After finally sending away the group of card store managers who had fought each other until they were bruised and battered, Ke Jin hadn't yet breathed a sigh of relief when he looked up and saw another group of people walking in with surprised looks on their faces.

"Mr. Ke! You're back!"

"Mr. Ke! I'm from BLX Travel Agency. My boss thinks your card pool has great development potential and would like to discuss with you to develop a 'food card drawing travel line'..."

"Mr. Koka, our RXS Travel Company is more powerful. If you want to cooperate with us, please consider us first..."

"Our WOZ Travel Group has a very mature design concept for this kind of "travel-card draw-consumption" special line, and has many successful cases! This is the customized route plan we have designed for you. Mr. Ke, I can give you a detailed introduction now..."

Ke Jin: "Don't push! I'll go one by one..."

Before Ke Jin finished speaking, a new group of people came pouring in.

"Mr. Ke! Do you have any intention to join our BBB live broadcast platform? We will make you the number one live broadcast star on this platform!!"

"Envoy Keka, our XX TV station team would like to invite you to participate in a food program we are planning, and you will be the chief guest..."

"Mr. Ke, do you know that our XXX advertising company has branches in the seven continents of Azure Star, which can help your card pool become more well-known! ..."

"Mr. Ke! %￥￥%..."

"Coca, &%#%￥..."

Ke Jin: “…………”

No, he's going crazy!!!

***

That night, Ke Jin didn't cook. He took Ou Nuo, who had just returned from school, to Gu Qianqian's house for a meal - after a busy whole day, who would have the energy to cook for themselves!

Several people sat around the table eating and drinking soup. Gu Qianqian expressed deep sympathy for Ke Jin's "experience", and then discussed with him which of these people were worthy of cooperation. After the meal, Ke Jin's mood finally calmed down a little, and he said with relief.

"I'll take a good rest tomorrow and then reply to them one by one."

"Tomorrow?" Gu Qianqian was stunned. "You will be even busier tomorrow, right? Will you have time to rest?"

"What?" Ke Jin suddenly felt as if he was "sitting up in shock from a dying illness". "Why will tomorrow be even busier?!"

So many people have come today. All the merchants who want to cooperate with us should have come, right? Can we be busier than today?

"Tomorrow is the weekend." Oloyi said. As a student, he is very conscious of time. "Everyone has a holiday."

"Several of my friends in the city have said they are going to your card pool to draw cards this weekend." Gu Qianqian said, "They can't come on weekdays, but they can come on weekends... It seems that many office workers and students are planning to come over on weekends."

"And this week's 'Sweet Train' seems to be departing tomorrow as well..." Qi Ye added faintly.

Ke Jin: “……………………”

***

Just as Gu Qianqian said, on the first day of the weekend, Ke Jin faced the most challenging day since he started running the card pool.

Individual tourists started arriving before daybreak in the morning, and when the first bus arrived at the town of Das, the number of people pouring into the Kachi courtyard began to increase exponentially visibly.

In the past few days, because the influence of Ke Jin's card pool has been fermenting in Chikongzhou, and outsiders cannot buy Ke Jin's cards in chain card sales stores, so anyone who has relatives or friends in Qixing City has entrusted their friends to buy cards for them. The probability of circulating cards in Ke Jin's card pool is only 10%, so the citizens of Qixing City who are responsible for the "buying" mission basically start to draw in hundreds, one person does this, and everyone does this. In less than an hour, there are customers shouting that they have drawn "blank cards".

“Isn’t this speed too terrifying?”

Qi was stunned by the "fighting power" of this group of people. He had clearly filled up more than ten quicksand bottles before opening the pool today, but they couldn't even hold on for an hour? ?

Without the time to continue being surprised, Qi quickly reentered the card pool without Ke Jin's urging. The people in the yard were all shouting. If he didn't renew his card quickly, Qi suspected that this group of people wanted to sacrifice him alive...

Ke Jin is very nervous now.

Although everyone is relatively civilized and will queue up consciously to draw cards, there are too many people in the yard today. It is normal to have bumps and quarrels. If someone starts a fight, a roll can knock down a lot of people. It will be terrible if it turns into a group trampling incident!

Therefore, Ke Jin didn't dare to take his eyes away from the crowd. He would rush forward to mediate wherever there was a commotion. He was exhausted both physically and mentally, and felt that those visiting partners yesterday were actually nothing at all!

——But this is just the beginning.

As time went by, people kept pouring into the Kachi Courtyard, whether they were driving or taking the bus. The most terrifying peak was the arrival of the "Sweet Train" - more than 30 cars came directly this time, which was equivalent to thousands of people airborne!

When Ke Jin was renovating the card pool courtyard, he had expanded the size of the courtyard, so it was no problem to accommodate five or six hundred people. However, with the surge in the number of people today, this area is not worth mentioning at all - the line waiting to draw cards had long ago extended from the courtyard gate to the mountain road outside, and because of the rapid increase in the number of new arrivals, the long line did not shorten, but became longer and longer, and there was no end in sight.

