The entrance to Hu's old restaurant was still crowded. The vendors changed their past stoic ways and began to sell loudly. More than a hundred vendors were shouting about selling at the same time, and it immediately became noisy.
There is a space for the boss at the entrance of the restaurant. This is the stall of a few students from the Capital University. Although they have all gone home to celebrate the New Year, the vendors are very self-conscious and no one wants to seize the best positions, even if they know that they will not come to set up stalls for a month.
A blond foreigner, accompanied by a Longguo native, stopped to watch with great interest in front of a stall. The female stall owner was a little shy and just looked at the pot blankly, not daring to say a word.
The daughter of the female boss was sitting on a small bench next to her, holding a fan in her hand to fan the briquette stove. She looked up at the foreigner with a little fear in her eyes. As his eyes shifted, his eyes suddenly brightened up. Regardless, he threw the fan in his hand to the ground, stood up and ran, shouting, "Uncle, uncle."
Hearing the child's cry, The female boss looked up, a look of joy suddenly appeared on her face.
Li Anran picked up the running girl and laughed, "You have such sharp eyes."
The girl changed, her clothes became clean and tidy, although they were not new. There is no patch on the clothes. His face looked much better, even rosier. The little face that was blue and cold in the memory was blurred, and was covered by the cute smiling face in front of me that was full of happiness.
Li Anran walked to the stall with the girl in his arms, and saw that in addition to the familiar tea eggs, there was baked tofu in the stall. I couldn't help but feel that the wisdom of the people really should not be underestimated.
"Sister Hong, how is business?" Li Anran asked, holding her child.
The female boss looked happy when she heard this, "Very good, very good."
Seeing the clothes on the female boss, Li Anran also knew about their mother and daughter's clothes. My life has improved greatly, and I feel very happy.
"Boss, how do you sell this grilled tofu?" asked a young man next to him.
"Two skewers for one dime." The female boss quickly introduced.
Li Anran looked over and saw a blond foreigner. When I came here, the foreigner was wearing a woolen hat, so I didn't notice him.
At this time, foreigners were very rare. When Chinese people saw foreigners on the street, they basically treated them as rare animals.
"Six, six..."
The foreigner's poor Mandarin amused the onlookers, and the lady boss couldn't help but snicker, "Okay, six skewers." , ready soon."
Li Anran was also smiling, and then his eyes fell on the foreigner's clothes, and he couldn't help blurting out, "Nike?"
At this time, Long Guo There are no foreign clothing brands on the market yet. It was only a few years later that Xiangjiang-origin brands such as Goldlion and Montagut entered the market. As for foreign brands such as Dili Dona, most of them were brought in by Xiangjiang agents.Come.
Especially DiLaDona, it is very fashionable for young people to wear a pair of DiLaDona beef tendon yellow-soled sneakers at this time. The beef tendon soles of new shoes are white. In order to make the purchased beef tendon soles turn yellow, I wash them with soap until they turn yellow. This is considered the most awesome thing.
Seeing the long-lost Nike logo at first glance, Li Anran was in a trance and blurted out involuntarily.
Seeing that the young man holding the child named the brand name of the clothes very accurately, with a look of surprise on his face, the foreigner couldn't help but be interested, "Do you know Nike?"
"Of course I know, it's a brand of Ami." Li Anran came back to his senses and answered directly without thinking.
The foreigner was even more surprised, "How did you know?"
The earliest Nike will enter the Longguo market is to set up an office in Beijing one year later, and then start to expand into Longguo. market. However, the Xiangjiang market already existed at this time, but it was still a second-rate brand, which was much inferior to European brands such as Adidas and Diraditona.
So it is natural for foreigners to be surprised when they see a person from the Dragon Kingdom actually knowing the Nike brand.
"Because I like the design of this brand very much." Li Anran responded casually. In fact, he didn't like Nike. He basically never wore Nike clothes or shoes in his previous life. He loves Adidas because he is a German fan, and Adidas has sponsored the German national team for 70 years, so he has no choice.
Naturally, the foreigner could not understand what he meant by coping, and asked: "Which design do you like?"
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This time, Li Anran was confused. He could name many classic Adidas styles, but he knew nothing about Nike. But Li Anran had a quick mind and rolled his eyes, and he said, "I like all Nike shoes, yes, I like every one of them very much."
