Chapter 1400

"Wow, Wang Yan, your company is really big~"

Chen Baojia arrived at the company and let out an exaggerated exclamation.

"That's an exaggeration. How many people is this?" Wang Yan shook his head with a smile.

"Then how many people are in your company exactly?"

"Four hundred and thirty-seven."

Wang Yan answered very specifically; that was the number of employees currently in Beijing. Among them, over two hundred were at Zhiwo. com, the remaining hundred-plus were at Youxiang. com, and there was also a small group researching mobile phones and a team of over ten people at Long Teng Payment. Most of these were students working part-time; there were fewer than a hundred full-time employees hired from the market.

Among the full-time employees, the majority were at Youxiang. com because of the delivery service. As time passed, this number would naturally grow; it was a labor-intensive industry.

Currently, the delivery service only had one station set up in each district, with some employees scattered to cover different areas, each responsible for a large chunk of territory. For same-day delivery, or even immediate delivery, customers had to pay extra. For non-same-day delivery, various goods were concentrated at the station and then distributed.

In the near future, as Youxiang. com's shipment volume in Beijing grew, a complete delivery network would be further built.

Once Liu Qiangdong got the business up and running in the Pearl River Delta and Yangtze River Delta regions, the next step would be to open and build an inter-regional logistics and transportation network, and by leveraging these prosperous routes, connect the regions along the way. Ultimately, this would form a complete logistics and transportation system covering most of the country.

So, in reality, the number of employees under Wang Yan was already approaching a thousand. This was in addition to the various part-time agents at other schools and the personnel needed for the business Liu Qiangdong had already opened in Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen. In just a few months, the daily order volume in these three cities had also broken through one hundred.

This was, of course, thanks to the traffic driven by Zhiwo. com.

The result was that the two million Liu Qiangdong had poured in by selling his family assets was almost bottoming out. Although the courier fees and commissions from goods earned just from doing deliveries were enough to maintain the current situation, it was difficult to expand rapidly.

Currently, there were already others doing these so-called to-C e-commerce websites, hiring people to do ground promotion in cities. To say nothing else, in the four cities where business had already been opened—Beijing, Shanghai, and others—there were already several companies doing it.

Therefore, Youxiang. com had already reached the time to start financing. Wang Yan had already notified the investors who had previously invested in Youxiang. com; they had priority investment rights for Youxiang. com, and at the same time, he had released the news externally. Recently, he had already started making contact, and the relevant due diligence teams had already started their work...

"That's not a small number either; it's already a lot. I heard from Chuan Chuan that your company has hundreds of employees in other places too. It really is a big company."

Clearly, Chen Baojia had been asking around quite a bit; she probably told Qin Chuan everything she knew.

Wang Yan smiled and didn't say anything, leading Chen Baojia and the dying-to-be-dead Qin Chuan for a stroll. Chen Baojia asked about this and that, prying here and there...

"Wang Yan, can this website of yours be browsed in Canada?"

"Yes." Wang Yan nodded with a smile. "In fact, we have quite a few people with foreign IPs registering and posting. They are all people from various schools abroad who found out that our Zhiwo. com can build alumni directories and came up to reconnect with classmates they had lost touch with for many years."

"I think they're all just showing off," Qin Chuan muttered from the side.

This remark made Wang Yan look at him with new eyes, and he couldn't help but pat him on the shoulder: "You can't go around in silk robes in the dark. They all used various methods to gain a foothold abroad, and it's true that it's better abroad than here in the country; it's all normal. There are still many people who are simply re-establishing connections; showing off is just incidental, not the main purpose."

The logic was simple: for compatriots abroad, the circle for showing off was too small, and there were too few people they could show off to. Zhiwo. com could be called the great savior that satisfied their spiritual needs.

"Wang Yan, then after Baojia goes back to Canada, I will also support you," Chen Baojia said very seriously. "I can also tell my classmates in Taiwan to come and register and use your website."

"Then thank you very much."

Wang Yan thought about it as if he were serious, found the development team, and had them add the IP address, limiting the scope to the provincial level to simply distinguish it.

"Wow, Wang Yan, you're really amazing. You thought of such a good feature so quickly." Chen Baojia continued to be exaggerated, continuing to provide emotional value.

"No, you're being way too exaggerated," Qin Chuan couldn't stand it anymore. "Can you be normal? It's so nauseating."

Chen Baojia looked innocent: "But Baojia is speaking from the heart. Chuan Chuan, how can you say that about Baojia?"

"I was wrong. You say what you want; don't mind me."

Wang Yan smiled: "Alright, the tour is about done, and I have things to do on my end."

"Wang Yan, are you chasing Baojia away?"

