Chapter 137
"Grandma, look, my mom is on TV!" Meng Nan pointed at Jiao Huilan on TV.
Jiao Huilan wore a red suit and calmly accepted the interview. When the reporter interviewed her, she was obviously a little nervous, but she quickly adjusted herself and answered the reporter's questions in a clear and sincere manner.
The sunlight hit Jiao Huilan's hair and profile, giving her a warm glow.
Zhen Zhen looked at Jiao Huilan's face and felt proud of her from the bottom of his heart.
The female characters in the family are so outstanding that Meng Nan has been influenced since he was a child and never feels that he is inferior to anyone.
Meng Nan is proud to have a mother like Jiao Huilan.
Cheng Su came back from a business trip in Shanghai. It was a rare opportunity for her to cook, so she made her signature hand-torn chicken for Aunt Zhen.
After dinner, Zhen Zhen cleaned the table. Everyone else was tidy except Wu Wa, where there was a pile of rice grains.
Zhen Zhen smiled and said:
"You dropped so many grains of rice, I really should raise a chicken for you."
Wuwawa was holding his bowl and smiling. After finishing his meal, Wuwawa wanted to go online to chat with Sanwawa.
Panda is a great place to chat. Wu Wa met many friends from all over the world online. They made appointments to play computer games together. Wu Wa fell in love with a battle strategy game, which is similar to farming in later generations. After completing the game, he can build a base, collect weapons and resources, and upgrade his own buildings.
Zhen Zhen saw Wu Wa playing the game and thought it was a good game, so he didn't stop playing.
What's more, Wuwa is really not good at studying.
Last month, Wu Wa went out to play in a competition with his basketball coach and won an award in the city.
Unfortunately, Wu Wa doesn't want to play basketball as his main job. He wants to join the army, fight against the enemy, and serve his country! He has a strong heart.
Zhen Zhen and Meng Hua agreed that after Wu Wa graduated from high school, they would ask Tan Zheng to find him a place to work so that Wu Wa could join the army.
Zhen Zhen had just finished his meal when Gou Zi's mother and Zhang Cuihua came over.
Gouzi's mother wanted to ask Zhen Zhen for help. Her grandson was a few years older than Wuwa and had never done anything serious. Gouzi's mother wanted to send him to the army to train for a few years.
"Doesn't Dajian make wool sweaters?"
Gouzi's mother sighed, "He felt tired after working for only two days. He refused to go to the fields to help, and spent the whole day hiding in the projection room watching movies."
"It's nothing to love watching movies. Let alone Dajian, I'm this old and I still love watching movies."
"What do you know? If he had watched an ordinary movie, I wouldn't have said anything, but he watched that kind of movie..."
The last time Gou Zi's mother went to see Da Jian, she discovered that the curtain outside the projection room was very thick, blocking out the light completely. She sneaked in and found that a pornographic film was being shown in the projection room. A group of men had excited looks on their faces, which was really an eyesore.
Gou Zi's mother felt that the university was in a state of disrepair and that it could not go on like this.
"If you keep watching that kind of movies and have no place to vent, you'll be more likely to do bad things. If a girl gets pregnant, where will I put my face?"
Zhen Zhen didn't think there was anything wrong with watching this kind of film, but young people are irritable and easily get into trouble.
"He himself wishes to be a soldier?"
"He doesn't want to do anything and just likes watching movies. He's already in his twenties, he can't keep going like this."
Zhen Zhen didn't want to meddle in other people's affairs, but Gou Zi's mother was old, and for the sake of this old sister, she couldn't really ignore it.
Zhen Zhen called Meng Hua and asked him to help arrange for Dajian to serve in a nearby team. Meng Hua didn't say anything else and quickly arranged it for Dajian. He said that if he worked hard and took the exam later, and passed the exam, his treatment would be the same as that of a civil servant, and he would have no problem getting a stable job.
