Who Would Fall in Love After Being Reborn?

Chapter 246: Brother, Hug Me

After the interview session ended, the applicants gradually left the Wanzhong building, some happy, some worried.

Job hunting is just like that; the job you fancy may not fancy you back, and the job that fancies you might not be your fancy. It all boils down to making choices.

Meanwhile, Jiang Qin took advantage of the moment to stay in the conference room and hold a brief meeting with four people, assigning tasks for the new team.

The twelve individuals recruited into the Marketing Planning Department were actually the leaders of the ground promotion team. They didn’t need to do the fieldwork themselves. The real fieldwork was meant for the day laborers Jiang Qin had hired through Wanzhong. However, as leaders, they didn’t have to go out personally, but they had to understand the regional resources and situation.

“For the twelve members of the Marketing Planning Department, from the day they join, they need to inspect the nearby business districts to understand the regional characteristics and resources. This task will be managed by Manager Yue.”

“Lanlan, you will assist her.”

“Whether it’s a full day or half a day, in three days, I need each of them to submit a promotional plan of no less than two thousand words for the area they are responsible for. We will use this to select the team leader.”

“Additionally, the Business Department should also be active, collecting information about nearby merchants as much as possible.”

“Tan Qing, you have done this during the group buying promotion before, so you and Manager Bao will control this from both ends.”

“Next weekend, we need to run another on-campus promotion for group buying. We want to stir up all the college students to come out of school and shop. The Business Department should seize this opportunity, inviting nearby merchants to witness this sales peak at Wanzhong Mall.”

“The purpose of the lure is simple: to make them envious, and then invite them to join the group buying platform.”

“Did everyone get that?”

After finishing his speech, Jiang Qin picked up his teacup, took a sip, and glanced at the four women in front of him.

Wei Lanlan and Tan Qing were the first to respond with “Understood.” They were already completely accustomed to their boss’s style.

The boss liked to give direct instructions, providing a starting point and a final goal. These two points could be connected in a straight line. All you needed to do was to be a tool person, pushing the task forward along this line.

However, Yue Zhu and Bao Wenping, who had more social experience, couldn’t react immediately.

This was the third formal meeting they had under Jiang Qin’s leadership.

The first was in January of last year when Boss He, due to problems with the direction of reform, reluctantly paid for Jiang Qin’s consulting services.

In that meeting, Jiang Qin didn’t speak much. After listening to everyone, he directly took them to the nearby pedestrian street to wander on their own.

The second was a few days ago, at the start of the first round of interviews, when Bao Wenping and Yue Zhu reported the interview situation to him.

In that meeting, Bao Wenping spoke the most. Jiang Qin listened throughout and was very polite, constantly thanking them, claiming they had worked hard.

Only in this meeting did they truly experience Jiang Qin’s style in the business world.

He wasn’t as laid-back and jokey as he usually appeared.

Nor was he like they imagined, always using fancy tricks that made people’s hearts race.

Jiang Qin’s real style was like a freshly sharpened knife, straight and sharp, telling you what to do, how to do it, and then making you do it immediately.

In his hands, employees were like tools, only there to execute tasks.

To put it more vividly, the employees were like tentacles Jiang Qin extended into society, receiving orders from the central command and constantly cooperating, never stopping.

Such a model indeed has high efficiency, but it requires the leader to never make mistakes and absolute trust and execution from the team members.

Achieving these three points, even selling insoles could probably make a fortune.

But those in business know that these three points are often the hardest to achieve in the business world.

Yue Zhu, who had the earliest contact with Jiang Qin, never understood how a college student could grow his business to this extent in just a year. However, after this meeting, she seemed to grasp something.

Jiang Qin made all the part-time college students believe that he would never make a mistake, and indeed, he never did.

“Manager Yue, Manager Bao, any questions?”

Yue Zhu and Bao Wenping snapped back to reality: “Ah? No, no questions. We will follow Jiang’s arrangements.”

“Good, then let’s all have a meal together,” Jiang Qin suggested as he stood up.

“Jiang, you don’t have to be so polite. We are just doing our duty.”

“Work is work, eating is eating. Even if we’re not working, we still need to eat. Oh right, invite Boss He and the other three managers as well. This is not for business, just a casual meal.”

Three minutes later, He Yijun appeared at the office door, all smiles: “Boss Jiang, I heard you’re treating us to a meal?”

Jiang Qin smiled faintly: “Everyone has been working hard recently, and I’ve been troubling Boss He. I always feel a bit guilty for taking advantage without giving back. So, today I’ll host, let’s eat at the hotpot restaurant on the third floor!”

He Yijun: “?????”

After having hotpot, Jiang Qin waved goodbye to everyone and left Wanzhong with Wei Lanlan and Tan Qing: “Boss He is really too kind. Although that hotpot restaurant is his, since I’m the one treating, I should be the one to pay. But he just wouldn’t let me, what a good person.”

