Chapter 431 Binghai: A Copycat
If Ding Ning knew what she thought, he would angrily press her down on the ground to spank her. Of course, he would ask Xiahou to spank her.
Immersed in the pleasant sensation of the rapid increase of strength, he had long forgotten everything around him.
The surging Spiritual Energy circulated again and again inside the two of them. Having no idea how much time had passed, Ding Ning suddenly felt a boom, and then came endless strength, which made him strongly wish to scream.
It was the middle stage of the Earth Martial Arts Realm, which he had inexplicably reached. What surprised him most was that his sister had also synchronized the breakthrough and reached the middle stage of the Earth Martial Arts Realm.
The two of them were like a pair of twins, one yin and one yang, which had formed a strange connection. And Ding Ning could even feel his sister’s strong love of him.
This made him shocked, and he became quite guilty of himself and hurriedly pushed his sister away, but his complexion showed that he had not fully enjoyed it.
Ding Qianlie turned around and seductively rolled her eyes at him, still wearing the light red color on her glittering white face. Slightly, she opened her nice mouth, giving a beautiful soul-stunning smile.
Ding Ning trembled all over and couldn’t help thinking of that strikingly beautiful ancient Chinese concubine, who was described by a poem like this: When she turns around and smiles, the great charms coming with it will make all the other concubines of the emperor look pale.
Since he and his sister acknowledged each other’s identity, Ding Ning had never carefully observed her look. He only knew that she was very beautiful, but as for how beautiful she really was, he had never cared because that mind had been completely overshadowed by the strong sister-brother relationship.
Not until this moment did he finally realize that she was exceptionally beautiful because if she gave a smile, a whole city would admire it. Indeed, she was as beautiful a fairy.
Then, he was a little inexplicably panicky and lowered his eyes to avoid his sister’s, feeling quite guilty.
“You don’t have to care about that. Our practicing methods come from the same source, and it’s very normal that you can perceive something. We can’t deny that this is also a good practicing method. Tonight, I will go to your room.”
With a faint smile, Ding Qianlie said this to him at his ear, but Ding Ning was thunderstruck and distraught, looking at her with shock. “What does my sister want to do? Does she mean to dump ethics and our sister-brother relationship to…”
Ding Qianlie seemed to have seen through what he thought, so her face became imperceptibly red, and she whispered in his ear, “I will go to your room to practice with you, not anything dirty.”
“Uh, how could I think about anything dirty!”
Embarrassed, Ding Ning gave a dry smile and touched his nose, ashamed.
Seeing his uneasiness, Ding Qianlie covered her mouth and smiled lightly, but some shyness was shown in her eyes, and she muttered inwardly, “Silly brother, the real double-practice will have a better effect.”
“Come, they’ve finally come!”
Accompanied by the staff of the Ninghai Municipal Government, the more than ten people, dressed like Alabo people, of the business mission from Zhongdong, finally came with a grand appearance in the long expectation of the crowd. In a single file, they walked to the raised platform to take their seats, which signaled the official opening of the exhibition.
“Wow, this is a very high standard exhibition because Deputy Mayor Zhou has come in person. What a surprise!”
An exclamation came from the lobby. Then, everyone turned their hot eyes to a slightly bald middle-aged man of more than 50 sitting on the raised platform.
Ding Ning slightly narrowed his eyes to carefully study Deputy Mayor Zhou, who had a square face, big ears, a slightly bald head, sharp eyebrows, valiant eyes, a straight nose, and a standard mouth and was presiding over the product exhibition with a statement text in his hand.
Mr. Zhou was not the Executive Deputy Mayor, but he was a deputy mayor ranked the third only after Mayor Du and Jiang Zhongze among the municipal leaders. Investment promotion and business affairs were his responsibilities, and it was reasonable for him to preside over this product exhibition.
