Chapter 241 - 242: Tang Ru’s Invitation

Chapter 241: Chapter 242: Tang Ru’s Invitation

They got right to it!

Several supermarket employees arrived to help assemble the shelves.

After the shelves were assembled, they started stocking them with products.

Once that was done, the place really started to look like a proper store.

The brand-new products arranged on the shelves looked especially festive.

They worked until about nine in the evening before everything was finally finished.

After having something to eat, the workers left.

Li Yang stood inside the small supermarket, looking at all the products, and suddenly burst out laughing.

"So you really opened it?" Xia Lian arrived just then. Seeing all the products inside, she clucked her tongue. "I never expected you to be this fast. I’m impressed."

Li Yang chuckled. "Aunt Lian, from now on, come here when you need to buy something."

Xia Lian glanced at him. "Will it be any cheaper for me?"

"Of course!" Li Yang said, patting his chest. "If Aunt Lian says it should be cheaper, then it’ll be cheaper. That goes without saying."

Only then was Xia Lian satisfied. "By the way, now that the store is open, are you going to run it yourself?"

Li Yang paused for a moment, just now realizing he had overlooked a problem.

’I’ve opened a store here, but who’s going to help me run it?’

Li Yang scratched his head. "Damn, I completely forgot about that."

Gao Xin Xue walked in from outside and let out a snicker.

You could say the guy was brilliant—and he really was. He could think of things others couldn’t.

But then you could also say he was a blockhead, and this was proof enough. He’d gotten the store all set up but had no one to actually sell the goods.

What a mess!

"I think Sister Lian would be great!" Gao Xin Xue suggested. "Sister Lian is young, and she has a child, so working here at the store would be a good fit. And she’s literate, right?"

In a mountain village, more of the younger generation might be literate, but most of them had left to find work elsewhere. There weren’t many literate people left in the village.

So, being able to read and write was a genuine skill.

"Me?" Xia Lian herself was stunned. She shook her head. "I don’t know how. I wouldn’t know how to handle the payments."

"Sister Gao can teach you that!" Li Yang nodded. "As for the mushroom farming, I’ll have someone else do it. A woman like you shouldn’t have to be in there growing mushrooms every day. So that’s settled. You’ll run the store for me, same salary. How about it?"

Xia Lian looked pleased. This job was definitely better than working in the mushroom house.

"I’m just worried I won’t be able to do it," Xia Lian said, still a little anxious.

"What’s there to worry about!" Gao Xin Xue said. "I’ll be around to help. It’s fine. You can ask me if there’s anything you don’t understand."

Only then did Xia Lian feel a little more at ease.

"Then... I’ll give it a try!"

The next day, Liu Jinsheng brought two carloads of people to go fishing again. They were quite happy to see the newly opened little store.

Especially around noon on a blazing hot summer day, many of them wanted cold drinks, so the store came in handy.

It wasn’t just them; even the villagers felt like having something cold to drink.

"Here, here! It’s ice-cold! Tastes great!" Li Jianzhong said, bringing an iced beer over to Li Dajiang.

Li Dajiang took a sip. "It really does taste better than a warm one!"

"You can say that again!" Li Jianzhong sat down too. Watching the anglers go into the store from time to time to buy drinks, he couldn’t help but say admiringly, "You know, Xiaoyang isn’t just bold, he’s smart too. It’s just how it is. We can’t compare to him."

Li Dajiang nodded. "Let’s just keep working hard with him. Our pheasant farm will be up and running soon. Then we won’t have to worry so much; we’ll just have to do the work."

To that, Li Jianzhong raised both hands in agreement.

You could say the whole village was marveling at how sharp Li Yang’s mind was.

But after lunch, Li Yang received a call from Tang Ru.

"President Li, what are you up to?" Tang Ru asked in a sweet, coquettish voice.

Li Yang remembered what Aunt Rong had told him and couldn’t help but say, annoyed, "Boss Tang, that was a low blow. You told Aunt Rong I slept with you? When did I ever sleep with you?"

"Oh, she must have misunderstood..." Tang Ru didn’t seem to take the matter seriously at all. "We haven’t seen each other in a while. Let’s meet up. I’ll treat you to dinner."

’Treat me to dinner?’

Li Yang chuckled. ’You’re being that nice?’

"President Li, you poached Miss Qi from me..." Tang Ru said, sounding hurt. "I hear Miss Qi has introduced a lot of clients to your store. You stole her right from under me. Logically speaking, you should be the one treating me to dinner."

"Fine, I’ll come out for dinner. By the way, do you have any more clients to introduce me to?"

Hearing this, Tang Ru almost fainted from anger.

’What, poaching one person from me isn’t enough for you?’

’You guys are about to drive my damn store into the ground!’

"We’ll see, we’ll see..."

After hanging up, Tang Ru muttered, "He’s really insatiable. To think he still wants to steal more of our clients."

He Gang, who was standing nearby, sneered. "Just stick to the plan. He’ll be eating out of our hands soon enough."

Only then did Tang Ru smile. "That’s good. Let’s go. I’ll head to the hotel and wait for him. When the time comes, I don’t believe for a second he won’t take the bait!"

After speaking, Tang Ru glanced at her figure in the mirror with a proud expression.

’There’s no way. So many men want to sleep with me. I refuse to believe you, Li Yang, don’t want to as well!’