Chapter 299: Saving Money to Help Jiang Qin Marry

As the brilliant sunset set the sky ablaze, Jiang Qin stared at Gao Wenhui changing “ordinary” to “as handsome as Pan An”, then closed his computer and glanced at the time.

It was already 6:10 PM and mom should be home in two minutes.

Jiang Qin hurriedly exited his room, took his shoes from the shoe cabinet and placed them at the door, then told Feng Nanshu to sit properly and remember to say she’s hungry as soon as the door opens.

Three minutes later, Yuan Youqin arrived home from work. The moment she opened the door and saw her dog son’s shoes on the doormat, her anger instantly flared.

He had agreed to come back after being out playing for a week, but only returned half a month later. Seeing that school was about to start, if he stayed for two days, he would certainly rush out again. Did he really treat home as a hotel, coming and going as he pleased?

Yuan Youqin had already rolled up her sleeves, but upon entering the living room, she saw Feng Nanshu and her own son sitting obediently on the sofa, looking at her with longing expressions.

“Mom, I’m hungry.”

“Auntie, I’m also very hungry.”

“……”

Seeing Feng Nanshu’s pitiful expression, Yuan Youqin took a deep breath, her heart melting. She thought, how can I lose my temper now? Her dog son really had a way. So she was no longer in a hurry to scold and quickly wanted to go to the kitchen to cook.

Jiang Qin couldn’t help but raise the corners of his mouth, thinking that a family crisis had been resolved just like that. He was truly a little genius.

But he didn’t plan to let Yuan Youqin cook again. Instead, he waited for his old man to get off work and come back, then directly treat them to a meal at Jizhou’s best restaurant.

Incidentally, he also sent a red envelope to his parents.

In fact, this kind of thing didn’t need to be done during the new year or holidays, because no matter when you did it, they would feel like it was a holiday that day.

Jiang Qin had experienced a failed life, but this failure was not only due to having no money, no house, and no wife, but also because he had wasted his life and failed his parents.

He had read many rebirth novels where the protagonists took revenge, indulged themselves, or focused on things in their pants all day. But when it was his turn, he realized his mentality was completely different.

He had died once and always felt that his current time was borrowed, meant to repay debts. So he cherished everything immensely.

This mentality was actually a bit morbid. He didn’t know if it was good or bad, but ultimately, he didn’t want to leave any regrets for himself or others.

In the restaurant’s private room, Yuan Youqin and Jiang Zhenghong received the red envelope. Opening it, they couldn’t help but look at each other.

“Jiang Qin, what exactly have you been doing outside? How come you don’t need living expenses and keep bringing money home every day?”

“I told you, I’m working for two or three hundred people at the same time, earning money like crazy. I can’t spend it all, really can’t spend it all.” Jiang Qin’s language skills were very slick.

Yuan Youqin looked at the red envelope in her hand, “Son, you’ve been in such a rush to make money since you finished the college entrance exam. Where does all this pressure come from? Can you tell mom?”

Jiang Zhenghong glanced at Feng Nanshu across from them, “Enough, our son giving us a red envelope is a sign of his filial piety. Just accept it.”

“Don’t you dare keep it. Give it to me. I’ll save it for you.”

Jiang Zhenghong: “……”

Yuan Youqin put the red envelope into her handbag and looked at Jiang Qin, “I’ll take the money. Adding it to the ten months’ worth you gave before, I’ll save it all together. In the future, it’ll be for you to marry a wife.”

Feng Nanshu was dazed for a moment, then picked up a piece of beef brisket and handed it to Yuan Youqin, “Auntie, this tastes good.”

Yuan Youqin felt incredibly warm inside and enjoyed the dinner immensely.

The little rich girl’s eyes were also full of joy. She patted her little purse, planning to give uncle and auntie a big red envelope when Jiang Qin wasn’t around, letting them save it for Jiang Qin to marry a wife.

After dinner, the family of four strolled home. The old couple in front, the good friends in the back, swaying leisurely, unhurried.

When they reached the entrance of the neighborhood, Jiang Qin suddenly stopped and looked up at the sky, feeling the moonlight was truly beautiful.

“I am a man without grand ambitions…”

“I truly cherish the present beauty immensely.”

“I still have my parents to care for, plus a clingy good friend.”

Jiang Qin watched the old couple walking arm in arm ahead, then glanced at the little rich girl who had turned her head to look at him in confusion. He stepped forward to catch up.

In the blink of an eye, it was late August. Su Nai’s tech team completed the most important task in the website upgrade – launching the classmate recommendation system.

