Chapter 712: Urging Marriage
Mid-July is the hottest time of the year, but the university campus seems even more lively.
It's graduation season again.
The university graduates in the first two years of the 21st century, especially those from famous universities, are still very valuable. As early as March, companies started to come to the school to recruit. By May, June and July, the school simply cleared a large area for companies to set up tents, put up a few tables, hang up corporate posters, and recruit people directly on the spot. It was just as lively as when the clubs were recruiting when I first entered school.
In the dormitory, Ni Cong and Wang Dazhuang were slowly packing their things while chatting about the recruitment event on the playground.
"I heard that Bi Xing from our class got an offer from Microsoft Xiaguo Technology Center. He joined Microsoft right after graduation, that's pretty cool."
"That Wang Ximin is even more impressive. He was directly hired by Apple's headquarters. Maybe he will become a 'noble' beauty in the future."
More than half of the class had already secured jobs. After all, graduates from Fu Ri University were highly sought after. The two knew all the news.
Afterwards, Wang Dazhuang said thankfully: "If it weren't for Lu Yiming, we wouldn't have such an opportunity."
"yes."
Both Wang Dazhuang and Ni Cong knew very well that their academic performance was not outstanding and they would definitely not get the opportunity to work in such a top company.
But now, the two have become company bosses at a young age, with a net worth of hundreds of millions. They have to wake up in a large villa of several hundred square meters every day and study the eating, drinking, and defecation of thousands of people. They have worries that people of their age should not have.
At this time, Lu Yiming came in with a few books and said with a smile: "It seems that the business of Zhenxiang Fast Food is not busy enough. You actually have so much free time to care about the trivial matters in the class."
Ni Cong argued seriously, "Now Zhenxiang Fast Food has matured, and many things can be handed over to our subordinates, so we can take a break."
Wang Dazhuang even complained about Lu Yiming with a clear conscience: "How dare you talk about us? You are the one who is just a hands-off boss, right? During the period of rapid expansion of the company, Lao Ni and I were almost crazy busy, but you actually went to film a variety show. Isn't this more outrageous than us?"
Lu Yiming scratched and said calmly: "How can you say that? I..."
Before he finished speaking, three people came running in from the door. Lu Yiming turned his head and was immediately surprised: "Chen Qingfeng, Feng Yuan, Yang Shu? Why are you here?"
The three people who came turned out to be the president and vice president of the Model Aircraft Club of Fu Ri University.
Lu Yiming had invested in the model airplane club before, but he didn't have much time to play with it. In the blink of an eye, several years had passed. During these years, although Lu Yiming had appeared less in the model airplane club, he was not ambiguous about investing money.
Chen Qingfeng said with a guilty look on his face: "Brother Lu, we are here to apologize to you."
Lu Yiming's face was full of questions: "Apologize? Apologize for what?"
Feng Yuan said: "You have invested so much money in us, but we still haven't developed the drone you want."
When Lu Yiming heard this, he finally understood. Looking at the three people in front of him with guilty faces, Lu Yiming secretly sighed at their simplicity.
If an old hand in the circle encountered such a thing, he might have been celebrating with champagne.
Lu Yiming comforted them and said, "If drones were really that easy to make, I wouldn't have invested so much money in you."
Seeing that Lu Yiming didn't seem to have any intention of blaming them, the three of them breathed a sigh of relief. Yang Shu took out a folder and said, "Although we haven't yet developed the drone that Junior Brother Lu mentioned, we have achieved some scientific and technological results, written several papers and published them in authoritative magazines, and applied for several patents. These are the materials, Junior Brother Lu, take a look first."
Lu Yiming took the folder, flipped through it casually, and said with a smile: "Look, you have come up with so many research results, you can't say that my money was invested in vain. The road of science and technology has never been smooth sailing, I hope you will keep up the good work. I can continue to invest money, but the drone I want must be made!"
