Chapter 470 Countdown Days

After staying at home for one night, Zhou Jing set out for BJ early the next morning. There was heavy traffic on the road during the Spring Festival holiday, so Zhou Jing arrived in BJ at around seven in the evening.

It was the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month. Zhou Jing and Gu Jia had been separated for nearly half a month. When he returned home and saw that Gu Jia's round belly was safe and sound, Zhou Jing felt relieved.

Dad Gu also has to go to the countryside for research on New Year's Eve, so he can only come to BJ for the New Year's Eve dinner tomorrow afternoon.

Gu Jia is pregnant and about to give birth, and Zhou Jing is very worried because there is no man at home.

"I brought so much meat. Luckily I didn't buy it in the supermarket. I should have asked my mom to go out and get so many things."

Gu Jia went outside the elevator to help get things, including chicken, pork, mutton, half a pig's head and four pig's trotters.

"Xiao Zhou must be exhausted after driving all day. Don't worry about the things here. Let's eat first."

Mother Gu prepared dinner for Zhou Jing.

"It's okay. There are a lot of cars on the road and they are driving slower, so I can take a break."

Zhou Jing went to the bathroom, washed his hands and ate.

Gu Jia followed Zhou Jing and sat at the dining table and asked, "Is there any snow on the road?"

"Jin saves a little, it will be over soon." Zhou Jing touched Gu Jia's belly and asked, "How does it feel?"

"My lower abdomen is a little bit droopy and the fetal movements are reduced. These are all normal reactions."

Gu Jia looked down at her belly, counting down ten days, and she was finally going to make it, feeling very excited.

"Should we go to the hospital to check the fetal position tomorrow?"

Zhou Jing felt the same as Gu Jia. He was about to welcome the little life of his own creation, and recently he was wondering every day whether it would be a daughter or a son.

"Let's wait until after the Chinese New Year, on the second or third day of the New Year."

Gu Jia didn't want to go to the hospital during the New Year.

"Is everything okay at home, Xiao Zhou?"

Mother Gu filled Zhou Jing's bowl with the remaining rice in the rice cooker.

"Everything is fine." Zhou Jing drank a mouthful of soup and looked at Gu Jia and asked, "Dad, what time is your flight tomorrow?"

"It's about two o'clock in the afternoon."

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After dinner, Zhou Jing went to take a shower and asked Gu Jia if she wanted to take a shower today.

Gu Jia looked at her hair and decided not to wash it today. Zhou Jing must be tired after a long journey, so she would wash it tomorrow.

Zhou Jing went to the bathroom and took a quick shower to relieve his fatigue. After he finished, Gu's mother also washed the dishes. Zhou Jing went to the kitchen to prepare the pork and mutton he brought from his hometown.

"Xiao Zhou is tired today, so we'll do it tomorrow. The meat is frozen and hard to cut now."

Mother Gu opened the plastic bag and pinched the mutton. The mutton bought from the countryside looked authentic.

"It's not too frozen, just the right amount to remove the bones."

Zhou Jing placed half a lamb on a large chopping board and began to remove the bones with a boning knife.

"It looks like a rooster." Gu Jia picked up a chicken, which was fat and big. "Have your grandmother's chickens started laying eggs?"

"No, it should be about time now that the weather is warmer. My mother bought seven old hens in advance and will bring them on the seventh day of the first lunar month."

Zhou Jing was very rough in removing the bones, and there was a lot of meat on the bones, so he could make a good stewed lamb chops for himself.

Gu Jia smiled and said, "Seven are enough for confinement. I don't think I need any more."

"You'll recover faster if you have a natural birth, but you need to take good care of yourself if you have a caesarean section."

Mother Gu touched her daughter's belly and said.

"If the fetus is head down, it will be delivered naturally. When you are in the hospital waiting for delivery, ask the doctor to adjust the fetus's position."

Gu Jia decided to have a natural birth. If conditions permit, she would try not to have surgery. Making a cut on the belly was too scary.

