Chapter 51
The next morning, Su Ziqin got out of bed, holding back the urge to strangle Fu Qingyun. Learn what? Su Ziqin covered her face, thinking about what she had shown Fu Qingyun last night. Why did she drag her into the bathroom and rub shower gel on her for an hour? In the end, she fell asleep out of boredom!
Su Ziqin was so frustrated by Fu Qingyun last night that she almost gave up. Fu Qingyun, on the other hand, was persistent in giving her a bath. “Don’t I have hands? Why do you have to be the one to rub shower gel on me?”
The video from last night was no good. Su Ziqin decided to permanently delete it from her USB drive. “I don’t believe it. Fu Qingyun can’t be this clueless.”
Su Ziqin got out of bed and rushed out of the bedroom to find Fu Qingyun. However, she was the only one left in the house. There was another familiar note on the table.
Su Ziqin picked up the note and read it. “Little fox, I’m going to Chen Xi’s to look at an experimental site. Breakfast is in the kitchen. Don’t wait for me tonight. I might come back late.”
“Is Teacher Fu’s attitude towards learning a little too negative?” Su Ziqin frowned and put the note away. She had also been slacking off for a while. During her time in Country, Y Su Ziqin didn’t even go to see the merchants.
“I’ll send Xu Zhiqian next time,” Su Ziqin said, propping up her head. Who told Xu Zhiqian to overtake me on the curve? That’s just not fair.
Su Ziqin quickly ate breakfast and went to the company. Since Fu Qingyun wasn’t there, Su Ziqin didn’t even feel like going to the 18th floor. She had just sat down in the office when she saw Xu Zhiqian rolling up her sleeves and getting ready to run upstairs.
“Stop right there.” Su Ziqin’s eyes were cold as she shot a glance at Xu Zhiqian. “Don’t even think about running off. No dating during work hours.”
Xu Zhiqian’s eyes widened. She looked at Su Ziqin in disbelief. “Su Ziqin, aren’t you being a little too much?”
“Am I? I don’t think so. We’re about to enter the second phase. Why aren’t you busy with recruitment and making reports? All you can think about is running upstairs.”
Su Ziqin’s hands were quickly typing on the keyboard. She was writing a business plan based on what Fu Qingyun had said before—about making herself more famous. Su Ziqin had some ideas.
Xu Zhiqian reluctantly sat back down at her desk. “You’re just doing this because your own wife isn’t here, so you’re stopping me from going to see mine.”
“You’re right,” Su Ziqin said, giving Xu Zhiqian a very fake smile. “My wife isn’t here, and I’m in a very bad mood. Only work can relieve this frustration. Are you planning on leaving?”
Xu Zhiqian felt a hint of murderous intent in Su Ziqin’s smile. She subconsciously swallowed. “I’m not leaving, I’m not leaving.”
“Ziqin, we still don’t have a name for our website,” Kong Shuangshuang said while working on the recruitment layout. She noticed that the website’s name was still blank. The company didn’t have a name yet either. The business license only had the incubation code given by the school.
Su Ziqin said without lifting her head, “Yunxian.”
“No,” Su Ziqin paused for a second. “That’s not a good name. Let’s call it Yunfan.” This name sounded much more auspicious.
Kong Shuangshuang didn’t understand what she meant. “Which two characters?”
Xu Zhiqian understood the resentment in Su Ziqin’s words. “The ‘Yun’ from Fu Qingyun and the ‘fan’ from ‘mortal’. Su Ziqin, if Sister Fu hears this name, she might be so moved that she’ll come down from heaven to find you.”
“Get lost!” Su Ziqin grabbed a ball of tissue from the side and threw it at Xu Zhiqian. Did she think Su Ziqin couldn’t hear her sarcasm?
Xu Zhiqian pretended to dodge. “Oh, I’ll get lost to the 18th floor right away.”
“Get back here,” Su Ziqin said through gritted teeth. She’s such a handful.
Su Ziqin turned her computer screen to the two of them. “This is a promotional plan. We’ll use the momentum from when Li Zhengyin joined Yunshan to quickly make our projects go viral.”
Kong Shuangshuang looked at the arrangements on the business plan and saw that it was a press conference. “Are people going to come if we hold a press conference now?” After all, they had just started.
