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Chapter 167 Stirring up the whole scene, all for the sake of making an appearance.

When I entered the classroom for this afternoon's class, many of the students from E-commerce Class 2 were already there. They were chatting animatedly in small groups about their holiday experiences.

Seeing Shen Kang lead in a new, unfamiliar girl, many people turned their attention to him, curious, and began to whisper among themselves.

After all, Shen Kang had never brought a girl to class before. To be precise, Shen Kang himself had only attended a few classes.

Shen Kang ignored her and led Xiao Qingxuan directly to the left-hand window at the back of the classroom.

Wang Pan, Feng Mo, and the others were already here, leaving an empty seat for him.

After discussing it, Feng Moquan sat in an empty seat in the front row, leaving an extra seat for Shen Kang to sit in. Shen Kang then sat down next to Xiao Qingxuan, with Wang Pan to his right and Jin Chao next to him.

Wang Pan pulled Shen Kang's head close, whispered in his ear, "Old Shen, you're a real scoundrel! You ruined another one over the National Day holiday! And you even brought him to class! I despise you!"

He said "I despise you" but Wang Pan's eyes were full of envy and jealousy, wishing he could take his place—Old Shen, that bastard, where did he get so many pretty girls!

Feng Moquan in the front row and Jin Chao on the right also leaned in, making a four-headed huddle together.

Feng Moquan and Jin Chao also expressed their contempt for Shen Kang.

"This is my cousin."

Shen Kang explained for a moment, then added, "She's my real cousin."

When Wang Pan heard "cousin," he was a little doubtful, wondering if it was a "sister" like He Qiuzhu. But when he heard Shen Kang say "real cousin," he immediately had no more doubts.

"Old Shen,"

Wang Pan's eyes instantly cleared, and he grabbed Shen Kang's hand, his expression sincere, "From now on, you're my brother-in-law!"

Jin Chao went even further, calling out "Brother" with genuine emotion, which made Shen Kang laugh. "Old Jin, it seems you really are a closet pervert."

Then he looked at Feng Moquan and said, "Old Feng is still the most determined. He holds on to Zhong Lin and won't let go."

Feng Mo remained silent.

Before National Day, he would have casually made a couple of remarks to show off, but he wasn't in the mood now because Zhong Lin hadn't accepted his MP4 gift, saying it was too expensive and she couldn't accept it.

Adding to the things Shen Kang said to him before the holiday, Feng Moquan couldn't help but wonder if Shen Kang had really been right.

However, there are still 20 days left before the "40 days" Shen Kang mentioned, so Feng Moquan still holds onto hope.

After chatting idly with his three roommates for a bit, Shen Kang introduced Xiao Qingxuan to them all. Wang Pan thought about it and then felt something was off. "Old Shen, if you're cousins, shouldn't you share the same surname?"

Shen Kang countered, "Your aunt's child shares your surname?"

Wang Pan suddenly realized, "Oh, that's true. I only have one uncle, I really didn't think of that."

Shen Kang decided to ignore him for the time being and asked Jin Chao, "Old Jin, are you still planning to sell the trial vouchers yourself?"

On Ma Liang's side, the Beiming Forum is ready. Shen Kang has also tested it and it's ready to go online at any time. According to his plan, it should be done in the next day or two.

The Beiming Forum is about to launch, and according to Shen Kang's plan, he wants to distribute as many trial vouchers as possible before the forum goes live.

As a result, Feng Moquan couldn't handle the job alone and needed to hire another person to do it.

After hearing Shen Kang's words, Jin Chao thought for a moment.

Before the National Day holiday, after Shen Kang said he wanted to control the price of five yuan per voucher, he thought a lot and paid special attention to the availability of trial vouchers on Xianyu.com during those two days.

During the National Day holiday, Jin Chao would occasionally check the situation of the experience vouchers on Xianyu.com and found that the price of the experience vouchers had not gone up and had remained at around five yuan.

This is partly due to the National Day holiday and the fact that most students went home, but more importantly, it's due to the control exerted by Shen Kang, the big boss.

With Shen Kang's measure of providing an unlimited supply of experience vouchers at five yuan each, the price of experience vouchers will probably never go up again.

Therefore, the business of offering experience vouchers will no longer be viable.

After thinking it through, Jin Chao said, "I'm not doing it anymore. What, Lao Shen, are you going to hire me to sell coupons for you again?"

This morning, Jin Chao witnessed firsthand how busy Feng Moquan was.

Perhaps due to the "market closure" during the National Day holiday, the students' enthusiasm for the experience vouchers exploded the moment they returned to school. Feng Moquan worked almost non-stop all morning, constantly going out to trade experience vouchers, keeping himself extremely busy. However, many experience voucher transactions were still not completed and had to be postponed.

