When he went to the cafeteria for lunch, Jiang Zhihan was surprised to find that Lou Zhengyong was cleaning the ground with a broom. Some people who eat were not used to it and would always fall on the ground. In order to keep the canteen clean, Xiao Hanjun hired a cleaner. During the meal, he would patrol everywhere with a broom and clean up the garbage on the ground when he saw it.

Jiang Zhihan went up and patted Lou Zhengyong on the shoulder and asked, "Brother Lou, why are you doing this?"

Seeing that it was Jiang Zhihan, Lou Zhengyong stopped and said with a smile: "I am sick from cleaning, I will come to the top temporarily."

Jiang Zhihan said: "Let us scout combat heroes come to sweep the floor, it's really a waste of talent."

Lou Zhengyong smiled and said, "Where are there? The first thing people from our army learned is not to be picky and choose, go wherever they need it. For you, I am not a combat hero, but a new employee."

Jiang Zhihan nodded, greeted him, and went to the window to get food. His evaluation of Lou Zhengyong was a little higher.

After school in the afternoon, Jiang Zhihan went straight to his mother's bookstore. When he arrived at the bookstore, there were very many people today, Chen Pengfei and Xiaoqian were both there. Li Rongrong pulled him to the warehouse and office behind and said, "I happened to discuss something with you."

Jiang Zhihan poured two glasses of water for his mother and himself before sitting down.

Li Rongrong said: "The person who found Pengfei's Xinhua Bookstore has agreed to our conditions and introduced the customers. In addition, Xiaoqian contacted the customers, they are very quick, and they are much more proactive than the customers we ran by ourselves some time ago. Alas, so the top-down command effect is still different."

Li Rongrong took a sip of water and continued, "In this way, our current place will definitely not be enough. I have been thinking about opening a new store these days? Or renting a place to be a warehouse? So, I want to hear your opinions."

Jiang Zhihan said: "Actually, when Xiaoqian talked about getting a big contract last time, I was thinking about this. My idea is like this, wait a moment." As he said that, Jiang Zhihan walked out of the door. After two minutes, he walked back and had an additional city map of Zhongzhou City in his hand.

Jiang Zhihan spread out the map, picked up a pencil, pointed and said, "Mom, look, Zhongzhou's five districts, six counties, urban areas, Jiangnan District, and Beishan District are traditionally a large urban area. Our current store is in the southeast of the city, and Xiaoqian's customers are mostly concentrated in Beishan District and Xiaoshan District, which are also places where heavy industries and large enterprises are concentrated. Although our bookstore is quite famous now, from the perspective of convenient transportation, the area that can be radiated to is the city area, and at most part of Jiangnan District is part of it. After all, there will not be too many people who have been taking a long car and specialize in purchasing it in a bookstore."

Jiang Zhihan circled the large urban area with a pencil, and drew a diagonal line from the current bookstore as the starting point. "Look, if we want to choose a second store to cover Zhongzhou City, Beishan District is just the other end of the diagonal line, very close to our large customers, and can cover places that bookstores cannot take into account now. I heard that renting a house in Beishan District is cheaper, so choosing that place should be a good idea."

Li Rongrong thought for a while and nodded, "Okay, I'll go there to see the rental business tomorrow. If I open a branch there, who do you think would be better for hosting?"

Jiang Zhihan said: "You should have more say in this matter. You work with them every day, and you always have a scale in your heart."

Li Rongrong said: "Among the few people, Xiao Hong, Xiao Qian, and Peng Fei are both good. In fact, Leng Qian is also good. Although she talks less, she does her work very carefully. After all, the people here are still too young. I am always worried that they can stand alone. Another thing, after all, to be honest, I still trust Peng Fei and Xiao Qian more, especially when I am alone in presiding over the matter without supervision."

Jiang Zhihan thought about it carefully for a few minutes and suggested, "My opinion is like this, for your reference only. You have to make the final decision on this matter. Pengfei went out to run away this time and found an important relationship, which made me look at him with a little admiration. But he is the youngest and the Beishan side is relatively far away from home. I think it would be better to let him stay here. The relationship between purchasing goods and running around the city side is better on him. Xiaoqian, at least she needs to go to Beishan side to see it frequently, especially when it was just the beginning,

She ran down, and I'm afraid she would have to take care of her more or less. I personally prefer the combination of Leng Qian and Xiao Hong. One is more careful, manages inventory and daily business, and also has a cashier. The other is more daring to take care of things, has a more outgoing personality, and is responsible for sales and government agencies. In addition, they come in together, and the relationship is better. As for trust, it should not be a problem to make the financial system tighter. I think both of them have good character."

