Chapter 255 Thunderstorm Night, Earnest Advice
As Ms. Shu left, suddenly, a thunderclap exploded in the air and the sky suddenly became bright.
I looked out the window and saw several streaks of white light crisscrossing the glass. Suddenly, several rolling mines exploded, followed by several more thunderclaps in the sky. The sky suddenly became bright.
This is what is called the connection between heaven and man. People felt as if the heavens were angry. Suddenly, a strong wind arose, whistling sharply through the tall buildings.
Xiaolin called: "Mom asked where you are."
"In the hotel. I was going to come back, but now..."
Before I could finish, my mother answered the phone and said, "Don't come back. Just stay in the hotel. Don't come back."
"Alright, unplug the rice cooker, the TV, the air conditioner... I don't think this thunder will stop for a while."
I couldn't talk to them for long, so I hung up the phone decisively.
Sure enough, thunder continued. I unplugged the TV, figuring Shu Mei must have just arrived at the underground garage. She wouldn't risk driving.
After a while, the thunder stopped, and the sky seemed to be torn open, and heavy rain poured down.
I called Shiyu and asked him to mobilize all the Taoist priests to check the rooms and main halls of the temple for leaks. Especially, I wanted to see if there was any water accumulation in the courtyard.
Shiyu said, "I'm organizing everyone to check everywhere. What you said is absolutely right. The water in the courtyard of the front hall is overflowing and is rising rapidly. Everyone is carrying buckets to fetch water.
"No, let's go down the mountain quickly and borrow a small water pump from Lao Xiao. It's raining heavily."
I was afraid he wouldn't dare go down the mountain, so I said, "Put three people in the car, each of you carry a handful of rice. Recite the Nine-Character Sutra before you leave, okay?"
"When facing a battle, all those who are about to fight march forward in formation."
"Yes. Just those nine words."
The rain kept falling, and suddenly, my doorbell rang. I opened the door and saw it was Shu Mei again.
I was surprised: "You didn't leave?"
She nodded, and I let her in.
She smiled apologetically. "I just got to the underground garage, and the thunder was like rolling in from the entrance. It was so scary. I didn't dare to make a phone call for fear of triggering a mine. I sat there for a long time before the thunder stopped.
I called the driver back to pick him up. He asked me to wait a while, saying that the rain was too heavy and he didn't dare to drive. There were no cars on the street. So, I came to bother you again.
"Also, I'd like to hear more analysis on that word 'every,'" she added.
I smiled and said, "Please sit down. I'll make you another cup of hot tea."
I figured she'd changed her mind, so I had to analyze it thoroughly for her. I took a piece of paper and wrote as I spoke, while she sat beside me, listening intently.
Because the word "每" has a good meaning. Just like a clump of grass growing in the desert, "每" means to copy or repeat. And so, as the clumps of grass grow one after another, the desert becomes an oasis.
This means that Yuanyan brand mineral water has been rolled out in every prefecture, city, county, town, and stall, capturing the market. The entire province has become an oasis for Yuanyan mineral water.
On this basis, we will expand outward, beyond the province, and towards the whole country.
She listened and nodded.
I continue to analyze: "每" represents your main business. If you want to add some more items on top of your main business, it is equivalent to adding radicals to the word "每".
If I add it, it will not make any sense. I write as I say:
Hui: The last day of every lunar month, with dark and rainy weather, which has a bad meaning.
Mold: fungus, dark blue in color, with the extended meaning of bad luck. Poor meaning.
悔: regret. Poor meaning.
Insult: insult, with a bad meaning.
Her face was not very good, and she started to argue with me. She opened her phone, checked a string of words, and said to me:
Sea, isn't it good?
I told you before that it is repetition and replication. Water that keeps replicating becomes the sea.
Hi, is it bad?
Hi, hi yo, hi hi yo, a repetition of a labor song.
Yu, isn't it good?
Yu means to nurture, the repetition of a life or natural phenomenon.
Mei: Is it bad?
Berry, a plant. The repetition of plant life.
Enzyme: Is it bad?
Enzyme, a protein mediator. No extended meaning.
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She finally found a word to confront me: "Min, isn't it good?"
I laughed out loud. "You think it means agility, but the real meaning is resistance. The character on the right is 'anti-wen'. It means attack. Both agility and dexterity are a reaction to external stimuli, resistance."
I finished writing and handed the paper to her. She looked at it for a long time, feeling a little depressed. She smiled bitterly and said, "According to you, we can only stick to the rules?"
