Chapter 479 Give Ning Bao a Promise
Interestingly, Cheng Zhu knew Lin Lu’s birthday through Shen Qingning.
He knew Shen Qingning's birthday through Lin Lu.
Neither of the two girls had mentioned their birthdays to him specifically, but he remembered them.
Since their birthdays are easy to remember, Cheng Zhu doesn't need to record them specifically.
According to Xiaolu, after the natural disaster on May 12 of that year, Ningning donated all her New Year's money and living expenses, and even asked her parents tearfully if they could convert her birthday presents into money and donate them all.
In the following years, this day became a day of mourning, and Ningning celebrated her birthday according to the lunar calendar.
Cheng Zhu also learned that Lu Bao and Ning Bao were actually elementary school classmates.
We went to the same junior high school, but not in the same class.
They didn't go to the same high school, but they enrolled in the same university.
Lin Lu also secretly told Cheng Zhu: "Ningning was not as aloof as she is now. She was very cute in elementary school, and she was always crying and timid. I especially liked to bully her back then, hehe!"
Cheng Zhu personally guessed that his personality might have changed because of his mother's death.
Therefore, we can also get the information that the deer is actually bigger than Ningning!
One was born in the second half of the year and the other was born in the first half of the year. Lin Lu did not start elementary school a year earlier.
However, the feeling given by this pair of best friends on a daily basis is that Ningning is more like the older sister and Xiaolu is the younger sister.
At this moment, the conference room fell into a brief silence again.
Shen Qingning never expected that Cheng Zhu would suddenly say happy birthday to her.
A complex emotion surged in her heart again, so much so that she did not immediately respond to Cheng Zhu's words, but their eyes met briefly.
Cheng Zhu was sitting on a chair, and Tui Jing was standing, so at this moment it was Cheng Zhu who was looking up at her.
He could see the flicker and evasion in the tsundere girl's eyes.
After seven or eight seconds, she whispered, "Thank you."
There was no emotion in Shen Qingning's tone.
For a tsundere person, since she has stood up and said she is leaving, she will definitely leave.
Therefore, Shen Qingning took one last look at Cheng Zhu and planned to continue pushing the door and leaving.
As a result, after finishing the phone call, Shen Minglang came back with a smile on his face.
He looked in great shape, and he seemed to be in high spirits, as if he was walking on clouds.
Those who knew him would understand that he went out to make a phone call, while those who didn’t would think that he enjoyed some service in that short period of time.
However, this idiot's personal performance is always unstable. Sometimes he can make great assists, and sometimes he makes a mess of things.
At this moment, Shen Minglang said, "Hey, Ningning, are you leaving?"
"Yeah." Shen Qingning nodded.
"Wait a minute, sit down for a while, I want to tell you something." He actively pulled out the chair next to him and invited his sister to sit down.
He saw Shen Qingning standing there coldly and made a gesture of invitation.
Ningning felt helpless towards her funny brother and could only walk down the stairs and sit down.
Shen Minglang didn't beat around the bush and looked directly at Cheng Zhu: "Cousin, I just called Old Shen, that is, my dad."
"Well, what did Uncle Shen say?" Cheng Zhu was quite polite.
"What else can I say? Of course he is going to fully support our second round of financing for Youcha!" Shen Minglang waved his hand and unilaterally simplified all of Shen Guoqiang's words, reducing the amount by at least 200 words.
But his tone and demeanor gave off an attitude that I was the eldest in the Shen family and he was the second in command.
The subtext seems to be: How can he not support it?
Shen Qingning: “.”
She knew very well that with her father's strong personality, if he knew that his little brat was saying such nonsense outside, he would probably buy him a new belt.
"Well, that's good. Among the shareholders, I am most confident in you two." Cheng Zhu nodded repeatedly when he heard it. After glancing at Shen Minglang, he looked at Ning Ning again.
Then, a deliberate expression of wanting to say something but stopping appeared on his face.
Shen Minglang immediately said, "Cousin, what do you want to say? Don't hold it in. What's the relationship between the three of us? Just say it directly."
Cheng Zhu knew he would take the bait, and immediately said, “So this time it’s the same as before, Shen Qingning takes the lion’s share, right?”
Shen Minglang didn’t get much from the last investment of 60 million.
He knew that Shen Minglang didn't mind this, and Ningning was rarely present, so he said that.
Sure enough, Shen Minglang immediately said: "Of course, this is part of Ningning's dowry in the future, she will definitely get the lion's share!"
