Rebirth of the Rich Second Generation's Growth Diary

Chapter 149 Don’t worry, they can’t beat us!
In mid-to-late November, the weather at Peking University and Tsinghua University became noticeably cooler.

On campus, the leaves of the trees on both sides of the road began to turn yellow. When the wind blew, the leaves fluttered down, covering the ground with a layer of golden carpet.

In such weather, all members of the team gathered together to eat hot pot today.

Gathering everyone together for dinner is something we have done frequently since the team was founded.

Because of such activities, everyone's relationship has become more harmonious.

At present, this project has not brought about any conflicts of interest, and no one has thought about it in that regard. They are just doing it purely for the same goal and fully displaying their talents.

The reason why everyone was called together today was naturally because another landmark event was triggered.

The hot pot is filled with the rich aroma of spices, the red oil is boiling in the pot, the bubbles are constantly rolling, and it emits an enticing aroma.

Li Xu said, "Duoduo, let's announce this good news to everyone."

An Duoduo nodded, stood up, and said, "I announce that our project has been accepted into the Tsinghua University and Peking University College Student Entrepreneurship Competition."

Everyone applauded and cheered.

Li Xu nodded and added, "Duoduo and Shen Mobai worked overtime for the past two weeks to prepare our application materials. I suggest that we give them a toast."

After hearing what Li Xu said, everyone raised the cups in front of them. No matter if they were drinking juice or beer, they all gathered above the bottom of the hot pot. The drinks spilled out and the private room was filled with everyone's laughter.

Among them, only Lei Yinbing looked a little depressed.

Xue Xue noticed Lei Yinbing's expression, smiled, and said, "Don't worry about this little thing."

Tang Qiaoning asked curiously, "What is Yinbing worried about?"

Lei Yinbing looked a little embarrassed and quickly shook his head, while signaling Xue Xue not to say anything more.

But Xue Xuecai didn't care. She said, "Isn't it because this project is from Peking University and Tsinghua University? I made something with my own hands, but I can't use it in my own school."

Liu Yunfei picked up a piece of tripe with his chopsticks, dipped it in the prepared sauce, and slurped it down. He put down his chopsticks and said nonchalantly, "Yinbing, you need to be more broad-minded and take a long-term view. If our project becomes popular, it won't just be for Peking University and Tsinghua University. By then, universities across the country will be able to use our campus card solution."

Lei Yinbing said awkwardly, "I'm not conflicted." Then he glared at Xue Xue and said, "You're really too talkative. I won't say anything to you from now on."

Everyone burst into laughter again.

Li Xu felt a sense of satisfaction watching this scene unfold. Because of this project, everyone had come together, and because of this project, everyone had grown and improved in various ways. These changes couldn't be learned from textbooks.

Although we have only been getting used to each other for a few months, we can clearly feel that everyone's temperament is much more mature than college students of the same age.

Needless to say, for those who are engaged in technology, such a practical opportunity is extremely rare.

There is no need to say much about Xia Xiaohe and Tang Qiaoning. In the process of constantly interacting with others, they have gradually lost the immaturity of students.

But the one who gained the most was actually Liu Yunfei. Li Xu set his sights on Liu Yunfei.

Liu Yunfei is the oldest person present and usually doesn't talk much. He is also the one who is most focused on eating hot pot, but it can be seen that he is the one who is truly happy from the bottom of his heart.

Unlike everyone else present, Liu Yunfei never attended college. Having graduated from a technical secondary school, he began wandering the world early on, relying on his self-taught internet skills to engage in a fair share of shady dealings. He wanted to work at a truly large company, but his lack of a diploma kept him rejected countless times.

Now he can come to the capital, to Peking University and Tsinghua University, the best universities in the country, and continue to do what he is best at. On the other hand, in his free time, he can wander around the classrooms of Peking University and Tsinghua University as an auditor and feel the atmosphere of top universities.

These short two or three months were the happiest time of his life since he entered society. What he did was so pure and fulfilling.

Li Xu suddenly thought of something and asked, "By the way, Yunfei, has the thing you mentioned last time been developed?"

Liu Yunfei blew on a piece of tofu slowly, then put down his chopsticks and said confidently, "Don't worry, it will be officially launched in three days at most."

Li Xu nodded: "After using that thing, our system will be truly impeccable."

