In the early morning of the next day, a news station in the United States broke the news that Google opened its first international office in Tokyo, Japan, which was confirmed by Google, which immediately became the hottest news in the domestic online financial sector.

echoing the anonymous press release published by several previous portals, and as a result, the newly fading trend of the Internet and the topic of Google are once again being hyped. Anonymous manuscripts like the one speculated that this was a sign that Google was about to begin its global expansion.

One day later, Lin An called to Shonan.

Knowing that Yanjing Xintai had just called, he intended to restart the negotiation of the two Google CN domain names, and after listening to Yang Wenmin's insistence on the offer of 500,000, Xintai hung up the phone again.

On the evening of the 18th, domestic time, Google held a press conference at its headquarters in the United States, in addition to clearly announcing its global development strategy to the outside world, it also announced two sets of digital information.

First, according to the development of the first quarter of this year, it is expected that the revenue in 2001 will reach 86.4 million US dollars, and the profit will be 6.99 million US dollars, which is also the first time that Google has achieved profitability, and the scale of this profit is amazing.

For Lin An, the more important thing is the second set of digital information.

At Google's growth rate, revenue is expected to grow by as much as 420% in 2002. Revenues are expected to reach a staggering $450 million, profits will reach $100 million, and the number of employees will expand from less than 200 to more than 500......

When the message was sent to the network, it was ignited and exploded almost immediately, and the entire world's network almost fell into a frenzy. But no one doubts that Google can't do it, because in this short period of time, everyone has witnessed how Google has developed by leaps and bounds, or it is more appropriate to describe it as rocket speed.

Yang Wenmin went to work the next morning and received a call from Xintai.

Before this, Xintai must have called countless times, and before he entered the company, he listened to the phone ring inside the door. The current company phone, in addition to Lin An, is only Yanjing Xintai can call.

Yang Wenmin heard Lin An say that the price of two domain names was 500,000 yuan, and he always felt very ridiculous, if it wasn't for the employees in the company, in Lin An's words, he is now the manager and employee of Anyuan Company, it doesn't matter, anyway, he is the only one in the company. If it weren't for that, he would have called Xintai that time, and the price really couldn't be spit out.

Two domain names that can be registered at will, bought for 600 yuan, and sold them to others for 500,000 yuan, and he can even be sure that if it is not a flower over the phone, the other party may call a mental hospital.

After the second contact, that is, the news that Google opened its first international office in Tokyo, Japan, Xintai called again, and he really became interested in the deal, and began to seriously study all the information about Google and Google Domain.

The result of the second conversation was the same as the first time, and after listening to the price that was insisted on, the person in charge of Xintai hung up the phone again, but with the attitude and tone of the other party's phone, he understood that 500,000 may be ridiculous, and it is far from reaching this price, but there is a certain space for discussion.

This morning, he went to an Internet café before coming to the company, and when he saw the specific content of the Google press conference that went viral on the Internet, he was dumbfounded, and he no longer thought that Lin An was holding two Google CN domain names to open 500,000 yuan was "impossible" and sky-high.

This time, when the phone was connected, Xintai Company changed the person in charge, and he was still talking about the transfer of domain names. Remembering Lin An's instructions, he continued to quote the price without giving an inch, and the other party did not hang up the phone angrily, but asked for detailed company address and other information, saying that he would meet and negotiate the transaction.

After listening to the relay on the phone, Lin An thought about it, and then asked Yang Wenmin to call back to Xintai at noon and promised to discuss the matter.

Calculating the time, Xintai will fly to Haisha from Yanjing first, and he will definitely not be able to get to Xiangnan today, so he will meet on the afternoon of the 20th. It just so happened that the 20th was Sunday, and he also had time, and now the situation is that he can try not to ask for leave as much as possible.

Before hanging up the phone, Yang Wenmin gave a good advice, the longer the delay, the more beneficial it is to Anyuan Company, and the more beneficial it is to the price of 500,000 yuan.

