Chapter 19: Is This Okay?
Cheng Ran finally hung up the phone to Yang Xia, who came home, and said that he was just joking at the time, so don't take it to heart.
Sometimes many misunderstandings are caused between words, some deliberate jokes are harmless, but some casual words are hurtful and invisible.
And for some friends who have all disappeared from each other's lives for a while, it seems that it is difficult to distinguish where the line between a joke and an inadvertent sting is.
Of course, Cheng Ran doesn't want this "mind" to expand, and as a "person who has come over", he has not been able to let go of some misunderstandings he knows best, and it is likely that he will never have a chance to let go of his feelings.
As a result, when Yang Xia took the phone, his tone was relaxed, not at all like the sparkling eyes in Cheng Ran's house.
Cheng Ran was confused when he heard it, and when he explained a little, Yang Xia laughed.
This laugh made Cheng Ran a little confused.
Then Yang Xia's excited voice came from the microphone, "Aha, I finally deceived you, in fact, I didn't get angry......"
Cheng Ran: "......"
Give you three seconds to explain or you'll be killed.
"You're allowed to joke, I'm not allowed to joke...... You have forgotten that when I performed a skit at the festival, my acting skills were top-notch. Now it's not easy to perform a grievance or something!"
Well, you can still play like this.
thought about it for a while, it seemed that when Yang Xia turned around to speak, he was wronged, but there was a little more cunning in his eyes, and he actually hid himself, this girl is ......
"Of course I know you're not really talking about me, because I'm not like that to you......" Yang Xia paused for a moment, then added, "Well, and not only for you, but also for all my friends, I'm not stingy!"
Hearing that Cheng Ran didn't follow up, Yang Xia smiled lightly, "Aren't you disappointed?"
"Lost hope. Cheng Ran smiled, "If you are good to everyone, then your good is not special and precious enough, isn't it unfair to people who are particularly good to you?"
Yang Xia was stunned for a moment, "It makes sense." Then I should learn from my opinions, change little by little, and only be very good to people who are good to me in the future, Cheng Ran, do you belong to that kind of person?"
"Because it's the kind that shouldn't be alienated by you. ”
"Hehe, I don't think so!"
“......”
"Hey, hey, lied to your ......"
The two then sparked a conversation.
In Cheng Ran's house before, there were parents on both sides staring, and it seemed that they couldn't talk, it was the mothers of both sides who were talking about their troubles when they were children, it was simply the scene of a large-scale rollover accident, and the two seemed to be shaking off their children's shame in the game, and they were one point weaker than each other.
Under this continuous output, Cheng Ran used an electric plug to insert his nostrils when he was a child, Xiao Yang Xia cut his eyelashes with scissors and cried for three days, learned to ride a bicycle in elementary school, Yang Xia rode Cheng Ranfu, and then the two fell into the roadside drainage ditch together, that cold winter Cheng Ran bought ice cream for Yang Xia to take a bite first, but the whole mouth was sticky, and when he got home, he kept flushing with water, his mouth was torn and bleeding, and the initiator Cheng Ran was beaten by his parents next to him......
But it seems that it is also because of these things that their mothers shake off, but it seems that there are a lot of memories between the two, and when I talk about it on the phone at this time, I feel a little embarrassed about the loss of childhood.
In the end, Yang Xia said, "Cheng Ran, let's go to see the fireworks during the Lantern Festival after the New Year, will you come along?"
Shanhai is a tourist city, there is a very famous lantern festival program every Spring Festival, later generations are also rated as the international lantern festival, the lantern festival is always prepared in advance, set up a venue by the lake, is to use the light box to make a variety of shapes, as well as the large-scale performance of the song and dance troupe, the unified fireworks show of the municipal government is fixed on the opposite bank.
The fireworks exploded in the sky, and the lantern festival on earth seemed to reflect each other, becoming a major signboard of the mountains and seas.
In particular, after the success of the Sanhai venue of last year's International Tourism Festival, Sanhai's reputation has become even greater, and this year, the number of tourists who came to see the lantern festival hit a record high, including many foreigners.
When I was a child, I liked fireworks, and it seemed that as I grew older, I gradually lost this kind of stimulation, but when I heard Yang Xia say this, Cheng Ran, who didn't want to go out at that time and just wanted to be at home, agreed.
......
The Spring Festival of '99 came like this, and on Chinese New Year's Eve, a large family had a reunion dinner and exchanged greetings, and Cheng Bin also came back for the New Year, and now the whole family knows that Cheng Bin served as the deputy commander of the Lei Wei case, and belongs to the number one person standing in the center of the storm in Rongcheng. It can be said that Lei Wei was even knocked down by him.
In the eyes of many people, Cheng Bin is an undoubted hero.
Of course, the people in the family are used to Cheng Bin's unbeatable ride, and now when eating, Cheng Bin listens to whatever he says, and he will not deliberately inquire about some confidential details about the case. It's just what Cheng Bin said, which made the whole family feel refreshed, and it was the kind of pride that belonged to standing on the side of justice for his family.
