Chapter 22: Regret
One afternoon four days later, Lin Ming received a call from Peng Chen.
On the phone, Peng Chen told him that after getting Universal Records, with this successful case, he soon won EMI and Emperor, as well as some large and small record companies in Hong Kong City.
The next stop will be to Treasure Island, as long as they win the record market of Warner, Sea Butterfly and other treasure islands, they will almost win 80% of the market share of the Chinese-speaking market. Although Warner is also a large company in Port City, they are headquartered in Treasure Island and occupy 30% of the market share of Chinese records, which is comparable to Universal Music.
After instructing Peng Chen to do his best, Lin Ming hung up the phone. Since the beginning of this year, the world's economic level has been in rapid decline, and several financial crises have caused foreign economies to be depressed, especially after the attacks in the United States. Domestically, it continues to grow, and the pace of development is extremely steady.
Under such circumstances, Taomu invested in the MP3 industry in Yuecheng and successfully put it into production. Taomu invested 2 million yuan in a friend of Hou Wenhui in Yuecheng, accounting for 42% of the shares. In 2002, 2 million yuan was a large investment, enough to open a very large factory in Yuecheng. Because the research and development of MP3 is very simple, the core code is broken, which is a matter of a few electronic components, and there is almost no research and development cost. And the money to be used is to invest in production. A total of nearly 5 million yuan, to produce MP3 with a cost of less than a few tens of yuan, even if you count the cost of equipment and labor costs, it is enough to produce millions of products, which is very convenient.
However, some time ago, Hou Wenhui's friend has been dealing with the equipment matter. Production will not start until the end of July, and it will take a month before the MP3 is launched. Of course, there is also a lot of publicity expenses that should be generated, and Taomu plans to increase investment in the future, go to various TV stations to advertise, and help with advertising and promotion.
In the new era, Zhang Ziqi has become popular one after another and has become a first-line celebrity, and the economic status and development degree of Taomu Company have also improved rapidly. It has become a new first-line record company in China, and its market value is also rising, and many angel investors have come to the door in the hope of financing.
Of course.
This was all rejected by Zhao Bin and Hou Wenhui.
Zhao Bin and Hou Wenhui are not short of money, and with the development momentum of Taomu, it is only a matter of time before they become listed companies in the future. It is not possible to pull too many shareholders in and dilute their shares in the stage of rapid development.
The young boy's new album this month spared no effort in Zhang Ziqi and the overwhelming advertising campaign of Taomu, which also sold 60,000 in a week. After that, Wen Hu's album "Angel Wings" and Zhao Yue's album "Growing Up Overnight" also quietly invaded the Chinese market, bringing more vitality to Chinese music.
In those days, it was definitely too much to say that Jay Chou was outstanding. But the era of the prosperous music market in Hong Kong City in the 80s has passed, and in the 90s, Baodao also prospered for a while, and after the millennium, doctors became the representatives of Hong Kong City, and Dong Chou, Wang Leehom, Jolin Tsai, etc. became the new force of Baodao. And in the mainland, there is really nothing to do. This situation will be maintained until after 2004, when a series of Internet singers such as Pang Long, Zheng Yuan, Xu Yuteng, Yang Chengang, Daolang, Wang Rong, etc., who published their works on the Internet, became popular, and only then did they enter a short period of prosperity. But it's just a flash in the pan, and there are really few who can prosper as long as Jay Chou.
So at this time, peach wood was born and quickly filled the mainland market. At that time, some kings and queens in the mainland moved to Hong Kong City and Treasure Island, such as Sister Fei Laying, who has not signed a contract in Hong Kong City? In addition, there were no works during this time, so that peach wood took advantage of a large market vacancy.
Domestic pop music, almost in a short period of time, swept the mainland market. In the streets and alleys, peachwood songs are played everywhere, and there are bursts of pop music craze.
By the end of July, Wenhu Zhao Yue had achieved remarkable results, proving the strength of Peachwood.
At this time, Lin Ming was studying hard.
In a café outside Xiangchun Road, An Ran was holding a math tutorial book and was teaching Lin Ming to overcome a difficult problem.
