Chapter 135
Before the Chinese New Year, Brother Zhen and his family came to visit us, bringing handmade fermented bean curd and dried sweet potatoes.
Zhen Zhen hadn't eaten dried sweet potatoes for a long time and was really craving for them.
"Didn't your family dry the sweet potatoes this year?"
"I've been in Beijing for half a year this year, and no one in my family eats this stuff except me. My mother-in-law doesn't even try it."
Old Mrs. Meng was an expert at drying dried sweet potatoes. After Zhen Zhen left, she sat at the door of her good mother-in-law every day, waiting day and night for her daughter-in-law to appear from the corner of the street.
She is old and afraid of being abandoned. If her daughter-in-law doesn't come back, she will be the only one left at home.
The grandson and granddaughter-in-law are not unfilial, but they are a generation apart after all.
The great-grandson was even more speechless. What could an eighty-year-old woman talk to a child about? The child complained that she was hard of hearing, had clumsy movements, and could not understand the new words she was using.
Only her daughter-in-law can speak to her in confidence.
Old Mrs. Meng called her daughter-in-law to ask if she would come back and if she wanted to dry some sweet potatoes. When her daughter-in-law said no, she wondered if she was really going to settle down in Beijing, and she was worried for half a year.
Only after her daughter-in-law came back did Mrs. Meng feel completely relieved.
Hearing Zhen Zhen say this, Mrs. Meng said happily:
"You must get more sun next year. You are the only one who loves to eat. You are 60 years old and your teeth can still eat."
She was happy that her daughter-in-law needed her.
Zhen Zhen smiled and picked up a dried sweet potato. The dried sweet potato that Zhen Ersao dried was neither dry nor hard, but soft, chewy and sweet, making people want to eat more.
Seeing that she liked it, Zhen Ersao felt relieved.
The Meng family is rich and has everything they need, so she always finds it difficult to give gifts during the Chinese New Year.
There is no need to give expensive gifts to relatives. Besides, the Meng family runs a department store and has everything they need.
Fortunately, Zhen Zhen likes to eat dried sweet potatoes, dried yams, fermented tofu and the like, all of which Zhen Ersao can make.
Zhen Ersao would make some every now and then and send it to her sister-in-law.
"His aunt, I came here specifically to thank you."
Zhen Ersao glanced at Dongdong. Dongdong was really different after being away for a year.
He was wearing a white shirt and suit pants and looked like a grown-up.
He is more steady in his words and deeds than before. Look, he has been back home for several days and hasn't gone out to visit those bad friends. It seems that he has turned over a new leaf.
Zhenzhen doesn't like to label others, and Dongdong is a good kid.
"Dongdong is not as bad as you say. I wanted to invest in him at first, but he refused, saying that he wanted to work hard and gain experience. Now, he has just arrived in Beijing and has traveled all over the city. He has found all the real estate resources by himself. He is an honest and trustworthy person. Tan Wenyin introduced him to several customers, and they all gave him a thumbs up."
"There is such a thing?" Zhen Ersao was quite surprised.
In the eyes of Brother Zhen and his wife, Dongdong is a child who is not presentable.
He is not in the system, does not work in a state-owned enterprise, is not a teacher, and does not have a high level of education. He is no different from garbage.
Zhen Ersao was too embarrassed to bring him with her when she went out to pay New Year's greetings, as she always felt that this grandson was not presentable enough.
Mrs. Zhen is most afraid of people asking: "Where does Dongdong work?"
He didn't know how to answer.
Who would have thought that in Zhen Zhen's eyes, Dongdong was completely different, completely different from the grandson that Zhen Ersao knew.
Zhen Zhen laughed and said, "You have too little confidence in your child. Other people can make 20,000 to 30,000 yuan a year! Years ago, I heard from Tan Wenyin that he sold a courtyard house to an old professor who was studying abroad and got a commission of more than 2,000 yuan! He made a lot of money."
These days, the average annual income of urban residents is just over 2,000 yuan, and farmers can barely make 1,000 yuan a year.