Of course, it is about the deeper content, why Cheng Bin launched a blow to Lei Wei, and what happened to Cheng Ran was properly covered up in front of his family.
After all, even if I tell everyone now, it will only rely on everyone's fear of that turmoil.
This seems to have just become the secret shared by Cheng Ran, Cheng Feiyang, and Cheng Bin.
Cheng Qi is very proud of his uncle, when he talked about the black storm in Rongcheng, he heard everyone in school and was frightened, but he couldn't tell his classmates, roommate and friend Cheng Bin was his uncle, the one who suffocated himself!
Cheng Bin stretched out his hand and scratched his hair, smiling.
Cheng Qi's Lianzhong platform has now exceeded 10,000 people online at the same time, and the number of registered people has rapidly grown to 200,000. Of course, similar to the work of playing and promoting, they are all looking for part-time personnel with relatively high mobility. But even so, the monthly expenses still need more than 100,000 yuan. That's a terrible expense right now. However, fortunately, there is also the income of board games, which can make up for the loss of this piece.
Cheng Qi wanted to talk to Cheng Ran several times, but he didn't have a chance, it can be seen that Cheng Qi is still relatively arrogant, especially as a typical example of college students' entrepreneurship, he has received a lot of praise in the school. Of course, it is said that there are also a lot of subjects this year, and the angry college counselor called directly to his home, asking Cheng Qi not to always worry about entrepreneurship, but also to take care of studying.
In fact, even if he reads like his counselor, he will get a dead salary for a lifetime, how much money can he have, and it can be compared to the cost of maintaining the website for a year?
Of course, if it is only at the level of making money, Cheng Qi also has his reasons for this idea, after all, he has seen such a scenery in advance, saying that it is a university, but in fact, one foot has stepped into the society, as a social person, there are hundreds of thousands of people who come and go every month, how can he really endure his temperament and return to the life of a college student to read those textbooks that may not be of any use to Cheng Qi.
In the end, Cheng Qi couldn't hold it back, and said to Cheng Ran, "Although there is sales revenue from board games, I always feel that this website is a bottomless pit, consuming countless money every day, and it is still developing. ”
Cheng Ran knew that Cheng Qi probably felt that he was the eldest brother, and he was always embarrassed to ask him about his second brother. I can't pull it down, and it's not good to look down on the second brother.
Cheng Ran smiled and said, "Do you feel that there is no profit model?"
Cheng Qi nodded, "I tried to use advertising and found that ...... The effect was minimal. ”
It's strange that it has an effect.
Now when touching the website, the first profit model that everyone thinks of is to pull advertising sponsorship to make a profit, in fact, how can there be so many advertising sponsors to get in, even Xie Gan's Tonglang kind of portal, now the biggest source of profit is to sell software, not advertising.
This is not the case for portals that rely on providing content to get traffic, let alone a board game platform.
It's like everybody is here to play, you run out and say let's watch an ad first. Probably the answer to you is that I look at you as a hammer.
But the loss of millions of dollars a year is also the reason why Cheng Qi can't feel at ease, although the sales revenue of board games is better than this, but the feeling of taking out the money and wasting it is still too uncomfortable.
Cheng Ran said, "What is the number of people online on average a day, and what is the growth rate?"
"The average number of online users is 10,000, we have grown from 2,000 people online to 10,000 people, it took three months, but we can't look at it this way, we are closer to looking at the ratio of registered users and online active time, now there are 200,000 registered users, 10,000 people online every day, and this number of online people is about 60,000 or 70,000 per month, it is estimated that after a year, the number of users can reach 1 million, then the number of people online every day is 100,000. ”
Cheng Qi said.
Cheng Ran nodded, although Cheng Qi's algorithm was problematic, it did not prevent him from using it as an example, he said, "Then let's estimate it this way, according to this development, a year later, the average number of people online 24 hours a day will be 100,000, and the users of Lianzhong will be online for 2.4 million hours a day." How much does dial-up cost an hour now?"
Cheng Qi didn't know what to do, "It varies according to the city and region, for example, Rongcheng is four yuan an hour, and on the side of Shanhai, it seems to be six yuan an hour's phone bill." ”
For example, in the early days of the Internet, dial-up Internet access was charged according to the minute, which is why many people would rather go to Internet cafes to surf the Internet. Not only is the computer expensive at home, but it is also a big expense to use the Internet for a day.
"So that's how it goes, an average of five dollars an hour is charged by telecommunications. Then you Lianzhong users have 100,000 visits per day, 2.4 million hours, and the phone bill earned by Telecom can reach 12 million. It's every day. ”
Cheng Ran said, "When the time comes, you will go to Telecom and tell them that Lianzhong has no money now, and it is about to collapse, if Telecom does not give a share of this phone bill, you will fall, and Telecom will lose 12 million per day." I'm sure they'll give you a cut. ”
When Cheng Ran said, Cheng Qi actually thought of a lot of ways to make a profit.
But until Cheng Ran cleared the clouds and saw the light, his expression remained stunned at this time.
"That's okay!?"
He felt that he didn't say the word "special", and he was already very restrained in front of so many elders in the living room.