My name is Liu Xinyi, born in 1993, from Xi'an, 30 years old this year.
I was born in a rural area and have twin brothers. For as long as I can remember, my parents were patriarchal, and whatever food and fun was for my younger brother.
I don't care about what I usually eat, drink, and play with my brother.
The saddest part was when I graduated from junior high school, and one day, my parents called me to me and said that my family was in financial difficulties and could only let one person study. I understood what they meant, that is, to let me go home and give up the opportunity to study to my younger brother.
I don't understand, obviously my grades are better than my younger brother, my grades have always been in the top 3 in the class, and my younger brother is the bottom of the class. Why give him the opportunity?
Because of the unfair treatment of my parents, I was more precocious. I didn't study, I went out to work early, and vowed to make a name for myself, I wanted to buy a house and a car in the city, so that my parents would be impressed.
Because of the "three nos" products with no education, no technology, and no appearance, it is not easy to achieve their goals. Therefore, I had to sell my physical strength to make money.
I've worked as a cleaner, porter, waiter, salesperson, etc., and I'll do whatever I can make money anyway. In order to make more money, I worked during the day and part-time at night, and I worked 4 jobs a day at the busiest time.
And I'm also very provincial, I usually don't spend money, I only eat a bun for breakfast, eat a working meal at noon, and I usually cook a bun of noodles and mix some old godmother for dinner.
So I basically saved up my salary. My goal is to save money to buy a house, and I want to have my own home.
However, with his own small salary, buying a house is simply a fantasy. In 2014, the house price in Xi'an was more than 7,000 yuan a flat, and my salary was 3,000-4,000 yuan a month, even if I didn't eat or drink, it would take more than 10 years to buy a house.
So, I decided that I would stop working and start my own business.
But I don't have much money, so I have to set up a stall after thinking about it. But what to sell, I'm worried again.
I had to look for business opportunities that suited me. So I started to do market research outside, and after a few days, I found that the food stalls were very popular. What pancakes, skewers, marinated skewers, fried noodles, cold skin, wonton, dumplings, are particularly easy to sell. Considering the difficulty, I found that the cold skin is the best to make. And the profits are also high.
A bowl of cold skin earns 25 yuan, I can earn 200 yuan by selling 80 bowls a day, and I can earn 6,000 yuan in a month, which is almost my 2 months' salary. Moreover, the process of cold skin is simple, and the prepared sauce can be added.
The next day, I went to the second-hand market early in the morning to spend a few hundred yuan to prepare all the belongings for selling liangpi, and then went to the wholesale market to buy 60 catties of liangpi, and by the way, I bought the necessary side vegetables and cucumbers for liangpi in the vegetable market next to it.
Then he rushed to an intersection and grabbed a good position.
On the first day, business was particularly good, and in 5 hours, all 60 catties of cool skin were sold out. happily rushed home to calculate, and after removing the cost, he even earned 220 yuan.
Just this 220 yuan made me taste the sweetness and my confidence was greatly increased. In the first month, I earned 6,500 yuan.
In this way, I did it for half a year and earned more than 35,000 yuan, which was the first pot of gold in my life.
However, the good times were short-lived. In the eighth month, I found that the business was getting weaker and weaker, and I took 60 catties of cold skin, but I sold less than half.
Later, after many understandings, I learned that less than 100 meters away from me, there is another stall that also sells cold skin, and he has more varieties than me, and the taste is also good.
So I had to stop, I knew that there is competition in any business, and you have to have strong skills to survive.
So, I went to the company where I trained snacks. After two months of Xi, I not only learned Xi various sauces of cold skin, but also Xi learned how to make cold skin, cold noodles, beef tendon noodles, etc.
At that time, I found that the Liangpi of Xi'an is mainly divided into two varieties: Hanzhong Liangpi and Qinzhen Liangpi, Hanzhong Liangpi is soft and delicateQinzhen cool skin is hard and chewy. Is there any way to combine the advantages of the two cool skins? To this end, I personally washed, soaked, pulped, and steamed, and carefully recorded every detail. After many experiments, we finally developed a cool skin that is fine but not greasy, soft and refreshing, and has a unique taste. With its own unique technology, I can finally be afraid of anything.
So I searched for a new location and started my journey to the stall.
Because my cold skin is better than other houses, the business is getting better and better.
In the first year, I earned more than 80,000 yuan. With this 80,000 yuan of savings, I began to think about how to make the business bigger.
Later, I thought, since the cold skin made by my formula is delicious, why not just open a workshop to make cold skin**.
When I had an idea, I went into action.
After more than 20 days of hard work, I rented a storefront, bought equipment, and hired 2 workers, and my cool skin workshop began to put into production.
Since the cold skin I made before has long been famous, many people have come to me to get the goods, and my workshop business is getting more and more popular.
In a year, in addition to the cost, he also earned more than 150,000 yuan.
In 2018, I have accumulated nearly 500,000 yuan, I thought that I would be able to realize my dream soon, I was very excited, and the next day I rushed to the sales department to see the house, but I only knew that the house price in Xi'an had risen to 120,000 yuan a flat.
I found that the speed of housing prices is too fast, and the speed of making money cannot keep up with the speed of housing prices, so I can only speed up the speed of making money myself.
So I started the money-making mode day and night, and by 2022, I finally saved enough 1.5 million yuan.
At this time, the housing price in Xi'an has risen to 1More than 40,000 square meters, after half a month of selection, I finally spent 1.2 million to buy the first house in my life, and also bought a scooter of more than 100,000 yuan.
On the first day I moved into my new home, I cried, and I cried with joy when I thought about the hardships I had endured, the sweat I had shed, and the fact that I had finally achieved my goal in 10 years.
In the blink of an eye, the Spring Festival has arrived, and I am thinking that I will go home for the New Year this year. I rarely went home for the Chinese New Year, and I didn't want to go back to that home because I didn't feel a trace of warmth and love there.
The purpose of my return home was to tell my parents that I had bought a house in Xi'an, and I wanted to prove to them that I was no worse than my brother.
I returned home in the thirtieth of the Chinese New Year's Eve. Knowing that I had bought a house in Xi'an, they were surprised at first, they thought it was incredible. After a few minutes, my father slowly told me that I should give up the house to my younger brother, because my younger brother is almost 30 years old and not married. The women who went on blind dates before they were willing to marry if they had a house in the city.
I was angry when I heard it, but I didn't expect my father to still protect the younger brother who was not angry, and said: Why does my brother want my house when he gets married, he will give him everything since he was a child, and now he even wants to occupy the house I bought back with all my life. If you are incompetent, you should be beaten as a single.
Bang, my father slapped me in the face, and suddenly my eyes flashed, and I exploded in one fell swoop, glaring angrily at my father with red eyes.
If you don't give it, get out, I don't think I gave birth to your daughter. So I rushed into the house, grabbed my suitcase, and walked out of the house.
Although my mother caught up with me and explained to me that the bride price for girls nowadays is too high, and they also need a house and a car, otherwise they won't marry, and your father can't help but think about asking for your house for your brother. You must help your brother, if you don't get married, our family's incense will be broken, mom beg you.
My mother cried to me, but I was unmoved. Although I haven't been home much in the past few years, I also know from other fellow villagers how incompetent my younger brother is, and he has worked a few jobs after graduation, but he has been staying at home for two years, eating at home all day and waiting for death
I don't think I'll ever want to recognize such parents and younger brothers in my life. I was so disappointed.