Chapter 378 "Fairy Tale"

Wang Xu rarely wore a suit. He originally wanted to wear Hanfu, but after thinking about it, he decided not to. In the Chinese tradition, engagement has nothing to do with the newlyweds. Engagement is arranged by parents and matchmakers. Unless it is elopement, there is no so-called engagement ceremony.

Since they are all imported, it is better to wear a suit, otherwise it will always feel a bit out of place.

For this engagement, Wang Xu actually wanted to get the two families together and then settle the matter. When Wang Xu is really old enough, he will register for the matter. This kind of engagement is actually a stopgap for many young couples to get married in the 1990s.

Young couples who are not old enough want to get married, just hold such a ceremony to show that the two are a couple, and announce it to all relatives and friends very formally, and the couple will generally live together legitimately.

At that time, the law still protects such de facto marriages. Later, as society developed, the Civil Code removed the protection of such de facto marriages.

Wang Xu knew nothing about legal matters, and he was even less clear about the pros and cons of canceling the protection of de facto marriages. But since it still existed, he might as well use it.

But the problem was that Wang Xu's social circle was too large. Just the relationship of teacher and senior could involve a large group of people. Then Wang Jinghua knew about this matter, so how could he be free?

So, in the end, it became such a large scale. The number of people who came was more than 100, and 200 was not impossible.

But the good thing was that there was no need to bring gifts for engagement, and guests had to be treated. Only wealthy families like Wang Xu dared to do this.

Starting in the afternoon, guests came and left one after another. Most of them just said congratulations and left. Some would write calligraphy and paintings to show their appreciation. Those who didn't want to go empty-handed usually brought some cigarettes and alcohol as a token of appreciation.

Of course, this kind of appreciation was generally not cheap. Zhonghua cigarettes were now sold for 40, which was not much cheaper than 20 years later. Liquors such as Moutai and Wuliangye cost at least several hundred to buy. The key point was that even if you had money now, you might not be able to buy them.

When Wang Xu wanted to drink, he asked Director Jiang to find a connection to buy it, otherwise it would not be available on the market. At this time, the wineries have either not been restructured or are in the process of restructuring, and it is extremely difficult to find genuine original wine.

Most of the wines on the market are from branch factories, or even produced by nearby wineries under the name of the winery.

Like Lao Cui, Compass, Jiang Wen, Jiang Wu, Leng Jun and others, as well as the brothers in the dormitory, as friends of Wang Xu, they came early to help entertain guests in their respective fields at the bar.

The women are generally Wang Fei's girlfriends. If they are not, they will be quickly recruited, such as Tian Zhen.

Those who can come in the first wave are all close friends. Wang Fei is quite good at dealing with friends. She can get along well with most people, especially in this life, her status is already transcendent, which is not comparable to those who are still struggling to climb up.

But she became famous too quickly, and her mentality is not so high-handed to look down on everything, so her girlfriends group seems particularly stable and active.

Now, their activity room has occupied most of the corridor. In the past, Wang Jinghua and his office have moved to the new building. On the third floor of the old building, except for the residences of Wang Xu and Wang Xu's mother at both ends, the rest can be tossed around as much as you want.

There are all kinds of entertainment facilities inside, even the karaoke newly created by Wang Xu, and even sports equipment such as billiards and table tennis. In short, it can ensure that these girls can eat, drink and have fun.

The men who are willing to stay and play basically go to the bar. Lao Cui and others are responsible for the reception. Wang Xu and Wang Fei are actually very idle. Wang Fei feels bored, so she goes to hang out with her girlfriends.

Wang Xu drinks and chats in the bar, occasionally exchanging a few words with those who come to congratulate him, and then arranges them to drink and have fun, or go to the karaoke box to sing.

Karaoke has not yet become popular in China. The main reason is that the current karaoke uses eight-inch optical discs, which can only store a few songs. It is expensive and slow. The rise of karaoke in the future is brought about by the medium of VCD.

However, in this life, Wang Xu has open sourced the first, second, third and fourth versions of Mpeg. These are actually just algorithms, and there is no way to apply for patents. Wang Xu simply open sourced them on GIT. Now there are many computer applications that can read and write MPEG format.

Then he announced a task to design a decoding chip. It is estimated that the first generation of chips will be available next year, and then we will see the scene of VCD flying all over the sky like in the previous life.

Although this thing is not high in technology content, the industry is huge. In the previous life, it was a thing invented by China, but it was just an idea. The chip was from China, and the movement was from Xiaozi and Europe, so the majority of the profits were still in the West.

