Chapter 86: Don’t Understand, Let’s Skip Class

As time passed, almost all the merchants from the front plaza came to 208 one after another, especially after Beilan Dessert Shop officially signed a promotion agreement with the forum, customers inquiring about advertising came in an endless stream.

Jiang Qin took a look at the accounts. Most customers were very interested in the carousel ads on the homepage, so much that all four carousel slots were booked until the end of this year.

After deducting various discounts, the revenue from this section already far exceeded the forum’s investment cost.

In addition, suitable customers were also found for the long-term ad spots on the secondary pages and sidebar. The total revenue broke 100,000 yuan, roughly the same as the budget for the later period.

The bullet has left the barrel, so the shooter can take a break.

Because as long as there’s no trembling of the wrist when pulling the trigger, most bullets can fly to their planned positions.

Of course, as a university student, the first priority is still studying. For Jiang Qin, it doesn’t matter how awesome his academic performance is, but at the very least, he can’t fail and have to retake courses. That would be a bit embarrassing.

In a calculus class at the end of September.

Jiang Qin felt like his brain was about to explode. He listened to the teacher’s lecture, constantly digging through his previous memories, but found that everything he had learned before had turned into fragments.

He could remember a little, but couldn’t string it together. Even if he vaguely grasped something, it would quickly disappear again.

Damn, advanced mathematics really is too much like love! It’s so fucking abstract!

Looks like things not used often are indeed forgotten in a very short period of time. He could still remember several lines for drinking games though.

Jiang Qin couldn’t help rubbing his forehead. He turned to look at Cao Guangyu, Ren Ziqiang and Zhou Chao, and found that these three were listening very seriously, nodding and swaying from time to time, looking extremely focused.

Those who can test into Linchuan University are no slouches when it comes to studying. Don’t be fooled by these three guys usually acting unserious. When it comes to knowledge, they really study hard!

Jiang Qin finally understood the feeling of average students facing top students.

Please, can we not study anymore.

“Old Cao, want to skip class and go play? Dream Web Cafe is doing a promotion, pay 100 get 100 free.” Jiang Qin nudged Cao Guangyu with his elbow.

Cao Guangyu looked at him in disbelief, “Old Jiang, did you buy your admission letter? How can your learning attitude be so improper?”

“…”

Jiang Qin turned to look at Zhou Chao, “Old Zhou, stop studying. Want to fail the class together with me?”

Zhou Chao glanced at him, “Old Jiang, you and I are different. Your family has a Bentley but I don’t. If I fail and have to retake the course, I won’t have hope for postgraduate recommendation. How disappointed would my parents be.”

“Old Ren?”

“I have to study hard. Besides, I need to keep Pan Xiu company.”

Ren Ziqiang raised an eyebrow, full of confidence in his words, as if he had a girlfriend.

Jiang Qin sighed, put the pen between his lips, propped his face with one hand, and gradually started spacing out while looking at the blue sky outside the window.

After barely holding on until class was about to end, the teacher wearing a gray plaid shirt suddenly put down the textbook, picked up the attendance book again and called roll. Cao Guangyu, Zhou Chao and Ren Ziqiang immediately showed an expression of lingering fear.

If Jiang Qin had said one more sentence just now, they might have slipped away with him.

Young university students are just like this, easily persuaded.

But now that their names were randomly called after class, they truly felt a wave of lingering fear. How can there be an operation of taking attendance after class?

“Old Jiang, class is over. Let’s go to the internet cafe!”

“Class is over, what normal person goes to an internet cafe?!”

Jiang Qin picked up his books and left. After going out the door, he first glanced at the classroom next door and found that Class 4 didn’t come to class. He estimated the next two periods were scheduled for the afternoon.

So he took the elevator down to the first floor and went straight to the front plaza after exiting.

At this time, two small trucks were parked in the front plaza. Workers in gray-blue uniforms were moving out promotional materials under the direction of Lu Xuemei.

