Chapter 69

"I don't understand."

The third-in-command and second-in-command of Guiai Network had a showdown, and then discovered that they were the ones being shown down. Immediately, the two entered a desert of communication.

Silent eating, silent car ride, silent crossing of eyes.

After a long time, when they arrived at the Expo Center, Zhong Zhiling stood on the side of the road and finally broke the silence.

Lu Haiying heard her boyfriend's words and asked faintly: "What don't you understand?"

"I feel like I don't understand anything." Zhong Zhiling was desolate, "Everything is meaningless."

"Does your 'meaningless' refer to Senior Brother not dragging you into entrepreneurship in the first place, or Senior Brother not giving you the right to choose now?" Lu Haiying asked earnestly, and added, "Or is it that Senior Brother shouldn't have told me the truth, and should have helped you hide it from me?"

Zhong Zhiling turned his head to look at his girlfriend and mocked himself: "Did he really let me choose?"

Lu Haiying looked at her boyfriend quietly and said: "If you really demand that Senior Brother do everything perfectly, then shouldn't I also ask you, did you let me choose?"

Zhong Zhiling was speechless and quite embarrassed.

"Zhiling, you asked me before, and I also said my thoughts. However, I still respect your own thoughts." Lu Haiying didn't dwell on what she asked, paused, and continued, "If you think returning to graduate school to be a doctor is better, then I respect you."

Zhong Zhiling's throat moved, and his lips were tightly pursed.

Lu Haiying finished speaking: "Also, don't worry about money. No matter how much Guiai Network sells for, all the money from the cashing out of my shares can be taken out to support your schooling. You can completely make it clear to your uncle and aunt. In this way, they don't have to worry, and you won't have any burden in the future, and you can be an excellent doctor."

She smiled beautifully and finally said: "No matter how you choose, I respect you. Shouldn't couples hope for each other to be better?"

In reason, respect his own choice; in emotion, even willing to take out the money from her shares.

Zhong Zhiling looked at his girlfriend blankly, his mood complex, and felt he heard another layer of subtext.

According to this logic, both hope for each other to be better, both respect each other's choices. She respected his choice, and he?

Shouldn't he also respect hers?

What is this money? Is it a breakup fee?

Zhong Zhiling looked at his girlfriend, looked at her sincere eyes, and then doubted his own petty heart. Is he overthinking it? Is he uncontrollably overthinking it?

Is this her sincerity? Is this her control?

What about Senior Brother?

He clearly promised him, yet told Ying the truth at some point. Did he foresee that he would have this moment, or is he really treating people with sincerity?

He hid it from him! No, no, no, is hiding it from him not for his own good?

Is it control or sincerity? Is there sincerity in control? Is there control in sincerity? Both control and sincerity?

A series of thoughts spun rapidly in his mind.

Zhong Zhiling rubbed his face, just wanting to look up to the sky and howl. Control, sincerity, control, sincerity, can't tell, I really can't tell!

Just as his complex and overwhelmed emotions were at a loss, a scene from two months ago in the police station suddenly floated into his mind—Senior Brother in a white coat pushed the door and entered, followed by the calm look he cast over.

Zhong Zhiling remembered the conversation between the two after Senior Brother bailed him out.

——I think my ability value is only 8.6, and your ability value is a full 100...

——If you haven't been poor, you can't become a person; if you haven't been hit, you'll always be naive.

Zhong Zhiling's excited emotions suddenly converged, and he muttered in his mouth: "The essence of man is the sum of social relations."

Lu Haiying didn't hear clearly and asked: "What? What did you say?"

Zhong Zhiling didn't answer immediately, was stunned for a while, his mood suddenly calmed down, and he shook his head: "I just remembered some arguments I wrote and recorded. Marx and Engels said in 'The German Ideology' that the way people produce their own means of life depends first on the characteristics of the means of life themselves that they already have and need to reproduce."

Lu Haiying was somewhat confused: "What? What does it mean?"

Zhong Zhiling pursed his lips and said slowly: "This mode of production should not be examined only from the aspect that it is the reproduction of the individual's physical existence. It is to a greater extent a certain mode of activity of these individuals, a certain mode of expressing their life, their certain way of life."

Lu Haiying still didn't understand, looking at her boyfriend in front of her.

