The next day after returning to the county town, Gao Mingcheng prepared to go to the shopping mall to stock his goods.
Gao Mingcheng is used to calling it a shopping mall, but most people are still used to calling it a department store.
Gao Mingcheng stood in front of the door of the department store. The two-story building in front of him, from the perspective of later generations, was too shabby and ordinary to be worthy of the word building.
"Brother Mingcheng!" Song Jinzhang's pretty figure appeared in front of Gao Mingcheng. She was wearing a beige thin windbreaker, jeans and sneakers, and looked very decent.
Song Jinzhang didn't wear any makeup, but youth is the best makeup. She looked young and beautiful, and gave a good first impression.
Gao Mingcheng noticed that Song Jinzhang had cut his hair short, making him look neat and tidy, but also lacking a bit of femininity.
Song Jinzhang seemed to have noticed something. She reached out and touched her hair, and said with a smile, "Long hair is inconvenient. I saw some celebrities with short hair that looked good, so I cut it."
"Brother Mingcheng, the counter has been cleaned up. Shall we start selling goods and opening the store now?"
Song Jinzhang led Gao Mingcheng to the counter. There was originally a vacant space over there. After the mall was rented to Gao Mingcheng, Gao Mingcheng asked someone to separate the space with wooden boards and built a counter for loading and displaying goods. The space was not large, only about ten square meters.
But fortunately, it has a door and after being separated by wooden boards, it looks like a separate shop.
Gao Mingcheng drove over, loading half of his car with game consoles and a color TV. He glanced at his counter and nodded with satisfaction.
Gao Mingcheng said, "Let's put the goods on the shelves today and officially open the store tomorrow. I looked at the calendar and tomorrow is a good day for the opening."
Song Jinzhang nodded and started working with Gao Mingcheng.
She had already wiped the counter clean in advance and placed the goods directly on it, and the extra goods were placed in the cabinet below, which could be locked.
In addition to laying out the goods, Gao Mingcheng also asked Song Jinzhang to paste the posters he brought back on wooden boards. The reason for using wooden boards to separate them was mainly because the boards could be used to post posters, and they could also be nailed with nails to hang some goods.
While Song Jinzhang was busy stocking the goods, Gao Mingcheng was not idle either. He began to disassemble a domestically produced color TV and placed it in a corner of the counter.
This color TV is not big, only 14 inches, so the bottom of the TV is not big and does not take up much space. After placing the color TV, Gao Mingcheng took out the plug and plugged it into the socket prepared in advance.
This TV is not used for watching TV programs, but mainly used as a screen for the Subor game console.
While the two were busy, people would come over from time to time to join in the fun.
The flow of people in the mall was okay. Although the location here was a bit off the beaten track, the movements of the two people still attracted people's attention, curious about what goods they were selling.
So someone came forward to ask questions.
Gao Mingcheng did not mention the price of the game console right away. Instead, he opened the package in public, assembled it, and plugged it into the signal cable of the color TV. Soon the TV screen changed and the game interface appeared.
Gao Mingcheng is preparing to teach everyone how to play games in public.
In fact, his hands had long been rusty and he looked down on these outdated games, but as a seller, he naturally had to know how to play them and play them well. Therefore, Gao Mingcheng had been playing them privately for a long time and had become very proficient in all kinds of operations.
Soon, under his introduction and operation, a new world appeared in the eyes of the onlookers.
"Ah! This is the game? It's really fun!"
"This Super Mario is fun!"
"I think Contra is more fun!"
"I think they're all fun! Boss, can I try them for a try?" someone shouted excitedly, looking at Gao Mingcheng eagerly.
Gao Mingcheng handed the game console to the man without any hesitation, and then briefly introduced the gameplay again.
"Yes?"
"Yes, yes."
The gameplay is actually very simple and easy to get started, but once you really get started, you will realize the gap between people!
"Ah! Dead again!"
"You've lost two games, it's my turn to play!" At this time, another onlooker shouted, trying to seize the right to use the game console.
The person before had just become addicted to it, so of course he was reluctant to give it away.
However, Gao Mingcheng saw that more and more people were watching, most of them were young people, and their eyes were flashing with a desire to play games.
So Gao Mingcheng said, "Everyone take turns playing. Each person plays two rounds! After two rounds, you can switch to another person!"
After saying this, the talent handed over the game console reluctantly.
Many people reached out to take it at the same time, and soon the game console fell into the hands of the second person.
There were a lot of people watching, and everyone was waiting in line to play the game console, so some people couldn't help but ask about the price of the console and expressed their desire to buy it.
Gao Mingcheng was very happy to see everyone's enthusiasm, but he was not blindly optimistic. The price of the Subor game console was a bit expensive for ordinary people, and you couldn't afford it if you wanted to.
