Chapter 5: 004 Swearing an Alliance with a Dish

Zhong Zhiling signed a love contract, almost broke up with his girlfriend, confirmed that the investment was gone and lost money, and was confusedly following his Senior Brother to do business...

He returned to the dormitory this night, very lost, wanted to shout, but everything that happened today was stuffed in his throat, making him lie on the bed and only make "woo woo" crying sounds.

Sleep for a while, cry for a while, sleep for a while, cry for a while.

Classmates and friends were interning or looking for jobs. The dormitory of one person had only endless loneliness and sadness.

Zhong Zhiling woke up in a daze, washed his face with cold water, thought about what happened yesterday, and suddenly fell into hesitation and fantasy. What if the Senior Brother in the US had difficulties? What if he sent the money back after a while?

Harboring such thoughts, he silenced his phone and went to the lab as usual, numbly continuing his upcoming first-year graduate life.

Hold breath and concentrate, worries gradually go away.

Zhong Zhiling had never been so focused, as if immersed in the ocean of learning.

Bang!

The lab door was pushed open.

Zhong Zhiling turned his head blankly and saw his Senior Brother Yu Xing walking in quickly.

Yu Xing scanned the lab, saw no one else, and saw this Junior Brother still observing the culture dish in front of the incubator, couldn't help but be furious: "Why didn't you answer my call? Why are you still here not doing your proper job?"

"Ah? I..." Zhong Zhiling didn't expect to receive such questioning and was stunned for a moment.

No, Senior Brother, you are my Senior Brother, I this...

You this...

Who is the proper job after all!

Yu Xing walked to the incubator quickly and questioned: "Are you still harboring fantasies?"

"I..." Zhong Zhiling stammered and couldn't speak.

"Then did you call Yu Xuhui this morning?" Yu Xing asked again, "From yesterday to today, did he call you back?"

Zhong Zhiling shook his head, neither called nor received a return call.

Yu Xing stared at the eyes of this unlucky guy and said word by word: "I called! Still off! That guy Yu has probably run away! Don't harbor fantasies about the guy surnamed Yu anymore!"

Zhong Zhiling looked at his Senior Brother blankly and suddenly whispered: "The guy surnamed Yu, Senior Brother, you also have the surname Yu..."

"That's two different things! Besides, even if I want to run away, it's a matter for the future. Now this hurdle must be passed!" Yu Xing raised his voice, "I'll ask you one last time, if you can't firm up your confidence, then continue your studies!"

Zhong Zhiling was about to cry again: "Brother Xing, don't force me..."

Yu Xing didn't speak, just stared at the Junior Brother in front of him. After staring for five seconds without seeing a response, he turned to leave.

Zhong Zhiling's repetition and fantasy were finally pierced by such an action. He chased two steps, grabbed his Senior Brother's arm, as if grabbing a life-saving straw, confirming that this was the proper job.

"Brother Xing, I'll do it!"

Yu Xing turned around and pointed to the incubator: "Take out the culture dish."

Zhong Zhiling didn't understand, and carefully took out the culture dish from the incubator.

The cultured cells in the culture dish were very fragile and easily contaminated. Once contaminated, they had to be redone.

"Take mine out too," Yu Xing instructed again.

Zhong Zhiling still didn't understand what his Senior Brother wanted to do, but obeyed.

Yu Xing saw he was dawdling, snatched his own culture dish, took a pen from his pocket, and stirred the cultured cells into a mess.

Zhong Zhiling lost his voice: "Brother Xing..."

Yu Xing threw the culture dish and pen on the table and pointed to the pen without saying a word.

Zhong Zhiling looked at his Senior Brother, then at the culture dish in his hand, and finally took the pen with a ruthless heart, and also stirred the cultured cells inside into a mess.

He cried while stirring. This stir was rebelling against the master, this stir was from a bleak future...

Yu Xing was already somewhat used to the Junior Brother's crying and nodded with satisfaction: "Good, today we swear an alliance with a dish, we must make a way!"

Seeing he didn't answer, he felt he had to boost morale and encouraged: "Let's earn a million this year!"

Stirred the cultured cells into a mess, swore to earn a million this year!

Zhong Zhiling's tears stopped, and he looked up at his Senior Brother: "What about the remaining debt? Didn't your family invest five million?"

Yu Xing pursed his lips. Unlucky thing, which pot is not opened!

He answered unpleasantly: "The rest is naturally earned slowly!"

Although he felt there was something to do, Yu Xing didn't set the goal of the love contract project too high. As long as there was money coming in, as long as he could survive this period, time was still on his side!

Zhong Zhiling looked at the two culture dishes on the table and then at the Senior Brother who made people feel cold, suddenly not knowing what to do.

He asked the leader: "Brother Xing, what are we doing now?"