Shen Mobai thought about it, then asked Li Xu hesitantly, "Boss, can our project be recommended by the school?"

Li Xu didn't need to answer this question. Ye Ruida spoke slowly from the side. He said, "Tsinghua University and Peking University have actually produced a lot of good scientific research results in the past two years, but scientific research results are not equal to commercial results. The entrepreneurship competition mainly focuses on the commercial score."

"I looked at the two projects our college submitted. They were mainly participating in scientific research competitions, and they were just entering this entrepreneurial competition for fun. To be honest, their project has higher technical content, but its commercial value isn't necessarily high. Those guys didn't even bother to seriously revise the materials."

After a pause, Ye Ruida said, "Don't worry, the results will be out soon."

Li Xu nodded and said, "Everyone, just adjust your mindset and relax. You know, our goal isn't just to win an award at school. Our goal is to at least make it to the semi-finals or even appear on the show 'Win in China'!"

……

As Ye Ruida said, there are no serious competitors at Peking University and Tsinghua University.

After they submitted their materials, they were soon notified to defend their papers.

In a sense, this defense is just a formality.

As the representative of the team, Li Xu was naturally the one to attend the defense.

The purpose of participating in the entrepreneurial competition is fundamentally different from that of other people. Most of the other teams that sign up for the entrepreneurial competition are just for those few innovation credits.

So, leaving aside the quality of their projects, many of them haven’t even been implemented.

Li Xu's team invested so much money in this project in the early stage. In a sense, taking their project to the school-level entrepreneurship competition is basically a dimensionality reduction attack, just like the difference between a toy gun and a real gun.

After participating in the defense, I received the official notification of winning the gold medal in the college-level entrepreneurship competition within a few days.

However, this news did not make everyone very excited, because everyone knew that the real challenge was coming.

But what no one expected was that although they had imagined many forms of challenges, they still did not expect that the biggest challenge would come in that way.

As the one who was most informed, Tang Qiaoning had already tagged everyone in the QQ group one by one.

Li Xu saw the news when he came back from his morning run. Tang Qiaoning said in the group chat: "My friends, something big has happened. Something big has happened."

Xue Xue was the first to speak. She asked, "What's going on?"

Tang Qiaoning replied: "There is no time to explain in detail. Everyone should gather at the gate of Huajing University at ten o'clock this morning." Huajing University and Peking University are only two or three kilometers away. Li Xu was a little puzzled, so he called Tang Qiaoning.

Tang Qiaoning on the other end of the phone said, "Our project overlaps with the one at Huajing University."

Li Xu was stunned for a moment and asked, "What do you mean by heavy?"

Tang Qiaoning briefly told Li Xu the news she had heard, and Li Xu fell silent after listening.

Then he said, "Okay, let's meet at the entrance of Huajing University."

……

More than half an hour later, all members of the team arrived at Huajing University together.

The late autumn sunshine shines on the gate of Huajing University. The students coming and going are wearing thick clothes, their faces filled with youthful energy.

Everyone stood at the entrance of Huajing University. Ye Ruida asked with a serious expression, "How long until it starts?"

Tang Qiaoning looked at her watch and said, "My friend said it was half past ten. There's still half an hour left. Let's go in first."

Li Xu nodded and said, "Don't panic, let's go in and see what they are capable of."

Everyone walked towards Huajing University together.

It was indeed a sudden situation. The entrepreneurship competition project of Huajing University this year was very similar to the project of Li Xu's team. To be precise, they were completely overlapping.

Their project is also a smart campus card project!
However, compared with Li Xu and his team's physical card, the other party's project seems to be smarter. They use NFC technology, and its full name is "Smart Cloud Campus Card."

The initiator's name is Lei Lifeng, a senior student at Huajing University.

Compared with Li Xu and his team's campus card project, Lei Lifeng was also aiming for the grand prize in the entrepreneurship competition, and they also crushed other teams in their school.

What’s even more exaggerated is that although Lei Lifeng is also a student, he received an angel investment. After he won the gold medal in the school competition, he also planned to hold a product launch conference to introduce this project to the students of their school.

He is indeed a very powerful rival, and the application scenarios of his project and his own project are basically the same. That is to say, outside of the entrepreneurial competition, the two projects may engage in a bloody battle.

