Chapter 697 697. We got married
From the moment Nie Wei opened the Aphone, he only taught Shu Chang some basic operating knowledge, and then let Shu Chang study the phone by himself.
Nie Wei picked up the letter again and continued to read.
The letter was naturally from Apple's current chairman Art, and the content of the letter was not complicated. In addition to stating that the two specially customized Apple phones were a small gift for Nie Wei, he also hoped that Nie Wei could visit his home next time he went to the United States.
It seemed to be a simple greeting letter, but Nie Wei knew that this was Art trying to win him over.
As a multinational company, the composition of Apple Group's shareholders is more complicated, with founders like Steve Jobs, investors like Nie Wei, and even the shadows of many large consortiums.
About 60% of Apple Group is held by investment institutions, and the number of investment institutions holding these shares is as high as nearly 2,500. As for the remaining 40% of individual holdings, the composition is even more complicated.
The complex shareholder composition also caused many factions within the company.
Over the years, Nie Wei has been buying Apple shares. Every year, Nie Wei's Star Investment will allocate a special amount of funds to buy the company's shares, and it has spent about $500 million.
At the moment when the Internet bubble burst, Nie Wei invested a lot of money in Apple, and was also questioned by many people inside. After all, in their view, Apple's products are expensive and niche compared to ordinary IT products, and there is no investment prospect at all.
But Nie Wei still "goes his own way" and insists on buying Apple shares. So far, he has acquired more than 49 million shares of the company, accounting for about 0.97% of Apple's total share capital.
Although Nie Wei's shares are less than 1% of Apple's shares, this 0.97% of the shares is enough for Nie Wei to occupy the top ten of Apple's shareholder list.
As the chairman, Art naturally wants to win over neutral major shareholders like Nie Wei. Even if Nie Wei is not a member of the company's board of directors, it will be a great help to Chairman Art if high-quality investors like Nie Wei can stand on his side at the shareholders' meeting.
Putting down the letter, Nie Wei opened his laptop and prepared to write back to Art. The content was also very simple. He first thanked Art for the gift and said that this mobile phone was a cross-era product that would change the pattern of the entire world mobile phone market. He also said that if he went to the United States next time, he would visit Art's home if he had the chance and taste the American food that his wife was best at.
After writing the letter, Nie Wei sent it directly to Art's private email address through the Internet. When he turned off the computer, he just turned around and found that Shu Chang was still lying on the bed brushing the Apple phone in his hand.
"Is it fun? Hello, hello?"
Shu Chang found that a big hand blocked the line of sight between her and the screen, so she turned her attention from the phone and found that Nie Wei was standing next to her, staring at her with a strange look on his face.
"What's wrong?" Shu Chang asked puzzledly.
"I asked about the phone, is it easy to use?" Nie Wei pointed to the Aphone in Shu Chang's hand and asked with a smile.
When he heard Nie Wei mention the phone, Shu Chang's expression instantly bloomed into a smile, and then excitedly told Nie Wei how magical this phone was.
"Nie Wei, look, this phone doesn't even have number keys."
"And the screen of this phone is so big, and the software inside the phone is different from the phones we use. It's like a small computer."
"Look, it has so many interesting functions. I studied a few of them. Take a look. They're very interesting."
Seeing Shu Chang's "addictive" look, Nie Wei was not surprised at all. After all, this is a cross-era product. Its appearance has even reshuffled the mobile phone market around the world. World-class technology companies like NK have retreated under the attack of this series of products and even gave up the mobile phone market for a while.
Even when Nie Wei got his first smartphone, he couldn't put it down and studied it for a whole day.
Although this phone is not new enough for Nie Wei, Nie Wei did not interrupt Shu Chang. He could see that the girl didn't really want to explain anything to him, but was just expressing her inner surprise about this phone.
After a long time, Shu Chang, who had been sighing for a long time, was not tired, but more interested. She simply handed the phone in her hand to Nie Wei and tried to teach Nie Wei how to operate this phone.
However, after Nie Wei took the phone, he did not turn on the screen of the phone immediately, but turned the phone over.
