Wednesday, 5 April 1995. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Chen Dayou and Du Qiu left San Jose for a trip to San Francisco to visit Wired magazine's headquarters.

Founded in March 1993, Wired has created a "cool" image with a distinctive personality in a technological, fanatical and rebellious style, and has swept the entire United States in a very short period of time, becoming one of the best-selling hot magazines, considered to be the "Rolling Stone" of the 90s, and even Bill Clinton's press spokesman specially showed this magazine to reporters in order to prove that the White House is not out of touch with the times.

Despite its growing sales and influence, Wired in 1995 was still a short journal and its 1995 Wired was not very big, and it was strange to smell the fabric and chemical raw materials as they passed by in an old warehouse building in San Francisco, next door to a tailor shop that specialized in discarded fabrics.

The light in the corridor is relatively dim, the walls on both sides are gray, and occasionally you can see some traces of smoke and fire, which looks old and depressing, and the interior of the office is the opposite of the corridor, because it is a warehouse reconstruction, there is a row of high and large windows on the south and west sides, which is spacious and full of light, giving people a bright and open feeling.

However, it is not a good thing for the office of a website to have enough light, because it is impossible to see the contents of the computer monitor, so each computer has a light barrier cut out of a waste cardboard box, making the otherwise tidy office like a garbage dump for waste electrical appliances.

Chen Dayou touched the scene, looked around and sighed: "It's really better to see than to hear, I originally thought that Wired should be like the New York Times, working in a top-level office building exclusive to the city center, but I didn't expect it to be in such a broken place." ”

In charge of the reception was a very young man named Justin Hall, blonde and blue-eyed, tall and thin, who looked less like a website editor and more like a heartthrob in a Hollywood campus youth movie, who could not understand Chinese, so he asked, "What?"

"It's nothing, I mean you're ...... here. Very ......"

Chen Dayou thought about several words in a row, but he didn't think it was appropriate enough, Du Qiu had been in the United States for almost ten days, and his English level had improved a lot. ”

Justin Hall laughed and said, "Yes, just as 'Rolling Stone' was made for rock 'n' roll, Wired was made for technology." ”

The print media department of Wired magazine works in another warehouse, and this office has its own official website, and Du Qiu has already communicated with them by email about the details of iScript special effects, so after getting to know the editor-in-chief and a few technicians, he took out a floppy disk and showed the samples he had made in two days.

In order to show the function of iscript, Du Qiu made the text, images, menus, mouse, backgrounds and other dynamic effects out, because of the lack of mature HTML and CSS support, these special effects are actually very simple, but no matter how simple they are, they are more gorgeous than purely static web pages, and in the 90s, complex and gorgeous fashion styles were popular all over the world, so several editors looked at them full of amazement, amazing and cool shouting......

The editor-in-chief of Wired's official website is called Gary Wolfe, and he was very satisfied with the effect of Du Qiu's presentation, and after handing the check to Chen Dayou, he said: "Mr. Du, I am very curious about you, can you please do an interview?"

"Absolutely, I'm honored. ”

"I have to explain in advance that Louis has the final say on the content of Wired, and I will put together the interview, but there is no guarantee that it will be published in the magazine, I hope you understand. ”

Du Qiu smiled and said politely: "Mr. Wolf, Chinese often say that once born and twice cooked, we have met twice, we are already old friends, it doesn't matter whether the interview can be published or not, just treat it as a small talk between friends." ”

Wolfe was indeed an "old friend", he was the only media person in the conference room of O'Reilly on March 26 who knew who Du Qiu was, and he was so impressed by Du Qiu's rant and the power of iView that he returned to San Francisco and persuaded Luis Rossetto, the founder of Wired magazine, to ask Du Qiu to create special effects for the website.

"Okay, let's get started. Wolf took out a tape recorder, opened it, put it on the table, and said, "Netscape's Mark Anderson and I are friends, and he told me that you are a genius programmer, can you talk about where you learned computer programming? As far as I know, China's computer technology is not very good." ”

Du Qiu really laughed this time, "Wired" magazine is known for its fanatical promotion of science and technology culture, he originally thought that Wolf would ask some Internet technology things, but he didn't expect him to ask this kind of bosom friend question, which can be called thunder, drowsiness met the pillow, if you don't make good use of it, it is as regrettable as a football player to shoot in the face of an empty goal.

Americans love individual heroism the most......

Inspirational legends are especially popular......

Sure enough, as expected, when Du Qiu used not very fluent English to vaguely tell the inspirational stories of his "abduction", "self-study", "returning to China", "recognizing relatives" and "starting a business", the entire editorial department stood up and applauded him.

Wolf was extremely excited, jumped up from his seat, hugged Du Qiu hard, and said loudly: "Qiu, you are not only a real genius, you are also a real man! Your interview will definitely be published in Wired, it will be! If Louis doesn't agree, I'll knock him on the head with my m1911!"

Chen Dayou used to roughly know that Du Qiu was smuggled back from Japan, but he had never heard him say the "detailed" process, and he seemed to be moved, and he hugged Du Qiu as concocted, and said in Chinese: "Du Qiu, you have such a legendary experience, why didn't you say it earlier! Now we have to work hard and be famous all over the world." ”

This fat man is really ruthless and mercenary, and I myself was a little moved by the chicken soup he sprinkled, and he actually thought about how to use the story to advertise......

