Stay Home Daddy: I Was Reborn After My Daughter Passed Away
Chapter 455: Four Hundred Fifty-Five Newspaper Reporter TV Station_1

Chapter 455: Four Hundred Fifty-Five Newspaper Reporter TV Station_1

A night passed, and Ji Pianran went to sleep with a smile on his face.

After waking up in the morning, Boss Gu made dinner and delivered the raw materials to the cafe before he arrived at the internet cafe.

Today, the reporters he had invited from the newspapers and the TV station would all come.

So Boss Gu had to tidy up the internet cafe properly.

For this reason, he specifically called over Old Zhang, since one of the computers inside belonged to him.

After receiving a phone call from Boss Gu, Old Zhang rushed to the internet cafe immediately.

Now, every time he opened or closed his eyes, his mind was filled with thoughts of the internet cafe.

He had invested all his savings into it, so it would be a lie to say he wasn’t nervous.

Even though Boss Gu had invested twenty times more than him! If it came to losing money, surely Boss Gu would lose more, but even so, he was still very anxious.

Because all that money, without exception, was earned through his own hard work.

If it were all lost, years of work would have been for nothing.

When Boss Gu called him at this moment, he was very cooperative with Boss Gu’s work.

After arriving at the internet cafe, he looked at all the computers in the store and the sofas, which were all quite stylistic and full of a technological feel.

These bulky computers, in Boss Gu’s view, were a symbol of lag and aging, but to Old Zhang, these things were very cutting-edge.

So, he was quite excited inside, and even when looking at the computers, he didn’t dare to stretch out his hand to touch them.

It was as if he would break them with just one touch.

At this moment, Boss Gu was holding twenty number plate stickers, starting to affix a unique number to each desk.

This was to make it easier for the waiters to know which tables they were serving and to better manage the internet cafe, knowing which tables to charge and which ones were nearing their time limit.

"Your computer is number twenty," Boss Gu said to Old Zhang.

Old Zhang nodded after hearing this, looking at the computer in the number twenty spot with great fondness in his eyes.

Looking at that computer was like looking at his own child.

"This afternoon, various reporters will come for interviews. Tomorrow, flyers will be distributed throughout the city, and I’m entrusting you with this task. If all goes well, the day after tomorrow we should be able to recruit the needed waiters.

In no more than five days, the internet cafe will be able to officially start business,"

Boss Gu told him about the arrangements for the next few days.

Old Zhang became somewhat excited when he heard that reporters from both the TV station and the newspaper would be coming.

"Will we even be on TV?" he asked Boss Gu.

Getting on TV was something worth talking about for a lifetime for ordinary folks, as not everyone gets such an opportunity.

Nowadays, there aren’t various absurd figures appearing on TV. Those who do make it on TV are usually the hot news topics in society, or well-known singers, or businesspeople.

So, appearing on TV was considered by them as similar to getting into university.

Boss Gu understood Old Zhang’s feelings very well.

"If you want to appear on camera, you can represent the internet cafe and accept interviews," Boss Gu said to him.

Being on or off camera, Boss Gu really didn’t care about such things.

He opened the internet cafe to make money, not to become famous.

When Old Zhang heard this, although he was very happy, his rationality told him he was not up for it.

"Forget it, Boss Gu, I’m just a simple laborer; I can use my physical strength, but when it comes to computers and such scientific stuff, I’m not educated and can’t explain it clearly. You should take the interview yourself.

You take the interview, and it will surely be better than if I did."

After hearing what he said, Gu Chen truly felt that Old Zhang was too clever, and his interpersonal skills and self-awareness were incredibly sharp.

Back in the day, he thought that people who made their fortune in this era just got lucky. But looking at Old Zhang now, Gu Chen felt it would be the same in any era.

Someone like Old Zhang, who was hardworking and particularly smart, would inevitably make money.

When afternoon came, the reporters from the TV stations and newspapers arrived.

Carrying their cameras, they were very noticeable, causing many passersby to stop in their tracks and look over.

The reporter that came was a middle-aged man who interviewed Gu Chen in very standard Mandarin.

Gu Chen did his best to make him understand what an internet cafe was all about.

He also took the opportunity in front of the camera to properly demonstrate what a computer could do.

For many people at the time, the functions of a computer were still very unfamiliar.

The scenes Gu Chen demonstrated were captured in various ways.

Watching the scene unfold before him, Old Zhang felt his chances of success were getting bigger and bigger.

That night, the news about the country’s first internet cafe made the headlines.

Local Chuan City newspapers also reported on the Alien Internet Cafe incident.

It caused quite a stir in Chuan City.

What is a computer? Most people couldn’t say, only knowing it’s a high-tech scientific product used by big company bosses. When they saw that anyone could use a computer and just had to spend a little bit of money, many people were enthused about trying it out themselves.

Just the notion of ’trying it out’ made Gu Chen know he was going to make a killing.

If one person tried it out for a minute, spending just one yuan,

with millions of people in Chuan City, that would mean millions of yuan in Gu Chen’s hands, at the least.

Making money seemed truly effortless to Gu Chen.

That evening, he went to the cafe to tally up the bills, then went home to prepare a thoughtful dinner for Ji Pianran and Tangtang.

After Ji Pianran and Tangtang came home, Ji Pianran couldn’t wait to start asking Gu Chen questions.

"Honey, I saw you on TV today!" Ji Pianran said to Gu Chen.

Gu Chen smiled when he heard that, clearly seeing the powerful reach of television.

"Honey, when did you come up with this internet cafe thing?" During this time, Ji Pianran hadn’t heard Gu Chen mention it at all; she was completely unaware.

"I just set it up these past few days," Gu Chen casually said.

"Honey, the investment isn’t small. How much does the computer cost to use once?" Ji Pianran asked.

"It’s not calculated per use; it’s charged by time. One yuan per minute, forty yuan an hour."

When Gu Chen announced the pricing, Ji Pianran was taken aback.

"One yuan per minute? Forty yuan an hour?"

"Doesn’t that mean a computer, if it’s on for ten hours a day, could make four hundred yuan?"

"Then ten computers would make four thousand, and twenty computers eight thousand?"