Su Ziqin continued, “We have a website. Teacher Xu, please go to the website and post a merchant recruitment notice using my ID to warm up our event.”
Xu Zhiqian gave an OK sign. “Don’t worry. I’ll get it done right away.”
“That’s a good idea,” Kong Shuangshuang continued. “But we still lack some stable and well-known brands to join.”
“That’s true,” Su Ziqin regretted why she had pushed back the plan to meet with the merchants in Country Y. After that incident, she wasn’t in the mood to talk to merchants at all.
Kong Shuangshuang looked through the business plan on her computer. “After the payment system is done, the banks won’t be a problem. The main issue now is logistics. We haven’t contacted them yet.”
“Logistics, huh?” Su Ziqin bit her lip. In Jing City and even the whole country, logistics was almost completely controlled by Panhai. The Qin family was a leader in this industry, and the entire industry was almost a monopoly. “Do we have to go through the Qin family?”
Su Ziqin had learned her lesson after clashing with Qin Renfeng. It would not be good for her to confront the Qin family rashly right now.
“There’s actually another one,” Kong Shuangshuang found a logistics company’s information on the business website and turned the screen to face them. “Wanshida is a new company. Its logistics business is developing well, and its corporate information is clean.”
Su Ziqin looked at the clean corporate website and said suspiciously, “Would Panhai allow a company like this to exist?” Based on Qin Renfeng’s vengeful personality, his father probably wasn’t a good person either. Would he allow someone to exist who was so blatantly stealing his business?
“We don’t have to be so conspiratorial,” Kong Shuangshuang said with a laugh, scratching her head. She really hadn’t thought that far ahead. She had always thought that a large corporation like Panhai wouldn’t need to target anyone.
Xu Zhiqian had a bad impression of Panhai after Qin Renfeng held a press conference and spread rumors that Fu Qingyun had been in an accident in Country Y. She had been with Li Zhengyin for those few hours and knew all the details of what had happened.
“No, no, no. I agree with Ziqin. We need to be cautious about this.”
Kong Shuangshuang laughed and said, “But we can’t just ignore logistics, can we?”
Su Ziqin wrote down the address on the corporate information website. She found that the place was quite close to Chen Xi’s factory. “I’ll go take a look this afternoon. Student Kong, you’re in charge of printing the recruitment advertisements and recruiting people from the nearby universities. Teacher Xu, you’ll post on our website and contact the media.”
“Can I go upstairs after I’m done?” Xu Zhiqian asked, glancing at Su Ziqin.
Su Ziqin smiled slightly at her. “Of course, Teacher Xu. Do you really think I’m such a heartless boss?”
Xu Zhiqian… I almost believed you. “Your wife is with Chen Xi, right?”
“Mhm,” Su Ziqin said, winking at her.
Xu Zhiqian gave Su Ziqin a big eye roll in return. “I knew it. Making money never made you this proactive.”
Su Ziqin leaned in close to Xu Zhiqian’s ear and said helplessly, “Teacher Xu, please understand. You and your destined true Alpha have already had some fun, but I’ve been married for so long and there’s been no action at all.”
Xu Zhiqian’s heart felt a lot more balanced. “Sigh, I told you. The road is long and difficult for you. But you’re going over there…”
“I promise I’ll do business first.” Su Ziqin raised her right hand and made a solemn vow.
Xu Zhiqian saw her and said impatiently, “Fine, fine. I’ll believe in your work ethic this one time.” Xu Zhiqian’s belief was a bit forced. After all, this person went to Country Y and didn’t even bring back a single merchant.
“You can leave now. I’ll post the recruitment notices and contact the media. In the afternoon, I’ll also go to the Administration for Industry and Commerce to change the company information. Leave your ID card here.” Xu Zhiqian gave herself a bunch of tasks.
Su Ziqin saw this, took her ID card out of her bag, and handed it to Xu Zhiqian. “You’ve worked hard, Teacher Xu.”
“It’s no trouble at all. I’m just serving the people,” Xu Zhiqian said with a fake smile.
“I’m leaving now. Bye~,” Su Ziqin waved at the two of them, picked up her bag, and walked into the elevator.
She quickly got into the parking lot. As soon as she started the car, Su Ziqin still felt that the Wanshida company was a little abnormal. “If it’s a company with potential, given Fu Qingyun’s personality, she would have already invested in it.”
