I met my whole family through Baidu Tieba.

In Zhang Laosi Restaurant, besides Shen Kang and Yin Mingyang, there were two other tables of customers, all of whom were local residents. They all looked towards the entrance.

The main problem is that a young girl like this, appearing in such a humble, unassuming restaurant, is too out of place and too conspicuous. If she were in a five-star hotel restaurant, she wouldn't attract so much attention.

Yin Mingyang felt a chill run down his spine.

He recognized her at a glance; she was the same girl he had seen at the entrance of the Sheraton Hotel that night.

Yin Mingyang was even more shocked when he saw that the girl was carrying a large boxed cake.

No way...

The girl walked straight over to them, sat down next to Shen Kang, and placed the cake on the table.

"Let me introduce you. This is my good buddy, Yin Mingyang. This is He Qiuzhu, my..."

Shen Kang hesitated for a moment before giving a qualifier: "Friend".

As agreed, the relationship between family members cannot be disclosed to outsiders, so let's just be friends.

"Hello, Yin Mingyang," He Qiuzhu greeted Yin Mingyang.

Yin Mingyang was completely numb, his expression blank. He mechanically replied with a "Hello," then pulled Shen Kang over and whispered, "Wait, how did you two meet?!"

"We met on Tieba." Shen Kang answered vaguely, but he wasn't lying. "By the way, what did you say last time? That I'd eat as much as I pooped, right? I'll eat more vegetables so you can have your fill later."

"No, I was just joking that day, bro..." Yin Mingyang said with a mournful face.

He never expected that Shen Kang would actually know that girl!

To be honest, he's still in shock...

Shen Kang ignored him and sat back down. He Qiuzhu, who was next to him, took out a box from her small bag, opened it, and inside was a Van Cleef & Arpels butterfly bracelet.

"Shen Kang, this is a gift for you."

Shen Kang thought to himself, "She's quite clever; she mentioned a gift without using the word 'birthday.'" However, he still refused, saying, "No, that's too girly."

He Qiuzhu didn't say anything, she just looked at him pitifully, her eyes watery, like a poor little kitten.

"...Alright, alright."

He Qiuzhu immediately perked up, "I'll put it on you!"

Shen Kang then stretched out his left hand, letting her do as she pleased, and clumsily put the bracelet on himself. His fingers touched his wrist many times, and it was still cool in the middle of summer.

Yin Mingyang watched from the side, feeling numb again: It's one thing to know each other, and giving a birthday gift is normal, but why did she go and touch him...?

However, what Yin Mingyang feared most was whether Shen Kang would really make him fulfill his promise and eat shit.

This made him eat his meal with extreme trepidation.

Fortunately, Shen Kang seemed to have forgotten about it and didn't mention it again, which relieved Yin Mingyang.

Yin Mingyang had originally planned to take Shen Kang to an internet cafe after dinner, but he abandoned that idea and urged Shen Kang to take He Qiuzhu home. Only after the two got into a taxi and drove away did Yin Mingyang finally feel relieved.

"That scared me to death..."

He planned to stop contacting Shen Kang for the next two days to avoid reminding Shen Kang of the incident where he was made to eat shit, and to let everyone calm down for a couple of days.

……

Over the next two days, Shen Kang did not rush to open the store, but instead spent another day conducting market research to obtain more detailed information.

After that, I stayed home to do analysis and write proposals.

The domestic service industry mainly consists of three categories of services:

The first category is the three types of nannies: maternity nurses, childcare nannies, and housekeepers.

The second category is cleaning services, which are hourly workers who clean the home environment.

The third category is professional repair and maintenance, including appliance repair, pipe dredging, floor waxing, and so on.

During his market research over the past few days, Shen Kang discovered that current domestic service agencies mainly focus on third-party services, and rarely offer cleaning services.

It can be said that there is currently a large gap in the market for cleaning services.

The reasons for this are quite complex, involving both the client and the housekeeping company.

From the customer's perspective, it's not cost-effective: a brokerage fee is charged for each cleaning service order, which is only 80 yuan per order, plus an additional 50 yuan for the brokerage fee. Moreover, those who need this kind of cleaning service often need it once a week or every two weeks, and having to pay this brokerage fee every time feels like a rip-off to consumers.

On the other hand, housekeeping companies complain that the pay is too low and the process too troublesome: some clients place these cleaning orders, then contact the housekeeper privately, bypassing the agency to do private work. The result is that a housekeeping company might refer someone to a long-term private job, only to receive a few dozen yuan, which is less than what they would earn from a regular housekeeper's job, which would pay several hundred yuan per job.

Cleaning services are the most frequently offered services in the domestic service market!

Cleaning is a high-frequency, low-profit service, while third-party services and professional repairs are low-frequency, high-profit services.