After hearing what Lu Yiming said, the three of them breathed a sigh of relief. After all, Lu Yiming was about to leave school, and they had no idea whether he would be willing to be a sucker for the model airplane club in the future. Now that they had received Lu Yiming's assurance and knew that their sponsor had not abandoned them, the three of them were finally relieved.
Although they have already graduated, they all treat the work assigned by Lu Yiming as a career. If Lu Yiming withdraws his investment, then this job will be gone.
After Chen Qingfeng and the others left, Lu Yiming saw that no one was sitting at Chen Chusheng's seat, so he asked, "Didn't the instructor say that we'd take graduation photos this afternoon? Where's Old Chen?"
Wang Dazhuang said, "I don't know. Could it be that this guy forgot about taking graduation photos?"
Considering Chen Chusheng's personality of being oblivious to the world outside and only focusing on writing code, he might have really forgotten about this matter.
Lu Yiming said: "Maybe he went there early. Let's hurry up and change our clothes and go out to call him."
The three of them changed into their bachelor's gowns, left the dormitory, and headed for the playground. When they arrived at the photo-taking location, they looked around but still couldn't find Chen Chusheng.
Lu Yiming took out his cell phone and was about to call Chen Chusheng, but he saw a group of people not far away constantly exclaiming "WTF!"
Amidst a burst of "Fuck!" sounds, Chen Chusheng came over at lightning speed.
At this moment, Chen Chusheng was standing on something similar to a skateboard, but the skateboard had a T-shaped handle.
Lu Yiming took a closer look and couldn't help but exclaimed.
Isn't this a balance bike?
At this moment, Chen Chusheng was wearing a loose bachelor's gown, his legs stepping on the pedals of two wheels with flashing RGB light effects, his hands tightly holding the handles, his eyes looking forward, his clothes fluttering in the wind, his look was quite explosive.
On the playground, all the students who saw this scene revealed the excitement of discovering a strange species in their eyes, and some even secretly prepared to give it a try.
Chen Chusheng drove the self-balancing scooter to Lu Yiming and stopped it steadily. This scene also surprised Lu Yiming: "Old Chen, did you make a self-balancing scooter?"
After looking at Chen Chusheng and the balance bike up and down, left and right, front and back, ABBA..., Ni Cong said with a click of the tongue: "Good fellow, I knew you were a ruthless person who didn't say much. You are going to do something big."
Chen Chusheng touched his forehead shyly and said with a smile: "I made it a week ago. I spent a few days adjusting and testing it. I plan to open it and show it off today."
Lu Yiming couldn't help drooling, and he pushed Chen Chusheng aside and said impatiently: "Okay, young man, come down and let me try."
The core of a balancing car is the motor and electronic control algorithm. Chen Chusheng spent more than two years and finally wrote the whole set of things.
Lu Yiming had a self-balancing scooter from the grain factory before, which he used for daily commuting to and from get off work. Therefore, he was not unfamiliar with the self-balancing scooter in front of him.
Stand on it with both feet, hold the handlebars, lean forward slightly, and the car will start moving.
This cool way of starting up once again made people around exclaim in amazement.
Although there is still a lot of room for improvement in terms of smoothness, these are all workmanship issues that can be resolved after industrial mass production. This is a hand-made prototype car, so of course we can't expect too much.
Apart from this, all the operating logic is exactly the same as that of the balance bike products 20 years later.
This thing can attract people's attention when it appears on the streets in 2022, not to mention that it is still 2002. The product form is more than ten years ahead, so the effect is of course explosive.
Lu Yiming was driving the balance car, as excited as a child who got a new toy. Sparks flew all the way on the playground, attracting countless people's attention.
"What is this? Can it run on its own?"
“It looks like a lot of fun.”
"What is this? I've never seen it before."
"A new product from the richest man? I want to buy it! Where can I buy it?"
When I was in my early twenties, I encountered a balance bike. Who can understand this feeling?
