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After going to his house with Li Xiao, I realized why he had to go back here to start a company. This person is not without money at all, on the contrary, he is definitely a rich man.

He has two houses in the city center, one with two bedrooms and two living rooms, and one with three bedrooms and two living rooms. Li Xiao told me that these were all owned by his father before his mother and his name. His father is engaged in real estate. It is not difficult for him to think about giving a house.

In addition to the house, Li Xiao's mother also left a sum of money for Li Xiao, which was given by his father every time he came, and his mother saved it for emergencies. It became Li Xiao's only capital.

When talking about his mother, Li Xiao's eyes are always soft and full of nostalgia. It can be seen that his mother loved and cared for him very much when he was around.

Li Xiao said that his mother is an honest and responsible rural woman. If it wasn't for Li Xiao, she would not have stayed here at all. Prosperity and wealth are not so important to her. Let her father, who is used to seeing people's greed, always keep her in his heart, and protect their mother and child wholeheartedly.

"I won't let those people go, even if I pay any price!" Standing in the empty house, Li Xiao seemed to have a fire in his heart. I only hoped that the fire wouldn't swallow Li Xiao himself.

The house has not been lived in for a long time, and it is full of dust. Li Xiao and I spent three days cleaning the two houses carefully and buying some furniture and daily necessities. The two halls are used as offices, and the smallest room is vacated as our bedroom. I have no objection, and I started to help him take care of it.

When I was at home, I never did housework, and even my own room had to be cleaned up after being urged by my mother three times. In the past three days, I followed Li Xiao to clean and do shopping, which made my whole body ache. Li Xiao They laughed at me as the young master's life.

Well, I admit, I really don't know much about these things.

I was lying on the sofa, enjoying the comfort of the sun shining on my body. In the kitchen, Li Xiao was cooking. This guy now takes pleasure in laughing at me, but he takes many things on himself, because he is just showing off his tongue Soon, I will not care about him.

"Li Xiao," I yelled into the kitchen, "What kind of company are you going to start?"

Li Xiao asked me back: "Do you have any ideas?"

"How can I have ideas, I am the least creative person"

Li Xiao shook his head. Although I didn't see his expression, I knew he must be smiling.

After we finished handling the family affairs, Li Xiao took me to meet his future business partners, Ding Jun and Chen Yuan, and I also learned from Li Xiao that they were going to open a company, a photo studio, for customers A photography studio that provides professional photography services.

Before going, Li Xiao told me about their situation.

Ding Jun and he were classmates in middle school. They were at the same table at that time, and they had a good relationship. He knew something about Li Xiao's family. Later, even if Li Xiao's family became a monk, they did not lose contact. From the beginning of writing to each other until later Telephone and Internet contact.

Ding Jun is very partial to subjects, he is always on the verge of failing in liberal arts, and he doesn't like to study, so like Li Xiao, he did not choose high school, but a technical secondary school, majoring in graphic production, and his own I am also very interested in photography, so I often post-production the photos I took. Even the teacher saw his works and felt that he was very talented in this area. The idea of ​​starting a company was originally Li Xiao who saw Ding Jun Proposed after sending him a photo.

And Li Xiao has such an idea not only because of Ding Jun's works, but more importantly, Ding Jun's father works in the Industrial and Commercial Bureau, and his mother works in the tax bureau, neither of which is a leader. But for them to start a company, this relationship can indeed provide a lot good help.

Chen Yuan and Ding Jun are classmates. She is a single-parent family. Her father died of illness when she was in the fourth grade of elementary school. After that, Chen Yuan has been living with her mother. In order to work early and reduce the burden on the family, Chen Yuan decided to give up high school. , she chose this major because she wanted to help her mother make the small clothes shop at home unique. Ding Jun should have liked Chen Yuan very early, because many of the works he sent to Li Xiao were from Chen Yuan Photo, now they are indeed in love, knowing Ding Jun's idea of ​​starting a company after graduation, Chen Yuan unconditionally chooses to support Ding Jun and start a business with him, and Chen Yuan's mother's small shop selling clothes, in Li Xiao's opinion It is also helpful for them to start a company.

"So that's how it is." I asked Li Xiao, "Is it because of this that you plan to open a photo studio?"

Li Xiao smiled inscrutablely, and said: "That's not all. In my situation, it is only suitable for small businesses. It is best to make no profit. I have carefully investigated, and now it is not a studio like ours. Not much, as long as we have new ideas and enough gimmicks, it is not difficult to make money, and the most important thing is that we already have houses and people, so how much do you think our cost will be?"

