28 Decorations (2/2)
”50 dollars I think.”
”... Print 300 copies first, I'll pay first, and then pay me from the club funds when we get our funding.” Jiang Feng took out his mobile phone and was about to transfer the money to He Jiahui. ”How is getting in touch with the venue going?”
”Are you the president or am I the president? Why do I remember that I seem to have already graduated? ” Ji Yue could not hold back her grumbles, ”Still having to rely on your former president to make use of her looks to get the venue, I'll skin you all alive if the chess club is closed down this year.”
In theory, their stall at the recruitment fair was fixed, but this was only in theory. The Students' Union would not care if some lucky club had gotten the corner stall and extended its efforts outside the bounds, provided that they got the corner stall.
In the past few years, the largest areas of the venue had been occupied by the cooking club. They had used the excuse of having to show their props. To be honest, it was just some pots and pans, plus some cakes they had made, sugar-coated bombs coupled with beautiful and eloquent young girls, they had successfully lured countless ignorant juniors to join them.
”The capable always do the most work. Thank you for your hard work, Senior Ji Yue.” Jiang Feng said with a smile, ”There is still some chilled Sour Prune Juice in the freezer, shall I bring you a bowl?”
Ji Yue solemnly extended two fingers and said grimly: ”Two bowls!”
In the middle of the afternoon, Jiang Feng and the others had to bring their things with them to decorate the recruitment fair venue.
The recruitment fair would begin the next morning at 7 o'clock, in theory, a large number of the lower-tiered clubs did not have such small memberships, such as the badminton club, basketball club and so on, they all had a full 100-200 members. The threshold of elite clubs was relatively higher, after all, there were school credits to be given, and members might even be able to clinch some good awards. It was very rare for a club like the chess club which was of a lower tier, with few members, no credits given, and even had such a small amount of funding, to exist.
The lack of manpower meant a huge workload for everyone.
When they arrived at the venue with tables, chairs, props, decorations, banners, and sunshades, the other clubs were basically done with their decorations.
”Everything here?” Asked Jiang Feng.
”Yes, I've checked it. Let's get started.” Qiu Chen replied, starting to set up the sunshade.
The others sprang into action as well.
”Jiang Feng?” Jiang Feng was laying out the tablecloth. When he looked up, he saw Wang Hui, the president of the home economics club, standing in front of him with a handful of decorative artificial flowers.
”I went to the Student Union to ask for a venue. They told me that this venue had been given to others. What is your chess club going to do with such a big area?” Wang Hui looked at the things they had set up. ”You want to set up a row of chess boards?”
”We're going to display our club welfare.” Jiang Feng answered.
”Come on, what kind of club welfare can you get from your total funding of $400 last year? What's the use of such a large area? You might as well go ask for a front position. I heard that if you fail to recruit members this year, your club will get closed down.” Wang Hui said, ”Let's exchange our venues.”
The Chess Club and the Home Economics club had no resentment, only a personal grudge between Jiang Feng and the home economics club's president existed when she had used the excuse of Jiang Feng being a guy to reject him when he wanted to join them. At the end of the day, the home economics club was a big club of 200 people, and the chess club didn't stand a chance of holding a grudge against them.
”No.” Jiang Feng refused, ”The front areas are so tiny, it wouldn't be enough.”
”What are you going to display?” Wang Hui asked curiously.
”It's a secret!”
”Tsk.” Wang Hui went back with the fake flowers.
”Why did Wang Hui come over?” Qiu Chen asked.
”Their area seems to be adjacent to ours.” In fact, the home economics club's area was not small. What Wang Hui had just said was right. The area was indeed secluded.
”Adjacent to ours?” Qiu Chen was shocked. ”What if the freshmen mistake us as the home economics club tomorrow?”
”The forms that they're filling will be our club's application form, won't it be good to trick them in?”