Turing's Code Chapter 2 34 Feb 12, 2020

F i r s t M o v e m e n t

Chapter II

“Guan Yue is dead!”

“Shhh...”

TianHe who slept all afternoon was lying on the sofa with his disheveled curly black hair and a wool blanket over his body. The chef is cooking dinner while the housekeeper, Aunt Fang, goes up to the second floor and puts aside a large list of debts sent by the company, folds them up, and took them back to the study.

The driver followed Aunt Fang from the living room to the study and whispered something about the situation, “Guan Yue is dead! Guan Yue is dead!”

In the study, the Macaw saw Aunt Fang who patted its wings constantly.

“Shhh.” Aunt Fang patiently said to the Macaw, pulled down the curtain, covered the lights, and said to the driver, “You should eat dinner too. It's been a hard day. If you return to your hometown this weekend, you should bring two native chickens.”

The driver nodded and thought of what kind of native chicken he would eat if they went bankrupt. The villa, the furnishings, the large and small properties would be auctioned in less than a month.

Maybe half of the chickens will be sold.

“Xiao Tian?” Aunt Fang woke TianHe and said, “Dinner.”

TianHe rose bleary-eyed. For a moment, he thought everything today was a dream.

Entering the dining room, Aunt Fang was sitting behind the bar, wearing reading glasses counting last month's account.

A cup of matsutake stewed chicken, a plate of steamed saury, and a plate of stir-fried Shanghai green cabbage was on the table.

“July eel, August bream, and September crucial carp,” Aunt Fang said, “Eels are the best in this season, but unfortunately you don't like it, but if you want to try them, I'll pick them myself some other day,”

TianHe sighed, picked up the chopsticks, looked at the dishes, and put them down again, “The company is going bankrupt.”

Aunt Fang still looked down at the account and said, “Bankruptcy is bankruptcy, we still have to eat.”

TianHe added, “Second brother didn't tell me anything. He kept it from me for more than a year.”

“He doesn't want you to worry.” Aunt Fang said.

TianHe, “I hope so. Where's my phone? I have to call him. I think he's now in San Francisco.”

Aunt Fang, “I've called. I want to find him too but I haven't reached...”

TianHe threw his chopsticks on the table. Full of anger, he stroked his hair and said, “I'll arrange the house tonight by taking turns calling him. Everyone will call him for three hours until he answers.”

Aunt Fang grunted.

TianHe casually ate some then went to the study on the second floor. He uncovered the cloth covering the parrot's cage, fed it some food, shook his head, sat down, and found the legal change of contract in the drawer.

Three months ago, second brother handed him this pile of documents. When he signed his name, TianHe didn't read it carefully.

When the parrot was full, it flapped its wings and yelled, “Guan Yue is cold—”

Whether Guan Yue is now cold or not, TianHe doesn't know, but looking at the contract page by page, he got cold turning to the last page with a note in it.

TianHe laughed like a madman.

He got up, walked to the bookshelf, and took out the photo frame with his parents and brothers when they were still together.

With a sound of broken glass, the photo frame flew out of the study and landed outside the house shattered.

———

Three days later.

“The commercial streets, inns, restaurants, racecourses, handicraft workshops, processing plants and so on that are under your brother's name will go through process of evaluation and auction one by one. The two charitable funds and donated libraries will not be affected. In addition, your family's private club in Changshan villa...”

TianHe, “The club has been bought by a friend. All the formalities have been completed in July, I know this.”

The financial advisor said, “You and TianYue have 30 million joint assets. A family trust fund has been established, for that, we have made a more effective isolation, I suggest you not to touch it for now.”

“Is there only 30 million left?” TianHe got up and poured a glass of wine for the financial advisor.

“Yes.” The FA said, “Your brother transferred the working capital entrusted to us for management in the past year. The remaining 30 million is the minimum amount for a family trust.”

“Transfer six million to our company's account first.” TianHe looked at the number under the payroll and said, “Tomorrow morning, the finance will check with you.”

FA, “Mr. Wen, relatively speaking, I personally recommend...”

TianHe glanced at the financial advisor. The advisor immediately nodded and said, “Okay.”

