In order to live in seclusion, I tricked my roommate into falling in love.

Chapter 135: Each One Has His Own Words

At least until this point, no one could figure out Zi Xiaowei's move.

He felt that he had learned the roundabout way from Boss Dai.

No one on campus knew about it.

People even often joked that he was taking advantage of his internet celebrity girlfriend's forgiveness.

After submitting the park distribution map brought by Lao Mai to Professor Zhou from a gardening company, Zi Xiaowei and his colleagues quickly began to cram in the agronomy of garden and horticultural plants.

Every day, I run between the campus, office and nursery according to the arrangements of my research projects.

Lao Mai and his team are only responsible for the design of all the buildings. They only need to provide a precise distribution range and renderings of the surrounding gardens.

The specific landscaping, from design to construction, is our responsibility.

The landscape design led by Professor Zhou was not actually carried out in accordance with the requirements of Zi Xiaowei, the "client".

Then a group of freshman agricultural students followed professors and graduate students to learn how to match these plant varieties.

Pests, flowering period, variety characteristics, and even the complexity of pruning must all be taken into consideration.

Finally, the greening effect plan required by "Party A" is formed, which can be carried out simultaneously with the civil construction and even the effect can be completed earlier.

These commercial nurseries are often located some distance from campus.

Zi Xiaowei would only drive himself when there were many people in the team. When there were few people, they would just take Shi Liang's car. He would instruct the novices throughout the journey on this new energy electric car that cost about 100,000 yuan.

I also took various flowers and plants from other people's nurseries every day as samples.

Of course, we didn't dare to plant these wildly spreading flowers and plants on the ridge. We brought them back to Boss Dai's villa garden.

Shi Liang also helped Zi Xiaowei move a pile of cultivation soil and flower and plant seeds wrapped in plastic bags out of the car before he drove back to the office building.

Anyway, he saw Viagra coming into the townhouse with lots of bags in the rearview mirror, and he didn't look like a rich man at all.

Zi Xiaowei came here purely to be a gardener, and of course his father and Aunt Yang were finally about to set off.

When Zi Weichang went to the door to help receive things, he couldn't suppress the joy on his face.

The father and son began to mock each other skillfully again: "Going abroad, it's terrible. Now that the epidemic control has been completely relaxed outside, you should still be careful not to be infected with the virus multiple times. Try to wear a mask. Damn, just like I had to remind you to wear a condom a few years ago!"

Zi Weichang chuckled: "You've only been out once or twice. What qualifications do you have to look down on me? You haven't traveled as much domestically as I have. You should be more careful staying here."

The look in his eyes hinted at the little tigress living here.

Zi Xiaowei sneered, "If you were to tell me, seriously, since you don't speak any foreign languages, be careful when you go abroad and don't go to those fancy places..."

Aunt Yang had heard it and came over: "What a fuss! Now it's your turn to take good care of your sister and the company. Don't let me down."

Zi Xiaowei gestured to the saplings in his hand. "No matter how good the nursery's products are, there's no guarantee they'll grow as expected. Success depends on fate. This time, I got some Chinese hydrangeas. They're hardy and easy to care for, resistant to heat and cold, and resistant to disease and insects. The only drawback is that they're a little slow to flourish, taking a year or two to do so."

Aunt Yang spoke in a purely street-smart way: "Oh, you're talking nonsense to your mother, using metaphors. I don't understand you!"

Zi Xiaowei couldn't help but compare himself to Mama Mai in his mind: "Taking care of my sister and the company is my responsibility. I also hope Mom and Dad can take good care of each other. Have a safe trip. But if I were to say it's not okay to travel domestically these past two years, I'd always say that flights back home are too expensive."

The second generation said disdainfully: "My son and daughter can make money, so why should I worry about the high airfare?"

He was still helping Zi Xiaowei plant the flower seedlings he had brought back with their roots, and then he casually asked, "I heard you're interested in the car business? I asked Xiaoni, but she said she didn't know either."

Zi Xiaowei thought for a moment and said, "Isn't there a new energy vehicle parked in this garage? It's considered the most expensive domestically produced car on the market. I feel like this is a bit like when you first started your underwear brand in the wholesale market, on the eve of a dramatic change."

Women are really not naturally sensitive to cars: "You want Annie Underwear to build a car?"

Zi Xiaowei waved his hands repeatedly. "Impossible. It's about selling cars. I told you I wouldn't touch even a single cent of Ms. Dai's shares, and I certainly wouldn't target the underwear company. But Ms. Dai has an overall plan: to gradually focus sales on e-commerce live streaming, and then spend the proceeds on new construction and investment, rather than profit distribution. Didn't she tell you that?"

Aunt Yang narrowed her eyes and nodded. "Well, those parasites are lucky enough to have food to eat. Why should they sit back and reap the benefits and take the lion's share?"

Zi Xiaowei was pruning flower branches. "But the current park construction budget is only about 300 to 400 million yuan at best, and the Double 11 sales alone are enough. We need more new investment to offset this. Car sales are a large investment with a relatively low return. If we seize this opportunity, we might be able to reap another bonanza, a big one."

