Chapter 10 Fang Qiming, the Scapegoat
Chapter 10 Fang Qiming, the Scapegoat
After successfully helping Kang Chi get a loan of 200,000 yuan, Manager Liu personally escorted him out of the bank.
Of course, it could also be because Zhang Qing had been waiting for Kang Chi to leave, and she was a big customer of Dongyang Bank.
After Manager Liu returned to the lobby, Zhang Qing slowly turned her gaze towards Kang Chi.
“I didn’t expect you to start your own business, and your business is so good.”
”Haha, selling toy lenses is just a small business, how can it compare to you, a big producer? The movie that broke the billion-dollar box office last month, I think you are the investor, right?”
”I only invested a little.”
Zhang Qing was also modest, and then asked Kang Chi with some doubts: “It’s not convenient to interrupt just now, but you know what signing a personal guarantee means, right?”
”I know.”
”You still signed it even though you knew it?”
”What else? If you don’t sign, will you lend me money?”
”Send me your bank card number.”
”Then… um? What did you say?”
Kang Chi was just joking, but he didn’t expect Zhang Qing to ask for the bank card number directly.
This…
Is this the reason why everyone likes to eat gigolos?
Kang Chi coughed lightly and said, “I’m kidding… I’ve already taken out a loan for this model, and I’ll just pay it back when the time comes.”
”Yeah, that’s true, but I have a suggestion. Although your lenses are selling well now, there are new hot spots on the Internet all the time, and it’s hard to guarantee that Daqin Optics can maintain its popularity…”
”What I mean is that in the early stage, you can consider finding a foundry instead of investing in a production line yourself. The risk is too great, especially for a startup like you…”
It can be heard that Zhang Qing is sincerely advising him,
But Kang Chi already has his own plans in mind, so how could he change because of the concern of others?
But no matter what, Zhang Qing’s starting point is good, which makes him feel warm in his heart.
”I understand your worries, and I am grateful for your concern and suggestions. Don’t worry, I know what’s going on.”
”Well, that’s good.”
After a moment of silence, Zhang Qing raised her hand, looked at the time, and said apologetically: “In fact, I have always wanted to find an opportunity to treat you to a meal, thank you for helping me that time…”
”But I just happened to have a very important meeting with the main creators this afternoon, so I can only do it next time. I haven’t changed my phone number.”
”Well, it’s okay. You go about your business first and contact me when you are free.”
Although Kang Chi said this, he was complaining in his heart:
If you don’t want to treat me, just say so. I haven’t changed my phone number either. I haven’t seen you take the initiative for so long?
So I have to call you to ask you to treat me to a meal?
…
Early the next morning, Kang Chi saw the bank’s loan information when he got up. The efficiency was still very fast.
After the funds were in place, Kang Chi closed the store for a day and quickly found an agent to rent a 300-square-meter warehouse nearby. At the same time, he placed an order for a large number of parts and materials.
In the following time, he was like a spinning top. He went to the warehouse early in the morning every day to receive goods and rub the production line.
In the afternoon, he went to open the store and rub ten lenses by the way. Finally, he shipped them according to the order sequence.
When everything was done, it was already dark.
When he returned home at night, he had to plan the production plan for the next day’s production line and read some books on equipment manufacturing.
It was so fulfilling!
Kang Chi originally thought that although he had no experience in manufacturing large equipment, he could repair precision equipment such as camera lenses. There was no reason why he couldn’t make these sets of equipment by mindlessly copying drawings?
However, when he really made it, he found that he was naive…
The difficulty of rubbing such heavy equipment for him was not the installation of precision instruments, but the production of heavy frames.
Kang Chi had a hard time just cutting the steel plate according to the drawing, not to mention the fixing, installation and welding…
”I can’t handle it, I can’t handle it at all!” That day, Kang Chi was dragging his tired body on the way home, when he suddenly saw a familiar figure.
He couldn’t help but stop and take a closer look.
Isn’t this the young man who asked him to repair the Anqin 16-300mm?
It was the beginning of winter a few days ago, and the temperature in Dongyang had obviously turned cold. The young man was wearing only a thin gray coat, sitting alone on a chair at the bus stop, with a large brown suitcase next to him. Looking at his shivering and dull eyes, he probably has been sitting there for a while.
The scene is very bleak.
”Hi,” Kang Chi came forward and greeted him enthusiastically, “Do you remember me?”
Hearing Kang Chi’s voice, the young man slowly looked up at Kang Chi and soon remembered him.
”Yeah, I remember. I asked you to fix the lens a few days ago. How could I not remember it.”
Kang Chi nodded, looked at the bus stop next to him, and asked in confusion: “Are you waiting for the bus?”
”Waiting for the bus?” The young man was stunned, then smiled bitterly, “The bus has stopped running at this time.”
Looking at his mental state, Kang Chi guessed that he must have encountered some difficulties.
So Kang Chi sat next to him and chatted with him like a friend: “What happened to your thing later?”
”What else can I do? I just got out of here.”
Through chatting, Kang Chi slowly learned his story.
The young man’s name is Fang Qiming. He is a top student. He majored in photography in college. After graduation, he joined the crew with the recommendation of his teacher and followed a cameraman.
Just when Fang Qiming thought that his career was going well and he would become a great photographer, reality gave him a blow.
It turned out that the camera assistant in the crew was just a hard laborer who moved things around!
During the shooting, Fang Qiming couldn’t even touch the machine.
His master treated him as an ordinary worker and didn’t mean to teach him any technology.
Gradually, he realized that the crew was actually a group with complicated relationships.
Here, family ties and blood ties come first, followed by friendships from fellow villagers.
Finally, it’s people like him who were introduced by friends.
His mentor’s face was not as big as he imagined!
For example, his senior brother who only had a vocational school diploma was actually the nephew of his master, and he could often stand next to the camera to learn during filming.
This is probably the difference between inner disciples and outer disciples.
I thought that low wages, hard work, and not being able to learn skills were cruel enough, but I didn’t expect that there would be something even more ruthless behind it—taking the blame! In short, according to Fang Qiming, when he handed the Anqin lens to his senior brother, his senior brother missed it and blamed him for not holding it firmly.
Their master didn’t even listen to a single explanation and put all the responsibility on him.
Kang Chi roughly knew what happened later. Fang Qiming, who took the blame and was angry, couldn’t stay in the crew anymore, so he ran away.
Today, he was going to take a car back to his hometown, but at the moment he was about to get on the car, his unwillingness made him stay.
He didn’t know what he was unwilling to accept. Was it his master, the film and television industry in Hengdian, or the whole society? “Actually, when I thought about it later, I felt that my master still had feelings for me. At least he asked me to come and fix the lens. If you can fix it, he said he could help me keep it a secret…”
”But why did you find me?” Kang Chi was a little confused.
”My master said that you have the best repair skills. You can fix the machine as if nothing happened. He also said that if you can’t fix it, then no one in Dongyang can do it.”
Kang Chi: “…”
He didn’t even know when he became the designated ‘underground repair shop’ of the Hengdian crew? ! !
It was all because of Zhang Qing’s incident back then!
There were so many people in their camera crew at the time, and it was inevitable that someone would not keep a secret and spread it secretly.
Kang Chi felt a chill on the back of his neck and silently prayed that this matter would not reach the ears of those equipment rental companies.
He was afraid that he would be beaten up by a club when he returned home…
(End of this chapter)