Born Again: A Journey of Love Rediscovered Novel Chapter 464

Yang Shu'an and Guo Zihang showed playful smiles as they entered the house and walked to the kitchen door. They put the mutton and roast chicken they had brought with them into the refrigerator, then turned back and sat on the chairs.

At this time, John Qin finished his meal, put his chopsticks on the empty plate, and looked up at his two adopted sons, Gan'er: "Lao Guo, do you like washing dishes?"

Guo Zihang: ...

"Where's Shu An, do you like washing dishes?"

The corner of Yang Shuan's mouth twitched: "Uncle, brush slowly, we are waiting for you."

John Qin couldn't help but frown: "I told you that coming to my uncle's house is just like returning to your own home. Why are you so polite every time?"

"Be polite, it's not a kiss after all, right Lao Guo?" Yang Shuan knocked Guo Zihang down with his elbow.

Guo Zihang nodded immediately: "Yes, yes, although my adoptive father does not treat me as an outsider, I still have to be somewhat self-aware."

John Qin had a dark face and was angry at the two of them for being indifferent. Then he went into the kitchen cursing and said to himself that young people nowadays are so lazy and they are not willing to help with the work at home.

After washing the dishes, the three of them put on their coats and went out of the house to stroll around the market at the annual meeting.

This is an open space left over from the reconstruction phase of the old city. This year it was temporarily used as an annual meeting market. The scale is smaller than that of Wu'an Mountain, but there are not many vendors selling things. Hundreds of stalls are crowded together and they haven't left yet. When we arrived, we could already hear the roar of people.

John Qin walked forward with his pocket in his pocket and muttered: "Usually, I have been occupied by Nancy Feng. Otherwise, how would you have the chance to go shopping alone with such a good-looking man as me?"

"Ah, yes, yes."

"If you come home with me at night, if you accidentally tell her about your shopping experience with me, she will cry with envy. What good is going out shopping with my mother? What a shame!"

Guo Zihang and Yang Shuan looked at each other and said to themselves that he really had a big problem with classmate Feng accompanying his mother-in-law when shopping instead of him.

These two sentences were emphasized twice.

John Qin came to the roasted seeds and nuts stall calmly and calmly, bought some melon seeds and roasted chestnuts, and then spent ten yuan to make loops, which were filled with air and the boss's smile. Then he turned around and bought two more bunches. Iron squid.

Look, the time without the little rich woman sticking around is still very happy!

"Uncle, why are you not happy? There is no expression on your face."

"Nonsense, I don't know how happy I am right now."

John Qin was a little angry. He pinched open a roasted chestnut with a click, then reached out and pulled out a branch that looked like a "sword" from the green bush, and flicked the snow on it straight.

Behind this open space is No. 4 Middle School. It is estimated that some high school student secretly sealed it here and planned to take it away when he returned to school.

Seeing this scene, Yang Shuan and Guo Zihang were extremely greedy.

"Uncle, let me play."

"Father, please pass the sword to me."

John Qin held the branch and shook it twice: "You're so damn useless, I'll play first!"

Yang Shu'an and Guo Zihang followed eagerly, waiting to take over the branches. From time to time, they heard arguments like "I am the eldest prince" and "Why are you the eldest prince?"

In fact, no matter how old a man is, he is always naive at heart.

Some seemingly mature people are just forced by the shackles of society. Putting these aside, they really become more naive as they get older.

From the beginning to the end of the collection, John Qin bought a lot of things, including a hairpin with a red ribbon, a metal hairpin with auspiciousness for the Year of the Rabbit, and New Year's greeting cards, as well as those tied to his mobile phone. pendant on.

"Uncle, bring me a candy man."

"Okay, what shape do you want? Can you write on it, or draw the zodiac signs, or maybe a little bunny?"

A pattern flashed in John Qin's mind, a big bear [heart-shaped] and a little rich woman. Then he turned to look at Guo Zihang and Yang Shuan: "There is a public toilet opposite, you go and pee."

Guo Zihang was stunned for a moment: "I spread it when I came here."

"Now that you want to cheat again, go quickly. If you don't go, you won't get any red envelopes during the Chinese New Year!"
The two men looked at each other and then ran away.

John Qin turned to look at the uncle who sold the candy: "Give me three. One will be written as a big bear, one will be written as a little rich woman, and the last one will draw a heart for me."

The uncle who sold the candy took a spoonful of syrup and muttered to himself that big and small were fine, but the last four words were really useless candy.

The uncle's craftsmanship is quite good. He uses sugar to write connected characters very quickly and well. The heart drawn at the end is also very round.

John Qin took out the money and ate the hearts without leaving any, and then walked back with the remaining two.

It was as if that heart had never existed in this world. It was simply a genius.

At this time, Guo Zihang and Yang Shu'an had come back. They looked at the two candy figures in John Qin's hands with incomprehensible expressions. They thought to themselves, what's so shameful about this, why do they have to get rid of them?