Wang Xu has been promoting the technological iteration of domestic chip processing in this life. Various chip demands are emerging one after another. In fact, there are many companies specializing in chip processing in China. The chip foundry model was not invented by Zhang Zhongmou, but he promoted it.

Before him, there were many private enterprises engaged in chip foundry in China. At this time, they imported ten-micron processing equipment from small businesses, which was not expensive, and then foundry some basic chips, and lived a colorful life.

Later, as the chip manufacturing process became more and more advanced, the funds and technologies required to be invested became larger and larger, and those small enterprises gradually could not hold on, and they sold their factories and ran away.

Wang Xu's suggestion is to attract talents from the United States to return to China to establish chip processing enterprises, and the country will provide support, but the intensity does not need to be too great. In the past, the country always focused on those leading enterprises, and then fought with them for a long time, but in the end nothing came of it.

Wang Xu felt that it would be better to take advantage of the current backward process and low total cost to support more chip processing enterprises. After the competition, they will naturally have some strong technical accumulation, and then invest or finance them to grow up, and they may not be able to become real chip foundry giants in the future.

You have to talk about methods to exchange market for technology, otherwise it will be like the automobile industry, which has only made money for decades but has not exchanged any technology.

Wang Xu does not want to get involved in the automobile industry, and he has to leave some meat for foreign companies, otherwise he will really become a lone eater. In addition to various tangled interest relationships, the automobile industry in the future may not have left a good partner model for China.

If it is really like the later communication companies, one will die if one comes in, and who dares to bring technology in the future will have to ban sales and transportation early.

It is the automobile industry that has made a lot of money in China that has allowed so many people to live a simple life. Hans country companies have flocked to China. China has always been at the forefront of the world in utilizing foreign capital in those years. Making people make money is the biggest advertisement.

You see the various operations of the Indians in the future, which make companies run faster than one another. If you want to rise, you have to rely on yourself. Whether others transfer or not is more of a legal matter. Whether you can learn it is a technical matter.

The rise of the great China is based on copying other people's technology. There is nothing to be embarrassed about. Later, they worked hard, but they did it at the beginning.

Is there a market in China? Of course there is. Let's not talk about anything else. With the VCD and subsequent DVD markets, there are hundreds of millions of chips every year. These are not high-process CPUs. Five-micron and ten-micron technologies are enough to cope with them.

In addition to various new digital products, CPUs, GPUs, north and south bridges, control circuits, etc. in computer products, from low-end to high-end, China's market is really very large, enough to support several enterprising chip foundry companies.

Encourage these enterprises to use domestic processing equipment, provide loans or even free of charge, and then quickly iterate and improve, eventually form a closed loop, and complete the construction of the industrial chain.

This is a big picture and a big idea. Wang Xu can't grasp it well. He just talked to Director Jiang. He always feels that it is good to introduce key enterprises, but there is really no need to give them face, especially the enterprises in Taiwan, one is chips and the other is petrochemicals, which have cheated Huaxia a lot.

Losing money is secondary. The key is to waste a lot of time and miss the window of development.

Huaxia is not friendly to overseas entrepreneurs. The main reason is that Huaxia is still groping for everything at this time. Seeing that others have good things, they want to take them home, and they can't help but look at big factories and big capital.

But in fact, many times, big capital does not necessarily have good technology. On the contrary, many companies that are still very weak at this time just lack a good development opportunity. Giving him this opportunity is even more effective than large-scale investment.

For the vast entire economic system, Wang Xu can do very little, but for the electronic automation industry, he seems to be able to do a lot. He can already feel the role of his butterfly, and sometimes even inadvertently, he can see some surprising changes.

For example, the ugly Chinese who came to congratulate today came to Shuimu University for technical exchanges, which was purely civilian, because they were not even teachers at a certain university.

They were attracted by GIT. They successfully used GIT's open source products to build a multimedia 3D modeling tool software, but did not choose to continue to open source. Instead, they chose to become a commercial product and pay patent fees to the GIT fund pool.

In just one year, they have become a 3D modeling software product that is on par with AutoDesk in the Western market. Because their development costs are low, their prices are much lower than those of their competitors, and they are especially popular among small and medium-sized design companies.

Their kernel uses the open source version on GIT, and their own energy is focused on how to build a more friendly and convenient communication interface for users, which has formed a particularly simple and easy-to-use software product.

And this time they came to Shuimu, mainly hoping to get more support, and some of the defects and improvement requirements they submitted, hoping to get a faster response.

