Li Mu had a particularly solid sleep this night, and the deep sleep in a comfortable environment made people feel particularly tired. However, Larry Page, who lived in a nearby farmyard, stayed awake all night.
The accommodation environment arranged by the program team for Larry Page is indeed very ordinary, mainly because the conditions are really limited. And because there are so many staff members, the program team is unable to provide Larry Page with a separate room and can only live in the staff dormitory. The program team members are under great pressure, so each staff dormitory has bunk beds. The structure, room conditions are limited and there is no privacy at all.
The room Larry Page lives in is a six-person room. He has to queue up to take a shower and go to the toilet. In order to take care of him, the program team arranged an upper bunk for him, which can be less disturbing. However, after nightfall, the hard work The staff snored one after another after a long day, making Larry Page, who was already jet-lagged, even more sleepless.
Lying on the simple upper bunk bed, Larry Page finally understood a truth and an old Chinese saying. That old saying was taught to him by his Chinese private tutor. The whole sentence only has seven Chinese characters: Shi Shi Those who are in charge of current affairs are heroes.
It is indeed not easy to understand the current affairs.
Larry Page recalled several back-and-forth battles between Google and Li Mu, and finally ended up like this. It boiled down to four words: Ignorance of current affairs.
If he had seen the reality clearly and agreed to Li Mu's conditions earlier, why would he have come to China to suffer this crime? Moreover, suffering is not the most important thing. The most important thing is that in exchange for the same conditions, Google suffered heavy losses.
Not even the U.S. government or U.S. laws can help Google face the threat. Commercial blackmail like Makino Technology does not violate any U.S. laws. If we look deeper, Google is the one most likely to violate antitrust laws. As for Makino Technology, it was just a normal preparation to get involved in a new field, and then established a subsidiary for the new business. Now this subsidiary is going to be acquired by Google, and the pricing is voluntary. As long as Google reaches an internal agreement, this matter itself No laws will be broken.
Thinking of this, Larry Page felt very sad. The whole of Google was calculated by a young man in his early twenties, and the other party calculated everything accurately. Google knew that it would be a big hole in the end, so it could only grit its teeth and move on. Jump, this is an unprecedented blow to their self-confidence.
He thought wildly about five o'clock in the morning, when the staff in the same room as Larry Page got up to start work, and he finally fell asleep.
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It was just six o'clock when Li Mu got up. It was already bright outside, and chickens and dogs had begun to bark in the yard. When he put on his clothes and walked out of the room, Huang Lei was already preparing breakfast.
The morning in the mountains is cooler and the air humidity is higher, but the air is much purer than in the city. Inhaling the slightly cool air into the lungs is like smoking, and the feeling of pleasure rushes straight to the brain in an instant, leaving people with no breath at all. In an instant, I became particularly awake and comfortable.
Seeing Li Mu come out, Huang Lei, who was washing eggs, smiled and said hello: "Good morning, Mr. Li."
Li Mu nodded, smiled, stretched, and said, "Good morning, Teacher Huang."
Huang Lei smiled and asked, "How was your rest last night?"
Li Mu replied: "I slept very well."
As soon as he finished speaking, He Yan walked out of the bathroom with a towel hanging around his neck. When he saw Li Mu in the yard, he smiled and said, "Mr. Li is awake. Xiao Peng and I are going to the vegetable garden to pick some vegetables later." , do you want to come with us?"
"Okay." Li Mu agreed readily.
After washing up, Huang Lei was left alone in the yard to prepare breakfast for everyone. Li Mu, He Juan and Peng Yuyan, followed by the camera crew, went all the way to the vegetable garden that Mushroom House rented and renovated from fellow villagers.
This small vegetable garden occupies less than an acre in total and is surrounded by a wooden fence. The fence is about one meter high and is covered with dense vines. The gate is a pastoral-style wooden single door with a piece of wood nailed on it. The sign is engraved with the four artistic words "Mushroom Garden", which gives people a particularly delicate feeling.
Pushing open the door of the vegetable garden, an area of almost 500 square meters is filled with a variety of vegetables and fruits. These plants are all well taken care of, and the combination of high, medium and low is very coordinated.
The top floor is a grape trellis covering half of the yard, which is already full of large bunches of lavender grapes. In the middle are trellises for beans, eggplants, cucumbers and tomatoes, which are also full of various fruits. .
Several types of peppers are planted in the lower areas, including green peppers, sharp peppers and small red peppers, as well as green onions, chives and some leafy vegetables. In addition, fruits and vegetables such as cantaloupes and melons are also planted.
Because it was early in the morning, all the plants in the vegetable garden, every leaf and every fruit were covered with fine and clear dewdrops, shining with various colorful lights under the soft light of the morning sun, and the entire vegetable garden The color matching here is also very comfortable. Different plants carry the most correct colors in their respective genes, and with the embellishment of dewdrops and light, they highlight the vitality everywhere.
Li Mu stood in the vegetable garden and couldn't help but sigh: "My parents would love it if they saw this scene."
He Yan asked: "Uncle and aunt also like this kind of pastoral life?"
"More than I like it." Li Mu said: "During SARS, my parents came to Yanjing to accompany me. They opened a vegetable patch in my yard and planted the seeds they brought specially from home. But compared with here, it's really... It’s like a small witch can see a big witch, this is the real pastoral life.”
