Rebirth: Growing Up Together

The car body shook slightly under his control, and Lin Wanzhou grabbed the corner of his clothes in fear.

"what?"

Lin Wanzhou was surprised. She raised her hand and touched Xu Cheng's body. Her eyes widened in surprise. "Xu Cheng, you seem to be much stronger than before."

Of course it’s all thanks to the exercise I’ve been doing these days.

"Ahem, ahem, Lin Wanzhou, you're going to strangle me to death!"

Lin Wanzhou held Xu Cheng's clothes very tightly, and the original white shirt was almost torn by her.

She let go of his hand embarrassedly, pursed her lips, and after making up her mind, she put her arms around Xu Cheng's waist with a blushing cheek, and did not forget to clarify.

"I hugged you because I had no choice!"

"Okay, okay, I get it. You're already a big girl."

They rode for a very long time, their shadows gradually getting longer and longer, and they walked together past a low wall covered with ivy, a tube-shaped building with slightly yellowed walls, and an old stone bridge with gurgling water.

After going to school, Xu Cheng has been arranging his life very tightly. It has been a long time since he has calmed down and gone around with Lin Wanzhou.

It was a rare period of quiet time.

Lin Wanzhou sat sideways in the back seat, with one arm around Xu Cheng's waist, muttering all the way.

"Obviously, I think that skirt is really pretty, but my mom insisted that I wasn't old enough to wear it, so she refused to buy it for me. She also said that I was a silly girl who was becoming more and more conceited..."

"It was the same when I went to the hair salon before. She wanted to get a perm she liked, but her mother wouldn't allow it. I told her that I had spent money on it, but she only wanted to let her do it herself. She was really selfish..."

Xu Cheng smiled helplessly, "You can pull out the oxygen tube if you want in the future. We are about to cross the road, so hurry up and run."

"Oh."

Lin Wanzhou jumped off the bike lightly, grabbed the corner of Xu Cheng's clothes with one hand, and trotted across the road beside the bicycle.

After parking the car aside, the two stood in front of a quiet lawn to rest.

"Xu Cheng, grow up quickly. Big boys are very strong. This way I won't have to run down here." Lin Wanzhou panted with small gulps, his chest heaving slightly.

"Hey, no matter how strong I am, I'm going to be tired after riding you such a long distance, okay..." Xu Cheng wiped the sweat from his forehead. His legs were sore now.

Lin Wanzhou stuck out her tongue embarrassedly, "Are you sweating a lot?"

"Yes." Xu Cheng pinched his collar and smelled it. "It smells like sweat."

Sniff, sniff.

Lin Wanzhou tiptoed close to Xu Cheng's neck and smelled it. "It's okay. It smells like laundry detergent. It smells nice and fragrant."

Xu Cheng felt a little embarrassed and turned his head away.

"Xu Cheng." Feeling the corner of his clothes being pulled, Xu Cheng turned his head and a piece of bear biscuit was stuffed directly into his mouth.

Lin Wanzhou patted the biscuit crumbs in his hand and said unhappily, "You didn't even tell me last time what we were going to do after we stopped being friends?"

Xu Cheng accepted the feeding calmly, broke the biscuits into pieces with his teeth, and looked away awkwardly.

"Let's just be childhood sweethearts."

"Childhood sweethearts..." Lin Wanzhou's voice was clear, and he recited each word softly, his eyes gradually becoming bright.

"Okay!"

"We will be each other's childhood sweethearts from now on!"

"Silly girl." Xu Cheng looked at Lin Wanzhou with a slightly red face.

"We have always been..."

When Xu Cheng returned home in the evening, he felt very tired. He forced himself to stay awake and deal with the website matters.

He was actually a little absent-minded.

"The Lin Wanzhou who used to like holding hands, pinching my face and being very intimate with me is gone. Will she still like me so much in the future..." Xu Cheng suddenly became worried.

"Drip drip."

A sound attracted his attention, and a QQ prompt popped up in the lower right corner of the screen. It was a message from Mr. Zhou.

“Mr. Zhou: Autumn is spring in reverse.”

"Mr. Zhou: Good night."

Xu Cheng pursed his lips.

"Where did you learn this little girl...you've actually started to learn to say this kind of words!"

The corners of his mouth couldn't stop rising.