With Meng Hua's support, Gou Zi's mother naturally felt relieved.
This year, Focus women's clothing was launched and Sanwa's Panda Account also quickly became popular in China. In less than half a year, the number of downloads of Panda Account exceeded one million, so much so that young people who did not use Panda Account would be considered out of date.
As the number of Panda customers increases, more funds will be spent on maintaining Panda every year.
Now everything on Panda Account is free, even the dress-up function is free of charge.
Maintaining a company requires funds. As the number of customers increases, upgrades are required frequently, which all cost money.
Sanwa’s money was running out, so he wanted to introduce investment.
He thought of his family first, and told Meng Nan about the investment.
Meng Nan was a little hesitant. The number of downloads of Panda Account increased sharply, and it would definitely not lose money in the future. But she always felt that there was no room for charging for Panda Account.
She spends so much on maintenance every year, and she still can't charge any fees. If the number of users grows too fast in the future, to tens of millions or even hundreds of millions, she will have to spend at least hundreds of millions every year to maintain customers.
Will such a huge investment drag down the parent company?
Meng Hua told Zhen Zhen about this, wanting to hear her grandmother's opinion.
"Grandma, one is your eldest grandson, and the other is your eldest granddaughter. You can't be partial to one of them!"
Zhen Zhen smiled. According to her experience in her previous life, this kind of free chat software does not make money in the early stages.
Not to mention Meng Nan, I'm afraid Sanwa is also very confused and can't see the future of Panda.
Many of Sanwa's employees were hired at high salaries from National Tsing Hua University's computer science department graduates. The salaries were not low, and coupled with the server maintenance and traffic fees, the increase in the number of registered users did not bring him any benefits, but instead increased his burden.
Today, Sanwa feels like a horse that can’t pull the car.
He has no idea where the business will go in the future.
Zhen Zhen thought about it and told Meng Nan the truth:
"Grandma thinks Sanwa's company has great potential."
"What do you mean?" Meng Nan asked sincerely. She believed in her grandmother's sunshine and her judgment of the current situation. Meng Nan made a lot of money from sanitary napkins and pads. As long as her grandmother said a word, she was willing to invest 50 million yuan in Sanwa to buy stocks of Ren Dongxi Company.
But in this case, all the working capital of Mengnan Factory would be given to Sanwa, which was a very risky move.
If he really loses money, where can Meng Nan make so much money again?
"Based on the current growth rate, how many members will Sanwa's Panda Account have next year?"
"Tens of millions is no problem."
"Then Meng Nan, grandma thinks that the download volume of the Internet is the same as the customer flow of our Zhenxin Department Store."
"How can this be compared?" Meng Nan totally disagreed with Grandma's statement, and even thought that Grandma was a little fanciful. "For a big company like Zhenxin Department Store, as long as there are customers walking through the door, they can be attracted to spend money. Few people leave Zhenxin Department Store empty-handed. Some people just want to go in to cool off in the summer, but who knows that they buy hundreds of clothes after shopping around. But Sanwa's Panda Number cannot be converted into money."
Meng Nan grew up and became a mature businessman. She made sanitary napkins out of passion, and she could make money from sanitary napkins because of her ability.
She couldn't invest so much money in a business with a low conversion rate.
"How do you know it can't be transformed?"
Zhen Zhen smiled and was watering the cactus, but was stopped by Meng Nan.
Her grandmother watered the cactus several times a day, but the poor cactus was already half dead.
“There is no online payment channel! Customers can’t pay! This is the biggest problem!”
"Very good, you pointed out the crux of the problem. Customers have no way to pay. Even if they want to buy something, they can't buy it. What should we do? You can't go to customers' homes and collect payments door to door, right?"
Meng Nan really thought so. She wanted to arrange a few employees in each city, and collect money from anyone who wanted to order services.
Zhen Zhen laughed and said, "Why bother? Can't we just develop a payment software?"
“Payment software?”
