In the eyes of Gu Biao's Chinese friends, he officially graduated this time and returned to China, which must be a gesture of returning home.

That pomp and circumstance has to be bigger than Xu Jiayin's return to his hometown in the future.

However, this is really a big misunderstanding, at least in the past few days before the Chinese New Year, Gu Biao has no pomp at all, and he came quietly.

Since two or three years ago, the Gu family's mansion in Qiantang was replaced by a large villa in the scenic area, and they have no neighbors in the physical sense.

Therefore, the atmosphere during the New Year is not called Yijin returning home, but Yijin night walking. At least it will not be more lively until the first day of the new year.

It's chilling in the heights.

This year, because some poor relatives of the third-line construction have returned, the house has become a little more popular.

Gu Biao felt that the occasional surprise of the little sister was actually quite cute.

"This is my CD player, which is used to listen to songs? Isn't the tape recorder also able to listen to songs, what's the difference? ”

When Gu Mei returned to the living room, she saw Gu Min and Xiao Sui tinkering with the Sony CDP-101. Gu Min has been working and living in this book for half a year, so she is naturally very familiar with this thing, and she will use it as soon as she makes a move.

Gu Mei watched her cousin stuff a CD record of Teresa Teng into the machine, and then the speaker that had just been plugged in from Germany began to emit a melodious singing sound.

Gu Min clapped his hands and touched Gu Mei's head: "It's no difference, it's just that the sound quality of the CD is a little better than that of the tape, and the CD can store more songs, which is convenient, and it won't be scratched and blurry if you listen to it more." ”

Gu Mei: "It turns out that the sound quality has just improved, but it must be more expensive than the tape recorder." ”

Gu Min thought for a while: "That's for sure, but it's okay." This is 160,080 yen according to the yen, which is 6,000 yuan. ”

She didn't have any expression when she stated, obviously just an objective calculation, and she didn't feel expensive or cheap.

Gu Mei gasped.

Just for the sake of better sound quality, who would buy such a thing after spending more than half a million yuan of money.

"Third brother, what did you say about your ...... The company, it's called the company, right? The new products to be developed this year are of this kind? Isn't it really a loss? Who would spend so much money on such a thing? ”

It could be heard that her tone was genuinely worried about Gu Wei's business. I'm afraid that after losing money on this golden thigh, I won't have to hug it.

Gu Biao couldn't help laughing: "Don't worry, the CD player I want to study will definitely be more than half cheaper than this, it will not exceed 2,000 yuan, and it will be even lower in the future." ”

"2,000 yuan is also very expensive, 10 times more expensive than a tape recorder. It's over, it's over, you're at a loss. Gu Mei anxiously made up her mind.

The picture of the autumn wind sweeping the fallen leaves in my mind is similar to the "cool" expression of the live broadcast of station B for 1 cent.

In the face of this generation gap in cognition, Gu Biao can only not explain.

However, Gu Min was still a little patient, and explained carefully: "Meimei, you don't know how rich Americans and Yue themselves are, and something equivalent to two thousand yuan is nothing in their eyes. As long as this thing is cool and handsome, some young people pay for it. ”

Gu Mei thought for a while: "Handsome I know, it's just that the boy looks good, what does it mean to be cool? And this thing is always made for Americans? Chinese can't use it?"

Gu Min couldn't cry or laugh: "Cool...... It's cool, English Cool. Chinese are not without CD players, this kind of electronic products, three years cheaper half is possible. Of course, it will not be lowered indefinitely. I think in six or seven years, it will be reduced to 500 yuan a piece, and then the Chinese will be able to play a wave. ”

"500 is still a lot. ”

"Then the Chinese will have money. ”

……

Similar to the shock brought by the CD player, there have been a lot of things happening in the Gu family in the past few days.

Gu Mei is young and ignorant, and she already has the idea of betraying her parents and wanting to defect to the third uncle's family.

Although the Gu Chi brothers don't say it, they also have rods and scales in their hearts.

Gu Biao enjoyed two days of leisure at home, taking Xiao Sui out during the day, sitting on a canopy boat with a warm basin, and leisurely swimming in the snow lake, which was very chic, and it could be regarded as a kind of compensation for Xiao Sui.

Xiao Sui also likes to go out, and feels awkward in the Gu family's house. Because after all, she and Gu Biao have not officially married, and the Gu family has distant relatives, and it is embarrassing to see her live in the Gu family for the New Year.

Of course, Gu Biao will also go to have tea with Han Ting and chat about something.

And at night, except for Gu Biao and Xiao Sui, everyone else in the family will crowd in front of the TV and watch the TV series "Shooting the Condor" episode by episode.

The cousins and cousins all watched it with relish and were fascinated by it.

The popularity of "Shooting the Condor" is just like "Hujiang Beach" three years ago, and the ratings are often a few percent. In 1984, there were more than 15 million television sets in the country, covering more audiences than in those years.

However, Gu Biao is already numb, and he is not proud of co-producing a phenomenal fire drama with Shaw Brothers, because he really didn't expect to make much money from this, and he really didn't make any money.

CCTV and even some provincial stations are comparing the price of cabbage, and bought out the screening rights for two years (including unlimited replay within two years), CCTV gave hundreds of thousands, and some provincial stations couldn't even give 100,000 yuan.

The other conditions they can give Gu Biao are nothing more than sending a few sponsor advertisements to Gu Biao.

But Gu Biao himself did not run a consumer goods brand facing domestic users, and it was useless to take these advertisements.

In the end, she was given to Mina by Gu Biao, and she didn't even say hello to Mina, and then when CCTV and provincial TV showed "Shooting the Condor", every time an advertisement was inserted, there would be two "This drama is sponsored and broadcast by Elite Song" and "This drama is exclusively titled and broadcast by Red Bull Functional Drink".