Zhen Ersao's shop made good money in the past few years. In recent years, many people have opened shops and the competition is fierce. She can earn more than 10,000 yuan a year, while Wang Ling's bookstore makes less than 10,000 yuan. The two of them combined cannot earn as much as Dong Dong in half a year.
Zhen Ersao didn't expect Dongdong to earn so much.
"Being a private businessman is not as stable as having a regular job, and it's not good to say it out loud."
Wang Ling also nodded. "We asked him to come back and study again for the civil service exam, but he disagreed."
Zhen Zhen couldn't help but shake his head. Parents can't help their children, so could they please not hold them back?
It's so hard for a child to succeed. It's fine if you don't encourage him, but how can you pour cold water on him?
"How many employees of state-owned enterprises have gone into business these days? Those with a job opening want to learn from you and start their own business, but you are the opposite, you are actually going back to join state-owned enterprises."
Zhen's second wife and Wang Ling knew what Zhen Zhen meant. They felt that as long as the family had enough food and drink, they still hoped that their children could have a decent career.
Selling houses to people doesn’t sound like a serious job if you tell others about it!
It’s better for Zhen Xiangyang to be a repairman, after all he has a skill.
"Aunt, every household is in short supply of houses. Who wants to change houses easily? He was lucky to have sold a few houses."
Zhen Zhen shook his head. "You make money because you are capable, and your son makes money because he is lucky?"
Wang Ling was embarrassed by what she said. "I'm worried that after all the houses are sold, there will be no houses left for sale, and he won't have enough food to eat in the future."
"Don't worry, Beijing is developing real estate everywhere, and every household will live in commercial housing in the future. Chaoyang Industry is a real estate agency, and it has a better future than your shop."
Zhen Zhen is the head of the family. Since she said so, Zhen's second wife and Wang Ling stopped giving random advice.
As the Chinese New Year approached, the family added a grave to Meng Changzheng and his father Meng.
Meng Daguo demolished the old house in his hometown and built a four-story building. He also wanted to install a direct elevator, but was stopped by Zhen Zhen.
"I only go home once during the holidays, there's no need to spend so much money. In the future, these houses will be empty."
"Mom, I'm worried that you have a disability and it's inconvenient for you to climb the stairs."
"Mom is only 60 years old. Is she already disabled? Not really."
The house is built, and Zhen Zhen plans to return to Batou Village to celebrate the New Year.
The time before the New Year is the busiest, especially for Zhenxin Department Store. Once the New Year promotion banners are hung out, everyone gets into the mood for the New Year. Plus, the county TV station broadcasts promotional ads every day, so city workers and rural residents are all busy coming to Zhenxin Department Store to buy New Year goods.
Zhen Zhen asked curiously, "Is the flow of people this year greater than last year?"
"Of course not," Meng Pandi said with a smile, "This year many families are raising sheep and making woolen sweaters. With the promotion of drivers from all walks of life, the news of Xinyao County making woolen sweaters has spread all over the country. The people have made money, so they want to spend it, right?"
In previous years, ordinary people were very frugal with their money, but this year is different. A woolen sweater can make a lot of money. They raise sheep, grow peppers and medicinal herbs at home. There is not a single idle family in the entire Xinyao County.
When ordinary people earn money, they want to spend it, and in the end, the money goes back into Zhen Zhen's pocket.
What surprised Zhen Zhen was that this year's customers had many more accents from other places.
Meng Pandi said that people from surrounding counties and cities came to buy New Year's goods, and many people responded that the goods and services of Zhenxin Department Store are better than those of the department stores in the provincial capital.
"People say our service is not available anywhere else!"
Last year, a customer from the provincial capital came back to his hometown to visit his relatives. He had heard that the service at Zhenxin Department Store was good, so he wanted to take a look. However, when he was trying on clothes, he left a gold necklace as thick as a thumb in the fitting room.
The customer was so anxious that she went back in a hurry to look for it, thinking that someone must have taken it away. However, when she came back, the waiter not only returned the necklace to her, but also helped her wipe it clean, put it in a small velvet box for jewelry from Zhen Dafu, packed her handbag, and glared at her to come and get it.