"So..." Zhong Zhiling looked at the Internet Conference guests and audience who had already come out in the evening, and said, "What a person is like is consistent with his production, both consistent with what is produced and how it is produced. This depends on the material conditions for production."

Lu Haiying frowned slightly: "So?"

"So, if I want to become what kind of person, I must do what kind of production." Zhong Zhiling showed a smile and asked, "Understand?"

Lu Haiying didn't quite understand. She just felt that her boyfriend seemed to have drawn nutrition from "The German Ideology." That's probably it.

She frowned, shook her head, and looked across the road: "I seem to see Senior Brother."

Zhong Zhiling also followed the gaze and saw Senior Brother standing under the traffic light across the road, approaching from far to near, and said: "I don't know if there has been any communication with those three buyers."

Lu Haiying looked at the numbers on the red light jumping to green. She understood a little bit of what her boyfriend was saying just now and asked: "A person is what kind of person, depending on what he does and how he does it?"

Zhong Zhiling smiled sideways: "About the same. If I have to add, a person's behavior, activities, and social roles can largely reveal his essential characteristics. Many factors shape the characteristics of this person together."

He gave an example: "Let's simplify the understanding. If we want to evaluate Baidu's Li Yanhong, of course, we can't leave out examining what this company Baidu has done."

Seeing Yu Xing, who walked over hurriedly, heard this and was stunned: "Why are you evaluating him?"

Zhong Zhiling asked: "Brother Xing, did you see him in the venue today?"

Seeing Yu Xing nodded: "Saw him, from a distance."

He also said casually: "Evaluating a person is multi-dimensional. We are all small shrimps; what's there to evaluate? Let's go, let's go, eat first. Brother Feng and I didn't find Zhenai Network and the others at noon or just now, but I have already asked the organizing committee."

Seeing Yu Xing took the lead, and the remaining three followed by his side.

"Can the organizing committee give contact information?" Lu Haiying asked.

"Normally, they shouldn't give it." Seeing Yu Xing laughed, "But I said I was going to give a speech on stage tomorrow. I, a college student entrepreneur, have no confidence and want to find industry seniors to correct the content. The person on the phone agreed to help me find it and sent me a text message later."

Lu Haiying and Zhong Zhiling both nodded. Senior Brother always finds strange ways to solve problems.

The four people didn't pay much attention and still found a small street restaurant.

However, as soon as Seeing Yu Xing sat down, he heard the report from the second-in-command.

"Senior Brother, Zhiling and I talked about the future." Lu Haiying said directly, "My idea now is to continue following Senior Brother to do the company."

Seeing Yu Xing glanced at the second-in-command's expression and then glanced at the third-in-command, figuring that the two had made things clear.

He nodded slightly, didn't ask about the communication process, but asked about the decision: "Zhiling, what do you say?"

Zhong Zhiling didn't hesitate this time: "I'll follow and continue to do it too."

"Come." Seeing Yu Xing raised the plastic cup filled with beer straightforwardly, "The small team for re-employment after selling the company is established. Let's drink this cup together!"

All three raised their cups and drank this wine together.

Zhong Zhiling finally asked: "Brother Xing, don't you ask how Zhiling and I talked? Don't you ask what I think?"

"The past is quite important, but what's more important is to stand on the present and look forward to the future." Seeing Yu Xing said calmly, "We have only been doing this company for three months, and the changes have been great. What about three years later? Or even ten years, thirty years? What will it look like then?"

He looked at his junior brother, a smile appearing at the corner of his mouth: "Of course, I don't mean I won't communicate with you about the past, but I don't think I did anything wrong. If there is a problem, you find the reason yourself first, and then we'll talk."

Song Yufeng was a bit confused listening on the side, but felt that this sentence was... too overbearing.

Zhong Zhiling didn't refute or express dissatisfaction, just took the bottle to pour wine, stood up, and said: "Brother Xing, from three months ago to this moment, my heart really feels like it has been rolled three times in a frying pan. I toast you."

Seeing Yu Xing clinked his cup, and after drinking, asked Lu Haiying with a smile: "Ying, do you think Zhiling is a bit different today?"

Lu Haiying thought for two seconds and evaluated: "It's like his heart has rolled back from over there."

Seeing Yu Xing laughed.

