Volume 5: Qingming Chapter 31 Sales
After taking a car to the resort, checking in, and putting their luggage in the room, Jiang You and the other two went to the resort's buffet restaurant for lunch. It was past the peak hour, and there were few people in the restaurant, so they chose a sofa seat by the window and sat down.
Jiang You brought back a plate full of roast chicken.
"I'll go get some drinks, what do you want?" Lin Yu asked.
Jiang You looked at Lin Yuyi's plate full of beef ribs, lamb chops and other meat dishes. He said, "Watermelon juice, please. And a glass of milk. It's better to ask the waiter to heat the milk in the microwave."
"OK."
More than ten minutes later, Lin Yu returned to his seat with two glasses of watermelon juice and a glass of hot milk on a plate.
Jiang You reached out for the watermelon juice, took a sip, and then handed the milk to Jiang Mo. He said, "I'm almost hallucinating from hunger."
Lin Yu saw Jiang Mo holding the cup with both hands and drinking milk in small sips. He asked, "What does he like to eat? I'll get it."
"Need not."
Lin Yu's chopsticks holding the lamb chops paused in mid-air. The next second, he took a bite of the lamb chop as if nothing had happened. After swallowing it, he picked up the cup and drank a sip of watermelon juice.
Jiang You put a clean chicken wing bone aside, "He will go find food by himself," he raised his head and looked into Lin Yu's eyes, "He has been hungry for a long time."
Lin Yu's pupils contracted.
Jiang You picked up the tissue on the table and wiped his hands. He took out the black beads from his bag and placed them in the middle of the table.
Lin Yu looked at the beads and then at Jiang You.
"This bead is said to be a magical tool of the mountain spirit of Jiujin Mountain."
"Mountain spirit?"
"Yes, I'll go get some food." Jiang You said as he stood up and walked towards the food pick-up area.
Lin Yu looked at Jiang You who was walking away, his eyes fell on the beads. He glanced at Jiang Mo, but Jiang Mo was concentrating on drinking milk and ignored him.
He looked out the French window. Outside was a wall of flowers. Several girls in lolita clothes were spinning around, taking pictures, and shooting short videos...
A few minutes later, Jiang You came back with a plate of vegetables and a plate of fruit. After he sat down, he said, "There's abalone sauce and sea cucumber rice over there. I ordered two portions and they'll be delivered to you in a while."
Jiang You followed Lin Yu's line of sight and said, "It's really cute. This skirt was worn by a dancer I liked before. She looked so energetic when she danced in it. After she stopped submitting, I felt different when I watched other dancers dancing in it."
"Where did she go ?"
"It's working."
"Now when you go to a tourist attraction, everyone checks in and takes videos, like the Wudang prince, the little brother..."
"That means you've eaten your fill." Jiang You picked up a piece of cantaloupe with a fork.
"I can't figure it out." Lin Yu put down his chopsticks.
Jiang You turned and looked at him, waiting for him to continue.
"When I recruited her to my place, I had no idea what I would do with her."
Jiang You knew that Lin Yu was talking about Duan Rui.
"She works very hard, really hard," Lin Yu drank a sip of watermelon juice. "For large supermarkets, there is a long list of charges, such as entry fees, display fees, barcode fees, etc., and that doesn't include the money for maintaining relationships with purchasing managers. If she wants to achieve results, it's not just about drinking coffee with the manager in a cafe, saying a few nice words, and signing a signature. It's very hard. She has to maintain good relationships with the distributors, wholesale market, convenience store, and small supermarket owners in the area she is responsible for."
“It’s not easy.”
"There are all kinds of people among these people. When I first took over the factory, the remaining people and I went from street to street, smiling and saying nice things. Gradually, we opened up the situation and that's how things happened later."
"You are my weight loss coach, and you are very sincere and responsible."
"That monster, a girl like her," Lin Yu shook his head, "she really works hard. I used to think that those who believed in those things and did crooked things wanted to get something for nothing, or just to find a place to rely on. How could she like that kind of monster? I'm not saying how good I am. When that monster was in my body, the way she looked at him, she never looked at me that way. I really can't understand it."
The waiter pushed a cart and brought two earthenware jars to their table.
Jiang You opened the lid of the earthenware jar, and hot steam rushed out. He picked up a spoon and stirred the jar, scooped a spoonful of rice and took a bite. The rice grains were very sticky and absorbed the soup. "The mountain spirit of Jiujin Mountain disappeared ten years ago."
"No more?"
"It's dissipated. Things are quite complicated."
Jiang You ate several mouthfuls of rice with the sea cucumber.
After finishing the watermelon juice, he went to get two cups of Coke.
"It's inappropriate to judge them with our common sense. They are generally ugly," Jiang You drank a sip of Coke. "They are in places you can't see or feel. There are many tiny insects. They unconsciously gather and split, and become all kinds of strange shapes. Some of them, due to some opportunities, are perceived by us. They are spirits, demons, ghosts... They are given all kinds of names and live with us."
"That monster too?"
"right."
"So she's bewitched?"
"Some things are easy for us but difficult for them, and some things are the other way around," Jiang Youyong ate a cherry tomato. "It's not easy for an ordinary person to establish a connection with them. Most of the time it's related to emotions."
"mood?"
"Yes, have you met her parents?"
"No, she rarely talks about her family. What are we looking for?"
Jiang You reached out and picked up the beads on the table. "I don't have a clear goal, I just want to ask, maybe I can get some useful information."
"I know what to do," Lin Yu sighed, and then he said, "I want to ask one thing."
"Go ahead."
“How on earth should I sell postcards and where should I find my customers?”
Jiang Mo raised his head.
"There's no rush for this..."
"I believe this now. It's said that one must be sincere..."
"Sincerity is the key to success."
"I have looked up a lot of religious information. There are doctrines, prayers must be performed according to the rules of the doctrines, there are sacrificial activities, and there is an obligation to preach. What should we do with our Spider Cult? Is selling postcards just a pseudonym, and is it actually an act of developing believers, just like you developing me? Or do I need to continue to make money, and then donate all the wealth I earn to him?" Lin Yu asked all the questions that had accumulated in his heart at once.
"Any other questions?" Jiang You asked.
"What should I call him? Spider-God?"
Jiang Mo nodded slightly.
"Spider." Jiang You said.
"What?"
"We will try to sell a postcard in Chu City."
"All right……"
