The cost of a one-way ride from the Hi-tech Park back to school is close to 50 yuan.
This is 2005.
Ding Wei has given up the habit of scanning codes when getting out of the car, but because of this, it feels more real when paying.
At this moment, I couldn't help but secretly make up my mind to get my driver's license exam and buy a car on my schedule as soon as possible.
Why did she feel that there were more and more ways to spend her money? She even regretted applying for a beauty card with Bai Shanshan - when she was naturally beautiful, it would be good if she didn't take care of herself for a year or two. As for body massage, she had to endure it.
Is it too late to get over it?
Why did you just apply for a card?
Otherwise, with that money, I could buy a second-hand QQ right now.
…
When she returned to school, Chen Siyu and Bai Shanshan were so tired that they spread out into cakes in the dormitory.
Lu Li, who is only one student, obviously spends more time in the dormitory now, but she cannot relax a little like other students on Saturdays and Sundays——
The main reason was that the exam was coming soon, and she couldn't catch up on the homework she had missed some time ago, so she was struggling to sharpen her skills before the battle.
For students who have always relied on hard work and not talent to succeed, this is undoubtedly a painful process.
I asked Ding Wei to come and see that the loss of students was actually just right. Otherwise, if it had been delayed for a few more months, Lu Li would not know how many subjects she would have failed this year.
Although the relationship in the dormitory has reached this point of stalemate, it will never be a wonderful feeling to watch someone struggle until now and then be beaten back abruptly.
…
At this moment, Bai Shanshan also felt quite painful.
“It’s so difficult to start a business.”
She said sadly.
——It is indeed sad.
This business was a partnership between her and Chen Siyu. Chen Siyu recognized her courage when purchasing the goods, but when it came to transporting the clothes to the warehouse, she refused to spend hundreds of dollars more to hire a driver to deliver the clothes.
But the amount of goods purchased was too large and the distance was so far that the two of them could not bring it back anyway. In the end, both parties compromised and called a van to deliver the goods - which cost 200 yuan.
They didn't even help with loading and unloading.
Chen Siyu was heartbroken.
Bai Shanshan grunted and showed Ding Wei the mark on her fat white heart.
"I'm investing. I'm not afraid of spending money. Siyu is so frugal. It's so tiring for us to move those clothes ourselves! We haven't even had time to sort them out yet."
Chen Siyu is also very depressed:
"You are right to invest, but I can't rely on spending money to solve everything. This is too unfair to you."
It had only been less than a day, but the two people had different ideas about spending money.
In fact, for Ding Wei, this was expected.
The way the two people split the accounts is simple and crude, just 55 points.
But in fact this method is quite unreasonable.
Judging from her personality, Bai Shanshan cannot stand empty-handed and just watch Chen Siyu work alone. She is not a person who can do the work. Now that she is helping, she will inevitably feel hard, and she will want to spend more money to get it done.
As for Chen Siyu, precisely because she is not the one who spends the money, she wants to save costs more and more.
Although she borrowed Bai Shanshan's funds in the early stage, from now on they will be tied together and the profits will be divided 50-50. She may be short of money in the early stage and get an opportunity to develop rapidly, but in the later stage when she no longer needs such a large amount of capital,
, then she is the one who feels that she is at a disadvantage.
This is also the reason why many people are unwilling to do business in partnership with relatives and friends.
The division is too clear and hurts my feelings.
But not knowing clearly hurts feelings.
However, nothing has been finalized yet, and it is not convenient for Ding Wei to say so much for the time being.
And there are some things that need to be experienced before they can be discussed.
She just blinked and wondered: "I remember there was a small three-wheeler over there. A three-wheeler full of 40 yuan was sent to the warehouse. Someone should have done it, right?"
So why do these two people insist that one insists on finding an expensive truck, while the other insists on laboring to move it without spending money?
When she said this, Chen Siyu and Bai Shanshan looked at each other, their expressions collapsed——
"I don't care, I don't care..."
Bai Shanshan's heart ached when she thought of all the sweat she had shed:
"Weiwei is so smart, how can she be so smart..."
Ding Wei smiled bitterly: As long as people who work as social animals move a few times, they will naturally gain experience.
…
But after all, we are all young people, and emotions come and go quickly.
Chen Siyu quickly cheered up: "Now we know, we must think carefully next time. We can't rely entirely on labor or money."
She sat up: "I have already applied for the online store, and two friends from the art department are also willing to be models for me. The photographer has also made an appointment, and I can take pictures tomorrow."
Ding Wei has never seen an online store these days. Now she curiously went over to take a look and found that there was nothing in the store except a small red heart. She always felt that it was a bit too simple.
She thought about it.
"It seems that if you are an online store business, you also have decoration templates..."
Anyway, the money was spent.