Wired has at least a million readers, and if the interview had been in the magazine, it could have become a big hit......

On the way back to San Jose after leaving Wired magazine, Chen Dayou asked, "Du Qiu, are you really going to return to China in a few days?"

"Well, the technical work is basically solved, I have nothing to do, it's a waste of time to stay here, and my sister has her 30th birthday at the end of the month, and I have to go back to celebrate her birthday. ”

"Why is there nothing to do with you! The United States has just opened, and there are countless things to do every day, what should I do if you leave?"

"The heavens will descend on the people, and they must first suffer their minds and muscles. I am not responsible for those operational matters, Brother Chen, you can work hard, practice hard, and there will be a greater burden to bear in the future. ”

Chen Dayou knew very well that he liked a clear division of labor, clenched his fist and gently tapped the steering wheel, and asked: "If you really appear in Wired magazine, there will definitely be many investment companies coming to your door at that time, how to deal with it?"

"The lion opened his mouth wide. Du Qiu raised his hand and scratched it in the air, and said: "At most, 20% of the shares will be released, and less than 2 million US dollars will not be discussed." ”

"There are only 8 employees in our company, and after you leave, 7 of them are in China, and I am the only one who sleeps alone in the garage, which is worth 10 million US dollars?"

"If you don't want to pay for it, don't talk about it, I rejected $5 million, and I still care about $2 million. Du Qiu had too many ways to make money, so he didn't care much about money, and asked instead: "Brother Chen, when will your green card be done?" Without a green card, there are many things that are inconvenient to do. ”

"The lawyer is preparing the documents, and he said that it is not a big problem and that it will be available in a few months at most. When are you going to get your green card?"

"Later, I don't really like living in the U.S. permanently. ”

When the two returned to San Jose, it was already past six o'clock, Jiang Danfeng was packing his luggage in the residence, because the family was coming back soon, and they were going to move to Wei Zhiqin's house for a few days, and then Chen Dayou stayed to preside over the company's affairs, and Du Qiu planned to go to New York with Jiang Danfeng, and take a direct flight back to China from there.

Since Chen Dayou and Wei Zhiqin rolled together on April 1st, the relationship has heated up sharply, and the good honey blends the oil, and after dinner, he left Qiqi at home, let Du Qiu help take care of it, and then went out to enjoy the world of the two of them.

As soon as the two of them left, Jiang Danfeng took out a bound document and said, "Du Qiu, this is the yen futures investment plan I made, you can see if it's okay." ”

Du Qiu was taking Qiqi to play with the sand at the door, he put the plastic bucket full of sand in his hand on the ground, and while flipping through it, he asked, "Did you make or lose today?"

"Today the yen appreciated by more than ten basis points and earned $1,307. ”

"That's not bad. ”

Du Qiu carefully read the documents, and saw that she listed the benefits and risks of several different foreign exchange investment tools in a categorical way, which was very intuitive and very clear, so she took the information she knew before the crossing as a reference, calculated it in her mind and said: "Just do it according to your plan, but 50 times the leverage is too conservative, change it to 200 times." ”

Jiang Danfeng didn't ask a word of superfluous words, nodded and said, "Okay." ”

Du Qiu saw that her heart was like water and she was obedient, so he smiled and said, "I'll let you do what I say, and I'm not letting you be a robot, don't look like you're half-dead." ”

"You're really hard to serve, I'll be proactive, you tell me not to think about it, I don't think about it too much, you say I'm a robot again!" Jiang Danfeng muttered dissatisfiedly, and asked in a complaining tone: "Du Qiu, what kind of secretary do you want me to be?"

"I've never been a boss before, and you've never been a secretary, isn't it normal to run in with each other?" Du Qiu didn't care, and said while helping Qiqi shovel sand: "With your emotional intelligence, you won't be confused about what kind of secretary I want, right?"

Jiang Danfeng felt that the atmosphere at this time was very relaxed, and it was a good opportunity to test Du Qiu's thoughts, so he squatted down to help shovel a few sands, and then said half-truthfully: "You want a secretary who works with you during the day and goes to bed with you at night, right?"

Hearing this, Du Qiu raised his head, looked directly at her, and said, "If you are willing to go to bed, I can pay you an extra salary." ”

Jiang Danfeng didn't expect him to be so direct, a little annoyed, but not too annoyed, a little embarrassed, but not too embarrassed, a little shy, but not too shy, wanted to reprimand, felt meaningless, wanted to ridicule, but didn't know what to say, stunned for a moment before throwing the shovel to the ground, glaring at Du Qiu fiercely.

However, the eyes that glared over came into contact with the eyes full of desire, and instantly collapsed, and the symptoms in the capital hotel appeared, the heart beat faster, the whole body was hot, and it felt like Du Qiu was like a hungry wolf, and he might pounce on her at any time and press her to the ground, bite her and swallow her stomach.

Jiang Danfeng stood up in a panic, turned around and walked towards the second floor, and when she reached the staircase, she turned her head and asked, "How much salary do you give?"

"Same as during the day. ”

"You are more generous than Fat Chen. Jiang Danfeng smiled, his eyes were like waves, he glanced at Du Qiu up and down, and said, "You have a good appearance, a good figure, and a good price, I can consider it." ”