John Qin looked at their confused expressions and laughed, thinking that the shameless ones had been eaten by me long ago, and no one could watch.

"Uncle, look over there."

"What?"

John Qin heard the sound and looked over, and found a clerk coming out of the mobile business hall opposite and pasting a poster on the door.

It says there will be a year-end welfare program, pre-deposit 300 phone bills, and you will get a Samsung smartphone as a gift. The words Samsung smartphone are also highlighted in red and bold.

"You can get a mobile phone as a gift if you deposit three hundred? Is that fake?"

"real."

"Then you're going to die?" Guo Zihang looked incomprehensible.

John Qin looked at Guo Zihang: "This is a kind of marketing method. Giving away mobile phones is to cultivate the market and gain market share. When the audience increases, you can make back any initial losses later."

Functional phones were replaced by smart phones very quickly, almost completely starting around 2012.

John Qin still remembers that he had not graduated from college at that time, but everyone around him was already using Coolpad, Meizu, HTC, and Xiaomi, which was born for fever, also used hunger marketing to instantly open up the market.

At that time, many people used Samsung and Apple, but those mobile phones from Motorola, Dovi, and Bird in the past have disappeared since then.

There is also a generation of mobile phone king Nokia, which is unrepentant and insists on developing its own Symbian system. As a result, its market share has shrunk wildly. Even if it launched a Windows version after being acquired, it did not make any waves in the end.

Smartphones are inevitable for the development of the times, but what really accelerates the change of the times is the routine of giving away mobile phones by charging phone bills.

At that time, in order to expand its domestic market share and acquire more user groups, Samsung specially launched contract phones and cooperated with telecom operators to provide recharge gifts.

You get a mobile phone when you deposit your phone bill, and you get a mobile phone when you buy broadband. Except for the contract period, everything is as if you picked it up for free.

But this routine is really powerful, because the threshold for free prostitution has always been the lowest. This routine not only provides operators with a large number of contract users, but also builds brand awareness for mobile phone manufacturers.

The most important thing is that many of the kings of the feature phone era have just gotten a taste of it at this time, and the technology has not yet been revolutionized. As a result, because of the acceleration of the cost of recharging phone bills to buy mobile phones, they have been thrown far behind. They have already tried to catch up. Can't catch up.

Yes, it is this kind of marketing method that directly defeated 80% of competitors in the mobile phone market.

Later, ZTE and Huawei also joined the market of giving away mobile phones by charging phone bills, and became well-known mobile phone manufacturers from being unknown.

This thing seems to be a loss, and a lot of money has been burned, but those who are doing long-term development are all about the subsequent benefits.

Giving away low-end models to cultivate users, then increasing prices little by little, and launching high-end models. The return rate of this thing is almost tens of thousands. This is almost the same way as burning money through group purchases.

John Qin took the two of them into the business hall, charged 300 yuan in phone bills, and changed their phones.

It's white, with an Tianyi 3G logo on the back and a Samsung logo on the front. The plastic back cover can still be opened, and an original battery is included in the box.

There are not many pre-installed software after the mobile phone is turned on, and the simple operation interface even looks a bit ugly, but compared to a functional phone that can only answer calls and send text messages and access WAP, this is already a dimensionality reduction.

"The app needs to be developed quickly, otherwise how can it be bundled and pre-installed?"

John Qin opened the music player, and a preview song "Thousands of Miles Away" was pre-stored in it.

"This phone feels better than the one I bought." Yang Shuan stared at it for a long time, feeling a little regretful.

He just bought an HTC a year ago and spent 2,000 yuan on it, but it was not as smooth as John Qin's free one.

"So, winning or losing is sometimes determined from the beginning. You have to be high-end before the market is developed. As a result, what people give you for free is more durable than what you spend money to buy. How can you win?"
It was already evening after returning from the market. As soon as the three of them entered the house, they saw Yuan Youqin cooking in the kitchen, while Nancy Feng was sitting on the sofa watching Mango TV's new year drama "Accidentally Falling in Love with You."

After Meteor Shower made Ah Hai popular, this is a romantic idol drama tailor-made for him by Hunan TV, which is very exciting for the little rich woman to watch.

"I took Guo Zihang and Yang Shuan out shopping today."

John Qin sat next to Nancy Feng and emphasized: "We have been shopping all day."

Nancy Feng was dumbfounded for a while: "I also want to hang out with you for a day."

"Who asked you to go shopping with my mother so early in the morning? What a loss, right? But I brought you a gift."

John Qin took out the two candy figures with Big Bear and Little Rich Woman written on them. The little rich woman's eyes lit up instantly. She took the candy and looked at it for a long time, and then handed the little rich woman's one to John Qin.

"I eat you, you eat me."

Guo Zihang and Yang Shuan looked away when they heard the sound, wondering why you elders were talking so naughtyly, children couldn't even listen to it.

John Qin couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth, reached out and handed the Nokia in his pocket to her: "Here, I'll give you my spare phone to play with."

Nancy Feng: "?"
"I got a new one, this is my spare."