Chapter 249: Entrepreneurship

"The one who tied the bell must be the one to untie it," Zhong Kui stood in front of a skyscraper, looked up at the four big characters "Dongjun Industry" hanging high on the office building, and said leisurely, then turned to Qi Fei and smiled wickedly, "Young Master, you didn't think you would appear in this way, did you?"

"I am an ordinary police officer in the Criminal Police Brigade of the Nancheng Public Security Bureau, not some Young Master. Don't mention this matter after stepping through this door," Qi Fei said seriously, feeling that this was not funny.

At this time, Lu Man walked out in a hurry, very close to them, and said in a low voice: "People in the company don't know that President Qi has had an accident yet. Fortunately, except for me, no one in the group has seen Qi Fei. They don't know your relationship with President Qi. I told everyone I interviewed that you are reporters writing about the entrepreneurial history of Dongjun Industry. Please be sure to keep the same caliber."

Indeed, ever since Xi Ziyun was murdered, let alone stepping into Dongjun Industry, even Qi Dongjun, the number of times Qi Fei saw him could be counted on one hand.

Who would have thought that one day this kind of alienation could become an advantage for hiding one's identity.

Lu Man took them to a negotiation room and gave them a list prepared in advance: "These are all veteran figures of Dongjun Industry. They know the situation of President Qi's entrepreneurship best."

Qi Fei sat in the negotiation room, feeling a sense of unreality.

The people here were far more familiar with Qi Dongjun than he was.

The first to come in was an old man whose hair had all fallen out. Qi Fei looked at the list—"Xu Tong," employee number 0003. This employee number was enough to explain the problem.

As soon as Xu Tong sat down, before Qi Fei could ask, he spoke first: "Did President Qi agree to this interview?"

"Hmm," Qi Fei responded.

Xu Tong furrowed his brows: "This doesn't look like his style. I heard he hasn't been in the company for several days." As he said this, he looked at the young people sitting opposite, then realized the difference between inside and outside, "Oh, it's okay. My health has been bad these years, and I don't manage company affairs anymore. You are reporters, right? Then ask." He coughed twice. Looking at the information, his age was even two years younger than Qi Dongjun, but he was already looking like an old man.

Xu Tong's appearance reminded Qi Fei for the first time that Qi Dongjun, aside from his spirited appearance, was already an old man.

"I read the information. You are the most senior employee besides President Qi. You started working with President Qi since 1998," Qi Fei tried to put on an indifferent appearance. "It is said that President Qi obtained his first pot of gold on the road of entrepreneurship in this year. There are many different opinions about this story in the outside world. You are the earliest one to follow President Qi. We hope you can tell us as a witness what the situation was like in 1998?"

Xu Tong's blue-veined hand touched his bald head: "There's nothing to say. The stories outside are all embellished. Doing business is very hard. If you have to break it down, it's actually very boring.

1998 was not only President Qi's lucky year, but also my lucky year. I still remember that back then, I was just an ordinary tailor. President Qi suddenly came to my shop, saying he heard I was the best tailor within a few kilometers, and there was a clothing order. He needed a helper to rush the work and asked if I could join.

Doing business, of course it's good to have money to earn. I didn't think much and agreed." When he said this, he suddenly smiled, as if this were a very interesting thing. "Thinking about it now, I was really young and ignorant back then. This matter almost killed me.

The order he mentioned, where could an ordinary tailor handle it? He only gave one week. He wanted to supply one thousand sets of fashion to foreign countries. This wasn't difficult, the key was his fabrics. I don't know what happened, they were all wrinkled and needed to be ironed. Just ironing this fabric took three days, and then making it according to the version required by the other party, my wife and I stayed up for four big nights, almost without closing our eyes, and the sewing machine was about to smoke, barely handing over this batch of goods.

After this work was finished, both of us fell ill directly.

At that time, President Qi said he had no money on hand and would give me remuneration after getting the payment for the goods. I am an honest person. Seeing that he was very sincere, I didn't think much and agreed.

It wasn't like now, where everything requires signing a contract and having a legal department. I just received a white slip from him, and the matter was settled.

He was a person who ran everywhere. After that batch of goods was handed over, there was no news for three months.

My wife started complaining to me, saying I had been cheated.

Unexpectedly, at the beginning of the fourth month, he really came back.

I still remember it was raining heavily that day. I was normally making clothes for guests in the shop. Someone wearing a military green raincoat ran all the way from the alley, took off the raincoat at the door of my shop, and the rainwater splashed everywhere, wetting the materials in my shop.

Although wearing a raincoat, Qi Dongjun's hair was still soaked.

He was Pan Ting, his eyes were shining, and he took out a stack of hundred-yuan bills from his arms and placed them on my sewing machine, saying the payment for the goods had arrived.

When I counted this money, it was several times more than what he had promised before. I took a few bills and returned the rest to him.

He was stunned and insisted on giving me all the money, saying that without me, he couldn't have gotten this money. This was the first time he had earned money in the years he had been out doing business, and he had to thank me.

We pushed back and forth in the shop, and accidentally the money scattered all over the floor. Seeing this, he directly put on his raincoat and rushed into the rain.

I am a person who knows my place. Originally, I said how much money I would take, that's how much I would take. I didn't want to take advantage of others.

I didn't take this money happily at all.

While I was squatting and picking up banknotes on the wet ground, I was annoyed that I didn't chase him out.

Unexpectedly, while I was picking up the money, Qi Dongjun came back again.

I thought he regretted giving too much money and was about to organize the money to give it to him.

Unexpectedly, he pressed the hand I was handing the money with and asked if I wanted to join him and do clothing business together, saying he wanted to make the largest clothing factory in East China, saying I could endure hardship, had good technology, and he needed a master who understood sewing to help.

Qi Dongjun is just like this, with that kind of enthusiasm and passion that makes you unknowingly fall into his trap." Xu Tong said, inevitably revealing a smile. "I agreed so confusedly. As a result, when I got to his place, I realized that the big business he mentioned only had him, plus me, which was two people. Haha, this guy!

Then I stupidly followed him and worked in the dark. He took orders, I did the work. Who could have thought we could reach this point today!"

Xu Tong was immersed in the memories of the years of struggle back then, but not everyone in the room felt moved. Zhong Kui asked, not without spoiling the mood: "Only the two of you? Your employee number is 0003, right? Then who is employee number 0002?" ===== CHAPTER 250 =====