I'm not interested in money or women.

Chapter 21 You Can't Afford to Play
Gao Qi also has the idea of ​​starting a business.

After the college entrance examination, she began to think about finding a summer job to train herself.

But her family did not support her.

Both of her parents work in the system and have had clear plans for her life since she was a child.

Since junior high school, she has been admitted to key schools step by step.

When she was in the second year of high school, her family helped her clarify her goals, which was to be admitted to Jinling Normal University, and then take the civil service exam directly after graduation and join the Education Bureau.

Her fate unfolded smoothly and she was easily admitted to Jinling Normal University.

At the farewell dinner, her mother also took her to toast her uncle who worked in the Education Bureau.

It can be predicted that her future will be just as her parents expected: she will enter the system, have a stable job, find a partner in the system, get married and have children, and finally live a plain life.

To many people, this is already a very happy life trajectory.

But deep in her heart, there is always an unspeakable regret.

Is my life going to be spent in such a uneventful way?

But she didn't show it, she saw all the efforts her parents made for her.

She didn't want to be willful and hurt their feelings.

Besides, she also knew that this was the best solution for her life, a smooth path that many people envied.

But before actually stepping into this kind of life, she wanted to have some real experience and get a taste of a different kind of life.

That's why she wanted to try self-employment within the scope permitted by the rules during her four years in college.

She wanted to see if she could create the life she wanted with her own abilities.

However, she would not implement anything based on some immature ideas.

Making use of resources is an essential skill she learned since childhood.

After her parents rejected her request to work a summer job, she did not rest. Instead, she chatted with relatives who were engaged in various industries, learned about their industries, and looked for entrepreneurial projects and opportunities that she could engage in.

When her relatives learned about her entrepreneurial idea, they were very supportive of her and gave her advice.

Most of her relatives are in the system, or in state-owned enterprises and public institutions.

Some of them also work in Internet companies outside the city, covering many industries.

They gave her a lot of ideas and would hold meetings in the family group to discuss and demonstrate the feasibility.

Among them, the most reliable and feasible project they mentioned is the ground promotion project mentioned by Lu Feng.

This project was recommended by her uncle who works in the Urban Management and Law Enforcement Bureau. After discussion among family members, they all agreed that the project was feasible.

Her aunt, who is a senior executive in the provincial telecommunications company, also agreed with this project and also mentioned the 4G campus card promotion project.

Her aunt told her that in the second half of next year, telecom companies will begin to vigorously promote 4G card services, with great efforts and high subsidies.

Many people inside and outside the company are already prepared to take advantage of this opportunity to make a fortune.

If she wants to try to start a business and make money, she can take advantage of the opportunity and get some benefits.

In addition, relatives recommended several projects, but none of them were as feasible as these two projects.

Therefore, before school started, she had been learning about the operation and management of ground-based project sales. She planned to spend a semester preparing and start her own business in the second semester of next year.

She knows very well that she must keep a low profile before achieving anything.

Moreover, these two projects were also selected for her by her relatives who worked hard, spent time and energy based on their own industry experience and poured their heart and soul into them.

So she never told anyone about these two projects.

But she didn't expect that during an ordinary classmate dinner today, Lu Feng casually mentioned these two projects.

Moreover, he not only said them, but also had no intention of doing them himself. He just recommended them to classmates who wanted to start a business.

It was as if he didn't care about such a good entrepreneurial project at all.

Where does he get the confidence from?

Gao Qi looked at Lu Feng's profile and observed him carefully for the first time, as if she was getting to know him all over again.

Lu Feng did not just mention these two projects casually.

He recommended these two projects based on analysis and industry prospects, and internal logic.

He has his reasons.

His reasons were exactly the same as those given by Gao Qi's uncle and aunt.

But my uncle and aunt, one is a manager within the system and the other is a senior executive in a state-owned enterprise, and the sources of information they have are definitely not comparable to those of ordinary people.

They have the foresight to come up with such an analysis.

But how did Lu Feng come up with this analysis?

Is he some kind of business wizard?

But since he could analyze such a good project prospect, why didn't he keep it secret and do it himself, but instead told it to a stranger classmate he met for the first time?

Doesn’t he want to make this money?
However, what Gao Qi didn't know was that Lu Feng really didn't want to make this money.

Because he looks down on it.

There are only two kinds of business in the world, one is to cut leeks from the poor, and the other is to provide services to the rich.

But Lu Feng did the third one.

He is the one who takes advantage of the rich.

Door-to-door promotion, campus cards, these small businesses, even if they monopolize the entire Jinling college market, can only make a few million at best, and most of them have to be shared.

In essence, this is still an industry that provides labor-intensive jobs.

I work so hard but only earn so little, which is not even enough for the work.

If Lu Feng had this much time, he could have gone directly to the capital market to catch two waves of the market. Wouldn't he have made more money than this? He just admired young people like Huo Chenglong who were enterprising and wanted to give him a hand, so he spoke up and gave him some advice.

