Reborn 92's Business Tycoon

Chapter 491: Chapter 491: Many twists and turns

This lady is really unprofessional. The topic of the interview had already been decided over the phone. At the beginning, she spent so much time setting the scene and digressed so far that the questions she asked had nothing to do with the design company at all.

Feng Yiping suddenly felt like he was back in the past, or to be precise, the past of his previous life. As he prepared to go home for the Chinese New Year, he was asked by his relatives and neighbours, one after the other, with beaming smiles and expressions of concern, 'How much is your salary? How much have you saved? Have you got a girlfriend yet?...'

No, it should be even more than that. Asking this question is like asking you, with your girlfriend, how far have you gone, how many bases have you reached? This is a more personal question.

However, although most businessmen have a sin of origin, and their first pot of gold is even more shrouded in layers of mystery, if an ordinary person mentions this to them, they will definitely be treading on the cat's tail, and they will immediately become on their guard. When they have to talk about it, they are often also vague.

However, Feng Yiping does not have any problems in this regard at all.

However, he still felt uncomfortable. Apart from a limited number of people who probably knew about his path to success, most people were unaware of it and didn't care.

This senior student, on their first meeting, asked such a blunt and pointed question. It wasn't inappropriate, but just like the proposals Feng Yiping had discussed with the Academy of Fine Arts yesterday, if Xiang Xiaofang was now a reporter for Time Weekly and was doing an exclusive interview with Feng Yiping, he wouldn't mind reviewing it, but you're just a reporter for a newspaper distributed within the school, it really doesn't carry much weight.

'First of all, this is considered my privacy, and secondly, it has nothing to do with the topic of today's interview, so I don't want to answer this question for the time being.'

'Oh, Yiping, we are just school reporters, not the relevant departments. We really don't mean anything by it, we are just curious. In that kind of environment, how did your family grow and develop to the point it is now in just a few years? We hope to use your experience to provide some reference for other students,' Xiang Xiaofang said with a smile.

This is not a matter of whether they can have a pleasant chat. Feng Yiping looked at Xiang Xiaofang, who thought she had grasped the main point. This girl really doesn't know how to talk. Could it be that she got into the school newspaper just because of her looks?

'You're thinking too much. So what if you're from the relevant department?' Feng Yiping shook his head. 'Forget it, it's not that I don't want to talk about it, it's just that once this question is asked, it will lead to a series of questions. But I don't want to be treated like a celebrity. I just want to quietly finish my studies and steadily run my own company.'

If he told the school newspaper now that the dozens of classic songs were his work and that the reality TV show that was currently all the rage in Europe and America was also his copyright, entertainment newspapers would surely follow suit.

He didn't mind publicity from entertainment newspapers; in fact, as long as it wasn't groundless speculation, he welcomed it. It wasn't a bad thing to be on the entertainment page of the business world, and generally speaking, the audience for the entertainment page was the largest.

However, the timing is very important, and the next move cannot be disrupted because of a report in the school newspaper.

Hearing this, Xiang Xiaofang was very excited. 'Why is it that just because you said this, everyone treats you like a star? I don't understand. Can you explain in more detail? We just need to understand, and it won't be published. Please trust my professional ethics,'

Trust the professional ethics of a female reporter? Feng Yiping decisively shook his head.

'We are really puzzled. If it were in a place like the capital, that would be fine, but your hometown is such a remote and impoverished rural area, how did you get started?' Xiang Xiaofang continued to pursue the matter relentlessly.

Her question was quite biased, and coupled with the previous mention of the relevant departments, so Zhao Heng hurriedly explained, 'Yiping, don't get the wrong idea, Xiaofang is just curious, nothing more,'

Feng Yiping laughed, 'Senior, can I understand it this way: Your focus is not on how I started, but on why a poor rural child could achieve so much today, right! If I were also born into a wealthy family in a big city, you wouldn't be so curious, is that what you mean?

So you think that in a national-level poverty-stricken county like ours, everyone should be poor and there can't be any decent businesses? Decent businesses are all established through unscrupulous means, right? Like father, like son, and the child of a rat should dig a hole, right?

No recording!'

He turned off the recorder in front of him, threw it on the coffee table with a 'pop', and didn't even look at Xiao Fang. 'Sorry, I'm busy right now. I'll have someone take you two back to school,'

How could a girl who looks so bright and beautiful and is so easy to like be such a person? Just because her family is well-off, does that mean she can look down on people from poor backgrounds?