"You call your girlfriend, I'll think about how to implement this project specifically. In the afternoon, you go with me to ask about college student entrepreneurship support policies. You belong to a graduate, I am in school, maybe you have a role in this," Yu Xing arranged one by one, "Tomorrow find Old Liu, see if we can suspend school or retain student status."

Zhong Zhiling heard the second half, his throat couldn't help but slide, but didn't raise an objection.

From yesterday to today, he had already found that his Senior Brother had goals and action, which was much stronger than himself.

Yu Xing sat down, and seeing the unlucky guy was still blank, pointed to the culture dish on the table: "Throw it away."

Zhong Zhiling held the two disposable culture dishes, stared at the messy cultured cells on them, and felt that his future was also stirred into a mess like it.

He threw away the culture dish quite tangled, looked back at his Senior Brother who seemed to have been devoted to his career as if nothing had happened, and silently took out his phone to call his girlfriend Lu Haiying.

Zhong Zhiling reported his plan to his girlfriend with a nervous mood. He didn't mention the financial explosion, just rendered his optimism about his Senior Brother's career.

Fortunately, from yesterday to today, it was finally a good piece of news, and his girlfriend agreed.

Zhong Zhiling shared this news with his Senior Brother happily after hanging up.

"Hmm, she will probably agree," Yu Xing said casually while thinking, "You don't go to graduate school, the problem between you disappears more than half. She doesn't take the graduate entrance exam, you enter society, whether she goes back to her hometown is another matter. At the very least, the states of the two people are similar."

The smile on Zhong Zhiling's face suddenly froze.

Then, he was furious: "Brother Xing, what do you mean! Why are you sowing discord! Do you want to black my 500! Don't you want to pay my roses!"

Yu Xing raised his head in astonishment, looked at the Junior Brother, and changed his statement: "Hmm, hmm, okay, okay, it's like this, Lu Haiying just unconditionally believes in you, just firmly supports you out of your feelings, she never thought so, I was wrong."

Zhong Zhiling's anger was like a balloon with a hole poked in it, and it suddenly deflated.

He stayed for a while, both panicked and sad: "She, will she think so? How can she be like this? Shouldn't, shouldn't it be hoping for each other to be better?"

"What's wrong with people thinking for themselves? Love yourself first, then love others," Yu Xing opened up, "Besides, who can define what is a better future? Didn't you tell her, saying our project is good and has potential."

"I was... I was..." Zhong Zhiling said angrily, "I was just finding an excuse for the time being!"

"Didn't you also lie, OK, it's even, don't think too much," Yu Xing ended the topic.

Zhong Zhiling felt mixed feelings, and suddenly found a loophole in his Senior Brother's words: "Brother Xing! You said I lied! You also think this project is not good, has no potential, right!!"

"Of course not," Yu Xing answered calmly, "Because you were wrong, you should say, our project is particularly good, particularly promising, it just won the favor of customers and quickly won orders."

Zhong Zhiling said happily: "Have orders?"

Yu Xing pointed to this unlucky guy: "You are."

Zhong Zhiling: "..."

He sat powerlessly in his chair, saying helplessly: "Damn! Brother Xing, you really confused me!!!"

Zhong Zhiling saw his Senior Brother didn't speak, and complained again: "Brother Xing, why are you so cruel? You are now strangely scary!"

Yu Xing heard this sentence, thought for a few seconds, looked back at the unlucky guy, and said earnestly: "Zhiling, I found that you haven't converted your mentality and identity well. Of course, this is not your fault. Objectively speaking, making you convert quickly is forcing you, but I must say..."

"It's not that I'm cruel, it's that we are all facing extremely realistic problems now."

"Your money, my money, are all gone. We have a very large financial hole that needs to be filled."

"You must change your mentality and identity as soon as possible, otherwise, you will only face more cruel reality in the future."

Zhong Zhiling listened to his Senior Brother's declaration-like narrative, looked at his calm and even cold eyes, and only felt a chill.

Yu Xing sighed and said: "Otherwise, Zhiling, think about it, if you don't do it with me, or if you suddenly knew this news yourself, what would you do?"

Zhong Zhiling was silent for an exceptionally long time this time, and finally shivered. The wind on the roof must be very strong, and the water in the lake must be very deep...

He drank a large glass of water, looked at his Senior Brother who didn't speak, and still said his inner feelings: "Brother Xing, we haven't done any projects, any entrepreneurship, I'm just afraid... can this be done well?"

Yu Xing didn't answer immediately. This was indeed a problem.

In fact, he also thought about the situation and direction repeatedly last night. The love contract he initially verified on his Junior Brother had prototypes, two kinds: one was insurance from insurance companies, and the other was commercial contracts from ordinary companies.

The former was once famous, and the latter also claimed to have won 100,000+ orders. In his dream, he was once a potential customer, and he decided to buy a house precisely because he was dating a small girlfriend who loved to try fresh things.

