I have few friends, but many childhood sweethearts.

Chapter 173. Delicious Takeout
"How much longer?" Xia Xiaoxiao asked with difficulty, her face covered in sweat, at Xu Qingfan's home.

"One minute left, stick your butt out a bit, it's almost dragging on the floor." Xu Qingfan, also covered in sweat, replied after glancing at the stopwatch.

Time ticked by, until the stopwatch went off, and the two of them collapsed onto the floor, utterly exhausted.

"Ah~ I'm so tired." Xu Qingfan reached behind him, patted his aching lower back, and let out a comfortable groan.

"Noob." Xia Xiaoxiao wasn't much better off. After completing a three-minute plank, she had almost reached her limit, but the girl still stubbornly mocked.

“Same to you.” Xu Qingfan sat up again, glanced at the time on the monitor and said, “We’ve rested for more than a minute. Get up quickly, there’s one last set of stretches!”

"Hmph~" Xia Xiaoxiao got up again and lay down on the yoga mat to do arm stretches before Xu Qingfan could.

After finishing the last set of exercises, both of them were too tired to move and lay limply on the yoga mat with their hearts pounding.

The old-fashioned fan overhead made a whirring sound as it rubbed against the ceiling. The two occasionally exchanged glances, but neither spoke, both staring blankly at the ceiling.

Sweat slid down my cheeks, flowing into the yoga mat and disappearing without a trace. If you pay close attention, you can smell a faint scent of sweat, but it's not unpleasant; it smells like a green apple.

Because Xia Xiaoxiao often sits in front of the computer playing games, and with the arrival of puberty and the beginning of breast development, the girl developed a slight hunchback.

After Xu Qingfan said it to her a few times, the girl kept it in mind, and then she dragged him along to do body shaping exercises.

Seeing that Xia Xiaoxiao's bangs were stuck to her face, Xu Qingfan subconsciously tucked them behind her ears, just like when they were children.

Xia Xiaoxiao was stunned for two seconds before the girl hit him on the head with a big shove.

"What are you doing! You're so clumsy." Xia Xiaoxiao looked flustered and turned to the other side before cursing.

Xu Qingfan smiled and stood up. "I'm going to visit a factory with Aunt Zhang this afternoon. Are you staying home or going somewhere else?"

"It's none of your business. I'm going to karaoke with Ruan Wen this afternoon," Xia Xiaoxiao said with her back to him.

"It's up to you then. If you need money, just take it from the drawer in my room. No need to tell me. Also, take your phone and be careful." He kicked Xia Xiaoxiao's butt as a reminder.

Xia Xiaoxiao usually keeps her pocket money at her secret home, which is why Xu Qingfan reminded her.

"Get your athlete's foot off me!" Xia Xiaoxiao angrily slapped his smelly foot away.

"Didn't you say you wanted to communicate with me using your butt? Hahaha~" Xu Qingfan kicked him again and then turned and ran away.

"Xu Qingfan!!!" Xia Xiaoxiao put on her slippers and chased after him out the door. She watched Xu Qingfan run to the end of the corridor and disappear. Then, the ice on the girl's face melted and a bright smile appeared.

"You stupid idiot~" Xia Xiaoxiao muttered as she returned to Xu Qingfan's house. After taking a hundred yuan from his room, she lightly punched the photo album on his computer desk with her fist.

There were three photo frames on the computer desk: one was a graduation photo of Xu Qingfan dressed as a pig behind him when he graduated from Sunshine Kindergarten; another was a graduation photo of the six of them when they graduated from Experimental Primary School; and the third was a collage of their headshots taken at Guagreen Square last time.

Of the three paintings, Xia Xiaoxiao's favorite is the one from kindergarten, because only she knows why Xu Qingfan pretended to have a pig nose.

The girl smiled sweetly, told Xiao Ruanwen on her QQ that she was going out, and then skillfully shut down her computer.

In late April, Xu Qingfan told Zhang Chunxue about his idea of ​​creating a food delivery platform in the car. A few days after Zhang Chunxue returned home, she began registering the company and recruiting staff.

Now, six months have passed, and the construction of the food delivery platform is basically complete. It is only one last internal test away from its official launch.

Since the idea was proposed by Xu Qingfan, as the initiator and original major shareholder, he naturally couldn't just abandon the project and run away.

After waiting by the roadside for a while, Zhang Chunxue's car quickly drove up and stopped in front of him.

The driver was Aunt Zhang's secretary assistant. She unbuckled her seatbelt and was about to get out of the car to open the door for him, but Xu Qingfan nodded and waved his hand to decline her offer: "I can do it myself."

"Aunt!"

