Survival in the neighborhood: Give me a piece of bread every day

"Don't worry, Boss Chen. If I can't defeat today's monster, I will immediately put all the supplies, including your crossbow, in a safe place."

The middle-aged man nodded earnestly.

He didn't think Chen An's attitude was cold-blooded.

Because among all these residents, Chen Laoda was the only one willing to help him.

If this repeating crossbow were listed on a trading platform, it could easily fetch several gold coins.

But Old Chen was willing to extend credit to this useless resident who might die at any moment.

It's like being prepared to lose money.

This kind of boss, Chen, is really good and kind!

"Alright, let's go back."

Chen An waved his hand.

He was also somewhat emotionally affected.

"Honey, do you think his almost tearful expression was faked, or was he genuinely grateful to you?"

Jiang Lai watched the middle-aged man leave and asked thoughtfully.

Although she felt sorry for the man after hearing his story.

But if the man dies, then the debts can never be repaid.

That's absolutely terrifying!

It breaks my heart just thinking about it!

"Whether it's true or false doesn't matter."

Chen An lay on the soft bed and said calmly, "As long as other residents see that I am willing to help even such weak residents, I can establish my image as a benevolent person and promote the reputation of our team. At that time, more people will definitely want to join us."

"The more people there are, the more profits we can make."

"So it's okay to lose a little money occasionally. You need to have a long-term vision and not always have a petty bourgeois mentality, otherwise you won't go far."

"..."

Jiang Lai fell silent for a moment after being spoken to.

Indeed, her ideas are too bourgeois.

The term "petty bourgeoisie" here refers to those who are overly concerned with financial gains and losses, and who are too focused on immediate losses, while failing to see long-term returns.

Sometimes, people are even afraid to invest in projects with potentially high returns in order to avoid losing money.

Just like when she first bought bread with Chen An, Jiang Lai didn't dare to bet all her gold coins on bread and take a big gamble.

It always leaves itself a way out.

The advantage of this is that even if the shop refreshes and offers bread again the next day, she still has a guaranteed amount of gold coins.

Moreover, bread is food, so even if the price drops, it won't be completely unsellable.

Even if she loses everything, she can still eat it herself.

In short, the losses will definitely not be too severe.

This is an absolutely conservative strategy.

The downside is that her conservative nature makes it difficult for her to earn a lot of money.

For example, if she had used all her gold coins to buy wood or iron blocks, betting that the price would skyrocket the next day, she might have lost a lot of money, but if she had made a profit, the return would have been much higher than that of bread!

Jiang Lai wasn't unaware of the importance and value of the wood and iron; she was simply too conservative to take the gamble.

"Sigh, my dad said the same thing to me before. He said that my personality might be able to protect the family business, but it would definitely be difficult for the family business to move forward. I didn't really believe it before, but now I do..."

Jiang Lai sighed, remembering her father's words of advice.

She just hadn't taken it too seriously before.

After all, back then, living in a harmonious society, it was already quite good to be able to preserve one's family business and live a life of privilege.

But in today's world of eternal night.

If you don't compete and fight, you might fall behind the pace of the game.

Even if they survive, they will only be barely surviving and will never become superior to others.

In comparison, Chen An was also relatively cautious and conservative.

Moreover, without her, there would be no management skills, no business acumen.

But Chen An has a broader perspective and a longer-term vision.

His investment returns have been very high on several occasions.

The collaboration with Xu Bo was incredibly profitable, and we even gained blueprints in return...

Investing in Wang Ziyan not only recouped all the invested resources, but also brought her into the picture...

The investment team rushed to grab the airdrop gift pack and directly obtained rare resources and the Frost Overlord skill, making a huge profit.

The rate of return is frighteningly high.

Jiang Lai even saw her father's shadow in this man...

Her father was practically self-made.

"I'm not in the mood to play games with you right now. Let's check how many coins we've already spent on credit today."

Chen An patted Jiang Lai's thigh and said casually.

"Pah! Who wants to play games with you!"

Jiang Lai angrily bit Chen An's shoulder, leaving two rows of shallow teeth marks.

"Stop fooling around, let's get down to business."

Chen An patted her on the shoulder.

"Who's making a fuss? You're just overthinking it."

Jiang Lai pouted.

Then I felt really frustrated.

After fooling around for a while, Jiang Lai looked at the panel and calculated: "Including that man from earlier, a total of 289 people came today. Eleven of them bought three repeating crossbows on credit, and nine people bought two repeating crossbows on credit, for a total of 308 repeating crossbows on credit. At 4 gold coins per repeating crossbow, that's 1232 gold coins!"

Even Jiang Lai herself was quite surprised after calculating the costs.

In just over two hours, I've already earned more than 1,200 gold coins?!

If you put them on a trading platform, it wouldn't be easy to sell so many crossbows quickly.

After all, there aren't many people who can afford to produce a large amount of gold coins.

Moreover, the trading platform refreshes orders very quickly, and wealthy residents can easily miss her orders, requiring her to constantly list and refresh them.

More importantly, the trading platform only allows selling, not credit sales.

If you extend credit, you'll likely lose everything, and there'll be nowhere to collect the debt.

Even though those who sold the repeating crossbows on credit to the people in the building couldn't get paid immediately, their rooms were in the building, so they definitely couldn't run away.

This way, you can earn gold coins and strengthen your team at the same time, achieving two goals at once.

After all, the stronger the team, the easier it will be to go out and fight monsters, and the higher the resource acquisition rate will be.

Chen An had said that she wanted all the gold coins belonging to other residents of the community to be stored with her.

Therefore, the more money the residents earn, the more gold coins they can store with her.

Even if each person only saves one gold coin, they can still have tens of thousands of gold coins.

With so many gold coins, you could earn several thousand a day just from the interest alone!

Well, her compound interest will most likely upgrade today, and she might even get more interest?

Or perhaps there will be some other changes.

In short, Jiang Lai has begun to look forward to it with great anticipation.

While enjoying the beautiful legs, Chen An sent messages to Bai Lu and the other girls.

The monster invasion is about to begin in less than an hour.

It's time to come back.

Although they have only managed to bring back fewer than 300 people so far, their team has already made a name for itself.

Once the monster invasion is over, we should be able to take over this building!

A dozen minutes later.

The residents on the floor all returned one by one.

Bai Lu and Wang Ziyan, along with several other girls, were also among them.

However, Chen An, who was watching the surveillance footage, noticed that Wang Ziyan and the others were using crossbows to point at several unfamiliar faces, as if they were guarding prisoners.

"What's going on?"

Chen An frowned in confusion.