'No, Yiping,' Zhao Heng hurriedly stepped in to smooth things over, 'Xiaofang didn't express herself correctly. What she meant to say was that because of the environment you grew up in, you have been able to achieve so much today, and you must have worked even harder, right Xiaofang?'

Xiang Xiaofang was a little confused now. Relying on the authority of the school newspaper and her own talent—she didn't think it was because of her beauty—every interview in the past could be said to be unstoppable. But today, the task personally handed down by the president, she didn't seem to have said anything. This little junior who looked gentle and warm like jade, why was he so uncooperative?

Jin Ling was holding a folder and didn't look up until she reached the door. Seeing that the atmosphere in the room was a little strange, she didn't bother to come in. 'Yiping, come here for a second,'

Feng Yiping patted Zhao Heng on the shoulder and walked quickly out of the room. 'What's the matter?'

Jin Ling pouted towards the inside and said, 'What's going on?'

'Nothing,' Feng Yiping leaned against the wall, 'What's going on with you?'

'Sato Convenience received the first batch of goods and was very satisfied. However, they want to conduct a site visit, mainly to our planting environment.'

"Site visit, this is the rhythm of their long-term cooperation. I guess the next batch of orders will also be larger. I am more than happy to make money from the Japanese, so of course they are welcome. You inform them of the arrangements, and I will also let my parents know,'

Zhao Heng was also working hard on Xiang Xiaofang inside. 'This task was personally assigned to me by the president. He also made it clear, and yesterday we and Ippei also confirmed, that it is to interview him around the design company he wants to set up in the science and technology park. I know you are very interested in his entrepreneurial experience, but this is not the focus of our interview this time. Take your time, there will be plenty of time and opportunities in the future.

I think let's do it this way, next time I'll do the interview and you suffer a bit?'

Xiang Xiaofang didn't really listen to Zhao Heng's words. Out of anger, she pricked up her ears and listened to the conversation between the two men outside. 'No, I'll do it myself,'

This was a girl who thought highly of herself but couldn't accept failure. However, she took to heart one of the things Zhao Heng said, 'There's plenty of time and opportunity in the future,'

She turned her back, rubbed her hands on her face a few times, and when Feng Yiping came in, she had already changed her face, smiling lightly, 'I'm sorry, Yiping, the previous interviews were all about my personal problems. I really admire you for being able to make such a career, which is no less than the several senior students who are currently taking a break from school to start a business. I just really had trouble expressing myself, and I apologize! I also hope that you can give us another chance,'

She even wanted to bow. Feng Yiping quickly stopped her, 'No, it's not worth it,'

To be fair, he is also a bit of a womaniser. But then, most men are like that, they are always extra tolerant of pretty girls. If Xiang Xiaofang looked like Furong or Feng Jie, no matter how sincere her attitude was, the interview would never have gone ahead.

Everyone sat down again and finally got to the intended topic. This time, Xiang Xiaofang did not want to be like the previous disciplinary cadre, but instead asked Feng Yiping softly about his original intention and plans for setting up the design company.

'My original intention was, of course, to rely on the human and scientific research resources of the university to design some groundbreaking products. In the short term, our focus is on solving the problem of short-distance transportation, such as commuting within the university. Neither everyone's bicycles nor the school bus are the perfect solution.

As for the medium and long term, we will focus on the home and expand to clothing, food, housing and transportation. Isn't it about smart technology? We hope to create an intelligent ecosystem by then. Therefore, we sincerely welcome people of insight to join us,'

'So, what do you think of design?' Although she was still smiling, Xiang Xiaofang's question was a bit tricky. She didn't really understand anything about smart technology or ecosystems, and Feng Yiping had just been very rude, so she wanted to take the opportunity to gauge his level.

What's so difficult about it? Feng Yiping later read a quote from the master Qiao Jiao, which he took to heart, 'The vast majority of people mistakenly believe that design is just about appearance, about embroidering pillows. For example, if you give a designer a box and then ask them to make it look pretty, that's not what we mean by design.

Design is not just about looking good and feeling good, more importantly, it's about making things easy for people to use!'

...

When the article was being compiled at the university, Zhao Heng said, 'What do you think? If you had just asked me this question in the first place, nothing would have happened!'

Xiang Xiaofang didn't say anything, but she was determined. If you don't say anything, I'll dig it up anyway.

As for Feng Yiping, he wasn't worried at all that Xiang Xiaofang would write something bad about him in the school newspaper. He joked, 'This is the school newspaper. We interviewed him to set a positive example. How could we publish anything bad about him?'