"Have you been waiting long? Have a bottle of water to cool down." Zhang Chunxue took a bottle of water from the built-in refrigerator in the Maybach, unscrewed it, and handed it to him.

Xu Qingfan reached out and took it. November in Hong Kong was no different from summer. He was really thirsty after waiting for a few minutes. After taking a sip of water, he casually asked, "Are Yi Yi and Wan Ning at home?"

“The two girls said they were going to the park to sketch. What, didn’t they tell you, their older brother?” Zhang Chunxue put down the documents in her hand, smiled, and patted Xu Qingfan on the head.

"Oh, I think he did mention it to me." Xu Qingfan said, recalling the message he saw on QQ that morning.

He took out his phone to check, and sure enough, Lin Wanning's message was displayed on QQ.

13.05
[Youth is like sugar, sweet to the point of sadness: Brother Qingfan, Yiyi and I are going to Licheng Park to paint this afternoon, do you want to come?]

14.00
Youth is like sugar, sweet to the point of sadness: Oh, I remember now, Qingfan is going to Gangcheng with Aunt Zhang this afternoon. We're leaving now, be careful! [Cute][Cute]

Several years have passed, and the five girls are no longer the little girls who needed him to watch over them when they went out.

Xu Qingfan smiled and put his phone back in his pocket.

He gets carsick from looking at the screen for too long in the car, and replying to messages on his phone with the nine-grid layout is quite troublesome, so he can only reply to Lin Wanning after arriving in Hong Kong.

"Have you finished watching? Now, tell Auntie about the food delivery company." Seeing the smile on Xu Qingfan's face, Zhang Chunxue also smiled unconsciously. She rubbed Xu Qingfan's head and said.

“Auntie, please speak.” Xu Qingfan sat up obediently.

“There are no relevant policies in China yet regarding the electronic payment you mentioned. Unless the food delivery platform really has hundreds of millions of users in the future as you described, we can forget about it for now. Otherwise, it would be easily classified as illegal fundraising,” Zhang Chunxue said, tapping his head.

"Then let's wait and see, that day will definitely come," Xu Qingfan said, not worried at all, looking completely confident. "What about cooperating with banks? Can we do that?"

"That's not a problem, but the principal and interest cannot be used for other purposes, otherwise it will still be easy to be classified as illegal fundraising." Actually, Zhang Chunxue is more careful about her reputation, otherwise, with her background, no one would investigate if she really misappropriated the funds.

"Whatever, Auntie, you lack everything except money!" Xu Qingfan flattered with a grin. "You, you, I think you're the one who has the most money to spend," Zhang Chunxue smiled and shook her head, poking his head with her finger.

After the earthquake relief efforts of 512, Haowei Duck Neck has reached a new level. After systematic analysis by industry experts, it has been reasonably valued at 500 million yuan. However, due to the acquisition of some downstream companies, Xu Qingfan's shares have been diluted, and now he only has less than 30% left. But this alone is already worth more than 100 million yuan.

With the tens of millions of yuan in idle funds in his account, Xu Qingfan is now a veritable billionaire.

Xu Qingfan stuck out his tongue shyly. He was truly surprised when he calculated it.

"Hehe~ Auntie, let's not discuss this. If we can only use online banking to pay, a lot of people will find it too troublesome and won't buy anything. But managing cash payments is also inconvenient. What should we do?"

“Yes, so Auntie came to ask you what to do about this?” Zhang Chunxue said, mimicking his words.

"Uh..." Xu Qingfan quickly recalled his memories from his previous life, but he couldn't collect any useful information. However, he suddenly thought of the internet cafe management system.

Would it be feasible to apply the electronic payment system to internet cafe fees?

You can top up your account at a physical Haowei Duck Neck store or have the delivery person do it for you.

The amount of money to be recharged is simply a matter of a string of code. The deliverymen and physical stores can pay a certain amount of deposit in advance, and a portion of the recharge amount can be returned to the physical stores and deliverymen as a reward each month. Wouldn't the big problem of account recharge be easily solved?

The only difference between this and electronic payment is that the principal deposited into the food delivery account cannot be withdrawn. Therefore, there is no need to worry about illegal fundraising, since these are all real sales performance figures for the company.

He immediately laid out his idea: "Auntie, do you think this is okay?"

"Excellent, excellent, that's a great idea!" Zhang Chunxue praised repeatedly after hearing it.

Even the secretary, who was focused on driving in the front seat, couldn't help but steal a few glances at Xu Qingfan through the rearview mirror, thinking: [No wonder Sister Zhang likes this kid so much, he's quite handsome, but he's a bit young, he seems to still be in the first year of junior high school.]
The secretary mentally calculated the age difference between herself and Xu Qingfan, and sadly realized that they were fifteen years apart. It seemed that the idea of ​​an older woman dating a younger man was out of the question.