Of course, they also brought checks. This is a group of young people who know the rules. Wang Xu naturally gave them some preferential treatment, agreed to their requests, and invited them to establish a research and development center in the capital, close to the center of open source.

But that was the end of it. They were not friends, so I did not inform them of my engagement.

Who knew that when these people heard that the technical god of GIT was engaged, they immediately ran to celebrate, without caring whether they had received an invitation or not.

Well, they are guests. Anyway, there are more than a few people who came uninvited. I just don’t know how they can integrate into the club without understanding Chinese.

But seeing them happily drinking with a group of rock musicians, it seems that it is not that difficult.

Since the afternoon, the bar has never been quiet. Most of the people who come are artists, so when they are interested, they will naturally go up to sing a song. Several rock bands have appeared, such as Compass, Tang Dynasty, Lao Cui, Zhang Chu, and Black Panther.

Yes, the Black Panther is here too, and they actually dared to come to their ex-girlfriend's engagement ceremony without causing any trouble. This is actually normal, after all, it's just a boyfriend and girlfriend breaking up.

It's not a life-or-death feud, and there were no bad words when they broke up. Moreover, it was Luan Shu who brought it up first. No matter whether it was an angry comment or not, if you say it, you have to admit it when they leave.

In fact, this kind of thing means that young people feel awkward. Time will smooth everything out, and rock singers are no exception.

If you look away, you will get over it. If you look away, you will never get over it.

Luan Shu's current girlfriend is an actress. She is quite beautiful. Her name is Yongmei. She is the same person as Wang Xu's wife in his previous life. The two of them are living a good life and are back on track.

He solved it there. There was no reason for Black Panther to be at odds with Wang Xu and his wife forever. They were signed by a company in Xiangjiang, and Wang Fei's connections there were very useful to them. This was a mainlander in Xiangjiang. The biggest brand, there is no reason to leave such a big backer unused.

We are all adults, so there are so many things that can be done for free.

Musicians gather here and others listen to concerts here. There are all kinds of songs, from popular songs to rock and roll. It's a hodgepodge.

Wang Xu likes this kind of carefree party very much. Although there is a theme, there are not many restrictions. Everyone can just have fun on their own.

It wasn't until the evening that the ceremony officially started. After Zhou Tao took the microphone, he came up and praised the two couples.

It made Wang Xu a little embarrassed. Well, that's strange. This kind of scene is trivial. He is now so thick-skinned that even if you praise him to the sky, he won't be ashamed.

This is the essence of an old youtiao. Don't be happy with things, don't be sad with yourself, just basic operations. Well, he won't tell others about the secret happiness in his heart.

Most of the people here have some relationship with Wang Xu, but generally they don't know much about them. This time they list their various achievements like this. Good guy, this is really a well-hidden god.

Especially a few Ugly people. Their understanding of Wang Xu was limited to the identity of the GIT master. They had no idea that this extremely young master was actually a literary genius.

This suddenly hit the dull hearts of these Geeks. Thanks to their cleverness, they came with a translator, but the translator could not translate all the content to them so quickly, so they only roughly translated it.

Then a few people very excitedly began to ask people around about Wang Xu's deeds, and then translated it to them.

Well, no one knows how much these people understood, but they all enthusiastically introduced this magical couple to them.

Not only did he introduce Zhou Tao, but he also talked about a lot of gossip in the market. For example, Wang Xu was a master, a very high master, and he defeated more than thirty leaders with his bare hands.

Then they understood that those who brought guys had guns. Well, more than thirty gunmen were taken care of by Wang Xu alone. Rambo, Predator, well, pretty much the same.

The origin of rumors is actually that simple sometimes.

Wang Xu was wearing a crisp black suit, a light blue shirt, and a Suzhou embroidered silk tie, red, with dark patterns like mandarin ducks playing in the water.

Wang Fei is wearing an ivory white backless long dress, also made of Su embroidery, with faint cloud patterns. There is only a red bow tied with a red silk scarf on the shoulder, which looks elegant and grand.

Zhou Tao directed the two of them to stand still, and then invited the parents of both parties to come up. This procedure was agreed in advance, but it was actually very simple. Zhou Tao asked the parents of both parties, do you agree with this marriage?

Agree, of course I have to agree. Wang Xu's father solemnly presented a betrothal gift, a big box.

Inside is a set of gold jewelry, bracelets, rings, necklaces, walking sticks, and hairpins, as well as some tea, cakes, dried meat, etc., totaling nine items, which is the traditional betrothal gift.

Wang Xu's mother took out an emerald green bracelet. Well, this was not bought. Wang Xu’s family was not that wealthy before, so it was not passed down from ancestors.

