rebirth from small pockets

Chapter 611 The pursuit of capital

Author: The sea under the clouds

Chapter 611 The pursuit of capital

For a southerner, the most anticipated thing in winter is snow.

It's just that due to climate reasons, there are few opportunities to see heavy snow in the winter in the south. Even if it snows occasionally, it's basically just for fun, and the snow will definitely not accumulate.

But when we moved to the north at the same time, it turned out to be a completely different story.

As the saying goes, "Northern scenery ~ thousands of miles of ice", these eight words perfectly explain the winter in the north.

Chen Li and Liu Qingqing were better off. After all, they had stayed in Yanjing for almost three years and were already familiar with Yanjing in winter.

But for Chen Xue, who just came to Yanjing to go to school this year, the scenery of Yanjing City in winter seems a bit beautiful.

It's not that the beauty of Yanjing City in winter surprised Chen Xue, the main reason is that there has never been heavy snow in Erlong Town.

In fact, this statement is not quite right, because in Chen Li's memory, there was a heavy snowfall in Erlong Town in the 1980s.

Of course, this is completely different from the snow in the north.

But even so, this is a rare beauty in Erlong Town. In fact, this is how the word "snow" in Chen Xue's name comes from.

Because Chen Xue was born shortly after that heavy snowfall!

Also because of this heavy snow, that winter in Huilong County and even in Nancheng City, many girls who were born in winter had the word snow in their names.

However, in Chen Li's memory, it seemed that there was only one heavy snowfall.

In the following years, the little snowflakes that fell from the sky every winter in Erlong Town basically disappeared within a minute of falling on the ground!

And this winter, after seeing the heavy snow in the north, Chen Xue was naturally more excited.

For two days in a row, Chen Xue spent the whole day having fun in the school with the few sisters in the dormitory who were also from the south.

However, the snow scene on campus was actually only average. When Chen Li sent a car to take Chen Xue and her classmates to a scenic spot in the suburbs, the girl almost didn't want to go back to school.

Okay~ Actually, the reason why this is the case is that southerners don’t see much of snow.

In his previous life, Chen Li was excited for several days after seeing such heavy snow for the first time in Yanjing City.

But once the freshness wears off, it’s just like that!

After all, snow is nothing new in Yanjing City in winter.

So when it snowed heavily in Yanjing City again in December, Chen Xue was unwilling to go out to have fun, but stayed at home and cooked meat with her family.

The beef and mutton produced by Ideal Ranch ~ after being rolled in a copper pot for a few times and paired with sesame sauce and chive flowers ~ is actually a different kind of delicacy for the Chen family.

Of course, for people from Sichuan Province, this way of eating is okay if you try it occasionally.

Like Chen Li's father, it was difficult for him to accept this way of eating. On the contrary, Chen Li's mother was very accustomed to this way of eating and was very happy eating it.

The reason why the Chen family eats hot-pot meat in a copper pot today is mainly because of the hottest topic on Dianping.com recently!

Is the Sichuan style hot pot shabu-shabu delicious~or the copper pot shabu-shabu shabu-shabu?

In Chen Li’s view, this kind of question is actually boring!

Because this actually has nothing to do with taste, it's just about living habits and acceptance of food.

Sichuan people have been accustomed to the spicy taste since they were young, so even if it is shabu-shabu, Sichuan-style hot pot is naturally better.

But the old and young men in Yanjing City have been cooking meat in copper pots since they were young, so they are naturally less receptive to spicy hot pot.

The boring nature of this question is actually the same as the debate over the sweetness and saltiness of tofu nao.

Similarly, asking a gringo which Chinese food is better or their own country’s food is more delicious. This question itself is actually very problematic.

Except for those who have been in China for many years and have almost been assimilated into Chinese culture, if others say that Chinese food is more delicious, that is definitely a compliment.

Chen Li still remembers that in his previous life, some people on some video websites always made articles about this topic, by asking a bunch of foreigners to taste Chinese food, and then asking them to praise how delicious the Chinese food was.

This kind of video is nonsense. People have been eating their own food for a lifetime. After arriving in China, they immediately felt that Chinese food can surpass their country’s food. Do you believe it?

Chen Li doesn’t believe it anyway!

How do you say this? It's like Chen Li eating French steak for the first time. Although he did think it was delicious, if you ask who is more delicious, French food or Chinese food, then Chen Li will definitely choose Chinese food.

Why? Why else? Chen Li has grown up eating Chinese food. No matter which country’s food, no food is as delicious as his own food.

