After Lin Yi and Wang Xing had dinner, they went to the bank with their senior sister and Jianguo before returning to school.
They went to the activity room in the basement, where a group of people had been waiting for them.
When Lin Yi and the others entered the door, they met several city managers they had brought back from various places, including Shao Yu, Wang Yuqi, Zhang Xun, and some team members who were originally in the capital. There were more than a dozen in total.
These were the first team members to start a business with them since last year. Except for Shao Yu and a few others, most of them came from Jingdian like them and were part of the core team before this acquisition.
They started from this basement, and now only this basement is left.
It's not accurate to say that. They still got something else. Lin put the box he had retrieved from the bank on the table, opened the lid and greeted them:
"If you don't say anything else, come and get the money first."
This group of people originally watched the three of them eagerly when they came in, waiting for them to speak without saying a word, but when Lin Yi took out his hand, they all stood there and were a little confused.
Since they didn't move, Lin Yi directly called them by name: "Come on, Shao Yu, come here first, hurry up and don't hold it there, the box is quite heavy."
Shao Yu followed his words and walked over. Lin put his hand in his hand and called for the next one. He quickly distributed the money in the box to each person.
To withdraw the money today, I have made an appointment with the bank in advance. Otherwise, if the amount passes temporarily, I may not be able to withdraw it.
In addition, it was divided into several portions according to Lin Yi's request. The package Lin Yi gave to everyone looked exactly the same on the outside, but in fact the weight inside was different.
The amount was discussed in advance by Lin Yi and the others. It is inevitable that there will be some closeness and distance between them. People in this group of people joined at different times, and their abilities are also different. It is not fair to give them all the same amount.
It's not a lot of money, but compared to the 16 million US dollars each group calls, it's already a huge sum of money for ordinary college students, and it can ensure that they don't have to reach out to their families until they graduate.
Although Lin Yi did not announce his personal differences, it was inevitable for them to communicate privately after they returned, and there would definitely be people who were unconvinced and dissatisfied.
Sharing money can never satisfy everyone.
This is a story for later. Now Lin Yi deliberately used this scene of dividing the money on a large scale to dilute the sadness of being acquired in the past few days. After they got the money, they felt a lot better.
Then Lin Yi said on behalf of the three of them: "I know that everyone has been feeling aggrieved these past few days. Senior sister, Jianguo, I, and I feel the same as you."
"But people always have to look forward. As I said when I brought you back, we have not failed, we are just taking a period of rest."
"During this period of time, you are our most trustworthy and reliable partners, and you are the brothers and sisters to whom I can always trust my back."
"I won't say much else. Let's go back and deposit the money first. Then we'll have a barbecue at our old place, Ximen, tonight. I won't go home until I'm drunk!"
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Originally, in order to liven up the atmosphere, Lin Yi said that he could bring his family members with him at night, but he found that these guys were all alone when they arrived.
He deliberately laughed and cursed: "Didn't I ask you to bring your girlfriends here? They are all singles, right?"
Zhang Xun smiled and replied: "Even if I wasn't originally, I used to go on business trips for several months, and now I must be a bachelor."
These words made the scene fall silent again. Li Jianguo's expression turned dark. Zhang Xun realized that he seemed to have said the wrong thing and quickly closed his mouth.
Lin Yi finally realized that it was futile to try to make the atmosphere enjoyable tonight.
The reason why this group of people got acquainted and got together was all because of the common cause of the casual takeout website. It is impossible to avoid this topic in any case. After all, what else can this group of strangers do?
What were you talking about?
So he personally poured a glass of wine into everyone's glasses except for the senior sister, then he lifted the glass and said:
"I have said my words of gratitude many times in the past few days. I don't want to repeat them again. I would like to toast everyone with this glass of wine today, so that we can remember the feeling of this moment together."
"I promise, next time I treat you to a celebratory drink!"
Everyone was respectful and drank it all in one gulp. Everyone knew that Senior Sister didn’t drink, so she drank tea instead of wine with everyone.
After finishing this drink, the atmosphere was a little less solemn. Everyone was chatting and laughing while eating, and the topic naturally focused on past entrepreneurial events.
Li Jianguo seemed to be planning to get himself drunk today, drinking glass after glass, touching everyone, and then suddenly asked: "Lin Yi, do you remember Zhang Qingyuan?"
Lin Yi's face was already a little red from the drunkenness. After a brief downtime, he realized that he was talking about the delivery man who was hit by the school bus at the end of last year. For this reason, he was forced to spend the New Year in the hospital.
After the new year, the three of them visited the hospital together, but Lin Yi and Li Moyan soon separated and went south, leaving the matter to Li Jianguo, and then they stopped asking about it when they got busy.
"How is Zhang Qingyuan, is he recovering well?"
If there are any problems with recovery, Lin Yi and the others can provide some financial support. It just so happens that they are not short of money now.
Li Jianguo held the cup and shook his head: "No, he has fully recovered."
"Actually, he had already returned to school, but he was still on crutches. It was only recently that he recovered. The doctor said he could move normally, so he came to me and said he wanted to continue working as a delivery boy."
He smiled bitterly: "I don't know how to tell him that the website is no longer ours, and now we don't even have the signboard."
"Although those part-time delivery people are still working, we all know that each group will not keep them for long and will replace them soon."
"Lin Yi, why do I feel that we have been busy talking about it for almost a year, but in the end it seems to be in vain, leaving nothing behind?"
Lin Yi thought for a while and replied confidently: "No, we definitely didn't leave anything behind, otherwise every group wouldn't buy us."
"Although he has changed our brand name and will change our delivery system later, he still needs millions of our users and so many cooperative merchants."
"Everything you walk through will leave traces, and everything that exists must have meaning."
"Jianguo, you should believe that what we have done in the past is by no means meaningless, and we will do more meaningful things in the future."
Li Jianguo shook his head, poured another cup into his mouth and said, "Lin Yi, I feel like my youth is over."
These words made Lin Yi laugh, how childish.
The real end of youth is not marked by this sad moment, but by an ordinary time when you suddenly find that you can no longer remember what you longed for when you were young.
Lin Yi was also a little drunk that night, because he seemed to vaguely see that his senior sister, who had never been a teetotaler in her two lives, raised the glass in front of her and drank it down in one gulp.