I met my whole family through Baidu Tieba.

Chapter 98 The Wolf of Little East Street

When talking about Sculpting Time, Guo Pinyan sighed: "Don't even mention it, it fell through. Manager Chen initially told me that they wanted to open a campus store and said that I had a great advantage, but after a couple of days they changed their minds and said that their superiors said that they would not be opening a campus store here, but would open one on the commercial street to cover several universities in Beilu District, so they would not consider my store as a franchise."

Clearly, missing out on this opportunity to join "China Starbucks" is quite a headache for Guo Pinyan.

Shen Kang didn't think much of it and patted him on the shoulder: "Then why don't you make your own coffee? Maybe you can turn it into a chain and be even bigger than them."

Guo Pinyan sighed again: "I don't even dare to think about franchising. I'll be satisfied if this store can be profitable."

After chatting with Guo Pinyan for a while, Shen Kang went to the laundry room next door to check the data.

The laundry room saw a surge in customers over Saturday and Sunday.

Yesterday, Saturday, Jiahe Laundry reached its maximum order limit of 750 for the first time. After reaching the limit, in accordance with Shen Kang's request, we stopped accepting orders and will only resume accepting orders today, Sunday.

Based on current data, business is better today, and it is very likely that the daily limit of 750 orders will be reached even earlier than yesterday.

While Shen Kang was looking at the data, Wu Chenhui went into the laundry room and went to the clothing pick-up area to get his clothes.

He was one of the first customers of Jiahe Laundry and has become accustomed to using it. This week marks his third visit to "Your Clothes".

After the sorting worker took Wu Chenhui's wristband and swiped it, he took out the corresponding laundry bag, took out the clothes, and gave them to him.

Wu Chenhui put the clothes into the basin he had brought and was about to leave as usual when the sorting worker handed him something else.

"Hello student, we are currently giving out trial vouchers randomly. Every customer who comes to do laundry has a chance to receive a trial voucher for the 302 study room. With this voucher, you can spend one hour in the 302 study room next door."

Experience voucher?

Wu Chenhui was a little confused. He took the voucher and looked at it. He found that it looked similar to the coupon of a hot pot restaurant in the commercial street. It was rectangular, but more exquisite. It had a raised texture and had patterns and text on it. There was also a 16-digit number and English code in the lower right corner.

Since the store was right next door, Wu Chenhui simply took the voucher and went there.

He asked the receptionist and looked at the students playing in the store, and roughly understood what kind of store it was.

"Do I need to make an appointment now? The earlier you make an appointment, the earlier you can be scheduled," Yang Yunhan asked from behind the front desk.

Just as Wu Chenhui was about to agree, he suddenly saw a notice posted at the store entrance that read "Channel for Obtaining Learning Qualifications for Study Room 302".

After looking at it once, he seemed to be deep in thought, and finally said, "No need, thank you." After saying that, he walked out, but instead of leaving, he walked to the other side of the street and began to observe the situation of the two shops.

Wu Chenhui was quite patient, observing for a full two hours before finally carrying the basin back to his dormitory.

After arriving at his dormitory and hanging up his clothes, he sat down at his desk, turned on his laptop, went to the Yangbei Forum, logged into his account named "Mubei," entered the "Secondhand" section of the Yangbei University of Science and Technology campus, and started posting.

Buying experience vouchers for the 302 study room issued by Jiahe Laundry at 1 yuan each.

After leaving his contact information in the post, he posted it and then took out the trial voucher, stroking it carefully with his hands.

This trial voucher clearly came at a cost; it was printed by a specialized factory using gravure printing and thermochromic ink technology—all anti-counterfeiting measures. The 16-digit code in the lower right corner is also obviously an anti-counterfeiting measure.

This ensures the authenticity of the vouchers, making them difficult to counterfeit and providing a basis for private transactions.

What remains is its value.

Based on Wu Chenhui's two-hour observation, the 302 study room was very popular. He saw many students who had tried it actively booked their next session after their time was up, which proved the value of the voucher.

In addition, according to his observation, the vouchers for Jiahe Laundry are distributed in a controlled manner, and not every customer who goes to pick up clothes receives them, which gives them a certain degree of scarcity.

Taking everything into consideration, Wu Chenhui ultimately decided to acquire the experience vouchers and then resell them at a higher price.

"I don't know if I can make a little money—let's give it a try first."

With that in mind, Wu Chenhui decided to collect 20 tickets first and see if he could sell them.

Just as I was thinking this, my phone rang.

It was an unfamiliar number.

Wu Chenhui answered the phone, and a strange male voice came from the other end: "Are you Mu Bei?"

"it's me."

"You're accepting trial vouchers for the 302 study room, one yuan each?"

"Yes, how many do you have?"

Just one.

"I'll take it. Are you free now?"

In the following period, Wu Chenhui received a call from time to time, all of them selling trial vouchers.

