In mid-February, after everyone had been clamoring for it, the preliminary test scores for the postgraduate entrance examination were finally announced.
Zhang Anren entered the URL with excitement.
452 points, crossing the line steadily.
Although Zhang Anren is not too satisfied with his performance, this result should be enough to qualify for the re-examination.
Thinking of this, Zhang Anren rarely smiled. For him, the postgraduate entrance examination is the first step to stay in the magic city, and now this first step is finally a step out.
Although he was excited, Zhang Anren did not get carried away. He waited until the college announced the re-examination list, and when he saw that he was on the list, he felt relieved.
However, what Zhang Anren didn't expect was that he also saw a familiar name on the list.
"He also passed the re-examination?"
Zhang Anren's entrance into the re-examination did not arouse much reaction among the classmates. After all, Zhang Anren's results were there. If he had not entered the re-examination, he might have become news. If he had entered, it would have been a normal performance.
However, when Qin Hao's name appeared on the re-examination list, the shocked expressions among the classmates never stopped.
It's not that Qin Hao's grades were too bad before. The main reason is that Qin Hao has been absent from class since the second semester of his junior year. He almost didn't take enough credits and no one saw how hard he worked. As a result, he suddenly took the re-examination.
For a time, countless @QinHao messages filled the classmate group, but Qin Hao hadn’t logged into QQ for a long time and didn’t see them at all.
Zhang Anren was shocked and immediately called Qin Hao.
"Qin Hao, you, you have entered the re-examination!"
Qin Hao was outside discussing business with an owner who owned more than 20 apartments. He didn't pay attention and said casually.
"Oh, I know, thanks."
However, Zhang Anren thought he didn't hear clearly: "No, I mean, you passed the postgraduate entrance examination and passed the re-examination. How did you do it?"
Qin Hao was a little impatient: "I'm busy with something now. I'll call you later."
After saying that, he hung up the phone directly.
Zhang Anren was a little confused when he heard the busy tone on the phone. Is this guy pretending to be calm? Entering the re-examination means half-stepping into the threshold of graduate school. Even if the re-examination results are not satisfactory, there are still opportunities for adjustments, even for the preliminary examination.
I was so confident that I jumped up with excitement when I saw the list of candidates for the re-examination. Qin Hao, the guy who just walked away and got into the re-examination, didn't react at all?
That's right, in Zhang Anren's opinion, Qin Hao was just lucky enough to pass the re-examination. Others may not understand it, but he witnessed the whole process of Qin Hao going through the postgraduate entrance examination. With his review attitude, it was just a matter of luck that he could pass the re-examination.
It can be described as a miracle.
Of course, Zhang Anren soon put this matter aside, because he was currently facing a dilemma. The re-examination was divided into a written examination and an interview. The written examination was okay, and he had a certain degree of confidence, but the interview was more knowledgeable. The examiner
What kind of questions will be asked and what should you pay attention to in your appearance on the day of the interview? These all need to be registered. The probability of passing the exam without taking the exam is very slim.
However, once he resigned, he would have no excuse to contact Jiang Nansun again, and Jiang Nansun finally had a "good impression" of him recently.
Zhang Anren's heart felt hot when he thought of Jiang Nansun's profile with his chin raised slightly.
Here, Qin Hao had just signed the agency contract with the owner. When he returned to the company, HR handed Qin Hao a resignation slip.
"Zhang Anren? For personal reasons, you need to take the postgraduate entrance examination, right?" Qin Hao said casually.
HR nodded.
"Okay, let him resign, and give him an extra month's salary, just think of it as a bonus." Qin Hao casually handed the resignation form to HR, and then called Liu Xin to the office.
"Now in Huangpu, our business has begun to bear fruit, and it's time to expand our business scale."
Liu Xin frowned slightly when he heard this: "Are you a little too impatient? Our current business has just got on the right track and we don't have enough staff."
Qin Hao's attitude was very firm: "Our current business is still in the stage of losing money. We are losing money every day of operation. To be honest, my own funds cannot last long, so I still need to find investors as soon as possible."
"Financing requires capital. The larger our scale, the higher our valuation will be, and the more confidence investors will have in us. With money, we can expand faster. This is a virtuous circle. This
Sooner or later, a step has to be taken. Rather than waiting for competing products to appear on the market, it is better to take advantage of this opportunity to put yourself in the spotlight."
