Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
Of course, though she thought so in her heart, she couldn’t say it loud. Thus, Mu Yuxi could only blush and say towards the computer screen, “Everything is fine, thank you for your concern.”
“Oh, that’s good, that’s good.” Old Elder spoke with earnestness. “Yuxi, learn well and remember to write more diaries and notes. When you’re free in the future, take them out and go through them. I believe it will serve as a very big inspiration for you.”
Mu Yuxi was on the verge of crying. A diary of squandering—in the future if her children were to know about this thing, that would totally ruin her image!
She hurriedly nodded. “OK, Old Elder. I understand…”
As she spoke, Mu Yuxi’s voice eventually faltered completely…
“Cough, cough.” Hong Tu coughed a few times and slowly said, “En, then let’s start talking about serious business. Xiaoyi, tell us first. Has Dali come up with any new ideas again? That child always has a mind of his own. I have lots of faith in him!”
Ling Xiaoyi forced herself not to laugh as she nodded and said, “I’ve come today mainly because I wanted to talk to Master and Old Elder about matters related to Zhong Dian website. Young Master’s idea is also related to this.”
“Zhong Dian website?” Hong Weiguo touched his chin. “You’re talking about that website that Dali had randomly started up? En, it has merged with Turkey Bookstore now, right? Speaking of which, after the merger, I’ve heard that the number of visits to the bookstore has increased by quite a lot.”
“Yes.” Ling Xiaoyi nodded. “Zhong Dian website has fully merged with Turkey Bookstore in these few days. At the moment, the e-library has already completely opened up, and the daily IP site traffic has increased to 1.5 million.”
“So much?” Hong Weiguo touched his chin. “You’re thinking of getting me to open a separate online novel zone on Sangle Search? En, that’s a good idea. Indeed, it’s time for me to promote this Zhong Dian website properly…”
Initially, what he said made sense. If Zhong Dian website were to be promoted greatly on Sangle Search, the IP site traffic would most probably enjoy a huge boost once again. After all, the combination of the two largest local online novel websites at the present moment created a huge momentum, as if they were going to rule the world. At this point in time, with a good amount of promotion and advertising, the effect would definitely be huge.
However, unexpectedly, what Ling Xiaoyi intended to talk about was not this. “Master, Young Master said that though it’s very good that Sangle can carry out advertisements, what he means is not only carrying out advertisements on Sangle…” Anyway, there weren’t any disadvantages to doing some advertisement on Sangle. Ling Xiaoyi might as well conveniently admit to that!
“En? Not only advertising on Sangle?” Hong Weiguo was a little confused now. “Then explain, what Dali actually intends to do?”
“En… This matter…” Ling Xiaoyi thought for a while and requested. “I think I’d better ask Young Master to explain it personally. I can’t explain it clearly.”
“Alright, ask him to come and explain.” Hong Weiguo agreed.
Very soon, Hong Dali entered the small conference room. Once he saw the video conference on the laptop, he was instantly excited. “Dad, Big Grandfather, you’re using this now to have meetings? That’s rather trendy…”
“Little rascal, stop talking rubbish!” Hong Weiguo chided. “You said you have a good idea regarding Zhong Dian website, what exactly is this idea? Quickly tell us!”
“Oh, sure!” Normally, Hong Dali would be too lazy to care about things going on here, but since his own dad had asked him about it, he naturally had to say it. “I was just thinking that using smartphones to read novels is a little too inconvenient…”
“Smartphones?” Hong Weiguo mumbled for a while and suddenly, his eyes lit up. “Dali, you’re saying that you want to develop a mobile phone for reading?”
“More or less.” Hong Dali nodded. “I’m thinking of making a reading app to let those that love reading download it, and after which they can read books on this app. This would be more convenient and fast, and they won’t need to key in the website address every single time. Most importantly, it’s too slow to key in the website address to read books, and moreover, people get impatient and frustrated with the speed of the website loading!” If even this perfect assembled smartphone was slow, it was needless to talk about the phones of others.
Lazy people could indeed change the world. Hong Dali’s every new idea was inspired by his desire on how to save time and enable him to enjoy things better…
“Phone app…” This was a new term. Hong Weiguo had previously only known about opening the search engine in the smartphone and, after keying in the website address of the novel website, the main page of the novel site would appear. But this was the first time he had heard of this smartphone reading app. Thus, he instantly asked, “You have to explain in detail how it works. Just listening to you talking about that so-called smartphone reading app, I’m not sure what kind of programming that is.”
“Actually, it’s a very simple integrated programming.” Hong Dali straightened out his thoughts and said, “It’s like software installed in a smartphone. One click will allow you to enter the e-library. Then, you can find recommendation slots and search for the keywords and so on to find the books. The main thing is that this can save a lot of site data because most of the site traffic will be replaced by the application which can be acquired just by downloading it. With that, only the book covers and words would use up the data in the midst of users searching for books.”
What he’d described was exactly the advantage of the smartphone reading app in his previous life.