Therefore, it wasn't hard for Jin Chao to guess why Shen Kang suddenly asked him what this was about.

"Hmm, still 100 a day, are you in or not?" Shen Kang asked.

Jin Chao thought for a moment and nodded in agreement: "Okay."

Anyway, he can't do business with his own experience vouchers, so it's good to get some more salary from Shen Kang.

"Okay, let's start after class. Consider it half a day's work, fifty yuan."

After chatting for a while, the teacher arrived, and class began.

The teacher didn't react much to the addition of a strange younger girl to the class—he usually didn't react much when there were fewer students in the classroom. That's the good thing about university.

Shen Kang wanted to set a good example for Xiao Qingxuan in studying, but after listening attentively for a while, he couldn't take it anymore. It was too hypnotic, so he had to pinch himself a few times to finally wake up. He pretended to listen to the two classes and then quickly left with Xiao Qingxuan.

As she walked downstairs and onto the sidewalk, Xiao Qingxuan still felt a little regretful: "I thought that when I got to your class, you would be the center of attention, all the stars around you."

She had already witnessed so many of Shen Kang's "happy deeds" before, and she had high expectations for this classroom visit. However, she didn't expect it to be so uneventful; it was just a simple class.

"We're all university students here to attend classes. What do you take us for?" Shen Kang rolled his eyes at her and said, "It's getting late, and you've had your fill of the experience. You can leave now. If you don't leave soon, you might have to stay here for the night."

"Alright then."

Xiao Qingxuan agreed.

Although the last classroom visit was somewhat lackluster, the preceding "Shen Ge's Happy Day" segment still excited her and made her feel very involved. She was quite satisfied with today's university campus trip.

Shen Kang then called Xiao Bonian, told him what was going on, and then drove Xiao Qingxuan to Yangcheng North Station to catch the train.

Given that Beilu District is too far from the High-tech Zone, he brought Xiao Qingxuan's luggage with him today. After they finished shopping, he would take Xiao Qingxuan directly to the North Station to catch the train back, without having to take her back to the High-tech Zone first.

After buying the train tickets, Shen Kang waited with Xiao Qingxuan at the train station until evening. As the train was about to depart, Shen Kang prepared to return to Yang University of Science and Technology.

Before he left, Xiao Qingxuan suddenly remembered a question and quickly asked, "Am I going to take the entrance exam for a university in Yangcheng?"

"Whatever you want." Shen Kang didn't seem to care too much. To give Xiao Qingxuan some more confidence, he simply said, "Just tell me where you want to go to school. Wherever you go, Anjia will open a branch there."

"Wherever you go, Anjia will open a shop there—that's awesome!" Seeing Shen Kang's confident demeanor, Xiao Qingxuan felt even more confident about Anjia's future and her own. She also made up her mind to try her best to get into a good university—she didn't like those pretty-boy types; she preferred men who were both talented and capable, so she wanted to get into a good university and enjoy "my happy life" there.

Meanwhile, at Yangko University of Science and Technology, in a male dormitory, Kong Lin sat in front of his computer, looking at the product information on Xianyu.com. He put down his phone and said excitedly, "Old Wu, prices are really going up! Someone even bought my item that was listed at 5.4 yuan!"

The four of them in the dorm were all sitting at their respective desks, each with a laptop in front of them, browsing product information on Xianyu. After Kong Lin, the other two guys in the dorm also joined in.

Wu Chenhui breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing Kong Lin's words.

What Kong Lin was referring to was a market assessment made by Wu Chenhui before the National Day holiday:

Wu Chenhui predicts that with the approach of the National Day holiday, students will be worried about the uncertainty of the market situation after the holiday, and there will be a wave of selling off experience vouchers before the holiday. There will be no trading for seven days. Who knows what changes will happen? Who knows if the price of experience vouchers will drop after the National Day holiday? The safest way is to take advantage of the high point before the National Day holiday and sell a large number of experience vouchers.

But Wu Chenhui firmly believes that the price of the vouchers can reach six yuan, and the National Day holiday will not have any impact on it. He believes that whatever he buys now during this sell-off period will be his profit later.

Moreover, if they focus all their efforts on acquiring coupons, they can prop up the price floor. When the National Day holiday ends and students see that the coupon prices haven't dropped, their panic will dissipate, and their confidence will soar. At that point, we'll see the first surge in prices after the holiday!

Kong Lin and the others felt that Wu Chenhui was the first to do this and had the most experience, so his judgment must be correct. Therefore, they followed Wu Chenhui and kept buying up the trial vouchers being sold on the market in the two days before the National Day holiday.

The price of the experience vouchers fluctuated over those two days, generally hovering between 4.8 and 5.2 yuan.

And now, after the holiday, the price of the experience vouchers has indeed increased!

"How much are we selling now? Should we sell more or less?" Kong Lin asked Wu Chenhui again.

