You call this entrepreneurship?

Chapter 268 Forgot

Qin Shaoyan was a little confused at this moment. He didn't expect that the boomerang he threw before would hit his head.

He had originally wanted to trick a few bosses into recording a video and use their fame to promote his own website.

I was so focused on how to get them to cooperate that I completely forgot the rules of the Ice Bucket Challenge.

One party must first initiate the invitation, and then the person named can participate.

As a result, other people completed the challenge, but the initiator's video is still nowhere to be seen.

Qin Shaoyan calmed down at this moment and said quickly: "I have already sent the video, Mr. Ma, can't you find it?"

"I can't find it. You're not on the homepage at all. Where is your video?" Ma Huateng said in surprise, pressing F5 to refresh the screen continuously.

"Maybe the traffic is restricted." Qin Shaoyan said calmly without panicking, "I'll go to the backstage to take a look."

"Hey, it tells me that I violated the rules. I'll upload it again."

"Oh, that's why." Ma Huateng suddenly realized, "I was wondering why I couldn't find the video of you, the initiator."

"My video has been uploaded to YouTube. Can you please pin it to the top of the page?"

Qin Shaoyan immediately agreed: "Don't worry, I will arrange for someone to adjust your video to be next to Bill Gates."

Ma Huateng hung up the phone contentedly.

Qin Shaoyan quickly stood up and rushed out of the office, "Get me a DV right away and prepare a pound of ice."

Then he hurried away amid the employees' surprised and confused gazes.

……

On the rooftop in the freezing cold wind.

Zhang Pingyi watched in silence as Qin Shaoyan fiddled with the DV, constantly adjusting the angle using a stand.

On the chair next to it were clean clothes, blankets, and a large thermos bucket.

"Master, water it after I finish reciting my lines." Qin Shaoyan carefully reminded him, "Be sure to wait until I finish reciting, don't water it too early."

"Got it." Zhang Pingyi picked up the bucket full of water and ice cubes with one hand and reached out to try.

The skin of his fingers immediately felt a cold sting. Zhang Pingyi quickly retracted his hand and wiped it on his clothes, teasing: "I let you cause trouble, and this time you got yourself into trouble."

"You can't catch a wolf without sacrificing a lamb." Qin Shaoyan said righteously, "Penguin's Ma almost caught a cold, and he was willing to risk it all, so I can't be a coward."

"But logically speaking, you should have joined the challenge first, and then let them join." Zhang Pingyi said sarcastically, "Why are you still lagging behind others?"

"I was so busy that I forgot." Qin Shaoyan waved his hand, "Don't interrupt me, I'm about to start recording."

Qin Shaoyan sat on the empty chair facing the DV with a serious face, and then began to read the lines, repeating them in Chinese and English.

Then Qin Shaoyan made up his mind and waited for Zhang Pingyi to water him. After waiting for several seconds without seeing any movement, he turned his head and asked, "Why don't you do it?"

"Here it comes!" Zhang Pingyi picked up the bucket full of ice water and poured it on Qin Shaoyan.

The freezing cold water penetrated into his neck. Qin Shaoyan felt the coldness from head to toe, inside and out, penetrating into his bones like a small knife.

"A-choo!" Qin Shaoyan sneezed loudly and gave a silly smile to the camera.

"Click!" Zhang Pingyi turned off the DV.

Hearing this, Qin Shaoyan immediately jumped up from the chair, picked up the blanket and wrapped it around himself, sneezing and jumping up and down.

"Quick, quick, there's hot water in the thermos, pour me a cup."

"You've prepared everything." Zhang Pingyi unscrewed the thermos barrel. The water inside emitted warm steam. He immediately poured a cup and handed it to Qin Shaoyan.

Qin Shaoyan took it tremblingly and drank it mouthful after mouthful.

The hot water entered his stomach and dispelled the coldness a little. Qin Shaoyan put down the cup, picked up his dry clothes and ran into the house.

After wiping off the water and changing his clothes, Qin Shaoyan finally caught his breath and was directing the work while holding a cup of hot coffee that his secretary had just made.

"Cut off the part where Mr. Zhang and I were talking. I didn't cooperate well just now."

"Will it look bad after editing?" the employee in charge of editing asked tentatively.

"Just cut it as you like, it'll be fine if it's about right." Qin Shaoyan sneezed again, "This thing can't be redone. If it's summer, I can save you one, but in winter it'll cost you your life."

"Others shoot all the movies in one take, but your editing will be accused of being fake." Zhang Pingyi said, adding, "Why don't you reshoot it?"

"Get out of here!" Qin Shaoyan cursed, "If you hadn't been distracted, there wouldn't be any need for editing."

"You didn't tell me that you had to read the words twice." Zhang Pingyi argued, "I was thinking, wait a minute."

