After Lin Yi finished chatting with his senior sister, they both agreed not to tell Liu Jianni the news about Wang Huiwen's visit for the time being, not because they suspected that the investor's position on this matter was suspicious, but because they hoped to form a unified position internally.
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The matter was so important that it was not convenient to explain via phone or video. After the two agreed to leave the senior sister to follow up on the financing progress in Beijing, Lin Yi flew to Shanghai again.
Here he met another partner of the casual takeout website, his college roommate Li Jianguo, although the two had not appeared in the dormitory together for a long time.
Li Jianguo was surprised by his arrival and asked curiously: "Why are you back? Didn't you say that the financing matter has not been discussed yet?"
The three of them still have meetings every day, so he is very clear about the progress of Lin Yi and his senior sister in the capital. Then he thought of something and frowned:
"Are you hungry? What did you do?"
This inexplicable guess made Lin Yi smile. Li Jianguo was really vigilant, and he felt a little nervous.
"No Jianguo."
Lin had been thinking about how to speak on the way here, but in the end he found that he had to tell her directly because his roommate was a very pure person.
"A very important thing happened today. Senior sister and I both thought we should let you know, so I flew over overnight to find you."
Now Li Jianguo was even more surprised: "Can't you two make up your mind on any big matter? And if it's urgent, wouldn't it be faster to hold an online meeting?"
Lin Yi looked at him seriously and said solemnly: "This must be a decision made by the three of us together. Because it is related to me, I will come over and explain it to you face to face."
"Today we met a person in the capital. That person is Wang Huiwen of each group. You know each group. I won't introduce this person much. In short, he can represent each group and Wang Xing."
"He proposed to us to acquire Suishi Takeout.com, and..."
As soon as Lin Yi said this, he was interrupted by Li Jianguo's exclamation: "Acquisition?"
"Listen to me, Jianguo."
"Each group proposed a takeover from us, and they only came to us after Zhang Xuhao rejected their takeover of Are You Hungry? If we didn't agree, they would do it themselves."
"The reason why Wang Huiwen came to see us today is because he came to investigate secretly at the end of last year. I had already met him at that time."
Lin Yi stopped here and did not continue to talk about his idea of treating every group as a fallback when he started his own business.
This is not because Lin Yiyi is close to Jianguo, but because he wants to seek Li Jianguo's opinion and does not want his attitude to have a preconceived influence on him.
After hearing what he said, Li Jianguo was still immersed in the unexpected emotion and asked, "What do you think of my sister?"
Lin Yi replied: "We want to hear your opinion."
Li Jianguo was stunned for a moment, and immediately realized that this was a disagreement between two people, which was rare in the previous entrepreneurial process.
This time he was no longer anxious but lowered his head and pondered for a while, but it didn't take long before he raised his head and said, "Of course I am against it."
He didn't listen to Lin's question and he told the whole story: "Yishi Takeout.com is our hard work, why should he jump out and say it is an acquisition?"
"Who is this king? He just says that every group is a big company. Even if every group is a big company in the industry, they can't buy and sell by force and steal it from us, right?"
"As for him saying that he wants to make it himself, let's compare it with him. Anyway, we have never been afraid when we are hungry. So what if it's a group? Who's afraid of whom?"
After saying this, he asked: "Since you came to me, it means that you and my sister have different opinions. Which of you is planning to sell?"
"It's me, but I don't intend to sell it."
Only then did Lin Yi reveal his original plan and express his attitude: "I am not insisting on selling to every group now. After all, Wang Huiwen just came here to give a notice today, but what I want to ask for your opinion is
, can you consider this as an optional retreat?"
Li Jianguo asked: "Why does he think we will sell the company to him?"
Lin Yi reiterated Wang Huiwen's opinions today, and then added: "He has a very accurate vision, and the problems he pointed out are all critical."
Li Jianguo was silent now.
The family knew about their own affairs, and although Lin Yi and the three of them had not revealed it in front of other employees, they had often discussed it in private.
After a while, Li Jianguo suddenly said another news: "Lin Yi, I broke up."
This time it was Lin Yi who was surprised. He knew that Jianguo's foreign love would end miserably in the end, but he remembered that it happened during the summer vacation of his freshman year and it hadn't arrived yet.
He realized that this was another butterfly effect brought about by himself.
"When did it happen?"
"During the May Day holiday."
Lin Yi recalled some scenes in his mind, including Li Jianguo getting drunk and shouting "it's worth it" and "I think it's worth it", as well as his hesitation on the day he first arrived in Shanghai, all connected together.
So that’s it.
"Then why didn't you tell us?"
Li Jianguo smiled self-deprecatingly: "I don't know what to say."
"Actually, there is no special reason. It's just that the two of us are thousands of miles apart. She didn't come back during the Chinese New Year, so we didn't meet up."
"After I started my business, I had less and less time. Later, it became increasingly difficult to keep her on the phone and on video. In fact, she had complained many times."
"May Day was originally a holiday. She originally thought that even if I couldn't buy a plane ticket to go see her, at least I could talk to her. But it happened to be a critical moment for our activities. You and my sister were both too busy.
Damn it, how could I be lazy?"
He paused for a while before speaking and smiled cheerfully: "The harm is over."
"I'm not saying this to blame anyone or to regret anything. Even if it's never happened before, I will still start a business with you and my sister."
"Until now, the three of us have never taken a penny out of this, and I'm not doing it for that."
"Lin Yi, I have always known that my contribution to the website is not as good as that of you and my sister. It was your idea to do takeout. Ever since Changhua's letter, I have always been convinced by you. My sister will not say it anymore.
She has taken care of me since childhood."
"But Lin Yi, what I can guarantee is that the energy I put into it will never be less than the two of you. It also contains my hard work, all my hard work in the past nearly a year."
"Whatever, to be honest, I was quite disgusted when you gave me such a name, but over time, I've gotten used to it."
"I have feelings."
"Lin Yi, if we just sell the land casually, I don't know how to explain to myself."
Lin Yi looked at this tall Northeastern man who was about 1.9 meters tall. He looked tall and powerful, but he was actually less than twenty years old.
I'm just a freshman in college, but I haven't taken a few classes.
Jianguo is a very emotional person. No matter it was last time or this time, he will always be worthy of him.
"We have been brothers for two lifetimes."
Lin Yi said something that made him confused, "I understand, Jianguo."