Chapter 128 New Creative Product: Sticky Hook
Chapter 128 New Creative Product: Sticky Hook
Wei Zetao was a little embarrassed and said, "Mr. Yang, I need to check this out. This kind of overseas information requires contacting some foreign intermediaries to investigate.
Even if it is just to ask, it will cost a lot, so I must get your consent before I can consult."
Yang Wendong nodded and said, "Well, let's go for the consultation. As long as we can promote the Rubik's Cube, this little money is worth it."
In this era, or in the era before the Internet, it takes a lot of time and energy to check some international affairs. Unlike in the past, Baidu and Google can easily find out what events are about to be held in many places around the world, or a single email from the bureau can inform tens of thousands of people. In this era, it costs a lot just to send a letter, and basically only some leading companies can be chosen.
Especially if you are not sure which city the target destination is, you can only entrust some professional "information intermediaries" to find relevant people to inquire, which will definitely cost a lot of money.
"Okay, I'll do it right away." Wei Zetao agreed.
"Okay." Yang Wendong also confirmed.
Inside a factory office in North Point, Hong Kong Island:
"This thing is really hard to restore?" A man in his 40s spun the Rubik's Cube in his hand for a long time, but it became more and more chaotic. After a while, he had to give up.
Someone nearby laughed and said, "Lao Wang, you've been playing with it for a long time, why don't you give up? I just played for three minutes and I knew I couldn't do it anymore. This thing is obviously a complex mathematical structure."
Lao Wang paused, put down the Rubik's Cube, sighed and said, "I am also doing this for the 10,000 Hong Kong dollars. For workers like us, our income may be a little higher than that of ordinary people, but it takes many years to earn 10,000 Hong Kong dollars.
If I had HK$10,000, I would immediately go to Admiralty and get a mortgage to buy a 1,000-square-foot mansion. Don’t you want to? Brother Hua.
"Of course I want to marry Xia Mengzhe? What's the point?" Brother Hua leaned back in his chair and said leisurely, "If you want to get the 10,000 yuan, it's better to buy horse racing. The probability of making money from horse racing is higher than this."
"Is it so difficult?" Lao Wang knows the probability of betting on horses.
Brother Hua gestured with his hand, and Lao Wang immediately gave him the Rubik's Cube. Then Brother Hua said, "The requirement for this 10,000 yuan bonus does not mean that you can get the money just by accidentally recovering it.
You have to sort out a set of methods to ensure that you can recover in any chaotic state. Can you imagine how difficult it is?"
Looking in the direction, the Rubik's Cube kept turning in Brother Hua's hands. Lao Wang felt his scalp tingling, so he said, "It seems that my 4 yuan was wasted."
"It's only 4 dollars." Brother Hua smiled and then threw the Rubik's Cube back to Lao Wang.
Lao Wang looked at the Rubik's Cube and thought that he would not be able to solve this kind of puzzle in a short time, so he put the Rubik's Cube away and said, "Forget it, I'll go buy a lottery ticket tonight. I always feel that horse number 8 will win next time."
"Horse No. 8?" Brother Hua obviously often follows the horse race. He immediately became interested when he heard the number 8 and asked with a smile: "Do you want to bet on the underdog?"
Lao Wang nodded and said with a smile: "Yes, either don't buy it, or buy a rare one with a high drop rate. Otherwise, what's the point of spending a hundred dollars to earn a few dozen?"
"That's right, that's a wild idea." Brother Hua gave a thumbs up and said, "Let's go buy it together tonight."
"OK."
In a residential complex near the University of Hong Kong, two people who look almost identical are seen. One is cooking, while the other is playing with a cube structure that changes colors. It is the Rubik's Cube.
"Be careful, get out of the way, it's hot, hot~" The sister in the kitchen was holding a bowl of braised pork, with a slightly painful expression on her face. She rubbed it hurriedly while walking quickly and shouted.
“Can’t you wait until the dish gets cold before serving it to me?” The elder sister who was playing with the Rubik’s Cube had to withdraw from her thoughts and made way for him. However, after smelling the food and seeing the dishes on the plate, she couldn’t help but smile and said, “Yujie, your cooking skills are getting better and better.”
"Of course, I even took a few catering classes." Bai Yujie smiled, then looked at her sister, frowned and said, "Yushan, you have a white hair?"