Otherwise, he would not waste his time and energy on such a small business.

But Huo Chenglong was not interested in the ground promotion project: "Ground promotion is too scattered, and it takes too much manpower just to manage it, which is too difficult.

I think supermarkets are the safest option, as they are located near schools and are easier to manage.”

Once cognitive barriers are formed, everything you see becomes difficult.

Listening to Huo Chenglong still making excuses, Lu Feng shook his head: "The investment cost of the supermarket is too high, you can't afford it."

When Huo Chenglong heard him say the three words "I can't afford it", his expression suddenly changed.

His family conditions are not good, which can be seen from the clothes he wears and his aged appearance due to years of wind and sun.

His parents are farmers who work the land in their hometown, and he often helps with farm work at home.

Because he knew the hardships of farming, he told himself that he must get into college and change his destiny.

Henan Province is the province with the most difficult college entrance examination. He tried his best but could only be admitted to Jingong University, which is an ordinary first-class university that is neither a 985 nor a 211.

But even so, he felt very happy.

Because he came to Jinling, the ancient capital of Six Dynasties which was countless times more prosperous than his hometown.

If he wants to stay here and change his life, he has to find a way to create opportunities.

But his family background could not provide him with any help.

So he could only seek help from his classmates.

Several of his roommates in the dormitory are better off than him.

Especially Bai Yuliang, who had his own car as soon as he entered college, which made him extremely envious.

He also wanted to have such living conditions, so from the first day of school, he started thinking about starting a business.

Campus group-buying supermarket and door-to-door delivery service are his most promising entrepreneurial projects. He is confident that this project will be successful!

However, he faced the biggest problem, which was lack of money.

A penny can make a hero fall, let alone hundreds of thousands of startup capital for entrepreneurship?
Therefore, he was so shameless and tirelessly lobbying Bai Yuliang and his two other roommates.

At the dinner party today, he was also trying hard to win the support of his classmates.

In his opinion, everyone here may be the cornerstone to help his dream come true.

In order to realize his dream, he lowered his attitude. Even when his two richest classmates, Bai Yuliang and Guo Zitao, had disdain written all over their faces, he pretended not to see it.

This was a torture for him.

He could tolerate such disdain, but when he heard Lu Feng's blunt words "I can't afford it", he couldn't hold it in anymore.

These words were like a sharp needle that pierced his self-esteem, instantly making his blood boil and his face flush.

From childhood to adulthood, although his academic performance was not top-notch, he never fell out of the top 10% of his age group.

He was always on the top of the list in every exam.

Although his family was poor, he was proud in his heart.

His outstanding results made him believe that as long as he worked hard, he would be rewarded.

But these days, he has been trying to please his classmates again and again for his entrepreneurial dream, but has been repeatedly rejected, which has caused his confidence to begin to waver.

Lu Feng's words were like a heavy hammer, creating a crack in his self-confidence.

He clenched his fists, his face flushed, stared at Lu Feng and asked, "Just because my family is poor, does that mean I am not qualified to start a business? Can every successful entrepreneur afford to have fun?"

Seeing that he was emotional, Lu Feng did not hesitate, and directly picked up the wine glass and said to him: "I'm sorry, I didn't mean that. If I hurt you, I apologize to you."

Seeing him apologize directly, Huo Chenglong's emotions that had just risen came to an abrupt end, and he was stunned for a moment.

He opened his mouth in confusion before explaining, "I don't mean to blame you. I just feel confident that I can do it."

"Then do your best."

Lu Feng smiled slightly and raised his glass towards him.

Seeing this, Huo Chenglong also raised his glass, clinked it with him, and smiled.

After taking a sip of wine, Lu Feng put down his glass and stopped talking.

He was not angry with Huo Chenglong, and still admired Huo Chenglong's courage.

But he knew that with Huo Chenglong's personality, there was no hope for him to succeed in starting a business in the short term.

Inferiority complex, sensitivity, and impulsivity are all stumbling blocks on the road to success for entrepreneurs.

But this is not his fault. This is the shackles created by his original family and living environment, and it is also the saddest curse of the poor.

If he doesn't break these shackles and be reborn, there is basically no chance of success.

"Lu Feng, Huo Chenglong is a good person. He doesn't mean to be angry with you."

Liu Bo was afraid that Lu Feng and Huo Chenglong would have conflicts and estrangements, so he spoke to comfort them in a low voice.

"It's okay, didn't I tell him about it?"

Lu Feng smiled and patted his arm: "People's emotions are used to influence others, not to control themselves. I'm fine!"

On the other side of him, Gao Qi also heard what he said.

People's emotions are used to influence others, not to influence themselves...

Gao Qi chewed over these words silently, looking at Lu Feng with a complicated look.

Why can he say such philosophical words casually?
For some reason, she felt that Lu Feng in front of her became particularly charming.

Whether in his words, laughter, gestures or movements, he seemed completely different from the students around him, with a maturity that surpassed his peers.

He is really handsome!
(End of this chapter)