Li Rongrong said: "Then I will think about it again. I will settle this matter in the past two days. Another thing is that after I went to Yancheng, I carefully planned the plan when I came back. Based on our current purchase volume, it is more cost-effective to go to the other side to purchase some things. Even if it is added to the transportation and travel expenses, it is still cheaper. Another advantage is that the books there should be earlier, sometimes three or five days earlier, and about two weeks earlier. If we go to the ones, we will probably get things at the same time as the wholesale merchants here."

Jiang Zhihan pondered: "Actually, it's the best. There is someone I know over there, and part-time help. Our quantity is not very large now, and it should be more than enough for goods once a week. But since there is not, I think it's better to let Pengfei run more. Some popular books can attract more customers by one or two weeks earlier, and everyone is waiting with their necks stretched. Last time I called Miss Xiaoqin, she opened me. The advertisements we are doing now can double the quantity. This part of the advertisements are not used to advertise the entire bookstore, but focus on launching one or two new books that are selling well and attracting customers with the most popular books. If they think this place is good, they will definitely come back to be repeat customers. In terms of advertising slogans, we are not very particular at the beginning. I asked Miss Xiaoqin to help modify this matter. She will call the store when she goes back, and just listen to her."

Li Rongrong said: "Miss Xiaoqin has helped us a lot. When will we thank you?"

Jiang Zhihan smiled and said, "Let's talk about this, haha, I helped her a lot after the Spring Festival and caught a big fish. She has been grateful for it."

As soon as he returned home in the evening, Jiang Zhihan received a call from Wu Siyi.

Wu Siyi said: "If nothing goes wrong tomorrow, come to my house after school."

Jiang Zhihan asked: "What's the matter?"

Wu Siyi said impatiently: "You will know when you come."

Jiang Zhihan occasionally calls Wu Siyi to help, and she always helps with righteousness. In Jiang Zhihan's heart, Wu Siyi is also a very close friend. Jiang Zhihan said: "Tomorrow, our class teacher seems to have to add another class, which may be relatively late."

Wu Siyi said it was okay, so Jiang Zhihan agreed.

At 6:30 the next night, Jiang Zhihan knocked on Wu Siyi's door and saw her wearing a dress with full silk and white embroidered plum blossoms. He smiled and said, "What a beautiful dress, but is it too early to wear a dress this day?"

Wu Siyi ignored him and said, "Come in and change your shoes."

Jiang Zhihan asked while changing his shoes: "Where is Aunt Wu?"

Wu Siyi said lightly: "I've gone to Lingnan."

Jiang Zhihan asked: "Are you on a business trip?"

Wu Siyi said: "You can say that."

Jiang Zhihan changed his shoes and looked around. Wu Siyi's home is a three-bedroom and two-living room unit. The living room is very spacious and the furniture is decorated in a modern European style. The heating at home is probably turned on, which is much warmer than outside.

Following Wu Siyi into the door, he turned left and entered the dining room, which was connected to the kitchen. The floor was made of wooden and the kitchen equipment was shining with a beautiful metallic luster. Jiang Zhihan saw a few dishes on the beautiful rectangular dining table and a bottle of red wine, and smiled and said, "I came here before I had eaten dinner. I didn't expect there were so many delicious foods here?"

Wu Siyi opened the wall cabinet, took out two bright wine glasses, put them on the table, and took out a silk-like red cloth, and gently wiped the wine glass a few times.

Jiang Zhihan smiled and said, "I'm so formal, I'll be restless." He asked again, "Did you make these dishes?" There were three dishes and one soup on the table, which were not many, but they were all dishes with careful work, including pickled pepper fish head, pepper beef sticks, and a loud eel paste. The soup was stewed with cuttlefish.

Wu Siyi sat down and said, "I didn't do it, was it that it fell from the sky?"

Jiang Zhihan raised his thumbs up, "Excellent! Miss, I used to be you. I never thought that you not only went out of the hall, but also entered the kitchen."

Wu Siyi snorted and said, "My parents don't know how to cook. They often eat in restaurants when they were very young. My mother occasionally cooks them at home, and the taste is so bad. No matter how delicious the food outside is, it will always be fucked by eating too much. Since the first day of the Chinese New Year, I have bought two recipes and studied them on Sundays. It is actually not difficult to cook at all, maybe I am a talented person, but it is hard to say."

Jiang Zhihan looked at the dishes with all the colors, fragrance and flavor, and his stomach couldn't help but roared twice. Since practicing, Jiang Zhihan's appetite has increased significantly, probably because he exercised too much and was growing up.

