Chapter 197 You’re Trending!

The expansion of the Coffee Shop and the additional investment in the Pet Park together would consume 10 million of the System Funds.

That left 5 million System Funds still to be planned.

Hosting the Winter Sports Meeting would consume 2 million.

After all, the last sports meeting had cost 1 million System Funds, and since the number of employees had increased this time, 2 million was definitely reasonable.

That meant there were still 3 million System Funds remaining.

Now that the company quantity limit had been lifted, it was possible to look for industries that were relatively loss-making.

Chen Mo looked over the full page of plans and nodded with satisfaction.

The only regret was that when he wanted to add more investment to the Pet Park, originally hoping to invest a larger amount, the system only allowed an additional 5 million.

Otherwise, he could have poured all the System Funds into the Pet Park’s construction and wouldn’t have needed to scramble to find other projects to spend money on.

But unexpectedly, the system imposed a limit, and he had no idea how this quota was calculated.

In any case, it completely crushed his fantasy of exploiting loopholes right at the start.

He shook his head helplessly and carefully reviewed the plan again.

These plans couldn’t be completed all at once, after all, there were only 1.3 million System Funds available now. All the plans would have to be carried out gradually after tomorrow’s revenue from Tianlong arrived.

The first task was to reserve 4 million System Funds for employee expenses and various basic costs.

This money had to be set aside; otherwise, the company’s normal operations would be affected.

Next was 2.3 million Charity Funds, which would be transferred into the Charity Funds account.

Once these two necessary expenses were handled,

the other plans had no particular order. They would do whatever they could, as long as the System Funds were spent.

As long as he followed his plan and had a certain amount of System Funds, he could spend it all.

This way, the System Funds would always be maintained at a very low level.

At this rate, maintaining it until the system settlement two months later, he was hopeful about converting all the System Funds in full.

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Corner Cat and Dog Rescue Station

“This is the place. Let’s go in.”

Song Xia pointed at the gate of the Cat and Dog Rescue Station and said to Lin Zhu beside her.

Just yesterday during the team-building event, she had briefly discussed the cat café with Pang Tao.

After all, the cat café definitely needed a lot of cats, and the Cat and Dog Rescue Station already had plenty. Choosing cats from here could save the Coffee Shop the cost of buying cats and also relieve the pressure on the Rescue Station.

It was a win-win situation.

However, the rescue station housed many kinds of cats, with various appearances and temperaments.

Customers entering the cat café would definitely want to interact with the cats—feeding, petting, and so on—so the choice of cats was very important.

Cats with bad temperaments definitely couldn’t be allowed into the Coffee Shop.

Only cats with good temperaments and gentle personalities could be selected.

This way, customers interacting with the cats wouldn’t risk getting scratched.

Then there was the cats’ looks. The cats placed in the Coffee Shop had to be cute, attractive, or have some unique features.

After considering all these factors, she had arranged with Pang Tao to come today and select the cats.

Lin Zhu had previously raised cats and understood their habits very well, so she brought her along.

“Manager Song, Ms.Lin, please come in.”

Pang Tao hurried over when he saw Song Xia and Lin Zhu enter the courtyard.

“Come inside for some tea first.”

“Brother Pang, no tea for us. Let’s hurry and pick the cats.”

Song Xia shook her head. After selecting the cats, they still had to supervise the new Coffee Shop.

Although the design plans were finalized,

no one had ever run a cat café before, so they needed to constantly direct the workers and make timely adjustments if anything was unsatisfactory.

“All right, then follow me.”

Seeing this, Pang Tao didn’t insist. After all, this was a busy stage.

After Song Xia and the others finished selecting cats, he still had to go to the Pet Park to supervise with Xu Zhengming.

Yesterday, because he had to attend the team-building, he left Xu Zhengming alone to supervise, so today he naturally wanted to finish here early and go over.

Song Xia and the others followed Pang Tao to the backyard.

Pang Tao pointed to a large greenhouse in the backyard.

“All the cats are inside this greenhouse.”

Song Xia looked up and saw a large chimney at the edge of the greenhouse emitting smoke, feeling puzzled.

“Brother Pang, is something burning inside the greenhouse?”

“Ah, it’s a kang stove. Now that the weather’s cooler, it’s to maintain the temperature inside the greenhouse.”

Saying that,

he led the way inside.

Song Xia and Lin Zhu followed him in. Once inside, they saw the entire greenhouse filled with cats—at least several hundred.

Two staff members were feeding cat food.

“All the cats are here. You can pick whichever you like. Once you’ve chosen, I’ll separate them into a special area for individual care. After the cat café’s renovation is complete, we’ll deliver them directly to you.”

Pang Tao said cheerfully.

Song Xia and Lin Zhu exchanged a glance and began selecting cats inside the greenhouse.

Based on the size of the Coffee Shop, after subtracting public areas and allocating 8 square meters per cat, they needed to select about 15 cats.

After the Coffee Shop renovation was complete, they would place the cats inside and observe the actual situation.

If it felt crowded, they would return some cats.

If it wasn’t enough, they would come back to select more.

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Clothing Factory

Afternoon,

Li Shen sat in the purchasing office. After a morning of recovery, his drunkenness had finally completely worn off.

He glanced at the time.

It was already past three in the afternoon.

Realizing he hadn’t started streaming today, he hurriedly got up, grabbed his phone and some streaming equipment, and headed out.

This new account was gradually gaining momentum.

During yesterday’s team-building dinner live stream, there had been a surge of traffic, with the live room’s concurrent viewers breaking through one thousand.

This number had never been reached by his previous account.

So he wanted to strike while the iron was hot.

Arriving at the workshop,

he started the live stream with practiced ease.

As soon as the stream began, dozens of people entered the live room.

“The stream’s started, streamer, you’re late.”

“Let me see, is this the company team-building wine drinking live room?”

“I checked the price of that wine, 800 a bottle. The company boss is really extravagant!”

“Streamer, you’re trending?”

“……..”

Li Shen stared blankly as nearly 100 viewers appeared in the live room within less than a minute of starting, and the number was still climbing.

What was going on?

In the past, when he streamed, it always took at least half an hour of warming up to reach 100 viewers.