Lin An smiled and praised this negotiation idea, but finally rejected it. He had already thought about it, and he wouldn't grab this domain name to maximize its interests.

If this is the case, what else to contact Xintai, just shake hands and wait for a few years, when Google takes the initiative to find the door, it will be several times the price, or even dozens of times possible. In this way, he thinks he will miss out on more, and now he urgently needs this first pot of gold to get the company off the ground, rather than pursuing the revenue of maximizing profits.

In the blink of an eye, on Sunday, Lin An got up early in the morning.

told his family to go to Sun Can's house for review, so he took the car to Changxi with his bag on his back, and then transferred to Xiangnan. When I arrived in the city, the time was just after half past ten, and Yang Wenmin made an appointment to meet at the company at noon, and Xintai's people arrived at two o'clock in the afternoon.

Out of the long-distance bus station, Lin An took the company address given by Yang Wenmin and called a taxi to rush over. The company rented an office, etc., which Yang Wenmin single-handedly operated in southern Hunan, and he had never been there.

In the shaking, the taxi came to a stop under an overpass, Lin An woke up vaguely, last night thought that he had to negotiate with Xintai today, and he didn't sleep until late when he opened the information, and he fell asleep in the car when he came, and he didn't wake up completely until now.

The driver listened to the traffic station and explained to Lin An that it is said that someone came to Shonan to inspect, and the overpass was temporarily closed, and it would be able to pass after a while, and it would be possible to detour the road, but the time is estimated to be a little longer.

The address of the company, bypassing the overpass in front of it, is almost to the place. Through the car window, he saw a pedestrian street not far away, asked the driver that he could take a detour to cross the closed road overpass, paid the fare, pushed the door and got out of the car.

I have been to Shonan many times in my previous life, and most of them passed by in a hurry, and I am not very familiar with the roads of Shonan City.

To the pedestrian street, looking for the house number, and asked the passer-by for the address on the paper, as the driver said, out of the pedestrian street and through the underpass, you can go directly to the building where the company is located.

Seeing that he was about to walk out of the pedestrian street, passing by the door of a flower shop, Lin An suddenly stopped.

Turning his head slowly, the wide glass window of the flower shop was filled with pink carnations, and his reflection was reflected in the center of the bouquet.

I saw that next to his shadow, there was a petite figure, a woman wearing a beige dress, and her long chestnut hair was tied into a bud, and her little face was clear and hazy.

A faint fragrance wafted in, and in the reflection of the glass, the woman approached her and shouted in surprise to the window, "Wow, Lin An, Lin An." There are so many pink carnations here!"

Lin An looked at it in a daze.

"Do you know how long it has been since I sent flowers to me?" The woman wrinkled her delicate nose and grinned slightly at Lin An in the glass reflection, complaining, "Every year, Sister Hua brings flowers to see me, and you haven't come once!"

Lin An stood in a daze, not daring to move, not daring to turn his head, not daring to blink his eyes, he was afraid that as long as he moved slightly, the figure would immediately disappear, but his vision gradually became blurred.

"Alright, alright, don't ask you to spend it. Stingy!" the woman smiled playfully. Adjusting the angle of the reflection in the window, she got closer, and finally let the petite figure lean on his shoulder, because of this successful move, she laughed happily alone.

Passers-by walked through the streets, and glimpses flashed on the window panes, except for the two snuggling figures in the center of the bouquet of flowers.

In the glass, the woman raised her fair face, smiled sweetly at Lin An, bent her eyebrows lightly, and piled up unspeakably mottled and lonely, "Alone, it's really lonely." Why don't you speak again, Lin An, talk to me!"

"......" A gust of wind blew, the sound was swept away, his eyes blinked, Lin An's blurred vision became clearer, and the petite figure in the reflection of the window had disappeared, leaving him in a daze.

He hurriedly turned around, and there was no one around.

The pedestrians on the street in the distance were surprised, Lin An rubbed his eyes that were a little painful, and turned his head to look at the window covered with pink carnations.