An Ran's body exuded a faint fragrance, and he taught Lin Ming some mathematical knowledge points very seriously, and wrote down the detailed formula of the big problem on the paper with his fair-skinned wrist, and taught him how to do it one by one.
They've been here for almost two hours and they've ordered a few cups of coffee.
Since he was reborn, Lin Ming has been constantly making up for the lessons he had missed, like a sponge, frantically absorbing knowledge. In addition to the necessary tutoring classes every day, as long as An Ran, Zhang Shao'an, and Zhou Yunkai have time, Lin Ming will definitely let them help him.
It's not that he necessarily wants to be a good student, in fact, even if he doesn't study, with the advantage of being reborn, his future achievements may not be bad.
But Lin Ming didn't want to leave regrets in his future.
No one likes regrets.
And in Lin Ming's eyes.
A life without the college entrance examination is an incomplete life. The life of not having experienced college is also a regrettable life.
Even in his previous life, Lin Ming experienced the college entrance examination and the university.
Still, he wanted to do it again.
Even if it was a life that was repeated over and over again, Lin Ming still didn't want to treat it as a one-time experience.
Because college life can be addictive!
Natural, casual, and living a leisurely life is the life that I still want to live many years later.
So Lin Ming wanted to revisit it again, even if he walked on the old path of a lifetime, he would not hesitate to do so.
This is a problem for finding the range of values, which is 2X+2^X=5 to get 2^X=5-2X. Make a sketch. Enron drew a Cartesian coordinate system, and on the Y axis, a diagonal line was drawn from the Y axis to the X axis, starting from the second quadrant and spanning the entire first quadrant to the fourth quadrant. Below it is written Y=6-2X.
"The combination of numbers and shapes can be known as 1〈X1〈3/2, which is ....... by 2X+2log"
Lin Ming listened to An Ran's analysis in his ears, but his mind was no longer on mathematics. He looked at Enron carefully. An Ran has a very beautiful melon seed face, and his skin is as white as snow. The eyebrows are crooked, and a small dimple appears on the left cheek when you laugh, which is very sweet and cute. What Lin Ming likes the most is the beautiful short hair, not particularly short, the long bangs are separated from the middle, falling to the sides of the cheeks and rolling inward, and the hair behind the back is pulled behind the ears. But there were still a few sideburns that floated down from time to time, hanging down to the chin, revealing half of the ear. This short hair style is very island-like, and if there is a touch of slanting sun coming in, it is a very comfortable and beautiful warm color small fresh photo.
For a moment, Lin Mingduo thought that time was frozen here.
An Ran's serious appearance is really beautiful.
He stared at An Ran's face quietly, and then his eyes slowly swept down, crystal earlobes, white neck, and slender arms..... Slender arms?
Lin Ming suddenly noticed that An Ran's hand was very thin, really thin, like a child's hand. The whole wrist was a whole round smaller than his own, and he pinched it with some distress to see, as if there was a layer of skin attached to it, and there was no flesh at all. Look at the exposed arm bend again, quickly thin into a bamboo pole.
Because of the school uniform, An Ran usually wears very loose and fat clothes, and you can't see how thin she is. But in the summer after the holiday, wearing sweatpants and short sleeves, you can still see some clues.
That is, Enron is indeed very thin and thin.
"What are you doing?" An Ran was talking seriously, and his hand was suddenly lifted by Lin Ming, and he looked left and right, and said strangely: "What's so nice about your hand." ”
Lin Ming frowned and said, "Why are you so thin, it's the time to grow your body, eat more." ”
"You have to take care of it." An Ran rolled his eyes.
Lin Ming suddenly remembered that in the previous life, An's mother was sent to a foreign branch station, and An Ran ate outside the school for a long time, until An Ran died in November next year, and An's mother was not around. No wonder Enron lost a lot of weight than he did in junior high school, it turned out to be this reason.
An Ran doesn't like to eat out, but An's father is busy with work and can't cook, so he can't start a fire at home. So every time he eats out, An Ran will only eat a little bit, and he has been malnourished for a long time, no wonder he is so thin.