Theoretically speaking, based on the enrolled student information, you could get to know anyone in the school through the website. You could view their personal homepage and follow their posts and shares.

The reason for launching this feature was actually to enhance user stickiness and ensure that all new registered users would be greatly retained during the promotion period.

One of the advantages of online socializing is that a lot of information that cannot be displayed in offline interactions can be easily shown to others in this non-face-to-face environment.

In addition, the sugar-loving Huihuizi’s “Loving You as a Friend” completely took off on the website. Every day, a group of crazed people chased the updates online. The number of favorites on the serialized posts once surpassed the ordinary young master Cao, directly catching up to Shi Miaomiao’s “If One Day We Share the Snow”.

Jiang Qin was not surprised by this phenomenon. Because it was the holidays, Old Cao couldn’t see him, so he didn’t have much material to show off. It was normal for his popularity to drop a bit.

That evening, Jiang Qin, Su Nai, Dong Wenhao, and Wei Lanlan, the four people, held a phone summary meeting regarding the summer vacation work. Also participating were Yue Zhu, the part-time manager of the branch, Sun Zhi, the head of the business department, and Deng Yuan, the head of the marketing department.

“Boss, I have a question. I don’t know if I should ask.”

“Go ahead.”

“Why are we adding a student enrollment system to the website? Will raising the registration threshold really be conducive to promotion?”

This question was raised by Dong Wenhao. Although he didn’t understand the technology, from the perspective of a forum user, it was easy to have this doubt.

Remember when Zhihu first launched, Jiang Qin kept asking Su Nai’s side to lower the threshold. You didn’t even need to register. Just clicking on guest mode would allow you to browse all of Zhihu’s content.

But now that the national promotion was about to begin, the boss instead started setting limits. This was truly incomprehensible.

Of course, it wasn’t just them who couldn’t understand. Even Wei Lanlan and Su Nai didn’t understand. Many people who had signed strategic partnerships also didn’t understand.

Why insist on adding a threshold and exclude members of society? Let’s just say, if members of society also used this forum, wouldn’t the traffic be even larger and wider?

“Actually, the answer to this question is very simple. Do you think a website exclusive to the field of college students is easier to spread? Or is a forum where all kinds of idle people mix together easier to spread?”

“It should be the former…”

“That’s right. The more vertical our content field is, the faster it will spread. It’s like the narrower the sword blade, the deeper it will pierce. To put it bluntly, I want to spread across the country at the fastest speed, not harvest users city by city.”

Dong Wenhao opened his mouth, seeming to half understand, “This time we’re not pursuing the number of user registrations, but the coverage area?”

“Understanding it that way is also fine. The neighboring city has a population of 8 million. Even if we spend a year making all 8 million our users, it would still be a failure. But there are more than 300 university towns nationwide. Even if only a few thousand people in each university town use our website, we are successful.”

After finishing, Jiang Qin added, “Pintuan’s citywide promotion is like a spider spinning a web, while this time Zhihu’s national promotion is like spores floating in the air.”

“I understand. Then among the four major cities, where should we choose for our first stop in the promotion?”

“Let’s go with Shanghai.”

Jiang Qin made the decision without any hesitation, arranging the first stop in Shanghai.

Zhihu’s war chariot was tied to many Linchuan local brands. Although these people had signed strategic cooperation agreements with him and joined the Linchuan Business Group led by the Linchuan municipal government, they might not truly trust Jiang Qin’s abilities.

Therefore, Zhihu’s first stop must achieve results, results that would make all Linchuan bosses directly say it was worth it. Then Shanghai was the best choice.

The first reason was that he had the phone number of the Shanghai Chamber of Commerce vice chairman, who was also Ye Ziqing’s uncle. If he morally kidnapped her a bit, it would definitely be a significant boost.

Secondly, Feng Nanshu was the princess of Shanghai. If they really encountered unforeseen troubles during the promotion, he could put aside his pride and look for some connections. It should be of some use.

Compared to Shanghai, the capital, Shenzhen and Guangzhou did not have such convenience and assistance at all. That’s why he decided to set Zhihu’s first promotion stop in Shanghai.

After clearly understanding the boss’s plan, Room 208 and the Pintuan branch all became busy. The personnel responsible for the Shanghai branch began to intensify the arrangements and layout, arranging specific promotional methods according to the previous planning.

There were many problems that needed to be solved. The most pressing one was the promotional materials needed for ground promotion. They also held a meeting to centrally discuss how to design the materials to achieve the best effect.

“Boss, let’s still use fans as the medium.” Lu Xuemei suggested.

Jiang Qin nodded, “Okay, also, we can’t waste the many campus belles we selected. Let’s gather them to be models.”