“It's almost ten years since you helped my family manage funds.” TianHe said.

The 40-year-old bank financial advisor nodded. TianHe thought for a moment and said, “You're laughing at this.”

“You're too serious.” The advisor replied, “You're a kind person, you still think about the salaries of the employees. Before coming here, our head also said that as long as you are so young, as long as you get through the present difficulties and rise again, it will not be a problem.”

TianHe, “It's spread outside.”

The advisor thought about it and said, “There is such a rumor, but most of them are reasonable.”

TianHe, “What other hedging methods can you teach me?”

The advisor appeared embarrassed. This is obviously beyond his tolerance.

TianHe only looked into his eyes. The financial advisor said earnestly and seriously, “Never borrow usury. This is my only advise, never help anyone guarantee loans. Originally, as long as the assets were not sealed up, it could be postponed in a year, but this...ah,”

Wen TianYue can't run a company. But a few years ago, he was also an investment expert. He can completely self-sufficient in his asset income and supplement the technology company. But now that the capital chain is broken, once entering the bankruptcy process, all assets must be auctioned at a discount. No matter how your industry worth, the bank discounts cash back, with 20% off for cars, and 30% off for real estate... The valuation is horribly low, and it will also cut off almost all the asset income of the family.

Soon, Aunt Fang sent the financial advisor out.

———

TianHe, “Xiao Jiang, look at you.”

JiangZi Jian leans on the sofa, seriously poking the two balls of the blue cat. This blue cat is born with intellectual defects. If you don't move, it won't move. No matter how you toss it, it won't get angry.

TianHe took the bird cage out and handed to the servant, who hung it in the garden to bask in the sun.

JiangZi Jian, “I broke it up.”

“I'm broke too.” TianHe sat down on the sofa and said, “Wine or coffee?”

JiangZi Jian, “Both needed. The company hasn't gone bankrupt, yet it's on the news. Epeus's former legal person runs away, can't you contact your brother?”

“Tell me about your breakup first?”

“Aiya, I'll tell you.” JiangZi Jian talked about his sufferings, “I don't think I can go on like this anymore. The one I talked about last time treats me as a virgin! He didn't let me go to him, saying I'm afraid of pain and have psychological shadow. Well, I also endured it. Sex is nothing that can't be adjusted. Everyone wiped their guns when they're empty. It's just that this living habit is...intolerable. I brushed 800,000 yuan off my card in a month! Where did it go? All bought fcking apples...”

“What apple?”

“Apple! Mobile phones, computers, speakers, desktops, watches, various models of iPads, top accessories, and even bought fifty protector cases...why? I used peppers when I go to school...”

“What peppers?”

“A counterfeit phone? I don't know. He said it himself, he was ridiculed by his roommate and wanted to get revenge. I drove my car back to my hometown and attended a college classmate's wedding. I didn't know who vomited a car and asked me for a million yuan to fix the road in his hometown. Four sisters, one of whom wanted a suite, told their parents that they had a brother outside. I said that I would take him to immigrate and get married. His parents couldn't stand the fact that their son was homosexual, afraid that his 67-year-old mother would hang herself...”

“He came to my house for three months, scolded Xiao ZhouYi, and didn't put him in bath water. Xiao Zhou can't compare with Aunt. She has taken care of me for seven years.” JiangZi Jian said and took the Irish coffee, “Thank you, Aunt Fang.”

“After three months together, I finally succeeded in taking off his shorts once, guess what I saw?” JiangZi Jian angrily complained.

TianHe immediately turned his attention. JiangZi Jian whispered and said solemnly, “Stainless steel underwear.”

TianHe, “···”

JiangZi Jian, “There's also a password lock on it! Letting me guess the password, I guess, I guess my ass! I said stop messing around, I asked for mental damage compensation, I was rejected, I broke the internet to map posts, and pressed several scars on my ass. I said I would burn him with cigarette butts and threatened to fuck him! I haven't even seen his ass whether if it's round or flat!”

“And then?” TianHe faced JiangZi Jian. He faithfully played the role of a supporter.