In fact, let alone comparing Chinese cuisine with foreign cuisine, if you asked Chen Li to choose among the eight major domestic cuisines, he would definitely choose Sichuan cuisine.

Because he is from Sichuan Province and grew up eating Sichuan food.

As for a foreigner praising Chinese food as being more delicious than food from their country, there are probably only the following possibilities.

One is out of courtesy and the other is out of some other purpose!

But there is a third possibility. The other party may be an Englishman!

Of course~ this is just a joke, although this joke is indeed somewhat true.

In short, as for this kind of debate about food, in Chen Li's opinion, it's just that he's full and has nothing to do.

But this kind of controversy can easily arouse heat.

Yes~ Just like the sweet-salty battle about tofu noodle on Dianping.com some time ago, the heat in the end got so high that even many official media outlets stopped to put out the fire.

The controversy over this sweet and salty battle was deliberately arranged by Chen Li.

Yes~ Chen Li arranged it, or did it deliberately. As for the reason, everyone knows it!

Let me just say that after the sweet and salty war controversy, the daily visits of Dianping.com directly exceeded the two million mark. This was already a very good figure in 2000.

You must know that the Tianya Forum, which became popular across the country in the future, had a daily visitor count of over 1.5 million. It was in 2004.

In 2000, Tianya Forum was just a small community with little reputation.

Chen Li estimates that it will be difficult for the current Tianya Forum to develop into what it was in its previous life. The biggest reason is that Dianping.com seems to have replaced the Tianya Forum.

It’s quite funny to say that originally Chen Li started Dianping.com to build a future Dianping website, but as a result, Dianping.com now looks more and more like a communication forum.

The most ridiculous thing is that the staff of Dianping.com, headed by Song Xiaolan, seem to have given up on the original idea of ​​​​Dianping.com and are now preparing to focus on the word "Dianping" on Dianping.com.

It’s just that this time Dianping.com is no longer reviewing merchants and stores, but the world’s affairs!

Dianping.com ~ Comment on world affairs! This is the slogan hanging on the website of Dianping.com!

Regarding this, Chen Li felt completely numb!

After all, the expansion of Dianping.com completely exceeded his expectations, but no matter what, Dianping.com has become popular.

In 2000, the prosperity of the website directly affected the value of the website.

Not to mention anything else, the valuation of Dianping.com alone has doubled several times in the investment circle.

It’s just that the boss of Dianping.com is rumored to be a rich man, so Dianping.com has not accepted any investment from individuals or investment institutions so far.

Well~ Actually, Chen Li can't hold on much longer.

In recent times, as the impact of the Internet bubble crisis has gradually diminished, a large number of investors have gradually regained confidence in the prospects of the Internet.

Although they will not invest as much in the Internet as they did in the past, they are still chasing after some Internet companies that have shown sufficient market competitiveness.

After the Sweet and Salty War, Chen Li met with eleven investors within a week, all of whom came to him and wanted to invest in Dianping.com.

There are many investors and investment institutions that Chen Li is familiar with, such as IDG Capital, which has invested in many companies including Tencent in his previous life.

Speaking of which, IDG is actually an acquaintance of Chen Li, because IDG has been chasing Chen Li before and wanted to invest in Panda QQ.

Speaking of which, IDG's investment in Tencent in the previous life was actually somewhat controversial. For this reason, when someone took over the deal, IDG quickly cashed out and left.

But now IDG has taken the initiative to chase Panda QQ. The reason is of course that today's Panda QQ is developing better than the previous Tencent QQ.

But this is normal. After all, due to financial constraints in the previous life, Tengxun's early development was actually very average and even took many detours.

But now that Chen Li has taken over QQ, he has directly avoided these problems.

Money ~ Chen Li is not lacking, and development direction ~ Chen Li is also not lacking.

Even Chen Li doesn't need to use his own brain at all, he just needs to start over the development path of Tengxun QQ in his previous life.

As for Panda QQ, the moment it reached a cooperation with a communications giant, it was actually revived.

Coupled with Chen Li's changes to Panda QQ, Panda QQ quickly occupied the domestic social software market after getting rid of the market crisis caused by the previous company's nonsense.

Subsequently, Panda QQ successively launched QQ membership services and QQ game platform, and in June this year officially launched the value-added service QQ Show and free service QQ Mailbox.

And just last month, Panda QQ had completely gotten rid of losses and achieved official profitability.