Wu Siyi couldn't help but burst out laughing, poured half a glass of red wine for Jiang Zhihan, and said, "Are you a starving ghost reincarnated? Let's eat some to put your stomach on it first."

Jiang Zhihan couldn't wait to pick up the chopsticks, suddenly stopped again, looked into Wu Siyi's eyes and said, "There will be no conspiracy for such a formal banquet, right?"

Wu Siyi glanced at him, "Do you like to eat?"

Jiang Zhihan picked up the chopsticks, picked up a chopstick of eel paste, ate it in one bite, and sighed with satisfaction: "For this deliciousness, I will sell myself to it."

As he spoke, the chopsticks did not stop, and in a moment I swept through several dishes, wrapped in the mouth, and kept commenting: "This pickled pepper tastes very spicy and positive. How to make it? Well, this spicy flavor is so fresh, it is a perfect match. There is also this pepper beef soft soup. I ordered it once in the restaurant last time, which is far less than this. The thickening is too heavy."

As the cold wind of the river swept the remaining clouds, Wu Siyi's mouth slowly stretched out and a smile spread out.

Jiang Zhihan ate a hard meal and finally put his stomach on his stomach. Seeing Wu Siyi stopping the chopsticks and not eating, he stopped embarrassedly, "Why don't you eat? If you don't eat, I will eat them all by myself."

Wu Siyi said: "After cooking, I feel like I have no appetite."

Jiang Zhihan thought that Wu Siyi had spent a lot of effort to make these exquisite dishes. He became more embarrassed. He put down his chopsticks and served a bowl of soup for Wu Siyi, then served him a bowl, took a sip, shook his head and praised: "It's very fresh, drink some soup, maybe you will have an appetite."

Wu Siyi drank a sip of the soup briefly.

Jiang Zhihan said: "Today is so quiet, I can't recognize you anymore. There is always a reason to make such a sumptuous dinner, let's listen."

Wu Siyi looked into Jiang Zhihan's eyes and said, "Today is my birthday."

Jiang Zhihan said, "That's it." He raised his wine glass and said, "Happy birthday, Siyi."

Wu Siyi's eyes lit up: "What are you calling me?"

Jiang Zhihan said: "Siyi, isn't it possible? I suddenly felt that calling the full name is unfamiliar, so it's better to calling the name with kindness."

Wu Siyi said: "Then what is your name Ni Shang? Shang..."

Jiang Zhihan laughed dryly, "It's weird to call it by one word. Oh, I'm still holding my wine glass."

Wu Siyi raised her cup, touched Jiang Zhihan for a moment, took a sip, her eyes blurred, as if she was looking at the distance without any focus.

Jiang Zhihan didn't know what to say for a moment, and said without saying anything: "It's really a coincidence that on your birthday, my aunt happened to be on a business trip again."

Wu Siyi did not answer, and was silent for a while, saying, "Birthday is here, so I cooked a table of dishes to celebrate. Compared with the birthday party you organized, isn't such a birthday a bit too sad?"

Jiang Zhihan didn't know how to deal with it, so he had to joke: "I cooked a table of dishes, but I didn't expect that a hungry guy would get cheaper."

Wu Siyi said: "Don't be embarrassed, let go of your stomach and eat, I just want to drink some wine."

Jiang Zhihan felt a little embarrassed when she said this. He remembered the birthday party she held for Ni Shang not long ago. At that time, he was thinking about how to make a smile on his jade man, so he did his best to invite friends. Looking back, whether it was Ruan Fangfang's sadness after the separation or Wu Siyi's loneliness on her birthday alone, it became more dazzling against the backdrop of that birthday. Therefore, it is not good to show off after all. Just as Chu Mingyang said, Boss, what should we do in the future?

Jiang Zhihan never thought that Wu Siyi was the kind of person with few friends. He asked Wu Siyi: "Why don't you invite friends and classmates to get together for your birthday?"

Wu Siyi said: "I've had lunch together at noon. I originally said to sing karaoke in the evening, but I don't want to make a noise tonight."

After taking a sip of wine, Wu Siyi asked, "Do you know what my mother went to Lingnan for?"

Jiang Zhihan asked back, "Aren't you going on a business trip to discuss business?"

Wu Siyi said: "It's like this in name, but in fact, it's going to accompany her new boyfriend."

After giving up his daughter's birthday, she went to a distance for a date alone. This is probably the main reason why Wu Siyi looked lonely today. Jiang Zhihan didn't know what to say, so he had to bury his head and ate a few bites of the dishes.
Chapter completed!