The customer was so moved that he wrote a letter to the provincial capital evening newspaper that day to report the incident.
Who would have thought that the provincial capital evening paper would actually publish it! They even invited people from the TV station to interview it.
It was during this interview that I discovered that in the little-known Zhenxin Department Store, there are such heartwarming stories every day.
A department store in a county town actually puts customers first and takes great care of the common people, often helping the elderly to get on the elevator, helping customers to take care of their children, returning lost property, and taking care of a woman who fainted from hypoglycemia.
There were so many such stories that the common people of Xinyao County were full of praise for Zhenxin Department Store. In this way, the reputation of Zhenxin Department Store spread widely.
Many out-of-town customers came this year. They said they come to shop every time the season changes, and they buy two sacks of clothes every time!
Five days before the Chinese New Year, Sanwa finally got off the crowded Spring Festival train. He found a rickshaw at the station entrance and couldn't wait to go home.
"Is Meng Dong back?" the waitress called out.
"Hello."
Meng Dong carried his suitcase and ran straight to the backyard. As soon as he entered the door, he shouted:
"I'm so hungry, grandma, is there anything to eat at home? Give me some meat! If there's no meat, vegetables will do! If there's no vegetables, cakes will do!"
Zhen Zhen didn't expect Meng Dong to come home at this time. Everyone at home was busy and there was no one to cook, so Zhen Zhen simply rolled up her sleeves and cooked herself.
"Grandma, can you make a meat bun?"
Meng Dong ran over and hugged his grandmother, "Grandma's roujiamo is the most delicious."
Zhen Zhen took the finished pancake, cut it in the middle, moved it around in the pan, fried chicken fillets, mushrooms, green vegetables, and fried an egg, and stuffed them all into the pancake.
Sanwa ate half of it in one bite. The crispy and fragrant biscuit was so delicious that he almost lost his soul!
"It smells so good! My grandma is the real chef in our family. The meat buns she makes are the best!"
When Meng Nan came back, he was also moved to tears by the aroma of the meat-filled steamed bun.
"My grandma actually cooks for me herself. The third child is really impressive!"
Sanwa smiled happily.
When Tao Aihong heard that her son had returned, she pulled the full-fed third child into the house.
"I heard from your grandma that you are also in some project of Song Xiaohong's man?"
“Semiconductors.”
"Yes, semiconductors. What is this? What does it have to do with your major?"
Sanwa gave a few simple explanations, but Tao Aihong didn't understand a word.
"How's the partnership between you and your sister going?"
Sanwa was surprised, "Don't you dislike my sister and don't allow me to get along with her?"
Tao Aihong was a little embarrassed. "That's all old news. The sanitary napkins your sister made are selling really well! They are famous all over the country and can make tens of millions a month! Just three days ago, your grandmother helped her get in touch with the world's best production line from abroad, which cost more than 20 million yuan! They said they wanted to improve China's sanitary napkins. Next year, our country will have new sanitary napkins on the market. By then, your sister will be rich as hell!"
Tao Aihong thinks that this represents rapid changes. In the 1980s, earning 200 yuan a month for the whole family was an astronomical figure.
Only a dozen years have passed, and Meng Nan can earn tens of millions in a month. If Tao Aihong knew that Meng Nan had this ability, she would have established a good relationship with Meng Nan long ago.
Sanwa thinks Tao Aihong is too realistic and too snobbish.
It's embarrassing for a family to end up like this.
But he did have something to ask Meng Nan.
"Sister, I made a software."
Sanwa jumped onto Mengnan's bed and nestled on Mengnan's right hand side.
The brother and sister grew up together, and no matter how Zhen Zhen said there were differences between men and women, he just had no such concept.
Meng Nan is reading Si Ya's new book which has not yet been published.
"What software?"
“A chat app.”
“What chat software?”
Sanwa got the inspiration from the paging station. "Look, now we have to dial the paging station, and then the paging station will send the message to our pager. This is quite convenient, but it will be delayed if there is an emergency."
