Chapter 253: Abs Are a Good Thing

At night the sky was full of stars.

Feng Nanshu stood up from Jiang Qin’s embrace clearly not having been held enough she kept leaning forward while holding his hand on their way back almost tripping the nimble Jiang Qin.

When Jiang Qin turned his head around and asked if she wanted a spanking she put on an aloof face like an emotionless ice queen.

I’m so silly and cold and silly.

The little rich girl muttered quietly with narrowed eyes then ran off holding Jiang Qin’s hand pattering across the school road.

Right across from the entrance of the maple forest was the campus supermarket where Jiang Zhihua was currently selling goods when she inadvertently spotted Feng Nanshu and Jiang Qin heading their way her eyes shone as if seeing money waving at them enthusiastically.

Jiang Qin bringing his little sweetheart was like a lamb waiting to be slaughtered.

“Boss Jiang long time no see come browse our shop we have new couple pillows in stock!”

“Sure Boss Jiang after I drop her off I’ll come back for a good look.”

Jiang Zhihua’s expression changed instantly: “Boss Jiang if it’s just you by yourself no need to come!”

“How could I not I haven’t seen you in a while of course I have to take a look lest you keep thinking of me all day.”

After dropping Feng Nanshu back at the dorm Jiang Qin kept his word returning to the campus supermarket looking around with each pause in front of an item Boss Jiang’s heart would leap out of her chest.

Jiang Qin without his sweetheart was a merciless freeloader.

But this time Jiang Qin truly didn’t go overboard only scooping up a bottle of medicated oil before calling it quits.

“Boss Jiang how much for the medicated oil?”

“Boss Jiang likes it just take it no need for money.”

The maple forest was near Wangyue Lake the abundant water and dense grass attracting many mosquitoes leaving Jiang Qin’s calves covered in little red bumps.

Back at the dorm Jiang Qin changed into slippers pouring the medicated oil into his palm rubbing vigorously leaving Ren Ziqiang and Zhou Chao staring agape.

“Brother Jiang did you go play in a mosquito nest?”

“Yep got stung by a fragrant soft mosquito with its little butt took forever for the swelling to go down.”

“????”

Zhou Chao and Ren Ziqiang exchanged glances wondering what species of mosquito was fragrant and soft.

Also stinging people with their butt wasn’t that bees not mosquitoes?

Could it be Brother Jiang’s leg full of bumps was from poking a hornet’s nest?

Right then Cao Guangyu also pushed open the door his calves also full of the same little red bumps as Jiang Qin.

The two men’s eyes met Old Cao speaking first: “I said those two hugging in the maple forest looked like you and Feng Nanshu but Ding Xue said it wasn’t turns out I was right after all.”

Jiang Qin continued applying the oil: “Sorry I was at the entrepreneurship base all afternoon you must have seen wrong.”

“Nonsense besides the maple forest where else would have enough mosquitoes to bite legs into this state?” Cao Guangyu pointed at his own then at Jiang Qin’s.

Upon hearing this Jiang Qin let out a cold laugh: “What only the maple forest is allowed to have mosquitoes?”

“The maple forest is near Wangyue Lake mosquito larvae called wrigglers like to live in water-rich areas if it wasn’t the maple forest your legs definitely wouldn’t have this many bites hey you have medicated oil let me use some.”

“Damn you’re quite knowledgeable even know about wrigglers? Why not go downstairs and find some herbs to rub my oil isn’t suitable for you.”

Cao Guangyu didn’t care snatching the oil over: “Only dogs would go pick roadside herbs you think I don’t get it.”

Jiang Qin handed him the cap then got on his bed starting side crunches leg raises and crunches pumping out the reps like he had pent-up energy.

Done he grabbed a towel to the bathroom washing his face before coming out flipping onto the bed chatting with his roommates.

The weekend was coming up the destination set of course their topic was trip-related.

Ren Ziqiang said his cooking skills were great planning to show off a bit guaranteeing to make the girls in class squeal.

Zhou Chao said he swims well able to kick up splashes once in the water planning to dive in and catch a fish for Ren Ziqiang to cook his graceful moves sure to make the girls’ hearts race.

While Jiang Qin blankly stared at the ceiling his mind full of the feel of Feng Nanshu’s little butt finally unable to resist coming down to do a few pushups.

“Brother Jiang why have you been exercising so much lately?”

Jiang Qin took a deep breath standing up dusting his hands: “Men should have some abs imagine if you come back from the lake all wet flashing your abs holding a fish wouldn’t the girls love you to death? Or Ren Ziqiang while cooking if you take off your shirt sweat dripping onto your abs wouldn’t Pan Xiu come lick you?”

