Reborn since 2005

Chapter 282 The feeling of home

We had a meal at the service area of ​​the expressway and then took a rest. At two o'clock in the afternoon, Yan Xin drove off again.

The same record was playing in the car, just a few songs by singers from my own company.

Traveling all the way north, I passed several cities, and I don’t know how many mountains and waters there were.

Finally we drove into the city when it was dark.

At this time, Feng Xi called Yan Xin and told him that the meal was ready and asked him how long it would take for it to arrive.

Yan Xin said that he had already arrived in the city and would arrive at the county seat in about an hour.

It is more than 60 kilometers from the city to the county seat. Although it is not a highway, it is still no problem to get there in an hour.

Feng Xi named a place and told him that she would wait for him there.

That place is also a landmark in the county, and Yan Xin knows it.

Yan Xin drove this Mercedes out of the city and headed west.

The night is getting darker and heavier.

This is Yan Xin's first time driving home in his two lifetimes.

He was already used to seeing the scenery along the way, but he had always passed by it during the day. This was the first time he had passed by this area at night.

Along the way, there were still some strange feelings.

This day is the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, the Little New Year’s Eve in the north.

Tomorrow is Little New Year’s Eve in the South.

It is already the time for the Chinese New Year. Even at night, there are more vehicles on the road, and most of them are people going home to celebrate the New Year.

There are many forks in the road along the way, and those forks are the roads that some people take to go home. Some cars are driving and then they reach the fork in the road, which means they are almost home.

On this night, I don’t know how many families will be illuminated by the car lights on the road, and they will become even warmer.

With the diversion of those forked roads, the number of cars in front gradually became less and less.

But there are still more cars than usual.

Along the way, Yan Xin’s car was not alone.

After finally arriving at the county seat, Yan Xin slowed down the car.

When I arrived at the supermarket Feng Xi mentioned, I saw a man in a red down jacket waiting there from a distance, carefully looking at every passing car.

Look at that figure, it's Feng Xi.

It was the twelfth lunar month of winter, and it was evening again. It was still quite cold outside, so I stamped my feet a few times while standing.

I don't know how long I have been waiting here.

Although he had made a decision that he would not have any ambiguous relationship with Feng Xi in this life, the moment he saw Feng Xi, Yan Xin felt like he had gone home.

After a day’s driving, there were travelers coming all the way, all from foreign lands.

At this moment, seeing that familiar person under the street lights in his hometown county made him feel like he was finally home, and he felt an inexplicable warm feeling in his heart.

For a few years in his previous life, Feng Xi was his family, and even in a sense, his home.

With Ai Lili, he could feel the feeling of love, but only with Feng Xi, he could feel the feeling of home.

This is a feeling brought over from the previous life, and it cannot be erased if you want.

The car slowed down and whistled several times.

Feng Xi looked at the car, then raised one hand and waved tentatively.

Yan Xin drove the car to a stop in front of her, rolled down the window, and said, "Get in the car."

Feng Xi opened the door and sat in the passenger seat, rubbed her hands and said with a smile: "It's so warm in your car, it's almost freezing outside."

Yan Xin saw that her nose had turned red, thinking that she was cold, and felt inexplicably distressed, and asked, "How long have you been waiting?"

Feng Xi said: "It's almost half an hour."

"Why did it take you so long to come here in such a cold weather? Didn't I say I'd be there in an hour?" Yan Xin said unhappily.

Feng Xi said: "I'm afraid you won't be able to find me if you arrive early."

From the moment she saw Yan Xin, she had a smile on her face. When she said this, she was smiling and looking at Yan Xin.

At this moment, there was only this one person in her eyes, in her heart, and in her world.

Yan Xin accidentally touched her eyes and suddenly felt inexplicably guilty and didn't dare to look at her anymore.

He looked forward and asked, "Where are we going next?"

"I hired a few more employees some time ago, and I rented a three-bedroom and one-living house nearby as their dormitory. I have already prepared meals there. Let's go there for a meal first," Feng Xi said.

When he said this, he still looked at Yan Xin, his eyes filled with the joy of meeting his beloved.

Yan Xin coughed: "Which way should we drive?"

Feng Xi reacted and pointed in one direction: "When you get to the intersection, turn right. At the past two intersections, just enter a community."

Yan Xin glanced at her again: "Fasten your seat belt."

Feng Xi obediently fastened his seat belt and asked again:

"Did you buy this car? How much did it cost?"

"It's not expensive, about five or six hundred thousand," Yan Xin said.

After he finished speaking, he explained: "Payment in installments."

Feng Xi snorted and said, "It's quite impressive that you can drive here by yourself from such a distance."

Yan Xin couldn't help but feel a little proud: "That's right, I have some talent for driving."

Feng Xi said: "I also want to learn to drive after the college entrance examination."

