Star Tycoon

Chapter 37 Zhou Shanshan's Confidence
By evening, the three rooms next door had been cleaned.

The house contained only some broken wood and rubble; the old house had been in disrepair for years and looked dilapidated.

Zhou Shanshan looked at the dilapidated house and said, "Six hundred yuan a month is too expensive. Why are you renting this run-down house, boss?"

Tian Ersan also felt that it could be lowered.

If no one lives in this house, it will collapse on its own in a few years.

"Use it for parking. There's no room for tricycles and electric bikes inside. At least it can keep out the wind and rain."

Zhou Shanshan nodded, suddenly realizing that this dilapidated house had some use.

"Yes, otherwise the car will get soaked and damaged in the rain, but six hundred a month is still a bit expensive."

Zhou Shanshan quickly followed Tian Ersan out, no longer wanting to stay in the musty room.

"I went out this afternoon to buy pens and notebooks. I heard that there was a riot at the intersection and people were beaten. A lot of people went there."

Tian Ersan warned, "Don't get involved in the chaos; this area is not safe."

Zhou Shanshan nodded quickly, then looked at the alleyway across the street.

Perhaps due to the demolition and relocation, this place has become much more lively recently.

But this is not a good thing.

The bustling crowd is like the dust disturbed in an old house, making it dirty and messy.

Tian Ersan no longer sells family planning products; he keeps the good ones for himself and throws the bad ones in the trash.

Nowadays, they don't do any business other than ice cream and beverages.

Even canned goods and sunflower seeds are not sold to others, to avoid many people coming over to chat and disturb the work.

The shop's signboard was also covered with cardboard, and the words "Express Delivery Station" were pasted on it.

Granny Li stood up when Tian Ersan was about to enter the house.

"Boss, my old man has nothing to do, would it be alright to have him come over and watch the door tonight?"

Upon hearing this, Tian Ersan looked at Old Li Po and said, "Alright, I'll give you fifty for watching over her for one night. She can sit or walk around, but she can't go too far. She can bring her own food and water, and she can bring her own blanket and bed to sleep at the door. It will be settled daily."

Grandma Li nodded happily, "Yes!"

Grandma Xu quickly said, "My husband has nothing to do, so he can come and help with the work."

Tian Ersan felt that two were enough. "One more would be enough, one for the first half of the night and one for the second half. If anything happens, the two of us can work together."

Soon, Grandma Xu found a partner for her husband.

Tian Ersan didn't install surveillance cameras, but 3,000 yuan a month could support two security guards at the gate, which was much more useful than surveillance cameras.

Su Mingjian walked over and said, "Boss Tian, ​​we won't be working the night shift here tonight. Have a good night's rest."

"Okay." Tian Ersan said embarrassedly, "Only a thousand orders today, which is quite a few."

Su Mingjian said with a smile, "I've asked a lot of people, and they all say that online stores only sell three to five hundred items a month, but Boss Tian sells a thousand items a day, which is equivalent to more than a dozen shops."

Tian Ersan never expected that data traffic would be so low in this era.

He quickly thought of his business of getting a thousand orders a day, which was basically the top level right now.

Even though there are quite a few livestreamers selling pork floss cakes, apart from a few top-tier ones, the rest are simply incomparable.

The pork floss cake business is also highly competitive, with several well-known livestreamers following suit after seeing what others are doing successfully.

The pork floss cake business is already very profitable, and I estimate that in the future, someone will definitely start selling canned goods and sunflower seeds, and they'll all profit from that too.

That's just how times are; if you don't move forward, you fall behind.

Even if you invest in real estate, don't expect to be able to live a life of ease.

"Okay, you should get some rest. I'm already thinking about how to handle the business. Once I open another store, orders will increase again in a while."

Tian Ersan's words greatly excited Su Mingjian.

“Okay! I’ll talk to my family back home in a few days and hire two more young men to work. It definitely won’t interfere with Mr. Tian’s business.”

The bigger Tian Ersan's business becomes, the better Su Mingjian's business will naturally be, enough to support his entire family.

Zhou Shanshan and Tian Ersan went inside to eat, and Zhang Shuya and Wang Linlin had already set out the bowls and chopsticks.

The group sat down to eat and chatted as they ate.

Zhang Shuya poured wine for Tian Ersan. Wang Linlin said somewhat angrily, "Someone left a bad review at the store today, saying that something so cheap must be bad."