"It's best not to have surgery if you can. Not only will it leave scars, but the area where the surgery was done will be affected to some extent." Mother Gu took out a native rooster that Zhou Jing brought and said, "You two can rest later tomorrow if you are not busy. I will stew one now."

"Row."

Gu Jia nodded. She had just thought that the chicken legs of the local rooster were delicious.

Of course Zhou Jing had no problem with that, he also wanted to eat chicken legs.

After the mutton was cut and put in the refrigerator, Zhou Jing continued to cut the pork. The pork his father bought was a piece of rib belly that had not been boned. The bones could be removed to make pork chops.

"Now we have everything, so we don't need to buy anything tomorrow."

Gu Jia pulled the pig's ears and said.

"Just buy some seafood and vegetables."

Mother Gu said with a smile.

After removing the bones from the mutton and pork, Zhou Jing helped Gu's mother cut the chicken for stew into small pieces.

"Okay, you two go take a rest."

The rest can be done by Gu's mother alone.

Zhou Jing helped Gu Jia to the bedroom and sat on the bed. He squatted down and rolled up Gu Jia's pajamas, kissed her belly and smiled, "Finally, we are going to achieve our goal."

"That's right, the countdown is ten days."

Gu Jia has been very careful since May, hoping that the little one will be born smoothly and grow up healthily. It is worth all the suffering she has endured for so long.

"You come up too."

Gu Jia leaned back on the bed and said.

Zhou Jing took off his shoes and sat next to Gu Jia. Gu Jia skillfully played with little Zhou Jing with one hand.

The two had been separated for nearly half a month, and Zhou Jing couldn't bear it anymore, so he let Gu Jia do whatever she wanted.

It was still early, just past nine in the evening. After a short rest, Zhou Jing went to get a glass of water and gave it to Gu Jia. Then he searched for movies on the bedroom computer and asked Gu Jia what she wanted to watch.

“Are there any horror movies that are more exciting?”

Gu Jia had been watching domestic horror films before, and she no longer had any interest in domestic films.

"The island countries are very scary. I'm afraid you'll have a premature birth."

Zhou Jing thought of Sadako and Kayako, but he didn't dare to show them to Gu Jia.

"Well, why is it that horror movies in Japan make people feel creepy, while horror movies in China are becoming less and less thrilling?"

Gu Jia doesn’t dare to try to watch anything too scary now. Two days ago, she was preparing to watch The Grudge alone, but she was frightened by the atmosphere at the beginning and didn’t dare to continue watching it. She was so nervous that her body was tense, and she was worried that she would really get scared and have an accident.

"Because in China, everything is based on cause and effect. Even if there is injustice and they become ghosts, they still believe that there is a perpetrator for the injustice and the debt will be owed to the owner. They will retain basic humanity and will not hurt those who have helped them or innocent people. In Japan, horror movies often do not pay attention to cause and effect. Ghosts will attack indiscriminately. It is more terrifying because it is completely inhumane."

Zhou Jing has watched many horror movies and summarized the differences.

"I see."

Gu Jia understood and decided to experience it herself after the child was born.

What Zhou Jing didn't say is that if the female ghost in the movie still had some charm, the mental attack on male audiences would be much smaller. Some men have a natural immunity to female ghosts in white and even want to give them love. This may be the most reasonable interpretation of the audacity of lust.

Not daring to let Gu Jia watch a horror movie, Zhou Jing found a comedy instead.

Gu Jia didn't want to stay in bed and watch, so she got out of bed and sat on a chair to watch.

"By the way, I'll go find the Bluetooth speaker in the car."

Zhou Jing had not yet shown Gu Jia the Bluetooth speaker produced by Ideal Technology Co., Ltd. "Then put on your clothes."

Gu Jia really wanted to see what the Bluetooth speaker looked like.

"The car is downstairs and will be back soon."

Zhou Jing wore pajamas and a down jacket and went out.