"Ah? Where is it? Pull it out quickly." Bai Yushan said immediately to the very sensitive one.
"Wait, don't move." Bai Yujie walked forward, picked through the black hair for a while, found the white one, and then pulled it out, saying, "Actually, it's normal to have one or two white hairs. Many children may have them. Don't be so excited."
"That won't work." Bai Yushan sat down, picked up the chopsticks, took a bite of the braised pork, and said, "I guess I've been a little obsessed with this Rubik's Cube recently."
"You're just too stubborn." Bai Yujie scooped two bowls of rice from the rice cooker next to her and said, "You have to learn from me. If you see a problem you can't solve, you should give up. There are so many fun things to do, but you insist on playing with this Rubik's Cube."
Bai Yushan took the bowl and said, "I'm not playing with this Rubik's Cube just for fun."
"For ten thousand dollars?" Bai Yujie asked back.
"Not really, but this is indeed attractive." Bai Yushan shook her head and said, "This thing has very complicated mathematical principles, so complicated that it gives me a headache."
Bai Yujie also seemed to be thinking about something, and then asked, "But there are so many difficult math problems in this world, and there are also math problems with a million-dollar reward. You can't try them all, right?
Although you are smart, Yushan, some problems can only be solved by a brain at the level of Einstein."
Bai Yushan said, "But, didn't the person you dated recover easily last time? No matter what face it was, it could be easily and quickly restored to its original six-faced and six-colored state;
But I have to struggle for a while to even restore one side, and I haven't found a way to restore it for sure. The gap is too big."
"This..." Bai Yujie also frowned. If no one could recover, that would be fine, but there were people who could recover quickly, which made her, such a strong sister, unwilling to give up.
After a while, she stood up, picked up a newspaper from the sofa at the back, handed it to Bai Yushan, and said, "Look at this newspaper. The company that makes the Rubik's Cube came to our school to do this. It's obvious that they want to use us to promote the Rubik's Cube."
"Well, that's normal. They didn't lie, and the text is respectful to our school." Bai Yushan took a look and said, "From this point of view, it means that this company called Deli is very sure that our school, or even Hong Kong, cannot crack this Rubik's Cube."
"Deli? Isn't it called Changxing Industry?" Bai Yujie took back the newspaper, looked at the small print on it, and said curiously, "I don't remember it being this name?"
Bai Yushan smiled and said, "There's nothing strange about this. Many companies have subsidiaries. It's normal."
"Oh." Bai Yujie put away the newspaper and said, "I just don't know how they managed to restore it. It really happened right in front of my eyes. It only took two minutes to restore it. No matter what form the Rubik's Cube took, Yang Sheng could restore it. I was a little confused when I saw it."
"I didn't believe it when I heard you say it." Bai Yushan shrugged and said, "Later, when other people saw him perform the Rubik's Cube when you were dating, I had to believe it."
"What date? Don't talk nonsense." Bai Yujie quickly picked up a piece of braised pork and put it in Bai Yushan's bowl, saying, "Eat the braised pork, you."
"You can't use braised pork to shut me up." Bai Yushan said with a smile, "I heard that guy is quite handsome."
"Well, it's pretty good." Bai Yujie thought for a moment and said, "He said he didn't have a high level of education, but the strange thing is, when I chatted with him, I felt that he should have good literary talent, and he used various idioms very well, just like a normal college student.
What’s even more strange is that his opinions on some things are really amazing, much better than some college students in our school.”
"In fact, you don't have to come to school to learn." Bai Yushan paused and said, "You also know that many Chinese bosses may be completely illiterate, but they can still build a big business.
Such people, even if they don't go to school, will continue to learn, and if they work hard, it's not surprising that they can catch up with an ordinary college student. It's just that such people are definitely very rare, but there are so many people in society, the base is huge, so there must be some. "
"I can understand that." Bai Yujie nodded and said, "But Yang Sheng is still very young, about the same age as us, but he seems to be more mature than Daddy."
"That's perfect, don't you just like daddy very much?" Bai Yushan smiled sweetly and quickly covered her mouth with her hands.
"You laugh at me again, I'll tickle you." After saying that, Bai Yujie attacked her sister's ribs.
“Ahahaha~” A crisp laugh rang out: “Okay, I was wrong!”
