I met my whole family through Baidu Tieba.

Chapter 161: I advise you young people not to always think about making a big splash.

Shen Kang was speechless at Pan Siyu's questions and also saw through Pan Siyu's thoughts, which were different from what the editor on the other end of the phone had confirmed with him yesterday.

In his confirmation with the editor, their interview today focused on Anjia Home Services' "standardization" and "employee system." In reality, they were using Anjia Home Services as a platform to promote standardization and the employee system.

Why is this young comrade coming straight for me?

Shen Kang thought to himself, "This young comrade is always thinking about making a big news story. If the report goes wrong in the future, there will be problems."

So, without making a sound, he steered the conversation back to the main topic.

"Speaking of the initial motivation for starting the company, it's related to Manager Kang, who's sitting next to me. Oh, by the way, you don't know him yet, let me introduce him. Kang Zhengyang, Manager Kang, is the manager of Anjia Household Services. Don't let Manager Kang's current professional manager appearance fool you; just a few months ago, he was a high school teacher, and also my high school teacher."

"Teacher? Or your teacher?"

Pan Siyu looked at Kang Zhengyang, and after the two introduced themselves, Pan Siyu asked Kang Zhengyang how he went from being a teacher to becoming the manager of Anjia Household Services.

Kang Zhengyang told the truth, and it was mostly accurate. However, when he was about to mention the "Bentley car team" from back then, Shen Kang coughed. Kang Zhengyang understood without saying a word and skipped over it, only saying that he had felt Shen Kang's enthusiasm and couldn't refuse, and that his own situation at the time was also quite bad, so he urgently needed a chance to change things, which is why he agreed to try starting a business together.

"Your situation was pretty bad at the time?" Pan Siyu keenly picked up on this information and pressed further: "Could you elaborate?"

Kang Zhengyang then embellished his family situation at the time, briefly recounted it, and concluded with a sigh, "It was President Shen who changed my life."

Shen Kang added from the side, "It was the An family that changed your life, and you created the An family yourself. So in the end, you changed your own life. I just gave you a chance, and I also gave myself a chance."

Pan Siyu was taking notes while recording the audio, and she also wrote down some key points by hand. Now, when she heard Shen Kang speak and looked at the notes, she realized that she was trying to find newsworthy aspects of Shen Kang.

So they quickly changed the subject back to Shen Kang's family background.

Shen Kang smiled slightly: "My family background is actually nothing special, but the family backgrounds of some of our employees have changed quite interestingly after joining Anjia. For example, there is an employee named Meng Dawei. He had just been laid off, and his child was about to go to college. His family was quite poor. But after working as a cleaner at Anjia for a month, he earned almost seven thousand yuan, which covered his child's college tuition all at once."

"I earned almost seven thousand after working as a cleaner for a month?!"

Pan Siyu was completely shocked.

If it were a high-tech, high-barrier industry, such as finance or computers, then earning seven thousand a month wouldn't surprise her at all.

But in Pan Siyu's mind, cleaning was a low-end job, purely physical labor that anyone with hands could do. How could such a job earn such an outrageous amount in a month? It was double her monthly salary! That's outrageous!

Seeing her like this, Shen Kang directly called Meng Dawei over. Now Meng Dawei is the store manager of this store in the High-tech Zone, so his working hours have decreased, and he happens to be in the store now.

Pan Siyu looked at him with great interest and asked, "Hello Meng Dawei, I heard from President Shen that you're earning almost seven thousand a month?"

This was Meng Dawei's first time being interviewed by the media, and he was quite uncomfortable—he had previously done odd jobs like setting up a stall and repairing bicycles, and had never seen anything like this before. Not to mention, this was a reporter from the Yangcheng Daily! This is a major local newspaper in Yangcheng.

Meng Dawei's face turned red, and he became very flustered, stammering as he spoke: "Six, six thousand, less than seven thousand."

Pan Siyu became even more curious, "Could you please explain in detail the breakdown of your salary at that time?"