Lin Ming regretted very much that he hadn't noticed this earlier, and he was very distressed. After thinking about it, he said, "Why don't you have dinner at my house later?" ”
"Huh?"
An Ran stared at him with a pair of big watery eyes, and shook his head like a rattle: "Don't go." ”
"The ugly daughter-in-law always wants to see her in-laws."
"I'm going to kill you."
An Ran hammered Lin Ming with a heavy punch, and his face turned red with a brush.
Although since he was a child, An Ran has liked Lin Ming and likes to be with him. But when she was molested by Lin Ming, she would still blush and be speechless.
However, no matter how much you grow up, the longing and love in your heart will never dissipate with time.
On the contrary, it became thicker.
Lin Ming said with a smile: "My dad went on a business trip, and my mom always went downstairs to play mahjong, and now I solve the dinner by myself every day." There's no one at home, I'll cook for you. ”
An Ran looked at him in surprise: "You can also cook?" ”
"Of course."
In fact, there is a sentence that Lin Ming did not say: I only did it for myself in the past, and I only want to do it for you in the future.
Lin Ming has been learning the art of cooking since elementary school, when he was wandering around his aunt's restaurant kitchen and learned a few simple dishes, such as egg cake with green onions, scrambled eggs with tomatoes and so on.
When I was in junior high school, my father was often away from home, and my mother often went out to play cards, so Lin Ming learned to cook for himself, and the next noodles were still very simple.
The real culinary skills will not be achieved until the time of college. Lin Ming's second cousin Jiang Wei once helped his second uncle manage the car for ten years in other places, which was a tourist resort, which was the place where the story in "Border City" written by Shen Congwen took place. One year in college, Lin Ming went to play with him, stayed in that place for more than a month, and went to the ancient city every day.
Second cousin Jiang Wei cooks for Lin Ming every day after work. Lin Ming once asked him why he didn't go out to eat. He said that when a person is in the field, you must learn to take good care of yourself, because outside, no one will feel sorry for you except yourself. Since then, Lin Ming has really learned to cook from him.
That incident was also what Lin Ming was most grateful to Jiang Wei. Because within two years of graduating from college, Lin Ming went north to the capital alone, and spent several years in other places alone. If you are not used to eating foreign food, you will cook and eat it at home.
Just like the documentary on the tip of the tongue, the Chinese people moved away from their homeland and wandered abroad, just because they had the food of their hometown, they pinned on this strong nostalgia.
"Okay."
Hearing Lin Ming's promise of patting his chest, An Ran nodded and said slyly: "Then I'll taste it, if it's not delicious, I'll beat someone." ”
"Don't worry, in order not to be beaten by Miss An, I will also work hard to cook food for her."
Lin Ming smiled: "What do you want to eat?" ”
"What will you do?"
"The home-cooked food is no problem, and there are a few good dishes, do you want to try it?"
Jiang Wei's cooking skills are self-taught, not learned from his aunt, and he does not have the taste of a restaurant with a heavy taste of oil and salt, but the feeling of home-cooked food. Each one is very fine, Lin Ming learned from him for a month, and his cooking skills have increased greatly, and the best dish is beer duck. It just so happened that at the end of the summer vacation, Jiang Wei celebrated his birthday and invited many of his business partners and friends over there for dinner. Lin Ming cooked with him, with the help of his second cousin. Lin Ming spent three hours at the door of Jiang Wei's friend's auto repair shop, using an iron bucket with a large iron pot on it, burning 6 bottles of beer, and stewing two delicious ducks.
After that time, he was considered a teacher.
So whether it is a big dish or a small dish, Lin Ming does it well. It's no problem to become a cook in a restaurant. Not to mention cooking a few home-cooked side dishes.
An Ran thought for a while and said, "If you look at it, it will be a test, and I will be dissatisfied with what I have eaten." ”
"Wrap it up on me."
Lin Ming pulled An Ran up and said, "Let's go, go grocery shopping." ”
An Ran was dragged and said, "The question is not finished yet." ”
"No, it's important to cook for Miss An." Lin Ming said as he cleaned up his books.
Study?
Grades?
University?
Regretful?
Losing Enron is his biggest regret.