Chapter 208: Little Rich Girl’s Back-to-School Gift

Dong Wenhao was a core employee of 208. Although he didn’t receive any special orders from the boss, he still very conscientiously returned to school early. After tidying up the dormitory, he came to 208.

As soon as he entered the door, he saw the boss sitting in front of the computer with Su Nai, looking very serious as they discussed some issue.

“Can it still be found?”

“Definitely not, it’s already been deleted.”

“Aren’t you a programmer? Hack into their backend for me and retrieve my previous bookmark records.”

“Boss, have you been watching too many movies? If I had that ability, why would I still need to borrow your account?”

“Damn, what you said makes so much sense, I can’t even refute it.”

Dong Wenhao sat in the back row listening for a while, unable to help smacking his lips, thinking to himself that returning to school early was indeed worthwhile.

Why?

Because in the entire entrepreneurship team, apart from Jiang Qin and Feng Nanshu, currently the highest ranking members were Dong Wenhao, Su Nai and Wei Lanlan.

The three of them were respectively in charge of content, technology and marketing.

Although Ding Qiaona, Lai Cunqing and the others from University of Science and Technology were on par with them, when meeting face to face they still had to be half a head shorter. Their actual rank was about the same as Tan Qing and Lu Xuemei.

But Su Nai was not at all arrogant. Not only did she return to school early, she had already started tirelessly discussing business with the boss.

If he hadn’t come today, wouldn’t he seem a bit inactive compared to Su Nai’s diligence? That was close…

This is the workplace!

Just as Dong Wenhao was blindly associating, Jiang Qin suddenly noticed him, his face instantly stiffening.

“Old Dong, when did you come in?”

Dong Wenhao coughed, “Boss, I just came in. Is there a bug with the website?”

“Um right, some data was lost, but it’s not particularly important.” Jiang Qin brushed it off lightly.

“Then… what do we do about the lost data?”

“Deduct it from Su Nai’s pay of course.”

Jiang Qin discovered Su Nai glaring at him while gnashing her teeth. His old face immediately darkened, “What are you looking at? What you lost was a great intangible cultural heritage!”

Su Nai instantly let out an angry shout, “Deduct then deduct!”

“Alright, no need to keep looking. Hurry up and test the group-buy, it officially goes live for business tomorrow. If there are no issues, I won’t deduct your pay.”

“…”

The next morning, college students gradually returned to school, and the group-buy service also officially opened, resuming the three deliveries per day online service.

Jiang Qin scurried around each dormitory building like a hoodlum. Seeing the dashing figures of the yellow-capped delivery staff, he was in very high spirits.

The start of school is the best. With students comes spending, and with spending comes money to be made.

Moreover, most students still had ample funds after the New Year holiday.

Jiang Qin felt that although this New Year’s money currently belonged to others, in a few days it would probably become his.

There’s a famous saying – no college student can possess New Year’s money, allowance and living expenses at the same time. They are just temporarily safekeeping it for Jiang Qin.

“This quote is truly brilliant, too bad it can’t be made public.”

“…”

Jiang Qin returned from the dormitory of the Civil Engineering Department. Facing the bright morning light, he strode to the Academy Supermarket in front.

With the new semester starting, there wouldn’t be too many large orders for the mall, but the Academy Supermarket would definitely not lack business, especially for items like toilet paper that each dorm needed to restock. Taking a stroll here was enough to get a general idea of the recovery of the online business.

“Manager Jiang, long time no see.”

“CEO Jiang really can’t stay idle. Coming to inspect work right after school starts?”

Manager Jiang saw Jiang Qin enter and instantly looked towards the door with anticipation, but after waiting five seconds without seeing a second person enter, the anticipation in his eyes instantly vanished into thin air.

CEO Jiang’s pretty little confidante didn’t come with him?

Then forget about swindling a single cent from him this time.

“How are today’s online sales?”

“About 40% less than offline orders.” Manager Jiang replied.

