Daddy, Come Home For Dinner!

Chapter 1110: Chapter 1110: Sticking to Principles Since Childhood

Ye Fei saw that the roadside was indeed clean. Even though it was wide enough and perfectly suitable for parking, there wasn’t a single car stopped there.

On the contrary, there was a whole row of bicycles parked along the curb.

The bicycles were all neatly placed in individual slots on the racks.

"These are the shared bikes based on Changping Academy’s internal app," Lu Chenghong explained.

All the shared-bike brands on the market had contacted Changping Academy before.

Even if the campus area couldn’t compare to a whole city outside, size-wise it wasn’t much to look at.

But when it came to getting around inside the school, the usage frequency was really high.

And the students’ overall quality was quite good. Compared to outside, where damage and theft happened all the time causing huge losses—

Inside Changping Academy the bikes actually lasted a long time.

The cost was lower, the usage was high, so it was actually a pretty decent profit.

But Zhao Guoxian hadn’t planned on letting those companies earn even that little bit.

Thinking they could make money out of Changping? Not that easy.

Anyway, developing a mini-app wasn’t exactly hard.

Those shared-bike companies had their main difficulty in product promotion.

But inside the school there was no need for promotion. Just park the bikes there, and if you want to ride, you ride.

Given the small internal range of the campus, Changping saw it as practically costless.

It was basically just the cost of developing a mini-app and then purchasing the bicycles.

Developing the mini-app was very easy and it was finished quickly.

The bikes Changping bought were a bit different from the shared bikes outside.

They were more high-end.

Unlike the outside bikes that only had the most basic functions, Changping’s bikes had gears, making them faster and easier to ride with less effort.

That was how Lu Chenghong explained it to Ye Fei.

Only then did Ye Fei understand. No wonder that whole row of bikes looked not only orderly, but even the models and colors were exactly the same, like they’d been bought wholesale.

Then Ye Fei turned to Zhao Gushen with a smile and said, "Didn’t expect Gu Xian to be that stingy. He won’t even let those companies have this bit of money."

Zhao Gushen laughed. "Gu Xian has had one rule since he was a kid: as long as it’s money he can earn himself, he absolutely won’t let others have it."

"If doing it himself costs more and earns less, that’s another story. Then it’s better to cooperate with others," Zhao Gushen said. "But for something like campus shared bikes, it’s not troublesome and doesn’t need promotion. Instead of cooperating with outside companies and just taking a fixed cut, it’s better to run it ourselves."

"But if you work with an outside company, doesn’t that mean no cost for you?" Ye Fei asked.

"Buying the bikes does mean a cost, but compared to the profits it’s nothing. And although these bikes are more expensive than normal ones, they’re durable and won’t break easily," Lu Chenghong said. "Our students may all have been pampered growing up, but they have basic manners. They don’t just dump the bikes everywhere; they follow the rules. That way the bikes last longer."

"Instead of waiting for others to share the money with us, it’s better if we take the initiative ourselves," Lu Chenghong explained. "Our principal doesn’t like passively waiting for others to give us a cut."

Changping had only ever been the one sharing profits with others. Let Changping sit around waiting for people to share profits with them?

No way.

"Didn’t expect it—Gu Xian’s quite ambitious, way better than Third Uncle," Ye Fei said with a laugh.

"Overall, he still takes after Third Uncle," Zhao Gushen thought of Zhao Dinglian and his son and couldn’t help but smile.

"Third Uncle has completely thrown in the towel and refuses to do anything. Even if you hand it to him, he won’t take it." But speaking of it, there was a reason Zhao Dinglian turned out that way, and it had a lot to do with their father.

It was because the father of Zhao Dinglian and Zhao Dingye was too stubborn, to the point of being obsessive.

That was why Zhao Dinglian had no choice but to let himself do nothing and play the pure playboy.

Otherwise, even if he was too lazy to do serious work, he could still be like Zhao Guoxian.

And by capability, Zhao Dinglian was way stronger than Zhao Dingye.

Zhao Gushen sighed but didn’t say all that out loud here.

After all, Lu Chenghong was still present.

Family matters shouldn’t be aired in front of outsiders.

"Gu Xian doesn’t主动 take on work. Give him less and he’s happy to have more time off. But as long as you assign him something, he’ll definitely do it beautifully, and push himself to do it as perfectly as he can," Zhao Gushen said.

"So that’s why you keep slowly stuffing more and more work onto him," Ye Fei now understood.

Zhao Gushen nodded. "Since he has that capability, why wouldn’t I make use of it?"

"If I dump too much work on him all at once, I’m afraid he’ll just throw it down and refuse to do it." This wasn’t Zhao Gushen being paranoid; Zhao Guoxian really would do that.

"But if I give it to him bit by bit, one task at a time, once he gets completely familiar with one and realizes it’s easy and he still has tons of time to rest, he doesn’t resist it much. Then I add another one."

"Gu Xian’s very efficient. If the added work starts eating into his rest time, he just works more efficiently to finish it. Then he realizes he’s still handling everything with ease, and it’s not putting any pressure on him at all."

So that was how Zhao Gushen kept adding work to Zhao Guoxian step by step, repeatedly dancing right along the edge of Zhao Guoxian’s bottom line.

And he kept finding that Zhao Guoxian could still complete everything very well without getting worn out.

Ye Fei: "..."

She felt like Zhao Guoxian was being schemed against by Zhao Gushen to the very last drop.

No wonder Zhao Gushen had first arranged for him to become a vice president of the International Chef Association, and now wanted to pile on even more work.

At first, Ye Fei had thought this meant Zhao Guoxian would just get busier and busier.

Turns out Zhao Gushen had always been doing exactly that.

And Zhao Guoxian had always been able to handle it all very well, never once failing to cope.

Which kept Zhao Gushen testing the limits of what Zhao Guoxian could bear.

Suddenly, Ye Fei felt like Zhao Guoxian was some kind of bottomless pit.

It seemed like no matter how much work you gave him, he could complete it perfectly with zero pressure.

But that also showed just how capable he was.

Listening on the side, Lu Chenghong kept nodding in agreement. "Our principal really is amazingly capable."

If you asked him, he’d say he was much more impressive than Zhao Guqing.

But if you handed the same workload directly to Zhao Guoxian, he’d definitely be unwilling.

It was only because Zhao Gushen had gone at him like boiling a frog in warm water, slowly cooking him, that it worked.

"These are all our teaching buildings," Lu Chenghong said as he introduced things along the way.

"This is our school map booklet." Lu Chenghong handed the booklet straight to Ye Fei.

Ye Fei looked it over while listening to his explanation, following him around to visit and get to know the various classrooms.

"This is where the students usually come to practice. They can come anytime; they just need to register," said Lu Chenghong.

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