"If you think it's cheap, don't buy it! I bought it and then gave it a bad review. I really want to yell at him!"

Tian Ersan said, "A few bad reviews don't matter, as long as it's not a quality issue. Just ignore troublesome customers."

"Okay!" Wang Linlin obediently agreed.

Zhang Shuya and Wang Linlin were mainly responsible for printing thank-you letters, handling customer service conversations, packaging, and distributing mailed items.

Zhou Shanshan has been here for more than ten days and always feels that the two of them have too easy a job, and she does all the work outside by herself all day long.

"I can type too, I'll help you with customer service!" Zhou Shanshan also wanted an easy job, so she looked at Tian Ersan and said, "Boss, can I be customer service?"

Tian Ersan pondered and said, "Now I get thousands of orders a day, and my customers are mainly male. They don't talk to customer service much, but as the business goes on for a while, it will be more troublesome when there are more female customers."

"Two customer service representatives are definitely not enough. I'll buy two more computers, and the three of you can all work as customer service representatives from now on. We'll keep one computer as a spare."

Zhou Shanshan smiled happily when she saw that she could finally relax.

"Okay! Thank you, boss!"

Tian Ersan added, "If you encounter canned goods that are broken when they are delivered by courier, just refund the money and send another order for free. Don't use printed thank-you notes for these; write them by hand."

Wang Linlin nodded, then asked seriously, "Wouldn't that be a loss?"

Tian Ersan said, "You won't lose much money from such a low-probability event. If you give him a free order, he'll accept it and continue to buy. If you don't give him a free order, he'll be in a bad mood this time and won't continue to buy even if he receives the money."

Wang Linlin and Zhang Shuya didn't quite understand, but since Tian Ersan said so, they would follow his instructions from now on.

After finishing my meal, I rinsed my mouth and brushed my teeth, then went upstairs to rest.

Tian Ersan was preparing for a live stream, while Wang Linlin and Zhang Shuya were live streaming next door using the computers they had bought previously. They also needed to pay off their online loan debts next month.

Zhou Shanshan was minding the shop downstairs, waiting for deliveries from the cannery and foam factory.

Most things are finished before 8 p.m. every night, then the shop closes and everyone goes about their own business upstairs.

Zhou Shanshan was reading the newspaper when her phone suddenly rang.

"Hey."

"Shanshan, it's your mom! Have you received your salary yet?"

Zhou Shanshan's mood instantly soured after hearing what the other person said.

"No pay! The month isn't even over yet, why would we get paid!"

Zhou's mother called out, "When will it be released?"

"It'll be paid on the 15th of next month, so we'll hold back half a month's salary!" Zhou Shanshan shouted, her mood utterly terrible.

Zhou's mother remembered the payday and said, "After you finish this month, don't work anymore. Go to the Zhengcheng electronics factory. You can earn four or five thousand a month there!"

Zhou Shanshan retorted angrily, "I'm not going! I'm an adult! It's none of your business!"

Mrs. Zhou scolded, "I'm your mother!! You have to listen to me!"

"I won't listen!" Zhou Shanshan angrily hung up the phone.

After hanging up the phone, I felt a little scared.

Will my mom come looking for trouble?

Zhou Shanshan felt a little flustered, afraid that her mother would come to her door in a fit of anger and embarrass her.

"I should have spoken politely earlier." Zhou Shanshan regretted it a little, and was very afraid that her mother would come to her house and beat her.

I looked out the door with a feeling of distress and fear, as if my father, mother and brother would burst in at any moment, yelling and scolding me for being unfilial.

But after waiting for an hour, then two hours, Zhou Shanshan looked at the already dark sky and suddenly became confident again.

"I'm already eighteen, and I have my boss protecting me, what am I afraid of?"

Zhou Shanshan smiled and muttered to herself. After receiving the goods, she quickly locked the doors of the two adjacent rooms, went inside, and locked the doors in a good mood.

In the open space three or four meters outside the central gate, two old men with radios sat on a chair and a bed keeping watch.

One sat in a chair listening to the radio, while the other slept on a wire bed that had been moved in to keep watch.

Fifty a day for two doormen is a very high wage in this small county town, and the work isn't tiring at all; it's like sleeping outside in the summer.

(End of this chapter)