Liu Xin's heart was moved. The purpose of coming to the Youth Home was not to become famous, but she didn't expect that it would only take such a short time to take this step.
Seeing that Liu Xin was still confused at this time, Qin Hao couldn't help but smile and pat her shoulder: "This is the speed of the Internet. Remember, we are an Internet company, not a housing agency. Don't use the inherent speed of a housing agency."
Limit yourself by thinking.”
"In the Internet era, speed is everything!"
Two days later, Qin Hao summoned all employees of the company, including the interns.
"I believe you have all heard some rumors recently. I can tell you here in a very responsible manner that what you have heard is true. The company's business will be expanded to other areas of the Magic City."
Naturally, Qin Hao took the initiative to release these rumors, so he stood in front of him to unify his thoughts.
After listening to Qin Hao's words, some old employees were shocked. Expansion means the need for more management positions, and they will have room for promotion.
Qin Hao pressed his hands down to signal everyone to be quiet.
"Next, the Youth Home will set up stations in seventeen districts of the Magic City. Liu Mingrui, Xuhui Station Director, Wu Mingyu, and Changning will be left to you."
Everyone whose name was called was overjoyed, while those who were not called could not hide their disappointment.
Naturally, Qin Hao does not appoint people randomly to appoint officials and make wishes. Whether a person can shoulder the heavy responsibility can be seen from his usual performance. There are seventeen stations in the magic city, and Qin Hao only arranged seven old employees to serve as station managers.
, everything else is left to headhunting companies to find candidates.
"If you are promoted to webmaster, don't be too happy too early. The company has always spoken with performance. From now on, we will conduct performance evaluations every quarter. Those with high rankings will receive substantial cash rewards, while those with the lowest rankings will either resign and leave.
Or start over as a salesperson."
After hearing what Qin Hao said, the resentment of those employees who had not been promoted had calmed down a lot. It seemed that the webmaster was not that easy to be.
After the meeting, Qin Hao had just returned to the office when he heard someone knocking on the door outside.
"Please come in."
The door opened, but no one spoke for a long time. Qin Hao looked up and found Jiang Nansun staring at him with an unhappy expression.
"You have something to do with me?" Qin Hao was confused.
Jiang Nansun said angrily: "Why have so many people been promoted? I am still a supervisor, and I have helped you bring in so many new people!"
Okay, it turns out that I am mentally unbalanced.
Qin Hao thought about Jiang Nansun's contribution recently, and thought about it: "Hey, the webmaster is a bigger official, so naturally we announced it together. I have already thought about your position. From now on, you will be the director of our design department.
, you should be satisfied with this position."
Jiang Nansun suddenly beamed with joy. She was not a fan of officialdom, but mainly wanted to gain recognition.
But then Jiang Nansun realized that something was wrong. Qin Hao only said that he would give her a promotion, but did not mention a salary increase at all. No matter how you looked at it, he was trying to fool himself.
"How do you calculate the salary? Are you trying to fool me?" Jiang Nansun stared at Qin Hao suspiciously.
Qin Hao couldn't help but sigh, it's hard to fool the little white rabbit.
"Ahem, how could it be possible? It's just that the salary standards haven't been designed yet. I'll discuss it with Manager Liu later and announce it later."
A smile immediately appeared on Jiang Nansun's face. She discovered that Qin Hao was a tough guy. Any compliments were false. Only money could represent his attention.
Looking at Jiang Nansun's excited back, Qin Hao shook his head helplessly. He didn't want to be an iron rooster. There were really too many places to spend money. He had to take advantage of him as soon as possible. Bah, find an investor.
In the next month or so, Qin Hao became even busier. Although he had to run business and manage the company in the past, he always ran in one district. But now it is different. The business scope has expanded more than ten times.
The time spent on the road has increased significantly.
And it's not just about the company. Qin Hao also has to prepare for the postgraduate re-examination in April. Sometimes he wishes he had the ability to clone himself.
Of course, the gains are also obvious. Since Youth Home has expanded its business scale, the number of registered users has doubled. As of the end of March, the number of registered users on PC+mobile phones has exceeded the 600,000 mark.
Although this number of users is not worth mentioning for giants like Penguin and Alibaba, for a small company that has just been established for half a year, the results are already very dazzling.
Moreover, due to Qin Hao’s relatively large initial investment, no competing products have followed suit so far. Generally speaking, Internet companies are prone to competing products. The main reason is that the threshold for copying is low.