"What are you waiting for? You read it once in Chinese and once in English. Are you waiting for me to read it again in Spanish?" Qin Shaoyan said unhappily, "A-choo! I should let you do it next time."

"You didn't even call my name." Zhang Pingyi said innocently.

Qin Shaoyan didn't bother to pay attention to this guy. If he could beat him, he would have punched him twice.

After uploading the video to Qvod and YouTube, I used super administrator privileges to put the video on the homepage, then adjusted its position to place it between the videos of Bill Gates and Ma Huateng, and tagged it with HOT.

After finishing, Qin Shaoyan sent another message to Kou Hongfei, asking him to increase the number of views for his video, otherwise it would look ugly.

Kou Hongfei quickly replied, "Received."

Just as Qin Shaoyan was admiring his masterpiece, his phone rang again. He picked it up and saw that it was Ding Sanshi.

"Boss Qin, I saw your ice bucket challenge video." Ding Sanshi said straight to the point, "Didn't you tell me last time that you nominated Bill Gates, Larry Page and me?"

"Why did it become Ma Hua Teng?!"

"Ah?!" Qin Shaoyan was stunned for a moment, then laughed, "This is a bit of a misunderstanding. There has been no news from President Ding, and I thought President Ding was unable to spare the time to attend this event, so I called President Ma."

"Boss Qin!" Ding Sanshi was a little unhappy and raised his voice, "You can't go back on your word. You promised me."

"And I've already completed the challenge. If you don't call my name, then I participated in vain, right?"

"Don't worry." Qin Shaoyan said immediately, "I'll make another arrangement for you. How about replacing you with Jerry Yang, CEO of Yahoo?"

"Ah, that's fine." Ding Sanshi's tone softened. "Then President Qin, thank you for your concern. Also, please arrange the YouTube video for me. I also want the same treatment as President Ma."

"OK, these are all small matters." Qin Shaoyan laughed, "By the way, President Ding, the Golden Keyboard selection is about to begin, you should prepare more. This year I strongly recommend you Fantasy Westward Journey."

"I have taken care of things for you at Blizzard, and they are also very supportive of your work, not to mention Valve."

"Thank you, Mr. Qin. I'm sorry for your trouble." Ding Sanshi was overjoyed. Qin Shaoyan had helped him get three votes before the formal selection even started. It was really thoughtful of him. It was worth it for him to participate in the ice bucket challenge in the middle of winter to support him.

After Qin Shaoyan hung up the phone, he collapsed on the sofa and said weakly, "Master Zhang, please prepare another bucket of ice water for me."

"Ah?!" Zhang Pingyi was stunned. "Again! You're making money at the expense of your life."

"I have to finish the sex I arranged myself, even if it means crying." Qin Shaoyan said in despair, "I didn't expect that I would be forced to fill the hole I dug." The video of Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang has been around for a long time. It was recorded by Yang specifically for YouTube when Yahoo and YouTube were negotiating the acquisition.

Why was Jerry Yang so angry after the negotiations failed? He poured a bucket of ice water on himself for nothing. It must have been a unpleasant feeling.

Qin Shaoyan tried it himself and then understood Yang Zhiyuan's anger.

Fortunately, Bill Gates personally came forward to appease Yahoo, and the two parties reached some kind of agreement and let the matter go.

Otherwise, Jerry Yang would never give up.

Qin Shaoyan sighed, holding the newly found clothes and blanket, and told his secretary, "Go to the hotel and get me a bucket of ginger soup. Hot water alone won't do."

After all the items were prepared, Qin Shaoyan sat on the cold rooftop and repeated the same procedure.

This time Zhang Pingyi did not make a mistake and poured the ice water on Qin Shaoyan's head in time.

Qin Shaoyan was so chilled that he could hardly walk and shivered constantly. He ran to the office like a flash and turned the air conditioner to the maximum temperature.

After changing into dry clothes, Qin Shaoyan wrapped himself in a blanket and drank ginger soup while shivering. He felt like he really couldn't bear it any longer.

Zhang Pingyi walked in and sighed, "Do you want to take some medicine?"

"No need, I don't have a cold." Qin Shaoyan sneezed loudly, "A-choo, I'll just cover myself and sweat and it will be fine, A-choo."

"Who on earth invented the Ice Bucket Challenge?"

"Ah?!" Zhang Pingyi was stunned. Even in this situation, he still said that he was fine.

He must be so drunk that he even scolds himself when he gets angry.

Seeing Qin Shaoyan curled up on the sofa and shivering, Zhang Pingyi felt that this was not a solution, and he and two employees sent Qin Shaoyan back home.

At night, Qin Shaoyan felt dizzy and his limbs ached. He knew something was wrong and he had caught a cold.

I had a fever all night, struggled to get up in the middle of the night, took medicine, and then lay back in bed and continued to lie paralyzed.

