When Xia Lei came to the company the next day, his eyes were red. He stayed up almost all night. He went through the things left by his father Xia Changhe, trying to find some clues, but in the end his work was in vain. The more that mysterious man looked like his father, the more he couldn't figure out why he didn't go home or even meet him.
As long as the mysterious man does not meet, this question will not be answered. However, Xia Lei has solved an urgent problem, which is a bendable selfie stick. In one night, he completed the drawing design of this selfie stick.
His upgraded selfie stick is smaller and can be placed in a trouser pocket, but when extended it can reach a length of two meters and can be bent to meet all the angle needs of selfie enthusiasts. If a selfie enthusiast wants to take a picture of the back of his head, he can easily do so using this selfie stick. If you want to take pictures of some scenery inside the wall, this selfie stick that can be extended to two meters can meet your needs and can be easily taken.
When Xia Lei told Liang Siyao about the idea of producing selfie sticks, Liang Siyao happily agreed with his idea.
"This plan is much better than shopping carts!" Liang Siyao said excitedly: "Most of the people who buy shopping carts are old men and old ladies. Young people don't even bother to look at shopping carts, let alone buy them. But Selfie sticks are very popular among young people. If we make others’ products better, they will definitely sell well!”
Xia Lei said: "One more thing, this kind of selfie stick that can bend 360 degrees is not currently on the market. My design is also very unique. I plan to apply for a patent and make this product unique to us."
"Apply for a patent? Is that okay?"
Xia Lei said with a smile: "Of course, but instead of applying at the Haizhu City Patent Office, I called Long Bing and asked her to help with it. With her help, I don't bother to go to the Patent Office. Haizhu is such a place. Xiao, I don’t want others to know about our plan.”
If you go to the Haizhu Patent Office to apply for a patent, you may encounter difficulties, and you may even be more likely to leak the secret. To put it bluntly, this kind of bendable selfie stick is just a small idea, with little technological content. Someone can make it just by looking at the drawings. In order to avoid these troubles, Xia Lei thought of asking Long Bing for help. The last patent application for Liu Ying's automatic surfboard was also handled by Long Bing.
"I support applying for a patent, but are they willing to do such a favor?" Liang Siyao was a little skeptical about this.
Xia Lei said: "Compared to what I have done for them, my request is just a small request. If I don't even help with this small favor, I will pretend not to know if they want my help in the future. Senior sister, Just leave this matter alone and let's work on it separately. You make a few copies of the drawings and send one copy to each workshop director. From today on, our company will produce this type of selfie stick across the board and rush out a batch of goods as soon as possible. .”
"Okay, I'll go right away." Liang Siyao picked up the drawing and went to work.
Xia Lei started preparing the materials to apply for a patent. When he was ready, he dialed Long Bing's number.
Before he could speak, Long Bing's voice came over, "If you take the initiative to call me, you must ask me to do something for you. Tell me, what is it?"
Xia Lei was speechless, "How did you know I came to you for help?"
"Could it be that you called me to invite me to coffee?"
Xia Lei smiled, "I'll treat you to coffee next time you come to Haizhu. I really asked for your help this time. I have an idea for a selfie stick and I want to apply for a patent. Please help me. You know, I have about a hundred people under me watching me eat, and now that the company’s business is not doing well, I can hardly take the blame.”
"Wait, you mean the selfie stick?" Long Bing's voice was full of curiosity, "Didn't that thing already exist? Nowadays, many young people play with that and take pictures of this and that all day long. It's so common. Something that you are really creative about?"
Xia Lei said: "The selfie stick I designed can bend 360 degrees. Have you seen it?"
"I've never seen this before."
"I'm faxing you the materials for applying for a patent. Can you help me get it done?"
Long Bing was silent for a while and then said: "If it can be bent, it should be no problem. Just fax it to me and I will show it to Mr. Shi and approve it for you within today."
"Thank you." Xia Lei breathed a sigh of relief and tried again: "I don't need to release Boss for this, right?"
Long Bing said: "You are applying for a patent at the Kyoto Patent Office. I don't have that much energy to help you get it done. In fact, I asked Boss Shi to help you with the last matter. You are now a popular person in his eyes, and he will I’ll be happy to help you.”
"What's wrong with famous people? Thank you. Please also convey my gratitude to Mr. Shi."
"It's a small thing, why are you so polite? With the contribution you have made this time, even if you say you invented the kitchen knife, he can still get a patent for you."
How could she actually make such a joke
Xia Lei, "..."
"Well, if a product comes out, send me one by courier."
"Ok, no problem."
"Is there anything else? If nothing happens, I'll hang up." Before Xia Lei could speak, Long Bing hung up the phone.
