Chapter 188

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Protagonist:

Li Xiulan

Wang Dashan returned to the shop, but did not immediately go communicate with Zhu Zhiming.

He did not want to speak to him in front of Zhang Zhihao, because he knew Zhu Zhiming was a person with little ability but a big temper; speaking to him in front of Zhang Zhihao would make him lose a lot of face, and they might even fall out over it.

So he planned to wait until lunchtime to eat, then tactfully do some ideological work on Zhu Zhiming.

Just then, a familiar regular customer came into the shop.

It was none other than Du Xiaojuan.

Du Xiaojuan did e-commerce entrepreneurship herself and made quite a lot of money.

Before, she thought highly of Wang Dashan's potential and wanted to recruit Wang Dashan to work for her.

It was a pity that after much deliberation, Wang Dashan ultimately declined her kind offer.

Wang Dashan thought that afterwards the two might never have any dealings again.

He never expected that today Du Xiaojuan would take the initiative to come to his door again.

"Miss Du, welcome. What computer would you like to buy this time?"

Wang Dashan received her enthusiastically.

Du Xiaojuan smiled gently:

"Didn't expect you to still remember me."

Wang Dashan laughed and said:

"Customers who've bought things here, I remember almost all of them, let alone you who added me on QQ and are so beautiful — I'm afraid wanting to forget you would be hard."

After Du Xiaojuan entered the shop, while looking at the computers displayed, she casually asked:

"How's business recently?"

Wang Dashan answered honestly:

"Not bad, sold nearly twenty computers."

Du Xiaojuan nodded slowly:

"Just starting out and already having this performance is indeed not bad, but this won't make you rich."

Wang Dashan showed a simple, honest smile:

"We don't expect to get rich; being able to make a decent living is enough."

But Du Xiaojuan looked at Wang Dashan and said with a serious face:

"That's all the ambition you have? If a person has no desire to get rich, they can only scrabble at the very bottom for a lifetime — don't tell me you want to repeat your parents' fate? Stuck at the bottom unable to climb up? Want your future children to follow you in suffering and hardship?"

Wang Dashan's heart shrank violently; he was struck by Du Xiaojuan's words.

"How do you know my parents are poor people?"

Wang Dashan asked in stunned surprise.

Du Xiaojuan laughed and said:

"If your parents weren't poor, would you come here to do sales?"

Wang Dashan was left speechless.

Du Xiaojuan said further:

"You must keep up with the trend of the times. There's a saying: a pig standing at the windfall can fly. Selling computers isn't bad per se, but you're not at the forefront of the trend; the earning ceiling isn't high — at most you'll just make over ten thousand a month."

Wang Dashan had to admit Du Xiaojuan's words were very reasonable.

The impact of these words on his soul was very great.

"Du Xiaojuan, you coming here so openly to poach my man — isn't that a bit against the rules?"

Zhang Zhihao walked over at this moment, his face dark as he said this to Du Xiaojuan.

No matter how stupid he might be, after hearing what Du Xiaojuan said to Wang Dashan, he knew Du Xiaojuan's intention.

Du Xiaojuan laughed it off, then denied it flatly:

"Boss, you misunderstand. I have no intention of poaching anyone; I just want to make friends with Wang Dashan. Besides, I'm also your customer — this time I want to buy an assembled desktop; do you have any good recommendations?"

Hearing this, Zhang Zhihao could not say anything more.

Since she came to buy a computer, he could only treat her properly as a customer.

Wang Dashan didn't know much about desktops.

After all, the assembly inside has quite a few tricks to it.

So it was left to Zhang Zhihao to give Du Xiaojuan the introduction.

At this time no other customers came to the shop.

Wang Dashan's mind was on his second brother, so he wanted to take advantage of this gap to give his second brother Wang Erhai another call.

This time the call went through, and Wang Erhai picked up.

"Second Brother, Dad and Mom said you're going to partner with friends to do internet entrepreneurship — is it true?"

Wang Dashan opened with the question.

"Yes, it's true."

Wang Erhai's voice on the other end of the phone sounded somewhat unnatural.

"Where are you doing the internet entrepreneurship?"

Wang Dashan continued to ask.

"In Guangxi Beihai."

Wang Erhai answered.

Wang Dashan was immediately stunned:

"How did you end up running so far away? Weren't you doing a summer job in Dongguan before?"