“Through the software, you can bind your bank card and use it to pay from the bank card.”
Meng Nan thought that grandma's idea was too bold. It was simply a fool's dream. It was so hard to make money for ordinary people. The deposit in the bank card was the savings of the whole family. How could ordinary people be willing to tie their money to the Internet? And spend money to buy a Panda number?
"Grandma, you don't think anyone would be willing to buy the skin, hair, shoes, etc. from the Panda?"
"Well, there shouldn't be too many little princesses and princes willing to spend money."
"Grandma! Do you really think we are all fools? In this day and age, we can't even afford to eat, and yet we still spend money on these useless things?" Meng Nan shook his head, thinking that this was unreasonable. "Besides, even if everyone wanted to buy it, they wouldn't be able to pay for it."
"Payment is simple. Customers can send messages to telecom companies to order services. The telecom companies will then share the profits with Rendong."
"But how do customers send messages? Pagers are not practical. It would be great if a mobile phone and pager were combined into one, so that it could send the messages you mentioned."
"Yes, but it's not yet popular." Zhen Zhen gave Sanwa and Meng Nan an idea, asking Sanwa's company to create a pop-up window.
Meng Nan didn't understand what a pop-up window was.
Zhen Zhen explained that every time the Panda account logs in and goes online, a small window will pop up. Although customers do not have payment channels, they can browse advertisements. With one million customers watching, how can the advertising fees be low?
In order to show support for his grandchildren, Zhen Zhen decided to spend one million dollars on advertising for Zhenxin Food Factory's new product.
Meng Nan said happily: "I will talk to Sanwa to see if we can make a pop-up window."
Meng Dong was sitting in Ren Dongxi's company, worrying.
The number of Panda account registrations has surged, with the fastest growth in large cities.
The daily server expenses are not small. Seeing that Meng Dong’s savings have run out and he can’t get any more investment, Meng Dong is really going to close down.
Meng Dong took off his suit and placed it on the chair. Just as he was about to smoke a cigarette, he heard the panda's "cough cough" sound.
Meng Dong: Sister, what’s wrong?
Meng Nan: Grandma asked me to invest in you.
Meng Dong almost jumped up, he knew that grandma was always the most fair. Frankly speaking, he had discussed cooperation with many bosses before, and none of them were optimistic about this project.
Meng Dong finally had no choice but to think of Meng Nan.
When telling Meng Nan about this, Meng Dong hesitated, fearing that he would harm Meng Nan.
Who would have thought that Meng Nan would actually come to him on his own initiative.
Meng Dong thought about it and decided to tell Meng Nan the truth: "Sister, I can't guarantee that I can make money. My company can't even pay the wages. I also thought about doing something else to subsidize Panda Account, but it's just a drop in the bucket. The number of registrations for Panda Account has already reached 1.5 million!"
When there were no downloads, Meng Dong was very anxious. Even when there were downloads, Meng Dong was still anxious.
Meng Nan told Meng Dong about the pop-up window.
Meng Dong has always been trying to find ways to make money, but with smart payment still not fully developed, making money has become a pipe dream.
He never thought that he could make money from pop-ups.
"Did grandma say what kind of pop-up window it was?"
Meng Nan gestured, "It's probably a little smaller than a business card, right? If you click on the pop-up window, it's a page ad. Grandma invested one million to advertise for Zhenxin. You should quickly launch the pop-up window function and test it to see what the click-through rate is! If users make purchases, we can completely rely on pop-ups to attract investment!"
The more Meng Dong thought about it, the more he thought it was feasible. "Okay, I'll add the code!"
For Meng Dong, adding a code was nothing. He quickly made a pop-up window. As long as the version was updated, after the user logged in, the pop-up window would pop up with two "cough" sounds.
After browsing, the user clicks × and the pop-up window will be closed.
Click on it and you will see the ad page.