That's it. Xia Lei knew that the more Shi Boren helped him, the more favors he owed Shi Boren. The most difficult thing to repay is the debt of favor. Naturally, I will inevitably have to do things for Shi Boren in the future. But that's okay, almost everything Shi Boren asked him to do was to serve the country. Although this country is not perfect yet and has shortcomings of one kind or another, it is ultimately the mother of all Chinese people. If you have the ability to make her better and stronger, this is actually a very noble thing.
After finishing the patent application, Xia Lei went to the workshop to have a look. Several workshops are already preparing materials to produce the selfie sticks he designed, and they are also busy. Products like shopping carts have not stopped, and workers are still producing them. Although its profits are not as good as those of selfie sticks, its market does exist. A company's products need to be diversified. Thunder Horse Manufacturing now has two products, which is a good start.
After coming out of the workshop, Xia Lei plunged into his exclusive studio and started manufacturing smart machine tools at full capacity. Compared with shopping carts and selfie sticks, this smart machine tool is the trump card product of Thunder Horse Manufacturing Company!
Xia Lei was busy in his studio, and Liang Siyao was also working non-stop. After the first selfie stick came out, she took it to Xia Lei's studio. Both of them were satisfied with the selfie stick produced by the workers.
However, a new problem also posed before the two of them. The product was released, how to sell it
In today's world, it's not just that your stuff will be sold if it's good. Advertising and public relations are very important. Thunder Horse Manufacturing Company has neither of these two conditions.
"We have too few customers and sales channels. This kind of selfie stick is easy to produce. A worker can produce twenty or thirty selfie sticks in a day. We can produce about two thousand sticks in a day, and the inventory is raised at once. In this way, Come on, our funds and materials will soon be exhausted, so the sales problem must be solved, and fast." Liang Siyao said.
Xia Lei thought for a moment and frowned slightly, "We can sell some of this kind of product in our own supermarkets, but the sales volume is almost negligible. This kind of thing is sold more online. I don't know if we can go online." Selling this channel?”
"Are you talking about opening an online store?" Liang Siyao then shook her head, "It's very difficult to open an online store online. It is difficult for a newly opened online store to open up sales without word-of-mouth and repeat customers. Another problem is that we currently only have Two products, which online store doesn’t have a bunch of products on the shelves right now?”
Xia Lei said: "I'm not interested in opening an online store. I mean we sell things to websites. Doesn't JD.com have a self-operated platform? We can try it. We can also sell to other large online stores. We The product is very novel and fills a gap in the selfie market. I think e-commerce and online stores will definitely be interested."
"This is a good idea. I will contact JD.com immediately. Well, I will ask the boys and girls in the sales department to take action and ask them to contact those big online stores." Liang Siyao left immediately, very excited and anxious. look.
Xia Lei watched her walk out of the studio, knowing secretly: "After making money this time, I must buy her a car. She paid too much."
Liang Siyao suddenly turned around again, "I suddenly remembered, isn't the monk a professional bodyguard? I heard him say that his boss seems to be a shareholder of JD.com, and he can speak on the board of directors. Let's call JD.com We can only find lower-level staff. We are asking for help, so it is definitely difficult to negotiate the price. Even if we can negotiate, the process will be very troublesome. Why don't I ask the monk and see what he says."
Monk is the nickname of Lu Sheng, who is also a disciple of Liang Zhengchun. When Xia Lei first went to Liang Zhengchun's boxing gym to learn Wing Chun, Lu Sheng didn't like him, and the two had a fight. In the end, Xia Lei defeated him and the two became friends.
Lu Sheng's iron tower-like appearance appeared in Xia Lei's mind, and a smile appeared on his lips, "I haven't heard him talk about his boss's situation, but this way it will be better than us contacting JD.com. The staff is much better. However, I know Lu Sheng likes you, will it be embarrassing?"
Liang Siyao immediately rolled her eyes at Xia Lei, "If he likes me, will it be awkward for us to be together? Then, will it be awkward for us to be together?"
Is this a problem
But there is an ambiguity in this question, that is, does she like Xia Lei, or does Xia Lei like her
Perhaps realizing that there was something embarrassing in her words, Liang Siyao's dimple fainted. Before Xia Lei could answer her question, she turned around and walked out again. As she walked, she said, "Don't worry about this." , I will make the arrangements, and you will go with me when the time comes."
"Yeah." Xia Lei responded, but he was thinking about a question in his heart, "Am I embarrassed when I'm with her? Isn't it awkward?"
Then, the scene of him zipping up her skirt and tearing off a piece of her underwear appeared in his mind...
It turned out to be a bit embarrassing.