In order to repay the debt of 2 million "985" college graduates, he resigned from the civil service to sell pork

Source: Qilu Evening News

From being admitted to the civil service after graduating from the "985" university, to resigning and setting up a stall to sell pork to pay off debts, Liao Lifeng "gambled" twice.

The first big "bet", he bet on a loan of nearly 800,000 yuan, bet on a loan of 1.2 million yuan to buy real estate, and bet that he could ascend to the sky in one step and realize wealth freedom. But unfortunately, he lost the bet.

The second big "bet", he gambled on a decent civil servant job in the case of a debt of 2 million yuan, sold pork as a butcher in the vegetable market, and bet on his own quick turnover to achieve his "poetry and far away".

Now Liao Lifeng deboned a pig, which only takes 20 minutes to complete.

This time, will he "gamble" on success? Perhaps, time will answer.

Text/Piece Qilu Evening News Qilu One Point

Reporters Li Jing and Li Yansong

30 years old, from civil servant to pork brother

At 5:00 a.m., when he arrived at the Liunan Slaughterhouse in Liuzhou City, Liao Lifeng was angry with himself. Usually at this point, he had pulled the pork back to the market from the slaughterhouse. It was the third time he had overslept since selling pork. For half a year, Liao Lifeng could only sleep two or three hours a day. Finish cleaning up the stall at 12 o'clock in the evening, get up at 3 a.m., go to the slaughterhouse at 3:30 a.m., and rush back to the market at 5 o'clock so that he can seize the golden time of the morning market. If he goes to the slaughterhouse late, he is worried that if he does not pick a satisfactory pig, the day's income will be damaged.

Two years ago, Liao Lifeng was a clerk in the Liuzhou Municipal Bureau of Industry and Commerce, dressed in a decent manner every day to go to various occasions. He did not expect that at the age of 30, he would be covered in oil, wearing rain boots and holding an iron hook, and entering the slaughterhouse. There was a heaven-shattering hiss in his ears, a pork with white flowers hanging in front of his eyes, and a nose full of bloody, greasy, and roasted pig hair. The first time he entered the slaughterhouse, Liao Lifeng was nauseated. Now, he had a calm face.

After selecting the pig, Liao Lifeng hooked the pig's mouth with a hook and called for the butcher to help drive the pig. Separated by only a wall, the butcher took a knife more than ten centimeters long and plunged it into the pig's neck, and the blood gushed out and flowed into the pool. The butcher was only responsible for one knife, and seeing that the pig was still struggling, Liao Lifeng immediately made up another knife. If it is not a knife to death, the pig's struggle will make the muscles drain acid and affect the meat quality.

Three months ago, Liao Lifeng repaired the knife for the first time. afraid. The pig looked straight at him, blood splashing on his face and dripping on his hands, very hot.

After a series of assembly line operations such as killing pigs, bleeding, shaving, and cleaning internal organs, the pork with white flowers was hung and pushed out. Lifting the back seat of the car, Liao Lifeng spread the pig on all sides, and he carried the bucket to load the internal organs.

Just about to drive away, Liao Lifeng found that the tire was deflated. This second-hand Suzuki Big Dipper was bought by him for 5,000 yuan and drove more than 30,000 kilometers in half a year.

Early in the morning, Liao Lifeng raised his arm to wipe the sweat off his face. The carriage was stuffy with the smell of greasy raw meat, and Liao Lifeng was used to it. To refresh himself, he smoked two boxes of cigarettes a day, sometimes chewed betel nuts, and fell asleep for three seconds whenever he had time.

"Bad luck idealist"

Liao Lifeng commented that he was an idealist with bad luck. With a debt of 2 million yuan, "maybe it is done."

On January 4, 2020, Liao Lifeng resigned as a civil servant, and the previous debt repayment date has been maintained for one year. He drove a ride-hailing car, live streamed with goods, demolished the east wall to make up for the west wall, and finally the hole became bigger and bigger. "I decided to let it explode so I could face it better." It was uncomfortable, scared, desperate, and he couldn't find more words to describe the state he was in when he resigned.

In 2019, Liao Lifeng lent 800,000 yuan to a friend. He wants to invest in friends and "bet" that friends can "pave the way" for himself. Unexpectedly, a friend invested more than 20 million yuan in an illegal online loan company, because he could not afford to run away. And Liao Lifeng's 800,000 yuan has his own deposits, borrows from friends, and more is bank loans.

Misfortune ensued. Liao Lifeng sold the house his parents bought, and borrowed 1.2 million yuan to invest in two hotel apartments.

