Rebirth 07: Start adding points from elementary school students

Chapter 521 Long time no see
Before the Spring Festival in 2014, Li Yan experienced the most exaggerated gift-giving peak in her life.

He is well-known for not liking to accept gifts. Now his parents live in a safe nameless community where outsiders cannot enter and no one dares to cross the threshold. Logically, the number of gifts should decrease every year.

For example, during various traditional festivals in 13, Li Yan only received gifts from relatively close friends, and most of them emphasized the token of appreciation.

Li Yan is now the boss of a private enterprise, so there is nothing wrong with accepting gifts. The reason why he doesn't like it is very simple -

I want me to not buy it myself?

I have so much money that I can't spend it all, and you still give me some stuff worth thousands or tens of thousands of dollars. If Mr. Li wants it, can't he just buy it directly?
Do you need a little bit of your help?

It would not look good to refuse it directly when it is given to you at the beginning, and in the end it will just take up storage space.

For example, there are dozens of boxes of Moutai piled up in the warehouse, and employees have to be assigned to deliver the wine, which is a waste of energy.

Li Yan suffered a lot this year because she took the initiative to extend an olive branch to the entertainment industry.

I don't dare to step into your door, but Future Technology can, right? If Future Technology can't get in, I can go to the fucking Science and Technology Park, right?
This made Li Yan unusually angry at the Security Department, and she issued an ultimatum directly to the enthusiastic entertainment industry through Jiang Hongying. Only then did the gift of fire gun finally stop being directed at Li Yan.

It just wasn't directed at him. Instead, it used even more intense firepower to attack the people around Li Yan.

The elders can't get in, Wei Yunzhi doesn't dare to contact, Yili Group is not short of money, then you, Li Yan, must have friends, right? You must have subordinates, right?
When Li Yan learned that a well-known advertising company sent Spring Festival gifts to the construction site of the Future Building, he really felt defeated.

The key is that this group of people can give gifts if they like, and they don’t try to please others. Instead, they say “I want what I feel” and give gifts to make themselves look like overbearing presidents.

For example, a famous director who graduated from the sculpture department and is also a Buddhist gave Li Yan a small bronze statue, and also said that if Li Yan is willing, he will make a large bronze statue for him.

Li Yan declined the offer because the elder brother had a high status in the entertainment industry and was older, and out of respect for beliefs.

The eldest brother said, "Then I will build a model of you and put it in the movie, so that everyone can worship you."

So Li Yan blocked him.

The bombing lasted for half a month and finally reached its peak a few days before the Spring Festival.

Li Yan called it a "performance art exhibition" and shared it with Wei Yunzhi as a topic of conversation every day.

It is much more interesting than all the big first-line melons.

For example, a certain agent who was obsessed with traffic really regarded the young actor who was promoted by the traffic as the traffic itself, and the "gift" he gave to Li Yan was the young actor's... autographed photo.

The reason Wei Yunzhi mentioned this matter was mainly because she was curious about why the young actor's agent was suddenly fired by the company and disappeared.

"They took action faster than I could block him."

For example, a popular star who returned to China paid a personal visit but only met Jiang Hongying's subordinates. In anger, he complained to the assistant, who took the opportunity to pass the message to the fan leader, who directly mobilized a large number of fans on Weibo and Knowledge Planet to attack Future Technology.

The reason Wei Yunzhi mentioned this matter was mainly because she was curious about why the star suddenly disbanded his fan group and was terminated by the company.

“They reacted faster than I knew.”

So when Future Technology celebrated its annual meeting, after distributing red envelopes, Li Yan hid in the bookstore at No. 18, Huanhu Road 2nd Street and played the "gossip reasoning game" with Wei Yunzhi.

Wei Yunzhi dug out people in the entertainment industry or Internet celebrities whose activity level suddenly dropped or whose data plummeted, and then speculated on the possible reasons why they "offended" Li Yan.

Pretty hellish, but very entertaining.

