xuebing is a wooden bowl specially filled with sweet potatoes by his sister-in-law. As the strongest worker in the family, he has the right to eat dry food, while others only have watery soup and little water!

He felt sour in his heart.

While Su Xin'er was still growing, her sister-in-law's bones were also weak. How could she just eat these?

This family can hardly afford to eat, and Zhang Xuebing remembers that the family still owes the village chief’s family food, and they will have to pay back hundreds of kilograms with interest during the autumn harvest!

Thinking about this, his eyes were a little hot, and he quickly raised his head, looked at the dusty beams, clenched his fists, and said silently, "I want to make money, make a lot of money!"

With the experience of my previous life and the information that is more than 20 years ahead of others, I will definitely make a fortune and make a lot of money, so that my sister-in-law and Xin'er can live the best life.

It is now the beginning of 1990, just ten years after the reform and opening up, and a wave of layoffs is about to begin.

The real estate industry has not yet emerged!

The manufacturing industry has not even started yet!

Financially?

I remember that the Shanghai Stock Exchange just opened in December last year, and now that the market is in a downturn and negative news continues, it is not a good time to speculate in stocks.

What exactly is good to do?

In this era, China was a large agricultural country, and its exports accounted for a large proportion of agricultural products.

It’s just that agricultural products cannot be sold at high prices, so the rural economy is very depressed.

In later generations, some agricultural products did sell for sky-high prices, such as garlic, green onions...

There are also fruits that are not eaten by South American pigs and are sold in China for astronomical prices of several hundred yuan per kilogram through expert marketing methods.

The key here is not the product, but the marketing method!

As long as it is marketed properly, even junk can be sold for a good price.

But you have to have capital to do anything. Now my family probably doesn’t even have 100 yuan, so I can’t do anything!

If you follow the path of your previous life and go to work first to earn enough money, even the cucumbers and vegetables will be cold!

Suddenly, he thought of the wild pools and ponds in the mountains behind the village, and it suddenly dawned on him that the opportunity to make a fortune had come, and the first pot of gold depended on them!