Mrs. Qian nodded approvingly at her attitude, calm and composed.
"Well then, we..." Mrs. Qian had not finished speaking when Qian Qianqian interrupted her.
"It’s a deal!" Qian Qianqian exclaimed energetically. "Then Mom, during this time, I’ll be at ’Youwei’!"
Mrs. Qian glanced at her daughter and said, "No, during this time, you should go back to school. Once your boss gets into the university in Capital City, I will let you go."
Qian Qianqian felt a moment of disappointment but then cheerfully said, "Chuyi will definitely make it!"
Xia Chuyi: ...thanks for having so much confidence in me.
"Then Mom, can I come over to help after classes and on weekends?" Qian Qianqian excitedly asked, "Chuyi, if I come in the afternoons and on weekends, you can pay me less!"
Xia Chuyi smiled and replied, "Okay."
Qian Qian, she truly lives up to her name.
Mrs. Qian, gritting her teeth as she watched her daughter’s money-grubbing behavior, said, "Whatever you want!"
"You guys go home first, I won’t send you off!" Qian Qianqian happily waved goodbye.
Mr. Qian, Mrs. Qian, Uncle Qian: ...
Before leaving, Mr. Qian gave Qian Qianqian some advice and asked if she wanted to be picked up in the evening, but she firmly refused.
Uncle Qian also said goodbye to Xia Chuyi.
"Chuyi, it hasn’t been long since we’ve seen each other, but you’ve changed quite a bit," Uncle Qian remarked. "Back then, Uncle Qian joked about hanging around you."
"I think I really will be hanging around you in the future."
Xia Chuyi laughed, "Uncle Qian, stop making fun of me."
After the three of them left, Qian Qianqian looked admiringly at Xia Chuyi and said, "Idol, you are so amazing!"
"How did you come up with the ’night school’ trick to fool my mom?"
"And are you seriously planning on making me the branch manager?"
Xia Chuyi: "Who said I was fooling your mom?"
Qian Qianqian: "...not really? Are you really going to night school? But I, I just don’t like studying, what should I do?"
Xia Chuyi remained utterly calm, "It’s not that you don’t like to study—or rather, it’s not that you don’t like learning, you just don’t like the learning done at school."
"As a business owner, you need to know what the market needs, what the customers need, how the costs run, and what the profits look like."
"What tactics to use to get customers in the door, and what tactics to get them to return a second time, you need to have a handle on all that."
Listening to her talk about business, Qian Qianqian immediately became interested.
"Even when the business grows bigger in the future, how to expand channels, what conditions are needed for channel expansion, and the impact it ultimately achieves, you need to know all of these."
"I’m asking you, Qianqian, if the classes taught this stuff, would you want to learn?"
Qian Qianqian vigorously nodded, "Yes, yes, yes!"
"Alright!" Xia Chuyi sternly declared, "Starting tomorrow, go back to school and learn the basics well... Learn as much as you can, and prepare for the future."
Qian Qianqian gritted her teeth, "Okay."
Xia Chuyi nodded in satisfaction, "Apart from Qianqian, Brother, you need to learn too."
What does this have to do with him?
"Brother, I think you need to quickly learn how to mix the spices," Xia Chuyi said calmly. "Otherwise, what will we do with the ’Youwei’ in Ling County when I go to university?"
Xia Chengzong, who still couldn’t identify all the spices: ...
Xia Chuyi, who would soon be studying math intensively, smiled, "Come on, everybody, let’s happily study together."