"You can understand it that way."

"I heard the lunch at your company is very good. Can I taste some mainland delicacies?"

Wang Yan looked at the time: "There's still over an hour..."

"You have computers here; Baojia can just browse Zhiwo. com. There's no internet as interesting as this abroad. Wang Yan, don't worry, Baojia will be very well-behaved and guarantee not to cause you any trouble."

"Go play over there."

Wang Yan pointed casually at an empty computer and let Qin Chuan take Chen Baojia to play...

"Oh, I'm nauseated to death," Xie Qiao leaned over. "Wang Yan, your resistance is truly strong."

Xu Lin looked suspicious: "Are you sure it's resistance?"

"What's wrong?" Xiao Qianxi asked, not quite understanding.

"Could it be that my good buddy is enjoying it?"

So all three of them looked at Wang Yan with suspicious eyes.

"No, is that what I'm like in your hearts? A little girl acting cutesy and pretending to be cute is enough to bewilder me? Really, you're underestimating me too much."

"Then what could bewilder you?" Xie Qiao became curious.

Wang Yan looked at the three of them, and finally, his gaze fell on Xie Qiao: "Looking at legs?"

"Uh..." Xie Qiao blushed instantly and put her hands together toward Wang Yan: "I'm sorry, excuse me."

"Qianxi, you should also keep an eye on him; his lecherous heart is written all over his face," Xu Lin said with disdain.

Xiao Qianxi symbolically slapped Wang Yan on the back: "Hit him."

"Aren't you guys flirting?" Xu Lin threw a straight punch at Wang Yan's arm, and then, not waiting for Wang Yan to deal with her, she quickly changed the subject: "Shouldn't we go visit the young lady? She's lying in the hospital all by herself, lonely and miserable; how pitiful."

Xie Qiao stole a glance at Wang Yan and followed the topic: "Are you sure the young lady is lonely, miserable, and pitiful?"

"Uh, now that you ask, I'm not so sure anymore," Xu Lin also reacted. They were calling her 'young lady'—what could she possibly be miserable about?

Wang Yan laughed: "After lunch, we'll go pay our respects. Although the little rich girl might not really need it, we should still go."

So everyone dispersed to do their own things.

Qin Chuan was still quite busy; he would look at Chen Baojia for a while, and then within a few minutes, he would run over to find Xie Qiao to tease her. Before long, Chen Baojia would have to call Qin Chuan over, and it would be another round of prying.

Chen Baojia didn't just ask Qin Chuan; she said she would stay put, but in reality, of course, she didn't. She would go cutesily ask those employees about Wang Yan and inquire about the company.

People working in the company really couldn't handle Chen Baojia.

She would start by complimenting you, and her way of speaking was cutesy and had a kind of naive charm; no one could handle it...

"Wang Yan, you're really amazing. Baojia heard a lot about you from them," Chen Baojia said, eating her boxed lunch in big bites and looking at Wang Yan with admiration. "I really can't imagine that you're so young and have already achieved such remarkable accomplishments."

"That's about enough, I'm getting agitated just listening to it," Xu Lin retorted in annoyance.

"But everything Baojia said is the truth. Wang Yan is so outstanding; shouldn't people be allowed to praise him?"

"Come, let me introduce you," Xu Lin patted Xiao Qianxi beside her. "Boss Wang's girlfriend. You've praised him enough; you should praise your Chuan Chuan more."

"No need, no need. That... Boss Wang is indeed outstanding; he is definitely a role model for our generation, a model for young people, and a lighthouse for entrepreneurs. He should be praised, praised fiercely."

Qin Chuan unsurprisingly received eye-rolls from Xiao Qianxi, Xie Qiao, and Xu Lin.

"If you don't have anything to ask of me, then say less of those polite words. I'm also doing my part in entertaining a compatriot from Taiwan," Wang Yan laughed. "You've been here for over an hour, asking this person and that person; it really is affecting everyone's work. After you eat, go out and play with Qin Chuan—go see Tiananmen, the Great Wall, and so on. Don't make this trip for nothing."

Chen Baojia seemed not to have heard anything and asked very innocently: "Are you guys going? It would be more interesting if we all played together."

"Do you think we're very free?" Wang Yan raised his head toward Qin Chuan. "He even delayed his work at noon."

"No, no, I found a part-timer to cover for me for two days."

"Oh, I didn't expect you to be so flexible," Xu Lin laughed.

"What else could I do?" Qin Chuan said helplessly. "Comrade Chen Baojia came from so far away to find me; I can't just ignore her."

"Chuan Chuan, I knew you were the best to Baojia."

"Hey, stop, stop. This is a pure friendship; give up on anything else."

