Chapter 1
After Jiang Bing was alarmed by the renovation, Jiang Qi left work early and went home. After a long series of inquiries, he finally found out what the relationship was between Jiang Bing and Mr. Shen from the renovation team.
He and Jiang Bing have a simple relationship as boss and repeat customer, but he has a special relationship with Jiang Xiaoliang and Qiao Huifang, Jiang Qi and Jiang Bing's biological parents. They were old colleagues at the sawmill.
Boss Shen is a few years younger than Jiang Xiaoliang. He was one of the last batch to enter the sawmill.
As for why he was the last batch, it was because the sawmill closed down just a few months after he joined the factory.
Just got employed and then became unemployed.
Then Boss Shen started his fantastic career of going from one job to another.
After the timber mill closed down, everyone had to find a new job, but it was hard to find a job back then. Jiang Xiaoliang was taken to Southeast Asia to do business with the help of his old colleagues. Newcomers like Boss Shen, who had just been in the factory for a few months, did not have such deep relationships with colleagues and could only find a job on his own.
Boss Shen went to work as a waiter in a small restaurant, but the restaurant went bankrupt.
He and his friends were caught for reselling pirated films.
I was doing furniture sales and the furniture factory went bankrupt.
Go to the construction site to carry bricks, the construction site...
This time the construction site did not collapse, but the contractor delayed paying the wages. After working for two years, I only received one year's salary.
Boss Shen felt that everything was going wrong for him and even began to doubt why the original sawmill went bankrupt. He learned from his mistakes and decided to start his own business, engaging in decoration with a childhood friend.
As expected, he didn't make any money and almost starved to death. He also owed wages to his brothers in the decoration team, and followed the same path as the contractor who owed him wages.
Boss Shen, who was even poorer than Jiang Xiaoliang and Qiao Huifang who had just lost their jobs, had no choice but to borrow money from his old colleagues. At that time, Jiang Xiaoliang was at the peak of his life and was about to take a gamble on turning his bicycle into a motorcycle.
Jiang Xiaoliang was asked to borrow money by a colleague with whom he had little friendship in the past. He adhered to the principle that he should help his old colleagues in need now as they helped him in the most difficult times, and lent Boss Shen the money to solve his urgent problem.
Then Boss Shen's luck changed. Although he didn't become rich, he finally made some money. After working in the decoration team for so many years, Boss Shen's decoration team is now one of the best in Xuncheng. It has cooperated with several large-scale decoration companies. The business scope is very wide, and it can receive some large orders from time to time.
The orders he took from Jiang Bing were usually at cost price, so he made no profit at all.
But the reason why he did so many unprofitable businesses and even advised Jiang Qi to be cautious when opening a store was not only because Jiang Xiaoliang lent him a life-saving money when he was in the most difficult time, but also because he felt that he had passed on the bad luck to the Jiang family.
As everyone knows, Jiang Xiaoliang failed in his attempt to turn his bicycle into a motorcycle, so failed that he almost fell off the roof. It took him many years to pay off the debt, and he paid off the debt so much that when Jiang Qi and Jiang Bing were young, they thought their parents were divorced for a while, otherwise it would be hard to explain why they couldn't see their biological father during the Chinese New Year.
The time when Jiang Xiaoliang failed to transform his bicycle into a motorcycle was exactly the time when Boss Shen's luck turned around.
When he learned that Jiang Xiaoliang's business went bankrupt, Boss Shen felt so guilty that he wanted to die to apologize. Although this matter had nothing to do with him from any angle, Boss Shen, who was very fond of feudal superstition, always felt that he was the culprit.
After quickly paying back the money and even helping to lend money to Jiang Xiaoliang to pay off his debts, Boss Shen would go to the temple to burn incense every now and then to pray for the Jiang family to have everything go well.
Just after more than a decade of peace and prosperity for the Jiang family, Jiang Bing suddenly appeared.
The legendary experience of opening and closing one store after another makes it hard for Boss Shen not to think of his own past.
Jiang Qi, who learned the whole story: ...
"So, how do you know these things, sister?" Jiang Qi asked from the bottom of his heart.
Jiang Qi guessed that even their parents probably didn't know about such a detailed mental journey, inner entanglement, guilt, and these complex emotions. The two families didn't have a close relationship over the years, otherwise Jiang Qi wouldn't have known who Boss Shen was before Jiang Bing opened the store.
"Oh, about this." Jiang Bing sat cross-legged on the bed and changed his posture. "It was actually a coincidence that I knew all this. I think Boss Shen probably doesn't know that I know this."
