Chapter 510 - Fish-Catching Take-Out’s Shop Number One (1/2)

Liang Qingfan was stunned. A moment later, he said, “Boss Pei, this is a bit sudden. I need to consider it properly…”

Pei Qian smiled and nodded. “Of course.”

He turned to look at his driver, Little Sun. “Make some time to bring Mr. Liang around Jingzhou to play over the next few days. Allow him to have a good appreciation of Jingzhou’s culture and people. Over the weekend, bring Mr. Liang to Ming Yun Private Kitchen for a meal. Host him well for me.”

Little Sun quickly answered, “Alright, Boss Pei.”

Pei Qian turned to Liang Qingfan. “Mr. Liang, please get some rest. Travel around Jingzhou and collect some inspiration. All of your expenses during this period will be borne by Tengda.

“I want to open more Sloth Apartments at the end of the money. Then, I would have to trouble you once more.”

Liang Qingfan looked overwhelmed by Boss Pei’s favor. “No problem, Boss Pei!”

Being appreciated like that made Liang Qingfan feel like he had met someone who could truly treasure his talents.

As a young designer, what did he need most?

A stage! Opportunities! Gaoling Construction and Design Co., Ltd was a first-tier design company in the country which was being led by a giant in the industry, Zhou Nanling. He would have many chances to take part in large-scale projects.

However, as a young designer under thirty years old, he had very slim chances of being put in charge of large-scale projects himself.

To designers, good projects were opportunities, chances at fame, and a stage to prove oneself. Without good projects, what use would all of one’s talent be? How would talent be developed? Who would know about them?

It was just as well that there were opportunities where Boss Pei was. There were many, many opportunities!

What’s more, Liang Qingfan could sense that Boss Pei’s mindset was quite similar to his own on a certain level.

For example, Boss Pei was one who chased being elite.

As an architect, Liang Qingfan was familiar with a lot of styles. He was adept at creating custom-made designs that suited each property owner’s requirements. However, the problem was that, as he absorbed everybody’s requests, Liang Qingfan thought deeply about the artistic aspect as well. Yet, not many people could understand that artistic aspect.

The fact that Boss Pei was so happy with his designs—so much so that he had even tried poaching Liang Qingfan-proved that Boss Pei had a similar view and understanding of art as he did.

Both of us want to chase being elite!

It was for that exact reason that Liang Qingfan almost spat out ‘I will!’ However, it would look unrestrained of him to agree on the spot, and he might have come across as being rash. Thus, Liang Qingfan decided to symbolically ponder about it for a few days. At the same time, he would deal with a few matters in his current company before officially transferring to Tengda. Pei Qian walked around the room, feeling very happy with every corner. He wanted to recruit Liang Qingfan because of his ability to understand him. In fact, Liang Qingfan could understand Boss Pei much better than most of Tengda’s employees.

One of Pei Qian’s most important considerations in selecting his employees was the extent of their imagination.

For instance, Lu Mingliang did not have much of an imagination. He was a good employee who did whatever Boss Pei asked of him. Men like him were becoming few and far between!

Yet, Pei Qian had found a shadow of Lu Mingliang in this designer, Liang Qingfan. To achieve extreme minimalism, Liang Qingfan had willingly given up storage space which most would find absolutely necessary.

To spend every cent of the budget, Liang Qingfan had spent over two hundred thousand yuan on a limited edition television set.

All of those things showed that he had tried his best to fulfill Boss Pei’s requests without using too much of his own imagination.

At the same time, he was not so famous as to attract people’s attention, and he had a certain level of skill that would guarantee whatever Boss Pei wanted would be done well.

All in all, he was a perfect candidate!

Three hours later, Pei Qian was done moving houses.

He got rid of his original house, packed his clothes and shoes, and then moved them to the new house. The other things that he did not need were left in the rented apartment that he had at first.

Simply put, he moved in with minimal baggage.

Little Sun went back and forth, helping Pei Qian to move his few pieces of luggage to the new house. Soon, the packing was complete. Pei Qian had no plans to clutter the house with all sorts of random items. He would only do three things in this house:

Sleep, game, and snack.

Each day, he would wake up naturally, have a meal at Fish-Catching Internet Cafe’s Handong University branch, walk around at the office, and then go home to snack, drink, and play games. He would be living the dream.

Of course, the building also needed a butler and two cleaners.

The butler would be in charge of the manpower and random errands that Boss Pei would need to run. The cleaners would provide similar services as in hotels-cleaning, laundry, rubbish collection, and refilling of snacks and drinks in the refrigerator.

Lastly, Pei Qian had to take care of the publicity problem.

Normally, various real estate agents would frantically start making calls once rental apartments were advertised online. They would resort to all sorts of ways and means to bluff people into renting an apartment.

On the surface, they would use all sorts of flowery language, claiming to want to help their customers.

However, in reality, they would only be interested in monopolizing the market, preventing customers from renting an apartment directly or contacting the landlord, and thus earning the agent fees. Pei Qian had no plans to do any advertising for Sloth Apartments. Houses like that would be rented out to those who were fated to stay there. If one could not find it, they could blame it on their own fate. How could Pei Qian rent the apartments to such people? Of course, not advertising the apartments did not mean that Pei Qian would be completely safe.

In the beginning, Pei Qian had avoided publicizing his own games as well. Still, people had found them in the end.

For extra security, Pei Qian planned to observe the situation for a month. If the apartments remained hidden for the next month, it would mean that Pei Qian was using the right strategy. Then, he could be bold. He could buy more buildings, turn them into Sloth Apartments, and let his employees occupy a portion of the empty apartments!