If you control the cleaning service sector, you will have access to a large customer base, which will allow you to control the market share of the other two types of businesses that are low-frequency and high-priced. This is the business logic of "high-frequency companies beating low-frequency companies" in the Internet+ era.

In later generations, companies like Mei Tuan, which entered the housekeeping industry later, also launched projects like "79 Special Price Cleaning" in an attempt to break into the cleaning industry.

Cleaning services were also the breakthrough point for Shen Kang to enter the market.

Of course, the current pure intermediary workshop model is definitely not enough to control the high-frequency field of cleaning services; it's difficult for an intermediary system to handle cleaning projects. Cleaning services need an employee-based system, or a system similar to an employee-based system.

The following changes are needed:

For cleaning ladies, the system is no longer purely intermediary-based. Instead, contracts are signed, and a guaranteed minimum wage is provided. If the number of cleaning jobs completed each month is sufficient, payment is made according to the number of jobs completed. If the number of jobs is insufficient, the company provides a basic minimum wage, giving employees a basic guarantee.

In this way, as long as the number of orders keeps up, the cost won't actually increase. There might be some losses in the early stages when there are fewer customers, but that's acceptable. This effectively binds the cleaning staff to the company, greatly reducing the chances of them skipping orders.

Specific cleaning services should not be vague or vary from person to person. Instead, a set of visualized and standardized indicators should be established, such as no oil stains on the stove and no watermarks on the sink. We should first try to develop 30 standards so that customers can clearly see where their money is being spent...

After writing for a while, Shen Kang raised his head, stretched lazily, and saw He Qiuzhu sitting by the bar in front of him.

She sat on a high stool, wearing a black and white checkered skirt that went past her knees. In front of her was a book and a bowl of fruit smoothie. She was reading the book while enjoying the smoothie, her two calves peeking out from under her skirt swinging back and forth. She seemed to be in a good mood.

The study window was open, and a gust of wind blew in, ruffling her hair and tousling her face.

She casually flicked the spoon away, but the fumes ended up on her face, which annoyed her. She put down the spoon, looked up, and angrily grabbed her hair with both hands, seemingly wanting to braid it.

As she moved, she saw Shen Kang looking at her, and her eyes lit up. "Shen Kang, you've finished your fruit."

"I saw it." Shen Kang had seen her scooping out pure shaved ice.

"Keep eating!"

"Then why didn't you call me just now?"

"You were doing something just now."

Shen Kang also wanted to clear his head, so he got up and made her another bowl—the previous bowl was also made by him.

Just as he was about to return to his desk and sit down, He Qiuzhu scooped out a spoonful of watermelon and placed it in front of him.

He frowned: "I don't like eating fruit."

He Qiuzhu stubbornly kept her hand outstretched.

Shen Kang was too lazy to play tug-of-war with her, so he just bit it off and went back to his desk.

He Qiuzhu, satisfied, continued scooping up the fruit smoothie and casually asked, "Shen Kang, the scores were released yesterday. What was your score? Where are you planning to go?"

Shen Kang was taken aback upon hearing this. He was busy with his startup project and already knew his score, so he had forgotten about it.

So he pretended to make a phone call, checked his score, and then said, "520 points, not quite enough for a first-tier university, but more than enough for a second-tier university. With this score, I should go to Yangcheng University of Science and Technology."

"oh."

He Qiuzhu scooped up a spoonful of banana, ate it silently, her eyes blinking, and her two fair and tender legs swaying back and forth.

The scores were released yesterday, so I need to go to the university to fill out my college application tomorrow.

School...

Shen Kang glanced down at the paper, which had the word "team building" written on it and a big circle drawn around it.

For any project, the startup team is very important.

Some projects are good in themselves, but they get ruined because of a bad team. Especially since I'm about to go to university, I definitely can't stay in charge forever, so I need a reliable team even more.

In this regard, Shen Kang already had someone in mind, a superior and friend of his later years.

He was a very capable person who had worked in many fields, including warehousing, human resources, and supply chain management. He eventually rose to become the general manager of a large chain supermarket in Qianlin Province, and he was also a reliable person.

At that time, that person was still a teacher.

However, unlike Mr. Ma, who said that he was happiest when he was a teacher and only earned 91 yuan a month, Shen Kang's friend had a different story about his time as a teacher.

"I respect teachers who are dedicated to education; they are the pillars of the nation. But for an ordinary person like me without lofty ideals, the time I spent as a teacher—when I couldn't afford a house, couldn't see a future, and was constantly arguing about divorce—was the most painful period of my life."

This friend is capable, reliable, and currently at a very low level, making him a very suitable business partner.

Shen Kang plans to meet this friend from the future tomorrow.