The plane landed at San Francisco International Airport at three o'clock in the afternoon, but swear to God, they hadn't slept for more than twenty hours, and at the moment, the sun was shining.

The weather here can be described as good, sunny, neither hot nor cold, or it can be called dry, so dry that you can't find a chance to wet anyone.

There is another meaning, if you are just here for tourism, then it doesn't matter, if you come to work, then please bring your own object, and look at her.

This is Silicon Valley, with a very large group of rich and intelligent men, and most of the code farmers are men, so from the perspective of the marriage market, this is an absolute female market, and there are countless excellent men, and it is very easy for single women to get rid of singles.

After leaving the airport, you need to drive to Mountain View, which is the headquarters of Google, in fact, Silicon Valley is more like a big rural area, although it is famous all over the world, but there are no high-rise buildings here, and the buildings are even sparse, so it is better to have a car here, otherwise you will be miserable.

This is the first time Wen Xiaoguang has come to California, and it is also the first time to come to the center of the universe in the eyes of these technologists.

But if we put our impression of Manhattan or Victoria Harbor in New York here, it is completely wrong, the car is on a kilometer, most of the grass on both sides, there are more cars on the road or BBA, and the roads and buildings are not so tall, maybe these rough science students are too naïve.

On the plane, Chu Qiuchen said that he would not introduce people to him again, it was a joke, and she could distinguish between serious and unserious things.

However, it was really uncomfortable for her to do this, she just said it casually at the time, but now that she thinks about it, it is not very good for Yao'er.

This made her very entangled.

Wen Xiaoguang said: "No one can live without anyone, and don't you say that I am not a good person, let your Yao'er stay away from me, and I will not be light or heavy when the time comes...... I'm still friends with you after all. ”

Chu Qiuchen propped his chin, "You say that, it seems to make some sense." ”

"Whatever you want, I'll visit your mother first. ”

If you don't know, forget it, you still have to pay a visit if you know.

"She has something to visit. ”

Wen Xiaoguang felt strange, when he was on the plane just now, Sarah told him that Silicon Valley is a place with a very high cost of living, why did she come to such an expensive place?

"Should you visit or visit, by the way, what does your mother do?" Wen Xiaoguang asked.

She opened two Chinese restaurants. Chu Qiuchen said: "There are a huge number of Chinese Americans in Silicon Valley, and many people describe the poor days here as paradise. But my mom is not in Mountain View, in Palo Alto, where Stanford University is located, and there are a lot of domestic tourists, children studying abroad, and business is better. ”

"Then let's go to Palo Alto instead. ”

"It's all in Santa Clara County, although Palo Alto is a city, it's very small, and six Palo Alto is the size of Haidian District. ”

Wen Xiaoguang didn't know if he hadn't been here, "Ah, so small?"

The most important core areas of Silicon Valley include Palo Alto (Stanford), Mountain View (Google), and Sunnyvale (AMD, Yahoo).

Even the capital of Santa Clara County and the third largest city in California, San Jose is only 3,400 square kilometers, which is basically half the size of the magic capital, but Apple, Intel, HP, Facebook, and Google are all in these places.

The place is small, there are many companies, and there are few cultural and entertainment venues here after work, so people call this ghost place a cultural desert.

Do you think nighttime events are parties, concerts, and dramas?

I'm sorry, but the term here is night school, which is actually a bunch of yarders exchanging techniques and ideas.

A bunch of science students can't afford to play with such a high salary, so they should be dragged to Pattaya.

Wen Xiaoguang communicated with Sarah, and the place she initially arranged was Mountain View, because WhatsApp was there, and this is the company that was most willing to contact them, and currently only had a $250,000 financing.

The founder was Ukrainian Jan Kum, who vowed never to rely on advertising revenue, which is good, but it is natural that there is a lack of money.

When Sarah heard that she was going to Palo Alto City first, she thought it was perfectly fine, because the two places were close to each other anyway.

It's not suitable to talk about any cooperation today, I haven't slept for more than 20 hours, and I'll talk about it after adjusting the jet lag.