This makes Panda QQ extremely eye-catching in today’s environment where almost all Internet companies are losing money!

Therefore, under such circumstances, Chen Li's meal of shabu-shabu at home was not clean enough.

"There's no way you can continue like this!"

"If there's a call, just answer it. If you really don't want to answer it, turn off your phone."

Chen Guofu saw that his son's cell phone kept ringing, but Chen Li still refused to answer the phone. This was really annoying.

Chen Li was also a little depressed. He didn't expect that Mr. Xiong from IDG was so pestering. He had obviously rejected him several times, but this guy still kept pestering him.

Uh~ Don't get me wrong~ The reason why this person is pestering Chen Li is naturally because of investment matters.

To be honest, this is the first time that Chen Li has encountered such a difficult person. He has clearly made his words clear, but the other person still tries to fight with him.

Previously, Chen Li directly rejected the other party. Instead of backing down, Mr. Xiong rose to the challenge and called Chen Li every day.

Later, Chen Li became a little annoyed by this person, so he offered a valuation that was astronomical at this stage. As a result, something that Chen Li did not expect happened.

Chen Li didn't know how Mr. Xiong persuaded the investors of IDG Capital, but they actually agreed to Chen Li's offer.

Now the problem comes to Chen Li!

Accept it~ Chen Li has no intention of accepting financing at this stage, and to put it bluntly~ he is not short of money.

Don't accept it~ He has already said what he said before, but he still agreed to it. If he doesn't give an explanation, what will Chen Li do in the future?

In fact, it makes sense~ IDG Capital is definitely one of the best cooperation partners at the moment.

As the first foreign investment fund to enter the Chinese market, IDG Capital is definitely the leader in China's venture capital industry.

And the most important thing is that they not only provide funds to entrepreneurs, but also provide certain help and support to the invested companies after investing.

This is actually a reflection of resources and connections, and it is also what Chen Li wants, and IDG has no shortage of both!

The main reason why Chen Li was unwilling to agree was that behind this capital was a large group from Beautiful Country.

To put it bluntly, Chen Li was a little tired of this, so he kept dragging the other party.

But what can I say~ This kind of thing obviously cannot be solved by procrastinating.

Now this matter has affected his normal life, so Chen Li must solve this matter.

"Hey~ Mr. Xiong!"

Thinking of this, Chen Li put down his chopsticks, took his cell phone and answered the call.

"Well~ I was having dinner with my family just now and didn't hear the call."

"It's okay, it's okay~ I should be the one to say sorry!"

"Okay~ Then send me your address and I'll rush over right away!"

"good!"

Chen Li hung up the phone, sighed and said to his parents:

"Hey~ Then I'll go and settle the work matters first. You can eat!"

After saying that, Chen Li made an apologetic expression to Liu Qingqing next to him.

I originally planned to spend some time with Liu Qingqing tonight, but now it seems I have no choice.

Fortunately, Liu Qingqing understood Chen Li very well. Instead of being angry, she took the initiative to get up and help Chen Li pack his briefcase.

At this moment, Chen Xue, who was opposite him, rolled his eyes and quickly got up and took Chen Li's coat from the hanger.

"Um?"

"You have nothing to do to show your courtesy, what do you want to buy?"

Seeing his sister like this, Chen Li still didn't understand that this little girl obviously wanted something from him.

"Hehe~hehe!"

"Well. I want to get a driver's license!"

"Testing for a driver's license? Hiss!"

Chen Li really took a breath of cold air at this moment. Although it doesn't actually cost much to get a driver's license these days, the problem is.

I have passed the driver’s license test~ So does Chen Li want to buy Chen Xue a car?

Of course, this actually has nothing to do with money. Chen Li even bought a courtyard house for Chen Xue before, but he hasn't told this girl yet.

After all, Chen Xue is just a college student, and Chen Li doesn't want this girl to appear too arrogant.

"Xiaoxue wants to learn to drive?"

"This is a good thing ~ leave this matter to me!"

Just at this time, Liu Qingqing came over with Chen Li's briefcase. After listening, she looked at Chen Xue with a smile.

"Ah~ sister-in-law, you are so kind!"

Hearing Liu Qingqing's words, Chen Xue threw her coat directly into Chen Li's hand, then moved to Liu Qingqing in a teleport and hugged him.

"Uh okay!"

Chen Li was a little helpless, but this kind of thing was actually the same as his appointment tonight. It was completely unavoidable.

(End of chapter)