Li Xiao is right. At the beginning, it was almost impossible to make money. Doing anything requires a process. It depends on how much capital you can invest. Now, for us, the necessary capital such as houses and people is almost zero cost , which does give us great security.

I originally thought that Li Xiao would book the meeting place at a hotel. After all, we must cooperate in the future and always show sincerity. I didn’t expect him to take me directly to Chen Yuan’s house. It’s a classmate, how do you go to Chen Yuan’s house, he’s a girl, and you took me there.”

Li Xiao didn't care: "It's okay, we are very familiar, and we will spend a lot of time together in the future, and it's meaningless to be polite, so it's better to be more affordable."

Well, since Li Xiao said so, I have no choice but to follow him.

Ding Jun was already there when he arrived at Chen Yuan's house. Li Xiao handed over the gift he bought to Chen Yuan's mother. Ding Jun naturally took the things from Chen Yuan's mother and put them in the room. It seemed that they had a very close relationship. good.

Li Xiao greeted Chen Yuan, and then pulled me in front of him: "This is Fang Can, my classmate."

"Hello" Ding Jun and Chen Yuan greeted me.

"Hello" I also smiled and shook hands with them.

At noon, Chen Yuan's mother cooked a table of dishes for us, and then she took her bag and went out. She said she was going to visit the store, and Ding Jun said, "Auntie, let's go after eating."

Chen Yuan's mother waved her hand and said: "I brought it, go to the store to eat, there can't be no one in the store for too long" and said hello to us: "Eat slowly, auntie is leaving first"

We all stood up and greeted Chen Yuan's mother before we sat down to eat and chat.

Ding Jun went straight to the topic and said: "How about it, Boss Li, we are all at your disposal, do you think about it?"

Li Xiao looked at him, and replied very calmly: "Why do you listen to me, and listen to you, I have no objection"

Ding Jun smiled: "I'm just a technician. It's more suitable for you to take care of the overall situation."

I want to say, how can you two show the deep friendship between you, stop talking nonsense and focus on the key points.

Before I could speak, Chen Yuan pinched Ding Jun first: "Enough is enough for you two, let's get down to business, are we really determined to open a photography studio, are you sure?"

Ding Jun rubbed his pinched arm and said, "Didn't I tell you before, why are you still not in shape?"

Chen Yuan showed a relieved and excited expression and said, "Wow, that's great."

I couldn't laugh or cry, why did she feel like she was going to play.

After eating, Li Xiao took out a stack of papers held in a long-tail clip from his schoolbag, and after a closer look, it turned out to be the plan that Li Xiao had sorted out.

I couldn't help but glanced at Li Xiao. Although I haven't read the content yet, these things must be ready and Li Xiao has put a lot of thought into them.

So the four of us gathered around the table and began to discuss our future work direction in detail.

We set the registered capital at RMB 50, Li Xiao took 35, and Ding Jun took 15 from his parents. This is all their belongings. With Ding Jun’s parents, the process of registering the company becomes easier. It is very clear that basically as long as the money is in place, it is not a problem to get the business license.

Then, Li Xiao told us his general idea, and I realized that he had really been thinking about this matter for a long time.

Now that it’s just started, Li Xiao decided to turn the studio into a themed creative photoshoot first. The interior is divided into backgrounds by area, imitating animation or TV drama scenes, renting props, and costumes, providing makeup and styling scripts that fit the theme, of course, It is also possible to wear your own clothes to shoot. After the shooting, post-production will be carried out. Instead of making a photo album, it will be printed into large and small photos. If you shoot a lot, you can also make an album script.

In addition to these, Li Xiao also clearly listed how to set the price, how long it would take for post-production, and even how often to change the theme.

This idea came from Chen Yuan. When she and Ding Jun traveled to Thailand, they found that there were many such simple photo studios, and the business was generally very good. So they communicated with Li Xiaoyi and decided to check the domestic situation first. , did a market survey, and found that there is indeed a lot of room for development. Li Xiao assigned tasks to them, and finally wrote out the plan carefully.

Li Xiao handed over the decision of the final plan to Chen Yuan. The reason is that she is the only girl here, and the consumer groups in our studio are young girls like Chen Yuan. Whether it suits their appetite will directly affect our future. development of.