Because the smartphone reading app combined a large portion of the data required from downloads into this app, it was enough to download it just once. With that, only the downloading of the book covers, the sypnosis and so on would be needed when the users searched for books.
However, the webpage was different. Many things required repeated downloading. To put it simply, the same thing needed to be downloaded over and over again for each webpage that was opened. It was rather troublesome.
As expected, everyone present was an elite. Once Hong Weiguo heard what Hong Dali said, he understood the advantages of this app and directly agreed. “En, this idea is good. It’ll be more convenient to read books like that! I’ll go back and get some technicians to develop a program! Oh, right. Dali, a link has to be created between this thing and the main database at Zhong Dian website, right? If not, the aspect of carrying out the payment for reading the books will not be synchronized. And if the readers have to pay double the amount of money, they’ll surely complain.”
“En, it has to be synchronized.” Hong Dali grinned. “I don’t want to spend the money back and forth as well, it’s troublesome.” After he said that, Hong Dali added, “Oh, right. Dad, remember to install all the links to the rewards, recommendation tickets, monthly tickets and so on, it’ll be convenient to give rewards this way.”
“This little prodigal.” Hong Weiguo laughed heartily. “Alright, I’ll talk to the technical department. You can go and play first.”
“OK, then I’ll go now.” As he spoke, Hong Dali left the conference room.
After Hong Dali had left, Old Elder Hong Tu started to earnestly lecture Mu Yuxi again. “Yuxi, do you see that? That child Dali has creativity. This age is the age where creativity is king, you need creativity in anything you do. Solely sticking by the books won’t do.”
Mu Yuxi was despondent.
After all, she was the number one genius among the younger generation in the family. How did she turn into a bad example now?
It’s not that I’m not hardworking, it’s just that the other party is too skilled in squandering!
Mu Yuxi’s head had almost dropped down to her chest. “Old Elder, I understand. What you said is right…”
By then, Hong Weiguo could not bear to watch any longer. “Dad, Yuxi is already very outstanding. You can’t compare Dali with her. Any kind of ability has to kneel down in the face of Dali’s luck. What Yuxi lacks is just luck, things can’t be forced.”
“En, that’s true.” Hong Tu stroked his mustache. “Then tell me, are there any ways to improve Yuxi’s luck? This child has the ability, she just lacks opportunities…”
Hong Weiguo thought for a while and said with a serious face, “Follow Dali. I realized that those that follow Dali have all become rather lucky as well.”
Mu Yuxi was even more despondent…
“En, alright. Let’s not continue on this topic.” Hong Tu stroked his mustache and thought for a while, then suddenly said, “Oh right, Weiguo, the subsequent events regarding that piece of land, have you looked into that? What exactly is the matter?”
“The one from Tianjing City to West Fourth Loop?” Hong Weiguo slowly said, “At the moment, I’m not sure about what the authorities intend to do. However, I can feel that they don’t mean ill. To put it simply, Dali’s luck has already alerted the authorities, and what they suggest is that we just let Dali spend money. Anyway, there won’t be losses suffered. Which is good now. With this strong backup, I reckon nobody in Tianjing City who know Dali will dare to touch him. This little rascal is like a demonic king now, probably no one would dare to interfere with his matters no matter how insolently he behaves in Tianjing City.”
“He’s still unaware of this himself?” Hong Tu smiled. “I see that he’s keeping a rather low profile. Other than randomly squandering and wasting money, it looks like he has never caused any trouble.”
What Hong Tu said was the truth. Speaking of which, Hong Dali truly kept a rather low profile usually.
Did he go out and show off? No. Did he go mess with and insult those foolish second-generation riches? Nope.
Even towards the arrogant Hollywood, Hong Dali had never initiated an attack against them. Of course, now Hollywood’s face would have been smacked till it was swollen, but the problem was that it really wasn’t Hong Dali who had done it…
This fellow had never shown off or humiliated himself. He’d all along played with his own things, and a more common way to describe it was that this little rascal was just playful—he’d unknowingly be naughty for a while, then the impact would often be unbearable for the entire world.
At least, Hong Weiguo knew that, currently, Hollywood had already treated Hong Dali as their number one enemy. Hong Dali himself was still unaware of this. He’d probably gone to play with other things now and didn’t treat Hollywood as an opponent at all. For example, this so-called smartphone reading app that he’d come up with today didn’t seem like something meant to go against Hollywood.
“This little rascal, let him play with things by himself.” Hong Weiguo helplessly shrugged. “Anyway, I can’t control him. Currently, what I can do is to ensure that he has enough money to spend. But I heard that those things he’d started up recently have already earned quite a lot of money for him. I’d have to ask Xiaoyi about the exact amount earned.” Speaking up to this point, Hong Weiguo looked at Ling Xiaoyi, and his expression was full of contentment in seeing that his son had become accomplished. “Xiaoyi, how much money is there in Dali’s account currently? I don’t know, why don’t you tell us?”
