After graduating from the "985" university, he was admitted to the civil service, and then resigned to sell pork at a stall to pay off his debts. Liao Lifeng "gamed" twice.
In the first big "gambling", he bet on a loan of nearly 800,000 yuan, and bet on a real estate purchased with a loan of 1.2 million yuan. The gambling can be a step up to the sky and realize the freedom of wealth.
Unfortunately, he lost the bet.
In the second big "gambling", with a debt of 2 million yuan, he bet on a decent civil servant job, be a butcher selling pork in a vegetable market, bet on a quick turnaround, and realize his "poem and distance".
Now Liao Lifeng debones a pig and it only takes 20 minutes to complete.
This time, will he "bet" success?
Perhaps time will give the answer.
Text / Film Qilu Evening News Qilu One Point
Reporter Li Jing Li Yansong
30 years old, from civil servant to pork brother
At 5 o'clock in the morning, when he arrived at the Liunan Slaughterhouse in Liuzhou City, Liao Lifeng was angry with himself.
At this point in the past, he has pulled pork from the slaughterhouse back to the vegetable market.
This is the third time he has overslept since he sold pork.
For half a year, Liao Lifeng could only sleep for two to three hours a day.
At 12 o'clock in the evening, he finished packing his stalls, got up at 3 in the morning, arrived at the slaughterhouse at 3:30, and rushed back to the vegetable market at 5, so that he could seize the prime time of the morning market.
If he goes to the slaughterhouse late, he is worried that if he can't pick satisfactory pigs, his day's profit will be impaired.
Two years ago, Liao Lifeng was a staff member of the Liuzhou City Administration for Industry and Commerce.
He had never thought that when he was 30 years old, he would be covered with oil, wearing rain boots, holding an iron hook, and entering the slaughterhouse.
There was a loud scream in his ears, white pork was hanging in front of his eyes, and his nose was full of blood, greasy, and roasted pig hair.
When he entered the slaughterhouse for the first time, Liao Lifeng was guilty of nausea.
Now, his face was calm.
After the pig was selected, Liao Lifeng hooked the pig's mouth with a hook and called the butcher to help drive the pig away.
There was only a wall apart, the butcher held a knife more than ten centimeters long and plunged it into the pig's neck. The blood gushed out and dripped into the pond.
The butcher was only responsible for one shot. Seeing that the pig was still struggling, Liao Lifeng immediately made another one.
If it is not killed by a single blow, the pig’s struggle will deplete the muscles and affect the meat quality.
Three months ago, Liao Lifeng made up his knife for the first time.
Fear.
The pig looked straight at him, blood splattered on his face, dripped on his hands, and it was very hot.
After a series of assembly line operations of killing pigs, bleeding, shaving, and cleaning of internal organs, the white pork was hung and pushed out.
Lifting the back seat of the car, Liao Lifeng spread the pigs around, and he carried the bucket to fill the entrails.
Just about to drive away, Liao Lifeng found that the rear tire was flat.
He bought this second-hand Suzuki Big Dipper for 5,000 yuan and drove more than 30,000 kilometers in half a year.
Early in the morning, Liao Lifeng lifted his arms to wipe off the sweat on his face.
Liao Lifeng was used to the stuffy smell of greasy raw meat in the carriage.
To refresh himself, he smokes two packs of cigarettes a day, sometimes chews betel nuts, and falls asleep in three seconds whenever he is free.
"Unlucky Idealist"
Liao Lifeng commented that he was an idealist with bad luck.
The debt of 2 million yuan owed, "maybe just do it."
On January 4, 2020, Liao Lifeng resigned as a civil servant, and the days of repayment of his debts have been maintained for a year.
He drove online car-hailing, live broadcast and brought goods, demolished the east wall to make up the west wall, and finally the hole got bigger and bigger.
"I decided to let it explode, so that I can face it better." It was uncomfortable, scared, and desperate. He couldn't find more words to describe the state when he resigned.
In 2019, Liao Lifeng lent 800,000 yuan to a friend.
He wants to invest in friends and "betting" that friends can "pave the way" for himself.
Unexpectedly, my friend invested more than 20 million yuan in an illegal online loan company because he didn't have the money to run away.
And Liao Lifeng's 800,000 yuan has his own deposits, some borrowed from friends, and more of them are bank loans.
Unfortunately, one after another followed.
Liao Lifeng sold the house his parents bought, and the two hotel apartments he invested in with a loan of 1.2 million yuan were also unfinished.
"I lost the bet." In 2020, Liao Lifeng began to receive calls for reminders one after another, and credit and bank cards were completely suspended.
Every day his mobile phone will ring countless times, "It's all for debt collection. What's the use if you don't have money?"