Half asleep and half awake, fragments of past memories kept pouring out.

There is a past life and a present life. In the chaos, Qin Shaoyan was in a trance and it was almost impossible to tell what was going on.

The memories in my head are almost mixed up, flashing back and forth like a revolving lantern between the years and the light and shadow.

The memory seemed real and illusory, until it came to an abrupt end at a certain time, and then continued to flow back from childhood, in an endless cycle.

Qin Shaoyan slept until about ten o'clock in the morning before he slowly opened his eyes.

He climbed up despite his weak body, boiled water in the electric kettle, made a bowl of instant noodles, and fed himself with the instant noodle soup and bread.

After eating, Qin Shaoyan felt that his body had regained strength, but his head was still dizzy.

After sitting and resting for a while, all the sweat on his body dried up. Qin Shaoyan wrapped himself tightly in his down jacket before going out.

After arriving at the company, Qin Shaoyan found that Zhang Pingyi was not there, so he asked the secretary, "Where is Mr. Zhang? Didn't he come today?"

The secretary quickly said, "Mr. Zhang has gone to the hotel to attend the negotiations."

Qin Shaoyan then remembered that today was the third round of negotiations with YouTube.

Seeing that Qin Shaoyan looked unhappy, the secretary asked with concern, "Boss Qin, are you okay? Do you want me to take you to see a doctor?"

"No need. We'll just have to go to the hospital for an IV drip." Qin Shaoyan waved his hand. "Your boss graduated from a clinical department. This little illness is nothing."

After saying that, Qin Shaoyan staggered towards his office as if he was walking on cotton.

The secretary shouted, "Boss, remember to take your medicine!"

Qin Shaoyan waved his hand, walked into the office and slumped in the chair.

At noon, the secretary bought a bucket of ginger soup and brought it in to Qin Shaoyan. He watched him finish the medicine before leaving.

After a while, Fan Xiaoqian and art director Hong Fei came over. After entering the office, they reached out and touched Qin Shaoyan's head one by one, and then they breathed a sigh of relief.

Hong Fei stretched out three fingers and shook them, "What is one plus one?"

"Are you stupid?" Qin Shaoyan glared at Teacher Hong.

"I'm fine. I'm not dizzy from the fever." Fan Xiaoqian sat on the sofa. "Have you taken the medicine?"

"I've eaten." Qin Shaoyan said weakly, "Why are you coming to me instead of working properly?"

"It's lunch break now, come and see the boss, flatter him." Hong Fei said with a smile, "You are the boss after all."

"I don't have the opportunity to show off normally, so I'll show off now."

"Not bad." Qin Shaoyan smiled, "I thought you were trying to see if I was no longer capable and then try to seize power and usurp the throne."

Fan Xiaoqian complained directly, "I don't have such an idea. I just thought that if you can't make it, I have to find another one quickly."

"I haven't closed my eyes yet!" Qin Shaoyan scolded with a smile, "Aren't you too anxious to think so?"

"I can't help but be anxious." Fan Xiaoqian sighed, "You've given me too much work. I'm too busy to handle it all."

Qin Shaoyan then remembered the plan he had arranged for the game department. "Have you figured out the mechanism for the cross-server competition?"

"That's easy." Fan Xiaoqian said with a relaxed expression, "If you have a need, tell us in advance, and everything will be easy. Once the foundation is done, it will be easy to add functions later. If you add this function at the end, it will be difficult."

"That's good." Qin Shaoyan nodded. "At present, this is the only important thing. The rest are regular functions and later commercial activities."

“Daily, weekly and monthly events, special holiday deals.”

"Okay, don't worry about it. Brother Kun has already told me." Fan Xiaoqian stood up, "If you're okay, I'll leave first."

"Ah, let's go now." Qin Shaoyan sighed, "There is no filial son for a patient who has been sick for a long time."

"You're still playing the ethics joke, aren't you?" Fan Xiaoqian glared at her boss. "I have something else to tell you. Sohu came to me and asked us to customize an online game for them."

"Didn't I tell you before that we won't play that online game for now?" Qin Shaoyan sighed, "I almost forgot to tell Zhang Chaoyang."

Fan Xiaoqian urged, "Then you should quickly take care of the Sohu Games department. I'm so annoyed by your constant urging."

"In addition, we will also start developing our own free online game and conduct two tests before the end of the year."

"You said you would go to school next year, but you never asked once. The people below don't know what to do."

Qin Shaoyan immediately admitted his mistake sincerely, "It's my fault. I was too busy and forgot about it. I will go in a few days."

"Forget it." Fan Xiaoqian refused to believe it. "You will forget it again in a few days. Why not today?"

Qin Shaoyan was stunned, "You are going to force me to death."

(End of this chapter)