Chapter 32 White Cotton Skirt

On the second day of school, the school returned to its normal rhythm of classes.

The freshmen in the first year of high school are all green hands, and having experienced a long vacation, they are not yet adapted to the high-intensity and high-load learning environment of high school. The teacher's lecture speed is as slow as a turtle, and it often takes a whole class to repeat one knowledge point to students. Zhang Yunqi has no interest in being a tutor, and in order to speed up his learning progress, he hardly listens to the teacher's lectures, and mostly relies on self-study.

After studying on his own for a few days, Zhang Yunqi felt that his efficiency was much better than he had imagined. He had the intelligence of an adult and a lot of experience in his previous life. His logical thinking and his broad view of problems were incomparable to his peers. Coupled with the vigorous energy of adolescence, learning was indeed twice the result with half the effort. Scanning many knowledge points, he really felt like he had read all the AVs in the world and his mind was naturally free of code.

Of course, Zhang Yunqi had never thought about studying like a tyrant and becoming the top student in the class. You have to know that most of the city's top students are gathered here. There are always better ones among the strong. It's too difficult to suppress this group of idiots who study so hard that they don't care about their lives. It will cost you your youth.

But this was high school in the 90s, a place where grades were the only thing that mattered. Money and good looks were not as useful as grades. So, what he had to do was to get good grades to please his parents and teachers. Then he would have the right to not listen in class, ask for leave when he had something to do, occasionally skip classes, and take a nap in the classroom without being scolded.

This is the reason why whiteness can cover up a hundred flaws.

As a student, as long as your grades are good enough, teachers and schools will tolerate your behavior for the sake of your grades. Because of Zhang Yunqi's high school entrance exam results, Jiang Lihua was more lenient with him, so he lived a comfortable life in Jiangchuan No. 1 Middle School. The only thing that was a bit annoying was Zou Zheng.

After the conflict that day, Zou Zheng moved to the dormitory next door. He missed the class meeting at the beginning of the semester. The seats had already been arranged, so the head teacher arranged him to sit in the last seat near the back door of the classroom. He and Zhang Yunqi were on opposite sides of the same coin, and they got along peacefully.

After Jiang Lihua announced the class leader election, the ambitious students in the class became particularly enthusiastic and active. As for voting for class leaders, everyone knows that it depends on personal connections, and it is more important to have good relationships with classmates. Zou Zheng seems to have a strong desire to become a class leader, and he is taking the upper-level route.

On Monday night, after the lights were turned off in the dormitory, Tian Zhuangzhuang lay on his bed and said mysteriously: "Zou Zheng wanted to be the monitor and he used a backdoor! I saw it with my own eyes."

Wang Xiaokai turned over and asked, "Really?"

Tian Zhuangzhuang nodded, and then told the story again. This afternoon, when he went to buy dinner outside the school and passed by the teachers' building, he saw Zou Zheng carrying a bag of things to Jiang Lihua's house. Jiang Lihua's wife Li Liping opened the door! At that time, Li Liping was smiling all over her face. Wow, she was really amiable and had the demeanor of a teacher's wife.

Zhang Yunqi was quite surprised after listening to it. A freshman in high school knew how to use the back door to give gifts to the wife of his head teacher. This Zou Zheng was quite mature in mind. It seemed like he had inherited the fine traditions of the Chinese nation in advance. His future was limitless. But was he really going to do this just for a poor class monitor?
Some things that Zou Zheng did later proved that this class monitor was indeed very important in the eyes of the students.

During the self-study class on Tuesday, Jiang Lihua told the class that new exercise books had arrived. Lin Yueying, the acting squad leader during the military training, was about to get up, but Zou Zheng was more active than her. He immediately volunteered to run and bring back the new exercise books, and then ordered several boys to distribute the exercise books to everyone in front of Jiang Lihua.

Another time, the class was doing a general cleaning. Zou Zheng reported to Jiang Lihua in advance, then found the leader in charge of logistics, borrowed some tools such as brooms and buckets, and ordered several classmates in the class to fetch these tools in the name of Jiang Lihua, and then arranged for everyone to clean and tidy up the classroom.

In the eyes of his classmates, these actions were very much like flattery, but Jiang Lihua had a different perspective. He saw that Zou Zheng was proactive and enthusiastic about class work.

Naturally, Zou Zheng and Jiang Lihua established a close relationship, and successfully played the role of Jiang Lihua's messenger, spokesperson, and even Jiang Lihua himself. This also gave the students in the class an irresistible impression: she was the person in charge of the class designated and approved by Jiang Lihua!

Wang Xiaokai, Tian Zhuangzhuang and others particularly disliked Zou Zheng's expression, but there was nothing they could do. Zhang Yunqi had little interest in these things, and in his spare time after class, he tinkered with his own handheld game console business.

