Xia Lan's words fell silent.

"What? Such a big office, and you don't even have someone to prepare materials?"

Xia Lan frowned.

She looked around at everyone in the office, then nodded to the woman smiling at her on the right.

On the left, his eyes revealed dissatisfaction and disdain.

On the right, a kind smile graces her face, and expectation fills her eyes.

It's obvious which side is on our side.

"Of course I have the information, but are you sure you can understand it?"

A man slowly stood up and placed a stack of documents in front of Xia Lan.

"If I don't understand, I'll find someone to explain it to me. I think you're pretty good; could you explain it to me?"

Xia Lan looked at the man, a slight smile playing on her lips.

The moment Xia Lan unleashed her aura, everyone instantly sensed that she was not as harmless as she appeared.

The man paused, looked at Xia Lan, and gritted his teeth.

He walked over to her, opened a book, and began to tell Xia Lan a story.

"This is the sales record for number three. Two items of clothing were sold. This is the revenue for the day..."

"So it's true that this number three sold for 22.63 yuan?"

Xia Lan looked at the sales records in the ledger; her Tuanyuan Supermarket had never had double-digit sales figures before.

She had never even dreamed of earning this much income.

"..."

Hearing Xia Lan's poignant words, everyone in the office blushed.

blushing.

Several leaders have asked them this question.

How did they achieve such sales figures?

But no one could answer that; they could only say a dry, meaningless sentence because there were no customers.

There were no customers that day!

One of the women couldn't help but retort.

"So you're just sitting here waiting for customers to come to you?"

Xia Lan looked at them in disbelief, somewhat frightened.

"Now that the government is supporting individual businesses, so many customers have already been taken away from us, and you still haven't realized this fact? Do you still think that customers will come to you to buy things as before?"

Xia Lan's words left everyone present speechless.

Isn't that how they used to be?

"Then what do you suggest we do? If customers don't come, are we supposed to go out and solicit them?"

One person looked at Xia Lan coldly, feeling that she was deliberately humiliating them.

"Otherwise what? Do you think it's still the era of guaranteed job allocation? Now everyone has more choices. The emergence of individual businesses means that things they could only buy from you before, they can now buy from individual businesses just a few steps away!"

Xia Lan looked at them and wondered if this was the 1970s.

Back then, there were no individual vendors; everyone had to come here to buy things.

Times have changed, but they still hold onto old ideas.

It should be said that they couldn't let go of their pride; they considered themselves superior...

"You don't even know why you have so few guests?"

Xia Lan looked at them, now genuinely surprised.

"Are you all old-fashioned? How long has it been since you went out to shop? Look at things now, do you still have to go through all that trouble to buy something?"

Xia Lan's words struck a chord with them, affecting everyone, friend and foe alike.

"Are you serious about these two-digit sales figures?"

"What can we do? We've tried everything! But we still don't have any customers..."

Some people countered.

They wanted to prove that they had also tried.

However, the results were not good.

"What method is it? Tell me!"

Xia Lan looked at the man who was speaking, gesturing for him to continue.

“We put up posters at the door to tell them that we have new products.”

The man glared at Xia Lan, but still spoke.

Xia Lan nodded, but the man stopped.

"Then what?"

Xia Lan couldn't help but ask.

"That's it!"

The man rolled his eyes at Xia Lan.

...

Xia Lan was truly convinced now.

"Is this how you attract customers?"

Xia Lan was about to laugh; she really couldn't hold it in.

"Hahahahaha..."

"Oh my goodness..."

"That's hilarious..."

"That's the way..."

Xia Lan clutched her stomach, laughing so hard her stomach hurt.

"Comrade Xia Lan, aren't you going a bit too far?"

How could you do this!

"..."

They stared at Xia Lan, never expecting her to be so rude as to mock them right in front of them.

"Really, are you all people with connections? Did you get in entirely because of your connections?"

Xia Lan reached out and wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes, looking at these people.

The group lowered their heads guiltily.

Without even thinking, everyone knew Xia Lan had guessed correctly.

"They're really amazing! They've all broadened my horizons."

Xia Lan sat down on a chair and then beckoned to one of the men with her finger.

"Hey! I've got some new stuff here, come in and buy it!"

Xia Lan's anthropomorphism immediately made them blush.

With her acting style, I must say, she really captured the feeling.

"What other options are there? If we do a good job, what would we need you for?"

The man pursed his lips, displeased.

"Yes! That's why I was transferred here, and now I'm right in front of you. Please put away your ridiculous arrogance."

"Your grades are really not worthy of this arrogance."

Xia Lan gave a mocking laugh.

"Only those with real strength have the right to make gestures."

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