I'm The Hard Rice King

Chapter 413 The little troubles of five people living together

The journey always ends, but life goes on.

At twelve o'clock in the evening on April 12, everyone took the opportunity to arrive in the capital and returned to their homes.

This journey has come to an end, and everyone has gained something different. The one who gained the most is undoubtedly Li Peifeng.

Not only did he officially turn Lao Zhao into his fiancée, but the five-in-one relationship was also more stable.

When Li Peifeng proposed to Zhao Qingge, the three girls Wu, Xu, and Huang were really angry about it, but by the time they got home, their anger had almost dissipated.

After all, it's just a proposal, and it's not worth getting angry at all. The two of them will get married in the future. If they are so angry now, won't they be angry to death when they see the scene of the two taking their wedding vows?

And ignore it.

When I figured out that the phrase "the good days are yet to come" was a lie, and that all life can bring to people is a series of unsolvable problems, I fell into a sea of ​​incomparable peace.

The next day, Wednesday, everyone returned to their busy daily routine, going to work when they should go to work, and going to school when they should go to school.

Li Peifeng still planned to stay at home and code, but after a while, he received a call from He Yimeng.

"I've been in contact with all the mobile game companies you mentioned, and the prices offered are too high. Considering all things considered, I think it's better to start one myself, or acquire a more capable game development studio, and then use it as a basis. The skeleton is gradually built..."

After He Yimeng resigned from Trinity, he focused all his energy on this.

Li Peifeng has been traveling for more than a week, and she has not been idle every day. The first five days were for tutoring on the mobile game industry, and the next few days were spent contacting acquisition targets and negotiating one by one.

The final answer given to Li Peifeng was also well thought out. Even the specific plan and studio acquisition target were prepared. Li Peifeng felt that it made sense after hearing it, so he directly adopted it.

"Okay, as you said, if you need my help when making acquisitions or recruiting people, just contact me."

"Of course I need you to come forward. Are you home?"

"Hmm...How about I go find you now?"

"Come here, I plan to visit that studio in the afternoon, and you should go too."

"no problem."

When he came to Baoyu Community again, Li Peifeng no longer hid his head and tail as usual. He drove directly to the downstairs of He Yimeng and walked into her house openly.

"I see the garage is closed, and you've closed the psychological counseling room as well?"

"I don't have time to take any more cases. Another counselor is on leave today, so it's closed."

He Yimeng was wearing pajamas, opened the door and went straight to the bedroom: "Come with me, I will show you the information about that studio."

As early as eight or nine years ago, developing mobile games was a fertile paradise for game designers of any level and level. At that time, you only needed to own a smartphone, know the Xcode integrated development tool, and have enough ideas and creativity to join this exciting field with huge potential.

From game design blueprint to market investment, even an individual or a small team of several people can complete a mobile game within weeks to months, so there are countless domestic mobile game development studios.

To put it bluntly, at that time, mobile games were the mainstream, and even pigs could fly if they stood on the mainstream.

However, with the development of the smartphone era, mobile phone hardware continues to change and upgrade, and capital is valued, more terminal game production companies have also begun to get involved in the field of mobile games, and other factors have caused the development costs of 3D mobile games to increase exponentially. , the tastes of players have become more picky, and the difficulty of operation has also increased.

Although there are some creative games that, combined with amazing luck, can make games operated on a low budget set off trends and create cultural phenomena, the probability of winning a lottery jackpot is simply too low. The chances of success for small mobile game development teams and developers are disappearing. Only mobile game companies with stronger funds, willing to spend a lot of money on production, and a lot of money on marketing, can gain a firm foothold in this more involved market.

Therefore, many mobile game production studios are facing the crisis of bankruptcy. The old games they once produced are no longer popular in the market. Their monthly revenue is getting less and less every day. It is unsustainable to operate and they cannot develop new games. New games that meet the appetites of contemporary players, or problems with the financial chain due to increased development costs, put the project on hold.

Most founders don’t want their hard work to be completely wiped out. They also want to find a new owner for it before it suffers a loss, so that they can cash out and leave.