“Everyone, please keep silent. This time, the Business Mission from Zhongdong came to our Ninghai to take a survey, and I was entrusted by our Ninghai Municipal Government to come to…”
Deputy Mayor Zhou delivered his remark by reading the statement text, which was so long that he read it for half an hour, making everyone drowsy. Even Ding Ning yawned from time to time and strongly wished to lie down and have a good sleep. After all, he had sex for a whole night last night. Although he had just made a breakthrough in his practice, he could not get spirited at all.
Finally, the redundant opening remark ended in the thunderous applause. With a satisfied smile, Deputy Mayor Zhou then asked Apudule to deliver a speech.
Apparently, the members of the business mission from Zhongdong had been quite used to it and extended their gratitude to Deputy Mayor Zhou very politely. Then, through an interpreter, the mission’s leader Apudule said a few words. After that, the exhibition was announced to officially open. According to the order of the prepared name list, a member of the Kehong Refrigeration Factory was asked to show their product on the stand.
The director of the Kehong Refrigeration Factory was a very fat guy and went to the stand a little nervously. While keeping wiping away his sweat, he showed their latest product—Kehong Freezer.
The core of their latest research and development technology was the power saving through frequency conversion, which could reduce the power consumption by a third compared with the general freezer, but they had no achievements in refrigeration. For those Dibai local tycoons, this was not attractive at all. However, many companies were very interested in Kehong’s freezer. After he showed it, they went over for a consultation. It was truth that being able to save the cost of power consumption was also a way to reduce the cost of operation.
Then, the second manufacturer, the third manufacturer…
All their refrigeration equipment had different degrees of R & D innovation: Some were noise-free, some were exceptionally good at power saving, some had a super strong refrigeration ability…
But none of them could interest the business mission from Zhongdong. Yet, they had drawn the attention of the companies that had demand for refrigeration equipment, and their staff had gone over to discuss ordering deals. In this respect, their trip was not without achievements.
With the passage of time, now it was the turn of the 35th manufacturer Geli Refrigeration, a big refrigeration brand that had half of the refrigeration market in Shenzhou, with a boss surnamed Zhang. At the moment, he confidently went to the stand to show their product.
No one could deny that Geli Refrigeration deserved the big brand that dominated the domestic market because it did have an extremely strong R & D capability. Except that it could not be ice-free when it froze items, their refrigerator had achieved the ultimate in these functions: Cold wind without ice, mute, and cold storage. Pitifully, Apudule was still not attracted.
This frustrated and angered Boss Zhang, who asked aggressively, “I’d like to ask you, ‘Why are you not satisfied with our Geli Refrigeration’s product?’”
Apudule narrowed his eyes and said to the interpreter lightly, “Your product can be counted as an excellent refrigeration equipment in Shenzhou, but compared with Mi Country’s Yueke, Kaili, and Maikeweier, Fuso’s Rili, Sanling, De Country’s Aike, and others, your product still has so much room for improvement.”
Apudule’s words made Boss Zhang speechless. Although Geli was among the excellent ones in the refrigeration industry in Shenzhou and was also very famous and influential in the world, it still had a long way to go compared with these international refrigeration giants.
Fortunately, he found that their latest product had drawn the interest of so many companies’ bosses, who wanted to have deep talks with him. Immediately, he became high-spirited again, handed over business cards to these people like an acquaintance, and would conduct further negotiation and cooperation after the exhibition.
The 39th manufacturer…the 50th manufacturer…
During this time, apart from the refreshing Meidi Refrigeration that had half of the refrigeration market in Shenzhou like Geli and slightly drew the attention of Apudule, other manufacturers, although some were famous brands, were basically not much different from one another and didn’t have very impressive performances.
“Next, the 76th, Binghai Refrigeration!”
With the announcement of the host, Chen Kewen took a deep breath and encouraged by Lisa, strode with his head up to the stand.
