Cannon Fodder Husband Ch.605-606

Chapter 605 – Business Cards

The next day, Lu Xia took a car to the vicinity of Golden Broad Building. From afar, she could see the shadows of many tall buildings nearby.

Although most of them were still under construction, the shadows of future world trade buildings were already visible.

Lu Xia couldn’t help but sigh. Society was developing too fast. She realized she was quite ignorant.

Following the address, she found a building a little farther from the construction sites.

She discovered that this building had already been renovated and it looked quite spacious with several units. Most importantly, it was quite tall.

In terms of appearance, Lu Xia was quite satisfied.

Upon entering, she found the interior was grandly decorated, not much different from the office buildings in later years.

As soon as she entered, there was a receptionist at the front desk. When she mentioned that she was here to inquire about office rentals, they directed her to the nearby sofa area to wait.

Later, they warmly served her tea.

The service was excellent.

However, after Lu Xia sat down, she noticed that there were already a few people waiting, and they all looked at her when she arrived.

Although these people saw her as a young girl, they didn’t look down on her. Instead, they started chatting with her.

Lu Xia also didn’t ignore them. The fact that they had the ability to be here indicated that they were among the first entrepreneurs of this era.

They had the ability and ideas, so making some connections wouldn’t hurt.

After chatting with them for a while, Lu Xia discovered that among these people, some ran trading companies, and some were in the daily necessities industry—overall, their businesses were not small.

Of course, Lu Xia also introduced herself and gave them all her business cards.

Yes, Lu Xia already had business cards.

Initially, she suggested preparing them to make the promotion of the company by salespeople more formal.

Later, after they were printed, other people in the company thought they looked presentable and wanted them as well. So, the company collaborated with a printing company and got them all printed.

Of course, Lu Xia had them too, but she hardly used them. It was just that occasionally when she needed to leave her contact, she would give a business card directly, which made people find it quite interesting, and they paid more attention, naturally.

These people were the same.

After receiving her business card and seeing that it said: “Lu Xia, President of Xia Lin Beauty and Cosmetics Company,” they were quite surprised. They all kept the business cards and even those who didn’t know about this company decided they would learn more about it later.

Lu Xia also received some business cards. Of course, for those who didn’t have business cards, she noted down their contact information. Perhaps she would need it later, and it was quite possible that they would be neighbors in the same building for their offices.

Maybe they would meet again.

Probably, others were thinking the same, so everyone was quite polite.

After a brief mutual understanding, everyone discussed how the building could be used for office spaces.

Because there were many people, Lu Xia had to wait for nearly an hour before it was her turn.

Then she was led into the elevator by the staff.

Lu Xia checked and found that the elevator had a total of 18 floors, and they were heading to the 18th floor. So, she curiously asked, “Is the 18th floor the location of your company’s private offices?”

The staff nodded, “Yes, the 18th and 17th floors are used by our boss.”

Understanding this, Lu Xia wasn’t surprised. In this era, it was rare to see such tall buildings, and everyone probably thought the higher, the better.

In fact, Lu Xia thought the same. Although there were no nearby buildings blocking the view at the moment, and the lower floors wouldn’t have the issue of poor lighting, she still wanted to rent a slightly higher floor for the company. She just didn’t know if it would be expensive.

After reaching the 18th floor, Lu Xia was led into an office. Before entering, she took a look and saw that it was the deputy manager’s office.

As soon as she entered, she was stunned.

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Chapter 606 – Switching to Real Estate Business

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Who could have imagined she would encounter Su Man here?

So now she was not only selling clothes but also involved in the real estate industry?

In fact, Su Man was quite surprised when she saw Lu Xia. Fortunately, she had seen the guest list beforehand and guessed it might be her.

So she said to the nearby staff, “Xiao Zhao, you can go down for now.”

Then she said to Lu Xia, “Come over and have a seat, Lu Xia.”

Lu Xia only came to her senses when the staff left and sat across from Su Man.

She smiled and said, “I really didn’t expect to see you here. By the way, when did you become the deputy manager here? What about the clothing store?”

Su Man smiled, “It’s a bit of a story. This building belongs to my friend. When they were constructing it initially, I just gave some opinions. Currently, although I’m called the deputy manager, it’s more of a formality. I’m actually a consultant.

It’s just that because my clothing company rented the office downstairs, and they needed help over here, I came to assist in selecting tenants.”

“Ah, I see!”

So, the 17th floor was actually rented by Su Man!

But from what she said, Lu Xia could sense that Su Man had a good relationship with the building’s owner. Thinking back to what she heard from Jiang Junmo about the owner being from the Jin family, she figured the owner was probably one of Su Man’s backers.

Thinking about this, Lu Xia was not surprised anymore.

At this point, Su Man said, “You’re doing quite well too. It seems like your company is developing well, considering you’re already looking to change offices!”

Lu Xia felt a bit embarrassed after hearing this. “Compared to you, my business is just a small one.”

“How come?” Su Man looked at her and smiled, saying, “I heard a while back that your beauty salon has started franchising and is being promoted nationwide.”

At this point, with a somewhat ambiguous look in her eyes, Su Man looked at her and said, “Speaking of this franchising model, it’s actually quite good. After looking into it, I’m considering whether to promote it in my company too. Opening individual branches by ourselves can be quite troublesome.”

Seeing the look in Su Man’s eyes, Lu Xia guessed that she was somewhat skeptical. However, even if there were doubts, she wasn’t worried. She replied naturally, “The franchising model wasn’t my idea. Initially, we did intend to open our own branches. But, as you mentioned, it’s not just troublesome, it’s time-consuming, labor-intensive, and costly. Later, we heard about this franchising model being used abroad and thought it was a good idea, so we decided to give it a try. Surprisingly, it worked!”

After hearing this, and seeing that Lu Xia didn’t seem to be lying, Su Man breathed a sigh of relief.

After careful consideration, by this time, franchises like KFC from abroad had already been implementing this kind of franchising model, so it wasn’t particularly new. It made sense for them to know about it.

So she smiled and said, “You’ve done well with that, impressive.”

Lu Xia quickly shook her head. “Oh no, it’s not me who did well. The beauty salon is a partnership with someone else. I just invested money. Usually, my main focus is on my work at the school. This time, it’s just that the company was too busy, and I happened to be on summer vacation, so I was ‘drafted’ to help. I guess the person you saw is our company’s other partner.”

Su Man chuckled at this. “That’s not bad, hassle-free and profitable.”

“Yeah, that’s right. That’s what I thought at the time, but it still turned out to be quite busy,” Lu Xia sighed.

In the end, the two chatted for a bit more. Lu Xia knew that Su Man was quite busy, and there were people waiting for her, so she didn’t bring up anything else and asked about the office rental. Su Man then started to introduce her to it.

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