Chapter 30

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Protagonist:

Lin Yi

Zhou Tianming's gaze was too fervent; Lin Yi could only shift his body back, creating distance between the two of them.

Sitting down on the sofa opposite, Lin Yi cupped the teacup with both hands, head slightly lowered, eyes unblinking as he stared at the tea in his cup.

After a long time, he replied in a very soft voice: "I can't give you a guarantee!"

After answering, he let out another sigh of despair, then kept his head bowed, not speaking.

This appearance of his was all seen by Zhou Tianming; after a while, not waiting for Lin Yi's follow-up words, Zhou Tianming stood up, came over to sit beside Lin Yi, and asked tentatively:

"Is it a bank loan?"

After asking, he slapped his thigh with his right hand, promising generously:

"No problem, I have acquaintances at the head office in the city."

"As long as you go ahead boldly, we can help mediate from the middle and push the repayment date back a bit."

"It's not!" Lin Yi shook his head lightly, then raised his face and quickly said:

"That 40-plus million bank loan I'm not worried about; I believe in my product, I believe in my workers, and I also believe I can find sales channels."

"Mainly these matters, to speak of them... count as family shame; if handled badly, my reputation for the second half of my life is gone."

"So my focus during this period has to be on this, Director Zhou... you let me talk about the plan..."

"I actually..."

"Ay... headache!"

Speaking to here, Lin Yi knocked on his head with his hand, continued lowering his head, continued looking at that cup of tea.

At this moment, loneliness enveloped Lin Yi's whole body, making him look like a person abandoned by the whole world.

Lin Yi's background, Zhou Tianming had already investigated before coming; seeing Lin Yi reveal this appearance, his face showed an expression of one who has been through it, and he comforted:

"I understand! I understand!"

"Family shame must not be spread outside; those matters of President Lin's family, I've also asked a few people, roughly understood a bit."

"If there's a need, call me anytime."

"Today I won't disturb further; this exhibition invitation letter I'll just leave here."

Taking out a red invitation letter from his briefcase and placing it on the desk, his finger lightly tapped twice, Zhou Tianming decisively stood up and left.

When he walked to the door, he turned back to look at Lin Yi, saying softly:

"President Lin, although family shame must not be spread outside, however, a man of stature stands tall under heaven, he cannot be mired in trivial matters."

"Demons and monsters are ultimately just demons and monsters."

Lin Yi did not raise his head to reply, merely cupping the teacup with both hands, sitting there quietly, lonely, lonely, still f*cking lonely.

Walking out of the office, Zhou Tianming did not go downstairs directly, but walked to the window at the end of the corridor, took out a small camera from his briefcase, and took a few photos of the construction site not far away.

Then he took out a notebook, wrote the date on the notebook, then wrote a sentence.

【Today's work: went to Xiaomi Heavy Industry to collectively guide employment and development!】

After writing this sentence, he then turned and walked toward the stairwell, disappearing at the stair entrance.

In the office, Lin Yi stood by the window, continuously watching Zhou Tianming leave the factory, continuously watching until the other disappeared at the end of his sight, only then did a trace of a smile appear on his face.

Turning back to the desk, he casually picked up that invitation letter and opened it; at a glance, he saw the booth on the invitation letter.

Booth A-5-33.

100 square meters.

Looking at this invitation letter, he thought of his previous life again.

This exhibition held by the city, starting from August had begun promotion, the atmosphere whipped up quite sufficiently; the city, the province, even merchants nationwide all received the news.

It belonged to the situation of too many monks, too little meat.

According to Suzhou City's industrial structure, booths were divided into 7 zones total; ABCDEF each corresponded to an industrial structure; Zone G was the miscellaneous brand zone.

In my previous life I begged everyone, ran many connections, only then got a Zone G booth.

Others' booths were all inside the Convention and Exhibition Center; the booth I got was outside the damn Convention and Exhibition Center, in a corner.

When the exhibition started, the ones visiting my booth to view products the most were the people from the neighboring booth.

This time I got A-5 Zone, corresponding to home appliances in the electronic products zone.

Those few Middle Easterners with a piece of cloth on their heads, as long as they enter here, should be able to see me.

Stuffing the invitation letter into the drawer, Lin Yi returned to the desk, beginning to arrange exhibition matters.

An exhibition is just setting up a stall; it needs to let people remember your stuff at a glance.

To let people remember you at a glance, there must be a distinguishing feature.

The promotional video is already filmed; at that time just get a few bigger computer screens to serve as players.

Trademark...

The trademark needs to be registered urgently, to prevent some scoundrel from registering my trademark first and then coming to demand money from me.

Also need to prepare a bit more stock...

Production line renovation still not completed, damn it!

First make a few dozen finished products to put on the booth for visitors to see; if merchants are willing to purchase, then sign contracts, then slowly supply goods.

The focus still has to be placed on those Middle Easterners.

Not a long while, the exhibition task list was organized and completed by him, checked twice, confirmed no omissions, only then did he call Liu Daneng to have him arrange it.

When people get busy, they lose track of time.

In the blink of an eye, the date arrived at December 1st, the opening day of the exhibition.

The venue for the exhibition was the Suzhou City Convention and Exhibition Center, in Gusu District next to Hanshan Temple District.

At 4 a. m., Lin Yi was the first to get up; he woke Liu Daneng and the others one by one, arranged for Ji Shuangshuang to guard the house, and only then drove off with the group toward Gusu District.

Lin Bin, who had been inspecting in Suzhou for several days, also brought a few people and drove along behind, wanting to see if there were any useful lessons to learn.

At 6 a. m., the Convention and Exhibition Center staff opened the doors; a group of people swiped their credentials and entered through the exhibitor passage.

And Lin Bin, who had been following behind all along, finally saw Lin Yi's booth.

With just one glance, he was stunned by this uniquely styled booth.

The other booths in the hall were all glass display cases, all lit up, all trying every means to make their products look exceptionally bright and dazzling.

But on Lin Yi's booth, there were no dazzling lights, no soothing music.

Only simple, direct advertising copy.

Advertising copy made with WPS.

【Our electric pressure cooker has indicator sounds!】

【Our electric pressure cooker can be remote-controlled!】

【Our electric pressure cooker makes rice especially fragrant!】

【Our electric pressure cooker is very safe!】

Looking at this uniquely styled booth, he fell into silence.

He wanted to complain a couple of lines, but the knowledge he had learned in his mind told him that the simplest and most effective way to leave an impression on others in a crowd is to attract attention — the more outrageous, the better!

After running through that knowledge in his mind once more, Lin Bin still closed his eyes, raised his hand pointing at the booth before him, and voiced his complaint:

"General Manager, if you don't have personnel to set up the booth, you can look for me; I've participated in this kind of event, I know how to arrange it!"

"This one of yours really is……"

"This is just opening WPS, randomly typing a few lines, changing a color, and then bringing it out to serve as a booth!"

"This……"

"This easily leaves a bad impression!"

Lin Yi did not reply, merely kept having people rinse rice, while simultaneously taking a sealed plastic bag from the foam box at his feet.

Inside the plastic bag were spare ribs!