The foreigner lowered his head to look at the shoes on his feet. Adidas sneakers, the corner of his mouth twitched, "But what I see is Adidas, isn't it?"
Damn it, foreigners are really stupid... Longguo people say polite words, but you take them seriously. What?
Li Anran put down the little girl, and with the help of this action, his mind was spinning rapidly. Something is wrong. When most people talk about this topic, even foreigners will not chase after them. Is there anything special about this foreigner?
After standing up, Li Anran reached out his hand and said with a smile: "My name is Li Anran, and I own this restaurant." In the Longguo people's speaking skills, this move changed the topic.
The foreigner also enthusiastically stretched out his hand and shook his hand tightly, smiling and said: "Nate, Phil Knight."
Li Anran was stunned and couldn't help but ask, " Phil Knight?"
"Yes." A glint flashed in the foreigner's eyes, because he knew that the young man must have heard of his name when he saw the surprise in his eyes.
That's right, Li Anran suddenly remembered that he attended an economic meeting in his previous life, and this guy was among the attendees. But at that time, he was already sixty, and Li Anran was just a graduate student and an ordinary investor.
Looking at Knight, who was only in his forties, his appearance had changed dramatically from what he was in his sixties, Li Anran suddenly felt an indescribable emotion and couldn't help but say hello, "Nice to meet you. "You, Mr. Knight."
The young man from the Dragon Kingdom who accompanied Knight had a flash of light in his eyes, and whispered a few words in Knight's ear. Knight's eyes widened in surprise, "...you made five billion in half a year? God, I didn't expect you to be so young."
Li Anran's heart moved, and an idea suddenly appeared in his mind. With some joy, he said, "Mr. Knight, there is a saying in the Long Kingdom that an invitation is worse than a chance encounter. I wonder if I can invite you to dinner?" After that, he pointed to the Hu Family Restaurant and continued: "This is the most famous restaurant in the capital. One of the restaurants, maybe you should try it."
Hu Minghui was calculating the receipts on the calculator behind the counter. When she heard the waiter at the door suddenly screamed with joy, she immediately looked up. Just at this glance, my chest was filled with joy, and my eyes suddenly felt a little sore.
"Minghui, arrange a private room." Li Anran walked slowly to the counter and waved his hand in front of her eyes, "Hey, wake up, I'm talking to you."
"You're back." Hu Minghui immediately came out from behind the counter, eyes full of this man. Her world is so full that there is no room for anything else.
In the private room, Knight looked at the decoration in the private room with great interest and nodded frequently, "The houses in the Dragon Kingdom are very unique, and each place has its own style. I am traveling in the Dragon Kingdom soon." Over the years, I have seen many buildings, some of which are thousands of years old. It’s incredible.”
When Li Anran heard Knight’s words, he remembered that this old man left his business and came to the Dragon Kingdom to travel. As a result, the company was severely defeated by Reebok, and the story of having to go back and regroup happened this year.
He also knew that during this period, Knight found several shoe and garment factories in Longguo, starting the era of OEM in Longguo.
"This ancient country is a rare price depression in the world, and it has a vast market. Whoever seizes this market first will be able to stand at the top of the world."
Li Anran's words surprised Knight, and the young man in front of him spoke his heart. Yes, that's what he thought.
Li Anran would naturally not tell him that these words were spoken by himself at a meeting more than ten years later. Unless he was lying, these were Nai's true thoughts.
However, Nike began its deployment in Dragon Country in 1985, while competitor Adidas only entered the Dragon Country market in 1997. From this point of view, what Knight said should be true.
The two had a very pleasant conversation during the dinner, and Knight even gave birth to a child.I feel like I regret meeting you too late.
Li Anran shared some of his insights on sports brands, including some suggestions on design and management.
At this banquet, Phil Knight heard about the technology of air-cushion shoes for the first time, which completely subverted the mainstream design of tendon soles at this time. He also heard for the first time the concept of introducing sportswear into leading fashion, breaking the concept of distinction between fashionable fashion and sportswear.
When Knight heard that Li Anran owned a garment factory with thousands of employees in Baiyun City and a large-scale shoe factory in Haishi, he couldn't wait to go and take a look.