Gao Mingcheng pointed at the game console they were taking turns playing and said, "The game console costs 240 yuan, and the cartridge costs 120 yuan, but the cartridge is a four-in-one, all of which are the most classic games! You can play it for a long time, and it's guaranteed to be replaced within seven days if it breaks."
As expected, once the price was announced, many people backed off. Even their eyes, which were watching the game screen, lost some of their brilliance.
"Hiss! So expensive?" Someone gasped, his face full of disbelief.
Gao Mingcheng said: "This is already cheap. If it was a Japanese-made Famicom, even a parallel-imported one would cost thousands of yuan! This is our domestically produced game console, and it's already many times cheaper."
Everything is afraid of comparison. When you first hear that it costs 240 yuan, it is indeed expensive, but what if you compare 240 yuan with 1,000 yuan? Doesn’t it seem cheap?
In 1993, Subor launched a learning machine with a keyboard, and attracted a wave of students in the name of learning and computers.
But the Subor learning machine 586 is completely different from the computer 586. However, the price of the computer 586 was tens of thousands of yuan, which was not affordable for ordinary people. But the Subor learning machine 586 only cost about 600-800 yuan!
After this comparison, do you think the Subor learning machine is cheap?
Gao Mingcheng told everyone the prices and let everyone compare them on their own. He did not urge anyone to buy them quickly, but just let them try them out first.
Seeing their enthusiasm for the game, Gao Mingcheng immediately decided to use the console as a prototype, allowing people to play games for free, with each person allowed to play two games a day.
After he made this decision, he told Song Jinzhang standing beside him.
Song Jinzhang was also tiptoeing over to watch others play the game. After hearing what Gao Mingcheng said, he nodded to show that he understood. He also said that he had played the game before, but was not very good at it.
Xiao Jinfeng had bought two game consoles before. Later, after introducing Song Jinzhang to Gao Mingcheng as a clerk, Song Jinzhang asked Xiao Jinfeng to borrow the game consoles and played them at home for a few days.
Her idea was the same as Gao Mingcheng's, that is, if you are a seller, you must know how to do it. If you don't know how to do it, how can you sell things? How can you teach customers to play games? How can you use sweet words to seduce customers' desire to buy?
Song Jinzhang glanced at Gao Mingcheng, walked out of the crowd, and whispered, "Brother Mingcheng, I want to buy one too. Can you give me a discount?"
Hearing this, Gao Mingcheng took out a new game console and handed it to Song Jinzhang, saying, "This is for you, an employee benefit! You should learn to play all the games as soon as possible, so that you can teach customers how to play."
Gao Mingcheng actually gave away something worth more than 300 yuan!
Song Jinzhang was deeply moved for a moment, and suddenly felt like he had met a wise leader.
In the past two years, Song Jinzhang has been struggling with her business, but unfortunately she has not been able to expand it or make it stronger. The main reason is that she is alone and many things are inconvenient for her.
For example, when she went to Yangcheng to purchase goods, or when she went to the Special Administrative Region to venture out, as a weak girl, she would inevitably encounter danger.
Originally, she hoped that her cousin would quit his job at the fertilizer factory, and then the two siblings could start a business together so that she would have someone to keep her company.
But her uncle and aunt disagreed.
In fact, her uncle and aunt treated her very well and took care of her in every aspect, but they still had old ideas and felt that doing business was unstable and it was better to work.
Going to work at the fertilizer factory every day, I am protected from the wind, rain, and danger. Apart from making a little less money, there is nothing wrong with it.
What about doing business? It sounds like you can make a lot of money, but there are also people who lose money!
Therefore, my uncle and aunt were unwilling to let my cousin resign, and my cousin himself had no strong desire to do business with her.
In the first half of this year, Song Jinzhang keenly noticed that Gao Mingcheng's sister Gao Shufang was on a blind date.
At that time, she wanted to introduce her cousin to someone else, thinking that if her cousin could date Gao Shufang, there would definitely be many benefits in the future.
Unfortunately, my cousin is a dullard and has no idea at all. His uncle and aunt want him to marry a female worker in the factory, and he himself thinks it is a good idea to marry a female worker in the factory. Then, as a dual-income family, they won't have to worry about dividing the house and raising children.
There was no other way. Song Jinzhang had no one to help him, so he could only do some small business. He worked in the wind and rain, but in the end he didn't make much money.
Later, after being introduced by Xiao Jinfeng, she agreed to sell goods for Gao Mingcheng.
Because she knew that Gao Mingcheng had a generous personality, she would definitely not suffer any loss if she worked for him, and her salary might even be higher than that of ordinary people.
Most importantly, the workplace is in the department store she is familiar with!
Song Jinzhang's father was the manager of a department store. When he just remarried and had a child, Song Jinzhang hated his father so much that she wanted to sever the father-daughter relationship and moved out of home.
