Losing Money to Be a Tycoon
chapter-73

Pei Qian took a look around the shop again and came across where the earphones were at.

“Ma Yang, I remember that your earphones were only twenty-plus yuan from a roadside stall.” Pei Qian looked at Ma Yang.

“Tsk… Boss Pei, although it’s something from a roadside stall, it is pretty useful.” Ma Yang immediately said as he did not reveal his relationship with Pei Qian in front of others.

“How could that be good enough? Something from a roadside stall is just that; it cannot be good enough. This is the newest model, it costs 2999; take it. It’s below ten thousand, and it is good enough.”

Pei Qian immediately pushed the earphones to Ma Yang.

Ma Yang was stunned and said, “Err, Boss Pei, but my current job does not have anything to do with earphones…”

Ma Yang was now doing miscellaneous tasks in the designs team. Basically, he had to fill in forms occasionally, use editing software, or to raise some requests for resources. His work indeed had not much relation with earphones.

Pei Qian thought about it and said, “It is in preparation for your work next time. You might need to communicate more with subcontractors and raise requests regarding music and sound effects. Without a good pair of earphones—when they provide the music and sound effects, what if you couldn’t even tell if they were of good quality or not?”

Ma Yang scratched his head, “However, aren’t the earphones that come with the company computers good enough already?”

Pei Qian’s face grew dark. “Since it’s the company’s earphones, could you bring them home? If there are any emergencies after office hours that require you to contact subcontractors, what then?”

Ma Yang was speechless.

It seemed as if… Pei Qian’s words made sense…

Ma Yang smiled widely as he took over the earphones and ran to pay for it.

Just like Xiao Lu, he actually also wanted to buy a pair. However, he couldn’t bear to spend his own money. He also felt a little bad claiming this under extra expenses.

However, since Pei Qian had said so, they didn’t have any reservations at all.

He held onto the earphones; they were gorgeous.

Most importantly, he had not spent a single cent of his own money. The company was paying for this. Where else could he find such a good deal?

Soon, Xiao Lu and Ma Yang had both completed their payments.

Xiao Lu immediately started to use the earphones; he loved it extremely much.

A few of them continued to shop in the mall. As Pei Qian shopped, he kept an eye on his employees to make sure that they were spending as they pleased!

He forced Huang Sibo to buy a new tablet computer under the pretext of ‘raising productivity’. He also compelled the two female receptionists to buy a few beautiful dresses, claiming that they would ‘elevate the company’s image’.

Some other things were included in this spending spree as well. As long as he saw that his employees expressed even an inkling of desire, he would immediately come up with a reason and order the purchase!

Some special cases where Pei Qian really couldn’t find a justification—for example, a male employee wanted to buy a handbag for his girlfriend. He made them change an item just so he could think of something to say.

After walking one round in the mall, Pei Qian was quite pleased.

En, everyone had more or less spent their money!

After doing a check, five hundred and thirty thousand yuan in the System Funds had been spent today after Pei Qian’s coercion and manipulation—through giving out salaries, bonuses, and shopping cards. The System Funds originally had one million one hundred thousand yuan in it.

Five hundred and seventy thousand yuan were left.

“En, I can only rely on myself for the rest…”

Pei Qian knew that his employees had already tried their best. As for the last seventy thousand, he had to expend them personally.

After spending this seventy thousand, every extra one cent spent could be converted into personal wealth at a one-is-to-one rate!

This was the last leg of this long expedition; he needed to finish this in one fell swoop!

Pei Qian first came to a high-class suit boutique store and purposely avoided Jesse who had come here to buy something just now.

However, he soon left quietly.

The system had rejected the purchase. Pei Qian had probably bought too many suits the previous time, and the system thought that he did not have the ability to continue spending.

After that, Pei Qian went to a Rolex shop, wanting to buy a watch.

This time, the system did not directly reject him.

However, Pei Qian started from the most expensive watch that cost more than two hundred thousand yuan and worked his way down; the system finally only permitted him to buy the most entry-level model that cost forty thousand!

Although it was also a Rolex watch, it was too cheap.

Pei Qian was feeling a little pained; however, as forty thousand was after all still money, he still decided to buy it.

As the saying went: ‘as one wears a Rolex, one’s responsibility grows’, Pei Qian thought that as a boss himself, his responsibilities were the heaviest. It was reasonable that he wore a two hundred thousand dollar watch.

However, it was obvious the system disagreed and felt that Pei Qian was only worth forty thousand.

Pei Qian was very pained.

He continued to shop.

Since he couldn’t even buy a good watch, that meant that he wouldn’t be allowed by the system to buy other stuff that wasn’t exactly related to his work, such as expensive cologne and men’s health supplements, etc.

However, Pei Qian was not flustered. Having spent forty thousand-odd yuan, he was rather confident now.

He had to buck up; this was the last chance to break through the spending stage!

Lin Wan, Huang Sibo, and the others had long reached their purchase targets. While they accompanied Pei Qian and window-shopped, they observed their Boss Pei quietly.

Especially Lin Wan—who was very interested in whatever Boss Pei was buying!

However, after observing for a while, she realized that her previous opinion of Boss Pei seemed to have been erroneous! Boss Pei was actually such a thrifty person when it came to his personal life?! She could see clearly that Pei Qian actually really wanted to buy some items!

For example, that classic, luxurious perfume box from that brand that started with a G; it was more than a thousand yuan as Boss Pei was evidently keen on it. However, after taking a look, he had actually put it down again!

Also, that custom-made suit. Boss Pei had actually tried it on for a while; it had looked very fitting and nice. It was only a little more than ten thousand yuan; he had actually not bought it!

As well as the Rolex watch. Boss Pei had started from the two hundred thousand rang watches and finally had chosen the cheapest entry-level model that only cost forty-odd thousand!

For such a successful boss like Boss Pei, he only wore an entry-level Rolex??

Lin Wan was indeed stunned.

Pei Qian continued to shop as he bought stuff here and there. Whatever the system restricted him from buying, he had no choice but to give it up. Whatever the system permitted, he took them all!

However, as much as that was the case, Pei Qian actually did not manage to buy that many things.

The system’s restrictions were just too many!

A Babylon fountain pen that was seven-thousand-odd; a golden belt from the G brand that was three-thousand-odd; a business briefcase worth twenty-thousand…

Some were the priciest, some were middle-ranged; his purchases were all limited by the system’s restrictions. Pei Qian’s job was to buy the best within the limits given.

After shopping for a while longer, Pei Qian realized that he didn’t have anything else to buy left. After taking stock—although Pei Qian felt that he had bought quite a bit of stuff, he actually didn’t have that many bags in his hands.

The total cost for everything was seventy-three thousand.

He had successfully created a loss of three thousand odd yuan!

Pei Qian was elated.

This was a historic step!

This was the result of a spending spree that was in accordance with the long-lasting, successful principle of ‘I don’t want the best; I want the most expensive’!

All subsequent spending could be unconditionally transferred to become his personal wealth!

Pei Qian’s smile, however, was viewed differently in the eyes of his employees.

Lin Wan was very emotional.

Ocean Stronghold had been so successful; based on a conservative estimate, Boss Pei probably earned more than two million a month.

Yet, he was so thrifty?!