Chapter 11 It Happens Every Day

It was when Wang Chengguang, Wu Xiaowei and Ayi were cooking together.

In a private room of a nice-sized restaurant near Honglingjin Bridge, Lu Tao, Xia Lin, Xiang Nan, Hua Zi and Yang Xiaoyun were having dinner together.

The crowd clinked their glasses, and the little Santa elk blinked and said, "Charlene, your boyfriend has become rich. He made 15,000 in just over a month. My God, that's much more than my annual salary."

"But why didn't you invite Wang Chengguang today? He's your boss, right?"

In one sentence, Lu Tao, Xia Lin and Xiang Nan's faces changed drastically. Hua Zi also slammed the table, "Yes, Lao Wang is busy? What about picking up girls?"

"My goodness, I heard that he hired two fairy-like employees, but last time, Lu Tao, you asked, how many days do they work in a month? Less than ten days? That's hilarious."

"That guy is really willing to do anything to pick up girls."

Lu Tao hurriedly poured the wine and raised his glass, "Don't talk about that. Drink, cheers. I'm treating you, and I can't shut you up?"

Having said that, Lu Tao glanced at Xia Lin with resentment, and a trace of guilt flashed across Xia Lin's face.

Xiangnan smiled brightly while pouring wine, "Xiaoyun, we weren't familiar with Wang Chengguang. During our four years in college, we were just nodding acquaintances."

"Originally, I thought there would be no chance for us to keep in touch after graduation, but who would have thought that I would unexpectedly discover such a great way to make money?"

"To assemble a desktop computer, you just need to know the authenticity, age, and approximate prices of the various core parts and components. If you have acquaintances in a computer mall like Hailong Building, you can..."

"It makes no difference whether Wang Chengguang is there or not for the four orders Lu Tao brought in."

"Four orders, all thanks to Lu Tao's childhood friend for giving me face. If not, you wouldn't have settled the bills so quickly after you were done. What kind of company out there doesn't owe the final payment?"

"Lu Tao is the one who takes the orders and collects the money for the bills. Computer assembly and repair don't require much technical skills. If you work as a salesperson in Hailong Building for a month or two, the boss will be able to teach you a lot."

"So, if Wang Chengguang earns 15,000 in just over a month, isn't that enough?"

"If you ask me, this fourth order is from Lu Tao's childhood friend who wants to open a black Internet cafe... No, it's because the Internet cafe license hasn't been obtained yet. Once it's obtained, it will be a formal Internet cafe."

"That's 300 machines, and at 100 yuan per machine, that's 3 yuan in profit. Lu Tao should take all the orders himself."

Lu Tao hurriedly shook his head, "Okay, talk less. Fuck, it's a good celebration party, why are you talking so much? Drink, drink, you've ruined the fun."

As for Lu Tao, apart from being a jerk to his girlfriend and being average to his adoptive father, he is pretty good to his friends, but there is a limit to his goodness...

Tens of thousands of yuan in 2007.

Four orders mean 30,000 yuan will be divided equally!

The poor Lu Tao who just graduated also took it very seriously, extremely seriously, no matter how he viewed the computer assembly knowledge and skills he had learned from Wang Chengxue for more than a month.

When Xiangnan, a better and closer buddy who had lived in the same dormitory with him for four years, kept whispering in his ear, "You earn 15,000 yuan, give 15,000 yuan to Wang Chengguang..."

If you think about it carefully, getting business and getting the final payment is much more important than Wang Chengguang being a middleman and contacting Mr. Li's computer company in Hailong Building.

Nowadays, as long as you have big business, there will be many computer companies like Lao Li rushing to give you kickbacks and dividends.

They only make 300 per machine, so hundreds of machines is still a lot of money.

This is a great era when China can sell tens of millions of computers in a single year!
Lu Tao, you are such a badass salesman, why did you give half of the tens of thousands of dollars to Wang Chengguang? Did you learn the skills? Did they teach you something? You only earn a few hundred dollars a month, and you can learn all that by just going to a few stores and working for a month or two.

Even if it's for tuition, out of consideration for the friendship between classmates, you've already given him 15,000 yuan. Isn't it enough to give him another 15,000 yuan? You have to keep giving it year after year? Aren't you losing money?!
These things were a bit shocking when heard for the first time. The more Lu Tao heard them, the more he felt that he had lost.

Charlene is not a bad person by nature, but she is not much better either. Her moral values ​​are even worse than those of ordinary people.

If she were an ordinary person, she wouldn't cheat on her best friend's boyfriend the first time they met. Even gangsters don't want to touch their elder sister's wife, or else they'll stab her? She slept with her brother-in-law the first time they met, and lived in the same dormitory with Mile for four years. Mile, the rich and beautiful lady, was the best to a poor woman like her.

Ordinary people would not rush into working as catwalk girls in bars just to make money.

To put it bluntly, Charlene's last boyfriend was just looking for a free driver. What she paid for was her body, the time for the other party to come back, money, etc.

When Lu Tao asked them to continue drinking, the Santa Reindeer and Huazi looked at each other for more than ten seconds, then raised their glasses and clinked them without saying much.

Xiangnan was right. We weren’t really familiar with each other during college.

The three boys were not familiar with Wang Chengguang, let alone Yang Xiaoyun, who had only met him a few times. However, Yang Xiaoyun occasionally met him and felt that Wang Chengguang was a good guy.

But there was no follow-up. I just heard that the other party hired two beautiful girls as salesmen, one of whom was so pretty that she was a fairy.

I also cook for them at home at least one meal a day.

Things had come to that point, so naturally Yang Xiaoyun wouldn't have any other feelings for Wang Chengguang and would just treat him as a friend. However, she and Xia Lin had only been roommates for four years and were good sisters.

Xiangnan took the initiative to pursue her, and she had a good impression of Xiangnan.

After finishing another glass of wine, Xiangnan said, "Lu Tao, your friend's new Internet cafe, do you really want to continue cooperating with Wang Chengguang? Give him half?"

"Like the first internet cafe, they made 50 per machine, but you negotiated for 100 per machine. Without you this time, it's impossible for them to make per machine, right?"

Lu Tao glared at Xiang Nan again before nodding, "Cooperation, why not? We'll talk about the future later. No one can stop this cooperation."

Xiangnan hurried over to pour the wine, "After you finish this order, how about I go and do some sales? I have a lot of buddies too, childhood friends and the like."

"If I can do well in this business, it will have much more potential than my import and export business."

Lu Tao and Xia Lin looked at each other and their eyes lit up. This... People from Beijing are more prestigious and have many friends and connections.

At this stage, the police station is not the only unit to investigate illegal Internet cafes, but it is one of the main units. Xiangnan’s father has two bars and three stars!
With this background, Xiangnan is not much worse than Lu Tao in running business.

Various big orders from Internet cafes and company office computers came in one after another, and it was not impossible for them to earn 20,000 yuan, or even 30,000 or 40,000 yuan a month.

Who could ignore such a huge amount of money in 2007?
Lu Tao and Xiang Nan started chatting animatedly. Hua Zi poured Yang Xiaoyun a glass of wine and said with a smile, "Let's have a drink. I feel like a lot of things will be different after this meal."

Yang Xiaoyun raised her glass cheerfully, "What difference can there be? It's not awkward upstairs or downstairs. It has nothing to do with us."

Isn't it just that a new friend who I originally thought was pretty good and was getting closer to, suddenly went in a different direction and became a little distant from her?

In the adult society, people come together because of money and become distant because of money, and this happens every day.

(End of this chapter)