After some trials and tribulations, Song Jinzhang was not so ambitious anymore. She wanted to settle down for a few years, wait until the environment was better and she had some money saved, then find a way to start her own business.
"Thank you, Brother Mingcheng. I will definitely have a lot of fun!" Song Jinzhang said excitedly, with a gleam in his eyes.
Gao Mingcheng nodded and didn't care.
Although the items I gave away were worth more than 300 yuan, the purchase price was just over 100 yuan. By spending more than 100 yuan, I could gain the gratitude of my employees, which is quite cost-effective.
When Gao Shufang, Luo Li and others came to work in his clothing store, he also gave them clothes as gifts. Otherwise, if the people you sell clothes are wearing tattered clothes, it would directly lower the grade of the clothing store.
He had originally planned to just distribute the goods today, but the crowd watching was so attracted by the game that Gao Mingcheng couldn’t leave for a while.
He moved out a stool and sat nearby, watching the onlookers take turns playing the game. If anyone played repeatedly, he would stop them loudly. If anyone was too heavy-handed, he would also remind them loudly and tell them that if anything was broken, they would be compensated at full price.
After hearing this, no one dared to grab the lottery anymore and they all played quietly, one after another.
Gao Mingcheng saw Song Jinzhang standing, so he said, "There's another stool, you can sit there too."
Song Jinzhang responded and sat down, keeping his eyes on the people playing games, fearing that they might break the consoles or that someone might steal them.
Gao Mingcheng was bored, so he asked about Song Jinzhang's recent situation.
Song Jinzhang did not hide anything and gave a brief account of the situation. He then said, "I am very familiar with this place, but I don't want to see my dad, and I don't want to see that woman even more!"
When talking about his stepmother and the brother who was incompatible with him, Song Jinzhang still couldn't let it go.
Gao Mingcheng recalled what happened in his previous life. Song Jinzhang's father had cheated on his wife when she was sick, and as soon as his wife died, he married the pregnant mistress.
But Gao Mingcheng knew that a few years later, when Song Jinzhang left home and no longer recognized him as his father, her father learned that the son born to him by his second wife was not his biological son at all!
While he was cheating on her during her marriage, the mistress was not idle either. She hooked up with several people at the same time. After she became pregnant, she used the unborn child to threaten him to marry her quickly.
As soon as she entered the door, she began to sow discord between Song Jinzhang and her father. Since there was a stepmother, there was a stepfather. So Song Jinzhang, who had a bad temper and could not stand being wronged, moved out of the house as her stepmother wished.
But now, Song Jinzhang is looking after the store for Gao Mingcheng, which is equivalent to appearing under her father's nose again.
Because of their blood relationship, her father would definitely take better care of her, and no one here would dare to bully her, but she still felt a little unhappy.
Gao Mingcheng couldn't help but smile when he saw that the little girl couldn't completely hide her emotions.
He actually didn't know who Song Jinzhang's stepmother's lover was, but after the incident broke out, he just ate some melon by the way. If he hadn't been involved with Song Jinzhang in this life, he wouldn't even remember this melon.
But since this happened, there would be no way that there would be no traces left. As long as he finds someone to follow Song Jinzhang's stepmother, he will be able to find out the child's biological father sooner or later!
By then, the matter can be exposed in advance. If Song Jinzhang's father finds out that his wife has cheated on him and that he is raising a child with a strange man, he will definitely be very angry.
After she has calmed down from being angry, she will be nicer to Song Jinzhang.
Although Song Jinzhang is a daughter, at least she is my biological child!
Gao Mingcheng thought this was quite interesting and planned to go back to find Maozi and ask him to help find someone to follow him.
So after the crowd had taken turns playing two games, Gao Mingcheng asked everyone to disperse and said that the store would officially open for sale tomorrow, and anyone who wanted to buy could come back tomorrow.
But this price did discourage some people. For a moment, everyone was full of longing for the game console, but also full of disappointment and sadness.
At this time, someone bravely asked: "Boss, can we still play the game console for free tomorrow?"
The others also looked at Gao Mingcheng.
Gao Mingcheng nodded and gave an affirmative answer: "Yes, just like today, each person can only play two games! Of course, if you want, you can come and play two games every day in the future!"
As soon as these words were spoken, everyone's spirits became high, and they all secretly decided to come over and play two games every day.
This free game console is a waste if you don’t play it!
At this time, they don’t know that sometimes free is the most expensive!
Gao Mingcheng lets people play two rounds of the game for free, but once people are addicted, how can they be satisfied with just playing two rounds?
As long as the family conditions are good enough, they will grit their teeth and buy a game console and cartridges so that they can play to their heart's content.
If it's too expensive for one person to buy, two people can buy it together. In short, if someone wants to buy, they can definitely buy it! (End of this chapter)
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