Her online store has made several million in dividends in the past few months. It is no problem to buy a car. It will be much more convenient to have a car. It is also necessary to learn to drive.

However, Yan Xin still has some worries: "Can you do it? Driving is quite dangerous sometimes."

"I'm also a little worried about this. I'm a little timid and will be at a loss when encountering danger." Feng Xi laughed sheepishly, then looked at Yan Xin and said with a smile, "It would be nice if there was someone to help me drive.

"

Yan Xin didn't know if there was any other meaning in her words, so he just said: "Then you can hire an experienced driver."

Feng Xi lives not far from here, less than a mile away.

Yan Xin drove the car very slowly and drove into a community under her guidance.

This is a relatively new community with property management.

There were only two or three such communities in the entire county this year.

I parked my car in the community and got a parking card. I had to pay for it after I left.

The community is not big, there are only a few buildings in total, only about ten stories high, but there is an elevator installed.

There are only a few buildings with elevators installed in the county, and most of them are step ladders.

The house Feng Xi rented was on the fifth floor of one of the buildings. When the two of them went in, Yan Xin sighed: "The house here is not bad. You are not short of money, so why are you still renting a house? Why don't you just buy one?"

Woolen cloth?"

Houses in the county are still very cheap, incredibly cheap.

Even if this kind of elevator room is more expensive, it's not much more expensive.

With the financial resources Feng Xi currently possesses, it is no problem at all.

Feng Xi glanced at him: "The houses here don't have much room for appreciation, so there's no point in selling them. I'll be taking the college entrance examination in three or four months. I have to live in school most of the time when I'm studying, so I don't have much time."

If I live here, I won’t even live here after the college entrance examination, so there’s no point in buying it.”

There really isn't much room for appreciation in the houses here.

According to Yan Xin's memory, more than ten years later, house prices in this county are still generally around 3,000 to 4,000 square meters.

There was a time when the price rose to 5,000 to 6,000 square meters, but then masks became popular and the house price dropped to 3,000 to 4,000 square meters, and it was still difficult to sell at that price.

It's a bit funny to want to invest in real estate here.

He said: "But it can be used as a dormitory for employees."

Feng Xi shook his head: "Wherever I go to study, the online store will also be moved, and there is no way to use it as a dormitory for them."

"What if the employees here are not willing to follow you?" Yan Xin asked.

"As long as the money is enough, they will be willing," Feng Xi is very confident, "I can afford the price for those who are worth the price. If they are not worth the price, it means they are not irreplaceable and can be hired at any time.

arrive."

"Okay, just be prepared." Yan Xin said.

The elevator quickly went up to the fifth floor and entered the room Feng Xi rented.

Yan Xin heard that this was the dormitory for online store employees, and thought there were some employees waiting for his arrival inside.

Unexpectedly, when I opened the door, the lights were not turned on and there was no one inside.

Yan Xin felt a little strange and asked: "Didn't you say this is a dormitory for employees? Why is there no one there?"

Feng Xi said with a smile: "They will all go home to celebrate the New Year tomorrow and will not come back to work until the day after tomorrow."

Yan Xin couldn't help but feel a little uneasy, thinking: "Does this mean she and I are the only ones here? Could something like the last time happen?"

This house was relatively large. After Feng Xi came back, he turned on the lights in the living room and the dining room, and then went to the kitchen while telling him:

"I have already prepared the food. I don't know when you will come. It may be a little cold there. I will heat it up now and you can just have a meal. If you think it is not to your liking, it doesn't matter. Then we will

Just go out and eat.”

Both of them now have money, so wasting a meal is not a big deal, and they don't need to care about the little money they lose.

However, Yan Xin still couldn't think of eating out because the food didn't taste good when others had worked so hard to prepare it.

I had eaten the food cooked by Feng Xi for a few years in my previous life, and I have eaten it once in this life. There is no such thing as distaste.

Naturally, he couldn't say that he wanted to eat out, so he said with a smile: "I remember that your cooking is good, why is it not to my taste? What have you done?"

"I stewed a native chicken, steamed a sea bass, a plate of fried meat with green peppers, and a plate of shredded lettuce." Feng Xi said.

"Can the two of us eat so much?" Yan Xin couldn't help but ask.

"If you can't eat it, just leave it." Feng Xi said with a smile.

With their current conditions, they really don't need to care too much about this.

The native chicken is stewed in an earthen pot, and it is still hot, so there is no need to heat it at all.

But the other dishes were already cold after being left out for more than half an hour on such a cold day, and they couldn't be eaten without reheating them.

But when it is heated, the color, flavor and flavor will be affected.

After Feng Xi brought out the crock pot chicken, he went to the kitchen to heat up several other dishes.

Yan Xin didn't feel like sitting outside, so he also went into the kitchen and consciously loaded up the food.

