In fact, Cheng Rancun also had his own plan to let his father's Fulong Company participate in the company. Fulong has a very strong cash flow. Although its financing operation has expanded rapidly, it also has systemic risks in the capital chain. With Fulong as a big tree for shade, there will be great improvements in many financial issues in the future.
The initial expenses were not a big problem. On the one hand, Fulong itself would provide support funds specifically for project teams that independently developed products. In the early stages, they could directly use Fulong's servers for server bandwidth and the like, thus saving money. At the same time, they could also claim Cheng Feiyang's Li Mingshi and some engineers as their own.
Cheng Ran told Li Mingshi that it would be best if he could give him a preliminary program structure in ten days. Because he knew what this thing would look like from the first generation to countless generations thereafter, he had already given Li Mingshi the key points in the first design requirement as detailed as possible.
After all, the first generation of this software is more like a "gadget" and is not complicated. The rigid requirement probably lies in the construction and deployment of the server. Li Mingshi and his team completed the task in ten days with the framework, which was a waste of talent.
Of course, once a preliminary product comes out, Cheng Ran will continue to improve and accept it to achieve the "perfect" level he requires before releasing it.
So similar conversations can often be seen in the email exchanges between the two during this period.
“The interface lacks texture and is not three-dimensional. It needs to be redone.”
"Alright. I'm going crazy... If you let me do it again, I'll flip the table!"
"When you go online, there should be sounds of coughing and knocking on the table. What's with this lingering cough? Don't look for materials online, record it yourself."
"I quietly put the overturned table back together. I recorded the cough hundreds of times. I'm eating throat lozenges now. Would you like one? I would like to think that there are ten recordings that are not so 'lingering'. Please choose one."
“Cartoon avatars are not enough. Can we find some more materials? If that doesn’t work, let designers draw them. We need to give users enough personalized choices.”
"Okay, we hired two designers, and we killed one of them as a sacrifice. If that doesn't work, we'll kill the remaining one. He's kneeling down now, waiting for your approval."
“Don’t have too many functions. Too many functions will distract from its functional attributes. It is just an instant messaging software. It doesn’t need to be too complicated at this stage.”
"I don't understand. Similar software currently has many added features, such as email and network hard drives. Do we really not need these features? From a product perspective, we are not as competitive as the other party."
"Ease of use is its greatest competitive advantage, Brother Li. There is no better way to get to the treasure mountain than to simply and clearly meet user needs. If there is a need for the mail system in the future, I will add it."
"Okay, this time it should be perfect. I have a question from the beginning to the end. Are you the older brother or am I the older brother? Why do I seem to be the one handing in the homework from the beginning to the end, and you are the one grading the papers?"
"I'm not a grader, I'm the boss."
"Boss, I'm here with two bottles of beer, shall we practice?"
On the rooftop, Li Mingshi and Cheng Ran each held a bottle of beer. Li Mingshi leaned his elbow on the guardrail, looking outside, seeing the heavy traffic on the Second Ring Road.
Cheng Ran looked at the wine in the plastic bag beside Li Mingshi, the Lanjian that cost one dollar a bottle, and looked at Li Mingshi's shirt and jeans that were originally dark blue but had been washed to light blue, and said, "You are so rich, why don't you dress up a little?"
The launch of Li Mingshi's disaster prevention system attracted purchases from various units and became a model for promotion. A lot of Fulong's current funding comes from the sales of this system. Cheng Feiyang gave him a reward of about one million. Although Fulong's salary is quite high, this is eye-catching. To a certain extent, it has led to the current focus of Fulong on research and development, with Li Mingshi as an example.
Li Mingshi laughed, "My wife is lazy, so I just make do with her. One of us is a technician, and the other is an engineer. When she's busy, she looks even unkempt than me. So, we don't even dare to have children."
Cheng Ran knew Li Mingshi's wife. She worked in a design institute. She had short hair and was pretty, but she dressed exactly like Li Mingshi, wearing shirts and jeans. The whole family dressed like engineers.
Thinking of Li Mingshi bragging about his reputation for writing love letters in college, Cheng Ran thought it was interesting and said, "Sister-in-law was also moved by your love letter?"
"On the contrary," Li Mingshi shook his head with a sad face, "When my love letter came to her, she raised her pen and made a comment, 'The logic is confusing, what's the spring breeze of ten miles is not as good as you, not to mention eleven miles, can two hundred and thirty-eight miles be compared with me, how can a verb be compared with a noun, the key is that this poem comes from Du Mu's farewell poem to a prostitute, you take me for a chicken!'"
Cheng Ran was dumbfounded, and after a while he said, "Sister-in-law is awesome... Don't mess with her."
"Is that so..." Li Mingshi smiled shyly, "But I thought at the time, hey, this girl is pretty good, very special! So I caught up with her, and we dated and got married. Looking back... it wasn't very romantic, and we didn't say many sweet words. Everything I wrote in my love letters seemed to be useless in front of her. There's nothing I can remember about the whole process. It was more like a battle."
Cheng Ran's mouth twitched, but he said, "Perhaps your status is something that many people envy but cannot envy."
Cheng Ran dare not say what the best love should be like. Maybe it is gambling books to make the tea smell disappear, maybe it is the exquisite dice to make red beans, maybe it is the belt getting looser but never regretting, maybe it is the king no longer attending the court early. But maybe it can also be like this with a person, looking back at the past hundred years, the white hair and silver hair are still not felt.
"But there was only one time when she finally said that I said the best love words she had ever heard in her life."
Cheng Ran was tempted, thinking that it was not a simple matter, he must learn it anyway, and give it to that person, so-and-so. Does he want Jiang Hongshao to use it
Li Mingshi gulped down a sip of beer and said, "After the flood, I was ordered to go to the dangerous front line to repair the system. I saw a lot of separation and farewell. Later, when I returned home, that night, I told her, 'Don't die, we must live well.'"
Cheng Ran remained silent. Li Mingshi handed over the bottle of wine and they clinked glasses together.
"When Jinniu Hotel received the commendation from the provincial government, I didn't drink much that day. I thought I should drink this wine with you. I went to the scene and saw how insignificant human beings are in the face of natural disasters, but technology has given us a glimmer of possibility to fight against the power of heaven and earth. I saw military vehicles shuttling between ravines, and after the flash floods, the ravines were empty. I saw a man who, after being rescued, turned back and swam back, diving into the flooded tile house again and again. When he was pulled back to the assault boat, he said incoherently that he was looking for his wife, even if it was a dead body. I saw an old general with red eyes personally sending his son who was a soldier to the train on the flood-fighting front, and he didn't know whether he would come back. I saw people singing charge songs, holding hands in an extremely primitive way to face the flood peak, even if they would never come back."
“I have heard those songs. They echoed in the mountains and forests, and in the rainstorms and floods. Even though they will not be passed down and people will forget them… I have heard them.”
Li Mingshi pointed to the traffic in the city ahead, his eyes red, "Every time I feel that I have contributed to something like this, I feel proud from the bottom of my heart."
"There are many lives that were saved by me and you. Maybe no one knows about it, but that doesn't matter. There are so many unsung heroes, and they don't need the two of us."
"Cheng Ran... It's great to live in a peaceful world. I can do what I like and love the people I love. Living, even if I live like a stubborn fool, is a beautiful thing."
Cheng Ran nodded, and suddenly Li Mingshi put his arm around his neck. They clinked beer bottles together, Li Mingshi drank in big gulps while Cheng Ran took small sips from the bottle. He knew that Li Mingshi wanted to drink with him for a long time.
This way, the sky is the dome and the earth is the table, which is not bad.
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