Reborn during the early days of China’s reform and opening, the narrator finds himself in the 1980s countryside. In this setting, the past is still a cold reference, yet it is also a fresh start....
When the subtitles started flashing, Section Chief Liu opened his mouth and started singing, and his voice startled himself.
The sound coming out of the speakers was very loud but very soft, which actually made Section Chief Liu think that he was a singer.
"Holy crap! I can actually sing like that! I'll sing another one."
"Stop right there! Pull over. I want to sing a song. I'm going to sing 'The Great Wall Will Never Fall'." Tong Siyang also became excited and stepped forward to grab the microphone.
"Boss, that's Cantonese, do you know it?"
"Of course I can't. Let me show you my authentic Cantonese."
Whether it will be the same or not, let’s just satisfy our curiosity first.
Tong Siyang's Cantonese is very standard, and it is estimated that people in Guangdong may not understand him, but this did not stop him from singing with full emotions, and he even performed two dance moves when he was deeply moved.
After singing one song, Tong Siyang sang another one.
As he left the field, the rest of the group rushed forward.
The lady proprietress of the restaurant was attracted and listened to the tunes these people sang in amazement.
"Madam! Serve the food!"
It was almost noon, and it was time to serve the food.
After everyone present sang at least one song, food and drinks were served.
Wan Feng asked everyone to sit down, gave some opening remarks, and then ate the first round of dishes and drank the first round of wine.
"President Tong, do you think there's a market for this VCD player our company makes?"
"There's such a huge market for this. Once you release this thing, who are we going to sell these karaoke tapes to?"
"We can sell VCDs! They're not complicated to compress, and once they're released to the market, their sales could completely replace videotapes. President Tong, is your company interested in producing VCDs?"
"We are really interested in producing it now, but I don't know how popular your machine will be."
"Several million units shouldn't be a problem."
"Can there be so many?"
"I'm just guessing, maybe tens of millions of units."
Tong Siyang didn't believe that it could reach tens of millions, but millions was a real possibility. He just kept wondering how much this thing would sell for.
“It will definitely be quite expensive when it first comes out, but as time goes by and the prices of electronic components drop, it will eventually drop to a level that is acceptable to the general public.”
If it can really reach a level that is acceptable to the general public, then this thing will definitely have a penetration rate of millions of units.
Tong Siyang had the idea of making VCD discs, and the next step was communication and negotiation between the two parties.
Wan Feng still has two plans, and he has done this many times.
One is that the other party spent one million to buy the technology for compressing VCD discs and produce the discs themselves.
Another option is to cooperate with Wanfeng. Wanfeng provides the technology for compressing discs, and the other party is responsible for the production and sales of the discs, and Wanfeng takes a proportional share of the profits.
Wan Feng was not prepared to take half of the profit, because the compression technology of this disc was not really advanced.
It might fool some people when it first came out, but it's not surprising that it was cracked after a while.
He only wants 30% of the disc profits.
Little did I know that I miscalculated this time, and the other party directly offered 800,000 to buy the technology.
This made Wan Feng a little disappointed but also paradoxically happy.
Originally, the other party insisted on asking for the compression technology of the disc for free, but it might be possible to give it to him for free, after all, someone has already equipped his machine with discs.
Although I didn't get any dividends now, I still sold it for 800,000 yuan, which means I can get back almost one-third of the R&D funds invested in VCD.
Even though Gu Hongzhong made this thing as if it were a toy, Wan Feng still invested his money into it, which was several million.
Jiang Wanmeng spent more than 16 million yuan on researching VCD, while Wan Feng only spent a few million Chinese yuan.
The gap is still quite large.
Some of Jiang Wanmeng's money was spent on purchasing MPEG technology, while Huaguang had its own technology, leaving him with over a million yuan.
After Bohai Audio and Video bought the disc compression technology, it began to design and market the discs.
Huaguang is laying out the assembly line and preparing to start production.
Luan Feng received a new machine.
The machine was sent by Han Guang's family. They said it was a new product from Huaguang. Liang Hongying got one to help her relieve her boredom.
Two CDs were also randomly given away, one of which contained songs, which were the thirty CDs pressed by Wan Feng in Bohai.
This is the first batch of discs on VCD, and it has some collection value.
Han Guangjia connected the VCD player to Luan Feng, taught her how to use it, and then left.
Luan Feng just lay on the kang and watched the pictures boredly. She handed him a disc which contained some songs, which was boring.
She ejected the disc and put another one into the DVD player.
The previous disc was full of songs and was boring, but this disc doesn’t even have songs, just some scenery.
And it was winter, and you could tell at a glance that the ground was freezing.
What is this?
Luan Feng looked for more than ten minutes but couldn't figure out what was going on. However, he did find the scenery somewhat familiar.
She read it again, more carefully this time.
The first person she recognized was Liang Wanjia.
She didn't understand why someone would take pictures of Liang Wanjia for free.
She recognized the second scenery after looking at it twice. It was the beach on the north bank of the river at the east end of Wahou, next to the rubber dam.
The third picture was a little unfamiliar. She looked at it for a long time and remembered that it seemed to be the supply and marketing cooperative in Dabaozi.
The following scenes include Fox Fairy Cave, Liutun, the place where her grandmother's family used to live in the east, and her hometown.
Her hometown has been sold to her sister Luan Ying, and it is now her clothing production workshop. The building designed and built by Wan Feng is still there.
The place with the longest and most shots is the small bushes on the beach at Dongtou Laodaokou.
There are over ten minutes of close-up footage here.
Just when Luan Feng was confused, a voice suddenly appeared on the screen, a man's voice.
"Feng'er! When you see these pictures, you'll definitely wonder who was so bored to shoot such desolate shots. But do you still remember these pictures? These pictures record every step we took from meeting to falling in love. When we first met in the inner room of Liang Wan's house, Yang Laoqi threw me onto the kang and kissed your face. Maybe this was fate. Do you remember how I called you beauty on the beach at the rubber dam? You asked me if beauty meant beauty snake, and that night we went to the big fort to watch a movie together. Because someone teased you, we had a conflict, and then we ran wild like rabbits being chased by dogs, and you actually laughed..."
Of course Luan Feng knew whose voice it was. She wanted to turn off the DVD, but it was as if she was possessed by a demon and she couldn't turn it off.
As she listened, tears flowed from the corners of her eyes and dripped down her cheeks...