Chapter 1 A Night of Drizzle

The light rain drizzled all night.

Having suffered the consequences of lacking renovation experience, Vila’s Chinese-style villa only had ordinary double-paned glass, and the soundproofing wasn't the best.

Occasionally, carp would leap out of the water in the yard, then heavily smack back down. This, coupled with the constant chirping of birds, woke Su Yehao up at a little after five in the morning.

It seemed some birds had chosen to make their homes in the large trees transplanted around the area. The Shahe Golf Club he’d acquired was nearby, so the environment was quite pleasant.

Vila, who usually seemed so elegant, had a rather comical sleeping posture.

He didn't know what she was dreaming about, but she was drooling, and a clearly visible bump had risen on her forehead, making Su Yehao chuckle.

He couldn't fall back asleep.

He got out of bed quietly, and after a quick wash, he went to the living room to play with his laptop.

As usual, he started by browsing his email, where a large pile of unread messages awaited him.

For example, the Middle Eastern tycoon group he'd received in Pengcheng last time had someone trying to add a full $300 million investment to 5s Asset Management, asking Su Yehao to help manage their wealth.

There was also a software solutions company named Qianxin Software, established to learn from India's software outsourcing industry.

The person in charge reported that they had partnered with many universities and would begin to train a group of software engineers on a定向 basis from the second half of the year, with the initial scale expected to exceed 2,500 people.

Don't look down on the outsourcing industry; it might not sound glamorous, but it's a huge market worth over $300 billion. It can also provide many high-paying job opportunities, helping Su Yehao maintain his technological edge, so it's worth paying a little attention to.

The number of overseas returnees isn't very high at the moment.

The average income of Silicon Valley internet giants exceeds $100,000, and the income and benefits in the mainland have no advantage in their eyes, and would also cause other employees to feel unbalanced. Therefore, the idea of ​​recruiting programmers on a large scale from outside is difficult to achieve, and it mainly relies on its own定向 training.

The CEO of AsmL also sent an email, planning an initial investment of $200 million for the research and development of extreme ultraviolet lithography machines.

This project was too expensive. The other party also said that even if all the profits from immersion lithography machines were invested, it would probably not be enough.

After a short period of consideration, Su Yehao simply replied that there was no need to worry about research and development funds, and that he could bear it.

Of course.

Business is business. AsmL is not his sole proprietorship. When the results are researched, the ownership of the technology patents will be divided according to the proportion of investment.

In addition, Su Yehao also suggested that the research and development center be located in the Kai Tak Digital Port in Hong Kong, on the grounds of reducing research and development costs. In reality, he was worried that the emperor was too far away and someone else would pick the fruit in the future.

As a Dutch company, AsmL was interfered with a lot after going to the United States. Its management team and Su Yehao have the same interests in reducing the influence of the United States.

When he saw the warehousing information sent by his assistant Zhuang Wei, Su Yehao's eyes twitched. There were a total of 130,000 tons of copper on hand. The warehousing and transportation management of this batch of goods would cost money, and if the price of copper did not rise, the amount of the loss would increase accordingly.

According to the email, the assistant office suggested that this batch of goods be temporarily stored in the Yangshan Port in Shanghai, which is under construction.

Since the port has not yet been put into use, only a small storage fee needs to be paid. At that time, it will also be close to the copper product processing enterprises in the Yangtze River Delta region, and it will be easy to digest this batch of copper.

Su Yehao used the tot browser to search for news about Yangshan Port, and was surprised to find that this was a super factory he didn't know much about. The initial investment alone was as high as more than 10 billion yuan, and a cross-sea bridge was built to connect Shanghai and the deep-water port island of Zhoushan.

Since it was cheap and convenient, Su Yehao directly replied with an "Okay."

Then look down.

Jiang Yu actually sent an email, which included Tian Yu Entertainment's work plan for this year, including the film and television dramas that have been approved, as well as several upcoming movies and TV series, including *Fung Wan 2* and *Chinese Paladin 2*, etc.

After thinking for a while, Su Yehao pretended to seriously reply with a paragraph of text, telling them that they could invest more in small-budget movies, otherwise it would be difficult to recover the costs given the current scale of movie viewing in the mainland.

He had always wanted them to create an online video website. Calculating the time, it seemed that he could start preparing for it. So, Su Yehao sent an email to the person in charge of Qianxin Software Solutions, briefly explaining the concept of the video website and asking them to help develop it.

In this way, it not only saves expenses, but also allows the team to have projects to practice with. If they really develop the outsourcing business into a big and strong business, it should be quite profitable...

The thunder started rumbling again outside, one clap after another, booming endlessly.

This woke Vila up. She came to the living room wearing cute panda pajamas, rubbed her eyes, and asked, "Why are you awake so early? Do you want me to get up and make you breakfast?"

"No need, I just happen to be bored. Instead of eating breakfast, I'd rather eat you..."

Casually tossing the laptop on the sofa, Su Yehao pushed her back to the room. Miss Vila looked confused, saying with a wry smile that she wanted to continue sleeping, but he pretended not to hear.

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After morning exercise, he went back to sleep, and woke up again at more than nine o'clock in the morning.

Linda Yun got up and went to the city, helping to buy rice noodle rolls, crystal buns, barbecued pork buns, etc., which could be heated up and eaten.

The weather in summer changes quickly.

The rain continued to fall all night, and the weather cleared up again at ten o'clock, and the sun shone on the flowers and plants in the yard.

A bodyguard outside accidentally found a baby magpie that had fallen out of its tree.

The chick was wet, and Miss Vila was pleasantly surprised. She put on a pair of rubber gloves, grabbed it, and asked Su Yehao to help dry it with a hair dryer. She also soaked a cookie in water and fed it to its mouth with a small popsicle stick.

After it regained some energy, Vila asked Su Yehao, "What do we do now? Should we try to put it back in the nest?"

Su Yehao stroked his chin and shook his head, saying:

"The little bird has your scent on it. It might not survive if you put it back. It doesn't look too small, so why don't you keep it and feed it for a while? It's safer to release it back into nature when it grows up. There are wild cats nearby, and it wouldn't be good if it fell out of the tree again."

Vila smiled awkwardly and replied, "Maybe it's because I fed the wild cats that they like to come here."

"..."

Su Yehao laughed:

"That explains why I heard cats meowing at night. Fortunately, it rained all night, otherwise this bird would have ended up in their stomachs long ago. But if there hadn't been such a strong wind at night, it probably wouldn't have fallen out of the tree."

After a brief moment of hesitation, Miss Vila also felt that it would be safer to keep it and feed it. She asked, "That's right, cats eat birds, so is it okay to feed it this kind of biscuit?"

"It's best to buy some bird food, or mealworms, or dried insects." Su Yehao said.

Vila was ashamed and said awkwardly: "Buying worms is no problem, the problem is that I'm afraid of worms and dare not feed them..."

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