Seeing everyone's serious expressions, Li Xu couldn't help but laugh: "Don't be too nervous. The game hasn't even started yet, and you all look like you've already lost."

There is a reason why Li Xu is so confident. Even in the year before his rebirth, the physical campus card had not been replaced by the so-called cloud campus card, which means that this cloud campus card has not been proven by time.

There is a great need for physical campus cards.

Soon everyone arrived at a small auditorium in Huajing University and found a seat to sit down.

The surrounding area was full of students from Huajing University, chattering and discussing.

Li Xu heard two girls chatting in front of him: "Senior Lei Lifeng is really amazing. Even though it's just a concept, he's already got 500,000 yuan in angel funding. Did you know?" "Yeah, that's really impressive."

Hearing this conversation, Xue Xue said with some disdain: "After all this fuss, it's still just a concept. I thought it was so amazing."

It was unclear whether she was really looking down on the other party or was cheering herself up, but there was no doubt that this sentence annoyed the two girls in front.

The two girls turned their heads together and looked at Xue Xue. Xue Xue knew that she had said something wrong, so she coughed and quickly lowered her head silently. Liu Yunfei kept laughing beside her.

Not long after, the legendary Lei Lifeng finally came to power.

I have to say that this student named Lei Lifeng does have an aura that is different from other college students.

Li Xu was not surprised that there were such talents in a prestigious university. After all, there were too many examples of college students who made their first pot of gold in prestigious universities.

He crossed his arms over his chest and silently watched Lei Lifeng on the stage to see how he was going to introduce his product.

Lei Lifeng smiled and said, "Thank you all for coming to support us."

After a slight pause, Lei Lifeng went straight to the point. A few big words appeared on the PPT screen behind him: "Smart City Construction".

Lei Lifeng pulled a campus card from his pocket and said, "Classmates, this is an old version from ten years ago. Ten years ago, the school introduced the IC campus card, bringing campus management into the electronic age... but unfortunately." He threw the campus card away as if it were trash. Then he said, "Times are changing too fast. The electronic age has passed, and the intelligent age has arrived. As the best university in China, we naturally have to break free from the shackles of tradition. The advent of the information age will change every aspect of our lives, and the campus card is one of those things that will be changed."

Then the PPT behind him showed several scenes, including a card-losing scene and a queueing scene.

Lei Lifeng said, "Are you still worried about losing your campus card, getting a replacement, or queuing up to top up your card? Well, let me tell you, in the future, we won't be using physical campus cards anymore."

At this point, he chuckled and said, "I wonder if anyone is familiar with Peking University and Tsinghua University next door? Have you heard that Peking University and Tsinghua University recently launched a campus card? But the funny thing is, Peking University and Tsinghua University are still living in the era of physical cards."

There was laughter at the scene.

The faces of the people from Peking University and Tsinghua University all looked a little ugly.

"Our cloud-based campus card represents the true future. Let me now introduce this truly futuristic cloud-based campus card to you in detail..."

Good guy, he actually belittled their campus cards so shamelessly. However, as Lei Lifeng continued to introduce, the mood of the few people except Li Xu became a little unsure.

Judging from Lei Lifeng’s introduction, it seems that the cloud-based campus card based on NFC function is the real future.

But as Li Xu listened to Lei Lifeng's introduction, the corners of his mouth began to rise slightly.

Only about two-thirds of the way through the press conference, Li Xu stood up, patted An Duoduo and Xia Xiaohe who were sitting next to him, and said, "Okay, let's go. Call the others."

An Duoduo and Xia Xiaohe looked at Li Xu with some doubts.

Li Xu did not explain too much. Although they were full of questions, they nodded and then went to call other people.

Everyone stood up and left. When they walked outside, Li Xu saw that everyone's expressions were a little solemn. He said cheerfully, "Why do you look like you've been defeated? The other party just showed a concept, without even having anything concrete, and you're scared?"

Seeing Li Xu's relaxed expression, the others seemed to regain some confidence. After hesitating for a moment, Shen Mobai asked, "Boss, what do you think of this Huajing University project?"

Li Xu squinted lazily at the warm sun shining through the clouds and said with a smile, "How can we see it? How can we see it? Just use your eyes, don't worry." He smiled and glanced at the crowd and said, "Their project can't beat us!"

(End of this chapter)