Wang Erhai couldn't answer for a moment, and only spoke after a good long while:

"My friend is in Beihai, so I came here... Big Brother, don't ask so much, anyway I'm doing very well, nothing will happen..."

Yet Wang Dashan detected something amiss:

"If you were really doing very well, would you say these things to me? What exactly is going on?"

But Wang Erhai said:

"I'm fine, I'm busy, I'm hanging up first."

Wang Erhai hung up the phone, and was then beaten severely by those pyramid scheme personnel.

Because just now he had let something slip.

He revealed he was in Guangxi Beihai; just that one location made it very easy to arouse suspicion.

After Wang Dashan hung up the phone, he fell into deep thought.

And at this time, Zhang Zhihao and Du Xiaojuan had already communicated, and Du Xiaojuan decided to buy an assembled desktop computer around six thousand yuan in the shop.

"Boss, this afternoon can you and Wang Dashan deliver the computer to my office for assembly?"

Zhang Zhihao was depressed:

"Can't I go by myself? Dashan doesn't know how to assemble."

But Du Xiaojuan said:

"No, Wang Dashan must go together, otherwise I don't want this computer."

Zhang Zhihao had no choice but to agree in the end:

"Fine fine fine, I'll have him go together then."

Du Xiaojuan smiled faintly; her purpose was achieved:

"The specific address I've already given you, then I'll go back first."

Finished speaking, Du Xiaojuan turned around to leave.

At this moment Wang Dashan called out to stop her:

"Du Xiaojuan, you should be quite familiar with the internet entrepreneurship industry, right?"

Du Xiaojuan was stunned:

"Fairly familiar, but I wouldn't say one hundred percent; although I do online shopping which is a kind of internet, the internet encompasses everything."

Wang Dashan then asked:

"My second brother said he's now doing internet entrepreneurship with friends in Guangxi Beihai; I always feel something's off about it, so I wanted to ask you."

Du Xiaojuan replied without a moment's hesitation:

"Your second brother lied to you; people doing internet generally do it in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, or at worst in second-tier cities like Dongguan, Hangzhou, Tianjin — who would run to a mountain pass like Beihai? I've heard there are many pyramid schemes over there in Beihai; your second brother wouldn't have been tricked into going there for pyramid schemes, would he?"

Hearing this, Wang Dashan's heart gave a sudden jolt.

A faint ominous premonition arose.

After Du Xiaojuan left, the more he thought the more uneasy he felt.

Until noon when he went out to eat lunch with Zhu Zhiming.

Zhu Zhiming praised in his ear:

"Dashan, you're something; I see that beautiful woman surnamed Du seems interested in you, your romantic luck is not shallow!"

But Wang Dashan was thinking of something else; he didn't even have the mind to do ideological work on Zhu Zhiming, to persuade Zhu Zhiming to correct his attitude and work; he was very worried about his second brother.

So he made another call.

He wanted to test his second brother's reaction, so he bluntly asked out of the blue:

"Second brother, you wouldn't have been tricked into going to Beihai for pyramid schemes, would you?"

A person's reaction when completely off guard is the most genuine.

Wang Dashan didn't need to hear what Wang Erhai answered; just by seeing Wang Erhai's reaction when answering, he could guess eight or nine out of ten.

Only to see Wang Erhai freeze for a moment, then stammer a denial:

"N-no, Big Brother, I-I really am doing internet entrepreneurship with friends..."

Hearing Wang Erhai's answer, Wang Dashan's heart sank to the bottom, because he could already basically confirm that this second brother of his had probably really been tricked into going to Beihai for pyramid schemes.

He then asked:

"Then tell me, what exactly is the entrepreneurial content between you and your friend? Internet entrepreneurship has many types; which type of internet entrepreneurship are you doing?"

Wang Erhai couldn't answer.

He had never really been exposed to internet entrepreneurship, so not being able to answer was normal.

Those pyramid scheme personnel controlling him around him also only half-understood internet entrepreneurship, and couldn't possibly give Wang Erhai a concrete answer.

"Big Brother, I still have things to do, I'm hanging up first."

In the end those pyramid scheme personnel forced Wang Erhai to hurriedly hang up the phone.

Before hanging up, Wang Dashan hurriedly shouted:

"Second brother, quickly tell me, where in Beihai are you, I'll come save you!"

However, on the other end of the phone, there came no reply from Wang Erhai.

Wang Erhai had already hung up the phone.