After reading the plan, we began to discuss the division of labor. Ding Jun and Chen Yuan are professionals in graphic production. The post-production of the photos taken must be handed over to them. Ding Jun is the only one who can take photos, and the photographer can only be Ding Jun , Chen Yuan was in charge of makeup, Li Xiao was in charge of coordinating and responding to various unknown problems, as for me, I was unanimously identified by the three of them as the finance, but in fact besides the finance, I was responsible for all the chores of the company, and I was also a firefighter. Where there is a lack of people, there is me, including simple post-production, Ding Jun taught me, and then I did everything, and he reviewed it at the end.

After finalizing all the things to be done, Li Xiao and Chen Yuan took two sets of photos, Ding Jun was the photographer, and I was in charge of the behind-the-scenes work, an assistant running around to create effects.

We chose a cartoon theme, thought about the general movement and feeling in advance, and all the clothes were similar clothes that we went to Madoka Mama’s shop. After simple makeup and modeling, we started to take pictures.

It took half a day to shoot, and half a day to do post-production. The four of us were very satisfied with the result. Li Xiao nodded, that's it, print it out, make a facade, and get ready to start work, everyone.

After preparing materials including sets, props, clothes, cosmetics, etc., and then dividing Li Xiao's house into themed rooms, it has been a month later, Li Xiao is not in a hurry to open, the four of us After discussing, it was decided to set the opening date on October [-]st, the National Day. If there are so many people, the business will not be bad. Of course, the promotional discounts in the early stage must be sufficient.

Li Xiao and I live in the smallest bedroom. We have transformed all the outside spaces into themed worlds. Even the kitchen has been turned into a self-service bar, and guests who take pictures can get drinks and pour water by themselves.

On the eve of the official opening, I asked Li Xiao, "Are you nervous?"

"Of course, after all, no matter how well we do, the decision-making power does not belong to us"

"Come on," I said: "We will definitely do well. Your ideas are very novel and thoughtful. You have even taken customer feedback into consideration. What we need now is time. As long as we are patient enough, It can definitely be done”

"I'm not afraid of not being able to do it. On the contrary, I think we have a great possibility of doing it. As long as we can keep up with the trend, I'm thinking about the next step. Timing is very important."

"Next step?"

Li Xiao nodded, and continued to say to me in a firm tone, "If we can do it, it won't take long before many peers will imitate it. By then, they will learn from our experience and avoid our shortcomings. , must be more mature than us, how do you think we will deal with it at that time?"

I opened my mouth. During this period of time, we have been thinking about how to operate and the problems that customers may encounter, but we have never thought about peer competition.

Li Xiao sat on the sofa, changed his posture, asked himself and answered unhurriedly: "Blindly lowering prices is definitely not conducive to development. At this time, a membership system should be proposed, and preferential positioning for old customers should be considered in advance. just go in"

I sat down beside him in admiration, patted his thigh and said, "I listen to you."

Li Xiao sighed and smiled wryly: "It's useless to listen to me, you have to listen to God."

In just over a year, when it was time to settle the annual profit, I was not surprised to find that we had recovered all the initial initial investment. In addition to the 50 registered capital invested in the account, there was still some meager surplus. Our four When we get together, we all have a great sense of accomplishment in our hearts. This year's hard work has finally paid off. Although we can't pay dividends yet, the prospects are infinitely bright.

We hired two more people, one for makeup and one for photo editing. Now Ding Jun is focusing all his energy on how to take pictures. Sometimes he will take the camera around to take pictures when he is free, to see if he can take new tricks from the old set, Chen Yuan focuses on makeup and styling, including clothes matching and small accessories, which are all purchased and updated by her.

Now, in addition to financial and administrative coordination, I am also responsible for receiving customers to see finished products and negotiating prices. Because I know the actual operating costs of the company best, I always know where the bottom line of the price is.

Li Xiao is still the decision maker of the company. The three of us trust him very much and agree that his job is the most brain-intensive. Recently, his peers have risen rapidly, and the membership system has almost been copied. Li Xiao put the key points In terms of the creativity of the finished film, last time he saw some photos on the Internet that were taken from far and near. It is like holding the sun in your hand. In addition to shooting skills, the scenery is also very important. Li Xiao wanted to get some backgrounds that could serve as real scenes and match the photos.

I finished the last bit of work in my hand, looked up at the clock, it was already eight o'clock, and I called Li Xiao.

"When will you be back?"

