Volume 8 Final Chapter Chapter 1227 Stealing Vegetables World
During lunch time, many people came, including Nan Youqiong, Nan Ruoqiong, Nan Ruoqi, Zhao Shixian, and Ruan Mei. All those who should have come came. It was considered a relatively complete family gathering in Xiangkeng.
Zhao Shixian and Ruan Mei had known each other for a long time and had met each other at some banquets , but this was the first time they had eaten at the same table.
The two were not jealous of each other, nor were they scheming against each other. They were both in their early forties and quite mature. Besides, there was nothing to fight about. Both of them had no sons, and Nan Youqiong, who was like a father and son, was sitting nearby. Zhao Shixian knew too well that Nan Youqiong's scheming was even more cunning than Nan Yi's. Not to mention that she had no son, even if she did, she would have to consider carefully whether to let her son come forward to compete.
Then again, it seems like there's nothing to argue about. The head of the Nan family only has management rights and has never enjoyed dividends. Nan Yi has never received any, and Nan You is still poor. Even when picking up girls, he has to do it in public and in private. Public picking up is reimbursed, but private picking up has to be paid for by oneself.
During the dinner, Zhao Shixian and Ruan Mei chatted about some private matters, while Nan Youqiong and Nan Ruoqi talked about some personal matters between brothers and sisters. Nan Youqiong was quite doting on his sister, and although he was very poor, he still received gifts continuously.
However, Nan Yi could not judge how much his son's doting on his daughter was genuine. Nan Youqiong was too much like him. He was always wrapped in several layers of disguise, and his words and actions could not reveal his true thoughts.
Fortunately, Nan Youqiong's policy is to unite all forces that can be united. Even if he is gone, it is unlikely that he will treat his brothers and sisters unfairly.
Nan Yi used a serving chopstick to pick up a chicken head and put it on Nan Ruoqiong's plate. "What did you name your child?"
"Nan Yunmo."
"It's a bit more neutral. What's the name on the ID?"
"The Fifth Zhang."
Nan Yi smacked his lips and said, "It seems like you're not very good at naming either."
"Dad, I just hope Yun Mo's character is a little more masculine. An orphan's heart must be stronger than that of an ordinary person."
"Don't mention the word orphan. It makes it sound like I've abused you."
Nan Ruoqiong laughed and picked up a chicken claw for Nan Yi, "Dad, this is your favorite chicken claw."
"Yeah, good boy."
The dinner ended in a harmonious atmosphere. After the meal, everyone left. Nan Yi drank two cups of tea and then changed the venue to continue drinking at the Black Point Lighthouse.
He was not drinking alone, there was also Hu Minshan who he inadvertently supported.
That year, Nan Yi met Hu Minshan on Luo Zhaohui's yacht. The two talked for a while, and Nan Yi left her a business card of Chen Wenqin. Later, Hu Minshan called Chen Wenqin and accepted Nan Yi's private investment.
At the beginning, Hu Minshan only engaged in the agency business of famous watches and jewelry, and private investment was enough.
"Do you know what's going on in the United States?"
“Subprime mortgage default?”
"Well, it's best to wait a while before you build your own brand. Don't make any big moves this year. Keep sufficient cash flow and wait and see before making any further plans."
“Will subprime mortgage defaults cause a financial tsunami?”
Although Hu Minshan has been in the fashion circle for a long time, she is not unfamiliar with the basic knowledge of finance.
"It's not that it will happen, but it has already happened. Be prepared to have a hard time."
Hu Minshan was embarrassed. "I just bought a batch of watches and bet nearly 100 million Hong Kong dollars."
Nan Yi laughed, "People say you are the king of fashion watches. I believe you can sell the watches as soon as possible."
Hu Minshan thought for a while and said, "We can only hold promotional activities."
"Whatever, just act fast."
Hu Minshan nodded, "I understand."
A few days later, Nan Yi and Wang Zongjun met. After some discussions, he paid 7 million to buy 13.1 million shares of Wang Media, accounting for 13.08% of the shares. The ownership belonged to Gong Xue.
For a period of time afterwards, Nan Yi ran between several companies and schools, paying attention to the development of each company.
On the Lihuamao side, the number of users on the live streaming platform quickly surpassed that of its competitor 9158, but in reality, it was far behind. The core of 9158 was an online nightclub, with a group of loyal old perverts willing to give gifts. At the end of each month, the accountants needed to calculate the platform's profits.