Yu Xing didn't set the goal of "love contract" too high, neither obsessed with listing, nor feeling that he could make tens of millions or hundreds of millions, just wanting to make a small profit with light asset operation. After all, there was no one, no money, no technology, no resources now, but the financial management exploded.

If it could slightly ease the upcoming storm, at least let the family have hope, it would be good.

If the love contract didn't have signs of opening the situation in a short time, then he could only try other things with debt, but Baidu, Alibaba, and Tencent had developed for many years, and famous tracks had projects. Wanting to achieve something probably could only start from vertical segments.

For example, electronic commerce was developing so vigorously, maybe a price comparison website would be popular.

At worst... grow grapes!

Yu Xing's emotions had calmed down, and he really considered a way out of growing grapes, but not to go back to find his uncle like this, but to introduce a variety that became very popular later—"Sunshine Rose Grapes."

This was a variety native to Japan. After being introduced to the country, it was once speculated to hundreds of yuan per catty, known as the Hermes of grapes.

Yu Xing felt that if it really didn't work, he would drink a bowl of such soup. Not to mention how rich, as long as it was better than the original situation, it would be fine.

But wanting to do these things was best to be able to squeeze money out of his hands, first have a source of living water.

He cautiously set his inner expectations, and considered the Junior Brother's current lost state, slowed his tone, and gave a promise that would not be fulfilled: "Zhiling, I don't know if it can be done well. Let's do this. If there is no improvement this month and no hope is seen, then do your blue pills."

Zhong Zhiling breathed a sigh of relief. The Senior Brother didn't have to die on this love contract.

He just wanted to nod and suddenly froze. No, I didn't say I had to do small pills!

"Wait for lunch, you call your girlfriend again, let her help us mobilize friends, see if we can make some noise in the student group this month," Yu Xing started the next topic, "If even the emotional college students in the graduation season can't be opened, then let's switch tracks immediately."

"Brother Xing, why does your tone sound like college students are so stupid?" Zhong Zhiling tried to defend slightly.

"Zhiling, it's not stupid, it's just that their eyes are clearer at this stage," Yu Xing said seriously, "We are all medical students, I think we can look at our customers and our business from a more realistic perspective."

"What is love?"

"The brain secretes phenylethylamine, which can make people excited, make breathing and heartbeat accelerate, make people fall in love at first sight, make people fall in love."

"After two people fall in love, the body secretes dopamine, making people happy and satisfied, wishing to stick together every day, but unfortunately, it comes fast and goes fast, and will not keep a high level in the body, averaging less than two and a half years."

"Dopamine decreases, endorphins relay, reducing anxiety, increasing stability and warmth."

"In addition, there are vasopressin, norepinephrine, serotonin... everyone works together to complete the course of love."

"We don't need to mystify it, we can look at it more materially, what do you think?"

Yu Xing described love under the action of human hormones.

Zhong Zhiling shook his head repeatedly: "Brother Xing, you attribute love completely to the action of hormones, it's too realistic... can't be so realistic about everything, if you say so, everything has to be so realistic."

His words were not embarrassed to be so direct, but Yu Xing understood.

Nothing more than looking at love with such realistic logic, also using the same thinking to look at projects, interpersonal relationships, and so on...

Yu Xing smiled slightly: "I'm just describing a perspective to look at it. I actually still believe in love. As for the others, whether it's this project or the small pills you want to do, everyone should talk about interests when they should, and don't be polite when they encounter things."

Zhong Zhiling was a little embarrassed and a little surprised: "Brother Xing, are you serious?"

"Of course, entrepreneurship doesn't need to be so gentle, doesn't need to be so elegant, public is public," Yu Xing said seriously, "We both owe money. If you find that I want to roll money and run away, and so on, you can tear your face directly, don't be polite."

Zhong Zhiling was told such a concern by his Senior Brother, although a little embarrassed, nodded based on the bleak status quo: "Senior Brother, you said so, then we belong to small people first and gentlemen later. If there is really such a time, I can't blame me for being realistic to you."

"What are you talking about, let's go, we have to be busy today," Yu Xing got up indifferently and said, "Go ask about the policy in the afternoon, and let you be the legal representative of our company later."

Zhong Zhiling asked while walking: "Why let me be?"

Yu Xing answered concisely: "You be, good."

Zhong Zhiling nodded and didn't ask much: "Oh."

He stopped after walking a few steps, looked at his Senior Brother who turned back in doubt, and said seriously: "Brother Xing, I don't really want to do small pills, I was just sick and went to the doctor."

"I understand, I know your character is good, let's go," Yu Xing understood, "If your character wasn't good, I couldn't let you be this legal representative."

Zhong Zhiling breathed a sigh of relief and followed his footsteps. The Senior Brother shouldn't misunderstand himself.