They had been a couple for several years in his previous life, and they had become accustomed to cooperating in the kitchen. Doing these things now is a natural behavior for him.

The rice is inside the rice cooker, and when you open the lid, it is still steaming out.

Two bowls of rice were packed, one for each person.

The spoon was also taken.

You don’t have to eat rice yet. You have to drink a bowl of chicken soup first.

The local chicken tastes just like that, but the soup is really delicious.

Especially in the winter, drinking a bowl like this will warm you up.

In such a big house, there is no heating or air conditioning, so the two of them are still a little cold in this empty house.

But after finishing a bowl of chicken soup, I stopped feeling cold.

Before the bowl of chicken soup was finished, several dishes were already heated and served on the table.

Yan Xin also scooped a bowl of chicken soup for Feng Xi and said to her: "You just went out to freeze, so you should drink a bowl of soup first."

"I've been in your car for a while, and I'm not cold anymore." Feng Xi said.

But she still picked up the chicken soup and drank it slowly.

At this time, the chicken soup is still hot, so you can only drink it slowly.

While she was drinking chicken soup, Yan Xin started to eat.

I had a meal at the expressway service area around 12 noon, but the food tasted pretty average and I didn't eat much.

It was already seven or eight o'clock in the evening, and I was really hungry. Although I drank a bowl of chicken soup to relieve my stomach, I still felt hungry.

This meal was quite delicious.

And the taste of those dishes is also very familiar, it is a memory from a previous life.

As I ate, I felt a little lost in my thoughts, as if I had returned to the time in my previous life when we were still husband and wife, sitting face to face and eating together.

We are still the same two people, but time and space have changed.

In my previous life, the dining table at home was not so big. Many times, two people would eat on a small foldable table, which could not hold several bowls. If there was one more person, the space would not be enough.

At that time, they were working in Pengcheng and the house they rented was not big and could not accommodate a large table.

If two people live together, there is no need for a large table.

Later, Yan Xin's father became ill and had to take over the house. The rented house became larger, with two bedrooms and one living room. The dining table was also larger, but it was not as big as the current dining table.

After finishing a bowl of rice, Yan Xin packed another bowl of rice. At this time, he was in the mood to ask Feng Xi: "You asked me to come here and said that there are some things that need to be discussed in person. What is it?"

Feng Xi said: "As for the future development of our online store, I mean to make it more formal. In the future, we will establish a company mainly focusing on e-commerce. The shares will remain the same as before, with each of us taking half, but the system needs to be improved.

, I think this will help future development.”

"Okay, you can do this whenever it's convenient for you. I will cooperate when you need my cooperation." Yan Xin said.

But he felt something was strange. For such a matter, there was no need to call him here for an interview. He could just chat online.

Feng Xi added: "I don't have time to register the company now. I have to wait until I take the college entrance examination before I have time to do it."

Yan Xin nodded: "It doesn't matter. Postponing it for half a year will not delay development. It doesn't matter how we develop, how we develop, or whether we are a company or not."

"There is also the matter of acquiring several factories..." Feng Xi added.

Yan Xin felt a little embarrassed when he heard Feng Xi talking about this topic.

Because the factory they said they wanted to acquire was a factory that produced sex toys, in order to enrich the product content of the online store Chungui Youmeng.

Anyway, we are already developing in this area, so we can go deeper into this industry and grasp the production channels, so that we can better utilize the traffic.

But this topic is too ambiguous. It would be embarrassing for two people, a man and a woman alone, to discuss this matter at night.

However, Feng Xi herself did not feel such embarrassment. While eating, she chatted with Yan Xin about several manufacturers she was interested in.

Several manufacturers produce different categories, but they are all important categories in this market, such as cups, toy figures that need to be pumped up, and offensive products such as guns, sticks, and cannon balls.

Their products are not very competitive compared with similar competing products, and they do not have their own brand - in this industry, not to mention that no brand has been formed yet, even more than ten years later, there will be no brand.

On the contrary, the brand of the online store is bigger than the brand of the product.

Those manufacturers all produce such products for other online stores, and the ones they choose are all those with poor performance and the boss wants to change hands.

In this case, you don't have to spend too much money to acquire their factory, and you can save some costs.

When a product does not sell well, sometimes it is a quality problem, but sometimes it is not necessarily a quality problem.

At least the products produced by those factories have been inspected by the supervisor of Chungui Youmeng online store and found to be no worse than others among similar products.

There is no core technology in this thing. As long as it is not particularly conscience-stricken and made of inferior materials, the quality will basically be the same.

They also have an online store, but they don't know how to operate an online store. Their products are lost to the public and have no sales, so they can't continue to operate.

Feng Xi's confidence in daring to acquire such a factory comes from the fact that the online store Chungui Youmeng already has a certain amount of traffic. It even has a certain reputation in this industry because it was the first to propose the concept of sexy Hanfu.