"Dear, this phone should be given to me. Yours has not been opened yet." Nie Wei pointed the metal shell on the back of the phone towards Shu Chang and said, "Look, my name is engraved here."
As Nie Wei said this, Shu Chang discovered that the back of the metal shell was engraved with Nie Wei's Chinese name. What's interesting is that she had been playing with this phone for almost an hour, but she didn't notice this at all.
Then the two opened another box, and sure enough, the name engraved on the phone in this box was Shu Chang.
Shu Chang liked it so much that he couldn't bear to let go of the phone even when he was holding it in his hand. He even took the phone with him when he went to the toilet. Before he knew it, more than an hour had passed. Seeing that dinner time was approaching, Shu Chang still had no intention of eating. His mind was completely immersed in the smartphone in his hand.
"Dear, don't play with your phone for now. What do you want to eat in the evening?" Nie Wei knew that it was probably impossible to let Shu Chang cook, so he simply took Shu Chang out for a meal.
"Whatever, whatever, anything is fine." Shu Chang replied perfunctorily, without even raising his head during the process. Nie Wei just smiled helplessly. It seemed that he would fall out of favor with Shu Chang for a while.
In two days, Shu Chang was really obsessed with the phone. The first thing he did when he woke up in the morning was to turn on the phone, and then he would carry it around all day. He accidentally dropped it in the middle, which made Shu Chang very nervous. When he picked up the phone to check it, it was as if he was checking his beloved baby.
During this time, Nie Wei was completely immersed in housework. He had to be the cat's poop shoveler, clean the room, and even remind Shu Chang to eat on time.
After two days of such days, Nie Wei felt a little bit unbearable. That night, he had a serious talk with Shu Chang and agreed on the time limit for using the mobile phone every day. This made Shu Chang calm down a little, and his life gradually returned to the way it was before.
However, Nie Wei did see the charm of smartphones, especially when Shu Chang brought this phone to the company and was accidentally discovered by Fan Binbin who passed by. Soon she developed another smartphone addict user.
And who is Fan Binbin? Huayi Little Trumpet. After playing with the smartphone for a day, she couldn't help showing off to the sisters who had dinner that night. Soon the whole company knew that Shu Chang had a super powerful mobile phone, which was very cool in appearance and had functions as cool as the future computers in American blockbusters.
Recently, whenever Shu Chang came to the company, she always felt that someone was staring at her bag. If she wasn't in the company, Shu Chang would have thought she was being targeted by a thief.
A week passed unknowingly, and Shu Chang had already sobered up from her initial addiction to smartphones. Even if Nie Wei no longer confiscated her phone, she would not be inseparable from the phone like she did in the first two days. Just when Nie Wei was feeling that his days could finally return to peace, he was harassed by someone.
The one who was so shameless and courageous to harass Nie Wei was none other than Mr. Ma Dong, CEO of Fanxing Entertainment.
Nie Wei originally thought that he was here to invite him to participate in "Infinite Challenge", but after meeting Ma Dong, Nie Wei realized that this guy actually came to him to guest star in the company's new variety show "We Got Married".
"Lin Shishi and Brother Hu are going to hold a warm-up party. I think you, as the female representative, will definitely cause a lot of discussion if you guest star. And it doesn't take long. One hour is enough. I promise it will be just one hour." Ma Dong pleaded.
"You actually brought the two of them together." Nie Wei was immediately happy when he heard this combination.
"What's wrong? They have a strong sense of CP. When filming the third season of The Legend of Sword and Fairy, I wonder how many viewers hoped that Long Kui and Jing Tian could be together." Ma Dong explained the reason. It felt like the reason why they chose these two together was because of the popular Legend of Sword and Fairy III.
However, Nie Wei was very curious about why Ma Dong came to find him to participate in a warm-up banquet for a variety show. Was it necessary to bother him? He was not such a person without good taste.
Hearing Nie Wei's inquiry, Ma Dong smiled bitterly and explained the reason.
Because this new show chooses some single celebrity idols to do it, they are not professional variety show people, so the effect is not so good when doing it, and sometimes it even seems a bit embarrassing. Therefore, this show has been watched by countless people since it was first broadcast for about three episodes, and the Internet has been full of complaints.
