Chapter 11

To conceal the existence of the system, Xia Ke cleaned up her unused house, put shelves on it, and used it as a storage room for the spatial rings.

She also negotiated with the system and obtained the permission for outsiders to operate the system's logistics, so that Xia Ke could completely get rid of the trivial matters of shipping and replying to customer messages.

The next day, Yang Yan and Zhang Fan arrived very early. Xia Keding's working hours were from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., with a one-hour break at 12 p.m. and 6 p.m., for a total of eight hours of work per day.

However, Yang Yan and Zhang Fan arrived at the Xia family's house a little after eight in the morning.

For her first job, although Xia Ke agreed that Zhang Fan could bring his child to work, she still came alone.

After exchanging greetings, Xia Ke gave the two some work-related tips: "You don't need to come so early in the future. We don't clock in. Just be on time. If you have something to do, it's understandable if you arrive a little late or leave a little early, as long as you don't fall behind on the work."

"We have two days off each week, but business is good on weekends, so we can't take those two days off, and neither of us can take the same day off. So we can only choose two days off between Monday and Friday. You can decide which day to take off and then tell my parents."

"My parents have probably already told you about your salary. It's five thousand a month. If you do well at the end of the year, you'll get a bonus. If there's more work in the future, you can get a raise."

The two listened carefully to Xia Ke's words. Although they were distant relatives and classmates, they were not familiar with Xia Ke and were even a little nervous and scared.

Xia Ke did not deliberately hide the news that she was going back to the village to start a company; most of the villagers had heard about it to some extent.

Of course, the first reaction upon hearing the news was pessimism. Who would be willing to open a company in their area? The Xia family's daughter's company was doomed to fail.

But to everyone's surprise, not only did they not go bankrupt, they started hiring, and the salaries they offered were quite high.

Yang Yan used to work in another province, processing various iron gift boxes. She was paid 14 yuan per hour, or 20 yuan per hour if she worked overtime. She worked from 8 am to 9 pm and only earned 172 yuan a day. She was so tired in a month that she didn't want to move her fingers, but she only earned a little over 5,000 yuan. Moreover, she did not have any days off. If she took a day off, she might not earn even 5,000 yuan.

Before getting married, Zhang Fan worked as a restaurant waitress. Her salary was slightly better than Yang Yan's. She went to a first-tier city and could earn six or seven thousand a month. However, after deducting rent and living expenses, she earned less than Yang Yan. The factory usually provided meals and accommodation, so Zhang Fan was able to save more money than Yang Yan, who rented her own place and ate and drank on her own.

Therefore, the salary Xia Ke paid was the highest in Hongqi Village.

While diligently taking notes of the work, Zhang Fan secretly glanced at Xia Ke.

Xia Ke didn't know her, but she did know Xia Ke. She was a well-known bookworm in junior high school. At that time, most of her classmates were keen on dyeing their hair, getting perms, dating, and wasting their youth. Xia Ke and her friends wore their school uniforms every day, attended classes on time, and never participated in the games of these bad students.

In junior high, she thought Xia Ke was dull, unsophisticated, honest, and didn't know how to enjoy life. She thought Xia Ke was wasting her precious youth on books. But when she grew up, she realized that she was the one who didn't know how to enjoy life. She had enjoyed the carefree life of youth too early when she should have been studying hard. What awaited her was the bitterness and hardship of growing up without a diploma, skills, or a job.

Time flies, and everything has turned upside down.

Xia Ke, once considered unfashionable and dull, now possesses a beautiful face and speaks eloquently about work-related matters while wearing a fitted and elegant white dress. Meanwhile, the woman who once prided herself on being fashionable and chic is now wearing a cheap shirt bought for twenty yuan and is preoccupied with worrying about the baby she brought on her first day of work.

Seeing that Zhang Fan wasn't quite in the zone, Xia Ke raised her voice slightly.

"I'll show you how to do it now. I'll be in the room. If you don't understand anything, just come and find me."

The two nodded hesitantly.

Xia Ke took the two to a temporarily cleared warehouse and taught them how to record shipping information, how to use the express delivery label printer, and how to send express packages.

"This is a spatial ring. Please bind your identities."

Before they arrived, the two had seen videos of the space ring online and knew that it was very popular online. However, they had no idea that it was originally sold in their village, and they had just learned that Xia Ke was doing the business that had become a sensation online.

Yang Yan couldn't believe it. "This thing is too expensive. Are we supposed to use it?" This little thing is worth a month's salary for her!

Xia Ke smiled and said, "Yes, you can use it, but the things are still mine. You can only use them when you're at work."

"Wait a moment."

After helping the two bind their identities and establishing a temporary warehouse location, Xia Ke activated the spatial ring in her hand, stepped into the blue vortex, and disappeared in front of the two.

The Xia family also owns a house in the county town. When she accompanied her mother to the hospital, she changed the location of her spatial ring. Xia Ke plans to use this house as a transit point for the system's express delivery. Yang Yan and Zhang Fan will only need to leave the packages with the addresses affixed to this house, and the system can directly send the packages out.

To the outside world, just say that you have signed a contract with the courier company and they will come to pick it up at regular intervals.

Of course, there are many loopholes in this, which anyone with a keen eye would notice if they observed for a few days that no deliverymen came to the houses in the county. But she already has many logical inconsistencies, and she doesn't expect to hide it from those smart people, so she just needs to maintain a facade of peace and tranquility in front of the public.

