Chapter 168 Diving and Project Summary
The sun rises from the sea, and a golden and red glow spreads across the sky.

A seaplane flew by and landed among the white sand and coconut groves. Hotel staff were busy cleaning up the traces of last night's bonfire concert on the beach.

He Chuan and others who were left behind in Male did not feel lost at all. They had dinner with Shandong queen Rihanna and should have been the envied ones.

After enjoying the welcome ceremony, being assigned a hotel room and putting away his luggage, he went to the restaurant for breakfast. When he met Shen Xin, he said thank you from the bottom of his heart.

"The first day of a wonderful vacation life starts with singing." He happily shared a video of him drinking and singing side by side with Rihanna.

Shen Xin looked at him with disdain and focused on the lobster fried rice on the plate: "Hurry up and eat. Don't hold me back today."

"Huh?" He Chuan was confused.

Shen Xin explained awkwardly, "Boss Su and Boss Tang randomly hid 50 kilograms of gold on the island last night. We will form a mixed team of two to search for the treasure."

"So why are we teaming up?"

There were too many factors for He Chuan to grasp the key points for a moment. He looked around as if there was gold hidden under the fire equipment in the corner of the restaurant: "How much of the 50 kilograms can be found?"

"Maybe they hope that we can cooperate sincerely and set an example? One gold bar is one kilogram, fifty bars, what you see is what you get."

As Shen Xin spoke, he picked up the silver kettle beside him and shook it, making a clinking sound.

He Chuan's eyes widened: "Fuck, so casual, it starts right away?"

"It could be in every corner of the island. The game will start in half an hour." Shen Xin emphasized.

He Chuan helplessly held his forehead and smiled bitterly: "Boss Xie is really good at uniting colleagues. When he pulled the two of us to work overtime to help with our first project in Juntai's variety show, the feeling of close cooperation and vitality is still vivid in my mind."

"...Brother, can you please be more sincere?" Shen Xin couldn't help rolling his eyes.

He Chuan groaned and said, "You have to believe in the charm of gold. Today, I won't recognize anyone except you!"

Shen Xin was speechless. At this moment, the idlers had been pulled out to move freely. General Manager Xie, General Manager Su and General Manager Tang formed a group to go diving.

The bosses are not here, so anything that happens on the island today will have to be solved by her and He Chuan together.

The two quickly finished their breakfast and returned to the hotel lobby to gather all the employees from both sides to announce the rules of the game. The gold treasure hunt officially began!
At the same time, the gentle sun shone on the sea, and a small yacht was floating in place against the waves.

"The water is clear and the light is good in the early morning, so it's great for taking photos." Xie Jingxing said as he checked his equipment.

Su He, who was communicating with the black-skinned coach about the water conditions, glanced back and said, "There are corals underwater."

"That's a good opportunity to use the scenery as a backdrop." Tang Man was eager to try out some warm-up exercises.

Xie Jingxing ignored their conversation and said to himself: "I will go down with the coach to check the situation first, maybe there are dolphins and sharks."

"White tip reef shark?"

"Tiger shark?"

The two women said at the same time, Xie Jingxing just shrugged, bit the second stage of the scuba diving head, and dived into the sea with his back turned.

Su He wanted to go scuba diving like him, and it was easier to encounter tiger sharks at the bottom of the sea dozens of meters deep.

Tang Man wanted to try free diving. She wore a beautiful swimsuit and fins and dived in one breath. She took photos around the coral reefs and pretended to be a mermaid. White tip reef sharks often appeared.

Dolphins are not easy to appear and it all depends on luck. Xie Jingxing turned over and went into the water without seeing any.

As I dived deep with my instructor, the sea water gradually turned dark blue. Light pierced through the water surface and went straight into the seabed. The whole world became quiet, and fish swimming by brought a sense of loneliness.

He had not dived deep for a long time due to work, so he adjusted himself for a moment and gestured to continue diving to the bottom of the sea.

The instructor will accompany you into the dive only after confirming that everything is OK. Scuba diving is an extreme sport. You will feel the power of nature up close in the deep sea. A random "undercurrent" can kill a human.

Therefore, the existence of a "diving buddy" is crucial. At this moment, the two of them are diving buddies for each other. When encountering danger, they will pull each other out of the water, or they may abandon each other forever in the deep sea for the only chance of survival.

If Xie Jingxing did not have several years of experience in extreme sports, no matter how much money the coach offered him, he would not go deep diving with him.

The computer showed the underwater depth was 42 meters, and they touched the seabed with their palms.

This is a medium depth for experienced divers, but it is beyond the recreational diving level for the Maldives. People who want to specialize in technical diving prefer to go to Fiji and the Malay Archipelago.

Xie Jingxing gestured again, and the coach untied a small box from his waist, buried it in the mud and sand to mark it, and then swam to the coral reef to bury another small box.

"Wow."

