Rebirth after the college entrance examination

Chapter 159 Money and Mother-in-Law Have Arrived

After lunch, Le Ning took the students who had decided to join the band to the small theater. A computer science student with glasses was pulled over by his girlfriend, who was the keyboardist, because he could play the guitar.

So Xia An was freed, and with Xu Wanying's impulsive decision last night to accept Le Ning and Wang Yue's invitation to be the lead singer, the band was complete.

Xia An had a remote video conference with North America in the afternoon and didn't get to watch Lemon's first rehearsal.

Lu Yao is Xu Wanying's second biggest fan after Wu Xun. He dragged Qi Buyang to support her. Lu Fei and Li Xiaoru also couldn't leave the theater. Only Xia An was left in the dormitory, which was very quiet.

At the Texas headquarters, the blonde Venus wore light makeup, with two buttons undone on her shirt, revealing a delicate, fair complexion through the five-megapixel camera.

Venus told Xia An that the initial payment of $38 million would be wired at 3 p.m. today, North American time, via Austin Ventures, a venture capital firm in Austin, and Redpoint Ventures, another venture capital firm in Menlo Park, California, to HomeAway.

These two companies were also HomeAway's initial $500 million investors.

Finally, the money was transferred through HomeAway to Xia An's account in Binhai City.

Barring any unforeseen circumstances, after review by the People's Bank of China's foreign exchange risk control department, the funds should arrive directly in your account tomorrow evening or the morning after tomorrow.

Xia An clenched his fists, his expression calm, and nodded to Venus and the other executives in the conference room.

"Pleasant to work with."

Venus, unable to hide her excitement, invited Xia An to visit the United States, offering to be her tour guide. Before hanging up the video call, she playfully took a few steps away, showing Xia An her shoes.

"I specially wore the pair you gave me, Xia. I look forward to seeing you again."

After closing her laptop, Xia An locked the dormitory door and chatted with Zhang Tiancheng on her phone for a full hour and a half.

Messenger 2.0, also known as the initial version of Weibo, is scheduled to launch at 0:12 on December 1st, 12 days from now. Before that, there is still a lot of preparation work to be done.

There are two most important points.

Zhang Tiancheng assured Xia An on the phone: "The core technical team of twelve people has been living and working in the courtyard on the second floor of the provincial capital for the past two months. There are absolutely no problems. The server capacity has been expanded and is sufficient to handle the first wave of data from universities."

Unlike the original world, Sina Weibo uses blogs to drive traffic and targets the overall market. However, Xia An had little preparation time and lacked a sufficient base of followers, so she could only transform from a mouthpiece that had been hastily operated for a few months.

Therefore, the Weibo account launched in this life is just a small website aimed at college students.

This is dangerous. It's very easy to be swallowed up or imitated.

Xia An's backup plan was to use part of the domain name transfer funds for promotion, quickly jumping from a small pond into the vast ocean of the Internet. This was a blitzkrieg that required taking advantage of time differences, and they had to seize enough market share before the major companies that were already preparing Weibo could react.

Originally, Sina used many promotional methods, but the most effective ones were still those three tricks.

Xia An instructed Zhang Tiancheng to stabilize the rear, which consisted of the "secret base" converted from a car repair shop and the already trained naval force. He would handle the rest himself.

"The patent registration for QR codes has been postponed until after the New Year's Day holiday. For the next two months, focus on the technology and put everything else aside."

"it is good."

After hanging up with Zhang Tiancheng, Xia An called Liu Youwei.

Liu Youwei's job was relatively simple. Xia An instructed him to travel to thirteen provinces in twelve days and connect with 120 media outlets. It was a costly job, tiring but enjoyable. Liu Youwei had already contacted the locations a week in advance and was ready to go.

“I’ll assign you someone to help you, and you can bring her along,” Xia An said to Liu Youwei.

"Who?"

"Bai Nan".

……

At dusk, Xia An called Tang Wan.

Miss Tang sends three greeting text messages every day, morning, noon and night, and Mr. Xia replies to them in detail. So although they haven't seen each other for a while and miss each other terribly, neither of them has neglected the other.

Zhou Zhou's surgery was successful, and she is now in the recovery phase.

Su went back to school the day before yesterday to deliver homework. She came and went in a hurry and didn't pay any attention to Xia An.

Tang Wan said, "You don't even care about watering the flowers at home. Su Yi went to check and found the ground covered in dust. Did you go?"

Xia An retorted, "Aren't you afraid I'll bring people with me?"

Tang Wan gritted her teeth over the phone: "You dare! Uncle Zhang has almost taken over the manpower, and it should be finished by the end of the month. I want to go back." The last part started to whine.

Xia An knew that Tang Wan didn't like to act aloof at the company every day, and he felt sorry for her: "Okay, come back soon. I might be in the newspaper in a few days. I'll subtly infiltrate her little by little and make sure you have a grand entrance."

Tang Wan chuckled twice and asked, "Has the money arrived?"

"Yes, it will arrive tomorrow."

Tang Wan sighed leisurely: "You've become a billionaire too."

Xia An laughed and said, "It would be amazing if this money could burn for half a year."

Tang Wan was confused. Why did it take several months to spend tens of millions of dollars before, and now it would still take several months to spend tens of millions of US dollars? She asked in surprise, "Why burn it?"