The small restaurant served cold dishes, and soon served hot dishes quickly.

Seeing Yu Xing ate for a while, chatted about today's observations, and then talked about the new company's equity, giving the method discussed with Song Yufeng: "We are prepared to allocate equity according to the proportion of invested funds, and set up a 10% option pool separately. What do you think?"

Zhong Zhiling and Lu Haiying looked at each other and didn't speak immediately. Song Yufeng said at this time: "This is a very reasonable allocation method. Not only me, but the angel investor President Yu contacted also thinks so. You take 500,000, I take 120,000, and we accept angel investment after the company is built."

The second-in-command and third-in-command of Guiai Network exchanged another look. This seemed to be different from what Senior Brother said. At the very least, this 500,000 amount was not determined in advance, and it involved an angel investor...

Lu Haiying immediately put her chopsticks on the small bowl and strongly opposed: "I don't agree! This is unreasonable!"

Song Yufeng was shocked: "How is it unreasonable?"

"Capital is capital, and there are people!" Lu Haiying said firmly, "First of all, such a setting ignores the value of people. Then, I think Senior Brother should have necessary additions in addition to the investment proportion!"

Song Yufeng was dumbfounded, looking at this firm supporter of President Yu, and then looked at President Yu who didn't speak, realizing: "Good, you guys talked in advance to bluff me, right!"

Lu Haiying had long been practicing the concept of "treating people with sincerity" and now fully demonstrated her sincerity, swearing without hesitation: "If I talked to Senior Brother in advance to bluff you, may I have no skin on my son's butt!"

Song Yufeng: "..."

Zhong Zhiling coughed twice suddenly. No need, no need!

Seeing Yu Xing said concisely: "We really didn't talk in advance."

Zhong Zhiling took the words: "If the shares can't reflect Brother Xing's value, then what's the point? Is it that anyone can start a business? If I put in 100,000 and Brother Xing puts in 100,000, do I have the face to take the same shares as Brother Xing?"

"Does this mean that Brother Xing is both putting in effort and money, but is only calculated in the way of putting in money?"

"I absolutely cannot agree!"

Seeing Yu Xing pondered: "This..."

He looked at Song Yufeng.

Song Yufeng's face was already black, but he didn't expect President Yu to aim at him.

"This is not that Brother Feng insisted on doing this; it's that the investor I contacted also meant this." Seeing Yu Xing pointed the spearhead at the investor who didn't arrive.

Lu Haiying's expression eased slightly: "I thought it was Brother Feng who wanted to do this. Senior Brother, there are many investors in the world, but our company's soul is only one. If this positioning can't be recognized, then I would rather change an investor. Even if there is no investor, didn't we build Guiai Network?"

The second-in-command of Guiai Network spoke with sonorous force.

Zhong Zhiling also immediately said: "Yes, there are so many investors in the world. As long as our project is good, are we afraid we can't find one? Guiai Network built it up from nothing. I don't believe we have money and people now, and this project can't be built up. Whoever disagrees is not of one heart with us, and there's no need to force it together!"

The third-in-command of Guiai Network was sonorous and powerful.

Even though Seeing Yu Xing was the soul of the project, he had to seriously consider everyone's opinions.

Song Yufeng's face was ugly. These two people forced him into a corner...

Just then, the phone on Seeing Yu Xing's table vibrated. It was the contact information sent by the organizing committee.

"Yo, smooth." Seeing Yu Xing recorded the number in the address book and dialed Gong Haiyan of Century Jiayuan without much hesitation. She was the founder, known as the "Internet's No. 1 Matchmaker," and came directly to attend the conference this time.

The equity discussion at the restaurant table naturally subsided, and the three people waited for Seeing Yu Xing to contact.

The call went through quickly.

"Gong Zong, hello, I am Seeing Yu Xing, who will speak on stage at the Network Community Development Forum tomorrow." Seeing Yu Xing didn't introduce himself with Guiai Network, but mentioned the equal conference identity of everyone, and said enthusiastically, "Tomorrow afternoon at 4:30, I would like to invite you to come to the sub-forum to listen to my speech."

Gong Haiyan was very surprised and laughed: "Is there such an invitation?"

Seeing Yu Xing said at this time: "Hey, Gong Zong, I am a college student entrepreneur, especially worried that there will be no guests in the audience when I speak tomorrow, so I thickened my skin to find an industry senior."

