Chapter 63: A Small Suggestion

"I'd like to ask Sister Su for a favor." Zhao Fusheng looked at Su Xia and said slowly.

Su Xia's eyes flickered, her delicate brows slightly furrowed, but she didn't agree immediately. Instead, she smiled and said, "Tell me first, what is it?"

She and Zhao Fusheng weren't actually familiar with each other; they had only been introduced through Bai Jie. So she wouldn't agree to anything rashly. But regardless, a smiling face is hard to refuse. Zhao Fusheng was very polite, so Su Xia naturally couldn't reject him outright.

Zhao Fusheng smiled and pointed at the computer in Su Xia's shop. "Sister Su, if someone buys a computer here, do you have to help them install the system?"

Su Xia was taken aback and nodded. "Yes, and we also offer warranty. If they need to reinstall the system, they can come here for free."

Zhao Fusheng laughed. "It's like this: I've set up a website myself and want to increase its traffic. So could I ask Sister Su to do me a favor? From now on, for every computer that comes here for system setup, could you set the browser's homepage to my website?"

"Website?"

Su Xia looked at Zhao Fusheng with some confusion, completely not understanding what he meant.

Zhao Fusheng didn't waste words. He walked over to a computer that was on, connected to the internet, opened the browser, entered the URL for wo123, and then pointed at the page, saying to Su Xia, "It's this."

"wo123.com?" Su Xia murmured to herself, looking at the page Zhao Fusheng had opened. She found it surprisingly simple—aside from a weather forecast at the top, the rest were various websites categorized neatly, quite comprehensive.

"What is your website for?" Su Xia asked, puzzled.

Zhao Fusheng smiled. "It's a navigation page. There are too many websites now, and memorizing URLs is too troublesome. So I made a navigation page. You just click on my page, and you can find the website you want to visit inside..."

As he spoke, he demonstrated, and finally said to Su Xia, "Sister Su, what do you think? If from now on, for every computer that comes here for system setup, the homepage is set to my website, I can pay you a thousand yuan as compensation. How about that?"

To be honest, this was the highest compensation Zhao Fusheng could offer, since his current liquid assets were only ten thousand yuan.

You never know how little money you have until you need it. Zhao Fusheng now felt this saying more deeply. He had countless brilliant ideas in his mind, but he simply couldn't turn them into reality.

In the end, it came down to two words: no money.

"No need for money. It's not a big deal. If I took your money, I'd probably get scolded by Bai Jie." Su Xia waved her hand with a smile. She had thought the cooperation Zhao Fusheng mentioned was something major, but it turned out to be just a webpage.

In Su Xia's view, this was just a college student's whim. Young people always want to accomplish something. She herself had been passionate like that when she was in college.

Thinking this, Su Xia smiled and said to Zhao Fusheng, "I'll let you know later. I'm familiar with most of the shops in this computer mall. I can ask them to help out."

Zhao Fusheng thought for a moment and nodded. "Alright, I won't stand on ceremony with you, Sister Su. But please take this thousand yuan. Use it to treat someone to a meal or something."

After all, he was asking for a favor; he had to show some courtesy.

Su Xia didn't stand on ceremony either and accepted the money with a nod.

"By the way, Sister Su, where is your husband?" Zhao Fusheng asked casually.

Su Xia shook her head and sighed. "Don't even mention it. The lease for the shop is up soon, and he's looking for a new place."

"Why not continue here?" Zhao Fusheng found it strange, since Su Xia's shop was in a perfect location.

"Alas..." Su Xia sighed, a look of worry appearing on her pretty face. Just as she was about to speak, the shop door opened, and an old man walked in. He looked about fifty-something, dark-skinned and fat, barely over 1.5 meters tall, potbellied, and when he smiled, he revealed a few gold teeth.

"Xiao Su, busy?" the man said as soon as he opened his mouth, addressing Su Xia.

Zhao Fusheng frowned. He noticed that the moment Su Xia saw the man, her face darkened. Moreover, the man's gaze was off; he kept staring at Su Xia's prominent chest.

Because it was summer, Su Xia was wearing a casual shirt and a gray-white cotton skirt. Her full breasts trembled lightly as she moved, her plump, fair body exuding a mature charm that stood out in the computer mall.

Even Zhao Fusheng himself was somewhat taken aback, but he had no designs on Su Xia, so he deliberately looked away. However, he didn't expect the man who walked in to stare at Su Xia so blatantly.

"Manager Zhu, is there something?" Su Xia's tone was very stiff. Zhao Fusheng could tell that this wasn't their first encounter.

"Have you thought about what I mentioned last time?" Manager Zhu revealed a meaningful smile and asked Su Xia.

Su Xia's face changed. She pointed at the door and said bluntly, "I have a guest here. Get out!"

"Alright, alright, I'll go, I'll go. Take your time thinking." Manager Zhu wasn't annoyed. He stared at Su Xia with a smile, then turned and left.

"Bastard!" After he left, Su Xia cursed hatefully.

Zhao Fusheng was startled. "Sister Su, that man..."

"Zhu Gan, the deputy manager of the mall. A bastard. Taking advantage of my shop's lease expiring, he threatened me, saying I have to sleep with him, or else he'll kick us out."

Su Xia's resentment had probably been building up for a long time. She started pouring out her grievances to Zhao Fusheng.

It turned out that Zhu Gan was the deputy manager of the mall. Somehow, he had taken a liking to Su Xia and had been harassing her at every opportunity. Recently, with the shop lease about to expire, he directly threatened Su Xia to sleep with him.

"In that case, why not just move the shop somewhere else?" Zhao Fusheng said to Su Xia. He didn't quite understand what the dilemma was. If one place doesn't want you, there's always another.

Su Xia gave a bitter smile. "It's not that simple. Not to mention anything else, the whole of Ninghai knows that the first choice for assembling computers is here. Many of our old customers are set on this place. If we go somewhere else, there won't be many customers."

Zhao Fusheng could understand her words. After all, at that time, not many people were assembling computers, and people had a herd mentality—they liked to go where everyone else went when shopping. So, as Su Xia said, if she left, her shop would have a hard time.

A sudden idea struck Zhao Fusheng. He said, "Sister Su, you could stop running this shop."

"What?" Su Xia was startled and looked at Zhao Fusheng blankly.

Zhao Fusheng smiled. "Sister Su, what do you think about opening an internet café?"

"Internet café?"

Su Xia frowned. "Would that work?"

Clearly, she felt that Zhao Fusheng's suggestion wasn't very reliable.

Zhao Fusheng shrugged. "There are only two or three internet cafés near our school, each with about thirty machines, but they're basically packed every day. People always go there to play."

He was telling the truth. After all, when he had planned to work as a network administrator, Zhao Fusheng had done some field research.

Su Xia seemed thoughtful but didn't nod immediately.

Seeing this, Zhao Fusheng didn't say anything more. After all, they weren't close enough for deep conversation, and saying too much wouldn't be appropriate.