The flower city in May has already shown the shadow of the heat.

In the afternoon, in an old Cantonese tea restaurant next to Tianhe Park, the old electric fan squeaks and fans the not very cool hot air, and the restaurant hostess sitting at the door is already drowsy.

At this time, the vast majority of Huacheng people have had lunch, and there are still 2 hours before their most popular afternoon tea time, so there are few customers in the tea restaurant, which seems particularly deserted.

No one noticed the couple sitting at the two-person table in the corner, who had been talking since lunch, and had never left their seats.

No one went back to disturb them, this is the rule of the old Cantonese teahouse, as long as the guests have paid the bill, no one will care how long they sit.

However, even a talkative person like Ren Pingsheng felt that he couldn't go on.

Three days after coming to Huacheng, he finally met the legendary Zhang Xiaolong as promised, but found that he was a little helpless.

In appearance, he and Lei Jun are both the unpretentious type, but Lei Jun likes to wear a full suit with a straight tie, but Zhang Xiaolong is wearing an ordinary shirt with the collar and cuffs open, and when the weather is hot, he simply pulls the shirt sleeves to his elbows.

Although he has been in Huacheng for many years, Zhang Xiaolong's words still have a Jing Chu accent, his voice is not loud, and the speed of his speech is not fast, as if every sentence can only be expressed from his throat after deep thought and familiarity.

This man with an ordinary appearance, the deepest impression on Ren Pingsheng is his eyes.

The eyes are dark and bright, and although they are over middle age, they are still full of curiosity, and when combined with those thick eyebrows, they give people the feeling of thinking all the time.

As mentioned in the legend, Zhang Xiaolong is a very taciturn person, from the beginning of the meeting, most of the time, Ren Pingsheng is talking, he occasionally answers a few words, but never takes the initiative to bring up the topic.

Probably Ren Pingsheng said five sentences, and it would be good if Zhang Xiaolong could say one.

Lei Jun is really right, Zhang Xiaolong is a "stuffy oil bottle", his extremely introverted and unrevealing personality is really suitable for research and development, and he has the demeanor of a veteran programmer in the last century.

It's just that Ren Pingsheng, who has always been known for his sharp words, found that his talent was useless in front of a man of few words like Zhang Xiaolong.

From sitting down, Ren Pingsheng started from the Hong Kong and Taiwan films he was interested in, talked about long-distance self-driving trips, talked about the scenery of the Western Regions, Tubo and other places, and talked about Zhang Xiaolong's favorite rock music.

On the topic of rock music, Zhang Xiaolong's style of speech became active, and when Ren Pingsheng asked about his favorite singer, Zhang Xiaolong's eyes lit up and he said two names.

"Wang Feng?"

For the Chinese singer that Zhang Xiaolong likes, Ren Pingsheng expressed surprise.

Based on Ren Pingsheng's understanding of Zhang Xiaolong, he thought that he would name the more high-style Chinese rock pioneers such as the Beyond Band and the Tang Dynasty Band, but Wang Feng is a highly controversial rock musician.

Although he debuted in China with the band "No. 34 Baojia Street" very early and became the first group of famous rock musicians in China, because of his later creative and singing style with a strong commercial atmosphere, he has been questioned whether he is still taking the road of rock music.

In this regard, Zhang Xiaolong only said one sentence:

"There is an irrepressible vitality in his songs. ”

Ren Pingsheng began to understand the middle-aged man in front of him a little.

As a college student who graduated from the era of unified recruitment and distribution, Zhang Xiaolong, like Yu Xin, Zhou Hongyi and others, was once assigned to work in enterprises and institutions, but they soon escaped from the increasingly rigid system and went to Huacheng, Shenzhen and Hong Kong, which were the first cities to open up, to work hard.

Although Zhang Xiaolong, Yu Xin, and Zhou Hongyi did not follow the same route, and he did not start his own business, nor did he become an upstart on the Internet early, he still has a sense of dedication in his heart, an ambition that is not willing to be mediocre.

For a man who is simple in appearance and clumsy in words, there is no idol that he yearns for more than Wang Feng, who is passionate on the stage.

Therefore, Ren Pingsheng nodded slightly and replied:

"Rock 'n' roll is all about rebelling against the existing system and expressing dissatisfaction with reality. This kind of dissatisfaction and resistance is the most vigorous, dissatisfaction means that you are very energetic, very vigorous, if you are satisfied with everything, satisfied, it has become a very ordinary and mediocre state. ”

Zhang Xiaolong's eyes showed surprise, obviously Ren Pingsheng's words hit a part of his heart, and the eyes he looked at the man opposite were also a lot kinder.

Before the meeting, Zhang Xiaolong's understanding of Ren Pingsheng was limited to the interaction between the two on the meal, although he did not know Ren Pingsheng's true identity, but Ren Pingsheng reflected his insight and judgment on Internet products in the network interaction, which made Zhang Xiaolong feel the same way.

Therefore, although he learned that Ren Pingsheng's real identity was an Internet investor and the chairman of several companies such as Universal Games and Weibo, Zhang Xiaolong did not avoid Ren Pingsheng because of the competition between Ren Pingsheng and the Tengxun company to which he belonged.

At this meeting, although Zhang Xiaolong didn't talk much, his opinion of Ren Pingsheng had been raised to a higher level.

Although the two are different in many ways,

Zhang Xiaolong is silent, Ren Pingsheng is good at arguing,

Zhang Xiaolong is introverted, Ren Pingsheng is outward,

But both see in each other that each other's dissatisfaction with the status quo will not be alleviated by the accumulation of material and wealth, because this dissatisfaction is accumulated deep in the heart and is a challenge to self-worth.

Except for Ren Pingsheng, Zhang Xiaolong only saw this quality in another person.

That person is the person who brought Zhang Xiaolong to Tengxun Company.

Looking at Ren Pingsheng's solemn eyes, Zhang Xiaolong said slowly:

"Two years ago, I attended a 10-year reunion of my classmates at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, and in a class of 33 people, several people couldn't call me by name, and there was a female classmate who said she didn't know me at all. ”

Zhang Xiaolong smiled a little self-deprecatingly, and said lightly:

"The excitement is theirs, I have nothing. ”

Ren Pingsheng can understand the loneliness in Zhang Xiaolong's eyes, this feeling of "being completely different, walking in the hustle and bustle", he had also tasted it in his previous life, so he can better understand Zhang Xiaolong's state of mind at the moment.

He looked into the other party's eyes and said in a deep voice:

"Not being understood is the fate of innovators. ”

Zhang Xiaolong's eyes flashed with countless fires, but he was silent for a long time before he softly sang an English lyric:

“You say I'm wrong， but you'd better prove you're right.”

Ren Pingsheng smiled slightly and responded:

"If you say I'm wrong, you'd better prove you're right. ”