On the contrary, the Tabby Cat was burning money. The bandwidth and server fees cost 130,000 to 140,000 yuan a day, and there were other miscellaneous expenses, which amounted to at least 5 million yuan a month. Wu Xiaoxiong's mouth corners were covered with blisters due to inflammation.
Fortunately, "Guiguzi" became a huge hit, earning money faster than it was spent. The profits from the web game subsidized the live streaming platform and were barely able to maintain the company's operations.
Now, the game development team has expanded, and is developing three games to be promoted vigorously, as well as N other reskin games. You have to make money from the market you have developed yourself, and you have to take the most delicious bite before others react.
On the Daguoniu side, the development of the three sectors, Fashion Cabinet, MadeIn and Korean Style, is going well, with orders steadily increasing; the new project FOX essential oil has also been launched, and is still in the early promotion period; the subsidiary Niuqi Chongtian has been completed and has found two customers. The company operates online stores for customers, only provides "technology" and shares 35% of the profits.
The Five Hundred Miles platform has been developed, with Du Wenhua as the main force and Nanyi as the auxiliary. It is promoted to people traveling in Europe, inviting them to run their own online stores on the platform. At the same time, domestic advertising has also been launched.
Compared with these two, Toucai.com can be described as popular and booming.
Speaking of the stealing vegetables game, it is really very simple. It is nothing more than planting vegetables, picking vegetables, and stealing other people's vegetables. However, such a simple game has been sought after by thousands of people.
It is because it is simple enough and can be easily completed with just a click of the mouse. There is no operating skill required. Moreover, it has social attributes. Through it, familiar and unfamiliar friends deepen their connections. Even people who have not played games before have been driven by social interaction to join the army of vegetable stealing.
Even uncles and aunts who are not very familiar with computers have developed a strong interest in this game when they have nothing to do. Before, Doudou's chess and card games, Lianzhong, and Bianfeng attracted a group of card lovers. Now, Stealing Vegetables has attracted a group of idle middle-aged people, mainly retired ones. The turnover of computer malls everywhere has increased sharply, and the owners of KTVs and foot massage parlors are grinning from ear to ear.
Nan Yi has read Qian Meizi's report. The customer flow has increased significantly in the past month. Upon asking around, he found out that the new customers are either replacing memory or buying motherboards in bulk.
There are even some middle-aged players who know the maturity time of every vegetable they plant. When it is time to harvest, they will immediately log in to the platform and harvest their vegetables. Even if it is the middle of the night, they will set the alarm to harvest the vegetables as soon as possible to avoid them being stolen.
"Did you steal today?"
Popular phrases like this should not appear in reality, but they quietly appeared because of a small game.
Many people will talk about stealing vegetables when they meet, such as how many vegetables they stole today, how much they were stolen from, and so on. There are also some strange people who fall out with their friends because their vegetables were stolen. There are countless new social phenomena caused by stealing vegetables.
A steal on the left and a steal on the right, naturally, the topic of "Have you stolen today?" was born.
Countless white-collar workers in cities have become the main force in the vegetable stealing team, and they enjoy stealing and preventing theft every day. Many warnings about vegetable stealing have been summarized on the Internet: "In the face of interests, anyone can become a thief who steals from you"; "Making friends is a hard truth, and more friends will open up more ways"; "You may not necessarily make more money by sowing expensive seeds, but you will definitely lose more when planting expensive vegetables."
Many people may not understand why a game of stealing vegetables is so crazy. Some even think that such a fool-proof game without any meaning is not fun. Stealing vegetables, right? You stole his vegetables, so what? Is it like killing others in online games to get equipment? Is it so exciting?
Many people gave the same answer to this view: "What I stole was not food, but loneliness."
The fundamental reason is indeed so. In today's society, everyone, regardless of gender, age or status, is under tremendous pressure. Students are under tremendous pressure from their studies, middle-aged and elderly people are under suffocating pressure from responsibilities, and many urban white-collar workers have become house slaves and car slaves. Some can only sigh at the sight of their houses and cars, feeling helpless under the tremendous pressure.
The vegetable stealing game can quickly fill their anxiety and frustration in real life. At the same time, stealing is not allowed in real society. In the virtual network, everyone vents their dissatisfaction with reality in a rebellious and extreme way.
Until now, some people are deeply addicted to the pleasure of stealing, while some people enjoy the pleasure of being stolen. They grow their own vegetables and wait for others to steal them.
Many netizens also said: "It's not that stealing vegetables is fun in itself, it's mainly about enjoying the thrill of competing with many acquaintances and friends to steal."