Things like designated partners of the campus belle contest, Beilan Dessert Shop, 20% off for the whole store, gather strength for the goddesses, cheer for the campus belles.

There were also things like campus belle style clothing stores. Wear the same outfits as the campus belles and be as eye-catching as them.

In addition, Shengshi also made several authorized cardboard cutouts of department goddesses and placed them by the fountain in the front plaza, looking at the huge campus belle ranking board from afar.

After this series of operations, the entire front plaza had completely become a test site for the campus belle economy. It felt like a bustling campus belle themed market fair. The entire scene was lively and the customer traffic was increasing. Even teachers couldn’t help wanting to come down and take a look.

Actually, whether it was Beilan Dessert Shop or Linchuan University Fashion Shop, business had not been very good in recent years.

After all, if Xitian Milk Tea Shop only had three customers in a morning, as a neighboring store along the street, no matter how good their business was, it wouldn’t be that great.

This wasn’t to say their product quality was lacking or their service was not good. It was completely because the front plaza really couldn’t gather popularity.

But now that popularity had increased, there was no need to worry too much about product sales.

To put it simply, the location of the front plaza was not very good, but Jiang Qin single-handedly solved this problem from the root.

There were many commercial districts at Linchuan University. The most popular was the campus supermarket, and the most low-end was the front plaza. But now the situation had reversed, causing even the jewelry stores near the campus supermarket to set up small stalls in the front plaza.

The most obvious was that the part-time university student who originally always sat at the school gate promoting campus cards couldn’t help but move over here in the past two days.

“I’ve never seen so many people here…”

Lu Xuemei murmured, her eyes full of endless emotion. In just a short month, the front plaza had changed from being deserted to bustling with activity. This was something she didn’t dare imagine before.

And the one who made all this happen was the “freshman” next to her who seemed unserious.

“After exiting the teaching building is the front plaza, and the front plaza faces the maple forest. The street-side shops are separated by the maple forest and overlook Wangyue Lake. Although the terrain is open, it leaks air on all sides and is not suitable for commercialization at all. It’s very normal that popularity can’t gather. We used promotional materials and billboards to enclose this place into a long street, visually turning a plaza that leaks air on three sides into a pocket. Using the crowded environment enhances the shopping experience, and business will slowly come alive.”

After hearing this, Lu Xuemei was stunned for a moment, her eyes slightly widened, “Is there a secret to this too?”

“Many business owners are used to having a feng shui master take a look before choosing a location. It’s probably for this reason.”

“Isn’t that feudal superstition?”

“Of course it’s feudal superstition. University students should believe in science. Don’t listen to my nonsense.” Jiang Qin patted her shoulder and turned to go to Xitian Milk Tea Shop.

The corner of Lu Xuemei’s mouth twitched. She thought, you can talk nonsense as if it’s real. No wonder you’re the boss!

Because of the popularity of the campus belle contest and the milk tea flavors matched with character profiles, business at Xitian had been exploding these past two days. Correspondingly, Fang Xiaoxuan was also exhausted.

“Boss, there are so many people recently. My hands and feet are soft after getting off work every day.” Fang Xiaoxuan opened her mouth to complain.

“Then is triple salary fragrant or not?”

Fang Xiaoxuan immediately nodded, “Fragrant, it’s simply too fragrant.”

“If it’s fragrant then work hard.” Jiang Qin gave her an encouraging look.

“But I don’t understand, boss. Can’t you use this money to hire two more people to help me?”

“I’m not relying on the milk tea shop to make money. What I want is the scene of long lines to attract new advertising customers for me. You could say it’s a kind of hunger marketing. If there are enough staff and milk tea is made quickly, the line will be short and not attractive enough. When the popularity drops a bit, I’ll hire people to help you.”

Fang Xiaoxuan didn’t understand, but she didn’t argue. Triple salary was indeed fragrant.