"It was basically door-to-door cleaning, you get paid for each job. I was in a hurry for money at the time, so I took any job I could get, and I didn't take a single day off for a whole month, that's why I did so many jobs —"

After speaking for a while, Meng Dawei gradually got used to it and his speech became less hesitant.

As he spoke, he also mentioned "a few things between me and President Shen".

"—Back then, my son was going to university in another city, and I wanted to see him off, but he was very stubborn and wouldn't let me. Later, Mr. Shen found out about this and said he would help. I didn't really have high hopes at the time, but to my surprise, after he talked to my son for a while, my son actually changed his mind and let me see him off! Mr. Shen is very capable."

At this point, Meng Dawei glanced gratefully at Shen Kang sitting next to him. He would remember this for the rest of his life.

Hearing this, Pan Siyu became even more interested. "President Shen, does your company even handle things like this?"

Shen Kang nodded. "Caring for employees is something our company's management must do. We also have some welfare systems in this regard. For example, as Meng Dawei mentioned earlier, the company has a special reimbursement program for sending children to university. Every employee with a child going to university can have their round-trip train ticket reimbursed."

He took the opportunity to explain Anjia's welfare system to Pan Siyu, emphasizing that it was something only employees could do, which was closely related to the planned theme of this news report.

After this interview and response, Pan Siyu finally realized that she seemed to have gone off-topic again.

This made her take another closer look at Shen Kang in front of her.

As a journalist, she quickly realized that Shen Kang had been leading her by the nose, which only increased her interest in him and filled her with curiosity.

This time, she was determined not to be led by the nose again; she was a professional! After encouraging herself, Pan Siyu turned the topic back to Shen Kang's personal life, wanting to learn more about his legendary experiences, which was what she was truly interested in and what she hoped would make headlines.

As a result, half an hour later, in the living room of a family, Pan Siyu was interviewing the male head of the household.

Shen Kang, dressed in Anjia's uniform, was lying on the floor next to him, cleaning diligently. This customer was someone he had specifically chosen. The customer already had a smart rice cooker at home and was not currently one of Anjia's targets for selling rice cookers. So this time, he was simply coming to clean the house.

Shen Kang didn't want Anjia Household Services to sell rice cookers to be reported, since the focus of their report today was on the standardization and employee system of the household service industry.

"We accept Anjia Home Service and have repeatedly purchased from them because Anjia Home Service is different from other home service companies."

The male head of the household spoke with some nervousness.

He had only just found out that reporters would be coming to his door, and the An family had specifically asked him if he minded. If he did, the An family could arrange for the reporters to visit another customer's home.

Although the male homeowner was relatively well-off, he had never been interviewed by a reporter before. He was very interested and felt it was a rare opportunity, so he agreed.

"Maybe I'll even see my name and picture in the newspaper!" the man thought excitedly at the time.

Therefore, before they came to their door, the male homeowner even washed his hair and changed his clothes.

As a result, when the reporter arrived, the man regretfully discovered that there was only a print reporter and no photographer, so it was impossible for his photo to appear in the newspaper.

Even though there was only one print reporter, the man found himself nervous during the interview, and the eloquent conversation he had imagined did not materialize.

Fortunately, the male homeowner's words were relatively coherent and logical: "—They have digitized cleaning standards. Initially, there were 30 standards, and now they've evolved to 36, and I've heard they're constantly raising the standards. These visualized and specific standards are why we've always purchased Anjia Housekeeping services. They also have inspectors; after each cleaning service, an inspector comes to check, and if there are any shortcomings, the inspector points them out directly, protecting our rights and preventing us from arguing with the cleaning staff. This is something we're very satisfied with."

Pan Siyu took notes while conducting the interview, and she was indeed very interested in these unique measures taken by Anjia.