He had told Cheng Zhu about this before, but Shen Qingning was not present, so she didn't know that this big mouth would tell everything.
This silly boy hasn't noticed the change in his sister's expression yet.
He has been a little inflated recently, and he is a little confused. He said, "I really don't care about the amount of shares. I just want to make my sister's dowry bigger and stronger, and then help my dearest cousin build his career and protect his career! I really don't care about other things, honestly!"
It was obvious that Cheng Zhu had praised him too many times recently.
Men are like this. If you praise him a few more times, he will really believe it!
In addition, he was infected by Cheng Zhu's aggressive aura and was now really pretending to be cool.
Shen Minglang became more and more excited as he spoke, but Shen Qingning couldn't listen any more.
"Shen Minglang, don't take the jokes we say at home seriously and tell them to others." She was so confused.
"How is that possible? Old Shen is absolutely serious!" he retorted immediately.
After refuting, he unexpectedly said: "Ningning, Old Shen is obviously a daughter slave. I still say the same thing, don't belittle yourself!"
Shen Qingning: “.”
She couldn't remember how many times Shen Minglang had said "self-deprecation". You are using this idiom over and over again, right?
Cheng Zhu randomly made up his mind and said in surprise, "Dowry?"
This made the tsundere girl couldn't help but glance at him sideways.
Shen Minglang immediately responded and patted the table lightly: "Yes, so cousin, for Ningning's future appearance, shouldn't we work harder to make Yuzu Tea bigger and stronger!"
He felt that it was time to show some courage as an older brother!
I, [A全民可飞·Shen Minglang], have worked so diligently for my sister's dowry for so long and suffered so much, so why can't I brag about it?
Shen Qingning really wanted to lift her long legs and kick him directly.
Who can you tell that it is not good to grow bigger and stronger? Why do you insist on growing bigger and stronger with Cheng Zhu?
This is the first person that the tsundere girl has ever fallen in love with.
But she was also a little curious about what Cheng Zhu would say.
This man followed Shen Minglang's pretentious steps and said:
"I'm just wondering what to give as a birthday present."
"How about this, I'll make you a promise!"
Shen Minglang: “Ouch!”
He began to get excited.
Shen Qingning was inexplicably nervous, not knowing what Cheng Zhu was going to talk about.
"Before your birthday next year, I will make the valuation of Youcha at least three times higher than the valuation after the second round of financing."
Shen Minglang, like a supporting actor, said in the non-standard intonation of a foreigner learning Chinese: "Awesome!"
The tsundere girl only thought in her heart: "I don't need this kind of promise."
Little did he know that in Cheng Zhu's opinion, given their current situation, he couldn't give them any physical gifts as birthday gifts.
Including on his birthday, Shen Qingning also put together a gift with Shen Minglang and Jiang Wanzhou.
It is feasible to take this opportunity to make a promise.
This way, many years later when everyone talks about their birthday this year, they will at least have expressed it, right?
After the meeting, Red Mountain Capital did not hide the fact that it was in contact with Youcha from Mi Tuan and Are You Hungry.
This made the two major food delivery platforms a little confused.
【Yuzu Tea】is now a battleground, anyone can want to take it, and it is a single platform cooperation model!
At present, because of their crazy spending, the traffic of the two major platforms of [Mituan] and [Are You Elephant] is actually very high, and the number of daily active users is quite scary.
Everyone dreams of killing the other party and then monopolizing the market.
At this stage, everyone is frantically trying to seize the market, compete for users, and snatch high-quality merchants.
In fact, the amount of subsidies the platform gives to users is almost the same at this moment.
This year, if you want to take advantage of food delivery platforms, it’s really great!
Many people must have had the experience of spending only a small amount of money and having a big meal.
When everyone’s subsidy levels are similar, the merchants who settle in the platform become particularly important!
What’s more, Yuzu tea is an internet-famous milk tea, and they can join forces to hype it up, so its power will not be less than that of [jointly-branded]!
From any perspective, Yuzu tea is an excellent partner.
However, if Red Mountain Capital is the lead investor in Youcha’s second round of financing, then it would be a bit difficult because no one has any advantage!
"No, no! There are still advantages!"
The heads of these two major platforms changed their minds and said: This means that platforms like Baidu Takeout are basically out of the game!
At least the number of competitors has decreased, which is a good thing.