After everyone finished lunch, Qin Chuan sensibly took away the reluctant Chen Baojia.

"Hey, do you guys think this little Taiwanese girl has taken a fancy to Wang Yan?" Xu Lin had a sudden brainwave.

Xie Qiao looked at Wang Yan and then at Xiao Qianxi.

"It's possible," Xiao Qianxi laughed. "Boss Wang is full of charm, isn't he? He attracted our compatriot from Taiwan so much the moment they met, and she seems to have no intention of leaving."

Wang Yan laughed out loud, putting his arm around Xiao Qianxi's shoulder while winking at Xu Lin and Xie Qiao.

"There's nothing I can do about having too much charm. I often feel deeply sorry for other male comrades because of my excessive charm. Actually, I don't want to be this way either."

"You're truly shameless," Xu Lin said with a look of disgust.

Xie Qiao avoided his gaze, not meeting Wang Yan's eyes, and her cheeks flushed red again...

After joking for a while and letting their food digest, Wang Yan and the others drove to the hospital and saw Wang Ying, who had already recovered her spirits and was sitting on the bed eating lunch.

"Wang Yan, you're all here."

Yangcheng, who was sitting on the side, stood up and greeted Wang Yan and the others.

"Whoa, the name 'little rich girl' wasn't given in vain," Wang Yan nodded at Yangcheng, considering it a greeting, and looked behind Yangcheng at the huge pile of various messy nutritional supplements on the floor.

"This is too exaggerated," Xu Lin's mouth hung open.

"It's not exaggerated; this is still without many people knowing," Yangcheng said modestly.

"Don't mess with my things," Wang Ying, who was eating, saw Wang Yan picking through them and glared in displeasure.

"You're full of energy; you're already better, so you don't need these messy things. Just distribute them among us poor brothers and sisters. Good heavens, you've even got ginseng and velvet antler here, and there's cordyceps too."

Xu Lin and Xie Qiao also trotted over to rummage through them. Xu Lin said: "Young lady, if you were sick every day, wouldn't you be rich?"

Wang Ying's eyes almost rolled into the ceiling of the hospital room: "I thank you very much. Can you wish me something good?"

"I'm just like Granny Liu entering the Grand View Garden; my eyes have been opened."

"Alright, take whatever you want if you like it, and eat it when you go back," Wang Ying glared at Wang Yan again. "Not for you, don't touch."

"Look at you, I'm still your creditor; is that how you talk to your creditor? Besides, isn't Qianxi on your team? I'll help her pick some."

Xiao Qianxi watched everything with a smile; she was sitting by the hospital bed, peeling an apple for Wang Ying.

Wang Ying glared and asked while eating: "Aren't you all busy? Why did you all come over?"

"What are you saying? You're lying in the hospital; how could we not be concerned?"

Xu Lin leaned over, and just as she was about to sit on the bed, she was interrupted by Wang Ying: "Don't sit on my bed."

"So many rules," Xu Lin muttered, then looked gossipy. "Let me tell you some gossip."

"What?"

"You know that little Taiwanese girl from yesterday?"

Wang Ying was speechless: "I have gastroenteritis, not encephalitis. What about the little Taiwanese girl?"

"She seems to have shifted her target now, from Qin Chuan to Wang Yan. Let me tell you..."

"Good sister, did you forget that I'm still here?" Wang Yan said with a laugh.

"Oh, what does that matter? I'm sharing it with the young lady. If she doesn't know, it'll seem like we're hiding something from her when we chat later," Xu Lin waved her hands dismissively. "Let me tell you, young lady, today..."

After hearing the whole story, Wang Ying nodded seriously: "Don't say it, that's really possible. I couldn't tell, you're actually quite attractive?"

"That... let me interject," Yangcheng said, seeing everyone looking over. "I feel like that Taiwanese girl has taken a fancy to Wang Yan's money. Otherwise, why would she be so idle as to ask so much? How can there be so much love at first sight?"

Wang Ying said 'hmm': "He has the right to speak on this matter; those around him are all like that."

"Alright, alright, what money or no money," Wang Yan waved his hands. "I only have a few thousand yuan on me right now, and she's from far away in Canada. I guess she's just curious; she hasn't seen someone as outstanding as me of the same age, so she's just learning more. And I have to correct one point: it was love at first sight for me with Qianxi."

"Pfft, shameless. You just saw beauty and had evil intentions," Wang Ying snorted.

Wang Yan leaned against the hospital room wall, arms crossed, and raised an eyebrow at her: "We're all friends; why don't you let me see beauty too? Let's see if I have evil intentions?"

"Go to hell..."

The white pillow from the hospital bed flew toward Wang Yan, carrying infinite shyness and anger...

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