Chapter 45: Chapter 44: Sneaky

    At night, after Shen Minglang had bought every product from “Persistent Visit,” he even went to give Cheng Zhu a piece of his mind.

    “Cousin, why didn’t you tell me earlier about selling such great stuff? What’s the meaning of this?”@@@@

    Cheng Zhu replied, “I was worried about your health.”

    “Come on! I’m only a few years older than you, in the prime of manhood!” Shen Minglang protested.

    “Totally understand, totally. Otherwise, why would you have bought everything?” Cheng Zhu didn’t mind giving a few insincere remarks when facing a customer.

    You managed to buy everything, cousin, which makes me happy. With such healthy “kidneys,” great “kidneys.”

    ...

    After chatting for a bit longer, they both went off to do their own things.

    Shen Minglang also took the initiative to promise Cheng Zhu that he would keep his store a secret.

    He asked himself, if he were in this line of work, he would also maintain some mystery at the beginning.

    Of course, once you make big money, it doesn’t matter anymore. In this day and age, as long as it’s legitimate business and you can make big money, then you’re awesome!

    After Cheng Zhu had finished up his work, he lay down in bed.

    He thought it was time to hire more people, and then rent a place to set up a studio.

    “The trend is good now, and because we’re leading the fashion, we can definitely launch a hit product in August.”

    “By September, we might even get a flood of orders.”

    “Need to prepare early,” he thought.

    Wang Anquan had now become a seasoned QQ industry customer service representative. Having him train new recruits wouldn’t be much of an issue.

    As for whether to hire women or men as staff... of course, hire men!

    In our line of work, we need men to do it!

    Only men truly understand men!

    Some young, shy female customer service representatives can’t really open up when dealing with male customers.

    Not like male service reps, cursing the client as an idiot while chatting away happily.

    Cheng Zhu decided he would rent a place in the next few days and then buy some inexpensive computers.

    Time flew by, and it was the day for Shen Minglang to receive his order.

    He had thought the delivery would be local, but it turned out to be shipped from Guan Yun County.

    After noticing this detail, he went to ask Cheng Zhu about it.

    Cheng Zhu told him that he had partnered with a factory; they would “drop-ship” items for him, so he didn’t need to rent a warehouse or hire staff.

    Boss Shen gave it his high praise: “Quality stuff!”

    He took out his phone, snapped some photos, and sent them to the little internet celebrity Sun Yue.

    The internet celebrity replied with a “Don’t wanna!” followed by a shy emoji.

    Understood, she really wanted to wear it.

    After doing all this, Shen Minglang had a sudden stroke of brilliance.

    He had no experience in e-commerce, so he had no real concept of the achievements of a store that had just started up.

    “But Wang Wei knows about this stuff!”

    “He burnt quite a bit of money, like paying tuition fees at Taobao. Recently his dad has been signing him up for classes; at his age, he still freaking needs to go to school, it’s laughable,” Shen Minglang thought to himself.

    Right now, Shen Minglang was simply very curious about what point a high school graduate could reach with his business during the summer holidays.

    “Cheng Zhu had said last time that he won some money on the World Cup Final, which made him think of starting a small business for fun,” Shen Minglang thought.

    “I really want to see to what extent he’s managed to ‘play’.”

    Shen Minglang picked up his phone, opened WeChat, and sent a message to Wang Wei using a standard pretext that began with:

    “I have a friend...”

    Listening to his lengthy description, Wang Wei replied, “Brother Lang, your friend isn’t actually you, right? If you’re really selling these, remember to send me a few.”

    “It’s not me; I’ll show you my order screenshot—I bought every model.” Shen Minglang said.

    “Jealous of Brother Lang’s fairy-tale life.” Wang Wei was pretty sycophantic to Shen Minglang; he was the sort of person who acts tough with those below and overly flattering with those above.

    The Shen family and his were not on the same level.

    Real good buddies wouldn’t talk like this. After seeing you bought these things, they would most likely rib you a few times, saying something like: Are you spending that much blood, sweat, and tears for just a few seconds of pleasure? Wow, son, you really know how to live it up!

    Shen Minglang texted: “Cut the crap, the store’s name is ‘Persistent Visit’, check it out for me.”

    “Sure, I’ll have a look.”

    In these days of big data, the various statistics of others’ businesses were pretty open for those in e-commerce to inspect, all of which could be found if one looked.

    Things like “Business Advisor,” “Sheng-e-Jing”, and such software provided this functionality.

    Wang Wei said he’d take a quick look but ended up staring at it for over ten minutes.

    Shen Minglang felt it was just like his own initial reaction.

    “Damn, he better not be busy placing an order now, right? What’s he buying, several models?”

    After quite a while, Shen Minglang finally received his WeChat message.

    Wang Wei had indeed been studying the store’s data, looking more and more meticulously, increasingly seriously, and finding it more and more unbelievable.

    —Such skill!

    This prompted the goosebumps-raising Wang Wei to send a WeChat: “Brother Lang, can I invite you and your friend to a meal?”