"I lost the bet." In 2020, Liao Lifeng began to receive collection calls one after another, and credit cards and bank cards were completely stopped. Every day, his mobile phone will ring countless times, "It's all debt collection, what is the use of no money?" ”

After Liao Lifeng resigned, he wanted to do travel photography with his friends. Cameras, tents, stoves have been bought, drone certificates have been tested, and travel guides have also been made. But just before they were about to leave, the outbreak broke out. "My dream is over before it even begins." Liao Lifeng smiled bitterly.

After that, Liao Lifeng sold snail powder live and did movie commentary, but the income was mediocre and finally gave up. "The obsession with money has taken me a lot of wrong paths." Looking back on these experiences, he admits that he has always had a fluke mentality.

The friend who brought Liao Lifeng into the pork industry was a year younger than him, but he had been in the industry for 12 years. Friends made more than 700,000 yuan selling pork last year, which made Liao Lifeng very red-eyed. In order to repay the debt, Liao Lifeng considered making quick money. So he went from holding a pen to a knife and becoming a pork seller who got up early and greedily.

According to the calculation of earning 30,000 yuan a month, Liao Lifeng will need five or six years to pay off the debt of 2 million yuan.

After graduating from college, I was confused

Liao Lifeng was born in 1991 in Lianghe Village, Liujiang District, Liuzhou City. In Liao Lifeng's rural hometown, there are several conspicuous villa and western-style buildings, which were built by the first people in the village to sell pork. Starting from selling pork, they have assets of millions of yuan.

"My son is honest and timid." When it comes to debt, Liao's eyes are red. In 2020, the call for debt collection reached Liao's father, and the family "broke out" in an instant. This well-behaved child in the eyes of his parents "gambled" on the "iron rice bowl" that his family was proud of.

The parents were farmers, with three elderly people on the top and five children on the bottom. In addition to growing grapes, plantains, and rice, the family also has pigs. Every year, before the start of school, Liao's father needed to sell pigs to make up for the tuition of his five children. Whenever he mentioned raising pigs, Father Liao was very angry, "Before, there were pigs in the family, what is the use of you reading books?" ”

When Liao Lifeng took the college entrance examination in his first year, he only crossed the second line. "At that time, I had a thought, if I didn't study well, if I couldn't get into a good university, I wouldn't have a future." So he almost went into a state of madness in the year of re-reading. This smart child recognized by the whole village used 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 Municipal Bureau of Industry and Commerce a year after graduation.

When he graduated, he also thought about going to graduate school. At that time, a bank in Liuzhou was recruiting at the school, and he felt that this was also a good choice. Liao Lifeng interned in the bank for a month, "counting money to others every day, it's not interesting, 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 hall. 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 seen the living conditions of "rich people". It was in these two short months that Liao Lifeng became eager to make quick gains. His subsequent investment debts have a lot to do with this experience.

He did takeaway fast food, logistics, e-commerce, and soon had his first "six-figure" income. At that time, the group buying model was not yet popular, but he had already begun to take the route of group buying. "I don't think that approach is wrong until now." Later, he disagreed with his partners, and his entrepreneurial path ended.

In 2016, Liao Lifeng's fourth sister was preparing for the civil service examination and suggested that he also try it. "After a week of written training, I passed." That year, he was admitted to the Liuzhou Municipal Bureau of Industry and Commerce, and "went ashore" with his fourth sister at the same time, and the family was particularly happy. Liao Lifeng said, "In the past, the salary of a civil servant was three thousand a month, but now selling pork for three days is worth the previous month's salary." ”

Weddings when debt erupts

In the eyes of his ex-wife Luo Jing, Liao Lifeng is a person who dares to do it.

Luo Jing and Liao Lifeng were high school classmates, and Luo Jing was later admitted to Beijing Jianzhu University to study business administration. After graduation, by chance, the two intersected again.

Before becoming a pork stall owner, Luo Jing worked at Huawei in Shenzhen and Liuzhou Construction Group. Luo Jing flipped out the photos of the circle of friends, a white dress, exquisite makeup, sitting in the office. And now, with her short hair, jeans and canvas shoes, she faces the sky every day.

Luo Jing resigned in 2019 and began to operate self-media and e-commerce. "Like freedom, the income is relatively high." Luo Jing has four or five accounts, and one account can earn up to four or five thousand yuan per month.