This mentality may be difficult to explain, but it just happens.
Students, teachers, white-collar workers, university professors, civil servants, and even many celebrities were involved in the vegetable stealing incident. Needless to say, Nan Yi was involved.
In addition to the influence of celebrities and word-of-mouth marketing, soft-text advertising has never stopped. Nan Yi has placed a large order with Chuifenghao. Whether it is Tianya, Mop, Xiaonei, or Doudou’s chat group, soft advertisements for stealing vegetables can be seen everywhere.
"Stealing vegetables is so exciting."
These are the messages some “players” posted on the campus network.
"I never thought the game would be so fun."
This is the lament of uncles and aunts who have never played online games before. Mixing pinyin into the text is their typical typing method.
"Today, I finally became a farmer myself..."
This should be a message sent by urban students who have never been to the fields or even seen a vegetable field.
The promotion method of Toucai.com in the game is very simple: as long as you invite 10 friends to enter the game, you can get a bag of fertilizer for free. Then, in order to get a bag of free fertilizer, players will send their unique links everywhere every day.
"Your friend invites you to join Stealing Vegetables Network."
"What are you waiting for? Come and steal some vegetables!"
This kind of viral publicity effect of one person telling ten people, and ten people telling a hundred people is extremely terrifying, as evidenced by the ever-increasing number of servers on Taocai.com.
"Did you steal today?"
If many people did not know the meaning of this meme before, now that Stealing Vegetables Network is all the rage, most people will smile knowingly when they see this sentence.
At this time, the world quietly evolved into a world of stealing vegetables.
Nan Yi himself also hangs out on the vegetable stealing website, but he doesn’t grow vegetables or steal them, instead he’s playing with hanging street lamps.
"Congratulations, revolutionist. You have hung the 'Capitalist Behind the Spring City Clivia' on the street lamp. Please keep up the good work and hang more capitalists on the street lamp."
"Congratulations, revolutionist. You have hung the 'capitalist behind the monkey stamp' on the street lamp. Please keep up the good work and hang more capitalists on the street lamp."
"Congratulations, revolutionist. You have hung the 'capitalist behind the antiques' on the street lamp. Please keep up the good work and hang more capitalists on the street lamp."
The directionality of the Hanging Street Lamp game is not that strong. The sensitive words in the prompts are all customized and players can enter them by themselves. Nan Yi's political acumen is still very strong and he knows what can be done and what cannot be done.
After hanging himself from the street lamp three times, Nan Yi started playing the "Guess the Idiom from the Picture" game which has not yet been launched to the public.
One is Sudoku and the other is picture guessing, both of which are casual games that Nan Yi liked to play in his previous life when he was on business trips and waiting for people or waiting to board a plane. He can start and stop at any time and requires some brain work, which is very suitable for him.
Therefore, he is familiar with various ways to play the game of guessing idioms from pictures. There are more than 20 different modes for just one small game of guessing idioms from pictures. People who like this kind of game can't stop playing it once they start, which can play a good auxiliary role in retaining users.
Nan Yi passed dozens of levels easily, and then started to mess around , constantly answering wrong questions and triggering hidden ads. He repeated this over and over again, putting himself in the role of the user, simulating and speculating the psychological activities of different users at different time periods when they were forced to watch ads due to wrong answers and the ads were triggered.
Not only he is doing this work, but the operations department is also doing it. Many part-time staff have been hired from schools and the Internet to do it. Advertising is a chapter in the story of stealing vegetables. If this part is operated well, it will also contribute to the valuation of Toucai.com.
After watching the advertisement for a long time, just when Nan Yi was closing his eyes to rest, Ji Mengmeng came to find him.
"Uncle Nan, several venture capital firms called to express their investment intentions. Should I contact them?"
Nan Yi opened his eyes and said, "We definitely need to make contact. There is no rush for financing. The current valuation of Toucai.com cannot be too high. It won't be too late to raise funds after the number of users increases and the valuation reaches 300 million.
The first financing is very important. We will not take all the money. You can be honest with the venture capitalists about our thoughts: if the valuation is less than 500 million, we will not raise funds, and we will not take funds that cannot provide added value. "
Ji Mengmeng hesitated and asked, "Do we have to mention the added value as well?"
If you want to make money and add value, you need to have enough value yourself. Ji Mengmeng doesn’t think that Toucai.com has this value.
Nan Yi smiled faintly and said, "It's okay, don't worry. I will arrange the first round of financing. Others can estimate the valuation, and we can also support it to make it rise faster."