Jiang Qin nodded, “This is normal. Because school just started, everyone just bought things in passing. It’s very normal for online to be a bit lower. But tomorrow’s order volume should recover to pre-holiday levels.”

“CEO Jiang has his sights set on the students’ New Year’s money again right?” Jiang Zhihua hit the nail on the head.

“Nonsense, my heart only holds the thought of serving my classmates. I’m just fattening myself up a bit while conveniently helping others.”

After listening, Jiang Zhihua felt her scalp go numb, thinking this CEO Jiang would definitely become an exceptional individual, because he could deceive even himself without blinking an eye.

“Right CEO Jiang, want to buy another couple’s cup? I just got a new style, even better looking than last time.”

Jiang Qin glanced at her, “What couple’s cup? I don’t know, I never bought one.”

“The one you bought the day before Christmas Eve. Sir, you truly are a noble who forgets many things.”

“How is that possible? I didn’t even see you that day at all.” Jiang Qin had an iron mouth, invincible.

Jiang Zhihua thought he just didn’t want to spend money and hurriedly added, “You haven’t seen your girlfriend for so long. Buying a back-to-school gift for her would definitely make her very happy.”

“…”

Jiang Qin pretended not to hear and casually took two sausages from the snack shelf, “Are these tasty?”

The corner of Jiang Zhihua’s mouth twitched. She thought she wouldn’t be able to fool him but ended up getting fooled herself, “It’s worthless stuff. CEO Jiang can just take it if you want to eat it.”

“Then I won’t stand on ceremony.”

Jiang Qin took the sausages, waved his hand, turned and left. He arrived at the entrance of the Entrepreneurship Base.

A back-to-school gift?

It doesn’t necessarily need to be bought with money.

Jiang Qin peeled open the packaging, broke the sausages into several pieces while walking, and casually scattered them on the road, basically leaving a piece every two to three steps.

Then he lifted his pant legs and squatted on the curb to start playing Snake.

Just like that, time slowly passed, quietly disappearing bit by bit, but the road in front remained very quiet.

It wasn’t until ten minutes later when Jiang Qin crashed the snake’s head into a wall that he looked at the sausage pieces all over the ground and slightly frowned.

What’s going on?

Usually there’s a large group of vagrant senior brothers and sisters here. Why are none of them here today?

Even if only one dog passed by and casually took a piece of sausage, it might become the protagonist of a “worse than a dog” story in the future, sharing the same fame as a dog named Wang Keke.

Do they not realize they missed out on an immense fortune?

But after thinking for a while, Jiang Qin suddenly understood the reason.

During the winter break, nearly all the students had left the school, so there was no one to feed the dogs. Plus with the bitter cold, they probably couldn’t endure the hunger and went to other places to forage.

What a pity, the little rich girl’s back-to-school gift is gone.

Right at this moment, a rustling sound came from the small path behind the Entrepreneurship Base, as if something was there.

Jiang Qin’s eyes lit up. He thought it was a dog, but when he turned to look, he discovered it wasn’t a dog but Lu Feiyu leisurely strolling over.

This guy seemed to have gotten fatter over the New Year, his jawline becoming much rounder.

“Boss, what are you squatting here for?”

“Wanted to pick up a dog to raise, so I scattered a few pieces of sausage on the ground. In the end, no dog showed up but you did.”

After hearing this, Lu Feiyu’s face darkened, “Boss, doesn’t that sound a bit like you’re cursing someone?”

Jiang Qin raised his head to look at him, “You’re not taking it personally are you? Damn, you’re so narcissistic. The dogs are on par with Wang Keke, what are you?”

Lu Feiyu didn’t know who Wang Keke was, “Boss, any sausage left?”

“Still have half a piece.” Jiang Qin rummaged in his pocket and handed over half a sausage.

Lu Feiyu took it and took a bite, “Great, I rushed here all morning and haven’t eaten yet.”