Su Ziqin dialed the number on the corporate information website from her memory. It was a landline, so it was answered quickly.
“Hello, Wanshida Logistics,” the man who answered the phone sounded a bit old. His accent was a little strange, with a strong Southern accent.
Su Ziqin was a little confused. The business world in Jing City was quite exclusive. She didn’t expect Wanshida to be run by a Southerner. “Hello, I’d like to ask if you’re in the XX Industrial Park?”
“Yes, we are. We have warehouses from number 1 to 18.”
“I’d like to talk to your boss about a partnership. When would he have time?”
The person on the other end was very enthusiastic. “I’m the boss. I’m free all afternoon. Little girl, you can come anytime. Do you like drinking tea or coffee? I’ll prepare it in advance.”
“You don’t have to go to all that trouble. I’ll be there in about half an hour.”
“Okay, okay. Little girl, no need to rush.”
Su Ziqin hung up the phone and sent a text message to Fu Qingyun. Before she could get a reply from Fu Qingyun, Su Ziqin set off for the industrial park.
When she met the boss of Wanshida, Su Ziqin thought she had encountered a gangster. The boss’s name was Yang Pengquan. He was in his fifties and was wearing loose shorts and a torn undershirt on a hot summer day. He had tattoos of dragons and phoenixes all over his body. He looked like a gang member.
“Are you… the boss of Wanshida?”
Yang Pengquan waved his hand at her. “Little girl, don’t be scared. We people from Chaoshan are like this. Don’t let my tattoos fool you. I’m not a bad person.”
Su Ziqin… Do bad people say they’re bad people these days? “You’re very easygoing,” Su Ziqin said, looking at his clothes. Even the scum of her previous life didn’t have such bad taste.
“We people from Chaoshan are like this. We’re more down-to-earth. What kind of partnership do you want to talk to me about?”
Su Ziqin didn’t hold back. She briefly told Yang Pengquan about her plan and website and talked to him about the logistics commission.
“If you have such a big volume, little girl, why don’t you partner with Panhai?”
Su Ziqin pouted. “We’re sworn enemies with Panhai.”
“Huh? Are you a member of the Fu family? Didn’t they say Fu Qingyun is an Alpha? Why are you an Omega?” Yang Pengquan looked Su Ziqin up and down.
Su Ziqin sighed. “Boss Yang, Fu Qingyun is my Alpha.”
“I see, I see. A wife follows her husband. I won’t lie to you. I’ve long been annoyed with Panhai. The entire country is a one-man show. Logistics isn’t cigarettes. Why is it a monopoly?”
Su Ziqin was intrigued. “Boss Yang, you have a story to tell?”
“Ah, when I first came to Jing City, I was doing logistics with a few of my brothers. That Qin family was so bossy. They came to cause trouble every few days. If my brothers weren’t tough, we would have been driven away long ago.”
Su Ziqin heard this and was surprised that this Boss Yang had some background. “Then you…”
“Hey, hey, hey, little girl, don’t get me wrong. We’re not gangsters. My brothers and I all served in the military in Chaoshan. My family had dozens of houses demolished in Chaoshan. We just wanted to fulfill our brothers’ dream of living in the capital.
We came here to give it a try while we’re still young. Who knew we would be so successful? All those gangsters from the east of the city to the west of the city are now our employees. The young people are pretty honest as long as you give them food.”
“You’re amazing, Boss Yang,” Su Ziqin said with a bit of admiration. It seemed she had come to the right place. She had found an enemy of the Qin family. The enemy of her enemy was her friend, right? And someone who had the ability to win over so many young people was not a simple person.
“Ah, don’t call me Boss Yang. You’re even younger than my daughter. Just call me Uncle Yang.”
Su Ziqin was well-behaved and obediently said, “Uncle Yang.”
“Hey, good kid,” Yang Pengquan said, picking up his palm-leaf fan and getting up. “By the way, does your website need merchants? Like, large and well-known ones?”
Su Ziqin nodded. “Yes, we do.”
Yang Pengquan rummaged through his tattered bag and took out two invitations. “This is a card for a fashion show for my daughter. My daughter is single and doesn’t want to go. You and your Alpha can go.”
Su Ziqin looked at the date. What a coincidence! It was this weekend. Fu Qingyun would probably be free then.
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