Meng Dong is not a fool. He made a link on the advertising page. Through the advertising page, people can click on the portal, which contains links to news, stories, blogs, and chat rooms.
This way, there are more than just pop-up ads.
Meng Dong's blood boiled immediately. He asked the marketing staff to attract customers and get more advertisements.
Panda users are of relatively high quality, and advertising companies have never tried to run online activities like this before.
But Meng Dong said that it can be tried for free, and Rendong Company can provide daily click reports.
When customers heard about the free trial, they immediately agreed.
Just like this, Meng Dong raised one million in advertising fees in just one month, which, together with Zhen Zhen's one million, made a total of two million!
With the addition of Meng Nan's 50 million investment, Meng Dong will have more money to use for research and development.
Meng Dong planned to develop payment software and online games according to his grandmother's suggestion. These two R&D teams would need to spend a lot of money. Fortunately, with the support of Panda Account, Ren Dongxi's reputation gradually became famous, and attracting advertisements was not as difficult as it was at the beginning.
Su Xiu hasn't been home for many years. Zhang Cuihua occasionally mentions Su Xiu, and always feels that Su Xiu and Zhen Zhen are not close.
"Although you gave her away and never raised her, you did your best to make up for it later and sent her abroad to study. But she has been abroad for so many years and has never come back once. Is this girl still resenting you for abandoning her?"
Zhen Zhen was quite calm, "I really don't care."
Zhang Cuihua was stunned. "It doesn't matter? Su Xiu is your flesh and blood. You spent so much money and thought on her, but she doesn't come back to support you in your old age. You actually say it doesn't matter? I think she is not as filial as Cheng Su."
Gou Zi's mother helped Zhen Zhen pick leeks, and laughed as she did so:
"Su Xiu is different from Cheng Su. Gui Zhi never raised Cheng Su, but Cheng Su would remember any kindness she showed her. Similarly, Gui Zhi never raised Su Xiu, but she gave birth to her. Although Su Xiu doesn't say it, she has never really gotten over it in her heart."
Zhang Cuihua was picking celery. "I heard that it's not popular in foreign countries to express gratitude to our parents. People there care about living a good life. Su Xiu has been abroad for so many years that she has become a foreigner. Her thoughts have also been assimilated by foreign countries. She doesn't think her parents are grateful to her."
Zhen Zhen smiled and said, "Parents have no favors towards their children."
Zhang Cuihua was stunned and clearly disagreed: "How can there be no gratitude? Parents give birth to children and raise them to adulthood. When children get married and start their own families and careers, and have become capable, they should remember their parents' kindness. This is only natural!"
Zhen Zhen disagreed:
"Did your child agree to your birth?"
Zhang Cuihua was stumped by her question, "How did the child get consent?"
"That means you didn't get the child's consent, didn't provide the child with a good life, and still expect the child to be grateful. That's unrealistic."
Zhen Zhen put the picked vegetables in a basin and washed them.
"According to you, children have no obligation to support their parents in their old age?"
"So you gave birth to a child just to take care of you in your old age?"
Zhang Cuihua was speechless. "Then why do you say that?"
"Then let me ask you, if you can't give birth to a child, and you pray to God to give you a child. Well, the child finally comes, and the child satisfies your wish as a mother, and the child brings you laughter, then do you think you are indebted to the child, or the child is indebted to you?"
Zhang Cuihua was entangled by her. Zhang Cuihua grew up listening to her parents' nagging.
Her parents were typical rural people. They wrote down every penny they spent on her in a notebook and asked her to pay them back when she grew up.
Last year, Zhang Cuihua's younger brother came home to borrow money. Zhang Cuihua didn't want to lend it, so her parents scolded her for not respecting family affection, saying that she was cruel and cold-blooded, and that she had spent so much money from her parents and didn't know how to repay their kindness.
The same is true in the rural environment. Having lived in this environment for a long time, Zhang Cuihua naturally agrees with the theory that "parents are grateful to their children", but her good friend told her a completely opposite view.
