Chapter 194: The Temptations of the Adult World

After eating the grilled sausages, Jiang Qin crashed the greedy snake into a wall. He looked up and saw that the managers who had gone shopping were almost all back.

So he waved his hand and led everyone back to Wanzhong Mall.

“You’ve seen it all now. I believe you already have many ideas. Try writing another one.”

“Okay, Consultant Jiang!”

Inspired, the managers wrote a new reform outline in no time, completely different from the state of only squeezing out six words in seven days before.

This was because they now had something in their brains and couldn’t help but let it out.

Truly, it wasn’t that they couldn’t squeeze it out, but that they couldn’t hold it in.

“Very good.”

“Not bad at all.”

Jiang Qin gave their completed outlines a rough look and nodded imperceptibly.

The supermarket and fresh food on the underground first floor, cosmetics, jewelry and accessories on the first floor, clothing, household goods and various retail stores on the second floor, a food street and hot pot restaurants on the third floor, and a cinema, KTV and arcade on the fourth floor.

According to the inspiration gained from the commercial street to re-envision the mall’s reform, the functional zoning that the five managers came up with was already quite complete.

Next was to gradually adjust floor by floor, using newly introduced projects to gradually replace the poorly profitable pure sales businesses, and everything would pretty much be settled.

With this, Jiang Qin’s consulting services officially ended and he could retire with his mission accomplished.

Leading people to stroll a street, squatting by the roadside to eat a grilled sausage, in just over an hour, he earned a consulting fee of over 100,000 yuan, and earned it without any guilt.

Damn, doing business is so easy. Will do it again if there’s a chance.

Of course, Jiang Qin helping Wanzhong Mall with its reform wasn’t just for the consulting fee. In fact, he also had his own ulterior motives.

Because once this reform was completed, Wanzhong would become Linchuan’s largest comprehensive entertainment mall, and the group-buy service would have a chance to take advantage of the situation and enter.

Wanzhong’s hot pot restaurants, movie theaters, clothing stores, cosmetics stores… All these miscellaneous stores would have to be connected to the group-buy service by then, with online coupon purchases and in-store discounts. Just thinking about it felt wonderful.

He Yijun could quickly gather popularity through online channels, make small profits but quick turnover, and first gain a wave of good reputation to stabilize the mall’s consumer base.

While on his side, he could ride the momentum and quickly expand into the downtown commercial districts, then use the business cards obtained at the Linchuan Chamber of Commerce banquet to connect with other merchants.

When that day came, let alone a single university town, it might not be impossible to devour the entire Linchuan market.

Doing business is like this. What do you do if you don’t have money or connections? Then you spend other people’s money to do your own thing. The most awesome part is that in the end, they still have to thank you.

Win-win, a definite win-win!

“Bro Jiang, it’s 3 o’clock. If we don’t go back now it’ll be dark when we get home. My mom is still waiting for me to eat dinner.”

Guo Zihang suddenly muttered beside him.

Jiang Qin glanced at him, thinking in his heart that I just finished a business deal worth over 100,000 yuan and my mindset is still floating, but your line about mom waiting for me to eat is too out of place.

Then he remembered that he was indeed just an ordinary college student who had just started his vacation and was about to go home.

“What time is it?”

“3:15,” Guo Zihang responded.

Jiang Qin nodded as he got up, “Manager Yue, we have to go back. If we don’t leave now, it’ll be dark when we get home.”

Yue Zhu quickly stood up, “Director He just texted me saying he finished his meeting and is on his way. Director Jiang, wait a bit longer.”

“Then… let’s wait a bit longer then.”

Jiang Qin thought for a moment and sat back down in his chair.

He was afraid He Yijun wouldn’t feel he got his money’s worth for the consulting fee if he didn’t see him. This showed the importance of after-sales service. You can’t just show off, you have to make the financier feel secure in their purchase.

Honest and reliable businessmen like him were truly rare these days.

Three minutes later, He Yijun hurriedly arrived at the meeting room.

He had just finished a meeting with suppliers and was feeling a bit tired. Now thinking that the reform plan was still not clear, he felt even more exhausted.

Could the problems he faced be solved by Jiang Qin?

Although this guy was strangely devious, he had never actually done physical retail operations. Could he really plan out a bright path forward for him just by talking on paper?

He Yijun pushed open the door of the meeting room with a solemn expression.

In his imagination, Zhao Zuchang should be smoking one cigarette after another right now, and Bao Wenping should be scratching her head with a tired look. Everyone should be in a state of deep contemplation.

But what He Yijun didn’t expect was that as soon as he stepped in, he was immediately surrounded by the excited managers.

“Director He, I have an idea!”

“Director He, I have an idea too. Damn, I’m simply overflowing with inspiration.”

“I’ve already listed ten major business adjustment rules. Director He, please review.”

“I’ve already drawn a draft of the functional zone reform. Director He, see if there’s anything unsuitable?”

He Yijun took the draft paper from their hands and glanced at it. His whole scalp went numb. “Director Jiang, you… you definitely beat them this time, right?”