Chen Kewen looked quite nervous just now, but when he was on the stand, he became calm at once. With the help of the field personnel, he pushed Binghai Refrigeration’s product out. It was a three-door refrigerator.
The refrigerator’s style was not novel, consisting of a cold-storage compartment, a temperature-changing compartment, and a freezer compartment, but its silver-gray luster was very metallic to the eye.
Binghai Refrigeration was only a small brand that followed the trend to make products, so it had no independent R & D direction and would only develop anything that sold well. To put it plainly, it was a copycat factory. Many non-professionals might not know this, but this was basically no secret for the professionals.
Therefore, when Chen Kewen went to the stand, most industry insiders looked at him with a mocking expression and some who were familiar with him even joked, saying, “Old Chen, your Binghai has come to steal technology, right?”
“Right, Old Chen, our factory has just developed the temperature control technology with automatic electric frequency. Do you want me to sell it to you?”
“We have developed the heat dissipation technology. Pay us five million and you can take it. No more painstaking research and development.”
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As the crowd joked, others asked about the reason. After learning that Binghai was a copycat factory, they roared with laughter, scornfully shook their heads, and then didn’t paid attention to him anymore.
Chen Kewen was not annoyed. He gave a simple and honest smile, pulled open the door of the refrigerator, and introduced, “This is indeed our newly developed technology. There are three temperature compartments in our refrigerator. The first one is the cold storage compartment, which can be ice-free with a cold wind.”
“It is still a copycat, isn’t it?”
One factory boss who mocked him just now said with irony.
“True, our ice-free cold wind function is not so much different from the one on the market, but the only difference is that our cold-storage compartment can keep the fruits and vegetables fresh for three months.”
Chen Kewen said a little bit unconfidently because this was what Chairwoman Ding told him, but it had not been formally tested yet.
Yet, these words were astounding and gave rise to an uproar. “You are boasting, aren’t you? Keep the fruits and vegetables fresh for three months? How is that possible?”
“Right, a cold-storage compartment that can keep the fruits and vegetables fresh for a week in low temperatures should be a good one, but how can three months be possible? You are bragging without feeling ashamed.”
“Old Chen, are you mentally hurt by something? Why are you talking nonsense?”
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Everyone began jokingly accusing him of talking nonsense, but seeing that his face had been serious and conscientious, they were shocked and confused, and then their voices became lower and lower. “It is true? This is impossible.”
“It’s useless to just talk about it, and it takes time to prove it. Now, let me continue my introduction.”
After calmly finishing his words, Chen Kewen opened the temperature-changing compartment in the middle, took out a piece of streaky pork with cold air, and held it high for everyone to see. “This is the one that I specially put into the compartment when the field personnel watched. As you all know that the one in the middle is usually a temperature-changing compartment, but our refrigerator is different. This one is a freezer compartment.”
“Old Chen, don’t boast. The pork in your hand is still soft, so how could it have been in the freezer compartment?”
The boss who ridiculed Chen Kewen just now said dismissively.
Unexpectedly, Apudule, who had been keeping his eyes narrowed as if he was dozing off, suddenly sat up and stared with full attention at the pork in Chen Kewen’s hand.
Others might not know it, but he was quite clear about it. When Chen Kewen came with his refrigerator in the morning, he especially told him that he would put a piece of pork into it. At that time, he did not take it seriously and just asked one of the field personnel to watch him put a piece of pork into the refrigerator.
If it was like what Chen Kewen said: This was not a temperature-changing compartment but a freezer compartment, did it mean that his refrigerator could fully meet his requirements?
Cheng Kewen gave a smile. “This is what I want to show. Our freezer compartment is ice-free freezing. If you put meat into it, the meat will not have ice and will keep its complete freshness, and you can use it as an ingredient anytime, but its storage effect is the same as the one an ordinary freezer compartment has. If you guys don’t believe me, I want to ask the field personnel to test it in person and see if this piece of meat is the frozen meat or the cold-storage one.”
