Entertainment Era: Starting with Teaching Sister Meng to Sing

Wang Xiaozhou and Huang Mao met up at 11:00 a.m.

The group arrived at the airport at 12:50.

My flight was at 1:30 PM, and I arrived in Songbei City at 5:00 PM.

Because there were too many people, I didn't look for a ride-sharing service. I took a taxi directly from the airport, which cost 500 yuan to get to the county town.

They used to be together every day, but after arriving in the county town, there wasn't much to do together, so they all went back to their own homes. Wang Xiaozhou went to Meng Ziyi's rented house at 7:30 pm.

As soon as he entered the house, he was greeted by the aroma of food. Wang Xiaozhou stared at Meng Ziyi, whose face was beaming with joy, and asked, "How did you know I was coming back today?"

Meng Ziyi smiled, revealing her dimples: "Yellow Hair told me that the plane lands at five o'clock, how come you just arrived?"

Wang Xiaozhou took his hand out from behind his back: "Because I went to buy you flowers."

A large bouquet of red roses was just bought by Wang Xiaozhou after knocking on the door of a flower shop in the city.

You planted a traitor among my people, I'll just break through all that with sincerity.

In this round, Meng Ziyi suffered a complete defeat!

With her eyes sparkling, Meng Ziyi let out an "Ah!" that instantly boosted her emotional value to the max.

"Wow, you're suddenly getting romantic! I need to laugh for a bit first, hahaha..."

Wang Xiaozhou: "..."

How can there be such adorable creatures as girls in the world?

"I don't want to eat."

Aren't you hungry?

"Hungry."

"Then why aren't you eating?"

"It's not that I'm hungry."

......

The night passed quickly, and at seven o'clock the next morning, Wang Xiaozhou prepared breakfast and went into the room to wake Meng Ziyi up.

Meng Ziyi opened her eyes, looked at her phone, and then exclaimed in horror, "No way, bro, don't you need to sleep? You didn't go to sleep until after 5 a.m. yesterday, and it's only 7 a.m. now."

"Young people don't get that much sleep. Get up, I'm taking you to do something important today."

Meng Ziyi asked Wang Xiaozhou what important matter it was, but Wang Xiaozhou wouldn't say. She had no choice but to get up and have breakfast with Wang Xiaozhou, unable to resist her curiosity.

After the meal, the two first went to take a look at the newly opened supermarket owned by Wang Xiaozhou.

As expected of a shop that dared to oversee the renovation for the Princess, it doesn't look like a supermarket that should appear in a county town, whether from the storefront or the interior.

It's only a little past eight in the morning, the shops have just opened, and it should be very quiet.

But Wang Xiaozhou had a hard time even getting into the house, as the elderly men and women wearing thick cotton-padded coats and hats had already surrounded the doorway.

When Ma Xiaoping, who was helping with the recording inside, saw her son arrive, she immediately handed her work back to the cashier and went out to Wang Xiaozhou.

"You've been wasting your time out there. You didn't even come back for the opening of such a big business at home. What were you doing messing around out there? From now on, stay home and Mom will take care of you."

You could tell from just one sentence how satisfied Mom was with the supermarket's sales figures, and Wang Xiaozhou obligingly played the straight man:

"Mom, with such a big supermarket opening, you must make a lot of money every day. How much did you sell the day before yesterday when it opened?"

Ma Xiaoping held up a finger and waved it in front of Wang Xiaozhou's eyes. Wang Xiaozhou feigned surprise and asked, "Ten thousand? A supermarket can sell for that much?"

Ma Xiaoping snorted, "Ten thousand? Ten thousand yuan isn't even enough for what I sold in one morning. Listen carefully, on the first day our supermarket opened, we sold one hundred and two thousand!"

"what?"

Wang Xiaozhou was genuinely surprised this time. The daily turnover was over 100,000 yuan. He had heard that the supermarket's profit margin was 15%. Wouldn't that mean the investment in the supermarket would be recouped in just over a month?

Seeing her son's mouth agape, Ma Xiaoping said proudly with a sense of accomplishment, "Not only on the first day of opening, but yesterday our supermarket also sold over 90,000 yuan. Today, it's packed with people as soon as we open. I think, at this rate, we can earn back the money you and Teacher Song invested in a month or so."

Meng Ziyi suddenly turned to look at Wang Xiaozhou. How come she didn't know that Song Shihui had actually paid for the supermarket?

Wang Xiaozhou quickly changed the subject without showing any emotion: "Where's my dad? The supermarket is so busy, I haven't seen him anywhere."

Just as Ma Xiaoping was about to speak, a large truck turned a corner not far from the supermarket, and she pointed in the direction the truck was heading.

"Isn't that your dad? He went to the city to pick up goods early this morning. This is his third trip."

"Luckily you rented a warehouse beforehand, otherwise we wouldn't have had enough stock for the first day. We were originally planning to stock up for a month, and it's all sold out in just two days."

These days, opening a supermarket in a county town is definitely a viable business opportunity. Winter isn't over yet, and most people in the county town haven't gone out to work. With such a great place to shop, people will come every day. 100,000 yuan a day is indeed not a lot.

What Wang Xiaozhou didn't know was that none of his family members had any business experience, so they didn't dare to stock too many high-end goods in the supermarket. If they had raised the unit price of the goods, his family's supermarket could have even reached 200,000 yuan on its first day of opening. There are simply too many supermarket owners in the county who have quietly made a fortune over the years.

"Then Sister Meng, you go to the store and help my mom with her work. I'll go help my dad unload the truck."

Meng Ziyi hummed in agreement and tried to pull Ma Xiaoping inside, as it was rather cold standing outside.

Ma Xiaoping waved her hand and said, "No need, there are unloading workers waiting at the warehouse. We've used them a lot during this period of stocking up, and they all know to wait for work at our warehouse now."

Wang Xiaozhou asked, "Will my dad move it?"

"Your dad should be able to help..."

Wang Xiaozhou pushed the two people into the house, saying, "Then I'll go help my dad. You two go inside first."

Wang Jianguo had farmed all his life, and suddenly going into business was bound to be a difficult transition for him. He even felt embarrassed watching people do the work.

Wang Xiaozhou is someone's son. He doesn't teach his father how to be a boss. He can only help his father when he's working, doing more himself so that his father can do less.

After unloading a large truckload of goods with his father at the warehouse, Wang Xiaozhou saw his father go home to get two packs of cigarettes, which he then opened and gave one pack to each of the unloading workers.

He opened a box, put it in his mouth, looked at Wang Xiaozhou, and then took out another one and handed it to Wang Xiaozhou.

This cigarette feels even better than when I was first reborn!

"You must have worked hard outside, right? There's a lot of physical labor here, so you won't need to help out anymore."

On the way back to the supermarket from the warehouse, Wang Jianguo said to Wang Xiaozhou in a seemingly casual manner.

Wang Xiaozhou smiled and nodded, then took the car keys from his father. Now that he had his driver's license, he could even try out advanced driving skills. Today, he would drive Meng Ziyi to the city by himself.

When Ma Xiaoping went back to the supermarket to pick up Meng Ziyi, she didn't want to let the two of them go. She said she would take them out to a restaurant when she wasn't busy at noon.

Wang Xiaozhou gave Meng Ziyi a look, and Meng Ziyi quickly refused:

"No need, Auntie. I promised Xiaozhou I'd take him to lunch in the city today."