The ratings also started high and went low, which made Ma Dong anxious. It happened that Nie Wei returned to Kyoto at this time, and he seemed to have free time. He immediately thought of this savior and wanted to rely on Nie Wei's appearance to save a wave of popularity.
"Okay." Faced with Ma Dong's plea, Nie Wei couldn't refuse. After all, this was a variety show produced by his own company. As the boss, Nie Wei had to help even if he didn't want to. After all, this was a matter of concern to his own actual interests.
Seeing Nie Wei agreed, Ma Dong was very happy, but he still reminded Nie Wei: "It's best to record it within this week. After all, our inventory is only enough to broadcast one more episode. The content of the warm-house banquet must be filmed within this week. We also need editing and post-production, which all takes time."
"Okay, okay, call me tomorrow." Nie Wei waved his hand impatiently and finalized the time for the performance.
Ma Dong left happily. At this moment, he was happy from the bottom of his heart that his boss was Nie Wei. Although such a big star could not appear on the show regularly, Nie Wei had no reason to refuse when he needed to be in an emergency.
After confirming Nie Wei, Ma Dong immediately notified Lin Shishi and told her that Nie Wei would appear at her and Brother Hu's warm-house banquet as a friend of the girl.
"Are you saying that Brother Nie Wei is coming to attend my warm-house party?" Lin Shishi couldn't believe the news after hearing it on the phone and asked for confirmation repeatedly.
"Yes, yes, you heard it right, it's Nie Wei. Okay, remember to keep this a secret, don't tell your agent, only you and I know." Ma Dong reminded him. The most important thing about reality shows is acting. Ma Dong invited Nie Wei, and the first scene he expected was everyone's surprise when Nie Wei appeared. I believe it must be very exciting to shoot, and it is worth the audience's heated discussion.
But if everyone knew in advance that Nie Wei would appear, then when Nie Wei appeared, even if everyone acted well, it would not be as funny and real as the natural reaction, which would obviously be deducted by the audience.
Ma Dong's reality shows over the years are not in vain, and he already knows how to do many effects to achieve the best results.
Unknowingly, a day passed, and after Lin Shishi finished filming in the morning, she went directly to the small house where she and Brother Hu had just moved in.
When Lin Shishi arrived, Brother Hu had been in there for an hour, and he was so idle that grass was growing on his head. When he saw Lin Shishi enter the house, he immediately smiled brightly, because he was happy that someone could finally chat with him to relieve his boredom.
After saying hello, Brother Hu talked a lot, but found that Lin Shishi did not reply to him immediately as usual, or even chat with him enthusiastically. Instead, she just responded to him perfunctorily for a few words, and then acted absent-minded.
"What's wrong? What's on your mind?" Brother Hu asked with concern. Apart from the problem of partners in the show, the two of them were also very good friends in private.
Lin Shishi, who was asked, finally came back to her senses. Facing Brother Hu's concerned eyes, she was about to say her troubles, but she thought of Ma Dong's instructions yesterday, and the words came to her lips and swallowed back into her stomach.
"It's okay, I'm worrying about what to do for the Wenju Banquet in the evening." Lin Shishi made an excuse casually, but as soon as she finished speaking, the distress on her face became more serious, because she suddenly thought of a piece of news she learned when chatting with her good sisters on weekdays, that is, Nie Wei's mouth is very picky and he likes to eat delicious food.
This made Lin Shishi distressed. Neither she nor Brother Hu beside her seemed to have lit up the skill of cooking.
On the other hand, Brother Hu, who knew nothing, put on a helpless expression after hearing what Lin Shishi said, and even suggested to just order two KCF family buckets, which was very convenient. However, as soon as this suggestion came out, Lin Shishi rolled her eyes.
"Forget it, don't worry about it, let's go to the vegetable market first, and when we see the ingredients, we can think of what to make." The two discussed for a long time, and finally Brother Hu decided to go to the vegetable market first.
Thanks to Fantasy Paradise, Fridrik for the generous reward.