After Liao Lifeng's debt broke out, Luo Jing still insisted on marrying him and having children. Many people around him admired Luo Jing. This girl, who looks weak and weak, has actually been planning, "subdivide 2 million, as long as you work hard, you can pay it off." Liao Lifeng's plan was to sell pork himself, and later when he saw that he was too busy, Luo Jing also came to help. "I've never been to a wet market or a housework." Luo Jing picked up the knife and slashed the ribs vigorously.

In order not to affect his wife and for his children to go to school, Liao Lifeng and his wife went through divorce procedures. But Luo Jing did not leave, or sell pork with him, and when she was free, she could write more than a dozen articles a day to 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 Liujiang Keelung Development Zone. In order to rent this ideal storefront, he waited for two months.

This area belongs to the urban-rural interface and is inhabited by 170,000 people. There are more than 200 pork stalls nearby alone.

At the time of Liao Lifeng's deboning, several pork stalls on the opposite side had already opened. At first, it took Liao Lifeng an hour to debonce a pig, which was once ridiculed by old acquaintances at the Liunan slaughterhouse. In order to solve the problem of bone removal, Liao Lifeng spent thirty yuan on a dozen times in a row to ask the teacher To remove the bone, and he was watching and learning next to him. Now he can do it in 20 minutes.

Brother Wang, who was diagonally opposite, saw that Liao Lifeng was late, so he came over to help carry the pork. Brother Wang drove in the government department when he was young, and in 1999 he switched to selling pork here. In addition to this, he also runs a hardware store. "At that time, there were only 20 pork sellers here, and those in our village who came here to sell pork later bought three houses."

Brother Wang pointed to the oil stains and blood stains on his clothes and said, "We have no culture to do this business, a college student also does this line, what is the difference between him and us, he does not have any advantage." Privately, vendors would also talk about the youngest and most educated new member of the market. Some people say that others want to become civil servants, but he quit to sell pork. Some people say, I don't know how long he can do it.

A middle-aged woman saw liao Lifeng's story on the news and rode an electric car from more than ten kilometers away to buy pork. "I admire him. My son is also a civil servant, but I wouldn't let him do that. ”

Will it become the second Lu Buxuan?

The photographer found Liao Lifeng in the vegetable market and sent out the videos one after another.

"Ji Da Pork Brother" is on fire.

From being admitted to the civil service after graduating from the "985" university, to resigning and selling pork to pay off debts, a variety of identity labels have pushed Liao Lifeng to the cusp of public opinion. Liao Lifeng felt like a pig on a board, "dissected" from individual cases to phenomena.

This was followed by an overwhelming barrage of comments. At first, Liao Lifeng couldn't cope with it, and then he simply "got thicker and thicker."

Among them, some people say that he is a speculator. Someone wanted to cooperate with him to sell meat, and the pork farmed in traditional Chinese medicine was 25 yuan a catty, but he refused to meet the needs of the local market. Someone wanted to hire him to manage 20 stalls, but he thought about the risks outweighed the benefits, and he resigned. There are also many people who will leave messages on his Douyin account for help, and even go straight to Liuzhou to sell pork with him. Faced with debts and asking him for help, or wanting to adjust his career, Liao Lifeng became much calmer. "I wouldn't advise him to sell pork because it's not for everyone."

Now Ji Da's friends all know that Liao Lifeng is a butcher selling pork. A friend also shouted to him that even if he sells pork, he must sell it at a high level. "Academic qualifications are more about influencing an individual's perception of things than deciding what to do in the future." Jumping out to see himself, Liao Lifeng will also think about the significance of education for himself.

In the front, there was The Northern Continent Buxuan, and then there was Jida Liao Lifeng, both of whom sold pork. Is this a coincidence, or is it a follow-up? "I won't be the next Lu Buxuan." Liao Lifeng was very direct.

In this market, most merchants sell one pig a day. Liao Lifeng began to try to sell two pigs, and in the afternoon only his pork stall was chopping ribs. Liao Lifeng is not worried about pork not being sold out, he is now expanding the industrial chain of sausage bacon.

What Liao Lifeng thought was that after paying off his debts, he still had to leave this profession and engage in the travel photography of his heart and mind, to pursue his "poetry and far away".

My son is one and a half years old this year and often shouts "Brother Feng" at the pork stall. In the evening, he sent the children back to his hometown, and it was already 12 o'clock at night when he finished cleaning up the stall. Liao Lifeng sat in front of the pork stall and pulled a cigarette from his greasy pocket. "We still have to chase freedom and ideals, but when we have the strength, we have to chase them again."