She couldn't help but make a suggestion: "Siyu, since you have decided to spend money on advertising, why not consider spending a little more money to decorate the store? Make the layout better? See if our school has anything like this.
Seniors are willing to take orders."
After thinking for a while, he said: "I remember that the website also has free templates, please research it."
Chen Siyu was confused for a moment, and soon realized that the layout decoration was probably the same as what she had seen before. Some stores were particularly exquisite, while others were very simple.
At this moment, my mind was spinning, and I immediately thought of a perfect candidate.
"Do you still need to look for it? Just ask Jiang Yifan."
At any rate, we had a few meals together and kept in touch in private. Chen Siyu immediately sent a message to the other party without saying anything.
In her eyes, information engineering should be similar to this. Besides, even if it is much different, then they boys will always know talents in this field.
Ding Wei:……
Ding Wei was amazed.
——This brain, this vitality!
…
…
It was already 3 o'clock in the afternoon. Ding Wei followed them to discuss things about the store. She felt exhausted. She took a quick shower and sat down at the desk again.
——I didn’t code last night, and I didn’t write today either. Don’t be too lazy!
Think about it, Xichang Longting is waving to me!
40,000 words a day, don’t let up!
…
As soon as I turned on the computer, another series of messages came.
Editor Guo Mu: Didn’t you say you wanted to buy a flat before? I asked you about the flats we have here, they are very good.
Editor Guo Mu: If you are sure you want it, it’s about 6,800/square meter. I can reserve the house in my name and then transfer it to you without charging the price difference.
Editor Guo Mu: But you have to prepare the money within three months. After all, I don’t have that much money to advance.
This series of messages did not mention anything about her new book, but every word of it pierced Ding Wei's heart.
——A house, of course I want to buy it!
Where does the money come from?
——You still have to work hard.
Ding Wei shed sad tears in her heart.
——She is indeed too beautiful. With such a shortage of money, she didn't write well last night and she won't write well today.
"I'm too southern -"
She slapped her head on the keyboard.
Bai Shanshan came over: "What - eh? Weiwei, do you want to buy a house again?"
Chen Siyu quickly turned around and quickly caught the keyword:
"again?!"
Of course, the relationship between the three of them was not the same as it was at the beginning, and Ding Wei did not hide it from her:
"Well, I've made a down payment on a house with the cost of the draft, and I have to pay the full down payment next month."
Chen Siyu's eyes widened: "Down payment? Doesn't that mean you have to take out a loan? The interest rate is so high!"
She really couldn't figure it out: "Why are you in such a hurry? Wouldn't it be better to wait until we graduate and save enough money to buy it?"
Ding Wei smiled bitterly:
"I think so too. But think about it, it will take three or four years to graduate from college. How much was the house price in the imperial capital three or four years ago, and how much is it now?"
"When we graduate and the Olympics are over, can you believe that the housing prices in the imperial capital will rise to 60,000 to 70,000 yuan per square meter?"
——This is real.
Ding Wei was already working in the Imperial Capital at that time. In her impression, apart from the short-term drop in housing prices during the Olympic year due to the economic crisis, they quickly increased rapidly again.
Even when they fell, house prices in those popular areas didn't fluctuate much at all. Even if they didn't move, they didn't even have time to negotiate the price, and they quickly jumped up again.
Chen Siyu gasped.
"Why do you say it so scary?"
“Now the highest-priced houses cost tens of thousands of yuan! How can we afford it if it goes up further?
Ding Wei sighed: "I don't want to sound so scary, but wouldn't you know if you check it carefully?"
Bai Shanshan knew what Ding Wei was sighing, and asked worriedly: "Weiwei, do you have no money to buy a house?"
Chen Siyu also came back to her senses: "Actually, Weiwei, do you want to do business together? I feel that your ideas and vision are very good."
With Bai Shanshan, it is purely because Bai Shanshan has a good personality, is rich, and is willing to support her.
Chen Siyu was much more serious when he invited Ding Wei.
Because from the time they made the plan to now, every opinion given by Ding Wei has been very pertinent. If they work together, they will definitely be a good partner.
To be precise, even the plan was proposed by Ding Weidi.
And Bai Shanshan became interested precisely because of Ding Weiti's opinion.
Chen Siyu saw this clearly.
…
Ding Wei shook her head ""
"My energy is limited. What I do best now is writing, and I have a stable income every day. But if I just change fields, my income may increase dramatically, but it may also consume a lot of my energy and time.
, but in the end nothing was accomplished.”
She sighed: "I am also in debt now, so I can't afford to try."
She was also speaking from her inner thoughts.
After all, she has never done business in her previous life, and when it comes to experience, she can only talk about it on paper. Let her make some appropriate suggestions, and she can do it.