Mina's liquor business, which has been smashed down by cheap advertisements in recent years, seems to be second only to Mao Wu in popularity, and is almost the same as Jian and Lu - although the grade and quality are really not as good as those famous wines, and the taste is much worse than Jian and Lu, but it is just famous.

Red Bull is the most well-known drink in China, although there are not many people who drink it, and there are not many functional occasions that can be used. After more than a year of development, the product model of concentrated syrup + cans has already been developed, and the Red Bull production base in Qiantang is also well organized under Zong Qinghou's care.

However, canned products can still only be sold mainly to the market, and only brown glass bottles are still drunk in China. The price of a can, 1 yuan a bottle, is too expensive for Chinese people, and the glass bottle with 5 dimes and half the amount is only willing to drink a little refreshment before the college entrance examination.

But no matter where it is, Red Bull is more well-known than the local top products. When Gu Biao was in the capital, he inquired casually and knew that there were no fewer people who had heard of Red Bull than those who had heard of Arctic Ocean soda.

This is already very rare, because before Coca-Cola penetrated the national market on a large scale, the domestic beverage industry was very local attention, and each province had its own famous brand. The Arctic Ocean is almost unknown to everyone in the capital and even in Hebei Province, and maybe no one knows about it when it comes to the outside.

And Red Bull wants to be on par with the famous brands that the locals drink daily in every province, and it is very terrible on a national scale, which is equivalent to the popularity coverage of more than a dozen other local brands combined.

The opponent is too weak, Gu Biao has no pleasure in seconds, and he is too lazy to take care of the progress of these businesses for the time being. When the Chinese market gets bigger, let's worry about it again.

……

It's Chinese New Year's Eve in a blink of an eye. The Gu family's Chinese New Year's Eve dinner this year finally gained some popularity, and there were nearly ten people around a table.

There was a red spot steamed on the table, a pot of Buddha jumping over the wall, and the rest did not have many rare things, obviously taking care of the elders of the old-school thinking.

Little sister Gu Mei is a little sullen because the TV station is playing the Spring Festival Gala on Chinese New Year's Eve, and there is no "Shooting the Condor" to watch.

She was nervous last night about whether the Seven Monsters of Jiangnan could kill Mei Chaofeng.

However, her two brothers persuaded her that the Spring Festival Gala was also very good-looking, and she was quickly relieved when she saw it for the first time.

Although this year's Spring Festival Gala is already the second session, my uncle's family was originally poor in Shu Province and had not bought a TV, so this year is the first time to watch it. (Actually, Gu Biao's father sent money to the eldest brother's family, but the uncle knew that after buying a TV, he couldn't hide it from his colleagues, and he was afraid that others would gossip, so he kept pretending to be poor and didn't buy it)

Xiaomei watched the Spring Festival Gala for a while, and her depression was transferred a lot. During the interval between the shows, as soon as he had an idea, he pestered Gu Biao and hugged his thighs:

"Third brother, I heard that "Shooting the Condor" was filmed at the studio base in Xiao County, we will celebrate the Chinese New Year's Eve, can we go there to play, I really want to see what the place where TV movies are filmed, is there really so many scenes like ancient times." ”

Gu Biao: "Okay, okay, after the fifth day of the new year, I will personally take you there and drive two more cars." A few days ago, I still had to pay New Year's greetings, and what kind of mess it would become. ”

Gu Mei pouted: "We don't have any other relatives in our family, they are all here, what is there to worship." It's better to go out and play at home. ”

The second brother Gu Chi hurriedly disciplined: "Little sister, what are you talking about! The third brother is a big man with a head and a face, of course, there are many officials and businessmen who have come to pay him New Year's greetings, and he can't run away." ”

Gu Mei obediently dumb up at this time, she realized that the gap between her knowledge and the world that the third brother came into contact with was too big.

She's not a bear child, but she doesn't understand the concerns of high society.

……

As soon as Chinese New Year's Eve passed, Gu Mei quickly saw that what her cousin said was true.

Because the next day, on the first day of the Lunar New Year, the Gu family had an endless stream of businessmen and officials who came to pay New Year's greetings.

Before 9 o'clock in the morning, Zong Qinghou, the president of Red Bull (China), came to visit the big boss behind the scenes.

Gu Biao said a lot of words of encouragement like a chief's reception, so that Zong Qinghou could make persistent efforts.

Looking at the factory director/manager of a big brand who is so famous on TV, so humble in front of the third brother, the cognition of those relatives who came back from the third line was refreshed again.

Then seven or eight factory directors and several directors of major state-owned enterprises in the city came one after another, some of them came to find Gu Ao, and some of them came to find Gu Ao's father.

Before noon, Qiu Qing also came.

Because he was an old friend, Gu Biao treated him with more courtesy: "Mayor Qiu, how embarrassing is this, I should go to visit you." It's just that I can't leave on the first day of junior high school. ”

"I knew you couldn't leave, so I came first. Brother Gu, congratulations on your graduation and getting a doctorate from Professor Kissinger. Qiu Qing still has no frame at all in front of Gu Biao.

He has made remarkable achievements in politics in the past two years, and he has been the director of the bureau for several years before he met Gu Biao. In addition, they are the last batch of college students before ten years can not be described, and now they have to catch up with the cadre team to be younger, so they just rose to a level a year ago, from the director of the cultural and tourism department, to the deputy S director in charge of the city's economic construction, and climbed to the main hall at the age of 37.

Although he can't be compared with Gu Biao, he can be regarded as a relatively young and promising cadre.