The other two people in the dormitory were also staring at Wu Chenhui.

"This is just the beginning! It hasn't peaked yet! It'll be at least 5.8 yuan!" This accurate assessment of the National Day market boosted Wu Chenhui's confidence, leading him to confidently state this.

After this battle, the guys in the dormitory trusted Wu Chenhui even more. Seeing Wu Chenhui say this, they all decided to ship out more goods for five yuan and eighty cents.

As for the four trial vouchers that Kong Lin just sold, they still need to be traded. This is also a way for them to test the current market price.

What they didn't know was that the price increase of the experience vouchers actually had little to do with them; it was purely due to a shortage of manpower on Shen Kang's side.

After such a long period of dissemination, and after the National Day holiday, more and more students are participating in the speculation of experience vouchers. After the National Day holiday, many of these students brought new funds from home, and seeing that the price of experience vouchers did not fall during the holiday but instead stabilized, with fewer and fewer vouchers priced below five yuan, many people's confidence increased, so they made a large-scale purchase today.

Wang Yulan, Liu Jing, Gu Ziqiang—whether they knew Shen Kang or not, they were all eager to join this feast of experience vouchers.

The price will reach its peak at 6.5 yuan. This is the last chance; if you don't get on board now, you'll miss your chance!

This is a consensus among everyone.

A nationwide craze for securities trading has already taken hold.

So one phone call after another was made from these people, trying to find as many cheap trial vouchers as possible on the internet.

Many of these calls went directly to Feng Moquan's cell phone. In fact, several calls came in at the same time.

Feng Moquan is a single person, and he can't be in two places at once, so he naturally can't meet the needs of so many people at the same time and can only postpone many orders.

This delay made some students wonder: what does this mean? Is it a genuine delay, or is it that they simply can't deliver the goods? Is the so-called five yuan per sheet just a lie?

Thinking about it this way, the students became even more excited: if someone is resorting to such underhanded tactics to try and keep the price of the experience voucher at five yuan, doesn't that mean the voucher is worth far more than five yuan? Hurry up and grab it, even the five-yuan-one voucher!

So they contacted other people who offered higher prices, and as long as the price wasn't too outrageous and there was a profit margin, they would grab as much as they could!

This explains why, even though Shen Kang has already provided an unlimited supply of experience vouchers at five yuan each, the price of experience vouchers on Xianyu Online is still slowly rising.

The rising prices of online trial vouchers have further boosted confidence in them, leading to even greater competition.

Five yuan one, I want it; five yuan two, I want it too!

It was under these circumstances that Jin Chao joined the company.

Feng Moquan updated the product information and added Jin Chao's phone number, and the two of them started selling trial vouchers together.

In order to sell as many trial vouchers as possible as Shen Kang instructed, they also adopted some methods, such as arranging for several sellers to meet together and conduct transactions for several people at once, in order to save time and serve more buyers.

After Shen Kang brought Xiao Qingxuan back, he listened to their explanation of the current situation and joined in to help.

It was under these circumstances that experience vouchers flowed rapidly from Shen Kang's box into the hands of one student after another at Yangke University.

The next day, Shen Kang told Feng Moquan and Jin Chao to continue to let the water flow freely, while he went to find Ma Liang and took him out to set up the Beiming Forum with the IDC service provider, officially launching it.

After returning, they continued distributing trial vouchers, with ample supply. If you want to enter the trial voucher market and make a profit, and want stock, they'll definitely supply you enough—five yuan a voucher, as many as you want!

Previously, a major factor that limited the spread of the trial vouchers was Shen Kang's control over the number of vouchers. He only issued a limited number of vouchers every night, and the issuance was targeted. Most of them were collected by the 302 Study Room.

Now, Shen Kang is sending out messages at any time, all day long. There's also no limit to the quantity; he can send as many as you want. It's a massive, unrestrained outpouring of information.

This massive release of vouchers caused the distribution speed of the vouchers to increase exponentially, spreading rapidly among the students of Yangko University of Science and Technology.

Students at Yangon Tech University have noticed a growing buzz around them these past few days: more and more people are discussing the trial vouchers. They've heard countless examples: so-and-so got in early and has already earned over a thousand yuan from the vouchers! So-and-so, although they got in later, earned even more because of their larger initial investment and higher volume—over two thousand yuan already!

Hoarding experience vouchers is practically like picking up money.

According to widely accepted predictions, the price of the experience voucher would be capped at 6.5 yuan. Currently, the price has generally reached 5.3 yuan, leaving limited opportunities for everyone to get on board!

If you're going to make a move, seize the last opportunity and go all in to achieve financial freedom in just a few semesters!

Just as the middle-aged women at the market started discussing stock trading, as if entering the stock market would instantly grant them financial freedom, these college students, bombarded with such messages, were gradually influenced, and new college students joined the battle for experience vouchers.

