Chapter 72 The Emotion Weights (2/2)

After three days of living like this, Brother Feng finally succeeded. That day, he was supported by the gods and sold three computers, earning three hundred and sixty Yuan.

That boss was generous. He gave him an extra forty and rounded it up to four hundred.

With this money in his hands, Brother Feng cried… When he arrived home, he took Liu Qinghua to a restaurant and spent seventy Yuan on three dishes.

That night, Brother Feng was drunk for the first time since coming to Beijing… He bought a beer and drowned all of his misery. He told Liu Qinghua: “Qinghua, believe me, we will succeed one day.”

Heaven pitied and protected them!

Later, Brother Feng became more and more professional. He could get at least one customer a day, and Liu Qinghua also found a job related to her major and worked in a small securities company with a salary of five thousand per month.

Brother Feng moved to Li Yuan with Liu Qinghua and rented a house there. They lived a so-called good life there.

Though they were living beyond their means, they didn’t have to share the toilet with others or worry about living with strange roommates. They could even raise a pet Chihuahua.

Now they really had a better life than before.

Brother Feng became more ambitious. He decided to leave Zhongguancun. He didn’t want to be just a computer salesman. He didn’t want to be a working class man. He knew that he had to suffer those suspicious look and put up a smiling face in order to please customers if he worked there, even though he could earn twenty or thirty thousand per day.

He wanted to do something bigger - to get some people together to start a second-hand computer business.

But at that time, Liu Qinghua told Brother Feng: “I need to talk to you. I couldn’t get a higher position in this company even though I have been working there for two years… I want to study further in a private training school for some time.”

He asked Liu Qinghua: “How much is the fee?”

“Forty thousand per semester, and I want to study for two semesters,” she replied.

Brother Feng thought for a while and agreed, he gave her those eighty thousand Yuan without hesitation, though it was all the money they had.

Now life was harder.

Brother Feng didn’t quit his job. Now he had to maintain a stable income, so he didn’t start his business and continued to work there.

Another year passed.

Liu Qinghua graduated from that school. She had learned a lot there. She had a distant relative who was an executive in a big securities company, so she bribed him with more than ten thousand Yuan and worked in that company.

Now Liu Qinghua had a higher salary. Brother Feng and Liu Qinghua celebrated - this was the end of their hard times.

Now Brother Feng didn’t want to continue selling computers and wanted to leave Zhongguancun, so he started working on his second-hand computer business.

He decided to save money for another year, so that he could have enough capital to open a second-hand computer store.

Brother Feng worked very hard that year. His only skill was selling computers… At the same time, he trained a few employees, and had saved up more than two hundred thousand Yuan. This number was up to three hundred thousand when he borrowed another hundred thousand.

Liu Qinghua was such an excellent worker that year that she had been invited to a bigger company, and her salary was raised up to sixty or seventy thousand per month.

She became what most people wanted to be.

Brother Feng was under the pressure. He had a lower income than his wife, and so he had to work harder… He wanted to earn more money.

At the end of the year, Liu Qinghua joined the company’s annual dinner. She got very drunk before going back home.

Brother Feng was only a computer salesman and he didn’t need to attend parties, so he picked the drunk Liu Qinghua up from the bus station.

When they arrived home, Brother Feng prepared a tub of hot water for Liu Qinghua to bathe.

As she was having the bath, she was drunkenly shouting: “Brother Feng… we finally succeeded.”

“Success. Yes, it’s true.”

But she was drunk and lost her inhibitions, so she turned around and said to Brother Feng: “I am successful now, but you are not so. You are only a computer salesman.”

Brother Feng bit his lip.

Then Liu Qinghua continued: “At that party, everyone was introducing their boyfriends and they were all senior executives, writers, or university teachers, but it was hard for me to talk… since my boyfriend is only selling computers.”

Brother Feng lowered his head and cried silently- he went there alone with five thousand Yuan and never cried when he starved for several days; he didn’t even cry when a customer gave him three slaps in front of thousands of people due to his wrong words.

Now he burst into tears.

He didn’t want to find an excuse. He didn’t want to say that he was still selling computers only because he had to give the money to Liu Qinghua for her studies. He didn’t even want to mention that he was still there because he was saving money for a new shop.

Instead, he got mad and made a crazy decision.