“Your bottom line is even lower than mine. I already said this is for feeding dogs.”

“I’m also a dog, a single dog. If they can eat it, why can’t I?”

Lu Feiyu chewed on the sausage, swaying his head as he returned to the Entrepreneurship Base.

Jiang Qin also stood up at this time, figuring he probably couldn’t wait for a dog anymore. He sighed, turned and went back to 208, only to find that nearly everyone had returned and were sharing interesting stories from their holiday. The entire atmosphere was especially lively.

“Boss, there’s something to report to you.” Tan Qing suddenly walked over.

Jiang Qin sat in the boss’s chair, “Go ahead.”

“Over the break, I contacted Manager Zhang from Hongjin Dining & Entertainment. Their company has two Maidike KTVs and one Dadi Cinema, all located in the center of the university district leaning towards the main city. They recently also opened a Qing Pepper Grilled Fish restaurant, very suitable for our group-buy on-site service project.”

“Any intention to cooperate?”

Tan Qing couldn’t help sighing, “Same situation as Sister Lanlan encountered before. As soon as they heard it was a student entrepreneurship project, they lost interest. Although I’ve been following up, I still haven’t been able to set a specific meeting time.”

Jiang Qin thought for a bit, “Bring me the information on Hongjin Dining & Entertainment to take a look.”

“Okay boss.”

Tan Qing ran back to her desk and brought over a stack of documents.

Jiang Qin flipped through them, “This company’s name seems a bit familiar. Go get me that business card I gave you before the New Year.”

Tan Qing pointed to the documents, “It’s clipped inside there.”

“In here?”

Jiang Qin shook it a couple times and sure enough, a business card fell onto the table. This card was one he had scammed at a Linchuan business banquet. He had written keywords on each one with a ballpoint pen.

Indeed, the business card of Manager Zhang from Hongjin Dining & Entertainment had the three characters “He Yijun” written on it.

Jiang Qin reached out to pull open his desk drawer and took out a layout map for reforming Wanzhong Mall. He compared it.

“No wonder it looked familiar. You go to Wanzhong with Wenhao and ask He Yijun to help set up a meeting with this person.”

Tan Qing was slightly stunned, “Huh?”

Jiang Qin handed the documents back to him, “This Zhang Qiao and He Yijun are old friends. grilled fish restaurant is a business Wanzhong Mall brought in. Old He definitely has pull with him.”

“Will President He help us?”

“Don’t worry, I have him completely under my thumb.”

After saying that, Jiang Qin looked up at Dong Wenhao. “Old Dong, He Yijun knows you. Take Tan Qing and go pay him a visit.”

“Yes, boss.” Dong Wenhao was full of enthusiasm.

After seeing them off, Jiang Qin took out a pen and made a check mark on the 2009 development progress chart.

The forum promotion was imminent and the campus beauty pageant was being organized. Devouring the student markets of the University of Technology and Normal University was basically a done deal.

When the consumption power of the four major universities was gathered together, it would definitely create a spectacular effect.

By then, the group-buying service would become a lever, lifting out the consumption power of college students and showcasing it in front of everyone.

The student demographic, scattered, was like stars across the sky but gathered together, it was a blazing fire.

The merchants of Linchuan would definitely be like He Yijun now, marveling at how surprisingly large the cake of the student market was.

With this effect, they would no longer need to work so hard to negotiate partnerships. They would just need to wait for Linchuan’s businessmen to follow the scent and come knocking.

Beep beep beep—

Just as Jiang Qin was imagining himself stirring up winds and rains in Linchuan, he was suddenly pulled back to reality by a series of notification sounds.

In the bottom right corner of his computer desktop, a silly-looking calico cat was flashing non-stop.

“I’m back. Brother, let’s take a walk.”

“How come you’re calling me brother right away? What about the process in between?”

“Skipped it. This way we can walk sooner.”

Feng Nanshu said indifferently, “Brother, ticket.”