Xu Qingfan kept refining his idea along the way, "At that time, we can also give away 10 yuan for registering, but the minimum amount is 20 yuan. That way, in order to get that 10 yuan for free, they will have to recharge at least 50 yuan!"

"Xiao Fan, where did you come up with all these clever ideas?" Zhang Chunxue was more and more satisfied with Xu Qingfan, and couldn't help but put her hand on his shoulder and hug him affectionately.

"This is nothing. Auntie has more. We can also have old users invite new users to register. As long as they register, they will receive money. If the registered user makes a purchase, they will receive more money. We will also hold some promotional activities from time to time, such as inviting a certain number of friends to help and getting a free order, and so on." Xu Qingfan copied the homework of several big companies from his previous life and talked to Zhang Chunxue incessantly.

The atmosphere inside the Maybach gradually became cheerful, and even the taciturn female secretary sometimes couldn't help but chime in.

An hour later, the car entered the underground parking lot of a CBD commercial office building in Zhujiang New Town.

Take the elevator from the parking lot directly to the 23rd floor, where the eye-catching "Haowei Takeaway" logo appears at the entrance.

Zhang Chunxue led the way, and the receptionist immediately ran up to her respectfully, "Hello, Ms. Zhang, would you like me to contact Engineer Wang or Engineer Li for you?"

"Have them come to the conference room for a meeting in five minutes." Zhang Chunxue waved her hand, signaling her subordinates to get to work.

"Ok!"

As Xu Qingfan walked alongside Zhang Chunxue, employees greeted them with nods and shouts of "Hello, President Zhang!" as they passed by.

[Is this what it's like to be a boss?] Xu ​​Qingfan felt a little smug, wondering if he would have such a grand occasion after high school or college.

Two minutes later, two top programmers that Zhang Chunxue had poached from a major company entered the conference room and turned on the projector to show them the completed website pages.

He and Zhang Chunxue sat in the main seats, listening to the two professionals explain the simplicity of the website. Neither of them interrupted, patiently listening to them finish.

Half an hour later, the two stopped talking. Zhang Chunxue looked at Xu Qingfan and said, "Let me first introduce this young man to you two. The idea of ​​creating an O2O food delivery platform is his idea, and the company's current development strategy is also based on his idea. At the same time, he is also one of our company's major shareholders, holding 40% of the company's shares."

The two experienced programmers gaped in surprise, and then Xu Qingfan said, "Hello, Engineer Wang and Engineer Li, my name is Xu Qingfan. You can call me Qingfan or Xiaofan."

"Uh, cough cough." The two looked at Xu Qingfan with complicated expressions, knowing that Zhang Chunxue had no reason to lie to them, and for a moment they didn't know what to say.

Neither of them had very good social skills, otherwise they wouldn't have switched to Haowei Takeout in their thirties. Besides the fact that they could see their future at their original company, Zhang Chunxue's generous offer was also a factor.

With an annual salary of 30, plus housing and car allowances, and more importantly, incentive stock options, if they can make Haowei Takeaway into a behemoth like BAT in the future, they also have the hope of achieving upward mobility and becoming millionaires or even billionaires.

The more than 2,000 square meter office building in front of them was purchased by Zhang Chunxue in full. The building alone is worth more than 10 million yuan. With such a powerful boss, she feels very safe.

Zhang Chunxue clapped her hands to break the awkward atmosphere between the two and said, "The website is very well done. I will arrange for Wei Yabo to start the trial operation as soon as possible. I will need to trouble Engineer Wang and Engineer Li then."

"Where."

"No hard work, no hard work."

After exchanging simple pleasantries, Zhang Chunxue relayed Xu Qingfan's request from inside the car to the two of them, urging them to expedite the upgrade of Haowei Takeout 2.0.

Whether the food delivery platform can succeed depends on the trial operation. After handing over the work, Zhang Chunxue took Xu Qingfan to her private office.

A huge floor-to-ceiling window overlooks the Pearl River, the mother river of the port city. Xu Qingfan sat down in the swivel chair and comfortably spun around. "Auntie, there's one more thing I forgot to mention!"

"What is it?" Zhang Chunxue leaned back in the chair where Xu Qingfan was sitting, looking out the window at the Pearl River with her, and asked.

"I've come up with a really delicious ice cream that could be a hit product for making great milk tea!"

"Hehehe~ Why is it always about food?" Zhang Chunxue mocked.

"Oh, Auntie, please let me finish!"

It's like ice cream with Oreo cookies added.

(End of this chapter)