In addition, the investment promotion managers of these two platforms have become more active.
Everyone felt that now was the best time to talk to Cheng Zhu.
"The second round of financing for Youzu Tea will definitely be a blockbuster that will shock everyone!"
"The level of shock will probably not be less than when we got the financing."
“If we can acquire Yuzu Tea within this period of time, then after announcing the second round of financing, we can also announce the news of Yuzu Tea’s strong entry into the food delivery platform!”
"This is equivalent to a chain explosion, the effect will definitely be the best!"
All of a sudden, the grapefruit tea became noticeably more fragrant than before.
This time, it even directly alarmed the CEOs of the two major platforms.
Both of them began to consider whether they should take action themselves.
The founders of these two platforms are actually two types of entrepreneurs.
The founder of [Are You Hungry] is a typical college student entrepreneur, born after 1985. He and his classmates created the prototype of [Are You Hungry] while they were still studying.
The founder of [MiTuan] can be said to be a veteran in entrepreneurship.
The first thing he created was Renren, which is a memory of many people’s adolescence.
In other words, this is a fight between a college team and a veteran team.
Therefore, the two platforms can still show some differences in various aspects.
At this moment, Cheng Zhu was actually waiting for the two founders to express their sincerity to him.
In the conference room, he suddenly became interested and wanted to see what Shen Qingning and Shen Minglang thought.
So, he also asked: "Which one do you prefer, [Rice Ball] or [Are You Hungry]?"
As a result, the brother and sister disagreed.
Shen Qingning is more optimistic about Mi Tuan.
Shen Minglang is more like the young team leader of "Are you hungry?"
In Shen Qingning's view, "The founder of MiTuan has rich entrepreneurial experience. His identity, resources, and connections will be even more different."
"And the Mi Tuan just finished the [Thousand Tuan War], and is in a state of tempering."
“Starting from the group buying field to enter the food delivery field actually has huge advantages.”
"A lot of traffic, resources, and data can be linked together."
Shen Minglang simply likes this kind of young team. He thinks that young people dare to think, dare to fight and dare to act!
This person was not thinking rationally at all. He was just being emotional: "Aren't we all young people? Our personalities are totally compatible!"
Cheng Zhu: “.”
So you can't be a leader. Every time you open a store, you lose money.
The brother and sister were also very curious about Cheng Zhu's thoughts.
"Cousin, which one do you think is better looking?" Shen Minglang asked.
"I stand on your sister's side." Cheng Zhu said directly.
Such a simple sentence made Shen Qingning feel a little happier.
At the same time, she also felt that "Cheng Zhu indeed agrees with me in many areas."
Little did he know that Cheng Zhu, a reborn person, knew the future of these two platforms.
Many years later, the once evenly matched [Mituan Takeout] and [Are You Elephant] have now become [Mituan] with a larger market share.
However, [Are You Hungry] started to go downhill rapidly after it was acquired by Alibaba.
At that time, [Mituan] was still an independent [Mituan], but [Are You Hungry] was just a part of the big ship of Alibaba.
Of course, Cheng Zhu has been reborn for some time now, and he is very clear about the impact of the "Butterfly Effect". He cannot make choices based solely on the situation in his previous life.
What's more, in the next few years, I am destined not to be an insignificant little character in the business world, I am also the kind of person who can trigger a hurricane!
Therefore, the subsequent endings of the two major platforms should only be used as a reference.
Judging from the capital behind these two platforms, what will follow is actually the so-called battle between the two horses.
Behind [MiTuan] is Penguin, and behind [Are You Hungry] is Alibaba.
The support that these two domestic giants can provide is not just financial.
There are many benefits to having a large ship of this level as your backer.
Personally, Cheng Zhu is more inclined towards Penguin and Alibaba.
As we all know, Alibaba has a strong desire for control, and Penguin is relatively better in this regard.
He also said this openly to Shen Minglang and Shen Qingning.
When Shen Minglang heard that the desire for control was strong and would be strong, he immediately thought of his father and began to shake his head in resistance.
"Mi Tuan is still the best, Mi Tuan is still the best!" He immediately changed sides.
Little did they know that Cheng Zhu had another very important reason in his mind, which he did not tell the siblings.
There is another big advantage for Yuzucha to have Penguin as its backer.
——【WeChat mini program】!
(ps: My dad’s eardrum was damaged today and he went to the hospital, so the update is a little less, sorry sorry.)
(End of this chapter)
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