Chapter 42: Back to the period before liberation overnight

In the middle of a dream, Xu Cheng was awakened by the sound of discussion in the living room.

After slightly moving away from the bedroom, Xu Cheng discovered that several of his father Xu Jianghe's colleagues were sitting in the living room, including Xu Jianghe's master Nie Yongjun.

In the past four years, Dad was actually a member of the faction of his master Nie Yongjun. Nie Yongjun was a senior executive of Jing'an Communications and seemed to be a director.

In the living room, a bunch of men were talking passionately about "top products", "industry benchmarks", "national brands", "independent research and development", "breakthroughs in key technical points", and "it all depends on ourselves"...

Xu Cheng's head hurt after hearing this. People in their 30s and 40s can't face reality before talking about ideals. What kind of technological breakthroughs can you make with such a small amount of funding...

If they are really allowed to continue independent research and development in this way, I'm afraid that the MP5 will be obsolete if they only produce a prototype.

"Can't you just dream after you have Yuanzi? And the key is... this market entry point is wrong!"

After they all left, Xu Cheng went to the bedroom and waved away the smell of smoke in the house with disgust.

"Dad, is your company going to make MP3s?"

Xu Jianghe nodded. "What's wrong? Did I wake you up?"

Xu Cheng shook his head and sat on the sofa to chat with Xu Jianghe.

"Dad, how long will it take for you to produce this? Give me a few. Several of my classmates will have birthdays in a few days, and I'll give them to them."

Xu Jianghe smiled and said, "A few days? Production is not as simple as you think. It takes several months just to design it."

"Ah? It took so long. Hasn't this thing already been made overseas? Why do you still need to design it? Can't you just disassemble the foreign products, reassemble the components and replace the shell?"

Xu Jianghe glanced at him and said, "What do you know as a kid? If you make something that has no characteristics or advantages of its own, will anyone buy it?"

Xu Cheng thought about it and said, "Yes, isn't cheapness the biggest feature? If you guys replace the components in the MP3 with other models and lower the price, that would be a great advantage!"

After a pause, Xu Cheng continued, "And... Dad, I've actually thought about it. We poor students don't care about the sound quality at all. We just think it's very cool and impressive to hold this thing. As long as it's cheap enough, we will definitely choose to buy it!"

It is very important to grasp the entry point of the market. For example, Haier's Zhang Ruimin studied why summer is the off-season for washing machine sales. Later, he found that people had fewer clothes in summer, and washing machines consumed a lot of water and electricity, so no one used them. Zhang Ruimin directly found the entry point of the market and launched a small washing machine that saves electricity and water, which is specially used to wash small items of clothing such as underwear and stockings. It was indeed a best-seller.

In the MP3 industry, the main feature of the later domestic MP3 players such as Moonlight Treasure Box was the price-performance ratio, in other words, they were cheap. They used cheapness as a market entry point and made a name for themselves as domestic players.

After listening to Xu Cheng's words, Xu Jianghe narrowed his eyes and a light flashed before his eyes.

Is cheapness the biggest feature?

Why do I feel like what this kid said... has some truth in it...

But the adults still like to be stubborn, "What do you know as a child? Even hardware integration requires considering circuit design, DAC decoding chip, power supply... a whole set of things, and there are also issues of purchasing and polishing components..."

Xu Cheng scratched his head. "Oh, I don't understand what you are saying, Dad. But I think it would be much easier to buy the hardware from other manufacturers and integrate them than to make them by yourself... As long as we can buy usable MP3 players with very little money, we students will definitely buy such cost-effective products!"

Xu Cheng went to the bathroom to pee, then slipped back to the bedroom to sleep, leaving Xu Jianghe alone in the living room.

"High cost performance? That's a good word..."

Although I feel that Xu Cheng is being unreasonable, I am easily confused by the situation. This guy just happens to be thinking from the user's perspective.

Cheap electronics? Have we been thinking in the wrong direction?

Compared to producing high-tech products, it seems easier and more convenient to open up the market with cheap... oh, no, with cost-effective electronic products, especially the Longguo market...

……

The next day.

Xu Cheng received a call from NetEase, and someone on the other end told him that the number of users of "16 Website Navigation" had continued to soar in recent days, and Xu Cheng needed to pay them back the money.