Gong Haiyan was even more surprised: "Are you also doing Internet matchmaking?"

"I'm a bit involved. I'm doing 'love.' The company I founded now is Guiai Network, and the business is mainly college student love contracts." Seeing Yu Xing formally introduced his identity, "Speaking of which, Century Jiayuan is still talking to us about acquisition."

Gong Haiyan vaguely remembered the matter mentioned in the report; it seemed there was such a thing.

She thought slightly and answered with a smile: "Tomorrow afternoon at 4:30, um, your time, I have to go to the Digital Media Marketing Forum tomorrow afternoon; I have already promised a friend."

Seeing Yu Xing was not disappointed, reduced the request, and remained enthusiastic like a pure college student: "Okay, okay, Gong Zong, if you can spare time, please come to correct me. I know that you, Ma Zong of Alibaba, and President Li of Baidu are all very busy. They also have appointments and can only try to spare time."

Gong Haiyan turned her thoughts and said: "Fine, then I'll try my best. We'll see if the Digital Media Marketing Forum is exciting."

"Okay, okay, thank you, thank you." Seeing Yu Xing maintained his posture and ended the call.

The three people watching the invitation felt... smooth.

Song Yufeng couldn't help but ask: "Did you arrange it in your heart early?"

Seeing Yu Xing looked at Song Yufeng in surprise: "Arrange what?"

He shook his head and had already dialed the phone of Mu Yan, the co-founder of Baihe Network.

It was almost the same rhetoric: first indicate the identity of the conference speaker, then use industry peers to pull closer, then mention the acquisition negotiation of Guiai Network, and finally lower the request and pull out the big shots, but this time there was an additional friend-merchant founder Gong Haiyan who had truly been contacted.

Under the gaze of the three, Seeing Yu Xing didn't stop and finished contacting Li Song, the founder of Zhenai Network, and finally + Gong + Mu.

Just when Song Yufeng wanted to speak, he heard President Yu's self-talk while flipping through the phone address book.

"Alright, I can call Ma Zong of Alibaba."

He, Zhong Zhiling, and Lu Haiying held their breath in unison.

Seeing Yu Xing pressed the phone, listened for two seconds, then put it down and laughed: "Teasing you, you really thought I had his phone number?"

The three breathed a sigh of relief at the same time. This person...

Lu Haiying said the similar inner voice: "Senior Brother, I wouldn't be surprised whoever's phone number you get."

Zhong Zhiling said in time: "Just for this set of contacts, it's worth 1% of the shares."

Seeing Yu Xing looked at the two junior brother and sister, feeling that the kindness was hard to refuse, and then looked at Song Yufeng, whose face was changing, and asked helplessly: "Brother Feng..."

Song Yufeng frowned deeply: "President Yu, you think so too?"

"I don't think so." Seeing Yu Xing denied first, then seriously, "But hearing what Ying and Zhiling said, I don't seem unable to bear it."

Song Yufeng looked at these three people, looked at this startup team that popped out of Medical University, and surrendered: "Fine, fine, fine, just this set of yours, just this set of yours, it's worth 5% of the shares!"

Lu Haiying hurriedly opened a bottle of beer, and Zhong Zhiling immediately stood up to pour wine for Song Yufeng.

Seeing Yu Xing raised his cup: "Good, since it's said so, since we are gentlemen first and villains later, let's make it clear: voting rights and equity ratio are separated. I hold the control here, and then the initial shareholding ratio is allocated according to the joint value of capital and individuals. What do you think?"

Voting rights are settings that imitate many big companies, which can control the board of directors with very little equity, such as Google's AB shares.

Different from Guiai Network, the control and equity model of Hundred-Know-All must be clear.

Lu Haiying agreed: "Good, done! Senior Brother, smooth speech tomorrow!"

Zhong Zhiling laughed: "Done! Smooth price negotiation tomorrow!"

Song Yufeng knew that "done" meant agreement, but this new voting right emerged, although it seemed to have nothing to do with him.

He was a bit uncomfortable but had to agree: "Done!"

Seeing Yu Xing drank it all, looked at the three people at the table again, and only felt that human hearts could be used.

Human hearts can be used.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 71 =====