Mobile phone manufacturing required a license, which was not abolished until 2004. In the following years, the large number of mobile phone manufacturers that emerged drove the price of this license to a high level.
Huang Youwei agreed, and they agreed to officially sign the contract the day after tomorrow. He then left.
Lu Feng was the only one left in the private room. A waiter pushed open the door and came in, asking, "Sir, may we serve the food now?"
"I'm not eating anymore!" Lu Feng stood up and left.
"Even if you don't eat, you still have to pay for the private room," the waiter hurriedly said.
Lu Feng casually tossed down a hundred yuan and walked out of the private room. This deal had no winners and was unrelated to profit; it was a transaction involving Jia Feng's life and death and Huang Youwei's future.
Huang Youwei has higher aspirations, and Lu Feng also has his own plans. The two of them came from that small place. At first, they only needed each other. Now that they no longer need each other, they naturally return to the vast sea of people.
Lu Feng always felt that he did not belong to this era. He was very lonely. He wanted to be friends or lovers with anyone who could warm his heart, whether it was Jiang Xiaoyan or Huang Youwei.
People always huddle together for warmth on cold winter nights, feeling that the other is their lifelong love and friendship. But when the height of summer arrives, they realize that the other is not so good after all, and eventually they go about their own business and lose touch with each other.
In movies, TV dramas, or novels, farewells are always so ceremonial, with a precise time when the two will never meet again. But life is the opposite. When we meet, we are full of ritual, but when we look back and think about when we stopped contacting each other, there is no specific time. After thinking about it, we can only give ourselves a vague answer: maybe it was that summer?
Maybe!
Many times, Lu Feng thought that some people were destined to meet, destined to become friends or lovers. But later he felt that he was just a puppet under fate. In this life, there is so little he can control: whose son he will be, whether he will live in the city or the countryside, what kind of education he will receive, and what kind of person he will become.
Later on, you'll know who you became classmates with, who you slept in bunk beds with, what kind of company you joined, who you became colleagues with, and what kind of bad people, good people, and benefactors you met.
He lay in bed, staring at the ceiling, wondering why people in this world always felt lonely. Perhaps it was because they had so few real choices.
We are donkeys pulling a millstone, and we think our best friend is the millstone.
Two days later, the contract was finalized, and several TV stations and newspapers were invited to a press conference. At the conference, facing various interviews from reporters, Lu Feng, dressed in a suit and tie, spoke at length about the cooperation and discussed the future of mobile phones in China.
Huang Youwei, acting as the representative, signed the contract with both parties and exchanged contracts.
After the signing was completed, Huang Youwei looked at Lu Feng and asked in a low voice, "The New Year is almost here, when are you planning to go back?"
"tomorrow!"
Huang Youwei nodded and said, "See you again sometime!"
Lu Feng just smiled and didn't say anything. There was supposed to be a dinner party after the signing ceremony, but Lu Feng found an excuse not to attend.
Downstairs, Huang Youwei and General Manager Wei watched Lu Feng drive away, their eyes fixed on the car for a long time until it was no longer visible.
Huang Youwei turned around with a hint of disappointment in his expression. He took a deep breath and cheered himself up. With the end of the year approaching, he had more and more meetings to attend. As long as nothing went wrong next year, his promotion was practically a done deal.
He has his own path to follow, and he will go further and further down it.
The afternoon meeting was a guidance meeting on the city's economy for next year. The heads of important enterprises in the city would be present. These bosses had smiles on their faces when they faced Huang Youwei. Every word they said had to be carefully considered. For these enterprises, Huang Youwei could elevate them to the top with just one sentence, or he could make their enterprises slowly fade into obscurity with just one sentence.
In this world, no one is anyone's supporting character; everyone is the protagonist of their own destiny. It's just that two straight lines, once they intersect, drift further and further apart.
With the matter settled, Lu Feng returned to the hotel and called Zhu Lidong and Du Guoying respectively, briefly explaining the situation and instructing them to expand their mobile phone market here. The first batch of Jiaxun mobile phones had already rolled off the production line, which was located in the Suzhou factory, thus significantly reducing transportation costs.
The negotiations within the province are still ongoing. According to Zhu Lidong, signing the contract in February next year should not be a problem. They have reached a consensus on many aspects. Once the cooperation model with Jiangsu is finalized, it will also have a positive effect on other provinces.
With everything arranged, it was already December, and the Lunar New Year was fast approaching. Lu Feng first called Jiang Xiaoyan to ask if she was sure she wasn't going back. Jiang Xiaoyan said she had already given the factory a holiday, and that she was going to participate in an activity class during the Lunar New Year, which was supposed to be an Olympiad math class. She would be going abroad for training and would also be visiting Chinatown in the United States to experience the Lunar New Year overseas.
On the phone, Lu Feng listened to Jiang Xiaoyan talking about how great this math Olympiad class was, how much money it cost, how quickly her child's grades improved, and most importantly, how these grades were enough to get her into overseas universities. She was paving the way for Duoduo, and once she got to high school, she would be sent overseas to attend a prestigious university.
Jiang Xiaoyan expressed her hopes on the phone, but Lu Feng heard Duo Duo throwing a tantrum.
“You should let the child rest, it’s the New Year,” Lu Feng said helplessly.
"What a great opportunity! Now is the time for her to learn..."
"I want to go find my dad, I want to go back to the village!" Duoduo's voice was filled with grievance.
"Shut up! What are you going back to the village for? To farm?" Jiang Xiaoyan snapped at Duoduo. "Hold those two streams of pee back down! What kind of kid is like you?"
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