If you really want to operate it, there are a lot of things to worry about!
Not to mention anything else, Chen Siyu's mobility and connections were far beyond her reach.
Now making steady progress in writing, Ding Wei cannot waste this good situation.
Chen Siyu sighed in admiration: "Weiwei, you are so sensible."
But no matter what, who in the world can do business like her, have money to support her, and have good friends to support her?
Therefore, Chen Siyu was quite satisfied. She kept her head down and kept contacting the people she had made appointments with.
"Oh, by the way," although Ding Wei is not in business, she has a lot of opinions: "If you plan to take pictures tomorrow, you shouldn't have specially prepared the venue, right? A simple background cloth, lighting board and garment steamer are ready.
?"
"Do you want to ask the senior brother who took the photo first?"
The clothes are all bundled, and there is no garment steamer to arrange them. They are worn directly on the body like that, and even the gods cannot tell the feeling of wearing them.
Chen Siyu jumped up immediately, "I remembered it at noon, but now I have completely forgotten it! I'm going to prepare now!"
After saying that, he rushed out in a rage.
…
Bai Shanshan looked at the closed door of the dormitory. At this moment, she felt a dull pain in the palm of her hand, so she wailed and spread out on the bed, determined to only give money and never work again.
She really can't do it.
There were only two people left in the dormitory, Bai Shanshan and Ding Wei. After lying there for a while, she looked at Ding Wei who was clicking on the keyboard and said:
"Weiwei, your novel, the story of "The Great Era", the smartphone he finally developed...do you think we can use it one day in the future?"
Ding Wei was stunned for a moment, thinking about what she had written——
The first-generation smartphone developed by Zhan Cheng was about the same level as the mobile phone she used in her previous life.
What else is there to say?
She nodded firmly: "I will definitely do it."
Bai Shanshan was delighted:
"Then you can watch TV and movies with a mobile phone without downloading, wouldn't it mean that more people would watch this?"
She turned over with bright eyes: "Weiwei, maybe our film and television company can really make money in the end!"
Ding Wei:……
She is really under a lot of pressure.
"...Isn't the purpose of starting a company to make money? Isn't making money the goal that must be achieved?"
She said with difficulty.
Bai Shanshan shook her head, looking very serious:
"How could it be? Why do you need so much money? Didn't you listen to my brother? It's mainly to fulfill our wishes and make us happy!"
Ding Wei:……
Sorry, I'm vulgar.
It's because I don't have a brother.
…
At this moment, Mr. Bai is still in the imperial capital and has not left.
The focus of his business used to be on the coastal areas, but now it is also developing inland.
Now that he came to the Imperial Capital, of course he had to contact various partners to communicate with each other. During this period, his assistant Xiao Chen arranged the entire acquisition of the film and television company for him.
He has a special evaluation company under his name. If he wants to acquire something, he can quickly give him the corresponding target, so the efficiency is quite high.
Fortunately, today's film and television companies do not have such strong capital, and they are not entangled with various forces like those on Hong Kong Island. On the contrary, family-owned enterprises are arrogant, so no matter how prosperous they appear, there may be a mess behind them.
Once the money is in place, the acquisition process is not too difficult.
But when he asked the legal department to draw up a contract based on his sister's request, Mr. Bai still couldn't help but rub his forehead.
"——This girl, I never saw her being so heartfelt to others when I was in school!"
After thinking about it, he couldn't help but sigh:
That Ding Wei does have some knowledge.
He looked at the draft contract that indicated Ding Wei's share of copyright investment, and then remembered the other party's confidence and the highlights in his words when he was talking, and couldn't help but said to his assistant:
"Well, her share of copyright investment is quite high. Go and collect what is written, find it out and show it to me."
Although he cannot accurately assess the value of publishing rights, he should still have the basic ability to appreciate whether a story is well written and whether it suits his taste.
This evaluation represents whether Ding Wei's shares in this film and television company will be diluted in the future, or will be emptied out through various rights issue plans.
A businessman is a businessman at all times.
I have told my sister about this company, and she must have the final say.
Mr. Bai is very confident.
…
This is not a difficult problem, the assistant quickly replied:
"When we asked Ms. Ding to provide various identity information for this contract, she had already sent the full story to my email."
Mr. Bai raised his eyebrows, a little surprised, but also somewhat expected: "This girl is much older than Shanshan in doing things. Isn't it true that the family is not in business?"
The assistant shook his head:
"It's just a very ordinary family from a public institution in a small town."
…
“It’s true that the same rice feeds all kinds of people.”
Mr. Bai took a sip of tea and casually opened the files organized by his assistant.
After thinking for a while, he ordered: "Send these to Mingyi for a look."