Of course, the hit rate is not high, because Xiao Wei really knows very little about this circle, or it should be said that she does not have a correct understanding of the power of capital and lacks imagination about the transformation of human nature under big capital.

For example, if a famous director wants to get the qualification to be a promotional video director, the bargaining chip he offers is a female star.

This routine is certainly not uncommon, it is even very common, but Wei Yunzhi was still surprised when the name was spoken.

Isn't she going for the innocent goddess route?
Wei Yunzhi originally wanted to empathize with the actress in the direction of being "forced", but when she thought about the star's personality and her performance in front of the camera, and the sky-high pay she received, she could no longer empathize with the actress at all.

Let’s focus on the “temptation” that Li Yan faces.

There were also many who took the initiative to find Li Yan to give explicit or implicit hints - most of them first used a very formal cooperation plan to pass the first hurdle of Jiang Hongying, and then tried their best to get the opportunity to communicate directly with Li Yan, and then threw out their "big move".

"The results of it?"

"I blocked them all." Li Yan shook her head. "People in this circle have been trapped by their own logic."

"Don't you think it's a pity?" The beautiful girl asked and pursed her lips.

Li Yan picked up the book and tapped her head gently. "I'm not saying anything righteous. If I wanted to, would I have to wait until now?"

Wei Yunzhi stuck out his tongue and didn't dare to speak.

"No one is harassing you, right?"

“Do classmates from the film school count?”

"Not really." Li Yan shook her phone. "There are even agents who go directly to Lin Zhiyuan, saying that they don't need Zhiyuan to do anything, but they keep stuffing him with gifts."

"Little Fatty? How did he deal with it?"

"You can't call him Xiaopang now, he's not fat at all. He refused all the gifts and remained silent."

"Then how do you know?"

"A boss who is familiar with this agent told me."

"Zhiyuan is a good comrade." Wei Yunzhi suddenly closed the book, "Are you planning to go back to Lincheng for the New Year this year, Yan?"

"No, the leaders of Lincheng are too nervous to go back, and I'm tired too."

Listen, is this human talk?
"So, do you want to meet an old friend?"

Obviously it was because of Lin Zhiyuan's appearance in the topic.

"That's fine." Li Yan nodded. "Friendship, I feel like it's been missing a bit in the past two or three years."

"There are almost no relationships without mixed interests, right?"

"So Zhiyuan's handling of the matter is actually very much to my liking. But this means I will have less time to spend with you during the New Year."

"Being with me is not a task." Wei Yunzhi said, "Our two families still have to have a New Year's Eve dinner this year. I also have a lot of arrangements to visit relatives and friends during the New Year. If you don't go home, you can just go and see them."

"You seem to," Li Yan suddenly looked straight at Wei Yunzhi, "to attach great importance to my...secular connections with this world."

The beautiful girl chuckled, "This is an anchor point. I hope it helps you."

On New Year's Eve, Li Yan and Wei Yunzhi's families had a dinner together at Tianhong Garden. Wei Yili and Li Yan prepared a New Year's Eve dinner of such high standard that it was difficult to get the same quality in other restaurants.

Everyone got along very smoothly and harmoniously, and naturally accepted the fact that Li Yan and Wei Yunzhi were already together.

Even though none of the six people mentioned it seriously.

Wei Yili avoided a lot of entanglements by getting himself drunk. Sometimes he called Li Chun his brother, sometimes he kept calling Li Yan Mr. Li, sometimes he said "To be honest, I have to treat you as my elder brother", sometimes he said "I am your uncle", it was very funny.

It is said that great wisdom appears foolishly.

During the New Year holidays, Li Yan completely turned off reminders on her external WeChat accounts and work-related accounts, and focused on replying to New Year greetings messages on her personal accounts.

What is more regrettable is that on Li Yan’s personal account, Lin Zhiyuan is the only elementary school classmate left.

Among the many carefully edited text blessing messages, Chen Fan’s video New Year greetings are particularly interesting.