The youth home model is asset-heavy, and the cost of renovation alone has caused many companies that were ready to follow suit to stop immediately during the market research stage.
In early April, Youth Home's business in various districts gradually stabilized, and Qin Hao was finally able to take some time to review.
What's more interesting is that on the day of the postgraduate entrance examination re-examination written test, Qin Hao and Zhang Anren were assigned to the same examination room, and they were separated by a table.
Zhang Anren looked at Qin Hao subconsciously and found that the other person had hardly thought about his answers. He couldn't help but shook his head. In his opinion, Qin Hao had given up on treatment. The questions in the postgraduate entrance examination were not simple at all, and the knowledge they contained was not at all simple.
It’s so wide, so it’s amazing if you can answer the questions correctly.
"Do the questions seriously." The invigilator knocked on Zhang Anren's desk.
Zhang Anren finally withdrew his gaze and began to answer the questions carefully.
After Zhang Anren finished all the questions, he checked them again and found that Qin Hao at the next table had already handed in the papers in advance.
This also made Zhang Anren more convinced that Qin Hao must have answered randomly just now and felt that there was no chance of leaving the examination room early.
However, what surprised Zhang Anren was that three days later at the interview site, he actually saw Qin Hao again.
"you"
Before Zhang Anren could finish speaking, the interviewer started calling his number.
Zhang Anren has no intention of meddling in Qin Hao's business anymore. He has worked hard to get to this point. Whether he succeeds or not depends on this tremor.
"number 8."
Zhang Anren looked up and saw Qin Hao stood up and walked into the classroom.
As time passed by, the expression on Zhang Anren's face became more and more tense. For Zhang Anren, twenty minutes was like being in jail.
"No.9."
When Zhang Anren passed by Qin Hao, Qin Hao whispered: "Don't be nervous, the examiner is very kind."
Zhang Anren forced a smile, stood at the door of the classroom, took several deep breaths, and then slowly walked into the classroom.
After the postgraduate entrance examination, Qin Hao stopped paying attention and concentrated on the business of the Youth Home.
Until one day, Qin Hao received a call from his roommate Lu Yu.
"Damn it, Qin Hao, you actually got admitted to Professor Dong's graduate school!"
Qin Hao could only move the microphone away. This guy's voice was too loud. People who didn't know it thought he had passed the exam.
"Looking at what you said, it seems like there was some upset in getting into the exam."
After Lu Yu calmed down a little, Qin Hao laughed and cursed.
Lu Yu joked: "You kid is still so narcissistic. Please, why are you a little pushy? We all thought it was a miracle that you could pass the first test. As a result, your kid passed the retest and was punished by the most strict director."
The professor admitted me, but by the way, did you think you had some back door?"
"Go away, if I had the ability, could I live in the same dormitory with you?" Qin Hao said angrily.
"That's true." Lu Yu said with gloating.
"That guy Zhang Anren actually wanted to take the postgraduate entrance examination of Professor Dong. It's a pity that this year Professor Dong only recruited one spot, and you took it away. Now when I think of Zhang Anren's bitter face, I want to laugh."
Well, this was the purpose of Lu Yu's call. No wonder he had not had much contact with Qin Hao and suddenly came to tell him the good news.
Qin Hao wanted to say something else, but his phone vibrated.
"Okay, you said that Cao Cao and Cao Cao are here. Zhang Anren called me. Don't talk about me anymore. I'll hang up first."
"Oh, don't. Damn it."
As soon as Qin Hao pressed the answer button, he heard Zhang Anren say in a low voice: "Have you read the admission list?"
"Someone just told me." Qin Hao said slowly.
"Why?" Zhang Anren was silent for a long time and gritted his teeth.
"I have been preparing for the postgraduate entrance examination. Apart from eating and sleeping, I have spent all my time on it for several months. What about you? What are you doing? There is not even a soul in sight. Why did Professor Dong choose you instead of me?
?”
Qin Hao's eyes also turned cold: "You should ask Professor Dong about this instead of questioning me."
"From today on, we are no longer friends." Zhang Anren said in a cold tone.
Qin Hao hung up the phone directly and sighed. As expected, Zhang Anren was still the same Zhang Anren. He was still so selfish and self-righteous, thinking that as long as he worked hard, the whole world should make way for him.
But it's okay, now that they've broken up, he doesn't have to worry about the old relationship if there is a conflict of interest in the future.