"Do you remember the clothing store I opened before? The one that suffered the most losses, I even asked you to help me supervise the renovation."
"After the decoration of the clothing store was completed, I inquired about the prices of other decoration teams and found that the price Mr. Shen gave me was incredibly low. At that time, I only knew that he was an old colleague of my parents. I wanted to thank him so I invited him and the decoration team to have a barbecue. As a result, he drank too much and blacked out."
"That night he pulled me aside and told me about his troubled mental journey over the years. He said he had never dared to tell our parents that his father's bankruptcy might have been caused by his bad luck. When he pulled me aside, he told me, Xiaobing, it's all Uncle Chen who is sorry for you. If Uncle Chen hadn't been so unlucky, you wouldn't have opened a store and lost money. Uncle Chen feels bad."
Jiang Qi: ...
For a moment, Jiang Qi didn't know what to say.
After a long while, Jiang Qi said, "When we discuss the decoration, I will give Boss Shen some colorful ropes."
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Thanks to the unbreakable relationship with Boss Shen, the renovation of Jiang Qi's new store started smoothly.
After looking at Jiang Qi's complete set of decoration drawings, Boss Shen quoted an astonishingly low price of 180,000 yuan, which was so low that it was unbelievable, making Jiang Qi suspect that Boss Shen might not only not make any money on this order, but might even lose money.
You know, his initial budget for decoration without the actual stage was between 200,000 and 300,000 yuan, and after adding the stage, the overall decoration could not be less than 300,000 yuan. Jiang Qi initially thought that if the price could be kept at 270,000 or 280,000 yuan, it would be the best, but Boss Shen asked for 180,000 yuan.
This price almost made Jiang Qi suggest: "This is too low, how about raising it a bit, how about 250,000?"
Of course, Jiang Qi didn't say this out loud.
He chose to pack meals.
The shop has a total area of nearly 400 square meters, and it needs to build a stage, partitions, and possibly re-do the plumbing and electricity. The amount of work is much larger than that of a new house. The amount of work is large and there are many people involved. After Jiang Qi discussed it with Huang Fugui, Huang Fugui did not mind making dozens more bowls of vegetable noodles every day.
In the braised food shop, Jiang Qi equipped Huang Fugui with a large noodle cooking bucket like the ones used in noodle shops, which greatly increased efficiency.
Jiang Qi wanted to pack a meal, but Boss Shen initially refused.
Then on the first day of work, Jiang Qi brought over the noodles and braised dishes. After taking the first bite of the vegetable noodles, Boss Shen swallowed all the words of refusal he had said.
December seems to be Jiang Qi's lucky month.
Everything went smoothly.
The blind box activity went smoothly, the store was full every day, and the business of all the stores participating in the blind box activity also improved to a certain extent. The off-season turned into the peak season. After the recruitment poster was posted, we received a lot of responses. The decoration progressed rapidly, and the new store changed almost every day. The only small regret was probably that the video promotion of Qinghe.w was not as useful as expected.
With the promotion of 8888, the number of fans has increased by several hundred, but currently no account has exceeded the 1,000 mark.
The recognized reputation value has increased by dozens, and the effect is still there.
But this is understandable. Qinghe.w's account updates three videos every week. The length of the early videos is relatively short. Knitting belongs to the handicraft area and the popularity is relatively low.
According to feedback from Fang Jing's company, Qinghe.w's fans have a relatively high stickiness, and the conversion rate of clicks to attention is not low. After the video account has been nurtured for a while, switching to a more expensive promotion should yield good results.
Jiang Qi plans to wait until the 10th video is released on the video account before purchasing new promotions.
At 5 pm on December 10th, it was the 13th day since the blind box event started and the 5th day since the new store started decorating. There were less than 24 hours left before drawing the fourth toy spirit.
The first store withdrew from the script competition organized by Boss Zhen.
The reason for withdrawing from the competition is very simple. The rent has expired, the company is unable to operate the business, and the store has closed down, so the company has no choice but to withdraw from the competition.
Poorly managed script-killing stores have closed down many times since this year. This should not have attracted everyone's attention. At most, it would have attracted the attention of other stores that have not closed down.
They can buy second-hand books and costumes and props from closed stores at low prices.
But this time, the closure of this store, whose name no one even knew, attracted everyone's attention.
Because along with the closure of this store, there was also a marketing soft article.
"[Rumeng] went bankrupt, and the first victim of vicious competition has appeared! How long will the chaos in the script-killing industry continue? "
This soft article was forwarded to the group by Jiang Jun.
Jiang Qi’s first reaction when he saw this article was, it’s here, it’s finally here.
The fight he had been waiting for for so long finally came.
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