"If it's urgent, call."
"Okay, let's talk about the phone. Rich people use mobile phones, and the second-rich people have landlines. What about poor people? Even if everyone has money, the rich people also need software that can communicate instantly, but mobile phones and pagers don't have this function."
Meng Nan thought about it carefully and it seemed to be the case.
"So, let's combine the pager with the mobile phone, and let the mobile phone have the pager screen. The mobile phone will have the functions of making calls and sending text messages. I have to say, Sanwa, you are really a genius. This is a really good idea! If we can really improve the mobile phone, it will definitely be popular all over the world!"
"Huh?" Sanwa was a little confused, "But that's not what I meant."
"What do you mean?"
"Sister, your idea sounds very special, but what I want to create is a software, the kind that is used on a computer. This kind of software can communicate online. We are both on the same Internet. When I send a message, you can receive it immediately."
Meng Nan's eyes widened. "So fast? You mean there's a room-like place, and a group of people are in this room, and you talk, and I talk, but because everyone is in the same room, we can see each other's words?"
"Huh?" Sanwa was a little confused again. How could his sister be so talented that she could even chat in the room? "Sister, your idea is very interesting, but that's not what I'm talking about. I want to make a software that can be logged in on a computer. The billion people in the country can log in to the software and chat. We can add each other as friends, and of course, you can also have your chat room on this software."
Although Meng Nan graduated from National Tsing Hua University, she has no interest in computers.
After all, computers aren't fun enough these days.
That is, companies and schools need computers for work.
Meng Nan shook his head honestly, "Sanwa, I really don't understand."
Sanwa was a little frustrated. Meng Nan was the most educated person in the family. She had received higher education and was a successful female entrepreneur, but she couldn't understand him. She was afraid that his idea would not be realized.
"Actually, I wanted to make this kind of software so that I can communicate with my grandma more conveniently."
"Ah?" Meng Nan was a little confused. "How do I get in touch?"
"Let's buy grandma a computer. Grandma logs into my software, and I log into the software in Beijing City. Then we can chat with each other. You and your second and fourth sisters can join us. We are a family, and we can chat however we want."
Meng Nan still didn't understand. She was afraid of dampening Sanwa's enthusiasm, so she jumped out of bed quickly.
"I don't understand. It's okay. Let's go find grandma!"
Sanwa had no hope, Meng Nan couldn't understand, and A-nai, who had never even touched a computer, certainly wouldn't understand even more.
Who would have thought that after hearing this, grandma would slap her thigh.
"Oh! Sanwa, I'll tell you the truth, grandma also needs this kind of software!"
Sanwa's eyes widened in surprise and he was speechless for a long time.
"real?"
"Of course! Just think about it, how lonely grandma must be. If there is such software, not only grandma, but also great-grandma can chat with you online!"
The third child was so happy that he was bubbling with happiness when his grandmother affirmed him.
"Grandma, I made this software just to keep in touch with you. Your eldest grandson should use the knowledge he has learned to bring us closer."
Zhen Zhen happily hugged her grandchildren. She never thought that Sanwa was so amazing. Sanwa had the idea of chat software that would not be launched on the market until four or five years later in the future, in 1994.
"Sanwa, grandma will definitely support you!"
Sanwa became more and more excited as he spoke, "Grandma, Uncle Qian is developing semiconductors. When our semiconductor technology matures, we can install cameras on computers. Then I will develop a function to combine my software with the camera. In this way, we can meet online!"
"Wow! My eldest grandson is so amazing!"
Zhen Zhen was overjoyed, feeling the joy of entering a civilized era.
Sanwa felt embarrassed by the compliments.
"Grandma, did I really do it?"
"Do it! Don't just make it for your family, make it for businesses, companies, schools, and everyone! Then, all of China will be able to chat on your software and truly achieve network interconnection."
Grandma’s words gave Sanwa some inspiration.
Sanwa immediately entered the room, "Grandma, I need a computer!"