After Liao Lifeng resigned, he wanted to do a travel photo with his friends.
I bought cameras, tents, and stoves. I tested the drone certificate and made a travel guide.
But just before they planned to leave, the epidemic broke out.
"My ideal is over before it starts." Liao Lifeng smiled wryly.
After that, Liao Lifeng sold snail noodles live and did movie commentary, but the profits were mediocre and he finally gave up.
"The obsession with money has made me go a lot of wrong paths." Thinking back to these experiences, he admitted that he always had a fluke mentality.
The friend who brought Liao Lifeng into the pork business was one year younger than him, but he has been in the business for 12 years.
My friend made more than 700,000 yuan from selling pork last year, which made Liao Lifeng jealous.
In order to repay the debt, Liao Lifeng considered making quick money.
As a result, he changed from holding a pen to holding a knife, and became a greedy pork vendor.
Calculated on the basis of earning 30,000 yuan a month, Liao Lifeng will need five or six years to pay off his 2 million yuan debt.
I was confused after graduating from university
Liao Lifeng was born in Lianghe Village, Liujiang District, Liuzhou City in 1991.
In Liao Lifeng’s rural home, there are several conspicuous villas and western-style houses built by the first pork sellers in the village.
Starting from selling pork, they have assets in the millions and tens of millions.
"My son is very honest and timid." When she talked about debt, Liao's eyes turned red.
In 2020, a debt collection call came to Liao's father, and the family broke out in an instant.
This good boy in the eyes of his parents "gamed" on the "iron rice bowl" that his family is proud of.
Both parents are farmers. There are three elderly people at the top and five children at the bottom.
In addition to growing grapes, plantains, and rice, the family also raises pigs.
Before school starts every year, Liao's father needs to sell pigs to make up for five children's tuition.
Whenever he mentioned raising pigs, Father Liao was very angry, "I used to raise pigs at home. What use is it for you to read?"
In the first year of the college entrance examination, Liao Lifeng only passed the second line.
"At that time, there was only one thought, if you don't study well, and if you don't get into a good university, there will be no future." So, he almost went into a crazy state during the year he repeated.
This smart kid recognized by the whole village took a year to counterattack and was admitted to Jilin University.
In 2015, Liao Lifeng graduated from the Law Department of Jilin University and was admitted to the Liuzhou City Administration for Industry and Commerce one year after graduation.
When he graduated, he also thought about taking the postgraduate entrance examination.
At that time, a bank in Liuzhou was recruiting at school, and he thought it was also a good choice.
Liao Lifeng spent a month as an intern in a bank, "It's boring to count other people's money every day, forget it".
He decided to leave.
Liao Lifeng didn't know what he was going to do, so he stayed in his brother-in-law's Chinese medicine clinic.
His daily job is to "make tea" and make tea for the "successful people" who come here.
He felt that he had broadened his horizons here and saw the living conditions of "rich people".
In these short two months, Liao Lifeng became eager for quick success.
His subsequent investment debt has a lot to do with this experience.
He has done takeaway fast food, logistics, and e-commerce, and soon has his first "six-figure" income.
At that time, the group-buying model was not popular, but he has already started to take the group-buying route.
"Up to now, I haven't felt that way is wrong." Later, he had a disagreement with his partner, and his entrepreneurial road ended.
In 2016, Liao Lifeng’s fourth sister was preparing for the civil service examination and suggested that he also try.
"I will pass the written test for one week." That year, he was admitted to the Liuzhou City Administration for Industry and Commerce, and "going ashore" with the fourth sister at the same time. The family was very happy.
Liao Lifeng said, “I used to be a civil servant with a monthly salary of 3,000, but now I can sell pork for three days to match the previous month’s salary.”
Wedding at the time of debt outbreak
In the eyes of his ex-wife Luo Jing, Liao Lifeng was someone who dared to do something.
Luo Jing and Liao Lifeng were high school classmates. Later, Luo Jing was admitted to Beijing University of Architecture and Technology to major in business administration.
After graduation, by chance, the two met again.
Before becoming the owner of a pork stall, Luo Jing worked in Shenzhen's Huawei Company and Liuzhou Construction Group.
Luo Jing pulled out the photos of Moments, dressed in a white dress and exquisite makeup, sitting in the office.
Now, she has short hair, wears jeans and canvas shoes, and she faces the sky every day.
Luo Jing resigned in 2019 and started operating self-media and e-commerce.
"I like freedom, and my income is relatively high." Luo Jing has four or five accounts, and one account can earn up to four or five thousand yuan a month.
After Liao Lifeng's debt broke out, Luo Jing still insisted on marrying him and having children.
Many people around him admire Luo Jing.
