Chapter 169 Cell Phone Stolen
On Thursday, the first day of June 2006, Zhou Anan contacted the Urban Management Bureau through Xia Chengjiang's relationship and signed the contract for the ideal venue that she had first set her eyes on.
Now that the original Zhuangyuan Education venue is approaching saturation, in order to improve teaching quality, Zhou Anan stopped enrolling students for the evening tutoring classes in mid-May. She only recorded the contact information of parents of interested students and waited for opportunities to enroll in the future.
Under such circumstances, it is imperative to expand the scale of training courses.
If it were any other industry, even if the situation was good, we should still proceed steadily, such as the expansion of a milk tea shop.
However, with more than ten years of management experience, Zhou Anan knew that as long as the teachers of the evening tutoring courses were managed well, there would be no problem.
In addition, knowing the dynamics of the next few years, Zhou Anan must race to stake out territory in the next two years, consolidate the student base of Zhuangyuan Education, open up the situation, and seize the market.
It would be a pity to miss this golden period of development.
Therefore, Zhou Anan once again set his sights on the location of the old state-owned shopping mall that he had originally set his eyes on.
It is adjacent to Huipu Primary School and only 200 meters away from Haizhou Middle School. The annual rent of more than 100,000 yuan is no longer an obstacle, not to mention that three street-facing shops on the first floor are given away for free.
Zhou Anan has already planned it out. A shop of more than 20 square meters will be used as the entrance and reception room, and the remaining two shops can be used as milk tea shops or other businesses.
In one breath, Zhou Anan signed a five-year lease.
It’s not that he doesn’t want to sign a longer contract, but Section Chief Chen doesn’t have that much power, which makes Zhou Anan feel a little regretful.
You know, in another two years, the real estate industry began to explode, and store rents also rose sharply, changing every day.
"Yeah, not bad."
After seeing off the two tipsy guests, Zhou Anan came to the newly rented venue alone with the contract. Looking at the huge area, her heart was full of longing for the future.
Opening the old iron door, Zhou Anan waved away the dust in front of her eyes and walked in.
When I came to the second floor, what caught my eye was an empty space covered with dust and a few messy cabinets scattered around, which looked a bit desolate.
However, what Zhou Anan saw was a neatly organized training department, full of dazzling golden color.
"Ahem."
There was a sound of footsteps, followed by a few coughs. Zhou Anan, who was planning the site in her mind, turned around and saw the contractor Zhao Duocai, with a pretty young girl beside him.
The young girl who had just come upstairs was wearing a simple black suit and was looking around the venue with great interest.
"Boss Zhou, let me introduce you to Qiao Xing, a designer who returned from overseas training and is also my partner."
After changing out of his previous work clothes and wearing a black suit, Zhao Duocai smiled and introduced his partner to the other party.
"Hello, Mr. Qiao."
Considering the other party's handsome appearance, Zhou Anan respectfully addressed him as "Mr. Qiao".
"Hello, Boss Zhou. Boss Zhao told me about your request before."
As soon as he opened his mouth, Qiao Xing talked about the relevant aspects of his professional field, and talked incessantly about his design plan for the training department.
"Very professional. In that case, I'll trouble you, Mr. Qiao, to design this place. Just show me the final renderings. Anyway, I have only two requirements. First, it should be simple and elegant; second, it should keep costs under control."
Leave professional matters to professionals, Zhou Anan is too lazy to interfere.
Of course, costs still need to be controlled.
In order to rent this venue, his plan to buy a street was temporarily delayed.
Zhou Anan didn't expect that Director Xia would help him set the stage so quickly after he simply mentioned it last time.
"OK."
Nodding, Qiao Xing had no intention of chatting with the sponsor. She went straight to check the venue and even squatted down to measure the ground with a tape measure.
Zhou Anan expressed satisfaction with such a professional attitude.
After chatting casually with contractor Zhao, who had been promoted to the boss, Zhou Anan left.
The funds on the books of the electric cars cannot be used for fear of hurting feelings; all the funds of the milk tea shop have been invested in expanding the business, barely maintaining a delicate balance.
After thinking about it, Zhou Anan realized that the only funds she could flexibly use were the money from the training department.
However, after buying a house and three shops on Lizhou Pedestrian Street, part of the tuition fees collected in advance for this semester has been consumed.
In order to maintain the normal operation of the training department, funds cannot be so tight.
Thinking of the cheap shops on Lizhou Pedestrian Street, Zhou Anan had an urge to sell her house and buy a shop.
"Be calm, be calm."
Patting the steering wheel in front of him, Zhou Anan put aside the idea of quick success and instant benefits.
He is a reborn person, how could he sell his house just because of such a small matter?
At worst, I can wait until the summer vacation classes start and then go to buy out the shops. There won’t be a big increase in prices this year anyway.
The next most important thing is to look at the results of the junior high school entrance examination.
It's time for the ultimate training.
Back in the training department, Zhou Anan went up to the fourth floor and picked out a folder marked '2000' from a pile of folders in the bookcase.
If all the secrets are put out in the open, there will be no secrets and others will not pay attention to them.
In addition to pushing the time of each set of real high school entrance examination questions forward by five years, Zhou Anan also mixed in real high school entrance examination questions from real years, and shuffled the question types, so even if someone saw it, they would not be able to discover the mystery.
Who would have thought that the most important secret of the entire training department was placed on the bookshelf.
"Would you like to have a paid training?"
After checking the test paper, Zhou Anan recalled the large-scale lectures on the civil service examination in his previous life, which could be considered an extra income.
However, it would be inappropriate for him to speak on stage alone; he must look mature and dignified.
Speaking of maturity and steadiness, Zhou Anan touched her face and felt okay.
However, Lucheng knows too many of his parents, so it’s not easy to fool them.
Furthermore, holding lectures rashly will not be convincing and not many parents will take the bait.
Well, I'd better keep a low profile this semester and wait and see how this class of students does in their exams. I'll put the extra income on hold for now.
Alas, the pace of buying a street still needs to slow down.
"An An, my phone was stolen."
"Don't cry, talk to me."
Zhou Anan was thinking about the future plans of the training department in the office. Looking at the beautiful girl with tearful eyes, he hurried forward to comfort her.
From the girl's narration, Zhou Anan learned the whole story.
While shopping with other girls, Shi Mingxia, who was choosing clothes in a store, took out her wallet and found that the color-screen mobile phone that her boyfriend had just given her some time ago had been stolen at some point, along with 500 yuan in cash.
"It's okay, it's okay. If you don't have one, buy another one. If you cry your eyes out, no amount of money can compensate you."
Holding the beauty's slender waist, Zhou Anan comforted her softly.
"Um."
Listening to the boy's sweet words, Shi Mingxia nodded and hugged the boy tightly.
While comforting the beautiful girl, a gleam of light flashed in Zhou Anan's eyes.
"Did you find out?"
Drinking tea quietly, Zhou Anan poured a cup for Zhou Xiaoke on the spot.
After the electric car store expanded, Zhou Xiaoke also purchased a tea table, but he rarely used it and just bought it for show.
On the contrary, every time Zhou Anan came, she would boil a pot of water and drink two cups.
"We found out that it was a collaboration between a few local hooligans and a few pickpockets from other places. I heard that they handled a lot of things in the past two days."
After taking a sip of tea, Zhou Xiaoke said, "Do you want me to get your phone back for you and give you a lesson?"
"No need. This kind of thing should be the responsibility of the police. Have you found out the location?"
"I have found out."
"Okay, you don't have to get involved in this matter."
"good."
(End of this chapter)
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