Aunt Yang frowned. "Since this is an investment of the company's profits, why don't they get a share?" Zi Xiaowei chuckled. "For example, if President Dai and I, along with you, provide the technology and the company provides the capital to form a new company, wouldn't that squeeze out most of the dividends? We'll just use it anyway. Lately, to keep production running smoothly, we haven't been doing live streaming to sell goods. We're relying entirely on short videos to maintain popularity. If this profit goes to President Dai or our new company, it's still uncertain whether it will make a profit or a loss, but the premise is that we must not evade taxes or operate illegally."

The second generation has already heard it: "They treat the underwear company as a cow, constantly milking it, but they are feeding their own children?"

Zi Xiaowei nodded. "That's about it. Anyway, I'll let President Dai make the decision. I'll just be responsible for selling things and earning a commission."

Aunt Yang, who claims to be retired, is actually only fifty years old: "What kind of skills can I offer?"

Zi Xiaowei said seriously, "You are currently on an overseas inspection tour. You can naturally bring back advanced international technology. It's very expensive!"

The second-generation entrepreneur, who had been working diligently for more than ten years, laughed heartily.

Finally, I was content to embark on my "honeymoon" trip abroad with Lao Zi.

Zi Xiaowei and Boss Dai saw his parents off at the international airport, but his account was completely different.

Dai Anni was like a child on vacation, wanting to go out and have fun immediately: "Didn't they say there was a concert going on at the place where I bought clothes last time? Let's go check it out."

Zi Xiaowei pointed out: "Nowadays, concert tickets are all booked online. Are you going to buy scalped tickets at the door?"

Dai Anni pulled his hand in a rather unskilled and coquettish manner: "Let's go, let's go, I want to see what concerts there are and how to book them. I still need to hire a few more assistants."

She was still used to asking the General Manager's Office to handle all the little things, but recently she had been deliberately acting like an emperor, and the number of calls had dropped significantly.

Zi Xiaowei suddenly remembered, "It's been almost a week, and Assistant Chang is still in Jiangzhou?"

He didn't even have any contact.

Dai Anni was more familiar with the situation. "She's staying at a hotel downtown. It seems she's in a meeting with the CEOs of 4S stores and regional offices in Jiangzhou. This is pretty much the same approach my mom used to take."

Zi Xiaowei pondered, "Selling cars is definitely different from selling underwear. There's after-sales service, maintenance, and repairs involved. Plus, for something worth 12 or yuan, you have to see the car and test drive it before you can place an order. Should they do the livestreaming? If they delay any longer, it will clash with the underwear livestreaming for the Double shopping festival."

The core idea will not change. Selling underwear part-time is the main business of live streaming. It’s just that it would be a waste of traffic if you don’t sell something else after becoming such an internet celebrity.

Moreover, it would be better to have one or two fixed big sponsors like Annie Underwear, who don’t need to take on a bunch of products to promote, and cannot guarantee the effect of the live broadcast room.

Zi Xiaowei still has the airs of a scholar. He wants to keep the live broadcast room from being too noisy with the smell of money, so as to attract more people to spend money.

Boss Dai forgot about playing when she was interrupted and started contacting her "new best friend" with her mobile phone.

At this time, Zi Xiaowei's phone also rang. It was Mai Dehui who answered: "Are you free tomorrow morning? Come with me to check out a real estate project. It might be related to the construction company I recommended."

Zi Xiaowei quickly said no problem.

He had a good mentality. Even when he turned on the Bluetooth speaker in the car, he did it without letting either side notice anything.

Dai Anni politely waited for Zi Xiaowei to hang up before gesturing to him about her chat interface. "He said we should go over and talk. What's there to discuss? How much money can you make selling cars? 4S stores have very low profit margins these days. They rely entirely on maintenance, repairs, and insurance. If it weren't for the hundreds of millions in turnover, there'd be no future in this industry."

She has access to a lot of social resources in the Municipal Chamber of Commerce. For example, the hot spring resort last time made money from 4S business and then switched to real estate.

But that was also the period of huge profits that began in the 1990s. Thirty years have passed, and it’s time for things to change.

Zi Xiaowei didn't tell her about milking the company: "We will try our best to close this order, even if we make no profit or little profit. The purpose is to create a word-of-mouth effect for live streaming car sales, so as to attract more car brands to cooperate with us."

Boss Dai said seriously, "Do you really want to make this a big business?"

Zi Xiaowei nodded. "You're right. In the car business, even if the profit is only one percent, that's still a thousand or several thousand yuan. Underwear isn't even that expensive at full price, but with 20 to 30 million viewers watching the livestream, if the selling point is compelling enough, will it sell like hotcakes?"

A set of underwear only costs one or two hundred yuan, so no matter how high the profit is, it is only this much.

The price of the car was enough to shock even a billionaire like Boss Dai.

No wonder Changjiang Automobile has an annual output value of over 100 billion yuan.

But making cars is not as simple as making underwear.

Zi Xiaowei still didn't tell the whole truth.

(End of this chapter)