The Menglong Studio that He Yimeng showed Li Peifeng is like this. It has a scale of more than 30 people and developed an RPG-type 3D mobile game three years ago. At its peak, it achieved a monthly revenue of one million However, it only lasted for less than half a year. Due to operational problems and changes in players' tastes, the revenue dropped rapidly.

The founder of Menglong was also a game developer with a dream. After making a certain profit from the first game, he immediately started a new project, increased the budget, and recruited people to start a big project.

After a year of painstaking research and development, the new game was released, but the market response was very lukewarm.

The production cost increased tenfold, and the results achieved were not half as good as the first game. It was difficult to maintain the game for two years. The founder of Menglong was discouraged and resigned to his fate and wanted to sell it.

"This studio has a certain amount of experience and technology in RPG production. Although its two mobile games are still in operation, they are both unable to make ends meet and are not far away from being shut down. Therefore, the price to acquire it will be relatively low. , all that needs to be considered is the cost of equipment and personnel, I estimate that it can be won at about two to three million."

"When the acquisition comes over, we will recruit more people, and "Sword and Law" will basically be launched!"

Li Peifeng looked and nodded: "When did you make an appointment to meet?"

"At two o'clock, go directly to the studio, which is about ten kilometers away."

Li Peifeng withdrew his gaze and carefully looked at He Yimeng. The ends of his white hair were a little yellow, and his complexion was not very good-looking. It was obvious that He Yimeng had spent a lot of time and effort on this matter during the week he was out for fun. He couldn't help but feel distressed and moved. Said: "Mengmeng, thank you for your hard work."

"Don't just play lip service."

He Yimeng said flatly: "Think about it carefully, how many shares should I share at that time, as long as I am worthy of my hard work."

Li Peifeng pretended to be generous: "What's mine is yours, and I'll give it to you as much as you want. Let's do this. I'll work hard first, give you some love, and use it as interest."

"Give it up, I don't need that kind of worthless thing at all!!"

The louder you growl, the more you need it.

Li Peifeng ignored He Yimeng's struggle and poured in the energy of love. He made lunch afterwards. While He Yimeng was eating the meal with a rosy face, He Yimeng calmly asked: "How do you feel about this trip? What do you want me to ask for?" How about it?"

Li Peifeng hesitated for a moment, and finally told the truth: "It's okay, everything went well."

…

"You two... are you Ms. He?"

"Yes, this is Mr. Li, my partner."

"Hello Hello."

Perhaps due to the reason that they are proud in love and frustrated in the workplace, the two did not go well with the acquisition of Magnum Studios.

After arriving on time at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, Li Peifeng and He Yi dreamed of the boss Xu Long, a middle-aged man in his early forties, wearing jeans and a white shirt.

Under the leadership of Xu Long, the two visited the studio. The employees were working as usual, with normal expressions, and occasionally glanced at the visitors. Although the voices of the discussions were very low, Li Peifeng learned all about them.

They also learned that the studio was looking for investment, met Li Peifeng and He Yimeng, and were surprised that the acquirer was so young.

"It doesn't look like an investment, it should be the rich second generation who wants to play tickets."

"We can't discuss it again."

"Don't make wild guesses, it doesn't seem to be the rich second generation, because that handsome guy looks familiar to me..."

"Don't tell me, that beauty looks familiar to me!"

Both Li Peifeng and He Yimeng are well-known. Some people recognize them, and some people don't. Xu Long belongs to the latter group. Seeing that they are so young, he thinks they are rich second-generation people who have just graduated from college and are looking for something to do. He wanted to do it, so he tried his best to trick the two of them into investing in Menglong Studio using some fluent words.

That's right, from an acquisition to a shareholding.

Most entrepreneurs would not want to hand over their business to others if they were not really forced to do anything else. Xu Long was the same. When he saw two people who were suspected of being rich and ignorant, he wanted to swindle some money. Come, continue to control Menglong Studio and develop a new project to bring it back to life...

Li Peifeng and He Yimeng looked at each other and saw what the other person was thinking, but they also tacitly agreed to let Xu Long continue to act, listening to him draw the pie, boasting about how powerful his employees' skills were, and how powerful his new project was. How creative.

