Chapter 12: One Step at a Time

Although Cheng Liang is the son of a small boss, he doesn’t have much money on a daily basis.

What his father Cheng Dahai did in his early years was not very glorious. Now that he has finally made it to the affluent state, he is most afraid that his child will follow his old path and become a little hooligan, so corporal punishment is inevitable.

Xu Mingyuan saw with his own eyes that the burly Cheng Dahai suddenly picked up Cheng Liang and walked out of the door. Then there were frightening “bang bang” sounds of beatings, and he kicked Cheng Liang several times on the road, making him unable to get up.

This way of raising children has quite a few problems. After all, Cheng Liang is already in his twenties. If he is beaten without any mercy, it would be impossible to educate him into a good person. But I think it is good parenting if he does not raise him into a second-rate child.

Xu Mingyuan also asked about the reason, and Cheng Liang said that he secretly took money from the bar and forgot to tell it. The network administrator couldn’t reconcile the accounts, so he had to find the boss.

He didn’t ask whether he had forgotten Xu Mingyuan or not. He thought that since no one checked, this guy pretended not to know and kept it to himself. If he was found out, he would be beaten.

“Dude, where are the blessing gems?”

Cheng Liang saw someone playing miracles, licked his face and walked forward to ask.

“I only dropped one in a day, and someone snatched it away.”

“Why don’t you cheat? You can pick it up as soon as it’s hit. No one can grab it from you.”

“Hang? No, I’ll block your account.”

“It’s a fine-tuning. If you don’t look carefully, you can’t see it at all. Even the system can’t detect it…”

Cheng Liang doesn’t even learn any technical skills now. He just starts selling to people when he sees them.

In less than three days, dozens of people had paid, and this was just one Internet cafe. The next day, Cheng Liang uploaded the auxiliary collection software to all six Internet cafes in his own company.

It is said that some people heard that Longda Internet Cafe has its own plug-in, which attracted many people to come and surf the Internet.

Because it was the testing phase, Xu Mingyuan was not too concerned about making money and basically discussed further optimization of the software with Bu Jingyun online.

“Do you know how much you made in these three days?”

Cheng Liang patted Xu Mingyuan on the shoulder and sat next to him with an excited look on his face.

“How many?”

Seeing him running in from outside panting and out of breath, Xu Mingyuan asked casually.

“More than 13,000!”

“Thirteen thousand, not bad.”

Xu Mingyuan nodded. This kid was nowhere to be seen all day, and he must be promoting this thing.

“You call this okay? Do you know how much money my internet cafe earns?”

“You can’t calculate it that way. Once someone has bought the bundle, it means they won’t buy it again for at least seven days. Most of the people who come online are regular customers. It’s not that easy to make money.”

Xu Mingyuan shook his head. This was because others saw him as the son of the Internet cafe owner and gave him face. Normally, it would not be so easy to make a deal.

“That’s a lot! It’s 13,000! My dad only gives me 2,000 a month.”

Cheng Liang smacked his lips. You know, two thousand is not a small amount. His network administrator only makes more than eight hundred a month, and the old employees only make twelve hundred.

“Have you got the money?”

“Bring it.”

Cheng Liang took out a wad of money from his briefcase.

This kid was quite nice. He didn’t embezzle the money himself. He took the money in hundred-yuan bills, saving Xu Mingyuan the trouble.

“Here are the five thousand. Take it. I have to pay the rest to someone else.”

Xu Mingyuan counted out five thousand yuan and threw it directly into his arms.

“Hey, Xiaoyuan, you’re not going to finish counting? Aren’t you afraid that I’ll take a little bit?”

“What am I afraid of? I can see how many copies were sold in the backend. If you don’t pay, I will just lock the software and let the buyers come to you to settle the bill.”

“Cao! Aren’t you being nice? Are you still on guard against me?”

“Not really. How about this, I’ll give you a serial number first. If you don’t need enough, you can ask me for it. After you sell it, you can keep it yourself and don’t have to give it to me.” Xu Mingyuan was very generous and said casually.