Chen Bei pulled out a map next to him and said, "I want to go to the Computer History Museum." ”

"Computer History Museum?" Wen Xiaoguang didn't know what it was.

Chu Qiuchen interjected: "The hobby of technology nerds, there are a bunch of old antiques in there, all of them are king-sized computers, and some sages they regard as gods. ”

Chen Bei didn't think so, "Don't you always say that you don't understand technology? There are the most primitive computers in the museum, although they are very large, but the complexity is far less exaggerated than today's notebooks, through which you can understand the principles of computers." ”

Wen Xiaoguang thought to himself, I used to be a top student, but I didn't know how to learn computers and couldn't understand those programming languages, so I didn't understand the principles of computing, right?

"You'd better go on your own. ”

Chu Qiuchen laughed, "I'll just say that not many people are interested in that thing." ”

Chen Bei was helpless, so go by yourself.

"Boss, can I arrange a specific meeting for you now?" asked Sarah.

Wen Xiaoguang nodded, "Make an appointment with the founder of WhatsApp, set a time, keep in touch with the others, and inform them that I am here." ”

"No problem, my boss. The hotel ......."

Chu Qiuchen said: "Stay with me, it's a villa, haven't you stayed in a hotel enough?"

She spoke in English, and Wen Xiaoguang said, "Listen to her." ”

Sarah now understands that this aunt is also a rich man.

Housing prices in Silicon Valley are very expensive, and the kind of two-story buildings that you see on TV in the big rural style of the United States are basically millions of dollars here, and the four-bedroom and five-bedroom ones need to pay $5 million to take away.

And there is a property tax here, and the property tax paid every year alone is between 20,000 and 30,000 US dollars, which is basically the annual salary of the average domestic office worker.

Of course, in other areas, this type of building is not so expensive.

In our concept, this is easy to understand, the 90-square-meter ordinary apartment on the Huangpu River and the 90-square-meter house in the 18th-tier small city may be the same, but the price is very different.

This trip took an hour and a half to drive, and Wen Xiaoguang was a little curious, so he didn't sleep all the way until he got to the small villa she said.

The driver was a white man and offered to go to the back compartment to help them get their luggage.

Wen Xiaoguang paid him a $20 tip, and everything was carried to the door.

This villa is said to be a villa, but it is better to say that we are in the countryside that are connected to the L-shaped house, the horizontal part is two-storey, and the left side is vertically a one-story cottage.

There is a small stone road leading to the door, the stone slab is not wide, only enough for one person to walk, as if the road is surrounded by grass, on the right side of the road is a flourishing tree, on the left there is a vacant space paved with coffee-colored wooden boards, on which three bamboo chairs are placed, when the sun is warm, find two friends to sit down and chat.

The decoration of the house is a typical modern high-end home style, and some of the differences are that the front and back walls of the house are equipped with large pieces of glass, and the house is quite bright.

Chu Qiuchen opened the door and shouted twice, but no one answered, "My mother should be at work, I'll take you to the bedroom." Behind is a big meadow where we can make ourselves some barbecue in the evening. ”

Chen Bei asked: "I see a wild squirrel, can you roast and eat it if you catch it?"

Chu Qiuchen looked at him, devil. There are a lot of wild squirrels here, and no one ever said they were going to catch them and roast them.

"I'm surprised, why are you the only one who thought of this?"

"I'll go to the toilet first," Wen Xiaoguang said to Chen Bei, "If you're going to roast, remember that I want cumin, I think a Chinese restaurant should have it." ”

Chu Qiuchen: "......"

"The bathroom is out of the door behind you to the right. ”

This door is both front and back, and when the weather is comfortable, both sides are opened, and it is not comfortable.

But now it was obviously uncomfortable, because he was dumbfounded as soon as the door opened, and there was a white back in the shower.

"Chu Qiuchen, there is someone in your house!" Wen Xiaoguang immediately closed the door and shouted wittily, "I heard the voice inside!"