“I really found someone who burned his butt, deleted the post, and silence finally.” JiangZi Jian said, “It's your turn now. How is the property lost?”

“My brother applied for a change of legal person three months ago.” TianHe said, “Transferred the legal person to me then run away. I don't know where it is now.”

JiangZi Jian, “Don't do anything wrong.”

TianHe pulls out a note from his pocket which says, “Baobao, I'm sorry, brother screwed up. You can do it at your own discretion.”

JiangZi Jian breath a sigh of relief, “It's not auctioned yet. I can lend some to turn it around first?”

TianHe, “The pit is too big to fill. How much can you lend me?”

JiangZi Jian, “I've been rummaging accounts around. I could borrow you more than 200 million yuan. It's all I can take out.”

TianHe naturally couldn't find JiangZi Jian borrowing money. Even if he borrowed it, with the current situation, the five-point annual profit was still not enough.

“The bank will come to seal up the house and car next week.” TianHe said abstractedly, “Everything must be auctioned, and the house must be rented.”

“What about the company? When will the liquidation wound up?” JiangZi Jian asked again, “No wonder my father bought all the shares of Jiangyue Club last July.”

“In Qing.” TianHe replied, “I'll stick out the seal tomorrow and pay back the employees' wages before they are dismissed.”

“Will Xiao Jin be auctioned?” JiangZi Jian looked up at the parrot outside the living room. The sun shines brightly.

TianHe said expressionless, “Xiao Jin can only say three sentences. One is ‘Guan Yue is dead', ‘Guan Yue is cold', and ‘Shares crashes again'. Who will buy it? Guan Yue?”

JiangZi Jian laughed with TianHe.

TianHe looked at his best friend, JiangZi Jian, who was very handsome and had a figure of an athlete with proper muscular lines. He wears a thin white shirt, his skin looms in the sun. His facial features are very classic. Although he's not as handsome and bright as TianHe, he doesn't have a manly taste. JiangZi Jian has multiple nicknames. The most elegant one is ‘Handsome Jiang'. The rest are ‘Wolf's light heart', ‘Sex engine', ‘Nuclear fusion power machinery', ‘Marathon bed friendly master' and so on.

There's a proverb in Cambridge Philosophy Department: Science and technology are the first productive forces of human society. And sex is JiangZi Jian's first engine. There's also a saying that ‘sex is JiangZi Jian's first instinct.”

JiangZi Jian is a ‘casual' person, which is one of the reason why TianHe become sworn parties with him. As long as young master Jiang likes you and loves you, nothing is a problem. Even when a loyal dog is a low key dog, it'll still go to your classroom's front door by helicopter to deliver breakfast and sent Brazilian iris flowers, being tied by the bed, letting him being the bottom, take a whip, it'll still won't mind.

“I'm thinking, why don't you take all my money. I'll just be a working class and a teaching assistant in the University. Maybe I can find true love there?”

TianHe, “No need. I recommend you a book, ‘The Self-Cultivation of Actors'.”

JiangZi Jian and TianHe had been close for many years. Hearing this, they suddenly came to their senses and patted their thighs, “Right!”

The two were relatively silent. After a minute's silence, the Macaw screamed out of the window, “Guan Yue is cold”

———

The water is boiling in the president's office of the International Financial Center, the 37th floor of HSBC Building, the Qingsong Capital China Fund.

Guan Yue rolled up his shirt sleeve, lifted the pot, poured hot water, shoveled out a bit of Assam tea, takes out a box of milk and other tea to boil, and watched today's industry news while drinking.

Guan Yue: 27 years old, Aquarius, 188cm, 20 cm, one of the partners of Qingsong Capital China Fund, CEO of the local branch, unknown amount of properties, rental social group, originally from Taiyuan Shanxi Province, master's degree in PPE (Philosophy,Politics,Economics) from Oxford University.

Life hobbies: stock speculation and equestrian

Sexual orientation: unknown

Guan Yue's facial features are hard and full of masculinity, sharp eyebrows, tall nose bridges, long fingers, clear knuckles, stubble shaving blue, throat knots are obvious and sexy, and his hair slightly pushed flat on the side. Under the hands of the hairdresser, he also carved two inconspicuous knives, showing the word ‘X'.