The mouse moved across the desktop, and after seeing the two names clearly, I hesitated——
"Rebirth of the Misplaced Daughter" and "Sky-Price Engagement: The CEO's Mute Wife"
No matter what I choose, I don’t want to click on either of them.
Mr. Bai hesitated and hesitated, and finally chose the "Misplaced Daughter" which seemed more normal.
Li Mingyi, who was putting on a facial mask at home, looked at it and opened "The Mute Wife" without hesitation.
…
After a while, Mr. Bai in the office knocked the pen in his hand on the table twice, and couldn't help complaining: "What kind of blind parents are these? You don't even know your biological children."
As soon as I finished speaking, I suddenly realized that this office was empty, there was no one.
He quickly shut his mouth and decided not to do anything that tarnished his image.
Not long after, Mr. Bai took a sip of tea and couldn't help but admire:
"What this girl said makes sense..."
…
This story is not long, only about 300,000 words in total. However, several times Assistant Chen came in to sign documents and found the boss looking solemnly at the computer.
He thought about it and realized it was not an important document, so he made a note and exited gently.
After finally reading a book, Mr. Bai tried to use his professional vision to evaluate whether the book had merits worthy of being adapted into a film or television. However, after thinking about it again and again, he finally came up with one sentence:
"Also...it's okay."
He looked at the documents brought in by the assistant next to him, and there were already five or six that needed his signature.
He hesitated and clicked the mouse on the horrible and strange name again.
——This name doesn’t look like a serious book. Take a look at it and make sense of it. If it doesn’t work, forget it!
…
Assistant Chen was still sorting information in the office outside. Through the blinds, he accidentally discovered that Mr. Bai had sprayed a mouthful of tea onto the screen. He was so shocked that he rushed in:
"Mr. Bai!"
Mr. Bai coughed violently, and then the expression on his face became distorted, as if he wanted to laugh, but at the same time he seemed to be holding back.
He waved his hand, and the assistant stepped back in confusion, and then the blinds of the window were closed.
Vaguely, Assistant Chen seemed to hear a strange laughter.
…
get off work.
Bai is always a good man who comes home on time for dinner.
Assistant Chen's home is not in the Imperial Capital, and he is just following the boss back to the hotel before returning to the hotel.
As soon as I fastened my seat belt, I heard Mr. Bai say casually from behind:
"Shanshan's classmate must have written more than these two books. Ask her carefully and send them over if she has any. I think they are of some value. Send them over and I will study them."
This was said quite reservedly.
However, Assistant Chen was puzzled:
Didn’t Mr. Bai only have an attitude towards the acquisition of the film and television company to make his sister happy?
Why are you asking to see those stories now? Is it necessary to go into such detail?
Obviously, he only glanced at the draft contract before...
…
But what the boss said, his assistant only had to listen, so Assistant Chen nodded very efficiently: "Okay, I will communicate with Miss Ding in the evening."
There was another silence in the car.
After a while, Mr. Bai suddenly asked again:
"Assistant Chen, have you ever seen a mermaid? What do you think they should look like?"
Assistant Chen’s head is filled with questions:???
But he still answered meticulously and seriously:
"I haven't seen it before, but it should probably be a very beautiful image. Just like "The Daughter of the Sea"."
But it could also be a dugong.
But Assistant Chen thought about it over and over again, but still didn't say it out loud.
The driver was familiar with them, and he answered with a smile:
"Mermaid? Isn't that thing half fish and half human? In fact, think about it, a fish is holding a human head, as if it has eaten but has not digested it, how terrifying it is!"
Assistant Chen:……
He looked at his boss's expression and retorted hesitantly:
"That's not necessarily true, maybe it's a fish head and human legs..."
The driver, Lao Zhang, disagreed: "That's so disgusting."
Assistant Chen also said to him: "Isn't your human-headed fish body even more disgusting?"
There is really no need to discuss this topic any further, and the current direction is also very strange. Assistant Chen and driver Lao Zhang looked at each other and silently stopped talking.
The car fell into silence again.
From the rearview mirror, the two of them could see that Mr. Bai was sitting in the back seat, deep in thought, with a very stiff expression on his face.
He seemed to be angry.
He seemed to be laughing wildly.
…
In the uneasy mood of the two people, I don't know what Mr. Bai was thinking about. After a moment of silence, he suddenly burst out laughing again.
Driver Lao Zhang:......
Assistant Chen:……
——He is indeed too shallow, and now he can’t even figure out what his immediate boss is thinking.
In short, in such a strange and uneasy atmosphere, Assistant Chen and the driver finally sent Mr. Bai back to the villa.
When Mr. Bai thoughtfully asked Mr. Bai to get out of the car, Assistant Chen couldn't help but look at the door of the villa again——
I don't know if it was an illusion, but I just felt like I heard a series of geese squawking.