"Buy it! Your aunt Meng Li's training school has the latest computers. Grandma asked her to bring one back for you. It will be delivered tomorrow!"
The third child happily hugged his grandmother and kissed her.
"Grandma? Did you hear the ducks?"
As soon as he finished speaking, Wuwa came running in. He turned fifteen during the Chinese New Year, but his voice had not yet changed.
"Brother, you're back!"
The third child excitedly pulled the fifth child to discuss his chat software.
The next day, Meng Li brought back a computer for Sanwa, with the highest configuration, costing more than 20,000 yuan.
Sanwa was so happy that he couldn't put it down. He started fiddling with the computer that day and said he wanted to develop the chat software as soon as possible.
Sanwa has done some coding in school, and now he just needs to continue to improve it.
Zhen Zhen suggested: "Have you chosen a name?"
“Not yet.”
"You can make a cute avatar, a panda, a cat, a puppy, a penguin, whatever."
Sanwa thought this suggestion was great. He worked day and night and didn't even want to sleep. He was wrapped in unprecedented passion.
He believed what his grandmother said and that he was making a groundbreaking product.
After this product is launched on the market, it will be able to achieve network interconnection.
People from all over the country can communicate with each other through software.
There is no distance between people anymore, and many strangers can become friends.
Meng Nan and Si Ya helped San Wa think about the details.
For example, the idea her grandma mentioned, of being able to change the avatar, is a very good one.
The two of them looked for people to draw, hoping to find some icons suitable as avatars.
"Boy's avatar, girl's avatar, animal avatar." Si Ya suggested.
"Yes, we can have different profile pictures for different age groups," Meng Nan said.
The two of them gathered together and whispered.
"I don't want others to know my real name when I go online. It would be best if I could change my name."
“You can edit your profile page and change your mood.”
“There is a chat room where the whole family can chat together.”
"You can also send photos. I can send you the photos I took." Si Ya suggested.
Meng Nan and Siya made many suggestions from the girls' perspective, and Sanwa thought they were all good. He added functions such as Internet paging, chat room, and software transmission to the software.
These days, you still need to dial up to access the Internet.
Zhen Zhen was worried that the memory was too large and the download speed was slow, so it took an hour to download a software.
Sanwa nodded, "Grandma, I will try to compress the space. I expect that the 'My Friends' column will only show three avatars. If you want to see more, you have to scroll down. Grandma, take a look at my Internet pager function. As long as you fill in the other party's number in the pager number, you can send the message to the other party's pager."
Zhen Zhen felt that Sanwa was truly a genius.
This is much more convenient than a pager.
"My eldest grandson is so awesome! If this were to be released, it would surely drive my grandmother crazy!"
Sanwa felt embarrassed by the praise. His software was very immature and he didn't know if anyone would use it after it was released to the market. Yet, grandma trusted him so much.
Sanwa took the entire winter vacation. On New Year's Day, he only went back to Batou Village to have a New Year's Eve dinner, and then went straight back to Xinyao County.
He got some instant noodles, drinks and snacks from Good Mother's Store for a midnight snack.
Tao Aihong felt that he locked himself in the room all day long and was afraid that he would get sick, so she would go in to check on him every half an hour with fruits and tea.
Every time she went in, Sanwa's train of thought was interrupted, but he was too embarrassed to get angry with his mother.
Zhen Zhen pulled Tao Aihong aside and scolded her.
Tao Aihong was still unconvinced, "I'm his mother, I want to go in and see him, what's wrong? Why can't I go in?"
"Are you going in to see him? Last time you brought him a glass of water, and his keyboard malfunctioned. The time before that, you stuffed an apple into his mouth, and his computer shut down without saving the code. He is in a critical period of research and development, can't you be understanding? Don't mess with your child in the name of love."
"I...if he is unhappy, he can tell me."
"He told you, did you listen? He told you not to enter his room, what did you say? What did you say? You almost cursed the entire Meng family for eighteen generations, and even said that Sanwa has become more and more heartless as he grows older! Is this what you call human behavior?"
