When She Stops Being Dramatic

Chapter 456: Chapter 161: The Green Tea Female Supporting Character in a Period Novel (48)

Chi Yun’er once again organized everyone for a group purchase of furniture, appliances, and textiles. After tallying the orders, she went directly to southern manufacturers to place them, ensuring low prices and guaranteed quality.

Basically, any family that was reasonably well-off participated.

Soon, batches of furniture, appliances, and textiles were delivered to the new houses. After a three-month airing-out period, everyone picked a few auspicious days and took turns helping their close neighbors and colleagues move.

The residential area was bustling for a full half-month, making the employees and families from surrounding work units burn with envy. They all started urging their own units to follow the General Hospital’s example and open shops around their workplaces.

Just look at the foot traffic on Sisheng Street. Who wouldn’t be greedy for a piece of that?

But had no one tried to imitate them?

No. The people of Xiahua might not be outstanding in other areas, but their speed at jumping on bandwagons and creating high-quality knockoffs was unparalleled in the world.

And what happened? Ring after ring of shops opened up, all modeling themselves after Sisheng Street. From the types of businesses to the service models, they managed a one-to-one match.

The result?

Not a single work unit could replicate the success of Sisheng Street!

At this point, the General Hospital employees were utterly convinced of Chi Yun’er’s capabilities, especially the rusticated youth who had been hired later.

Logically, they were incredibly grateful to Chi Yun’er, but as time went on, other voices sometimes surfaced in their hearts.

’If it were them, could they do just as well as Chi Yun’er?’

The answer was a definite yes. They were no worse than Chi Yun’er—such was the blind confidence everyone had in themselves.

But seeing one failure after another, they all fell silent.

Being the sole dominant player easily attracts jealousy and resentment, and a large institution like the General Hospital had to be mindful of that.

Those other work units and factories sent letters directly to the higher-ups, who then approached the General Hospital, telling them to help out their ”brother units” in developing side businesses to benefit their many employees and families.

Having no other choice, the old dean called Chi Yun’er in again and told her about the situation.

The market was only so big, and everyone wanted a piece of the pie.

But Chi Yun’er just smiled and said, ”Old Dean, are you prepared to bargain with them?”

”It makes no sense for us to provide the ideas and do all the work just to let them reap all the benefits, does it?”

The old dean nodded. ”You’re right. If we don’t fleece them for all they’re worth, they’ll think our General Hospital is made of clay, for them to mold however they please!”

How could they expect to reap all the rewards just by providing a location? There’s no such thing as a free lunch.

Chi Yun’er’s head was brimming with good ideas.

The winds of change were already beginning to blow gently. Soon, earth-shattering transformations would improve people’s quality of life, and the necessary facilities had to be established in advance!

To prevent overlapping side businesses from creating competition, she tailor-made a suitable venture for each work unit.

Chi Yun’er started with the units near the General Hospital. Hotels, travel agencies, game rooms, experience centers, hobby classes, and so on—she took every seemingly ordinary project, unearthed its most brilliant aspects, amplified them, and then leveraged the power of advertising.

One project after another was launched, each one managed by Chi Yun’er from start to finish. They were like dazzling fireworks, blooming in a spectacular race to outshine one another.

The lives of the people in the Capital City became increasingly rich and colorful, and their entire spirit was different.

Likewise, Chi Yun’er’s own rewards were enormous. She was amassing properties one after another.

In the end, it was Jiang Yihua who stepped in. He tirelessly went through round after round of property swaps, managing to consolidate all her units into a single building!

By this time, Chi Yun’er was pregnant. She formally requested a transfer to the logistics department of the Agricultural Institute to manage the distribution of employee benefits.

The Agricultural Institute had also built a ring of commercial shops, which were rented out at low prices to the families of employees to open businesses.

Chi Yun’er finally got her wish and opened a flower shop, with a milk tea shop next to it.

With a four-figure monthly cut from the hospital, rental income from over a dozen properties, a salary from the Agricultural Institute, profits from her flower and milk tea shops, and the salary her husband handed over every month, Chi Yun’er, at the age of twenty-two, had completely achieved a life of coasting to victory!

Just before 1982, Chi Yun’er’s belly proved cooperative, and she gave birth to a son and a pair of adorable little girls.

With so many children at home, Mrs. Jiang and Mrs. Chi simply retired. They dedicated themselves to helping Chi Yun’er run her shops while also taking care of the kids.

However, business at the shops was so explosive that Chi Yun’er had to specifically hire three to five university students on a work-study program to help out.