Guan Yue opened two buttons of his shirt, revealing a clear collarbone. Recently, he has been doing a good job in fitness. His shoulder back slightly extended, and the shoulder line of his white shirt held straight.

“Chairman, what's the news?” Tong Kai, chief advisor of the Greater China Division of Nuolin law firm, sat opposite Guan Yue, idly basking in the sun and brushing his phone with his stiff little finger.

Guan Yue glanced at Tong Kai's orchid finger and frowned.

Tong Kai saw his line of sight and exclaimed angrily, “My little finger burned! With all the ointment on it, do you think I want to skip? Yesterday's meeting, the intern came to add tea and poured boiling water directly into my hand. The entire conference room thought I was getting an electric shock, or just from a heartbreak and was scalded, do you think I have been unlucky recently because of adverse effects of water?”

Guan Yue didn't answer. The two men resumed their phone viewing status.

Ten seconds, twenty seconds, one minute... Tong Kai glanced at Guan Yue out of the corner of his eye and found something wrong. He gave him a tentative look behind his phone.

“Chairman, what are you looking at? Something big happened?” Tong Kai asked.

Guan Yue, “???”

Guan Yue raised his head from the front of the phone screen, raised his left eyebrow slightly, and glanced at Tong Kai.

Tong Kai, “You've stayed on the same press release post for a minute now!”

“Your eyebrows betrayed you. You're anxious.” Tong Kai asked suspiciously, “This is an abnormal behavior. Shares A are going to finance crash again?”

Guan Yue put his phone aside and turned to looked absentmindedly at the kettle.

Tong Kai stretched his neck, glanced at the news headline on the phone screen and murmured, “Epeus has overdue debts, insolvent, and filed for bankruptcy... Epeus?” Tong Kai's brow twisted. “How did you know that?”

Guan Yue was silent, his long fingers tapped rhythmically on his desk.

Tong Kai started his own research, “He started with the development of quantitative trading software and turned to artificial intelligence in the past two years. He's known as the unicorn of the company and raised funds to E-round... was burned out without listing money... Do you know this company? Why do I feel so familiar...”

Guan Yue's unnatural expression flickered.

Tong Kai put down his phone and no longer cared about the news. He said, “I really don't want to fall in love anymore. The last time that little executive hurt me badly.”

“Even if I shake my legs after eating, it's still shaken. I shake everywhere. When I watched a movie, I shake the row of seats, others think it's an earthquake then they ran halfway.” Tong Kai learned from the previous boyfriend shaking his legs and said, “Look, this frequency, this amplitude, are these two human legs? This is completely out of ergonomics, this is a motor! When shaking, my head went askew as I am. When I first saw it, I thought I had a stroke!”

“Life habits also calculate. No one is perfect, you can bear it. But I was cheated and deceived! Tricking me to help them in a lawsuit and consult legal issues! I asked myself why every time I came out for dinner I was asked to give him an idea. How come there are so many lawsuits?”

“He wants me to give him an exemption, fee, consultation, and inquiry! In the end, I found out he was a straight man! He has wife and children, both children are two years old, okay?”

Guan Yue glanced at Tong Kai. Looking at the expression, he seemed to say something, but refrained.

Tong Kai said almost despairingly, “I think the most frustrating time in my life is when I finally waited for the night when he finally promised me to ‘bed'. I took a good bath and changed my bathrobe. I also poured a glass of wine, played a piece of music, dimmed the lights, and was trying to create some atmosphere when he came out with a feather duster. I thought to myself, would you like to play something else? Why don't you get a whip, not a feather duster?”

“As a result, he plumped down on his knees!” Tong Kai said emotionally, “He said, ‘Brother, please let me go. I admit I lied to you. I just want to ask what will happen next in this dead-end case of financing mergers and acquisitions. I don't want to lie to you, I dare not! It's our boss who made me come. Please let go of my chrysanthemum'.”