Hearing this Zhou Chao and Ren Ziqiang instantly envisioned it: “Fuck is it too late for me to train?”

“Doubtful so the old saying goes opportunity favors the prepared I’ll have a six-pack soon.”

“Weren’t you working on abs? That’s not the same as a six-pack right?”

Jiang Qin glanced at them revealing a profound smile flipping onto the bed then checking the QQ group on his phone.

Everyone was still enthusiastically discussing weekend trip plans in the group some saying to have a bonfire feast at night some wanting to do performances some wanting to play mahjong.

Also some said the mosquitoes this month were too much the UV rays intense needing to bring medicated oil and sunscreen.

Jiang Qin casually typed a line in the group: “Best to also buy some iodine and band-aids just in case.”

“Right Jiang Qin is correct to prevent injuries iodine and band-aids are a must.”

“Not prevent there will definitely be injuries.”

Cao Guangyu also looking at the group couldn’t help glancing over: “Old Jiang why will there definitely be injuries?”

Jiang Qin pretended to calculate on his fingers: “I predict you will get hurt Zhuang Chen will get hurt Lu Tian also has a girlfriend right? Then he’ll get hurt too and your injuries will most likely be ankle sprains.”

“You can tell fortunes? Bullshit sounds like nonsense.”

“Want to bet? Loser treats dinner.”

“You’re on!”

Jiang Qin smiled slightly betting this meal was in the bag.

Early the next morning the first rays of dawn fell the sky endlessly clear not a cloud in sight.

Dong Wenhao and Lu Feiyu wiped the dust off the wall-mounted AC unit preparing to welcome the coming summer heat.

The leisurely cool breeze on the face instantly refreshing.

Jiang Qin arrived at Room 208 feeling the welcoming coolness couldn’t help but smile: “The AC sponsored by Dean Zhang is quite nice.”

“Indeed boss AC is more powerful than fans.”

“Alright let’s put the AC aside for now I’m here to arrange our upcoming work.”

Jiang Qin clapped his hands shifting the rhythm to the main topic.

Currently the offline promotions in the city center had entered the second phase the overall direction starting to shift eastward one week later it would connect with the university district expanding the scope of business by three to four times.

Within a month most of Linchuan’s market would be completely devoured.

By then cross-province promotion would need to be put on the agenda.

When the group-buy stepped out the university gates Jiang Qin took apart the initial combo removing two links one was the campus belle contest one was the Zhihu traffic pull.

Reaching the cross-province stage he planned to add these two links back in.

For this Su Nai’s tech team needed to upgrade the website using the six degrees of theory to increase the site’s social attributes.

If any two people could be connected through six others then in theory Zhihu could connect to any university.

He planned to first connect to the student records system optimize the sharing function simplify video upload steps to rapidly spread Zhihu to universities outside the province then expand the traffic pool.

Just as fungi spread their spores using the wind to take root and sprout wherever they land to Jiang Qin Zhihu was the fungus the internet the wind and content sharing the spores riding the breeze.

Some creative sharing-oriented bloggers could be cultivated first to make enough fresh diverse content for the site’s later traffic pull.

For example the ordinary young master Cao no matter which university in the country he was at he could make people grind their teeth in annoyance at his bragging.

Another example Zhang Zixuan her daily photos were stunning no matter where.

Also Jiang Qin planned to cooperate with news sites to bring in hot social topics making a list similar to Weibo’s trending increasing user stickiness.

Of course these were all his tentative plans for later stages true development still required taking solid steps.

Jiang Qin explained the simplified version of the plan in advance to give everyone some preparation time.

“Boss once we finish promoting citywide do we then need to go to universities outside the province for the campus belle contest? Isn’t the labor cost a bit high?”

“No our cross-province contest will be online only although the effects will be much worse it’s still useful.”

Wei Lanlan pondered nodding: “But how will we collect payments for group-buy? We can’t possibly spend massive labor to collect offline payments outside the province right?”

“No problem group-buy will temporarily not expand outward hiding in Linchuan first so no need to consider this too early.”

Jiang Qin pursed his lips continuing to explain: “Cross-province promotion will still focus on Zhihu aiming to expand the traffic pool open channels earning some ad revenue first just like our initial routine only changing the venue from Linchuan to nationwide.”

Tan Qing furrowed her brow: “But to promote group-buy outside the province payment issues must be resolved.”

“No need to consider this for now wait until next year the payment problem will solve itself by then the traffic pool will be established with both money and traffic what can’t we do? We’ll bloom nationwide everyone will have their own Mercedes-Benz and BMW.”

Hearing this Wei Lanlan and Tan Qing exchanged glances always feeling like the boss could tell fortunes seeming to already know what would happen in the future.