《来时的路》(中英文混合版） 3.15 致天使

3.15    致天使

“Yitian, I am wondering if you can help me, just for 3 weeks, while I am gone. I hope I am not asking for too much.”Bernard 在电话里问程弈田。他不喜欢用MSN，即便是有这个那个优点，那个东西还是太浪费时间，打字再快也没有说话快。

“I think so.”弈田很爽快就答应了，一来自己可以学一些东西；二来，Bernard马上要去Cincinnati三个礼拜，他们做产品市场开拓咨询的，一有重要项目基本上都是要一天工作16小时，也实在没有办法跟上这里的进度。

“I am so grateful, thank you so much Yitian.”要是面对面，程弈田想，Bernard可能要很绅士地给她行脱帽礼。“Shall we meet one last time before I leave this late afternoon?”Bernard很不好意思地继续问道。

“Sure. I can make the time this early Sunday afternoon. Where shall we meet?”

“We are actually in Jean Jacque's right now. Would you mind coming here?”不明就里的Bernard想的是Jean Jacque这里非常方便， 而且很多资料都在CEO的电脑里，挪个窝不是那么容易的事。

虽然不是那么愿意再一次那么接近奚涛，为了另外三人的方便，程弈田还是说了句“See you in a bit then.”

“Great!”听到了全部对话的Roy挺高兴他又可以见到那个可爱的中国女孩，但他还真是有点纳闷：去年，他就听Jean Jacque说起过奚涛和弈田的关系；后来他以前实验室的Maggie宣布跟奚涛订婚，而且Maggie还跟大家说奚涛因为程弈田和Jean Jacque在谈恋爱而跟弈田分手，选择了跟她订婚。虽然他看出Jean Jacque对弈田有好感，自己也觉得他们挺配，还想撮合他们，但是他没有看出他俩有任何亲密的联系和举动，而且Jean Jacque还一个劲地把程弈田往西部推。不管是不是真的，这会儿，弈田主动说去Jean Jacque那边集合，她难道不尴尬吗？要是碰到手挽着奚涛的Maggie，她该怎么面对？要么，这个女孩彻头彻尾地神经大条；要么，她就是一个super girl, a strong one that no one can defeat.

BRJ成立一年半了，前期的工作也有了些起色：Jean Jacque这边在山羊上的临床试验非常成功；Roy那边在医院销试验售渠道调研方面有很好的进展；在Bernard这块儿有两个小天使投资人愿意参与共同合作生产，甚至有一个还愿意用他在中国的工厂来制造人造椎间盘的母材。正在这个要更多资金进行人类临床，需要寻找更大的风险基金投资的档口，如果没有一个好的品牌，一个亮出来就能显出自己特色的名字，做海量的presentation的时候，卖点就不能那么吸引人。

“We need a brand name for the product, and we don't really have a good name yet.”Bernard显得有些着急。

“How about Movaback?”程弈田坐在绿色兰铃沙发上,双手嵌在大腿和沙发中间，随意地问其他三人道。

“I like it! Thank you Yitian, movable back?”尹伯文坐在他的电脑桌旁，一拍桌子大声叫好，“Well, can you believe, I was thinking about this name too!”

“Yeah, bullshit, don't steal her idea, ok?”Roy手里拿着刚从饮水机里接的纯净水，拍了拍尹伯文的肩，“Dude, you pushed the most brilliant girl away to the west!”

“Hey, she can help your dad to expand his ramen business too, Roy!”程弈田发现，只要有Roy和尹伯文的地方，类似的调侃就不可能停止。

“Honestly, Yitian, I love the name too! It's exactly how I am selling it every day! I keep telling people that once you use this intervertebral disk, you don't have to fuse your two bones, and you still get to keep the flexibility! God damn, I can never think about this name!”说着，又走过去盛了一杯水，递给弈田，“Cheers！”Roy又跟弈田来了个干杯动作。

“Wonderful, Yitian. Document it in the log, let me see，”Bernard抬起手腕，看看表，说，“It’s March 5th. Yeah, in the future, when we publish our history in Wall street, we will list this as one of our Company Events, the birth of Movaback!”

“What's your plan to get the investment we need?”程弈田已然把自己看成是BRJ的第一个正式雇员了，说话中的“你们”成了“我们”。

“We are going to a business plan competition in MIT later this year, and before that we are going to present in a world Back Conference in Seattle.”尹伯文说，“We did not do well in the business plan competition last year in Harvard. We were too new and I did not have a good understanding what it takes to bring up a successful startup. The only thing I realized back then was I need tons of money.”

“And this dumb guy sold his car for cheap, yeah, that 7000 dollars will help!”Roy接着尹伯文的话说下去，发现自己可能要引出不必要提起的人的名字，转过话题来，“Jean Jacque is going to the 800 some birthday of his high school to beg for money, right?”

“Yeah，他们是大拿，”不知道他哪里学来这个说法，“One guy is the CEO of Total, one of the biggest companies in the world. He graduated from the same high school as I did. You know what? He has back pain!”wow，市场消息很丰富嘛。尹伯文有点像北京天桥的说书人，“He has a special standing desk in his office and a high end massage chair. Poor guy, he can't work on this laptop when he is lying down on his massage chair, and he can't support his big belly by standing up. His knees hurt.”顿了一下，好似抖好了包袱，向四座一望，接着说，“You know what, I signed up for the parachute show that day, and I am going to land right beside him. Like an angel, nah, I am going to wear wings, you know those kinds of birthday wings, I will tell him that Movaback is going to save his back!”

“好！”程弈田举起刚才Roy给的塑料水杯，“To the Angel!”

Yeah!四双手聚在一起搭成一个井字。