"This... this is too exaggerated..."

On the mountain road, Secretary Xiaobai and several colleagues from the Kachi Bureau were looking at the long queue in front of them, all of them were stunned.

It was expected that Ke Jin himself had become popular, and the card pool had also become popular as well. Secretary Xiaobai and the others came here this time, on the one hand, because they were commissioned to help draw cards, and on the other hand, because of their duties as the card pool bureau, they came to see the situation on site in order to assist Ke Jin in planning the future development of the card pool.

However, the years of decline in the Qixing City card pool market ultimately limited the imagination of these people - they never expected the scene to be so popular!

"With so many people, it will be very dangerous if order cannot be maintained..." someone murmured.

Secretary Xiaobai and others were stunned, looked at each other, and immediately quickened their pace to rush to the Kachi courtyard.

***

The Kachi courtyard was now filled with people. It was difficult to find anyone, let alone find someone. Secretary Xiaobai and the others took great pains to find Ke Jin who was mixed in the crowd.

"Xiao Ke, are you alone?" Secretary Xiao Bai asked anxiously as soon as they met, "Why don't you ask for more help? If something happens, it will be difficult for you to handle it by yourself!"

"I didn't expect so many people would come!" Ke Jin wanted to cry but had no tears, his voice was hoarse, "Is the line outside still long?"

Secretary Xiaobai nodded awkwardly: "It's longer than you think."

Seeing that Ke Jin looked like he was about to faint, several people hurriedly comforted him: "It's okay, don't get angry, we can all help you."

This was like timely help, and Ke Jin was filled with gratitude. Now blank cards would appear from time to time in the card pool, and there were more and more impatient customers. Ke Jin was exhausted by dealing with them alone. He asked Secretary Xiaobai and his team to help look after the situation in the yard, and then turned around and entered the card pool immediately.

***

In the card renewal room, Qi's face was now pale, and his eyes could no longer maintain normal human pupils, but turned into upright animal pupils, with thick bloodshot faintly visible in his eyes.

As soon as Ke Jin came in, he glanced at the wall of the card renewal room and found that the amount of quicksand in the dozen or so quicksand bottles was not much and was decreasing very quickly.

"Can, can you go faster?" Although he was reluctant, Ke Jin still urged tactfully.

"I've tried my best, but the card refill speed still can't keep up with the card draw speed!" Qi looked like he was about to vomit blood, "Can you ask them to stop for a while?! I'm almost drained!!"

Now, the appearance of blank cards alone has already made many people dissatisfied. If it is suddenly announced that the cards will be suspended for a while... Ke Jin does not dare to think about that scene at all. Moreover, there is only one desk in the card renewal room, and Ke Jin cannot join Qi to help him reduce the burden. In the end, he can only comfort him again, and then return to the courtyard with a heavy heart.

***

"There are so many people coming today."

Oloy sat in the house, looking at the scene in the yard through the window, frowning slightly.

The yard is crowded with people now, and everyone draws a large number of cards, so the card output speed will definitely not be too fast, and the waiting time will be longer.

Waiting for a long time always makes people restless. The card renewal speed at Qi's end gradually cannot keep up with the card issuance speed outside. The frequency of blank cards is increasing. Complaints in the yard are heard one after another. Ke Jin has no good solution. He can only appease the crowd with Secretary Xiaobai and others, and they are busy all the time.

"Too inexperienced..." Oloy glanced at the black-haired young man in the crowd from a distance, shook his head secretly, then turned his wrist, and a light green fluorescent card appeared at his fingertips.

This card was not a supernatural card, but the rare fluorescent special effects also hinted that it was of a high rank. Oloy's eyes narrowed slightly, and he flicked the card towards the courtyard. The green card silently disappeared into thousands of points of light, blending into the air outside the window and disappearing in an instant.

At the same time, everyone in the courtyard felt refreshed physically and mentally. The anxiety and irritability of waiting were swept away, and their mood calmed down instantly; Ke Jin also felt that his spirits suddenly lifted. Not only was his fatigue reduced a lot, but his mind also became exceptionally clear.

As if he had suddenly escaped from a fog of confusion, Ke Jin looked around the crowded yard, then glanced at the card pool where the card output was still unstable. After thinking for a long time, he finally made a decision.

He quickly found Secretary Xiaobai and his group and told them his idea. They were all surprised after hearing it, and Secretary Xiaobai hesitated.

"Is this really okay?" she asked doubtfully, "If everyone protests and a dispute breaks out..."

"We'll solve specific problems when the time comes, but I think it should be fine." Ke Jin affirmed, "I'm a card user, and it's reasonable and natural for me to set rules for my own card pool. If you don't want to, just leave. Anyway, I have a clear conscience."

After some discussion, Secretary Xiaobai and the others finally nodded.

"Then let's start preparing!"

***

An hour later, Ke Jin and Secretary Xiao Bai came to the gate of the courtyard with a red rope and blocked the gate with a thick red rope.