The brave ones saw Lu Yiming stopped and asked, "Student Lu Yiming, can I try?"
Lu Yiming thought, isn't this a free product experience officer? He immediately called Chen Chusheng over and said, "How about this, you let the students experience it, and then let them give their opinions and see if there is room for improvement. You record it, and I'll take care of the software and the hardware."
Chen Chusheng nodded slightly and said, "Okay."
Lu Yiming handed the balance bike to the classmate and said, "Then let you try it. If you lean forward slightly, the bike will move. Control your posture well. Leaning back will brake, but be careful not to do it too much."
Lu Yiming thinks that this balance bike is a very interesting thing, and it has a great effect on training the body's balance and coordination .
The classmate took the bike from Lu Yiming's hand. As soon as he stepped on it with his left foot, he lost his balance and fell flat on his face, causing everyone to laugh.
The student was neither discouraged nor shy. He stood up, brushed off the dust on his body, held the handlebars with both hands, took a deep breath, rehearsed in his mind, and then carefully stepped on the bike.
Seeing that he successfully stood up, applause broke out around him.
"Stand up!"
"handsome!"
"Run one."
Amid the encouragement and urging of everyone, the student tremblingly followed Lu Yiming's instructions and leaned forward slightly.
The car, without any starting device, slowly started moving.
Everyone was extremely surprised.
"Just move forward? How does that work? You don't even need to start it? Where's the accelerator?"
"Controlling the car purely by body? What kind of Zentraedian technology is this!"
After only a minute or two, a student immediately shouted, "Alright, alright, let's switch people. Let me try."
"I'm next."
“Line up, line up.”
Now that they had the chance to experience it, everyone was not polite and lined up to play. Many people even argued over the order, and the situation got out of control for a while.
After playing for a while, the class gathered together to take graduation photos.
"One, two, three, eggplant!"
After taking a serious photo, many students threw up their bachelor's hats, preparing to do a "flying" version.
Lu Yiming was so scared that he quickly hid aside.
Just kidding, the hat is made of hard board, which can cut a watermelon in half if dropped from a high altitude!
Lu Yiming didn't dare to bet that his skull was harder than a watermelon.
After the group photo was taken, groups of people pulled the photographer to take photos. Lu Yiming had his own camera, so of course he could take photos however he wanted.
On a piece of grass, Lu Yiming and Shi Qingxue were huddled together, each stretching out a hand to form a heart shape.
“Crack!”
The two had taken photos together when they were in high school, and now they are in the same frame again after graduating from college. The warm and sweet feeling immediately filled their hearts.
After taking the photos, the two sat on the grass, with their backs against a big tree, watching the students running around in front of them.
Shi Qingxue held a bachelor's hat in her hand and leaned lightly on Lu Yiming's shoulder, her soft hair falling on his chest.
"Lu Yiming, it's great to have you."
"Then keep going, I will be with you."
"Um."
Sometimes when Qingxue was by his side, Lu Yiming's heart was extremely peaceful, as if no trouble in the world could stump him anymore.
As night fell, Lu Yiming and Shi Qingxue, who had graduated, returned to the Lu family garden.
Lu Yiming threw off his hat and said, "I'm going to take a shower first. After taking the photos, I was dragged to test the balance bike. I was sweating all over."
"good."
Shi Qingxue carefully hung the bachelor's cap and gown that Lu Yiming had taken off on the rack and said, "I'll wash these together with the clothes after dinner. Blow dry them and put them in the closet."
This dress is a souvenir.
Shi Qingxue was sitting on the sofa. She had just taken out some juice from the refrigerator when the cell phone on the coffee table rang.
After Shi Qingxue answered the call, she found out that it was Su Yunjin calling.
"mom."
Su Yunjin said with a smile, "Congratulations, my dear daughter, on graduating from Fu Ri University. From today on, you will officially enter the society."
Shi Qingxue couldn't help but sigh: "Yes, time flies so fast. In the blink of an eye, I have already graduated from college."