The flood of experience vouchers is gradually seeping into more and more corners of Yangko University of Science and Technology. More and more college students are starting to hoard experience vouchers.

In this atmosphere of widespread speculation, prices can easily go up. However, because of the unlimited supply in Shenkang, the price of the experience vouchers seems to be stuck at a certain level. After two days, it's still around 5.3 or 5.4 yuan.

In a boys' dormitory, Kong Lin sat at his desk, looking at the computer screen with some worry: "Old Wu, it's been three days since the National Day holiday started, and the price of the trial vouchers is still around 5.3 yuan. It just won't go up. Should we... sell them now?"

Wu Chenhui sat behind him, his back to him, not turning his head, and firmly shook his head: "What are you afraid of? This is just the market adjusting. It's only 5.3 yuan, there's still a lot of room for it to go up!"

Wu Chenhui bought some of the goods at around five yuan, and he was really unwilling to release them now.

Besides, he has experienced technical adjustments such as sharp price drops before, so how could this temporary sideways movement scare him?

Just keep adding to your position!

Wu Chenhui brought some money with him when he went back for the National Day holiday. Now, he's like a gambler who's lost his mind, determined to invest all of it.

Going all in is a form of wisdom.

Behind Wu Chenhui, Kong Lin heard Wu Chenhui's words and hesitated for a while before sighing inwardly: he still didn't have Wu Chenhui's courage.

So Kong Lin started selling trial vouchers on Xianyu.com for 5.3 yuan, and even told Wu Chenhui, "Old Wu, I'm not as bold as you, I'll sell them first."

Wu Chenhui didn't say anything. Kong Lin's words didn't dampen his confidence either. He only had one thought in his mind: it would definitely rise to over six yuan! To be on the safe side, he'd sell it at five yuan eighty!

Kong Lin, on the other hand, was selling trial vouchers for 5.3 yuan. After listing them for a while and selling some, he gradually realized that even at 5.3 yuan, they weren't selling very well.

This gave Kong Lin a bad feeling, so he immediately put the price up again at 5.2 yuan and sold some. Then, gradually, it seemed that even selling at 5.2 yuan wasn't going to work.

The price of the experience vouchers has collapsed, and everyone is scrambling to escape! This terrifying thought flashed through Kong Lin's mind, and his face turned pale.

It was at this time that a new notice was posted on the door of study room 302, officially announcing the study price for study room 302—five yuan per hour.

Of course, Kong Lin was sitting in his dormitory and couldn't see it.

After the terrifying thought that "the price of the trial voucher has collapsed," he hurriedly refreshed the Xianyu.com webpage to check the current market price, only to find that Xianyu.com was lagging and the new page could not be refreshed.

This startled Kong Lin even more, and he broke out in a cold sweat. He quickly refreshed the page several times before finally getting the Xianyu.com page to load.

Kong Lin paused for a moment after seeing the idle webpage in front of him.

Compared to the previous homepage of Xianyu.com, the current page of Xianyu.com is slightly different: there is a new link to the right of the search box at the top - Beiming Forum.

Right below the search box, a new announcement appeared: "Yangtze University of Science and Technology Room 302 officially announces its price: five dollars per hour."

The 302 Study Room officially announced its price: five yuan per hour? Kong Lin was completely stunned when he saw this message.

If this information is true, then wouldn't I have lost money on those experience vouchers that I bought for more than five yuan?

Kong Lin was relatively lucky; at least he didn't arrive too late, and he received many experience vouchers for less than five yuan.

Many of the students who entered these past two days are the ones who are truly unfortunate. Quite a few of them received the experience vouchers for prices higher than five yuan, such as five yuan two or five yuan three.

Many of these people were also glued to their computers, watching the prices of online trial vouchers, and naturally saw this announcement as soon as it was released.

This instantly turned many students' faces pale. Some who had received more money even caught their breath and felt a little dizzy. Were they about to lose everything?!

However, they soon noticed another part of the announcement:

All 302 Study Room trial vouchers can be logged into the Beiming Forum and converted into Beiming Forum points. Each trial voucher can be redeemed for points worth 5.5 yuan, which can be used normally in the 302 Study Room.

Those students who entered the venue in the past two days paid more than five yuan for a lot of experience vouchers. They had already lost a lot of money and were about to wail and curse.

Upon seeing this announcement, their eyes lit up, and they immediately clicked on the prominent new link in the upper right corner to enter the Beiming Forum.

Then, ignoring everything else, they focused solely on finding a registration system, quickly registering an account, logging in, and searching for the points redemption system.

The points system was very prominent, and they found it quickly. Following the instructions, they took out a trial voucher, entered the anti-counterfeiting code on it, and found that it had indeed been converted into points!

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