When Xu Long's mouth was dry and he felt something was wrong in his heart, He Mengcai said with a half-smile: "Boss Xu doesn't seem to be sincere. I remember that we were talking about acquisitions on the phone. Why?" After we arrived, did you change your tone again?"

Xu Long's eyes flashed with embarrassment, and he laughed and said: "It's an acquisition. I'm willing to transfer 40% of the equity. How can this not be an acquisition?"

"My partners may not have made it clear to you before. What we want is a full acquisition, not a shareholding."

Li Peifeng calmly introduced himself: "I am an online article author. The purpose of acquiring game companies is actually to operate the copyright of my works..."

Mr. Li briefly talked about his thoughts, and then bluntly stated that he could only acquire the company wholly because Xu Long is the founder of this company. If you continue to stay here, it will cause inconvenience to the subsequent management of the company. Then he asked He Yimeng He said: "I see that Boss Xu is still very reluctant to leave his company. Let's go directly to the second one. There is no need to waste each other's time."

How can there be a second one for them to look at?

Time was in a hurry, so it would be great for He Yimeng to find such a studio that was on the verge of bankruptcy and had the conditions to develop RPG mobile games. But she knew very well that Mr. Li was acting, so she hummed in agreement and stood up to leave.

"Wait, wait, you two sit down first, it's not like I can't consider it."

Xu Long saw that the negotiation was about to collapse, so he sighed and tried to persuade him to stay, and the real negotiations began.

But he insisted on a price of five million and refused to let go. The reason was that the studio was strong and the two old games in operation still made a little money every month. As long as they were promoted properly and some gameplay updates were made, they would definitely be able to come back to life.

Li Peifeng was quite satisfied with the price of five million, but He Yimeng shook his head repeatedly.

She had done enough homework before coming, and the highest estimate she could give for Menglong's work was three million, but Xu Long's price was less than half higher, so Bai Mao started a fierce price bargaining mode...

"We can give up the two previous mobile games of Menglong. Boss Xu, you can take them away. After all, even if we take over, we will directly shut down their servers and dedicate all our efforts to develop our own projects. Frankly speaking, what we value is just Your studio has a mature team. We don’t need the others at all, so I think two million is a relatively fair price.”

"If you are not satisfied, we can only make other choices, or dig them out on the day Menglong is disbanded? Sorry, what I said was a bit unpleasant... but you have been in the business world for so many years, you should still be able to accept the reality. Right?"

Xu Long couldn't accept it at all, not because he couldn't accept the reality, but because he couldn't accept the price of two million.

The conversation reached a deadlock, and He Yimeng really wanted to leave after leaving a single word.

"The maximum is 2.6 million. This is our bottom line. If you have any intention, please call me. If you don't, forget it. Goodbye."

He Yimeng left very decisively. Although Li Peifeng wanted to agree in his heart, he did not show it and followed He Yimeng calmly and left.

"Five million is too high, but four million can still be considered... You just opened the deal for 260, how can you be so confident? What if he doesn't sell? Do you have any backup options?"

"It's only two hundred and sixty. He will definitely contact me again within two days. Do you know why?"

"Why?"

He Yimeng said: "First, there are not many people interested in acquiring this company, and the price we offered should be the highest. Otherwise, after hearing my final offer, his first reaction should not be to purse his lips and hesitate. Instead, he frowned with disdain. Secondly, I asked about the property management of this office building. The rent on the fifteenth floor, which is the Menglong floor, is due at the end of this month."

"Menglong rented an area of ​​400 square meters. The rent per square meter per day here is 4.5 yuan, which is 54,000 yuan a month. This is not a big amount of money, but for Menglong, which is barely maintaining operations at the moment, it can be less. An expense is an expense. Besides, if Xu Long still wanted to persist, he would have paid the rent long ago, and it would not be delayed until now."

"Six six six!"

Facts have proved that He Yumeng's inference is correct.