Zhang Cuihua and Gou Zi's mother stared at Zhen Zhen intently, as if they wanted to hear her continue.
Zhen Zhen poured out the water used to wash the vegetables and continued, "Your child was born in your family as a farmer, while other children were born in wealthy and powerful families. You made your child suffer endlessly, and your child may not grow up to be pretty. Even so, you still want your child to be grateful to you? What should he be grateful for? Be grateful for working in the fields since he was a child, be grateful for picking up manure and watering vegetables, and be grateful for not even having a cotton coat in winter?"
"But my parents are very frugal."
"Who told you to be frugal? You have the ability to make money, and you and your children can have enough to eat, so why do you need to be frugal?"
Zhang Cuihua always felt something was wrong, but it sounded so reasonable.
“Then I gave him life!”
"You gave it to me, but you just accidentally created a child when you were having sex with your man. What is there to brag about? Don't think you have done a lot of good for your children. Replace 'good' with 'love'. Love your children as much as you can, let them grow up under the tolerance and care of their parents, and become good and happy people. Only such children will be willing to come into this world and will be truly grateful to their parents."
Zhang Cuihua realized that constantly saying “parents are so grateful” would make the children feel heavy-hearted.
She was quite nice to her children, but she couldn't help asking them to be grateful to her. Zhang Cuihua knew the reason in her heart. Only if her children were grateful to her and filial to her would there be someone to support her when she was old.
This is good for her.
Zhang Cuihua also began to reflect on her relationship with her parents.
At the age of sixty, it sounds a little too late to reflect on the relationship between myself and my parents, and between myself and my children.
But Zhang Cuihua had a sense of sudden enlightenment. It turned out that all the grievances she had suffered in her life and the various shackles imposed on her were unnecessary.
It was created by her parents for their own selfish reasons, in order to let her raise her younger brother and reduce the burden on her parents.
And all of this is wrong.
Zhang Cuihua might not have listened to what others said, but over the past 20 years, she has been subtly influenced by Zhen Guizhi. She believes in Zhen Guizhi and is willing to make progress together with her. She carefully reflects on these words and plans to tell her children when she gets home that parents have no gratitude towards their children.
"Learn until old age, live until old age, it's not too late at sixty!" Zhang Cuihua said with great enthusiasm.
Zhen Zhen thought the matter was over, but who would have thought that someone would suddenly knock on the door of his house that night.
Zhen Zhen put on her clothes and came out, she saw Zhang Cuihua and Gou Zi's mother coming to see her.
Gou Zi's mother's face was covered with bruises, her nose was a little crooked, and her eyes were swollen.
Zhen Zhen was startled, "Was he beaten?"
Gouzi's mother started crying, and Zhang Cuihua helped her into the house. Cheng Su was woken up and was also frightened when she got up and took a look.
She took iodine and cotton balls to disinfect Gou Zi Niang.
Zhen Zhen sighed, "Haven't you and him lived together for many years? Why did you suddenly start fighting?"
Gou Zi's mother and her husband only slept together a few times in their entire lives, and they were in a cold war for years. It's not accurate to say that they were in a cold war. It should be said that Gou Zi's mother and the man had not spoken to each other for so many years, like strangers living under the same roof.
Gou Zi's mother thought, she is old now, so she should just make do with what she can, she can't get a divorce, right?
It is so embarrassing to tell others about such things in the countryside, and it also affects the children's marriage.
She wanted to endure it until the day she died.
But after she returned from Zhen Zhen's visit, she happened to see the man drinking a few glasses of wine, and she was unhappy. Usually at this time, Gou Zi's mother would just be scolded a few times and not talk back and just let it go.
The neighbors also said that we should not bother with him and just ignore him.
But for some reason, Gouzi's mother didn't want to endure it anymore.
Whose life is not a life? Guizhi is right. Everyone cannot live only for others, but should also live for themselves.