"I told you not to talk nonsense." Bai Yujie stopped and said after thinking for a while, "I understand what you just said. It's normal for such people to exist in society. But it's incredible that someone of our age has such ability."
"Yes, a little bit." Bai Yushan also recovered from her previous frivolity and analyzed: "This may be talent, just like painting and singing, some people are born with high talent."
"Highly talented?" Bai Yujie seemed to be thinking about it.
Bai Yushan smiled and said, "Let me give you a simple example. Even if you could live for 10,000 years, could you come up with Einstein's theory of relativity?
It's not about learning, it's about discovering the laws of the universe out of thin air like Einstein?"
"Let me find out?" Bai Yujie said without even thinking, "Forget it, even 100 million years won't do."
"But some people can learn it in just a few years. This is talent." Bai Yushan said with a smile: "Our teacher once said that the talent between people is greater than the talent between people and dogs."
"That's a rude word, but it makes sense." Bai Yujie said with a smile.
Bai Yushan added: "My teacher also said that many things we learn in school are useless. Just like mathematics, the ones learned in elementary school are basically enough, and most people will never use the complicated ones in their lifetime.
People in society may only learn useful knowledge, such as learning some corresponding vocabulary to show their literary talent. They don’t need to learn classical Chinese and write essays like we did when we were young. This way, the efficiency will be much higher.”
"That's right." Bai Yujie nodded and said, "But it's also very impressive."
Bai Yushan said with a smile: "How can you like him if he's not great?"
"If you do this again, I'll press you down on the sofa and tickle you." Bai Yujie glared at him fiercely.
"I'm your sister, please respect me." Bai Yushan retorted.
Bai Yujie snorted proudly: "But I am stronger than you."
"If a girl is so strong, she might not be able to get married!" Bai Yushan retorted, but her voice was indeed much softer.
There's no way around it, the sisters are the opposite, the older sister likes math and art, while the younger sister likes sports.
But it’s not extreme, otherwise both sisters wouldn’t have been admitted to the University of Hong Kong.
After a while, the two of them sat on the sofa and watched TV. Bai Yushan, on the other hand, took out the Rubik's Cube and started struggling with it, which made Bai Yujie feel helpless. Her sister would get stuck on a problem she couldn't solve.
Thinking of diverting her attention, I asked, "Have you decided whether to go to the United States or the United Kingdom for graduate studies?"
"This..." Bai Yushan immediately put down the Rubik's Cube, turned around to look at her sister, and said, "I'm not sure yet. I plan to go to Columbia University in New York next month to take a look and then decide.
and……"
"And what?" Bai Yujie saw that her sister seemed a little hesitant.
Bai Yushan said: "Professor Chen suggested that I should think carefully. She said that if I graduate now, I can find a good job in a big bank or company in Hong Kong.
Going to graduate school may mean missing out on several years of opportunities, which may be more important than a higher education."
"That's true." Bai Yujie also agreed with this view and said, "Daddy also said that academic qualifications are just a stepping stone. Once you get in, it depends on your personal ability. Even if you have a doctorate but don't have the ability, it won't work.
With your degree from HKU and your almost first-place grades, plus your dad's help, you shouldn't have any problem getting into HSBC. Studying abroad might just be the icing on the cake."
"Yes, that's about it." Bai Yushan also said: "Unless I plan to stay abroad, the graduate degree abroad will be better than that of HKU, but it is limited...
Besides, Dad only hopes that we can hone our skills in other places for a few years after graduation, and then help him. In this case, there is no point in studying abroad."
"That's right." Bai Yujie nodded and said, "But since we can go to the United States or the United Kingdom, it would be nice to go and have some fun and see the world."
"Yeah." Bai Yushan didn't say anything else.
The two continued to watch TV peacefully.
……
Changxing Industry:
"Dong dong dong..."
Wei Zetao was looking at the documents. When he heard the knock on the door, he looked up and saw that it was his boss. He quickly put down the documents in his hand, stood up and said with a smile: "Why is Mr. Yang here?"
"I just went to Lao Zhou to learn about the recent production situation, and I came to take a look when I passed by." Yang Wendong smiled and said, "I also have something important to tell you."
"Mr. Yang, please speak." Wei Zetao also said quickly.
Yang Wendong put down a piece of paper in his hand, handed it to Wei Zetao, and said, "This is our company's next product, called sticky hook, take a look."
(End of this chapter)