What will Qin Fen do when he starts to feel nostalgic?

One day a week ago, Brother Fen asked me on WeChat, can you come to Shanghai to help me host an event?

I am the happiest person. I said, OK, I will do it.

Brother Fen is Qin Fen. Qin Fen, do you know? I don't know if you can check it out. His Weibo certified title is Chairman of Shanghai Fenrong Investment Company. There are many stories about Jianghu, so we won’t tell them one by one. His Weibo tells and shows a lot about his life. Anyway, it’s not easy for you to imagine what life in that world is like, because our imagination is always limited.

But that’s not the point.

The point is, Qin Fen has the same hobby as me, which is basketball. In fact, we didn’t know each other very well. We just added each other on WeChat in a group where we were talking about a certain thing, and we just chatted about things. Brother Fen watches football every day and is very excited. When he is excited, he is no different from any fan I know. He yells crazily when he wins and curses crazily when he loses. Two days ago, when the Warriors were playing against the Timberwolves, the referee called him dead. Brother Fen dug deep and found the officiating record of the referee on duty. He slapped the table and said, "The Warriors lost 5 games because of this referee's call." 4 games!” The energy at that time was no different from the Warriors fans who left a message on my Weibo. The difference is that he has taken the entire team to watch the Warriors' finals every year in the past few years, and then rented a Gulfstream and flew from San Francisco to Las Vegas.

So this time, after being a WeChat friend for so long, it was actually the first time I met Qin Fen in the real world. His Fenrong Investment Co., Ltd. is located in Xintiandi, Shanghai, and there is a styling shop he opened downstairs. He had just finished styling in it, with his head behind his back, like Fat Brother. He looked at my beard and said: In what year were you born? I said: 1977. He said in surprise: Wow, you are in your 40s?

I said happily: No, Brother Fen.

I don’t know how old Brother Fen is, and I haven’t looked it up online. He is probably at least ten years younger than me. But this does not affect me still calling him Brother Fen. Firstly, he is a big boss, so it is not shameful for you to call him brother for such a big boss; secondly, this young man, Brother Fen, is a bit interesting.

I know Brother Fen likes to play basketball. Not only do I like it, it's crazy. In order to play ball, he formed a team called KINGS. In the past few years, he has played various folk competitions in China. He has gained a good reputation in the circle and achieved very good results. There have been more and more private competitions in China in recent years, and the prize money for the winner of some competitions is four to five million. It can be divided that in order to support this team, players' salaries and horse feeding will cost nearly 10 million a year. Not only is he a boss, he is also an athlete himself. He really goes up to fight and fights with his life. I haven't seen photos of Brother Fen going up and fighting for his life, gritting his teeth and charging at the opponent's tall center to break through.

But in my heart, there are always a few things I want to ask him. If we don't meet, we can't talk.

When your life is like this, there are so many fun things and you still play ball every day. How special is what basketball brings to you?

Brother Fen: What basketball has brought to me is so special. He gave me so many brothers and friends that we could compete on the court with. I am a very competitive person. I am very competitive. I like that people don't regard me as a special person, but as an ordinary player, competing on the court, striving to win every game, and feeling the sportsmanship. The appeal of basketball also helps me a lot when I'm doing other things.

When you were playing, the people on your team...were they really guarding you? When you go out to play a game, and the people on the opposite side know that you are Qin Fen, and you go on the court, won’t they do it to you?

Do you understand what I mean? After all, who hasn’t played with the leader? After all, it’s not like we haven’t seen Boss Xu sweep the Evergrande internal basketball game. Even if I go out to fight, the names of people, the shadows of trees, the mountains will stop, the rivers and lakes will look at me, the mountains will not change, the water will change, the clouds will not change, the wind will change. Who knows which cloud will bring rain one day, what if he wants to play ball for you in the future? You have to save some face, are you really going to be ruthless?

Brother Fen: This situation is quite rare. In addition to going out to play games, we usually train and compete within the team. When playing within the team, I have told every player on our team from the beginning that everyone on the court should not treat each other as one of their own, but as an opponent. Because if you really play the game, no one will be soft-hearted or let you go.

Therefore, in every confrontation within the team, everyone on the court should not regard me as the boss of the team. As long as I am on the court, I am a player. Including going out to play a lot of games, I feel that no one will not seriously guard you just because you are the boss. Everyone still values ??your presence on the field. If you don't fight, what's the point?

I said: I understand. Do you know what the most special thing this sport brings to you is called? That's called equality.

This is the ultimate charm of competitive sports. You love a sport, you practice it, you compete in it. No matter what opponent is in front of you, sports has its rules and its laws. In competition, everyone is the same and follows the same rules and regulations. Everyone competes on an equal stage to decide the winner. However, this kind of story is usually the other way around. The protagonists of such stories are usually children from poor families. There are many stories like the NBA where a little black kid who came out of the slums can only change his destiny, the living conditions of the entire family, and the social level of the family through competitive sports and professional sports. You put a poor child, who may have often been discriminated against, on a competitive stage. As long as he has the ability, he can instantly achieve equality that has never been seen in life. This was his chance and his desire in life. The usual stories are like this.

No, it should be said that Qin Fen’s story is the opposite. You may ask, does Qin Fen still need to pursue equality?

Yes. Think about it, the big boss, the big boss who is super popular on the Internet. Boss, do you understand? Although he was not tall, most of the people he met had to look up to him. At least psychologically, you have to look up to him. When everyone talks about something, the boss is right; when we study and do something, the boss has the final say. You are young, handsome and rich. You can do whatever you want. You are incompetent. Are you happy? It was a long day and boring. Only on the court can he realize that someone is competing with you on an equal footing; can he understand the meaning of challenge; can he appreciate the beauty of overcoming difficulties one by one when you overcome them one by one; can he appreciate the frustration and education that failure brings to you. Anticipation of a comeback.

Life is so wonderful. People who look up to others every day want equality; people who are looked up to by others every day also want equality. No matter what kind of person you are, you must have competition in your life and experience victory and defeat. Otherwise, what's the point?

Right, Brother Fen. Otherwise, with your height and weight, why would you be so desperate with a tall and strong foreigner? Why are you saying on Weibo: I am on the court to prove that we short people also have basketball dreams. Basketball is not just a sport for tall people. As long as you work hard for your dreams, you will succeed one day.