I laughed and said, "All I can say is, if you ask me the word 'every', I can only give this answer."
"What if I didn't test the word 'every'?"
"For any matter, there is only one choice. If you choose the word 'every,' you give up the other words. I can only discuss the matter based on the word itself."
"Mr. Wan, mineral water doesn't have much technical content, so it's easy for people to imitate and copy it."
I laughed out loud. "What's the technical content of Coca-Cola? Coke doesn't have any technical content."
Shu Mei laughed, shook her head, and said, "Mr. Wan, you're an outsider on this point. Only two people know the secret recipe of Coca-Cola, and one of them is..."
I threw my head back and laughed, leaving her completely confused.
After laughing, he said, "Mr. Shu, if you are still at this level, I can't communicate with you."
This sentence hurt her self-esteem and made her stunned.
She looked at me with complicated eyes.
I stood up and began to express my views like a speaker:
"After hundreds of years of commercial society, foreign capitalists have developed a set of mature business methods. In order to open up the market, they have created stories one after another.
Saying that only two people possess the secret recipe is meant to discourage others. All matter is made up of molecules; if you analyze it, the composition is clear.
"Then why can't domestic brands like Feichang Cola, Fenhuang Cola, and Tianfu Cola compete with it?"
"You said it very well. Coca-Cola has an inherent advantage of huge scale and absolute low cost.
He focused on one product, started early, and expanded his business across multiple sectors. Upon entering China, he chose to partner with Z Grain Group and Swire Group.
If you want to compete with it, it has already occupied the territory. The cost is very low due to its huge scale.
You sell it for 10 yuan, it sells it for 8 yuan, you sell it for 8 yuan, it sells it for 6 yuan. Therefore, domestic cola can only occupy a small market.
The same goes for your Yuanyan mineral water, which originally had a market only within the province. Instead of focusing on it and aggressively conquering the market, you went into other industries. Perhaps those other industries didn't fare well, and your mineral water market was squeezed out, leaving you feeling suffocated.
Then, in the end, it came down to the character "每". Standing next to the giant, I felt insulted (人+每). Every time I thought about it, I felt regret (心+每).
She remained silent for a long time.
Finally, he smiled and said, "I'll add Master on WeChat."
After we added each other on WeChat, she stood up and said, "I've benefited a lot. The rain has stopped, so I'll leave first. I'll thank you another day."
I stood up and walked her to the door. She waved her hand and turned away.
The wind died down, the rain still falling, but it certainly wasn't as scary anymore. I was worried, so I called Shiyu again. He said the water had been drained and we could rest assured.
He called Lao Xiao again and said, "Sorry to bother you so late. The drainage system of Taiyi Temple needs to be repaired, otherwise there will be problems sooner or later."
After doing all this, I always have a bad feeling. I trust my intuition very much. But so far, everything seems to be going well.
Go to bed. My phone beeps. I pick it up. Shu Mei has transferred 10,000 yuan to me. Strangely enough, there's not a single word written on it.
I understand what she means as follows:
I, Shumei, don't want to invite you, Wan, to my company anymore. I don't want to see you again. But I did consult you, Wan Shanhong.
You, Wan Shanhong, make a living from this, so even if it's 1,000 yuan an hour, I'll only give you 2,000 yuan. But I have a big family and a big business, so this little money doesn't matter to me.
Bye, a "high-level beggar" who makes a living by eating.
Everyone guessed that I wouldn't want it and would definitely talk about ambition.
I clicked it anyway. I didn't reply a single word. You think I'm talking bullshit? Well, we'll see.
Thirty plus, and still an entrepreneur? Pah! Tell me about that Coca-Cola secret recipe. She has no idea how ruthless foreign capitalists are.
When they sold the switch to us, there was a fuse on it that they described as magical and that it couldn't be easily replaced.
Each time they replaced a wire, their experts had to come in and do it themselves. Not only was it expensive, but we also had to cover all the costs of the engineers flying back and forth. Later, we managed to get it done at a bargain price.
When we first bought a tunnel boring machine from a foreign country, they praised the blade as miraculous. When the blade broke, we had to wait until they had time to replace it, and the price was shockingly high.
Later, we not only conquered it, but we were even able to produce tunnel boring machines ourselves, and at a very low price.
An entrepreneur, fooled by foreign capitalists, instead of overcoming difficulties and developing domestic enterprises, only cares about doing whatever makes money. I, Wanshanhong, bah!
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