Chapter 179: Springtime
Bai Zhen and Duan Lingling reconciled and lived a miserable life, but they didn't bother Gu Qingshi again.
Overall things are going well for Gu Qingshi. After the store opened, business has been good, and it has now stabilized and has completely established a foothold in GA city.
But just like before, good business means taking away other people's cake, which is bound to cause some messy troubles. Gu Qingshi is not afraid and solves them all smoothly.
As the Chinese Valentine's Day was approaching, Gu Qingshi decided to take the opportunity to launch special sales for the Chinese Valentine's Day and also solicited suggestions from store clerks for this purpose.
This was the first time for Gu Qingshi to do such an activity, and he was very enthusiastic about it. Lu Yuan and Fang Wen came to pick up Gu Qingshi for dinner as agreed, but Gu Qingshi did not come back because he had gone to see the small gifts that were to be given at the event.
Lu Yuan and Fang Wen were waiting for Gu Qingshi on the second floor. When Gu Qingshi rented the shop, he also rented the second floor. In addition to the warehouse, the rest of the second floor was used as a reception room, rest area and Gu Qingshi's office.
As soon as the two of them sat down, Li Xiaoman came up and poured water for them personally.
"I've already told you not to be polite. We're not guests." Fang Wen smiled and looked at Li Xiaoman with a strange look.
He had some impression of Li Xiaoman, but he always felt that Li Xiaoman was a little strange today, but he couldn't tell what was strange.
"It's not busy downstairs." Li Xiaoman smiled and bent down to put down the teacup.
Fang Wen was originally sitting on the other side. Seeing Lu Yuan sitting there indifferently without even looking at anyone, he was afraid that Li Xiaoman didn't know the rules, so he quickly sat next to Lu Yuan and took some tea.
As a result, when he sat down and answered the phone, he choked because he saw something he shouldn't have seen.
I don’t know what’s wrong with Li Xiaoman. The buttons on her shirt were loose, and when she lowered her head, her private parts were exposed and everything was seen.
Fang Wen coughed so hard that it shook the earth, and asked Li Xiaoman to go down quickly.
Li Xiaoman looked up in confusion, saw Fang Wen's red face, then looked down again, screamed, covered her chest and ran away, glaring at Lu Yuan before running away.
Lu Yuan heard something was wrong and looked up just in time to see her glaring at him. He was puzzled and asked, "What's going on?"
Fang Wen whispered, "Didn't you see it just now?"
"What did you see?"
Fang Wen looked at Lu Yuan's expression and gave up. "Yeah, it would be strange if you saw it. It's OK if you didn't see it."
Lu Yuan really didn't notice, "What's going on?"
"It's okay, it's okay." Fang Wen didn't want to say that he saw something he shouldn't have seen, but when Gu Qingshi came back, he still mentioned it to Gu Qingshi.
It seems that Li Xiaoman did not do this on purpose, but who knows? It's time to remind her.
"I understand. I'll ask her." Gu Qingshi nodded.
Gu Qingshi asked Lu Yuan and Fang Wen to wait and talk to Li Xiaoman first. Li Xiaoman blushed when she saw Gu Qingshi and apologized with red eyes, "I'm sorry, Boss Gu, I embarrassed you."
"What's going on?"
"It was a button that fell off. Maybe I accidentally dropped it when I went to the toilet. I didn't know. So now I sewed it up with a needle. I really didn't mean to do it."
Li Xiaoman's face turned pale and blue. "I will pay attention next time. Boss, please don't fire me. I will never do it again."
Seeing that Li Xiaoman had buttoned up her clothes to the top, Gu Qingshi paused and said, "This won't happen again. This is the last time."
Li Xiaoman was the most proactive in coming up with ideas for the Chinese Valentine's Day event. Even if they couldn't be used, she still proposed a lot of ideas. She was very positive and motivated. Although the performance has declined in the past few days, it is still among the top three in performance.
The salary given by Gu Qingshi was not fixed. From the beginning, it was a model of base salary plus commission. The more you sell, the higher the salary, which can greatly promote everyone's enthusiasm.
The results turned out to be good. All the store employees were very motivated and worked hard to make money.
Li Xiaoman had performed very well before and sold the best. Although her behavior this time was really unacceptable, she said it was not intentional and her attitude of admitting her mistake was also very good. So Gu Qingshi decided to keep her for the time being and observe her for a while.
Looking at Li Xiaoman's back as she walked away, Gu Qingshi always felt that something was strange, but he couldn't put his finger on it.
Fang Wen just said that and then left it to Gu Qingshi to deal with it himself. He wouldn't suffer any loss anyway, so he just let it go. Lu Yuan didn't even know the details of what happened, let alone care.
The main reason he came today was to ask Gu Qingshi a question, "Are you going to be busy in the store all day on Qixi?"
"Probably. What's wrong? Is something wrong?"
A trace of disappointment flashed across Lu Yuan's eyes. "I'm just asking."
Fang Wen shook his head behind him. Wasn’t it just because the Chinese Valentine’s Day was approaching and he wanted to go on a date with Boss Gu?
Gu Qingshi didn't have the chance to celebrate the Chinese Valentine's Day in his previous life. So when the Chinese Valentine's Day came in this life, as a businessman, the first thing he thought about was how to organize promotions to attract customers to buy.
After spending some time and energy, we officially launched the Qixi Festival activities on the Qixi Festival.
First of all, there is a discount for buying two sets on the Chinese Valentine's Day. There are two kinds of gifts. One is a heart-shaped knot that you get for every purchase.
The love knot has become a symbol of love because of its two connected knots, meaning "eternal love". Giving a love knot on Valentine's Day is also a good omen.
Another way is to give out sky lanterns, also called Kongming lanterns, when spending a certain amount of money.
Lighting prayer lanterns is a way of praying for blessings. On the Chinese Valentine's Day, lovers pray for a long life together, while those without lovers can pray for the arrival of a happy marriage.
It just so happened that GA City was having a Chinese Valentine's Day event of lighting sky lanterns for prayers, and when Gu Qingshi heard about it, he also cooperated with the event.
This Chinese Valentine's Day event was obviously very successful and the guests were quite satisfied. However, Gu Qingshi soon heard that some of his peers had also done the same event.
Before Gu Qingshi opened his store, there were also two cosmetics stores with good business in GA City. One of them was called Dielianhua, which was not far from Gu’s store, just across two streets. It was also Gu Qingshi’s main competitor.
Previously, several competitors had seen that Gu Qingshi was doing good business and had tried to make a move, but Dielianhua had not made any move. Gu Qingshi thought that this company had confidence in him and liked to compete fairly, but it seemed that was not the case.
The Chinese Valentine's Day event launched by Dielianhua is very similar to that of Gu Qingshi, except that there is no activity of sending prayer lanterns.
This activity was added on a whim after Gu Qingshi heard about the Chinese Valentine's Day event in GA City. Since they only needed to purchase a batch of prayer lanterns, only she and Bai Xue knew about it.
The activities planned previously were almost copied exactly by Dielianhua.
Although the activities held by businesses are very similar, there are very few such activities in GA City nowadays. Gu Qingshi doesn't believe it is a coincidence.
Hearing the same thing about Dielianhua, Gu Qingshi was just glad that she had kept something in reserve.
The means of competition in the city have indeed been upgraded and changed. It is no longer the case of directly coming to the door, but is carried out secretly, making it difficult to guard against.
(End of this chapter)
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