Waves splashed everywhere, and Xie Jingxing surfaced: "The situation underwater is not bad, how are you two?"

"OK."

Tang Man couldn't wait to get into the water, as the light would deteriorate after a while and the photos would not be good.

Xie Jingxing took a breath and said, "The coach and the photographer will take you. President Su will follow me. I will take pictures of you after we get into the water."

"no problem."

Su He is no exception in this regard. Diving without taking pictures is equivalent to not diving. They are not rich second-generations whose spiritual world is so impoverished that they need to rely on extreme sports for comfort.

The yacht lowered a speedboat, found a suitable location, and several people dived into the water together.

Tang Man's skills are mediocre. According to her, she can free dive 25 meters indoors on one breath, and can only dive about ten meters outdoors at most.

As soon as he dived, he rushed to the coral reefs to pose, took pictures for two or three minutes, floated to the surface to breathe, and then dived down to pose again.

After spending a lot of time taking thousands of photos in quick succession, and relying on post-production PS techniques, I was able to create a few representative works of Xiaohongshu.

However, her poses were very relaxed, with her arms outstretched and her body leaning back freely falling, which gave her a poignant feeling of falling into the seabed. It was obvious that she had practiced yoga a lot.

In comparison, Su He was much stronger. Wearing a full set of scuba gear, he actively approached the tiger shark, but he didn't control the distance well and was hit by the tiger shark.

The Gopro camera on Xie Jingxing's chest faithfully recorded the entire process. The post-edited video with funny background music will definitely become a hit on Kuaishou.

He leaned over to confirm that Su He was fine, then swam to the tiger shark, less than half a meter away, and danced face to face with it in a show of skill.

"Relax, trust me, we're going to keep going down." He gestured to make his point.

Su He replied hesitantly: "I dare not."

"Don't be afraid, I'm here." Xie Jingxing encouraged.

Su He looked around. Tang Man and the professional coach gradually moved away. It seemed that the whole world was left with only her and the young man in her sight.

They are unable to communicate with words, so the most primitive body movements become what they can rely on most.

She needs to keep a close eye on his figure. If her diving partner disappears from her sight, she should wait for one minute and then slowly surface.

One minute, just one minute.

Su He thought about what his coach taught him when he first started diving, and took a deep breath of oxygen to dive deeper.

Xie Jingxing kept checking her condition and comforted her not to be afraid, and the two of them dived into the seabed little by little. The number of tiger sharks increased, and the fish schools surrounded them. The light visibility decreased, and the sea water completely turned dark, quiet and spectacular.

Su He unconsciously stretched out her arms to poke the deep blue, and her body was passively spun and floated up rapidly. She panicked and subconsciously twisted her waist to try to regain her balance with her flippers.

Suddenly, my thighs were slapped twice, and my whole body was grabbed by a pair of strong hands and pulled back to the bottom of the seabed. Then the exhaust valve of the equipment was pressed all the way to the bottom to empty the air in the BCD.

"My oxygen was gone, and I couldn't breathe."

The whole process was completed in the blink of an eye. After Su He came to his senses, his body had regained balance and stopped floating. He gestured frantically to indicate that he wanted oxygen.

She had just made an extremely stupid and low-level mistake. Rapidly ascending from 42 meters underwater could have caused decompression sickness at best, or a lung explosion that would have sent her to the ICU.

Xie Jingxing used his regulator to let her breathe in, and pressed her chest to indicate that she should use abdominal breathing to adjust her breathing rhythm.

"Wait a minute, I'll take you upstairs."

He quickly dug up the sand on the seabed, took out the small box and opened it. A ruby ​​necklace as bright as pigeon blood floated in the air. The deep blue served as the background, and the rubies were surrounded by sparkling diamonds that sparkled brightly.

The magnificent coral reefs lost their colors and flowers bloomed on the sea floor.

Su He's mask was covered with mist, and she vaguely saw the necklace floating and turning to reveal a platinum base with a string of characters engraved on it.

——2013.7.22, for suhe.

She could no longer see anything. That night was just like this moment. The whole world only had Xie Jingxing and a bright red.

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In the evening, the gold treasure hunt came to a successful conclusion, and He Chuan and Shen Xin found the 50th gold bar on the coconut tree.

Xie Jingxing came forward to certify the game results, which were similar to the predicted results. Under saturation coverage, all employees had more or less gold bars deposited into their accounts.

Everyone was smiling and making plans to have dinner together and do some after-dinner entertainment. The relationship was much more relaxed than when they landed on the island yesterday. Maybe they could even become personal friends later.

It is enough to at least engage in healthy competition in projects and not hinder their own sister institutions as they do to external institutions.

The employees below were all smiling and laughing, and Su He also took the initiative to invite Tang Man to have dinner together alone.

"There may be investment opportunities in Meituan after the new year, and Taihe will invest," she said bluntly.