However, when she inadvertently glanced at Shen Kang, who was cleaning next to her, she couldn't help but feel annoyed: she had told herself to be wary of this Mr. Shen, but she had unknowingly been led astray by him and ended up following him to do cleaning and interviewing users to listen to their evaluations of Anjia Housekeeping.

After interviewing the male head of the household with some more questions, Pan Siyu obtained all the information she wanted, and the interview with this client came to an end.

"Then, Ms. Pan, would you like to sit here for a while and go back with Mr. Shen later?" The male head of the household asked. He had met Mr. Shen when he came in earlier, and only today did he realize that the CEO of the An family was so young.

"Mm." Pan Siyu nodded.

The host brewed another pot of tea for Pan Siyu and brought over a plate of snacks. Pan Siyu expressed her gratitude to him, and he went to his study. After sitting down, he finally relaxed completely and reflected on his performance just now, wondering if he had said anything wrong.

In the living room, Pan Siyu picked up her teacup and took a sip, reminiscing not about the interview with the male head of the household, but about the interview with Shen Kang.

Upon careful recollection, Pan Siyu finally discovered Shen Kang's pattern—when faced with her questions, he would always answer first, then smoothly steer the conversation to another topic, one that always piqued her interest, such as Kang Zhengyang being her high school teacher or Meng Dawei earning seven thousand a month. Thus, she was unknowingly led astray.

The technique itself wasn't new; Pan Siyu knew it too. But just like some mathematical formulas, some people can use them with unparalleled skill, while others can only memorize them and can't apply them proficiently. The same principle applies here. Shen Kang was able to use this technique subtly and imperceptibly, which was something she couldn't do.

"You're pretty good."

Pan Siyu thought about it silently for a moment, then helplessly admitted defeat, and also found it a little funny: she, a journalism student, was actually less capable in this area than a freshman.

However, he wasn't discouraged. After all, this wasn't just any ordinary freshman.

As Pan Siyu thought this, she looked at Shen Kang, who was cleaning up beside her.

He is also the founder of Anjia Home Services, creating such a unique home service company that has achieved such rapid growth in a short period of time. The more you learn about him, the more convinced you become that Anjia's future is limitless and full of promise.

Ironically, the person who created all of this was a freshman in college.

Looking at Shen Kang, Pan Siyu suddenly realized that Shen Kang was actually quite handsome, and she, a handsome young man, had somehow managed to defeat him professionally.

Just then, Shen Kang seemed to have gotten tired of lying down, or perhaps he had finished working on that section of the floor. He stood up, raised his head slightly, and wiped the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve.

Sunlight streamed in through the window, and between the large expanse of sunlight and Pan Siyu, separated by Shen Kang, the sunlight outlined Shen Kang's entire figure in front of Pan Siyu in a golden silhouette, especially prominent and eye-catching at the throat.

Pan Siyu's gaze involuntarily fell upon that.

Then, she saw Shen Kang's Adam's apple move up and down.

For no apparent reason, Pan Siyu's cheeks suddenly flushed, her face felt hot, and she felt that the scene was so erotic that many random images flashed through her mind.

So she immediately turned her head away, not daring to look anymore, afraid that she would be bewitched by Shen Kang's good looks and think of more messy things.

After finally getting to the end of the cleaning, Shen Kang and Pan Siyu left.

He was prepared to deal with Pan Siyu's questions, which were aimed at him, but to his surprise, Pan Siyu walked all the way out of the community and was almost at his car, but she remained silent, which was very unusual.

"Reporter Pan, do you have any more questions?" Shen Kang couldn't help but ask.

Pan Siyu glanced at him and asked, "Should I?"

"————" Shen Kang was a little confused. After thinking for a moment, he said, "Actually, by now, you should have collected all the interview materials for this time."

Under his guidance, Pan Siyu interviewed people about both standardization and employee systems.

Upon hearing this, Pan Siyu smoothed her hair and smiled gently, "Okay, then I'll write it according to these materials. I'll do whatever you say—I mean, the materials are indeed complete."

"————" Shen Kang scratched his head.