Tan Qing coughed and said, “Boss, if you really wanted to treat us, shouldn’t you have arranged for a restaurant outside?”

“Is that so? I’m just a college student, I don’t know much about these things.”

As soon as he finished speaking, Jiang Qin paused slightly, his expression becoming somewhat perplexed, “That line sounds so familiar. Has any of you said it often?”

Wei Lanlan was taken aback for a moment, “I haven’t heard anyone say it.”

“Huh, why do I feel like I’ve heard this phrase often, as if every word is poking at my heart?”

Jiang Qin mused to himself for a while, feeling like a mantis that had caught a cicada, but suddenly realizing there might be an oriole standing behind him. Yet, he couldn’t figure out who the oriole might be.

Could it be that while I’m scheming others, someone is also scheming me? Haha, impossible, after all, I’m so clever.

Jiang Qin quickly dismissed this thought and drove back to Linchuan University. He first dropped Wei Lanlan and Tan Qing at their dormitory, then drove to the front square.

Passing by, he saw his pink electric scooter and knew Feng Nanshu must be there.

Indeed, as he entered, he saw the little rich lady sitting at the counter, her expression cool and detached, licking an ice cream with her delicate pink tongue. Seeing Jiang Qin, she hesitated and then offered him the half-licked ice cream.

Such a good friend, always willing to share tasty treats, but Jiang Qin firmly shook his head against the temptation.

“Good friends shouldn’t do this.”

Feng Nanshu glanced at her ice cream, “Jiang Qin, this is my third one. If I eat any more, I’ll get a stomach ache.”

“You know that and you still eat?” Jiang Qin playfully smacked her head.

The little rich lady, with a cool demeanor, replied, “I know it’s wrong, but I’ll still dare to do it next time.”

Jiang Qin took the ice cream she had licked into a round shape, “Okay, that’s enough for today. If you can’t finish it, just throw it away. It’s not worth much, and after all, even this store belongs to you.”

Feng Nanshu raised her eyes to look at him coolly, “Jiang Qin, we shouldn’t waste food.”

“Do you just want to see me eat your saliva?”

“No, I don’t know anything.”

Hearing this, Jiang Qin, who was eating the ice cream, suddenly paused.

Damn, he thought that phrase sounded familiar. He didn’t know where he had heard it before, but indeed, it was Feng Nanshu’s habitual sentence.

Tan Qing said that if he wanted to treat them to a meal, he should have chosen an outside restaurant. He responded that he was just a college student who didn’t know much.

But did he really not know anything? Nonsense, he just wanted to trick He Yijun into a meal.

Similarly, Feng Nanshu didn’t really not know anything; she just liked eating the same thing as Jiang Qin.

“Feng Nanshu, you’re scheming me, right?”

Feng Nanshu looked bewildered, “Jiang Qin, what does ‘scheming’ mean?”

Jiang Qin organized his thoughts, “It means you want someone to do something, but if you tell them directly, they definitely won’t do it, so you trick them in a roundabout way. That’s called scheming.”

“I, I still don’t understand.”

The little rich lady turned her gaze away, pretending to be nonchalant.

Hearing her response, Jiang Qin silently continued eating the second-hand ice cream, his face filled with skepticism.

In the evening, as the sky blazed with the glow of the sunset, the athletic field, fresh from hosting a sports meet, was again filled with a large group of students playing cards and chatting.

The people from Room 208 were bored in the office, so they decided to play poker on the athletic field, leaving only Su Nai alone in the office, locking the door and sneakily doing something.

But Dong Wenhao and Lu Feiyu had learned their lesson this time. They either wouldn’t play or insisted on being on the same team as the boss lady, not swayed by anyone’s persuasion.

Sure enough, after winning several games in a row, the two were ecstatic. It seemed like they earned more following the boss lady than the boss.

However, Wei Lanlan and Tan Qing, on the opposing team, protested. They also wanted to be on the boss lady’s team, or they wouldn’t play.

Jiang Qin sat aside, a dashing and imposing boss, looking like a hanger-on gifted by the little rich lady, feeling quite embarrassed.

“Alright, alright, let’s stop playing. You guys continue. Little rich lady, come with me, don’t disrupt the balance of the game.”

“I won’t play then.”

Feng Nanshu stood up, tucked her hand into Jiang Qin’s, and followed him out of the athletic field, clattering along.

The evening in May wasn’t hot, so there were quite a few people strolling on the roads. Passing through the maple woods, under the dimming sky, they could vaguely see several couples hugging and swaying together.

The little rich lady stopped walking, pulling Jiang Qin to watch for a while, her eyes becoming bright and sparkling.

“What’s the point in watching this? It’s boring. I’ll take you back to 207. Hayao Miyazaki’s ‘Howl’s Moving Castle’ is also a classic. I’ll watch it with you…”

“Big brother, hug.”

Feng Nanshu interrupted him, her eyes rippling like water.

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