Tao Aihong shrank her neck as her mother-in-law scolded her. She wanted to explain but didn't dare to say a word to her mother-in-law.
Zhen Zhen glanced at her and said, "I don't ask much of you, just don't cause trouble. If you really have nothing to do, go shopping at Zhenxin Department Store."
Zhen Zhen stuffed a shopping card with 5,000 yuan in it into Tao Aihong's pocket.
Tao Aihong was immediately delighted and ran away on her Hot Wheels.
Sanwa struggled for nearly three months and even asked for leave from school, saying that he wanted to develop software at home.
Professor Sanwa admired him very much. When he heard that he was doing research, he did not stop him and approved his leave readily.
As winter turned to spring and the trees began to sprout, Sanwa's software had already taken shape.
It looked similar to what Zhen Zhen saw in the real world, except that the icon was a giant panda's head.
"Hey, the panda icon looks so cute! Sanwa, how big is this software?"
“220KB!”
"220 is not big! It is easy to download!"
"That's right."
Sanwa was quite proud that he was able to compress a software to this size, and he did it all by himself.
"Grandma! I want to give you a gift!" Sanwa hugged Zhen Zhen and said excitedly, "I want to give you number 10001, which is the number one of our software."
Zhen Zhen was so happy that she was bubbling with joy. "When my Sanwa's company grows big, a writer will write a history of Sanwa's business and record this event. 'Meng Dong, the president of a famous Internet group, gave the number one software title to his beloved grandma.' 'Then grandma will be able to go down in history along with your company."
"Sanwa, who's the number two?" Meng Nanchong Sanwa blinked.
"Of course it's for myself!"
"Hmph, you stingy guy, you forgot your sister is still here!"
"Okay, number 2 is for me, number 3 is for you, number 4 is for the second sister, number 5 is for the fourth sister, number 6 is for the fifth child, and number 7 is for the sixth child!"
Tao Aihong almost took off her shoes, "Do you take your mother seriously?"
The third child held his head and started to laugh.
Sanwa left 200 numbers for his company's employees for easy contact.
However, although the software has taken shape, Sanwa still has one thing that needs to be solved urgently.
"We need to work with broadband companies so we can send paging messages online."
The Meng family lacks everything except connections.
Sanwa called Meng Hua. When Meng Hua heard that his eldest nephew was going to develop some software, although he didn't understand it, he still supported it unconditionally.
He put down the phone and called the president of the telecommunications company.
The telecom company's CEO certainly doesn't care about chat software, as it is of no benefit to the company.
But he has to give face to President Meng.
The telecom company CEO agreed without saying anything else and signed a contract for in-depth cooperation.
Under Meng Hua's operation, Sanwa's cooperation with the telecommunications company officially began in June 1994.
Sanwa founded his own Internet company and named it Ren Dongxi.
The name of the chat software is Panda Chat.
In order to support her eldest grandson, Zhen Zhen specially asked Meng Li to buy her a computer. It took a lot of effort to install broadband in a small county. Fortunately, Zhen Zhen was familiar with the leaders, and the leaders arranged for employees to come to the house as soon as possible. In this way, the Meng family used broadband in the summer of 1994.
Zhen Zhen was the first to download Panda Chat. She anxiously looked at the download progress bar on her computer and felt that the Internet speed at home was too slow.
Fortunately, ten minutes later, Panda Chat was downloaded, and Zhen Zhen, as the first person to register for Panda Chat, got the starting number 10001.
As soon as Zhen Zhen came online, he heard two "coughs" and a man named "CEO of Guoguang Brand Feed" added him.
Zhen Zhen clicked "pass", and the other side took a long time to input.
Guoguang: Mom, guess who I am?
Zhen Zhen clicked on the eyes-rolling emoticon.
Guoguang: evil smile.jpg
Guoguang: Mom, the software made by Sanwa is amazing. I can talk to you even from the pig farm.
Zhen Zhen: Of course, I’ll help promote Sanwa when I have time.
Guoguang: Of course. I just called my third brother and asked him to download Panda Chat.