Tong Kai cried, remembering the expression of the little executive begging, ‘I have an old man and a young man, and my wife still doesn't know that I'm doing such a shameful thing...'

Tong Kai grabbed a gold rice bowl and made a gesture, sincerely shouting, ‘Hit me! With this feather duster, hit me like my wife hit me. Hit me in the face! Brother! I can accept you hitting me in the face!'

Guan Yue looked at Tong Kai.

Tong Kai said sadly, “Can I hit him? He said love, how can I beat him? I became a company executive at the age of 25, I worked and fought hard in big cities. I felt stressed that my legs would shake and limp. I felt more distressed when I saw it... what else can I do? Forget it.”

Guan Yue handed Tong Kai a cup of milk tea, took away his golden rice bowl, dug out a tube of universal glue from the stationary box and sticks the golden rice bowl to his desk.

Tong Kai took a sip of milk tea, helplessly sighed and shook his head.

At the age of 29, Tong Kai still looked young, he looks like a college student who's still studying. His brows and eyes are clearly defined, his skin like milk. When he's talking, he always smiles. He's clingy and likes to laugh. He has vigorous vitality. There are words that never come straight to the point, leaving no one half-hearted.

Tong Kai said helplessly, “It's too difficult to find someone right now. It's either my idea of money or my talent. Is there still true love in this world? Aiya, are you listening?”

Guan Yue's expression is a little dignified. He looked at his phone seriously.

Tong Kai narrowed his eyes and said, “Still watching Epeus news? Are you planning to save this?”

Guan Yue finally said, “Impossible. I don't accept junk.” He touched his tall, beautiful and perfect sexy nose inherited from his father's family.

———

In the autumn of September, the company began its liquidation. Representatives of banks and shareholders gave an ultimatum to enforce the bankruptcy process for personal assets before October 1. On the birthday of the mother of the motherland, TianHe will lose almost his property, move out, and find another place to live.

The few remaining employees of the company craned their necks and waited. Originally, TianHe asked the CFO to hand out the money once the discussion was over. However, all colleagues agreed to take a farewell photo with TianHe. To commemorate it, TianHe drove by himself—the driver had resigned and went home to dig the wall.

After half a month, the family's four cars would have to be delivered to the bank. If he have time, he need to find out how to hail a taxi.

“Hi boss.”

“Hi boss.”

“There are still so many people.” TianHe glanced and said, “Mecy, you can buy Disney tickets for the whole company tomorrow. I'll invite everyone to have a good time before the group will dispersed.”

“Okay.” The CFO said, “It's the last time anyway. It's better to buy the tour service in advance like last time.”

“Of course,” TianHe said. “It's not elegant not to queue up at Disney even if you go bankrupt.”

TianHe's expression was always so calm. He took photos with them one after another.

From 2:00 pm to 6:30 pm., every employee comes to shake hands with TianHe.

“I can't bear to...” Many girls cried.

“Can't bear?” TianHe smiled and said, “I've been CEO for less than a week.”

“Can't bear to give up the company!” Programmers wailed loudly, shaking hands with TianHe in turn, snotted and shed tears. After waiting for the employees to turn around, TianHe wiped his nose on Mecy's coat.

The third floor office gradually quieted down. The employees finally left, leaving the CFO, the Deputy General, and the General Assistant.

“Second boss, see you again later. If you want to work together again, call me. I'll return home with my children and do some WeChat business in passing. I'll be on call.”

“Sure.” TianHe said, “I would like to lend Bentley to you, and perhaps take a picture?”

“Can you?!” The General Assistant was flattered and received TianHe's car key.

“You can drive it for a few days and park it back in the company garage.” TianHe then sent the General Assistant away.

The CFO looked around the office. TianHe said, “Mecy should go back too, you still have to spend some time with the legal department. After National Day, just regard it as official resignation. Have fun tomorrow.”

“Okay, I'll go too.” Mecy politely said goodbye to TianHe and left.

The General's office was opened, TianHe enters the office which was supposed to be his own. He sits on his brother's swivel chair and sighed. The Deputy General came in and sat down across the desk. Looking at TianHe, neither of them said anything.