He and three other old acquaintances, He Zixiang, Deng Yudi, and Lai Yining, hung various Chinese New Year decorations in the computer room and shot a very high-spirited New Year greetings video - "Mr. Li is taking a break, but we are not. This way we can catch up with Mr. Li a little more. Happy New Year, Mr. Yan, have more rest!" Chen Fan didn't expect that Li Yan would call him so quickly, and his tone was full of surprise when the call was connected.

Chen Fan is now working with these three brothers on communication algorithm research, focusing on continuously optimizing the ultra-high compression algorithm, hoping to continue to shine in the 4G era.

Li Yan did not put much effort into this project, mainly because in the 4G era, traffic is no longer as tight as it was in the 3G era. As he judged back then, the development direction is to speed up and expand capacity, and extreme compression does not make much sense.

Perhaps it was his indifference that became the focus of the foursome.

Li Yan wanted to stop it, but felt that such interference would do no good. After all, the four of them were financially independent, and it would be a good thing to develop some excellent algorithms at the general solution level to improve the efficiency of network transmission.

Moreover, these four guys are rare people who still maintain the mentality of "wanting to compete with Li Yan".

And it gradually evolved into a healthy competitive mentality, which Li Yan really appreciated.

Chen Fan is now working as a technical consultant for Future Technology Communications Technology Company. Li Yan was originally planning to give him a more core position, but Chen Fan insisted on refusing.

Seeing that some of them didn't even want the shares, Li Yan gave in to their pride.

"My junior high school roommates, are you still in touch with them?"

Li Yan's question surprised Chen Fan very much.

So, Li Yan knew that these roommates were no longer brave enough to approach him in private, even though they had Li Yan's personal WeChat account. He knew that they lined up to buy the Jiaolong phone when it was first released. He knew that the thing they wanted to mention the most but were most afraid of others mentioning was the same thing - they had been Li Yan's roommate...

They would also chat with Chen Fan, and all they talked about was Li Yan. The conversation pattern was always a combination of probing, curiosity, reminiscence, and emotion.

In the summer of 2014, they all had to take the college entrance examination.

Several of them are studying in New Taipei City Middle School, and their grades are all top students. Their current life trajectories are not too different.

According to Chen Fan, they had thought that they would have the opportunity to be classmates with Li Yan for a year at New Taipei Middle School, and were prepared to become Li Yan's strongest support group. However, who knew that Li Yan's life trajectory had already risen to a new level by then, and even the Excellence Class could not accommodate him.

But Lin Heng, who had connections with the director, was still ahead of everyone except Chen Fan. He had already secured an opportunity to study abroad and even had a job. With the share of the music he got from Li Yan, he was definitely a winner in life.

Lin Heng had been telling Chen Fan that she missed Lin Zhengmo so much that she became sick, and she regretted every day that she had not expressed her feelings earlier. However, this inexplicably turned into a powerful motivation that supported her to study day and night, and now she has become the top student in the liberal arts in their grade.

However, after Lin Zhengmo knew that Senior Wei's score was high enough to get into Huazhong University, he felt relieved. On the night when Li Yan set off the fireworks, he was in a good mood to tell Lin Heng that the fireworks were beautiful.

Li Yan said that it would be better if I didn’t know about this kind of story.

"God Yan," Chen Fan finally brought the topic back to himself, "Thank you."

Of all the words I could say, these three words are the most concise.

And when Lin Zhiyuan received Li Yan's invitation to "get together", it was like winning the lottery.

Especially when he saw Li Yan driving a matte black Lamborghini Aventador limited edition downstairs in the community.

“There’s no need to give emotional value in this way, right?” Li Yan said with a smile.

Lin Zhiyuan is now a completely different person from the fat boy he was back then. He grew taller during puberty, and although he cannot be said to be very handsome now, he is a tall guy with distinctive facial features.

Friends, fat people who can lose weight are all potential stocks.