He is a student, and it is not appropriate to set up a stall to sell handheld games in school, so he can only rely on word-of-mouth effect to attract people to buy from him. There are more than 4,000 students in Jiangchuan No. 1 Middle School, a small number of whom are from wealthy families, and the majority of whom are from well-off families. Logically speaking, the market is huge, but his business has gradually declined. He sells four or five units a day, which is very tiring. The channel is single, the efficiency is not high, and the funds are accumulated, so it is difficult to expand the scale.

The purchase price of a Tetris handheld console is 20 and the selling price is 50, so he can make 30, which is a considerable profit. However, he feels that this is not a good way to sell it. He cannot only consider the net profit but also the capital turnover rate. After all, the profits from purchasing goods and selling them in a month and in a week will be completely different.

After thinking about it for a day, he decided to abandon this method of doing business by himself, which was too inefficient and lacked technical content. The right way was to find other channels to distribute the products and develop dealers on a large scale. Although doing so would divert net profits, it would be able to quickly recover funds and expand the scale of the business.

Do it when you think of it.

On Wednesday afternoon, after Zhang Yunqi finished his last self-study class, he took three handheld devices from his dormitory and went to the school gate. There was a convenience store at the school gate, which was a must-go place for more than 4,000 students from Jiangchuan No. 1 Middle School, and the flow of people was quite large. The first thing Zhang Yunqi thought of was to develop this convenience store into his own distributor.

The owner of the convenience store is a young woman in her twenties, named Sister Li, with a five- or six-year-old daughter. She is very charming and enthusiastic. Every morning when Zhang Yunqi passes by here to buy breakfast, he will receive a bright smile and a sweet greeting: "Good morning, have you had breakfast?"

After a while, Zhang Yunqi felt embarrassed if he didn't buy breakfast here.

The convenience store was not busy in the evening. Sister Li was sitting at the counter swatting flies. When she saw Zhang Yunqi coming over, she smiled and greeted him, "Xiao Zhang, where are you going?"

"I'm not going anywhere, I'm just coming to you."

Sister Li smiled even sweeter: "Come to my place? Want to buy something?"

Zhang Yunqi took out the Tetris handheld game console and handed it to Sister Li: "Do you know this?"

Sister Li took a look and immediately said, "It's a handheld Tetris game console. Recently, a few students have been asking me about it, but there's nothing for sale around here. Xiao Zhang, where did you buy it from?"

Zhang Yunqi said, "This Tetris handheld game console is not for sale around here, but it is sold in the entire Jiangchuan City. However, I have a source of goods. The retail price is fifty yuan. It is easy to operate and has a strong experience. Students nowadays love to play it. Sister Li, are you interested in selling it?"

The lady boss was surprised and asked, "You want me to help you sell this?"

Zhang Yunqi nodded.

Sister Li immediately showed an embarrassed expression: "This handheld machine costs fifty yuan, which is really not cheap for students. Although some students come to me to ask, I guess not many are willing to buy it. My small business is not easy, and I can't afford this kind of risk. Xiao Zhang, forget it."

Zhang Yunqi knew Sister Li would say this, so he said, "How about this, I'll leave three Tetris handheld machines with you, no deposit required, you help sell them, and when I come back in a couple of days, I'll pay you as much as you can sell, or if you can't sell any, you can return the handheld machines to me. Is that okay with you?"

"Well... I'll just give it a try." When Sister Li heard that she could try selling it for free, she agreed with her mercenary and shrewd mind. After all, it was a business with no capital investment, so she said, "Xiao Zhang, tell me how to sell this handheld game console."

Zhang Yunqi introduced the advantages, features and operating procedures of the Tetris handheld console to Sister Li in detail, so that she could understand it roughly and introduce it to others.

After the discussion, it was already past six o'clock.

Zhang Yunqi gave three Tetris handheld consoles to Sister Li, had dinner at a small restaurant on the street, and planned to go to the bookstore to buy some books.

High school life is not always full of youth. In fact, it is boring a lot of the time. Maybe because of his age, it is difficult for Zhang Yunqi to live as heartlessly as his peers. He plays games and chats all day long, and spends a lot of time wandering in ignorance and impulse. In his spare time, he likes to read books, which is a good way to pass the time.

The school library is not open yet. If you want to read books, you have to go to the bookstore. There are quite a lot of bookstores near the school. Zhang Yunqi went to one near the school gate. The bookstore is quite large, about 80 square meters, divided into two compartments. The outside sells high school reference books, and inside are various types of classic novels. There are many students buying and reading books inside.

"Zhang Yunqi?"

As soon as he walked into the inner compartment, Zhang Yunqi heard a clear voice. He turned his head and saw a girl with a ponytail and wearing a white cotton skirt. It was the first time he met his classmate.

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(End of this chapter)