Jiang Qin shook his head and spoke with an air of ease, “I only provided a tiny bit of thought guidance.”

“Mystical, truly mystical.”

He Yijun held the outlines and concept drafts everyone wrote and looked at them for a long time, getting more and more excited.

With his years of business experience, he could tell at a glance that these things were definitely feasible.

The daughter he couldn’t manage, he could manage.

The reform he couldn’t handle, he could handle.

Damn, a heaven-sent genius!

He Yijun insisted Jiang Qin couldn’t leave. He instructed Zhao Zuchang to arrange a banquet. Singing karaoke, going to a club, getting a massage, he even allocated a budget. Tonight they couldn’t return until it was all spent.

Zhao Zuchang was quite an expert in this area. He immediately wanted to take Jiang Qin and Guo Zihang to Juxian Building for a big meal.

“Old Guo, you coming?”

“Let’s go after eating. Even if it’s dark when we get home it’s fine. I’m afraid if I get hungry on the way there won’t be anything to eat.”

After leaving Juxian Building, Old Zhao called a salesperson and got a booth at the bar in the entertainment center.

“Old Guo, you coming?”

“Let’s go after having fun. Even getting home at midnight is okay. I can sleep in the next day anyway.”

After partying for over an hour at the bar, Zhao Zuchang wanted to take the two to sing karaoke.

“Old Guo, you coming?”

“It’s too late today. Driving at night isn’t safe. Why don’t we go tomorrow instead.”

After finishing the singing, Zhao Zuchang smoothly brought them to a resplendent specialty foot bath city.

This time, Jiang Qin refused. Guo Zihang also blushed and said he dared not.

Old Guo’s head was in a daze from seeing so much today. The snow-white thighs of the qipao-wearing ladies were still flashing before his eyes. He felt he was going to break.

“Old Zhao, you worked hard today. We played enough too. Take us to the hotel and hurry home to rest.”

Jiang Qin said this while standing at the intersection after leaving the bar, blowing in the wind to clear his head.

“Director Jiang, that won’t do. The funds Director He allocated haven’t been used up yet.”

Zhao Zuchang looked troubled.

“We still have to hurry back tomorrow. We really can’t play anymore. Let’s talk about it next time if there’s a chance.”

“Then… alright…”

Night, Longkai International Hotel.

Jiang Qin arrived at the room with a tired look. He reached out to turn on the light and pushed open the window, facing the chilly night breeze to sober up his mind.

Although the night was very dark outside, the signs on the entertainment street in the distance still flickered non-stop, illuminating the sky until it glowed a bit.

A few people staggered drunkenly on the roadside, walking unsteadily forward. The clamor could be heard from two streets away.

At this time, Guo Zihang was looking around the room and studying the massage bathtub in the bathroom for a long time. He even took several photos with his phone, his face full of sighs.

“Old Guo, how do you feel after following Manager Zhao to play today?”

Guo Zihang couldn’t help blushing, “The snow-white thighs of the hostess ladies are still in my mind…”

Jiang Qin propped up his pillow and lay on the bed, pulling the quilt over to cover his legs, “Did you see? The adult world is full of temptations everywhere. You must learn to resist desire and not be easily corrupted.”

“I understand, Bro Jiang. It seems being an adult is really not easy. I almost gave in to temptation and let myself be manipulated several times.”

“What’s so hard about it? Look at me, not even glancing sideways the whole time.”

Guo Zihang pouted, “You’re with Feng Nanshu every day, of course your standards are high. But for me, those were all fatal temptations.”

“What does it have to do with the little rich girl? I’m unmoved like a mountain because my heart is upright, because I’m beyond vulgar interests!”

“I don’t believe you. You’re obviously an old hand. You weren’t nervous at all going in. I’m different. I was at a loss going in, not knowing what I should do.”

After saying this, Guo Zihang suddenly remembered something, “By the way Bro Jiang, did you call home?”

Jiang Qin nodded, “I did. Got scolded. My mom told me not to come back, and wants to let the dog live in my room.”

“Me too. My mom prepared a tableful of dishes today. When she heard I wasn’t going back, she was very unhappy.”

“Who’s to blame? I already said to go back, but as soon as you heard about going out to play, your eyes lit up brighter than a heat lamp.”

Jiang Qin spat at him with disdain, despising this guy who couldn’t resist temptation.

“That can’t be blamed on me. I’ve never experienced it before, of course I’m curious.”

Guo Zihang humphed and reached out to grab the remote, turning on the TV.

The nighttime TV stations were all showing shopping ads with no regular programs, only the cartoon channel earnestly playing Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf. They could only watch this.

One second it was big sisters in qipaos striking seductive poses, the next it was a clear sky blue animated cartoon. Jiang Qin felt the sense of disconnect between this illusion and reality was really too great.

Could this also be considered gap moe?

He smacked his lips, got out of the quilt to take a shower in the bathroom, then lay comfortably on the bed.

“Bro Jiang, what time are we going back tomorrow?”

“We’ll go back after breakfast, around 7 o’clock.”