Chapter 739 - 758: Jiang.Direct.Qiuqiu
Chapter 739: Chapter 758: Jiang.Direct.Qiuqiu
Dean Zhu was eating crab roe noodles with his wife.
His wife took another taste of the young woman’s cooking, a satisfied expression appearing on both professors’ faces. "You should invite that student of yours to the house sometime."
"We’ve eaten her food so many times, but we’ve never formally met."
"That’s because you’re too busy," Dean Zhu glanced at her. "By the time you get home, she’s already gone back to her dorm to rest."
"Then pick a day off. I’ll come home early."
"I never would have guessed that after all these years, it wouldn’t be me to get you to put down your work." Dean Zhu put on a peculiar, aggrieved-husband expression. "But my student."
He looked at his wife.
His wife: ...
"Oh, stop it. Who do you think you are, a young man? You’re old now." His wife rolled her eyes. "That expression just looks ugly on you."
"Youth fades so fast. Now even my dear wife is calling me ugly."
His wife couldn’t help but laugh.
Seeing her laugh, Dean Zhu laughed too.
Just then, Dean Zhu’s terminal rang.
"Who is it? Messaging you this late?"
"It’s Qiuqiu," Dean Zhu said after a moment’s thought. "Hold on, let me take this call."
"Hello? I’m fine, what’s up?"
There was an art to asking the right questions.
In the few seconds while the terminal was ringing, Jiang Qiuqiu had been thinking about how to bring this matter up with the dean.
After wrestling with it, Jiang Qiuqiu decided to be direct.
’After all, she did have an ulterior motive. Even though it was for a good cause, she also wanted to promote her company...’
’No matter how nicely she put it, beating around the bush wouldn’t hide her ulterior motive. It was better to be direct, lay out the ’good’ part first, and then reveal her personal interest.’
And so, the moment Zhu Tiansheng answered the call, Jiang Qiuqiu offered a quick greeting and then got straight to the point.
"Professor, it’s like this. Didn’t you mention before that the school’s funds are limited, and the budget for purchasing natural food is insufficient?" Dean Zhu knew about Jiang Qiuqiu’s work as a streamer. "Well, our company is willing to provide support—"
Zhu Tiansheng responded, "Qiuqiu, here’s the thing. Our department doesn’t accept financial investments."
"I know, it’s not a financial investment. It’s like this: the company will send a shipment of natural food in advance to the Star System we’ll be supporting. We just have to go there and use it."
"The donated natural food is produced by factories on Low-level Stars, which were built by the company’s ’Support the Low-level Stars Foundation.’ The food itself is considered a public welfare product."
"Once the food is donated, our company personnel will leave. We won’t engage in any publicity that ties us to the school or your department. Only the transport vehicles and some of the vegetable ties will have the company’s logo."
"Qiuqiu, what are you trying to say?"
"Dean, can you tell me which planet we’re going to for the free clinic in September?"
She had very candidly asked for the one piece of information everyone at New Star was dying to know.
Dean Zhu paused, at a loss for whether to laugh or cry. "Qiuqiu, you...—"
If she hadn’t said all that beforehand, the dean would have probably thought she just wanted to know about the environment there in advance. He wouldn’t have been on guard at all and would have simply told her.
But after that lengthy preamble...
Telling her the location would be tantamount to agreeing to the vegetable donation.
Operating the way Qiuqiu had described it really wasn’t a big deal, but—
"I can’t give you an answer to that question right away," Dean Zhu said after a moment of consideration.
Qiuqiu had expected that answer. "I understand, Dean. Our company is named New Star. You can learn more about us through your own channels!"