Chapter Forty-Five: Competition and Struggle

  After work, the two rushed to Computer City, and while walking, Ning Qingming taught Zhang Yu a simple way to deal with customers.

  "Boss, Qingmian sister, you're only two years older than me, but why do I feel like you're much older? I'm referring to the way you do things." Zhang Yu blinked her big eyes and said with some confusion: "Could it be that you're the legendary 'great talent matured early'?"

  "Haha...", Ning Qingmin couldn't help but laugh and knocked Zhang Yu's head, "Observe and think more about things, then you'll naturally grow faster."

  In school, everyone only compares their grades, and Ning Qing's experience of a few more years is not obvious. However, in the business world, her experience and insight over the next few years make Ning Qing appear unusually shrewd, also making Zhang Yu worship her endlessly.

  "Hehe!" Zhang Yu said with a smile: "Zheng Mei and the others have been gossiping about you, saying that you're reading university while doing business at the same time, it's really impressive! At first, they even said that someone must be supporting you, or else you wouldn't have had the capital to start a business. I got angry and told them about how you bought three shops with 60,000 yuan, and only then did they stop talking nonsense."

  Ning Qingmin was taken aback, and with a bitter smile said: "You're still too naive, they're just saying that to provoke you into revealing my secrets. It seems like it's better for me to rent my own place after all. Living together with them, even doing business with those clients later on, nothing can escape their prying eyes and mouths."

  Competition in the business world has always been fierce, and if you're not careful, it can escalate into a struggle. Competition is benign, but struggle is malignant. If that store has business, many people will notice and take the opportunity to sneak a peek at their products, or even think of ways to poach their customers, which is not surprising.

  "It's nothing to live alone by myself. It's just that I don't want to live with them, and I'm watching the stall by myself, sometimes when I want to go to the bathroom or pack my lunchbox, it's not very convenient to ask them to watch the stall for me again." Zhang Yu twisted her fingers, "Boss, can we hire one more person?"

  "Oh, do you have a good introduction?" Ning Qingming looked up at Zhang Yu, she had drawn several new designs and sent them to the Chaozhou factory, they were all popular styles in recent years. She didn't want Zheng Mei and others to see them first, if they did, they would make samples and produce them, and the price would drop sharply. Anyway, she had accepted two orders, which was enough for three months' expenses, and she also needed to hire someone to help her.

  Zhang Yu immediately recommended: "I have another high school classmate, Zhang Rui Li. She didn't score high on the college entrance exam, but she received an admission notice from a university. She rushed to take a look and found out it was a fake university. Fortunately, she hadn't paid the tuition yet, so she hurried back home. Now she's got nothing to do and is scolded by her mother every day at home. Why not invite her instead?"

  Ning Qing smiled and said, "I've known you since you were a kid, I know you inside out. Your classmates don't know me. If you really want to come over, you'll have to try it out for a month first."

  "She's similar to me in every way. We get along great." Zhang Yu guaranteed. "The boss will see her and definitely like her too."

  "Alright. Call her and ask her to come over. Once she arrives, we can rent another place. I'll sometimes come over on Saturdays. You can also sleep over and don't have to rush back to school."

  They went to eat first. Only then did they go in to look at the computer. Ning Qingming was naturally more familiar with computers. He wrote down the configuration and handed it over to the shop owner to calculate the price. The shop owner took a look at the configuration, knowing that the other party was not easy to cheat. He honestly quoted the price, and they quickly reached an agreement.

  It was nine o'clock in the evening when I returned to school. Ning Qingmin had been busy and energetic lately, but strangely didn't feel tired at all. The whole person seemed to be full of energy as if reborn.

  Approaching the dormitory building. Only a sharp voice was heard saying, "Why do you want to do this? Say, why?" Ning Qingming immediately recognized the voice as Wu Meimei's. He quickly walked closer and took a look. Yan Kang, the fat boy, was standing in front of Wu Meimei with his head down, like a prisoner, stuttering and saying, "I like you!"

  Wow! Unbelievable! Ning Qingmin slipped away like a mouse, escaping their notice. In the chaos, Wu Meimei was still standing there, her face bright red, with small pimples all over, completely red and radiant with an unusual beauty.

  Luckily, one was lowering his head and the other was silly enough not to notice me. Ning Qing quietly tiptoed up the stairs, only then did she run up quickly. Geez, if they wanted to show affection, couldn't they choose a more secluded place?

  Pushing open the dormitory door, Ning Qing said breathlessly: "Guess what I just saw?"

  "Yan Pàngzi and Měi Mei!" Zhou Ling and Mo Xiaohong exclaimed in unison.

  "So you all knew it!" Ning Qing said breathlessly, putting her backpack on the table, "Yan Paozi is confessing his love downstairs!"

  "What?" Zhou Ling and Mo Xiao Hong exclaimed in surprise.

  "Didn't you know it was this matter?" Ning Qing said with a smile, recounting what she had just seen.

  Mei Mei's last time with Yan Baozi went to a Chinese medicine doctor and opened a bottle of medicine, after eating it beautifully, felt no effect, so didn't eat anymore. Today going out but ran into that Chinese medicine doctor, the other party came up smiling saying face is much better, when to go open another bottle and so on. Mei Mei smiled and asked how much money for opening another bottle? That Chinese medicine doctor said last time opened that bottle was 600 yuan, if open another bottle, calculate 500 yuan well. Last time clearly only returned a bottle of 30 yuan, this Chinese medicine doctor said so, Mei Mei knew there's something strange, came back to the dormitory and called Yan Baozi. Yan Baozi confessed saying he last time helped Mei Mei pay the Chinese medicine doctor's money, feared Mei Mei wouldn't be grateful, let the Chinese medicine doctor not say first. Possibly the Chinese medicine doctor forgot last time Baozi instructed him words, said a slip of the tongue.

  Mo Xiaohong recounted the events, covering her mouth and laughing. "Yan Baozi heard Meimei getting angry on the phone and hurried over to apologize. Pitifully, he paid the money and still had to apologize. Who would have thought that apologizing would turn into a display of love!"

  "Haha......" The three people burst out laughing at the same time, unable to contain their joy.

  Wu Meimei rushed in with a smile and hid inside the mosquito net without making a sound.

  Zhou Ling made a hand gesture to Mo Xiaohong, asking her to go and ask what was going on. Mo Xiaohong plucked up the courage to lift Wu Meimei's mosquito net and asked in a low voice, "What's wrong?" As soon as she finished speaking, she was startled and exclaimed, "Why are you crying? Has Fatty bullied you?"

  "Waaah, no, I'm just lamenting that the first person to confess to me isn't a handsome guy, but rather our class's fatty." Wu Meimei stretched out her hand and pulled some tissue paper from the table, complaining: "And he had to say it when I wasn't even mentally prepared at all."

  "Which is it, did you agree with him or not?" Mo Xiaohong asked cautiously.

  "As soon as I finished listening, I was stunned for a moment and then ran up. He shouted from behind that he would lose weight and asked me not to despise him." Wu Meimei said with tears and laughter: "Let's talk about it when he really loses weight!"

  "Hiss......" Ning Qingmin and Zhou Ling couldn't help but hiss, "The charm of beauty is really great, even tempting the fatty to say he wants to lose weight."

  "Don't talk nonsense!" Wu Meimei didn't allow anyone to mention her, but everyone insisted on talking about her, and the dormitory burst into laughter.