After the divorce, she continued to make chili sauce. The children were still her children, and the grandchildren were still her grandchildren. She just kicked the man out of her life, and she didn't lose anything!
She couldn't help but retort.
Her husband felt that she did not give him face, so he hit her. So, Gou Zi's mother went to find Zhang Cuihua and said she wanted to divorce her husband!
Gou Zi's children came over one after another on bicycles.
Over the years, Gouzi has become a stable middle-aged man. In recent years, his family has made a good living by making woolen sweaters, and he can dress decently.
He was especially polite to Zhen Zhen, "Auntie, how is my mother?"
Zhen Zhen shook his head, pulled Gou Zi's mother's children aside, and told them that Gou Zi's mother wanted to divorce.
Gouzi and his brother were both shocked. They had lived in the countryside all their lives and had never heard of anyone getting divorced.
Once this happens, it becomes the top news in the village.
Gouzi's brother said anxiously, "Auntie, please persuade my mother. She is already over 60 years old. She has tolerated my father for a lifetime. Why can't she tolerate it for another two years? Just tolerate it for a while longer. This life will pass. When my father is old and can no longer beat me, she will stop."
Zhen Zhen looked at him expressionlessly, "Where were you when your father beat your mother? Your mother raised you two brothers, and you just watched her get beaten?"
Brother Gouzi was not convinced when asked. It was not that he did not want to take care of it, but when his father drank, he would even be beaten.
They are a good family, just bear with it and it will pass.
Besides, how can there be a rural man who doesn’t beat a woman?
There are very few men who don't beat women. Brother Gouzi has the same personality as his father. He is usually silent, but becomes irritable when he drinks. He has also beaten his wife several times and has no right to say anything about his father.
The eldest brother Guzi stammered, "Auntie... that's not what I meant! How can rural people get divorced? It's embarrassing to tell others about it, isn't it? My father is not a good person, but he is still my father! My mother has endured it for so many years. If she divorces my father, who will take care of my children? Who will do the housework? And there is no one to take over the chili sauce business, right? We can't lose the big picture for the sake of small things. We must consider the interests of the family!"
Zhen Zhen looked at him coldly, not used to it at all:
"Is it for the benefit of the family or for your own benefit?"
"I..." The eldest brother Gouzi was speechless. "Hey, that's not what I meant. Besides, don't people in the countryside look forward to the next life? My grandma and my grandfather lived for my parents, my parents lived for me and my brother, and I live for my son! People in the countryside are all like this!"
Chinese men are the smartest people in the world.
Don't think they are stupid. They know everything. But if they admit that they know, admit that there are problems with this patriarchal society, and admit that the women in their families are being sucked dry by men, then how can they continue to be vested interests?
Brother Gouzi lives in the countryside, and if his wife gets divorced, she will definitely not live in Batou Village.
After Gouzi's mother left, there was no one to take care of Gouzi's children, make chili sauce, or make woolen sweaters for him!
Most of the money that Gou Zi's mother earned over the years was taken away by her son and daughter-in-law.
She didn't have much money, but even so, Brother Gouzi didn't want to let her go.
Zhen Zhen felt that it would be worse to raise a barbecued pork than to raise a son like this.
She glanced at Gouzi and asked coldly, "What about you? Are you the same as your elder brother?"
Gouzi shook his head under his elder brother's threatening gaze.
He is not a fool, he certainly knows how hard his mother's life was! Once, his wife asked his mother why she didn't sleep with his father. He then found out that his mother had only slept with his father a few times in her life, and after giving birth, his father never touched his mother again!
Gouzi used to think that it was okay for a couple to sleep in different rooms, after all, many people in rural areas slept in separate rooms.
But after he got married and started a family, he had a good relationship with his wife and their married life was harmonious. When I thought about the relationship between my parents, I realized how abnormal it was.
How did my mother survive this life? One day, Gouzi suddenly had this question.
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