Chapter Ninety-Seven: The Acting School
Ordinary West Coast towns do not have the style of western cities in movies, perhaps the era of western cowboys has passed, life must go on after all, and what can be seen is more comfort.
San Bruno is an ordinary small city located in the foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains, founded on December 23, 1914, with a population of less than 30,000.
Lin Fan and Liu Yifei drove in this small city, which is sparsely populated in the United States, and the layout of small cities is not as compact as that of big cities such as New York and San Francisco, and it is more like scattered at random.
No wonder there are so many private cars in the United States, and it is really inconvenient to go to the supermarket to buy groceries, but away from the bustling city of the big city, there is a special charm here.
Suddenly, the car stopped, Lin Fan got out of the car, waved to a passerby, and smiled apologetically.
"Excuse me, sir, I would like to ask for directions?"
The man who was stopped was about 30 years old, Asian, dressed in casual clothes, wearing black-rimmed glasses, and had long, unkempt hair, "Me?"
"Yes, my friend and I came from San Francisco, thinking about driving to relax, but we didn't think of getting lost, can you tell us how to get back to San Francisco?"
The young man pushed his eyes, and couldn't help but look at Lin Fan's outfit, a well-tailored suit, with an elegant texture, but the thought in his heart was just a flash, but he explained directly, "This is San Bruno, which belongs to San Mateo County, located in the south of San Francisco, dozens of kilometers away from San Francisco. The young man's words were not finished, but it obviously meant that you most likely could not find a place.
A look of embarrassment flashed on Lin Fan's face, and he suddenly thought of something, his face was full of respect, "Forgive me for taking the liberty of being presumptuous, are you Chinese?"
The two had been communicating in English before, and the young man was stunned, "I'm Chinese." ”
"Great, I'm also Chinese. Lin Fan suddenly pulled out a stack of money from his wallet, "Brother, can you show me the way, these are your rewards." ”
The young man glanced at it, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart that Lin Fan had made a generous move, and the thickness of this casual draw was at least thousands of dollars, but he still waved his hand and refused, "Since everyone is Chinese, I will naturally help." "But there is also the mind of a young man in this, this person is young, richly dressed, talks extraordinarily, and can be regarded as making a friend.
"My name is Lin Fan, don't know your name yet, brother?"
"Chen Shijun. The young man smiled implicitly, "I just don't know if Mr. Lin is in a hurry, I still have a job, I guess ......"
Lin Fan interrupted understandingly, "We have a saying in Huaxia that if you come, you will be safe, and I also happen to enjoy the beautiful scenery here, I'm not in a hurry." ”
The two left their contact information and left together, Lin Fan just returned to the car, and ushered in Liu Yifei's evaluation, "The performance is remarkable, and the interpretation of a chance encounter is very good, I think you can be an actor." ”
"I guess I'm going to see you perform soon. ”
"I suddenly felt that it was not a good thing to know you, and I was going to follow you to deceive people. ”
Lin Fan's face was flat, "I don't know who took the initiative to join when they heard about this." ”
"Really, how come I don't know?" Liu Yifei twisted his face to the side, looking like he didn't know anything.
......
The chance encounter was also Lin Fan's helpless decision, he didn't want to go directly to the door to invest, which would make people feel very abrupt, after all, YouTube is still not famous, and he wants to create an accidental atmosphere.
Today's chance encounter is the first step, and the second step is to convince Chen Shijun that the person he happened to meet is a rich man who can help him, and Liu Yifei is the best Sasuke.
Debt-indebted and unemployed, Chen Shijun started YouTube in February 2005 in Judd Karim's garage, and even though it was a website developed with the intention of making it easier for friends to share videos with each other, it was undeniably a desperate battle by Chen Shijun to ease his financial woes.
At present, YouTube has not become a repository of memories and a place to publish works for netizens, as it has been in later generations, and it is widely sought after by all parties. It only received $3 million in angel funding from Sequoia Capital in November 2005, and before that, YouTube was unknown, even though the investment improved YouTube's environment, but it did not make it popular immediately, the Internet is a money-burning industry, and YouTube also needs it. Lin Fan played the role of a fortune boy, but this time he would not take the initiative.
That night, Chen Shijun invited Lin Fan out for dinner, and he was very interested in the newly met Lin Fan.
"Are you Liu Yifei?"
Although Lin Fan was worried that Chen Shijun wouldn't recognize Liu Yifei before he came, now there was another expression on his face, "Do you know Yifei?"
"When I went back to Taiwan to visit relatives last year, I saw Miss Liu's Legend of Sword and Fairy on China Television TV, but I didn't expect to see Miss Liu in the United States. Speaking of this, Chen Shijun's gaze at Lin Fan suddenly changed.
"Haha, Yifei and I are good friends, and I didn't expect to meet in the United States this time, so we made an appointment to travel together. ”
Chen Shijun naturally didn't believe it, and he didn't want to expose it, he knew that celebrities as public figures paid great attention to confidentiality in their private lives, but he was very interested in Lin Fan's identity, as far as he knew, Liu Yifei was very popular, so how could he be with Lin Fan?
"Mr. Lin is a talent, and the two are talented women. ”
No matter what Chen Shijun meant, Lin Fan definitely wanted to take Chen Shijun into the ditch, "Brother Chen, don't talk nonsense, I just opened a small company, where is it worthy of a fee." ”
"Oh?"
"I made a mortal safe antivirus software, and I can't put it on the table. ”
Chen Shijun nodded and didn't express his opinion, "I don't know why Mr. Lin came to the United States?" Speaking of this, Chen Shijun looked annoyed, "It's that I lost my words, Mr. Lin came with Miss Liu." ”
"Mr. Chen, don't think nonsense, I really came to the United States to have serious business, I wanted to invest in a company, but I didn't expect to be looked down upon, so I came out with Yifei to relax when I was in a bad mood. ”
At this time, Liu Yifei took over the conversation, "That company really doesn't know which crazy thing to smoke, Brother Lin doesn't want to give millions of dollars for nothing, I really don't understand." ”
Chen Shijun's heart suddenly moved, he was worried about money recently, and the three million financing was spent like flowing water, but he didn't expect that the person he had inadvertently met was still a hidden master, "Oh? I wonder if Brother Lin would mind telling the story here?"
Lin Fan pretended to be bland, "It's not a glorious thing, I was going to buy one percent of Facebook's shares with six million dollars, but I didn't expect to be out of the game at the last step." ”
Lin Fan said it lightly, but Chen Shijun listened to it and his mind became lively, Chen Shijun decided to check what this mortal's safety was when he went home.
……
As soon as the two of them sat in the car, Liu Yifei couldn't wait to ask, "Is the sentence I just said a stroke of genius and just right?"
"Good is good, but it's a little too pompous. In the next second, Lin Fan changed the topic, "But I think your acting skills are very good, maybe you will win the Oscar in the future." ”
Liu Yifei, who was still showing a fierce light just now, immediately had a little star in his eyes, "I'm not rare." "Oh my God, I'm full of tsundere.
Lin Fan twitched the corners of his mouth helplessly, this girl is too easy to deceive, right?
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