Tang Man was cutting steak calmly: "Meituan's next round of financing will not be small. Is Taihe going to do PE business?"

“Although Taihe does not raise funds externally, it is never short of funds.”

Su He paused for a moment and said, "This is related to the strategic layout of Yunshan Group. President Xie attaches great importance to the logistics business related to local life."

"And the bigger the scale of Meituan's next round of financing, the more it proves the success of your Xiyou's investment in Ele.me and Dianping."

She continued sincerely, "From this perspective, Taihe should join the game."

Tang Man didn't comment. He put down his knife and fork and looked at her carefully for a few seconds: "The necklace is quite beautiful."

"Your ring too." Su He said frankly.

Tang Man opened her hand and admired the sparkling emerald diamond ring on her middle finger: "I don't quite understand."

"No one asks you to understand, so just don't waste your energy on internal affairs. He doesn't like to waste energy on such things." Su He emphasized.

Tang Man had a sarcastic smile on her face: "Isn't it because he favors you to bully me? I don't know anything, but I became a joke in the industry for no reason. My colleagues say that Taihe Grapefruit is Xie Jingxing and his women. It's really interesting."

"It's similar to the version I heard, the Empress Dowager and Puyi." Su He told a joke.

Tang Man was furious: "Are you Cixi or am I Cixi?"

"I don't know, but he is definitely not Puyi." Su He was very rogue.

Tang Man couldn't refute it. The emerald diamond ring that grew on the coral reef in the morning was worn on her hand in the evening, which was enough to explain the problem.

She was just unhappy that Su He's necklace looked more dazzling, and she even took the initiative to ask her out for dinner in a hypocritical manner.

According to her idea, he should be a little reserved at first, and she would naturally let bygones be bygones and invite the other party to dinner tomorrow.

It was too late to act, and now she seems to be unmoved!

This dead woman with a narrow vision and no vision was probably brainwashed by Xie Jingxing and confused. She didn't care about her face at all and asked her to kill and rob without blinking an eye. It was really hard to understand.

Is it really so magical to go through life and death together?
"Forget it. There's no need to argue about these meaningless things. No matter what outsiders say, we just need to focus on our own projects." Su He tried his best to show a friendly attitude.

Tang Man raised an eyebrow: "Tell me about it?"

"Let's summarize the key projects at hand so that we have an idea of ​​how to operate them next year." Su He mentioned business.

In 2013, Taihe Pomelo achieved remarkable results, with a total of 32 investment projects. It should be noted that Sequoia China invested in less than 50 projects throughout the whole of last year.

The vast majority of these are long-term growth companies that have not yet figured out a complete business model. A large number of projects such as Xiaohongshu, Bilibili, Pop Mart, Mihoyo, Siba Media, etc. are concentrated in this stage.

These companies don't have to spend much energy in the next one or two years.

The second largest group is companies that have already implemented a successful business model and entered a period of explosive growth, mainly including the three projects of Kuaishou, ByteDance, and Yinshanbudu.

They need to focus on allocating resources for support. Kuaishou is spending money to expand its user base and it is expected that the data will grow significantly in the second half of the year. Correspondingly, a new round of financing will be launched at that time.

Xie Jingxing judged that the valuation would at least triple or triple, and he wanted Xiyou to come in and take over to help Taihe.

ByteDance is also burning money. As 4G mobile networks enter the country, traditional PC-based portal news websites are deteriorating. Tencent and 360 have simultaneously turned to mobile APP ports.

They have also begun to imitate "Toutiao", which currently holds the largest market share, and started to develop intelligent recommendation algorithms.

Therefore, its money-burning strategy in this regard is different from that of Kuaishou. It mainly focuses on product distribution, pre-installed software, and user traffic entry, with the aim of competing with the giants.

A few years ago, Tencent shamelessly blocked Toutiao, and Weibo followed suit, prohibiting it from collecting comments and binding user accounts on multiple platforms simultaneously.

This move gave Zhang Yiming a lot of headaches, and he was thinking about how to produce original content. This was related to the upcoming pan-entertainment strategic layout, and he needed Xiyou to take the lead and spend money.

Finally, for the Yinshanbudu milk tea brand, the store development situation is very good, but the money-burning task of building the raw material supply chain is very difficult to cope with.

Cui A Liu rushed to find Xie Jingxing to cry and complain, saying that Yunhe must first open up the upstream raw material supply link in a targeted manner to weld an iron leg for Yinshanbudu.

Based on this, Yunhe will have to build a fruit storage and logistics system in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, Guangxi, Shandong, Hebei and other regions at least next year.

It is still the same gameplay as the Yunnan Chuncheng Storage and Distribution Center, with super-double leverage through grapefruit.

Taking all things into account, the projects are basically all Taihe's, and Xiyou is the one who spends the money.

Tang Man laughed angrily: "As expected, you are motivated only when you have something to ask for. I really thought you were just as blindly following others as Song Anli."

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