"Meet You at the Hardware Store"
Protagonist: Yang Xiaodong (who sells hardware in Jinjiang, owns his own shop "Yang Ji Screws and Nuts", a man with rough hands and careful hands) × Myolie Wu (a Hong Kong girl who came to the mainland from Hong Kong to develop the hardware supply chain, she has a sharp tongue and high heels that make the Jinjiang stone road clatter)
Supporting roles: Li Chengde (Shaodong of Hong Kong Hardware Store, Myolie Wu's distant cousin and suitor, the suit and leather shoes are from Jinjiang), Liu Xiping (Li Chengde's follower, local gangster)
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📖 Origin - reading and dating
The Jinjiang Federation of Literary and Art Circles organized a "New Youth Friendship", located in the Old Street Bookstore, with the theme of "Reading the same book, sharing the same family".
Yang Xiaodong was taken away by his mother, holding a copy of "Hardware Manual" in his hand to show off; Myolie Wu was tricked by Li Chengde into "investigating the mainland market", carrying a copy of "Hong Kong Hardware's Centenary History", and when she spoke in Cantonese, half of the people in the audience didn't understand.
The two were drawn into a group, and they choked before even opening the book——
• Myolie Wu: "Your screw anti-rust technology in Jinjiang is three generations behind Hong Kong."
• Yang Xiaodong: "Then why are you here, a pilgrimage?"
• Onlookers: ... Can these also become a couple?
As a result, the quarrel ended and Myolie Wu bought 3,000 yuan worth of goods at Yangji Hardware that night. The reason was that "the boss who owed me a lot of money gave me a fair price."
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🔧 Enjoy the daily life of enemies
Myolie Wu was temporarily stationed in Jinjiang to talk about the supply chain. The warehouse is opposite Yang Kee, and she went back and forth:
• She thinks his shop is messy, and he thinks her high heels can't step on the pile of goods;
• When she invited him to a tea restaurant, he said it was "extremely sweet"; when he invited her to eat noodle paste, she said "it has no taste";
• But she had a stomachache when she changed the contract in the middle of the night, and it was he who took her to the hospital on an electric donkey. He was annoyed by his mother's urging for marriage, and it was her who made him laugh when she said, "Yang Sheng, if you keep hiding from your mother, she will call me your daughter-in-law."
Li Chengde couldn't sit still - he originally thought that Myolie Wu would come back to the mainland for two days, but the more we talked about goods, the longer he stayed, and he even got closer to a screw seller.
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👊 Climax - Yang Xiaodong fights for Myolie Wu
Li Chengde brought Liu Xiping to Yang Kee to "talk about cooperation", but in reality they were ruining the situation: "Myolie is from Hong Kong, and you are selling hardware with me? Go back." Liu Xiping easily pulled down half of the shelves, and the nuts rolled to the floor.
Yang Xiaodong usually smiles like a small boss in Jinjiang, but this time there is no nonsense——
"Who she chooses is her own business. But you can't touch my goods or my people."
A street fight in a hardware store saw wrenches, steel pipes, and screwdrivers flying. Yang Xiaodong was one on two, Li Chengde's suit was dirty, and Liu Xiping was knocked upside down by a nut. Hearing the sound, Myolie Wu rushed out from the opposite side, flicked her high heels, picked up a monkey wrench and stood next to Yang Xiaodong:
"Cousin, if you keep making trouble, Yang Sheng and I will buy your Hong Kong business."
Li Chengde was stunned: When did this girl side with him?
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💗 Closing
The injury was minor, and Yang Xiaodong had a bruise at the corner of his eye. Myolie Wu applied iodophor on him and muttered in Cantonese and Hokkien:
"Silly man, what's the point of fighting? I wouldn't have gone with him in the first place."
Yang Xiaodong smiled sullenly: "I know. But I'm not happy."
On the day Myolie Wu returned to Hong Kong, Yang Xiaodong didn't deliver it, but stuffed a box of Jinjiang specialties and a set of rust-proof screw samples into her suitcase. The note read: "Hong Kong is trendy, remember to prevent rust."
Three months later, Myolie Wu put the "Yang Ji" label on her warehouse in Kwai Chung. The first time Yang Xiaodong stepped into Hong Kong, she was escorted to meet Li Chengde - this time to discuss a joint venture.
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Intention: love