Within two days, at noon the next day, Xu Long made an appointment with the two of them again. After another long conversation, they finally signed a contract and reached a wholly-owned acquisition deal at a price of 2.8 million.

The layoffs that employees in the studio were worried about did not happen, because after Xu Long and the two new bosses reached the deal, they immediately held a meeting to appease people and promised that there would never be layoffs or salary cuts. Instead, they would Continue to expand enrollment to cope with the normal operation of the "Sword and Law" mobile game project.

"I will send the outline of this book to everyone soon. The task for all of you at this stage is to read it as soon as possible."

Li Peifeng added without hesitation: "Of course, it's best to read the text published now. I suggest... read the original version! In order to avoid you privately saying that I, the boss, am doing business for personal gain, and that I took money from my subordinates on the first day I took over. , I’ll treat you to a big dinner tonight, the price is five hundred yuan per person!”

"Pa bang bang~"

The applause was loud, the employees were reassured, and some who had heard of "Sword and Law" and understood its influence were already beginning to imagine what this project would achieve.

"Mr. He, do you have anything to add?"

He Yimeng shook his head gently: "Let's break up the meeting."

"I just read dozens of chapters of Mr. Li's book yesterday. All I can say is that I was shocked when I met you late. If it is developed into a mobile game, it will definitely achieve great success in the future."

Back in the office, Xu Long sighed and regretted: "It's a pity that I can't participate in this project."

Li Peifeng smiled and said: "If you stay as the founder, Yimeng and I will have concerns. You'd better be more understanding."

"Understand, understand."

Xu Long sighed, then forced a smile: "Then... I'll say goodbye to them and let them concentrate on working for the new owner."

After he left, Li Peifeng turned his attention to He Yimeng.

The other party was wearing a one-piece dark gray suit and a pair of canvas shoes. He looked fashionable and capable. However, the most impressive thing about Li Peifeng was He Yimeng's hair. The original three thousand blue hairs had been dyed back to black. Dyed this morning.

Li Peifeng was very surprised when they first met her. He asked her why she dyed her hair back, and the answer was simple: "I will have to be a manager in the future, and it is not appropriate to have white hair on my head."

It does look more serious, but less cute, which is a pity!

"What are you looking at? Haven't you seen enough?"

He Yimeng sat in front of the computer, sending the outline of "Sword and Law" to his subordinates, staring at the screen intently.

Li Peifeng walked up behind her and massaged her shoulders and neck while saying: "I think it's hard for you to abandon your specialty of psychological counseling and start a mobile game across industries with just one sentence. You will definitely be particularly worried about it in the future, so I couldn’t help but take another look... By the way, I want to change the name Menglong, what do you think would be a better name?"

He Yimeng took a deep breath: "You can call me whatever you want, as long as you don't force me to scream out here."

Li Peifeng raised his eyebrows: "That's not the case. My massage technique is very normal. I didn't forget to leave at all."

"As long as you touch me, I can't help but scream! Let go, stay away from me as a human body, don't test my willpower!"

Li Peifeng hates that iron cannot be made into steel: "You...you are the ones who want to be the boss, why are your willpower so weak? No, I have to test you!"

…

Young people may not realize the subtlety of time. It flows through everyone in the same way, but everyone spends time in different ways.

For Li Peifeng, who works 168 hours a week and is awake for 160 hours, his attitude towards time is more calm and calm.

In addition to coding every day, Li Peifeng occasionally goes to his own mobile game company, or to two other companies responsible for the animation and comic film and television production of "Sword and Law".

But he still spends more time and energy on the girl beside him.

To stabilize and deepen the emotional connection with others is what Li Peifeng cherishes the most.

Under his management, the four girls living together have never had any major quarrels, but as the saying goes: How can one live without touching the bottom of the pot?

Even between two lovers, living together is still stumbling, not to mention one man and four women living in a villa?

Even if Li Peifeng tried his best to avoid it, petty troubles were inevitable.

Especially after Zhao Qingge was proposed to, his mentality seemed to have undergone some subtle changes. To put it bluntly, he became more possessive, and the hostess' psychology increased, which indirectly made such petty fights occur more frequently than before. It happens more often before traveling...

