Chapter 52: The Person Who Is Good to Her
Chapter 52: Chapter 52: The Person Who Is Good to Her
Li Gang barely had a chance to get a word in before the meal was over.
He’d been called over to play a round of *Guan Dan*, and otherwise just be of service. He had no idea who this Chen Xiao was.
But from what Cha Lan said, he could tell the guy was a top-tier salesman.
He’d never expected to see a general manager praise a salesman with such near-fawning admiration. Seeing Chen Xiao solidified his belief that choosing a career in sales was the right decision. He felt that, sooner or later, he too could enjoy the same kind of treatment.
Chen Xiao had no idea he had unintentionally become a role model in someone else’s eyes.
He was too busy enjoying the authentic, local cuisine, thinking to himself, ’This place is actually pretty good. I should bring Zhao Xiangjun here to try it!’
Zhao Xiangjun felt exhausted today, her whole body aching. She’d been a shopping guide for eight years and had never felt like this.
The store manager noticed she looked unwell and kindly invited her to rest in the shop’s small office for a while, even asking if she needed to go to the hospital.
’Go to the hospital? Please,’ she thought. ’This is all because Chen Xiao wore me out. He was like an ox. Where does he get all that energy?’
’He wasn’t gentle at all. He showed no mercy, especially for our first time!’
She shook her head, telling the manager not to worry and that she’d be fine after sitting for a bit.
She started thinking about how Chen Xiao’s parents were coming in two days. She had specifically asked for their Height and Weight yesterday.
She had just been at the Yi Rui store, where she picked out two business-style menswear sets for Father Chen. A teacher should dress more formally, after all.
For Mother Chen, she bought two sets of casual, fashionable outfits that were both elegant and comfortable.
And that wasn’t all. Figuring she still had some cash to spare, she went to a Huawei store and bought a P70 for Mother Chen and a Mate X5 for Father Chen.
That little shopping spree cost her another 53,000 yuan.
Even though her assets were now considerable, the cash she had on hand was still just the meager amount she had saved up herself.
With this one spree, she had practically emptied her wallet.
She didn’t usually spend much money anyway. She had already given her parents their allowance for the month, and next month she’d have her salary and store dividends, which would be more than enough for daily expenses.
Just as she was thinking about this, her phone suddenly rang. A glance at the caller ID showed it was her uncle.
"Xiangjun, are you at Wansheng today? I’m in the city!"
Zhao Xiangjun sighed in resignation. ’All my relatives treat me like their personal ATM,’ she thought. It was a good thing she had Chen Xiao; otherwise, they would have bled her dry sooner or later.
"Uncle, I’m at the store. Come on over!"
She glanced at the time—1:30 PM. She figured her uncle probably hadn’t eaten lunch yet.
Sure enough, he arrived with an empty stomach. Zhao Xiangjun asked the store manager for a short break and took him out to eat.
No one at the branch knew she was a company shareholder. They were polite to her entirely because of the CEO’s attitude toward her and her close relationship with Wu Ting.
Even so, the branch was already giving her all sorts of special treatment. If they knew she was a shareholder, how could they possibly let her keep working in sales?
Besides, that would take away a lot of the fun. She hated the idea of being kept at home like a doll in a vase.
Her uncle praised her as he ate. "Xiangjun, there’s a reason I’ve doted on you since you were little. You’re the one who’s good to your uncle! I never bother your cousins."
Zhao Xiangjun said, "Eat slower, you’re going to choke!"
’That’s because they’re all deliberately avoiding you,’ she thought. ’If they treated you the way I do, you’d be hitting them up for new clothes every day.’
After the meal, Zhao Xiangjun took her uncle to the men’s clothing section upstairs to pick out some clothes. Since her uncle was unemployed and idle at home, she didn’t bother taking him to any of the big-name brand stores.
It wasn’t that she was unwilling to spend the money. For one, she barely had any left in her pocket. For another, she felt her uncle’s lifestyle didn’t require designer brands.
Just like how she herself mostly bought her own clothes online.
After helping him pick out an outfit, Zhao Xiangjun had the embarrassing realization that her remaining balance was only a few hundred yuan...
Can you believe it? A person living in a ten-million-yuan mansion, a person who owned 10% of the Yino Group, was about to start worrying about grocery money.
’Sigh, I’ll have to be more frugal,’ she thought. Given her personality, it was impossible to expect her to ask Chen Xiao for money.
After they bought the clothes, her uncle said, "Hey, Xiangjun, your uncle’s phone screen is all cracked. Every time I try to send you a message, I can’t even see what I’m typing~!"
She didn’t dare respond. If he’d mentioned it this morning, she would have bought him one, but now she was out of money.
She led her uncle back to the store and had him rest in the small office, planning to call a taxi to take him home after her shift ended.
There was only a little over an hour left in her shift, and it happened to be a busy time with high customer traffic, so Zhao Xiangjun got busy on the sales floor.
Her uncle sat on the cylindrical sofa in the office.
Just then, the store manager and another employee came in to use the computer for some spreadsheets. The uncle shifted to the side and accidentally knocked over several shopping bags that had been sitting there~!
He quickly apologized, but the manager smiled and said, "It’s fine, Uncle. The bags you knocked over are all Xiangjun’s!"
Her uncle froze, then subconsciously picked up the bags to take a look.
Two phones, and two sets of clothes each for a man and a woman. He glanced at the receipt—good grief, a total of fifty-three thousand!
’Is my niece really such a big spender?’ he wondered. ’I never noticed before. She always seemed so frugal. Was that all an act for us relatives?’
With that thought, he asked the store manager, "So how’s Xiangjun doing here? How much does she make a month?"
The manager found the question odd—who just asks about someone’s income like that? But considering he was Zhao Xiangjun’s uncle, she replied, "Xiangjun is our top earner. She single-handedly accounts for half of our store’s sales every month!"
Her uncle thought, ’That must be over ten thousand a month. That’s a huge salary~!’ For someone like him, unemployed and with no income, over ten thousand was a very high salary!
The other employee chimed in with a smile, "Xiangjun is also a shareholder in our store now, you know. She owns a 10% stake."
Her uncle was even more astonished. ’This store must be worth a lot,’ he thought. He never imagined his niece was a part-owner.
"Ah, look at that girl," he said. "She took me out to buy clothes when this is her own store. Couldn’t I have just picked a few things from here?"
The manager and the employee exchanged a look and couldn’t help but let out a little snort. Still, the manager explained, "Uncle, that’s not how it works. We have to keep business and personal matters separate. Even owners have to pay for the clothes they take!"
Her uncle was quite disappointed. ’Such nice clothes, and you can’t just take them to wear. What a shame,’ he thought. ’What kind of stupid, inflexible rules does this store have!’
He fell silent after that, picking up the two Huawei phones and turning them over and over in his hands, examining them from every angle. He couldn’t seem to put them down.
After helping a customer and having the cashier ring them up, Zhao Xiangjun took a moment to check her phone messages and froze~!
She had received a bank transfer notification: a deposit of 8.5 million yuan.
She checked the source: it was the second-quarter profit dividend from the Yino Group!
Only at this moment did she truly and deeply understand the weight of that 10% equity. Her thoughts turned to Chen Xiao, that reckless fool.
Giving away a house and company shares after knowing her for just a few days!
Chen Xiao was the person who treated her best in this world, one of the very few people who was genuinely, truly good to her.