Cheng Zhu took a while to realize that the "old man" he was talking about must be Shen Guoqiang.
"What’s wrong, Uncle Shen wouldn’t think that I’m dating her, would he?" Cheng Zhu said with a calm tone.
Don’t panic, don’t panic, although I’ve kissed your daughter, and touched her legs, and even planted some strawberries, but believe me, Uncle, we really haven’t dated!
"It’s just to double-check with me," Shen Minglang said, "Ningning already said that you are Lin Lu’s boyfriend, but he still called me privately to fish for information through me!"
"Heh! Men going through midlife crisis are naturally suspicious!" Shen Minglang also harshly mocked.
"Not at all, not at all," Cheng Zhu replied with a laugh.
—Damn, intuition is truly accurate!
Cheng Zhu had met some business magnates, and each of them had frighteningly accurate instincts.
Shen Minglang’s call was actually because he also wanted a piece of the gossip.
"Cousin, did Ningning really come to pick you up specifically during the orientation?" he asked.
Because in his mind, that wasn’t something his own sister would do.
"Um, that part is true, but it was Lin Lu’s prank," Cheng Zhu truthfully replied.
"I see, no wonder!" Shen Minglang nodded slightly.
After a two-second pause, he suddenly burst into a series of laughter: "Haha! Hahaha! So the source of this gossip is Lin Lu herself, she stirred up her own boyfriend rumor, I’m going to die laughing!"
There was a joyful atmosphere over the phone, Shen Minglang was genuinely amused.
According to Cheng Zhu’s understanding of him, this brother might bring up this matter the next time he sees Little Lu and Ningning, just to tease Lin Lu on purpose.
He could already imagine what that scene would be like.
Little Lu would probably get so annoyed and embarrassed, as for Ningning, she might get her feelings hurt again.
Out of concern and affection for the two women, this scoundrel cousin spoke up, "Cousin, don’t use this to upset Lin Lu when the time comes."
"Okay, since you’ve said it, I definitely won’t bring it up, zhe zhe zhe, you’re quite sweet to your girlfriend, aren’t you! I didn’t expect that you would be so caring, cousin!" He felt like he had just consumed a dose of dog food.
"Oh, definitely, why mention it!" Cheng Zhu shamelessly replied.
"Hahahaha!" Shen Minglang laughed his head off again.
The two scoundrels chatted and joked around for a while before Shen Minglang brought up the second reason he had called.
"Cousin, this time we’ve ridden on Zhou Jielun’s popularity and the effect has been surprisingly good."
"Why don’t we consider actually collaborating with him?" Shen Minglang suggested.
Cheng Zhu was a bit curious about this "business genius’s" train of thought and asked, "How do you want to collaborate?"
"We could do a co-branding, or some other business cooperation, like having him post about Youu Tea on Weibo or something?" Shen Minglang said.
"First of all, he doesn’t do Weibo," Cheng Zhu corrected him first.
"Plus, a business cooperation with him would likely be extremely, extremely expensive."
"But look at our costs this time, they were really low, just the price of two concert tickets. Of course, that was also due to their good luck."
They really did get hit by outrageous fortune!
Hearing this, Shen Minglang sighed, "I thought so, too. I know it would be expensive, but it feels like a waste not to keep riding this wave of popularity."
Cheng Zhu, however, smiled easily and exuded confidence, "Who said so?"
"Let me point out something first, I never considered a business cooperation, not just because it would be costly, but also for another reason."
Cheng Zhu went straight to the point, "This concert incident was truly an accident, thanks to your sister’s quick thinking, she seized this enormous opportunity."
"But if we immediately engage in a collaboration with him afterward, then most people will assume that the concert events were all pre-arranged, even scripted."
"That’s not a good thing."
"I’m sure his team would consider this as well."
Hearing this, Shen Minglang made a negative contribution to global warming, inhaling a big gulp of cold air: "Sss—! That makes a lot of sense!"
Then, Cheng Zhu changed the topic and said, "However, I don’t want to spend a lot of money, but I definitely want to keep riding this wave of popularity."
"So how should we do it?" At this moment, Shen Minglang finally caught on, "Cousin, you actually have a plan already, right?"
"Correct!" Cheng Zhu said with a smile.
"Tomorrow is Monday, I’ll find a few marketing accounts, then steer the conversation in the right direction," Cheng Zhu gave the answer.
"Then I’ll be looking forward to it!" Shen Minglang said.
Lastly, Shen Minglang added, "Cousin, do you think Zhou Jielun will come to try our Youu Tea?"
"I think there is a possibility, but whether he comes or not is no longer important, because I have already arranged everything," Cheng Zhu said.
I don’t care if you come or not, I’ll just pretend you did!
First, there was freeloading off Starbucks, now we’re freeloading off Zhou Jielun.
Men, what’s wrong with seeking a little gain, huh? Is there a problem?
Zhou Jielun’s Hang City concert was actually on for two nights, both Saturday and Sunday.
Because the song dedication session from Saturday’s concert exploded online, the session from Sunday also got uploaded to the internet by many people.
However, in terms of impact, it was not comparable to the video of Shen Qingning and Lin Lu.
Monday came around, and Youu Tea’s national stores all simultaneously launched three new series.
They were the Rice Dumplings series, the Blood Rice series, and the Soy Milk series.
The Soy Milk series was somewhat normal, but the first two series were pretty outrageous.