The cause of the incident was that after everyone had dinner, Zhao Qingge said to Li Peifeng in a commanding tone, "It's time for you to go to bed today. Go back to the master bedroom to sleep." This meant that he wanted him to sleep in the same room and bed with him.

It seems that he wants to get closer to Li Peifeng, but in fact, Lao Zhao wants to keep Li firmly in his hands to prevent him from running into the rooms of three other girls in the middle of the night and doing bad things.

Li Peifeng didn't say anything about this, but the three people whose interests had been harmed were unwilling to do so. Xu Manying was the first to speak out in a strange way: "Some people are planning to occupy the manhole again and not shit."

Wu Wenyue also said: "Maybe it's because I got used to sleeping together during the two days of traveling, and I can't get used to the absence of a man on the bed."

Huang Tianxuan smiled and said: "That night in Sapu..."

The night she stayed in the RV under the Sapu Snow Mountain was still a thorn in Zhao Qingge's heart. When Huang Tianxuan mentioned it, her face immediately darkened and she shouted sternly to shut up.

Li Peifeng could bear this attitude, but the three of them were not used to it, so they raised their volume and shouted back on the spot.

"What's wrong? Why are you shouting?"

"Put away your wedding ring. Isn't it just to propose marriage to you? Sooner or later, we will divorce. Why are you so arrogant? Have you forgotten how we discussed it in the first place?"

"She didn't discuss it with us. I think she intends to monopolize it."

"Shameless, you are still his mentor, forget it? You don't want any teacher's morality, right? I'm ashamed for you!"

One mouth can only speak three words. Zhao Qingge did not open his mouth to fight back. He got up from the table and went upstairs to the master bedroom. After a while, he came down again with a big book in his hand and took a picture of the thing called the 'House Ownership Certificate' On the table, a loud voice said: "This is my house, if you continue to quarrel, please go out!"

This was a killer move, but the three girls were unabated, either sneering or disdainful. Xu Manying even looked at Li Peifeng and asked, "She's chasing us, and you don't care? If you don't care, I'll leave. We have a lot of houses. It seems like who It’s like I’m happy to live here!”

They quarreled more often, and Li Peifeng coaxed more and became a little impatient, but continued to eat calmly: "None of you need to leave, I will leave after dinner, and I will just find a hotel to stay for one night." ”

Xu Manying's tone was stagnant. He didn't expect Li Peifeng's reaction, but Wu Wenyue curled her lips: "You still have to go to a hotel? Just find a wild woman and sleep at her house. We can't give you any warmth here!"

Huang Tianxuan frowned: "Peifeng, is this your attitude towards solving problems? Now that you're showing your original shape, what will you do in the future?"

Zhao Qingge was really angry, staring at Li Peifeng expressionlessly without saying a word.

Li Peifeng glanced at her, then glanced around again: "Can I stop sleeping? I'm not sleepy today."

"What about tomorrow? What about the day after tomorrow?"

Zhao Qingge paused word by word: "What about after you marry me? Are you still planning to split the house?"

"At that time, I actually wanted to book a special big bed for five people..."

"!!"

The atmosphere suddenly became dangerous, Li Peifeng knew he had slipped his words, raised his rice bowl a bit, and slammed the rice into his mouth.

"Li Peifeng, please tell me clearly!"

With a livid face, Zhao Qingge wanted to ask him what he meant by ordering a big bed, when Li Peifeng's cell phone rang.

Video call, caller, Yu Huizhi!

"Hello, Mom?"

Li Peifeng quickly connected, and scanned the camera on the faces of several girls one by one, and their expressions unified into unnatural smirks.

"Hello, aunt."

"How are you feeling?"

"Hello to you too."

Yu Huizhi responded politely. When she saw Li Peifeng's face reappearing on the camera, she asked tentatively: "Fengfeng, what are you... doing?"

"eat."

Yu Huizhi muttered, "I thought we were quarreling," and then smiled: "The TV series "Evil Boss" has been released, and the ratings are quite high. Have you all watched it?"

(End of chapter)