Liang Yu arrived ten minutes early.
The alley was behind The Bund. After entering, he had to turn twice. There was only a street number on the iron gate, no signboard. He pushed the door open, confirmed the private room with a server, looked over the menu, and switched the tea to Da Hong Pao.
It hadn't been easy to invite Xu Feng out. After the last quarterly review meeting, Xu Feng had mocked him by the elevator, and Liang Yu still remembered that expression. But Han Luyi wanted an infrastructure discount. Pricing wasn't handled by the ecology department; it was under Xu Feng's major client services department. Liang Yu had taken the initiative to send a WeChat message, politely saying that an AI-sector client wanted to discuss an annual commitment. Xu Feng had been straightforward about it. Q4 had just begun, and one more deal was always good.
Xu Feng arrived before Han Luyi. After sitting down, he swept his gaze over the private room. "Nice place. You come here often, Old Liang?"
"A friend recommended it. The owner's from Anhui, and the Anhui cuisine is very authentic." Liang Yu poured him some tea.
Xu Feng lifted his teacup and took a sip, then glanced at the menu. "You order."
After Liang Yu finished ordering, he smoothly brought up the person they were meeting tonight. "Source Code Technology, the company behind BugKiller. Director Zhang mentioned them during the last review meeting."
"I vaguely remember." Xu Feng said, "AI code review? One of your ecology department's key projects."
"That's right. Their monthly spending is over a hundred thousand, and their growth is solid. The founder is very young, with a technical background."
Xu Feng didn't ask anything else. Monthly spending of a little over a hundred thousand wouldn't even make