Lin Zhiyuan walked around the Lamborghini several times and took many photos before he was willing to get in. As soon as he stepped into the door, he pulled his foot back: "Has my sister-in-law ever ridden in this car?"

"She doesn't like being so high-profile. What's wrong? Do you still dislike it after sitting on it?"

"I'm afraid she'll mind, brother."

"Get in the car."

"Master Yan, do we have any mission today?"

Li Yan couldn't hold it in, "Can't I just come here to have some fun with my good buddies?"

Lin Zhiyuan was stunned for a moment, and his eyes became moist.

This reaction is too big...

"What are you doing? You make me look heartless."

Lin Zhiyuan quickly sniffed and rubbed his eyes, "No, no, but I really didn't think there would be a time when I could play with you, Mr. Yan, really not."

"I don't have many friends now." Li Yan said, "You are the only one I have been friends with since childhood."

"You are so amazing. Who dares to approach you casually, Yan Shen?" Lin Zhiyuan continued to scan the car. "I am very discerning. I always said that you would be awesome in the future, but I didn't expect you to be so awesome."

"You've always stood by me since elementary school. I remember it all. This friendship can't be replicated."

The glances from pedestrians and car owners on the road greatly satisfied Lin Zhiyuan's vanity. "That's just because I knew you a long time ago. I'm lucky."

Li Yan glanced at Lin Zhiyuan and said, "It's really boring to drive a supercar on a road like this. Let's take the highway to Beishan District to have a meal."

"what?"

“It’s just so freeing.”

Although the highway is far from showing the upper limit of this car, it is enough to demonstrate its performance.

Lin Zhiyuan, who was sitting in the passenger seat, kept exclaiming with a smile on his face.

It was not until we entered the Beishan District that he realized, "What are we going to eat?"

"The best restaurant in Beishan District, the best Lincheng cuisine in New Taipei. We didn't go home during the Chinese New Year, so we're trying to find some hometown flavors here."

"Fuck, this store is so expensive... Oh, it's okay."

Lin Zhiyuan's mind was in a frenzy. Sometimes it was the world in his own perception, and sometimes it was the world in Li Yan's eyes - in fact, he couldn't perceive it at all.

So while Li Yan was ordering food, Lin Zhiyuan couldn't help but want to say "this is too expensive and not worth it", but he also realized that the so-called "expensive" was non-existent to Li Yan.

In Li Yan's eyes, whether a dish costs 20 or 2000 is the same.

But what surprised him was that Li Yan actually ordered a side dish priced at 15 yuan in a restaurant where the average cost per person was over yuan - a small dish of cold-mixed preserved eggs.

"This dish... I thought you wouldn't order something like this."

"I want to eat preserved eggs, that's all." Li Yan closed the menu and handed it to the waiter. "If you have money but are still restricted by 'must spend expensive food', then it's meaningless. The most precious thing is freedom, Zhiyuan."

This is the second time I’ve mentioned the keyword “freedom” today.

Lin Zhiyuan is also a smart person, and he is always straightforward: "Young Master Yan, do you want to give me some advice?"

"I don't care what you think. Anyway, I'm rich now. I appreciate our friendship, so I have to take you flying. I've really thought about how to take you flying." Li Yan took out the key of the Lamborghini from his pocket, "Giving you money, giving you big gifts, and helping your father's business... I always feel that it's not enough. For me, the most valuable thing now is the freedom and power of choice gained from wealth and status. So, I give you the power to choose."

"Ok?"

"Candy that is forced into your mouth may not be sweet. Chen Fan taught me this before." Li Yan smiled and pressed the Lamborghini key into Lin Zhiyuan's hand. "Study hard. If you pass the college entrance examination and get into Linda or a better university, I'll give you this car."

Lin Zhiyuan's mouth opened uncontrollably.

"If you learn well, there will be plenty of jobs waiting for you in the future. I will give you the right to choose your life." Li Yan took the key back, "But before that, you still need to answer the multiple-choice questions correctly."

(End of this chapter)