A few minutes later Zhou Jing came back with three styles of speakers, as well as MP3 and MP4. The Bluetooth speaker was the highlight. The three speakers had a cylindrical shape, a rounded rectangular shape, and a spherical shape. The spherical speaker had a square base. The combination placed on the table looked like a radar on a warship, and should be very popular with boys.

"It looks very good. The design is simple but full of artistic sense. It reminds me of a saying that good design is often simple and unpretentious."

Each of the three speakers gave Gu Jia a bright feeling, very novel.

"This is the charm of mathematical geometry. In the future, there will be planet models, ocean models, and so on."

Zhou Jing likes the spherical shape of the speaker the most. The white base and the white spherical speaker are a very unique combination. The Bluetooth connection method is very simple. Turn on the speaker and manually connect the device via Bluetooth. After the connection is successful, Gu Jia clicks play, and the sound comes out from the speaker. The sound quality is better than the built-in computer speakers.

“The sound quality is completely comparable to the original sound.”

Gu Jia was very excited and asked her mother to come and experience it.

"The Bluetooth currently installed in the speaker is not the company's latest version. Currently, the Bluetooth technology of other devices cannot fully utilize our upgraded Bluetooth."

Zhou Jing said with a smile.

"amazing."

Gu's mother came to the bedroom and was amazed at the speaker that could play without any wires.

"The principle is actually very simple. What needs to be solved is the signal transmission speed and stability."

This technology is not new to Zhou Jing.

"It will definitely be popular among young people after it goes on the market. What is the factory price?"

Gu Jia is full of confidence in this product.

"If we don't consider the R&D cost, the average production cost of a speaker is less than twenty dollars, and the factory wholesale price is expected to be around thirty to forty dollars."

The speaker development was completed by Chuangzhi Technology Co., Ltd., and the core Bluetooth technology was planned by Zhou Jing. Zhou Jing will not transfer the R&D costs to Ideal Technology Co., Ltd. for the time being. He will consider other things after Ideal Technology Co., Ltd. achieves profitability. The most important thing at the moment is to use the advantages of independent R&D and planning to open up the market.

Apart from the R&D costs, the biggest cost of this speaker is the hardware. The relatively expensive parts of the hardware are the motherboard and battery. In order to reduce costs, not very good motherboards and batteries are used. The speaker can be used continuously for less than two hours when fully charged.

When new products are entering the market, the best approach is to focus on cost-effectiveness, even if the materials are inferior. The focus is on function. If the cost is too high at the beginning, even if the product is very good, it will be difficult to sell. Researching and innovating functions of electronic products is one aspect, but the more important premise is to consider the consumption capacity of the user group.

Besides, Bluetooth speakers are not Zhou Jing's core business. He only does this to run-in the production line and accumulate popularity for smartphones. Once smartphones are made, these low-cost Bluetooth speakers will become gifts. Zhou Jing has no intention of making money from speakers, traditional mobile phones and other products, but to pave the way for smartphones.

When the market matures and we target the mid-to-high-end market, we will upgrade the hardware, and it will not be too late to raise prices then.

"If the wholesale price is 35, the cost to retailers is less than 40, and the retail price is less than 50 or 60, which will make other speakers collapse."

Gu Jia can imagine how big an impact the fact that wireless speakers are not as expensive as wired speakers will have on the market.

"Once the production technology matures, we can continue to reduce costs." Zhou Jing picked up a simple MP3 player with an external memory card and said, "Is this MP3 player simple enough?"

"If you don't know, you can't tell it's an MP3. How much does it cost?"

Gu Jia took the MP3 and looked at it carefully. It was extremely simple. There was no screen, no external speakers, and a mobile phone memory card could be inserted. If you didn't know better, you would think it was a card reader.

"Without the memory card and the headphones, the cost is less than ten yuan, and the wholesale price is planned to be fifteen yuan." Zhou Jing picked up the speaker and pointed at the memory card slot and said, "The speaker can also be plugged in with a memory card, and you can also plug in a cable if you want."

"This will make it more practical and will quickly sell well across the country after it goes on the market."

