Business Is Booming

In the lobby on the first floor of every dormitory building, one wall was covered with all kinds of posters.

Lost-and-found notices, secondhand sales, advertisements for all sorts of goods, and so on.

The promotional posters Wang Ye had made were meant to be put up there.

That way, he would not have to go around telling everyone that he sold phone cards. People would naturally learn about it when they passed the posters on their way back to the dorms.

Anyone who needed one could then call him to buy a card.

There were more than a dozen dormitory buildings. Posting flyers from Building 1 all the way to Building 13 took Wang Ye quite a while.

When he finally finished and returned to his dorm, he found several people waiting for him in the room.

They were all familiar faces. Some had arrived in the same group as him, while the others had come with Zhou Yuan's group. They had all used the same agency.

Zhou Yuan was among them as well, and everyone had been chatting and laughing.

The moment they saw Wang Ye return, they swarmed around him and began firing questions from every direction.

"Brother Ye, Wang Dan said you have phone cards for sale? And they're really cheap?"

"Not bad, Wang Ye. You found a way to get cheap phone cards right after arriving in Moscow? Your brain works fast. I've got to hand it to you!"

"Brother Ye, Brother Ye, get me a card. I happen to be out of credit. A fifty-dollar one will do."

"Give me a hundred-dollar one. Xiaoyun said you only charge ninety dollars for those, right?"...

Apparently, everyone had heard from Xiaoyun and Wang Dan that Wang Ye was selling phone cards at very low prices.

Phone cards were necessities, after all. Everyone needed them to some extent.

And since their good friend Wang Ye was the one selling them, they had all come to show their support...

Wang Ye felt a warmth in his heart, and a smile appeared on his face.

These classmates had only been in Moscow for a short time, so they were still quite close. After all, having just arrived in a strange place, people naturally liked to stick together.

Once some time passed and they became more familiar with the place, their relationships might not remain as close as they were now.

They would start minding their own business instead.

He waved a hand and said calmly, "Don't rush, everyone. I do have phone cards for sale. They're all at a ten percent discount off face value, but I only have fifty-dollar and hundred-dollar cards."

Some of the boys had originally wanted twenty-dollar cards. They did not make many calls, so they did not really need that much credit.

But since Wang Ye's cheapest cards were fifty-dollar ones, they settled for those.

Phone cards did not expire anyway, so they could just use them slowly.

Before long, Wang Ye sold another six fifty-dollar cards and three hundred-dollar cards.

Adding the two hundred-dollar cards he had sold to Xiaoyun and Wang Dan,

he had sold six fifty-dollar cards and five hundred-dollar cards in total—a total face value of eight hundred dollars.

At the retail price of ninety percent of face value, he smoothly took in seven hundred and twenty dollars!

He could repay the money he had borrowed from Song Xiaogang to buy the cards wholesale. The first step of his business had gone extremely smoothly!

Of course, things probably would not go this well every day going forward. After all, no one bought phone cards every day.

Take the classmates who bought cards today. After buying them, they would need at least one or two weeks, perhaps even one or two months, to use them up before coming back for more.

Fortunately, there were plenty of Chinese students at People's Friendship University. The promotional posters Wang Ye had put up today would need some time to take effect.

Once everyone knew that Wang Ye sold cheap phone cards, his business should see another small surge!

That afternoon, quite a few students came to Wang Ye's dorm one after another. Most of them were preparatory students from Building 6.

They had all come to buy phone cards. Quite a few were also curious about exactly what channel Wang Ye had used to get such cheap cards.

If Wang Ye were selling phone cards to everyone purely to make friends, without earning money or even at a loss, no one would believe it...

But everyone had bought phone cards before and knew their prices, so they understood that Wang Ye could barely make any money at the prices he charged.

Unless his wholesale price was extremely low!

Naturally, Wang Ye would not tell them what price he paid. It was a "trade secret," after all. He merely smiled and told them that an old friend of his had gotten them for him, and that there were fewer cards with every sale. The next batch might not be this cheap...

That was not exactly a lie. After all, he had known Liu Jun in his "previous life"...

He was also giving everyone a little push—if there was a bargain to be had, they should seize it quickly!

Once they missed this chance, there might not be another!

Of course, business could not always go smoothly.

After dinner, around seven or eight in the evening, Wang Ye's phone rang.

Wang Ye casually pulled out his phone and answered. He had already received two or three calls today, all from people who wanted to buy phone cards. This one should be no different.

Other than that, he could not think of anyone who would call him.

Sure enough, as soon as the call connected, a male voice came through.

"Hello, is this Wang Ye? I want to buy a phone card. Can you bring it over?"

Wang Ye answered briskly, "Sure. Which dormitory building and room number?"

"Building 6, on the east side, Room 506. Just come over. Do you have twenty-dollar ones? Bring one." the boy replied.

"The minimum is fifty dollars. I don't have twenty-dollar ones," Wang Ye responded.

The boy did not hesitate. "Then make it a fifty-dollar one."

After hanging up, Wang Ye picked up his large wallet and headed out without even needing to put on a coat.

He went downstairs, crossed the lobby, entered the east wing, and climbed the stairs to the fifth floor.

When he found Room 506, the door was slightly ajar. Wang Ye knocked twice. After hearing someone say, "Come in," he pushed the door open and walked inside.

But the moment he entered, Wang Ye froze.

There were three boys in the room, all Chinese students, and he knew them.

Weren't they the three guys who had burst into his dorm on the night he first arrived in Moscow and beaten up Song Xiaogang...

The short, long-haired one was Zhang Ke. Nalan Yaqi had told Wang Ye his name.

The other two were a tall, fat guy and a medium-height boy. Wang Ye still did not know their names. So these three lived in the same dorm.

Still, it was nothing. Wang Ye did not believe they would really dare to hit him.

If they really had the nerve to gang up on him and beat him...

Wang Ye could only turn tail and run...

A wise man did not fight when the odds were against him. He was not some burly man like Song Xiaogang who could take on ten people by himself!

He asked calmly, "Who just called me to buy a card?"

Zhang Ke was sitting at the desk playing on a laptop. When Wang Ye entered, he gave him a sidelong glance before turning back to his computer.

Now that Wang Ye had asked, he replied without even looking back, "Me. Bring over the card."