Li Xiao should be on the bus, and I heard the voice of the station announcement: "There are still two stops, have you eaten, do I want to buy some?"

"No, you can buy it, I just finished the report, Ding Jun and the others just packed up and left, just buy the two of us."

"it is good"

Half an hour later, Li Xiao came in with a plastic bag, and there were no customers, so Li Xiao put the takeaway he bought on the table, and when he saw me coming out, he said, "Eat first, I'll wash your hands." "

I put the dishes he bought on the table one by one, opened the lid, and waited for him to come out to eat together.

Li Xiao washed his hands, took off his coat and put it aside, and sat down on the chair opposite me: "I remember you said you wanted to eat chicken wings two days ago, so I bought you a box, eat more."

I picked one up for myself and another for Li Xiao, and said with a smile, "Eat it."

"How's it going?" I asked.

He nodded, "It's okay, I'll show you the photos after dinner, I took some."

"it is good"

Li Xiao put the small row soup in front of me: "Chinese New Year is the peak season, I don't have time to cook for you, eat more if it doesn't suit your appetite."

"No, I'm not picky eaters, maybe you're not used to it?"

I'm not very good at cooking. I usually wash the vegetables I buy and Li Xiao cooks them. But I've been busy recently. We haven't been to the vegetable market for a long time, and we always order takeaway.

"You take care of yourself. Recently, you have been running outside every day. In such a cold day, don't get sick from being tired."

"Actually, it's okay." He put a piece of cauliflower into his mouth, and said casually, "I want to make all the arrangements before the end of the year. After the Chinese New Year, I shouldn't be too busy. I'll accompany you back for a while." trip"

I shook my hand and the dish fell on the table.

I haven't been home for two years. Last year, I had to call back. My dad answered the phone. He just said: "Who are you, we don't have a son" and hung up. Then I called them back. I didn't answer it either, and later I called my mother's cell phone, and my mother scolded me for being ignorant, but she didn't want to blame me too much. I told her about my situation, and she only told me to go back when I was free.

Although I have never regretted the original decision, I still feel ashamed in my heart. Every time I contacted him, I felt depressed. I never told Li Xiao about this. He thought I was blaming him, but Li Xiaoquan saw it, but never told me.

"Even if I go back, I'm afraid my father won't let me in, and my mother will feel distressed again."

"Last year, there was no profit. This year, we can already share some. When the time comes, bring back both of us. Even if it can't make up for anything, at least it will make them feel at ease."

"Just bring my own, don't need both of us." I lowered my head, unable to calm down for a while.

Li Xiao smiled: "We run a photography studio, not a banknote printing factory. How much profit do you think we have? We need four people to share it. It would be good if the two of us added [-] to [-] yuan. Hey, there is You should know how much, Mr. Financial Manager"

I rolled my eyes at him: "Go to your financial manager, who will let me take care of it?"

"I'll let you deal with it. The legal person of the company is under your control. Do you think you have much power?"

"go away"

I know he is comforting me, he is always like this, when I am in a bad mood, he silently comforts my heart in his way, sometimes I think, it is because of his deep love that I do not regret it I made the original decision, even though I felt guilty towards my parents in my heart, I never thought about leaving. I probably couldn't do without him.

Li Xiao really did what he said. On the fifth day of junior high school, he disappeared for two hours and returned with two train tickets in his hand. I was puzzled and asked him, "Where are you going?"

He patted my head: "Take you home, dumbass"

Chen Yuan saw it, and came over to snatch the ticket: "Let me see the number, we are not done yet, you dare to take Fang Can to get away, believe it or not, I will strangle you to death"

She is a very cute girl, no matter in appearance or character, Li Xiao told me that he never talked about our relationship with Chen Yuan and Ding Jun, but I think they can see that we are a couple. Both Chen Yuan and Ding Jun have always maintained acquiescing and even supportive attitudes, which made me grateful in my heart, and I got along more harmoniously with each other.

"Oh, it's on the 15th." She bowed to her fingers: "It's the tenth day, so it's about the same." She returned the ticket to Li Xiao, and patted him on the shoulder with a smile: "It's fun, remember to bring us special products."

Li Xiao looked at her, touched his chin with one hand, and looked at her with a smirk: "Want to go out with Ding Jun, do you want to go out in April or May? Don't worry, even if we don't go out this time, you guys will come You can go out when you want, I won’t be jealous of you.”