“You were there when my brother took over the company.” TianHe said.

“I came when your father was ill.” The Deputy General looked around and said, “Have a drink?”

“You drink it.” TianHe said in distress, “I have a psychological shadow over foreign wine. My brother came to see me the night before he ran.”

The Deputy General took out a bottle of wine and two glasses from the shelf and said, “Let's drink some.”

“They all like the company very much.” TianHe thought, took the cup and said, “What you cry is really crying, what is loathe to give up is really loathe to give up.”

“Works are done like this. If you want to build a group, build it.” The Deputy General casually said, “If you want to ask for leave, then ask for leave. You can go to Paris, London and Hokkaido, you can play games and have daily meal after work. Who doesn't like it?”

TianHe, “Well, even the sweeping Aunt earns 12,000 yuan. I can feel that everyone loves the company deeply, but none of you persuade him?”

“Is it still useful?” The Deputy General helplessly said, “The industry is all touting him. He has long lost his head. The myth of newly rich capital and technology companies... Look at the wall, it's still hanging.”

On the wall was Wen TianYue's group photo with several heavyweight officials.

The Deputy General said, “The state's support must be supported. Intangible assets are mortgaged and the batch of banks are 600 million. On that day, the head branch returned, he almost couldn't catch his breathe...”

TianHe, “I have seen the project's progress. Is there any hope?”

The Deputy General shook his head, “I don't think it can be done. The technical director copied one for you. Would you like to go home and try it for a few more years? The server key is in the file bag, but I'm afraid your home computer won't work.”

TianHe thought and said, “Last question, haven't you had an argument with my elder brother in all these years? What kind of decision does he make?”

The Deputy General reluctantly said, “Is there any less noise? I told him not to bet Spain, but France. Now there is still a thousand left. If he bets again, maybe the egoless company will turn over.”

“You can go home.” TianHe spent great efforts to control himself from saying the words ‘get lost'.

“Call me. Bye bye.” The Deputy General drank the wine in one gulp, hugged TianHe heavily then walked out of the office.

At sunset, the setting sun thrown in from the window of the floor. The gilded fell on the monitors one after another. The employees had taken away their keyboard and mouse for work and games.

TianHe walked into the 19th floor and looked at the row of seats quietly. When he was a child, his father took him to the first company. The first company developed quantitative trading software on the second floor of a vegetable market in the old city. The company earned the first bucket of gold and changed into slightly flashier office building. Soon after, my father found out he has brain tumor and left six months later.

After my elder brother took over the company, he rented the three-story office of the Science and Technology Park in the New Wisteria District. The project R & D Department continued to follow the pattern the two brothers had seen in the old building.

Walking between the seats, TianHe reminisced the past.

Wen TianYue still by his side, sitting in a swivel chair and seriously said to him, “Baobao, what father left us are all in the hard disk of the server, you see? He never left.”

TianHe sat quietly in the position of CTO until the last ray of sky light disappears. The song of G string spilled like a stream of water over the ground.

As the night fell, the entire office fell into darkness. In the corner office on the 19th floor, a computer suddenly started up and the monitor lit up.

TianHe turned around and sat at the desk in the corner. The monitor was covered with thick layer of dust. There's no famous brand name on the table, it's a disused host computer, why did it suddenly start up? Poor main board contact? TianHe clicked the mouse a few times, pressed F8, nothing happened, the blue screen reported an error. TianHe leaned down and wanted to press the power button to shut down when the blue screen interface suddenly flashed and a coding language popped up.

“Please access the secret key and format the backup at the same time...” TianHe frowned. He found the adapter and plugged in the secret key. He haven't checked the connection of the external network, let alone figured out where to back it up. The monitor flashed and host starts to read the data quickly.

TianHe gaped and raised his hands. He didn't even touch anywhere on the keyboard. Is this set?!! Is this a virus or an AI?

TianHe held the secret key and was about to unplug when the monitor flickered and a black screen buzzed. TianHe leaned down again and pressed a few times to restart. The main board reported an error and burned. TianHe was puzzled, he checked the hot computer, but no matter how you pressed, the computer will no longer turn on.