But Wang Xu found the original stone and dug out the bracelet himself. It is considered a decent thing, but from now on, it can be passed down.

This is Wang Xu's craftsmanship, using the natural color of jade to carve a pattern of a dragon and a phoenix, which is quite eye-catching.

The return gift from Wang Fei's parents was a pair of auspicious clothes for the two of them. They ordered them from Tang Yun at Wang Chao, but they spent a lot of money.

After the parents walked off the stage, the marriage of the young couple was finalized. When Wang Xu is old enough, they can officially get married.

The old couple felt completely at ease. Especially Wang Fei's parents. They had been divorced for many years, but this time for the sake of their daughter, they actually sat together again for the first time.

From Wang Fei's curled lips and her unconcealable smile, Wang Xu knew that she was really happy.

In fact, she has a deep relationship with her parents. Whether in Xiangjiang or the Imperial Capital, she has never been at home, but who doesn't long for a happy family? Even if she knows that it will only be like this for one day, it is enough for her to stay. Great memories.

Only Wang Xu and Wang Fei were left on the stage, holding hands and smiling in front of all the guests.

Wang Xu held Wang Fei's hand, suddenly turned his head, smiled mysteriously at Wang Fei, and said:

"In this life, I am lucky to have you. The fate we have sought in three lives has brought us together in this life. For this reason, I have prepared a special gift for you."

With that said, with a wave of his hand, a pretty figure came to the stage.

This is a young girl, not tall, but well-proportioned, looking pretty and charming. She is wearing a beautiful plain long dress and holding an exquisite wooden box in her hand.

Wang Xu took a look and thought, wow, who else could this be but Zou Xun.

Tang Yun is really good at making arrangements. Wang Xu just asked Tang Yun to help find someone to help deliver the things, but Tang Yun used this little girl.

That's OK, it will be a good story to talk about in the future.

Wang Xu took Wang Fei's hands, looked at Wang Fei's shining big eyes, and asked affectionately:

"Do you remember that we each cut a lock of hair a few days ago?"

"Remember, you cut a lot of my hair, hehe, didn't you say it was used as a souvenir, meaning a married couple, is it ready?"

"It's ready, look." Wang Xu took the wooden box from Zou Xun's hand, opened it, and a bright light shone out. Wang Fei's pink cheeks looked a little brighter.

"Oh my god, what is this? Diamond? Or crystal? Where's the hair?" Wang Fei asked in surprise as she looked at the jewelry in the box.

"Our hair is the raw material for these diamonds. This is my latest research topic, specially made for engagement.

The diamonds do not contain hair, only the main gemstone, the one with color, is made of our hair." Wang Xu smiled proudly and reached out to take out an exquisite diamond necklace.

This is an extremely luxurious necklace. Countless shining diamonds form a crescent shape. Under the crescent is a crystal clear gemstone as big as a thumb. The gemstone has a light blue-green color and is surrounded by a circle of crystal clear small diamonds.

Similarly, in the box, there is also a pair of earrings and a ring. The main body of each is a light and clear diamond with a light blue-green color.

Wang Xu took out the necklace and put it on Wang Fei one by one. A crystal clear necklace appeared on her snow-white neck, shining under the strong light.

Then there are the earrings. Two diamonds are matched with tassels formed by broken diamonds. The shape is exquisite and elegant.

Finally, Wang Xu took Wang Fei's left hand and asked affectionately: "Marry me, are you willing?"

"Okay."

The ring was put on, locked for life, this is a promise, they are in love with each other, with their hair.

The music sounded, "Fairy Tale", not for anything else, just for the lyrics "happiness and joy are the ending".

Wang Xu was affectionate, singing melodiously, with a touch of sadness, a touch of melancholy, but more of a yearning for the future. When he sang to the emotional part, it seemed that only the girl was left in his eyes, looking at her, no matter how much he looked at her, it was not enough.

The song was very simple, Wang Fei understood it, and the longing for a lifetime together also moved Wang Fei. She looked down at the ring on her hand, and there was a light in her eyes.

The music sounded again, "I Do", a classic song sung by Wang Fei. I am afraid that no one here has not heard it except a few ugly Chinese people. This is a song that has won the championship of charts in many countries and regions, and it is also one of Wang Fei's famous songs.

At this time and in this place, it was even more fitting. She sang "I Do" to Wang Xu. That was her intention, and that was her promise, just like the ring in her hand, a married couple, forever together.

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(See you tomorrow. I wrote 6K today. It seems that my condition has recovered well. I will try to write 8K tomorrow)