He collected them one by one, and after collecting five, he returned to his dormitory and posted a new thread on the second-hand section of the Yangbei Forum.

Selling vouchers for the 302 Study Room, 2 yuan each.

They also left their contact information.

"I don't even know if they'll sell."

Wu Chenhui was a little uneasy, so he didn't dare to set the price too high, only 2 yuan per piece, just to test the waters. If they really couldn't sell, he would lower it to 1.5 yuan and try again.

As a result, not long after the post was published, my phone rang again. It was a girl calling, but not to sell trial vouchers; she wanted to buy them.

Wu Chenhui's anxious heart finally relaxed a little, and he went to complete the transaction with her. However, before they even met, he received another call, also asking to buy a trial voucher.

So, he kept buying and selling, and by 7 p.m., Wu Chenhui had collected 26 experience vouchers, all for 1 yuan each.

All 26 trial vouchers were sold, but only the first 5 were sold for 2 yuan each.

Seeing that the buying speed couldn't keep up with the selling speed, Wu Chenhui deleted the post that was selling vouchers for 2 yuan each and reposted a post that was selling trial vouchers for 3 yuan each.

After the new post was published, the frequency of phone calls to buy experience vouchers decreased, but they were still selling well. The last 21 vouchers were all sold for 3 yuan each.

After all that, Wu Chenhui earned 47 yuan.

"That really works!"

Wu Chenhui returned to his dormitory, very excited.

47 yuan isn't much, but the profit margin from reselling, earning that much money in such a short time, still gave the student a huge sense of accomplishment and satisfaction.

But this is not the end of the story; it has only just begun. Wu Chenhui seemed to be deep in thought.

After thinking for a while, he simply deleted the post about selling trial vouchers for 3 yuan each, but did not post again for the time being. Instead, he went to the dormitory next door and asked a guy who had two phones to borrow his rarely used phone for a few days.

Afterwards, back in his dormitory, he re-registered an account on the Yangbei Forum, named it "Professor Cockroach," and posted a thread in the Yangbei University of Science and Technology's second-hand section, selling trial vouchers for 4 yuan each.

The phone number left behind was no longer his; it belonged to the phone number of the phone he had borrowed.

Wu Chenhui felt that using the same account and phone number to collect and sell trial vouchers would easily expose the trickery and reveal the business opportunity, so he simply used two accounts and two phone numbers.

Although doing this will eventually lead to people noticing the business opportunity, it's still better than using the same account for both buying and selling, as it will at least delay the discovery.

As for the price of 4 yuan per voucher, it is also a test of the upper limit of the experience voucher price.

He was still buying the experience vouchers for 1 yuan each.

At 4 yuan apiece, it's obviously much harder to sell.

Despite the purchase price of 1 yuan per voucher, Wu Chenhui continued to receive vouchers. By 10 p.m., he had 39 vouchers in his possession.

Although he had stockpiled 39 trial vouchers, tying up funds and incurring inventory risks, Wu Chenhui, having tasted the benefits, had a grasp of the price of these items, so he wasn't worried at all.

In addition to constantly running around collecting trial vouchers, whenever he had free time, he would go to the Yangbei Forum to reply to his two posts, trying to push them up to the top so they wouldn't get buried.

At the same time, in Shen Kang's dormitory, Shen Kang had just finished his family game time for the evening and was about to check his email when his phone rang. A call came in.

When I picked it up, I saw that it was a call from Yang Yunhan.

As soon as the call connected, Yang Yunhan's voice came from the other end, sounding somewhat urgent: "Boss, are you in the dorm?"

My roommate said that when she was about to post an ad in the Yangbei Forum's Yangko University of Science and Technology (YUST) secondhand section to sell her used items, she saw someone there buying trial vouchers for our 302 study room! And there was another person selling our trial vouchers in that same section!

The roommate Yang Yunhan mentioned is Sun Min.

When Sun Min returned to her dormitory tonight, she discovered what had happened and immediately called Yang Yunhan to tell her.

Yang Yunhan instinctively felt that this was a bad thing: this thing reminded her of scalpers. All the official channels were cracking down on scalpers, which meant that scalpers were infringing on the interests of the authorities; therefore, this matter was also harmful to Study Room 302.

That's why she was in a hurry and quickly called Shen Kang to inform him about it.

"I understand, don't worry."

Shen Kang reassured him, then casually opened the Yangbei Forum, clicked on the second-hand section of the Yangke University campus, and browsed through it. Sure enough, he found the two posts about buying and selling.

"Interesting, they've even set up a secondary market. Mu Bei—the Wolf of Xiaodong Street, right?"

Shen Kang looked through the two posts and laughed.

"Boss, should we contact the school?" Yang Yunhan's mind raced on the other end of the phone, offering suggestions. "Do you know any school leaders?"

"Why contact the school? This is a good thing!"