"The pool closing time is coming soon. Currently, we are only accepting people from within the hospital. People from outside the hospital - that is, those who are behind the red rope - will no longer be accepted in this card pool. Please go back!" Ke Jin shouted to the long line behind him using a loudspeaker.

The scene was silent for a moment, and then everyone was in an uproar. The people in the courtyard were naturally thankful. Even though they had been drawing slowly before and blank cards had appeared more frequently, at least they would definitely draw one today, and the trip was worth it. The people outside the courtyard were in an uproar. They were all excited and wanted to revolt immediately.

"What time is it that the pool needs to be closed?? I've never seen a pool closed so early in the morning!!"

"Why didn't you say it earlier?! Do you know how long we have been waiting here?"

"I came here from the next city, and you just say I can't smoke?! Why?!"

Ke Jin remained calm and continued to be businesslike: "My card pool opens in the morning and closes after noon. This is the rule here. Of course, the so-called pool closure is only for individual customers. If you are a customer who got a reservation number in the morning, the card pool will still be open to them in the afternoon. But if you are an individual customer without a reservation number, I'm sorry that you can't enter the hospital to draw cards."

"Appointment number?" The desperate customers immediately ignited hope and asked one after another, "What is this? How do I get it?"

Secretary Xiaobai immediately took out a piece of white paper half the size of a palm, on which was written the number "1" in bold marker, with a somewhat crude little seal next to it.

"This is the reservation number." Secretary Xiaobai took the megaphone handed over by Ke Jin and explained loudly, "Our staff will distribute numbers to everyone in line in a while, and inform the specific card drawing time for each number segment. In the afternoon, everyone can use this number to draw cards in the card pool during the corresponding time period!"

"If you don't want to queue any longer, you can come to me and buy some circulating cards." Ke Jin and Secretary Xiaobai sang the same tune, cooperating very well. "But you can only buy three of each card, and the price will be much more expensive than drawing cards. Please weigh it yourself. If you have any questions, feel free to ask!"

After Ke Jin announced the rules, the crowd immediately started talking. Although many people still had dissatisfaction on their faces, Ke Jin was no longer as fearful as before - he had figured it out, his previous thinking was completely wrong, although "the customer is God" was true, but now he and these people were no longer in a "buyer and seller" relationship, but a "Party A and Party B" relationship!

In the case of completely unequal supply and demand, you are the party A with an absolute advantage, and the rules you set are the absolute rules in this transaction! It is no longer applicable to be led by the nose blindly. You can fully grasp the initiative and the right to speak, and let the situation develop in the direction you want!

During the discussion, people kept asking questions to Ke Jin. Ke Jin kept his bottom line in mind. No matter what the question was, he still had to abide by the card drawing rules of his own card pool. Gradually, after realizing that there was really no room for maneuver, the crowd began to split.

Some people who did not want to wait until the afternoon chose to buy circulation cards from Ke Jin, and then left one after another; but there were more people who were willing to stay.

In fact, most people don't want to waste time here. Now they can make an appointment in advance and know roughly when they can come to draw cards. Of course, it is more cost-effective to get a reservation number. After everyone got the number, they made an appointment to go to the town to hang out and play. They can eat, drink, play and make an appointment to draw cards at the same time. It's great!

***

After successfully diverting the crowd, the pressure on Ke Jin and others dropped sharply, and Qi didn't need to be too anxious - those who were able to stay in the yard were too lucky to care about the blank cards. Anyway, the blank cards would have content sooner or later, and it wasn't in vain.

The morning passed without any major incidents; at noon, the exhausted Qi took a rare one-hour break; in the afternoon, everyone came in batches within the specified time period, and although there were still a lot of people, Ke Jin and his team had become more skilled in dealing with them, and no trouble occurred.

Finally, when the night completely enveloped the courtyard, the last guest drew his card and left with satisfaction. When Ke Jin closed the courtyard door, he was so excited that he almost cried.

"Today is finally a successful conclusion!" he said excitedly, "Thanks to everyone's help! Thank you!!"

But Secretary Xiaobai and the others didn't look happy at all.

"It's just a Saturday." Secretary Xiaobai sighed softly.

"Yes." One of her colleagues nodded heavily, "The public holiday hasn't started yet."

"Public holiday?" Ke Jin was at a loss, "What is that?"

"It's the Autumn Festival." Secretary Xiaobai looked at Ke Jin strangely. She thought that he was just too busy to forget this important festival that everyone knew about. "It's one of the traditional blessing festivals on Azure Star. There will be a five-day holiday."

"A five-day holiday is the most suitable time to draw cards and pray for blessings..." One person swallowed his saliva, showing fear on his face, "By then, people from dozens of cities in the entire Chikong Continent will probably come here to draw cards... That crowd will be overwhelming..."

Everyone looked at Ke Jin with sympathy as he had a dazed look on his face.

Ke Jin: “…”

No wonder everyone was so worried this afternoon. He thought there was some hidden danger in his diversion measures, but it turned out that there was a bigger pit waiting here? !