"..."

Xia An said, "I'll burn it with you then."

Changing the subject, he said, "I need He Zhenzhen's help this weekend. You should let her know in advance, and I'll call her tomorrow afternoon to explain in detail. Be firm this time; I'll pay her for her services." After listening to him finish explaining about celebrity referrals, Tang Wan giggled non-stop. "She's practically become our errand girl. By the way, Zhenzhen asked me last night if I was good to her."

"So, am I good to you?"

"Oh no. I had a dream last night that you and Le Ning were kissing."

"..."

Tang Wan saw him pause for two seconds and guessed what was going on. She said in a light tone, "This afternoon, a person named Liu Fei came to the company to meet. Uncle Zhang said he has a lot of influence."

Xia An was struck dumb again, and after a moment of stunned silence, asked, "Did you see it?"

"I didn't see him. There were officials there. Uncle Zhang said he was brought by the deputy director of the General Office. He was afraid I would say something wrong, so he said as usual that I went to Yanjing and hadn't returned, and that's how he met me."

Previously, Xia An, concerned about stray dogs stealing food, instructed Zhang Chunmin and Tang Wan that Tang Wan should not appear in any meetings that were not between private companies.

After brushing the snow off the windowsill railing, Xia An said after a long pause, "You need to meet this person. I'll ask Zhang Chunmin later and have him reschedule the meeting. You don't need to say anything then, just listen to what he wants."

Tang Wan hummed in agreement.

Xia An said, "It's my fault. I shouldn't have put you there. Are you tired?"

Tang Wan smiled and said, "I'm not tired. It's not your fault. It's just that things happened too quickly, and you didn't have time to make all the preparations. Uncle Zhang said that it's really amazing that you were able to make Candy Convenience so successful in just two months."

In fact, she had seen a lot lately, and with Zhang Chunmin's account and her previous understanding, she realized that Xia An's Candy Convenience Store was not really a large-scale operation. It was just a trick of changing course and combining other people's names and financial statements.

But to come up with such a method is truly amazing.

The thought of "candy" filled Tang Xiaowan with indescribable joy.

Xia An said, "I will be of great use to Tangshi Group after it goes public. It is the source of Weibo's content. There is no room for mistakes before the IPO. I promise you, at the latest next autumn, I will stand in front of you and make you feel better."

“Yes,” Tang Wan replied, “I know, I’m not upset.”

……

When Zhang Chunmin received Xia An's call, he was at home eating chive pancakes. His wife was a skilled cook and had even added dried shrimp to them. Recently, Zhang, who was feeling quite pleased with himself, could eat six in one go.

"They didn't say, only that they wanted to meet Xiao Wan because they'd heard so much about her, but they didn't specify their purpose. What do you think?"

Xia An was eating the jianbing guozi that Qi Buyang had brought back, feeling a bit annoyed. "You're even interfering with how I look at it?"

“Uncle Zhang, the fat man from the Liu family knows me. Once he finds out that I pulled a fast one on the Sugar Persimmon Group, do you think he’ll feel good about it? There are some things that can’t be said about a powerful family like that.”

A single reprimand immediately jolted Zhang Chunmin, who had become complacent and believed he held absolute power.

Ouch! The freshly cooked chive pancakes burned her tongue. Zhang Chunmin was taken aback. That's right, although Liu's eldest son didn't pursue a career in government, he was still a member of a privileged family. Moreover, Old Liu's family had made its fortune in Donghai. Even though he was older than Xia An, they probably knew each other.

The circle of the second-generation rich kid is even smaller.

Zhang Chunmin smiled, but before she could speak, Xia An said again, "For Tang Wan's sake, I also remember your kindness, Uncle Zhang. Let's wait a bit, and help her arrange a meeting with Liu Fei the next day. When they meet, call me so I can listen in."

Zhang Chunmin: "Don't worry, I understand."

……

The first trial song for the Lemon band was "Let It Be" sung by Xu Wanying that night.

The rehearsals didn't go smoothly at first. Heavy metal was a first for Le Ning and the other girls, and they didn't get a feel for it until dark.

During dinner, Le Ning excitedly boasted to Xia An, "Teacher Xu sang until her voice was hoarse, but everyone had a lot of fun."

Xia An was delighted to see her playful side for the first time, to see a side of her that belonged to this age.

"I'll send you something nice in a few days."

Seeing the mystery in his voice, Le Ning winked playfully.

Xia An laughed and said, "I won't tell you yet, but I guarantee you'll like it when the time comes."

He wanted to dedicate a song to Le Ning so that she and Xu Wanying could sing it together.

The next morning, Xia An went to the company to meet Bai Nan. After a three-hour private talk in the office, Bai Nan left behind the online banking accounts of two ordinary accounts and went on another business trip.

Before leaving, he handed over the personnel work to his newly recruited deputy, a 36-year-old HR professional.

At 3:46 PM, Bai Nan sent a text message to Xia An from Dongshan in the provincial capital.

[Bank sends message: Funds have arrived in account]

Xia An replied: [Have a safe journey]

I immediately sat down on a bench in my dorm room and refreshed the online banking page on my laptop.

It's a really long string of numbers.

Before his excitement subsided, Le Ning called: "My mom's here, just got off the train, are you coming...?"

(End of this chapter)