If the Bluetooth speaker can be inserted with a memory card, then in Gu Jia's opinion the only shortcoming will be made up.

"If the sales volume is too good, the production capacity will not be able to keep up. Then we will look for an electronics factory in the south to do the manufacturing."

Ideal Technology Co., Ltd.'s current production line capacity is very limited. It has only three medium-sized production lines, and it has to produce a series of products including speakers, traditional mobile phones, MP3 and MP4 at the same time. If the speakers are really popular all over the country, the current production capacity will not be enough to produce just speakers, so after the New Year, the electronics factory started to expand the production line.

"Yes, the ones produced in the south are exclusively for the southern market."

Gu Jia was not in the mood to watch movies, so she turned on the music player and tried out each Bluetooth speaker.

“Which one do you like best?”

Zhou Jing looked at Gu Jia and said.

“This one is both beautiful and artistic.”

Gu Jia pointed to the spherical speaker on the cube base and said.

Looking at the spherical speaker, Zhou Jing had an idea. In order to make the base look less redundant, the base could be designed as a charger. It is not limited to charging the speaker, but can be made into a multi-functional charging socket, including for mobile phones.

"That's perfect. You're so talented."

After listening to Zhou Jing's idea, Gu Jia thought it was perfect.

Mother Gu stewed a local rooster, and when it had stewed long enough, she served two bowls to Zhou Jing and Gu Jia.

"I come."

Zhou Jing took the plate from Gu's mother.

"The soup made from native chicken is authentic. The only seasoning is salt and ginger slices. It depends on whether the taste is bland or not."

Mother Gu watched her daughter and son-in-law tasting the food with a smile on her face.

The only seasonings for stewing the chicken are ginger slices and salt, with wolfberries, red dates and mushrooms added. The chicken soup is rich and fragrant, with a layer of light golden oil floating on the soup.

"just."

Gu Jia drank some of the soup and nodded. The taste was a little light but very fresh, just right.

"I haven't been eating for long and I'm not hungry anymore. I've eaten this chicken leg. Just eat it from this bowl. I'll scoop another bowl."

Zhou Jing gave it to Gu's mother without trying it. A chicken has two legs, and Gu's mother should try the chicken leg after being busy all night.

"No, I'm not hungry either. I can't eat much at night when I'm old."

Mother Gu said quickly.

"I'll eat one of the two, and Mom will try it."

Gu Jia continued.

"Then just give me some chicken thigh meat." Mother Gu left the bedroom and walked towards the kitchen and said, "Xiao Zhou, I don't want meat, just some soup."

Zhou Jingsheng served half a bowl of chicken soup and a few pieces of chicken.

Mother Gu took the chicken from Zhou Jing's bowl and left two pieces for herself. Then she tore two pieces of meat from the chicken leg in Zhou Jing's bowl and put them in her own bowl and said, "Okay, Xiao Zhou, eat it."

"This chicken leg is so solid. I just need it." Gu Jia picked up a few pieces of meat for Zhou Jing and said with a smile, "You've worked hard recently. You need to replenish yourself. You've worked hard all year."

Zhou Jing said to himself that this year was indeed very hard for him. Not only did he work hard for two or three companies, but he also had to take care of three women. It was extremely hard. If it were an ordinary person, his body would have collapsed long ago. Even though Zhou Jing was full of energy after his rebirth, he sometimes couldn't help but be exhausted from dealing with three women.

"Is there a lot to do during the Spring Festival, Xiao Zhou?"

Mother Gu also feels sorry for her son-in-law.

"Nothing."

No matter how busy Zhou Jing is in the next half month, he cannot say that he has something to do. Nothing can be more important than Gu Jia giving birth.

After having supper, Zhou Jing and Gu Jia went to wash up. When they came to the bathroom, Zhou Jing squeezed toothpaste for Gu Jia.

"Little guy, just stay in there for a few more days and let us celebrate the New Year in peace."

There was a movement in the stomach, Gu Jia rubbed her stomach gently and said.

(End of this chapter)