Moreover, they have in-depth cooperation with Starlight Network. As long as Starlight Network has new traffic, they can also have new traffic.

Being able to deliver products to more people is an advantage that those few manufacturers do not have.

Taking over these factories will give them a more competitive advantage in terms of price.

It’s not impossible to create your own brand with a little more care and design some more interesting products.

The supervisor of Chungui Youmeng has visited many times and eliminated more than ten targets in the process. If the three manufacturers finally locked in can be solved, many new products will be added to the product catalog of this online store.

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The progress is relatively smooth. If there are no accidents, the matter can be completed within a month.

Of course, acquiring a factory requires some funds. It is also possible to design some new products and introduce new production lines, which will require even more funds.

Therefore, Feng Xi and Yan Xin mentioned that in the next few months, the online store should not pay dividends and use all profits for development, expand the scale of the factory, develop new products, introduce new production lines, and improve product competition.

Power and so on.

If you just want to make a little money, you don't need to do much improvement.

But if you want to make a lot of money and become a leader in this market, you still need more investment.

In addition to this type of products, serious Hanfu and fashion products also need to be expanded.

Golden Dawn sells fashion. Some of the clothes are produced by their own clothing factory, and some of the clothes are sold to others.

For example, the down jackets that are very popular in winter are not produced by them themselves, but sold by others.

Feng Xi also has the idea of ​​​​expanding the garment factory, introducing new production lines, recruiting more workers, and producing more of his own products, so that he will be more competitive in terms of price.

Currently, products are made around these three online stores, but Feng Xi has great ambitions for the future. He wants to get involved in more industries, open more online stores, invest in or acquire more factories, and have a complete e-commerce industry.

chain.

It would be even more powerful if you could have your own e-commerce platform.

Of course, she also knows that she can't reach that point yet and doesn't have that much money to burn.

But you can do it slowly.

She still has a lot to look forward to in the future, she is only eighteen years old now, so she is not in a hurry.

Yan Xin did not object to her vision for the future, and he thought it was possible to succeed.

The only request she made was: "It's good to have ideas, but we can't rush for success. You have to promise me that we can only use the money we earn to expand the scale, and we can't borrow money to do such things."

Normal business development basically relies on loans. Few people have to use the money they earn to expand their business territory. That would be too slow and many opportunities would be missed.

Yan Xin also understands this truth. He takes out loans whenever he can, whether buying a house or a car.

It's just that he has a deep psychological shadow over Feng Xi's many failed investments in her previous life. He is afraid that she will bring back the bad luck from her previous life and is eager for success, so he takes out loans to expand his business territory before entering again.

Things like this happen all the time in the business world.

So he wanted to go to Feng Xi in advance.

Use the money you earn to continue development. Even if you lose money, you won't be left with nothing.

Although some good business opportunities will be lost in this way, it is safe and will not fall into a pit.

Feng Xi did not object to his proposal: "Don't worry, I'm not that kind of aggressive investor and I won't take risks."

Yan Xin thought to himself: "That's not necessarily true, I'm too familiar with you."

The two of them chatted while eating, and half an hour passed before they knew it.

Almost all the dishes cooked by Feng Xi were eaten.

More than two-thirds of them were eaten by Yan Xin.

In the end, my stomach was full.

I didn't want to eat so much at first, but when I thought that these dishes were specially cooked for him by Feng Xi alone in this winter, I felt that it was a waste and it was so sorry.

Of course, the taste is also to his liking.

The most important thing is that this smell awakens his memory of home in his previous life, and there is a feeling in it.

Feng Xi felt quite happy when she saw him eating so hard.

After eating, Feng Xi pointed to a bedroom and said:

"You can sleep in this room tonight. It used to be occupied by other employees. I cleaned it up and put on new sheets and quilts."

Yan Xin was stunned for a moment: "Will you live here?"

I feel a little uneasy in my heart.

It is not a good thing for a man and a woman to live alone in the same room.

Especially now that he already has a girlfriend, he really doesn't want to cause any more trouble.

He originally thought of opening a room in a hotel to stay, which would be better for everyone.

Feng Xi was also stunned for a moment: "There are empty rooms here, of course you can live here. Do you think the living environment here is not good? If so, there is a hotel more than two miles away, I will take you there

Let’s book a room.”

When she said this, Yan Xin was embarrassed to say that he had gone to the hotel to book a room - it seemed that he was rich and too lazy to look down on such an accommodation environment.

After hesitating for a moment, he could only say with a smile: "Then live here. I'm not that picky. I just think it's not suitable to live with a girl like you."

Feng Xi glanced at him, pursed his lips and said with a smile: "It's not like we live in the same bedroom, what's wrong with it? You're not going to spread the word about this all over the world, are you?"

Yan Xin quickly shook his head: "Of course not!"

(End of chapter)