It was like this. When Xu Cheng was about to start 16 URL Navigation, he discovered a very embarrassing problem. As we all know, the three basic elements of a website are: domain name, server, and program.

So the question is, Xu Cheng obviously can't afford to buy a server. Even in the early 2000s, when a large number of domestic Internet companies went bankrupt and second-hand servers were sold all over the place, Xu Cheng still couldn't afford it.

Fortunately, there was a very nice thing at that time. Many large companies launched conscientious services, providing netizens with virtual server space for free. The three major companies, such as NetEase, Sohu, and Sina, would divide their large servers into multiple virtual spaces with independent domain names and complete hosting functions.

The size is 20M. Most of the time, 20M is enough for you to get it for free, but in some cases, like Xu Cheng is doing now, 20M is not enough.

16 URL Navigation currently has more than 300 users, and Xu Cheng has to pay some extra money to NetEase. It’s not expensive, only yuan, which is calculated for a year. The pocket money he usually saves is prepared for this moment.

I opened the piggy bank and counted the yuan inside. I opened the Xinhua Dictionary and took out the notes inside. I counted all the coins and change. It was 312 yuan, just enough to pay for this item...

Years of savings were emptied in an instant, and Xu Cheng's wallet was emptied to the amount it was before liberation overnight.

It’s so uncomfortable!

Maintaining this website is like raising a daughter. You invest money and energy into it, but there is no return at all. You can only wait for Brother Du to notice you and marry you off with a huge gift.

"If only I could get the advertising fee..."

Unfortunately, Xu Cheng had no reasonable source of bank cards, so he missed out on this big piece of cake.

After asking NetEase for the remittance information, Xu Cheng went out with a thick stack of 300 yuan in his pocket.

Although he was a minor, he was still able to remit money. He filled out the remittance form and paid in cash. The counter staff was very surprised and kept asking questions.

"Little boy, who did you send the money to?"

Xu Cheng answered calmly, "It's for my uncle who works out of town. He has no money and my parents are busy at work, so they asked me to come over."

This set of reasonable answers immediately dispelled the counter clerk's suspicion.

How could such a cute and sensible child lie?

Xu Cheng heaved a sigh of relief. If they thought they were cheated by someone and started investigating, things would be troublesome.

Finally, I got a receipt from the post office and checked the name and amount carefully to make sure they were correct, so I was done.

Compared with the direct transfers through WeChat and Zhifubao later, it was indeed a lot more troublesome.

Coming out of the post office, there was a lot of traffic at the door. Xu Cheng suddenly found a familiar figure in the crowd. Although the presence was very low, he still caught sight of it.

She is small in stature, wears a loose school uniform, has black hair, and has a pair of captivating peach blossom eyes.

"Yu Yu? What is she doing here alone?"

Let's follow for a while...

Chapter 43: Finding a healthy man to fulfill my dream

It’s strange no matter how you think about it. Yu Yu is just a fourth-grade elementary school student. He doesn’t sell sweet potatoes, so why is he wandering around the street alone?

This place is close to the city center, has a large flow of people, and is far away from her home.

"Was she deceived by some weird uncle?"

"She's just a little kid. What if she gets targeted by bad guys?"

With all sorts of curiosity and worries in mind, Xu Cheng thought it would be better to follow this little fool quietly.

If there is no danger, everyone will be happy. If there is any danger, he can appear in time and become a partner of justice.

After making up his mind, he quietly followed Yu Yu, keeping a distance of about ten meters from her.

Yu Yu was unaware that she was being followed by a pervert. She walked hurriedly with her head down, a slightly nervous expression on her face. Her beautiful eyes were raised from time to time, looking at both sides of the road, as if she was looking for something, and finally turned right from the intersection in front of the post office.

"Huh, exciting..."

Xu Cheng felt inexplicably weird in his heart. Was he a little too vulgar? Why did he secretly follow a pale, thin girl? This seemed like something that only a perverted lolita-loving uncle in Japan would do!

He patted his cheek and reaffirmed his belief, "I'm not a lolita! I'm just a feminist!"

"Let me know. There is a discount if you buy it now. The second one is half price..."

An old lady on the roadside was holding a thick stack of flyers and distributing them to passers-by. Xu Cheng took one and pretended to look at the flyer like an actor in a movie, but in fact he used the flyer to cover half of his face.