"Yes." He Yan agreed: "The original design positioning of our mushroom house and mushroom vegetable garden was to follow a pastoral style, not a country style, so the program team invited plant experts to help us transplant these plants and ensure that they Survived well after transplantation."
Li Mu asked in surprise: "Are these plants transplanted?"
"Yes." He Yan explained: "The preparation time for our program is still relatively hasty. Many plants here need several years to grow to their current size. For example, the grapes above our heads are said to have been growing for more than ten years. Yes, it is a very good Kyoho grape. The program team spent a lot of money to buy it, and then spent a lot of effort to transplant it."
As he spoke, He Yan added: "But fortunately, the climate here is very suitable for plant growth, both in terms of light and temperature, so these plants survive very well."
Peng Yuyan came over and said to Li Mu with a look of regret: "Mr. Li, it is said that these grapes cannot be eaten until August. By then, we will have finished recording this season's program."
Li Mu smiled and said: "It doesn't matter. If the response to the first few episodes of the show is good after it is broadcast, the program team can still add another episode temporarily and shoot two more special episodes at that time."
He Yan nodded and said: "If the ratings are high, we will start recording the second season in the autumn. The second season will be filmed in two stages. The first stage is autumn and the second stage is winter."
Li Mu said approvingly: "This is good, it can take the audience to appreciate the pastoral life in different seasons."
He Jian smiled and said: "If Mr. Li has time, he can come and experience it again."
Li Mu smiled slightly and said cheerfully: "If time permits, I will definitely come."
"That's great." He Jian smiled and said, "By the way, Mr. Li, take a look at the vegetables in our vegetable garden. You can just pick whatever you want to eat for lunch."
Li Mu thought for a while and said, "I'll just pick some beans and order some beans to roast the meat. You can watch the rest."
Peng Yuyan said: "I want to eat tomato scrambled eggs."
He Yan reminded him: "Today's eggs have been cooked by Teacher Huang for breakfast, so your tomato scrambled eggs will probably be ruined."
"Oh, right!" Peng Yuyan slapped his forehead and said, "In that case, I'll order one of the three delicacies."
He Yan said: "Then you go pick an eggplant and then some green peppers."
"good."
More than ten minutes later, the three of them returned to the mushroom house with a basket of fresh vegetables. Huang Lei had already made breakfast, including milk, hard-boiled eggs, fried dough sticks and fried sugar cakes. The milk was freshly squeezed from local farmers' homes. The fresh milk is then boiled and sterilized. The eggs are just laid by the hens of Mushroom House in the morning. As for the fried dough sticks and fried sugar cakes, they are all Huang Lei's own craftsmanship.
The four of them all sat down and were about to use their chopsticks. Huang Lei asked Li Mu out of curiosity: "By the way, Mr. Li, where is your American friend? Don't you invite him over for some food?"
Li Muxin said that if you don’t mention him, I will almost forget about him, but it’s hard to say this in front of the camera, so he said: “He probably hasn’t gotten up yet, why don’t you leave some for him and wait until he gets up? .”
Huang Lei said: "It won't taste good when it's cold. Why don't you ask Xiao Peng to call for help?"
Li Mu nodded: "Alright."
Peng Yuyan stood up hurriedly and said, "Then I'll find the staff to take me there. You guys eat first."
Li Mu smiled and said, "It's okay, we'll wait for you."
Larry Page fell asleep less than two hours ago. In the past 24 hours, he had been extremely exhausted both physically and mentally. He had just fallen asleep after staying up all night, but unexpectedly he was woken up by Peng Yuyan.
"Mr. Page." Peng Yuyan stood on the edge of the bunk bed, tiptoed to wake Larry Page up, and said to him: "We have prepared breakfast. Mr. Li asked me to invite you to eat together."
Larry Page is ready to curse.
I flew tens of thousands of kilometers and took a taxi for more than two hours to get here. After arriving, I sat under a tree and watched Li Mu fishing. Then I was completely robbed by Li Mu in the fields. At night, I was dragged to eat by Li Mu. After eating fried golden cicada, after returning to the dormitory, he was tortured by the snoring of five people all night. It was not until dawn that he had a chance to sleep. As a result, not long after he fell asleep, Li Mu asked Peng Yuyan to come and order him to eat. …
Eat a damn meal!
But although he was crying and accusing in his heart, he couldn't show it on his face. After all, Peng Yuyan came with a camera team. It seems that his scene may also be broadcast on Chinese TV programs in the future.
"As the CEO of Google, you must represent Google's image around the world." Larry Page encouraged himself from the bottom of his heart. Then he forced his tired body to get up from the bed. After a quick wash, he followed Peng Yuyan to the mushroom house.
On the way, Larry Page was still asking the staff what the name of this program was, when it would be broadcast in the future, and on which TV station.
However, he didn't know that Li Mu had already given an order. After this program was broadcast, he would not appear in front of the Chinese audience as the CEO of Google. He was just a person who came from the United States to find Li Mu and appeared on the program by the way. Show your face, and then show what kind of mental journey Americans went through before they decided to try fried cicada monkeys...
(End of chapter)