Not long after that, Meng Hua and Tan Wenyin also registered for Panda Chat, and even Tan Zheng had a number 10010.
Tan Zheng: Hello, sister.
Zhen Zhen: Brother, are you okay too? I just made some bacon at home, I'll send some to you. When are you free to come to Xinyao County to play?
Tan Zheng was learning the Wubi typing method and was not very proficient at it. Seeing Zhen Zhen type so many words in just a few seconds, he couldn't help feeling a little frustrated.
He turned off his computer and practiced Wubi hard, deciding to give himself two months to catch up with Zhen Guizhi's typing speed.
After Sanwa's software came into the market, Meng Eryong and Tao Aihong were the most excited. They praised Sanwa's software to everyone they met. Unfortunately, in Xinyao County in 1994, ordinary people had never touched a computer, let alone knew what software was.
However, in order to show their support, everyone still gave Sanwa some respect and praised him for being so great!
Just like that, all members of the Meng family started using the Panda Chat app developed by Sanwa.
In mid-1994, computer labs had just become popular in big cities, but most of them were used to learn office software and typing.
Computers that can dial up to the Internet can cost up to 30 yuan per hour.
People who have access to the Internet mainly come from scientific research institutions and universities.
In this era, one can imagine the number of downloads of Panda Chat.
Three months have passed in a blink of an eye, and the number of downloads of Sanwa's Panda Chat is less than 10,000, of which several thousand are from Meng Hua and Zhen Zhen's corporate employees. There are very few real online wild users.
This was very frustrating for the ambitious Sanwa.
His products are very good, and he has cooperated with telecommunications companies and can make online calls.
But his software just wasn't popular enough.
Sanwa didn't know what the problem was. In order to collect data for the software, Sanwa and his roommate went online every day to collect data, pretending to be a girl and chatting with a group of boys.
Who would have thought that there was a user named Xiao Xinxin in the chat room who was more active than him.
"Who is this Xiao Xinxin? She hangs out in the chat room every day, and when a new person comes, she introduces him or her how to use the chat room!" asked Sanwa's roommate.
Sanwa shook his head. "Xiaoxinxin looks very polite and types very fast."
"He types faster than Professor Wen from our computer science department! He must be a professor from some university."
Xin Xiao helped a user solve a computer driver's problem. The user called Xin Xiao a "hero", and Xin Xiao laughed and said that she was a "shrimp".
This familiar humorous tone and helpful attitude made Sanwa feel somewhat familiar.
Sanwa didn't use his own account to go online. He registered a new account, named "Suiyuan Girl", and chatted with Xiao Xinxin.
Casual Girl: Sister, are you from Beijing?
Xiao Xinxin: No.
Random Girl: Don’t you have to go to work? Why are you in the chat room every day?
Xiao Xinxin: I’m helping my grandson with data.
Random Girl: Your grandson?
Xiao Xinxin: Yes, my grandson is the developer of this chat software, a very good programmer! The software he developed is very good and powerful. It is one of the best in the world, not just in China! But there are too few computer users in our country. I want to help him manage the chat room so that more and more people can enjoy the joy of surfing the Internet.
Random Girl: Your grandson is lucky to have a grandmother like you.
Meng Dong turned off his computer and couldn't help but feel tears in his eyes.
He is too impatient, and feels as if the sky is falling when he encounters a little setback.
He completely forgot that his original intention of creating Panda Chat was to chat with his grandma.
Now, Panda Chat has been successful, but he doesn't care about his grandmother. He is only concerned about his software, his download volume, and his user base.
Meng Dong wiped his tears, logged into his account, chatted with his grandmother for a few words, and reminded her not to eat too much watermelon. Then he found a stack of cardboard.
"Meng Dong, why are you gluing so many cardboards together?"
“Make a poster.”
"Ah? Let me help you."
With the help of his roommates, Meng Dong quickly drew a promotional poster, which marked the download method of Panda Chat and told everyone what functions Panda Chat had.
Afterwards, Meng Dong took the poster and went out to do marketing.
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