Su Yunjin asked, "Now that you have graduated from college, I think other things can be put on the agenda. When do you plan to marry Lu Yiming?"
When Shi Qingxue heard the word marriage, she reflexively looked towards the bathroom and then complained, "You didn't allow me to date in high school, but you urged me to get married right after I graduated from college. How can you be like that?"
Why would Su Yunjin care so much? Lu Yiming is the richest man in Asia! The richest son-in-law among the rich son-in-laws, if he can get married earlier, then get married earlier, so as to avoid more troubles!
If you delay, something bad will happen.
Su Yunjin's smile did not fade at all despite Shi Qingxue's complaints. Instead, she said confidently, "I am your mother. Isn't it natural for me to urge you to get married?"
Then, Su Yunjin asked, "Will that kid not admit his debt after graduating from college?"
Shi Qingxue pouted and said, "Mom, what nonsense are you talking about? What do you mean by admitting or not admitting? It's me who doesn't want to get married so soon. I'm still young."
Su Yunjin was immediately displeased when she heard this and said, "You are talking nonsense. When I was your age, you were already born. You young people are really stupid. You have been together for so long, shouldn't you get married right after graduation?"
"Oh, mom... Lu Yiming is out. I won't talk to you anymore. I'm hanging up. I'm going to take a shower. Bye."
Shi Qingxue stood up and looked at Lu Yiming in his bathrobe. She thought of what Su Yunjin had said about marriage, and her pretty face turned red. She lowered her head and said, "I'm going to take a shower."
In front of the huge wardrobe, Lu Yiming was choosing pajamas to wear tonight, but Ning Xuehua called him and her opening remarks almost made Lu Yiming unable to hold back.
"Son, you graduated from college today. When do you plan to marry your elementary school teacher?"
Lu Yiming looked confused: "Mom, I just graduated from college today, and you are telling me this, isn't it inappropriate?"
Ning Xuehua said with a straight face when she heard this: "What are you waiting for if you don't get married? Shouldn't you give Xiaoxue an explanation? When your third aunt from your hometown called me yesterday, she said that her grandson can already help with cooking."
In their era, if a girl in her early twenties had not yet married, she would be said to be unmarriageable. This year, Lu Yiming is already 24 years old, how can Ning Xuehua not be anxious?
Lu Yiming was very troubled by this. It was not that he didn't want to marry Shi Qingxue, but they both felt that they were still young and didn't want to enter into married life so soon.
Although the two had already lived together when they were in college, everything that was supposed to be familiar and unfamiliar had already been cooked.
But marriage is a big deal after all, and Lu Yiming is not mentally prepared for it yet.
At this moment, the doorbell rang, and Lu Yiming said to Ning Xuehua: "It seems someone is here to visit. I'll hang up first."
Lu Yiming walked out and opened the door, and was surprised to find that it was Li Yiwen standing outside.
"Cousin? Why are you here?"
Li Yiwen took out a beautiful gold-stamped wedding invitation from his bag and said, "Haha, Zixian and I have already set the wedding date. It's August 15th."
Although Li Yiwen and Li Zixian have been engaged for a long time, Li Yiwen often has to follow Lu Yiming around and independently carry out tasks assigned by Lu Yiming. He spends half a year on the plane. Li Zixian, who has become a backbone of the TV station, is also very busy with work. It is a luxury for her to have one day off a month. Therefore, the marriage has been delayed again and again.
Now, both parties felt that they could not drag it on any longer, so they made up their minds and agreed to hold the wedding on August 15th.
According to Li Yiwen, even if it rains knives from the sky on August 15th, the wedding must take place.
Lu Yiming took the wedding invitation and said with a smile: "Congratulations, congratulations to my cousin and sister-in-law for getting married."
Li Yiwen smiled happily and asked, "What about you? You have graduated from college now. When do you plan to marry Xiaoxue?"