“What?” Cheng Liang thought he had heard wrongly. Is there such a good thing? Seeing Xu Mingyuan took the money and left without even getting off the phone, he quickly chased after him and asked, “Xiaoyuan, where are you going?”

“Let’s go home. Where else can I go in this hot weather?”

“Hey, hey, hey, you’re kidding, right? You really don’t want to make this money, you’re going to give it all to me after all the effort you put in?”

Cheng Liang saw Xu Mingyuan looking at him as if he were a fool, and he always felt that something was fishy.

“This little money is nothing. How many Internet cafes are there in the entire Nanxi City? What about Jiangcheng? What about the entire province? Of course I have to hire people to do promotion. Your father only has those six Internet cafes. It’s nothing to give them to you.”

Seeing Cheng Liang standing there, as if he had understood something, Xu Mingyuan patted him on the shoulder and said, “Okay, I’m leaving now. See you next time.”

“Fuck! Xu Mingyuan, no, Brother Yuan! Take me with you! Please take me with you!”

Cheng Liang went through the list in his mind. Although he was not very good at studying, he knew that there were at least forty Internet cafes in the urban area of ​​Nanxi alone, if not fifty. Six Internet cafes could earn thirteen thousand in three days. What if there were forty?

If the entire province was included, he didn’t dare to think about it.

After being persuaded for a long time, Xu Mingyuan finally stopped and said, “Let me take you? Are you good enough for this? You don’t even understand the basics of C language, what else can I teach you?”

Xu Mingyuan’s words are very boastful. In fact, he hasn’t even learned the basics, but that doesn’t stop him from bragging.

“I can learn! How difficult is promotion? It’s not like I don’t know how to do it.”

“You want to go door to door by yourself? You have to hire people. Can you train them? Can you manage them? If you don’t know anything, you can do nothing.”

“This…” Cheng Liang was silent, looked at Xu Mingyuan again, and asked disdainfully: “Could you do it?”

“If I don’t know how to do this, then why am I still talking about this nonsense?”

Xu Mingyuan was not exaggerating when he said this. After all, he was a boss before, so he could easily control this matter.

“Brother Yuan, Brother Yuan, please teach me, please teach me…”

Cheng Liang kept chasing after Xu Mingyuan, and his attitude changed from the usual pretentious one, now he was humble and smiling.

People are like this. When they suddenly get a small sum of money, they will feel that it is the happiest thing.

However, before you can even hold this small fortune, you will find that there is a windfall far exceeding this small fortune in front of you, and the happiness you just felt will suddenly disappear.

This feeling is no less than knowing tomorrow’s lottery numbers, and now all that’s left is to find the lottery station.

Such is human nature, greed is insatiable.

“Let me think about it first.”

“Don’t even think about it! Brother Yuan, you are my real brother!”

“My father doesn’t have a son like you, do you really want to do it?”

Xu Mingyuan looked him up and down, his eyes full of distrust.

“I want it! I want nothing more than this!”

“Okay then, let me see if you’re suitable for this job. Do you have any contact information?”

“I have a PHS number, 269****.”

“Don’t tell me yet. I can’t remember. I need to buy a phone first.”

Xu Mingyuan didn’t go home either. He waved to stop a taxi. As soon as he got in, he saw Cheng Liang sitting in the passenger seat with a licking face.

Young people who have just turned 20 are easy to deceive, and young people like this who have a slow mind are even easier to deceive.

Xu Mingyuan is not afraid of greedy people, but he is afraid of people with too active brains. It would be best if he can control them, but if he can’t control them, they will waste their time on intrigue and he doesn’t have time to waste on this kind of nonsense.

Since there is already someone who barely meets the requirements, he doesn’t have to recruit someone else.

It only takes a little trick to make Cheng Liang grateful. But if he becomes a smart man in two years, it won’t be so easy to deal with him.

Xu Mingyuan likes to interact with people who are straightforward, because it saves him trouble and fatigue.

(End of this chapter)