This girl, who seems to be weak in literature, has been planning to "divide the 2 million into subdivisions, and you can pay it off as long as you work hard."
Liao Lifeng’s plan was to sell pork himself, but when he saw that he was too busy, Luo Jing also came to help.
"I have never been in the vegetable market before, nor have I done housework." Luo Jing picked up the knife and chopped the ribs vigorously.
In order not to affect his wife and for the children to go to school, Liao Lifeng and his wife went through the divorce procedures.
But Luo Jing didn't leave, so he sold pork with him. In her free time, she could write more than a dozen articles a day and update her account.
"After paying off the debt, you can also dress beautifully and go shopping." Luo Jing looked calm.
"How is he different from us"
Liao Lifeng’s Youxiaofeng Meat Shop is located at the entrance of Xinglong Market in the Liujiang Keelung Development Zone.
In order to rent this ideal store, he waited for two months.
This area belongs to the junction of urban and rural areas, with a population of 170,000.
There are more than 200 pork stalls nearby.
When Liao Lifeng was boning, several pork stalls opposite had already started business.
At first, it took Liao Lifeng an hour to deboning a pig, which was ridiculed by old acquaintances at the Liunan Slaughterhouse.
In order to solve the problem of deboning, Liao Lifeng spent 30 yuan to ask the master to deboning more than ten times in a row. He watched while learning.
Now he can finish it in 20 minutes.
Seeing that Liao Lifeng was late, the brother Wang, who was diagonally opposite, came over to help carry the pork.
When Wang was young, he drove in a government department, and in 1999 he switched to selling pork here.
In addition, he also runs a hardware store.
"At that time there were only 20 pork sellers here. Our village came here to sell pork, and later they bought three houses."
Brother Wang pointed to the oil stains and blood stains on his clothes and said, "We have no literacy to do this business, and a college student also does this business. How is he different from us? He does not have any advantage." Privately, vendors The meeting also discussed the youngest and most highly educated new members in this market.
Some people say that others squeezed their heads to become a civil servant, but he quit to sell pork.
Some people say that they don't know how long he can do it.
A middle-aged woman saw the story of Liao Lifeng from the news, and rode an electric bike from a place more than ten kilometers away to buy pork.
"I admire him very much. My son is also a civil servant, but I won't let him do that."
Will he be the second Lu Buxuan?
The photographer spotted Liao Lifeng at the vegetable market and posted the videos one after another.
"Ji Da Pork Brother" is on fire.
After graduating from the "985" university, he was admitted to the civil service, and then resigned to set up a stall to sell pork to pay off debts. Various identification tags pushed Liao Lifeng to the forefront of public opinion.
Liao Lifeng felt that he was placed on the chopping board like a pig, and was "analyzed" from individual cases to phenomena.
What followed was an overwhelming commentary.
At first, Liao Lifeng couldn't deal with it, but later he simply "skinned thicker and thicker."
Among them, some people say that he is a speculator.
Someone wanted to cooperate with him in selling meat. The pork raised in traditional Chinese medicine was 25 yuan a catty. He refused to consider that it could not meet the needs of the local market.
Someone wanted to hire him to manage 20 stalls. After thinking about the risks more than the benefits, he declined.
Many people will leave messages on his Douyin account for help, and even go straight to Liuzhou to sell pork with him.
Liao Lifeng became calmer when he was in debt or wanted to adjust his career.
"I would not recommend him to sell pork because this business is not for everyone."
Now friends in Ji University know that Liao Lifeng sells pork as a butcher.
A friend even shouted to him that even if he sells pork, he has to sell his level.
"Education is more of an impact on the individual's perception of things, not a decision on what to do in the future." After looking at himself, Liao Lifeng will also think about the meaning of education to himself.
There is Buxuan in the North Mainland, and Ji Da Liao Lifeng in the back. They all sell pork.
Among them, is it a coincidence, or is it to emulate?
"I will not be the next Lu Buxuan." Liao Lifeng was very direct.
In this market, most businesses sell one pig a day.
Liao Lifeng started trying to sell two pigs, and only his pork was chopped ribs in the afternoon.
Liao Lifeng is not worried that the pork will not be sold out. He is now expanding the industrial chain of sausage and bacon.
What Liao Lifeng thinks is that after paying off the debt, he still has to leave the business and engage in the journey of his heart to pursue his "poetry and distance."
My son is one and a half years old this year, and he often shouts "Brother Feng" at the pork stall.
In the evening, he sent the child back to his hometown, and it was already 12 o'clock in the evening after finishing cleaning up the stall.
Sitting in front of the pork stall, Liao Lifeng took a cigarette from his greasy pocket.
"We still have to chase freedom and ideals, but we will pursue them when we have the strength."