It turned out that there was another thing, I didn't see it.

"Yes, you have to book early, the farther you go, the more expensive the air ticket will be"

Chen Yuan stuck out her tongue at me, snorted at Li Xiao, and ran to tidy up her clothes.

After get off work, Chen Yuan and Ding Jun helped us clean up the company before leaving get off work. Li Xiao went to the door and took off the towel wrapped around the door lock, and put the latch in. Because there are always customers during the day, it is open at night When we were done, we went to lock the door.

The past few days of Chinese New Year have been extremely busy, and I was busy again without talking to Li Xiao in the afternoon, and now I finally have a chance to talk, Li Xiao seemed to know my mood, took my hand, and put I took to the sofa and sat down.

"What do you want to say?" he asked.

I looked at him and said, "Why didn't you tell me when you bought the ticket, can you finish your work on the tenth day of the first day, there are still many things to do?"

Li Xiao smiled slightly, "Take care of the urgent matters, and let Ding Jun and the others help. I know what you think, and I just hope you can be happier when I accompany you back home."

"I'm not unhappy." I sighed. When I mentioned it a while ago, I was really depressed for a while, and then I didn't think about it when I got busy. Although I knew it was suspected of avoiding it, some things didn't come to fruition if I thought about it. , it might as well not want to.

"Go ahead, go back, as if they expressed your apologies, of course, and mine"

Well, I told myself, maybe I should learn from Li Xiao, and running away won't solve any problems.

So, a few days after everyone just finished the new year and started to go to work, Li Xiao and I took some clothes and our savings of 7 yuan and set foot on the way home. It will be the anger of my parents, but I think that as long as I can sincerely express my apology to them, they will definitely feel my heart, because they are all my dearest and dearest people in this world.

It was night when I got off the train, and I wanted to go home, but was stopped by Li Xiao, who said, "Let's find a hotel near your home first, and go back tomorrow morning."

"why?"

"We didn't notify your parents in advance. You sneaked away again. It's so late at night, do you want them to sleep well today? And you'd better think about what you're going to say tomorrow, and your parents' words." reaction"

In fact, on the train, I had imagined many kinds of reactions from my parents, and I had already thought about what to say, but what Li Xiao said was not unreasonable, and it was so late, it was really inappropriate to go home rashly, after all At first I could count myself as running away from home without authorization.

Li Xiao and I found a fast hotel near my house and got a standard room. It was past ten o'clock when we both finished washing up.

Li Xiao was lying on his own bed, watching me sitting on the opposite bed and wiping my hair.

"Shall I wipe it for you?" he asked.

"No, you're tired after taking the train for so long today, go to bed early," I said.

"Xiao Can"

"Ok?"

"Have you thought about what to say tomorrow?"

I took off the towel and couldn't help sighing: "I thought about it a little bit, but I don't think my dad will let me finish." Thinking of this, I couldn't help but smile wryly.

Li Xiao said jokingly: "It seems that I don't need to worry, you have already fully estimated what may happen tomorrow."

"Fuck you" I threw the towel on his face, lifted the quilt and lay down inside, although tomorrow will definitely be difficult, but at the moment I'm not too anxious, probably because Li Xiao is by my side.

"Li Xiao"

"what?"

"This time, I probably won't tell my parents about our relationship, I'm afraid they won't be able to accept it for a while."

"No one asked you to tell me, what are you doing so hard?" Li Xiao looked at me amusedly.

"I came back with you because I was afraid that you would run into trouble with your parents and be at a loss. It's not that you don't know your character, you're stupid, what can you do if you don't look at you?"

"Who are you calling stupid?" I climbed onto him and strangled his neck.

"Hey mom, I'll stay, I'll stay, okay?"

We rolled in a circle, he let me press on him, I hugged him through the quilt, and heard Li Xiao say: "Don't worry, what should come will come, let's see what your parents think first, We really want to think about the countermeasure, besides, I think your father should belong to the kind of honest man with a hard mouth and a soft heart. After a long time, he will calm down."

What he said was straightforward, and I was really guided by what he said, so I went back to my bed and lay down, and said, "You've only met my dad a few times, don't pretend to know him so well, okay?"

"Hey, that's not how I feel, and in this world, there are no parents who are not soft-hearted towards their children, let's show patience, your parents will understand"

This sentence makes sense, I tuck myself into the quilt, and I have to perform well tomorrow, go to bed quickly, the most important thing is to nourish your energy.