Xia Ke disappeared for only three minutes.

Back in the warehouse, she explained some work requirements to the two women and personally guided them through operating the space ring to confirm that everything was in order before returning to her room.

During Xia Ke's training, the people Chen Ying sent followed her the whole time.

Of the three men and one woman who came to the Xia family this time, the leader was the tallest girl who followed Xia Ke, named Wei Qingyu. Her official job was to coordinate the work of the four-person team and protect the personal safety of Xia Ke and the Xia family. However, before coming, her leader had subtly spoken to her, roughly telling her to pay close attention to Xia Ke's movements and see if she could discover the source of the spatial ring.

Of course, this is definitely not surveillance. The leader said that all actions should be based on Xia Ke's attitude, and in particular, we must not do anything that would make her feel disgusted or repulsed. If she doesn't like it, this work can be terminated at any time.

When she heard this morning that the Xia family was recruiting, she said that they could help with some work without compensation as long as it did not affect the protection, but Xia Kewen refused.

Just kidding. She sacrificed some privacy to bring these people over to protect her safety, not to be stingy and take advantage of their labor.

If there is a genuine shortage of staff, we can hire more, but safety is an issue that cannot be overlooked.

Yang Yan and Zhang Fan did a good job, but they were sometimes unsure when replying to customers online. After Xia Ke taught them a few more times, the two gradually became able to do it independently.

In contrast, Xia Ke's online recruitment plan has not been very successful.

She plans to recruit mainly for administrative, human resources, finance, her personal assistant, and R&D personnel.

The job posting on the recruitment app had been up for several days. She offered good compensation, and many people inquired about her, but when they heard that the office address was in a village, they stopped contacting her.

Some even suspect that she recruits people in order to lure them into the mountains and then sell them.

Xia Ke couldn't help but smile wryly when she saw the message.

I thought that the high traffic of the online store would be able to push some good resumes to her, but the reality was far from ideal. The email address linked to the online store did receive more resumes than the recruitment software, but it wasn't much better.

When Xia Ke looked at these people's resumes, she could imagine how reluctant they were to submit them.

Isn't it said that many people can't find jobs? How come she has such a hard time hiring?

Xia Ke's university major and the majors of the people she was recruiting had a significant gap. She wasn't the kind of person who would force herself into a position without the necessary skills, so she contacted senior students in related majors to help with the interviews for a fee. Meanwhile, she began to prepare to solve the problem of office space.

At the Hongqi Village Committee, Village Chief Xia Youping warmly welcomed Xia Ke into his office.

"You came to see me today because your company is having some difficulties? Don't worry, Hongqi Piao is the first company in our village. I'll do my best to help you solve any problems you may have."

Xia Youping glanced discreetly at the person following Xia Ke. His eyes were resolute, his bearing imposing, and he stood like a slender poplar tree. It was clear at a glance that he came from the military.

The ordinary villagers of Hongqi Village may not know, but he, as a village cadre, certainly does. The space ring business run by the Xia family girl is even valued by the country. That day, a big shot came to see her, and leaders from the township and county also came to see him. Their words all emphasized the importance they placed on Xia Ke and Hongqi Piao.

Seeing that the village chief was so open and honest, Xia Ke also expressed her demands.

"Uncle, I want to buy a piece of land to build a company building and industrial park."

Xia Youping chuckled, clearly having anticipated her plan to buy land. "Buy land? How big of a piece? The only advantage our village has over other places is that land is cheaper."

"I want the mountain that comes in from the front village and the flat land behind it."

"What? Coco, have you thought this through? That mountain and the flat land together cover more than two hundred acres!"

"Yes, yes, I've thought it through. I'll need your help, Uncle." This kind of private land acquisition for building definitely requires government approval. If you really want to know, Xia Ke does have some connections in organizations, like Chen Ying who comes to her house one day, but there's no need to bother people with something as trivial as this that can be solved with money.

It's true what they say, fortunes change. Someone who was once so poor that he only had two hundred yuan left is now willing to bribe people to do things.

I have to say, this feels really great.

"These are all minor matters, but Coco, you need to think this through carefully. The occupation fee for these two hundred acres is not small."

"I am willing to pay everyone the land compensation fee based on the average land acquisition compensation price in the province, but I have a condition."

"If anyone in the area I've designated doesn't want it, then I don't want the whole piece of land either."

Before she came to see the village chief that morning, the total sales volume of the Space Rings was 31,260, which brought her an income of 156.3 million. After deducting the cost of purchasing the Space Rings from the system of 31.26 million, as well as withdrawal fees, system logistics service fees, and other miscellaneous expenses, her account balance was still more than 100 million.

Emma, ​​a hundred million! Before this, she wouldn't even dare to dream of winning the lottery.

That much money is definitely enough to pay the land occupation fee.

“Although that place used to belong to the villagers, in recent years everyone has gone out to work, and no one has been farming it. The weeds have grown taller than a person. I don’t think anyone will object. It’s just that I still need to submit a report to higher authorities about the land occupation, which may take some time.”

Xia Ke expressed her understanding, "It's alright, Uncle, no rush. You've really gone to so much trouble." Before the building is completed, he can stay in her empty room for now; it's not a big problem.

She firmly believes it.

As long as she pays enough, no one will complain about the poor working environment.