In the following week, Qin Xizhen became a regular at various clubs, and the number of board games ordered also increased steadily. In fact, it was not the club leaders' fault for not having other creative ideas; it was simply a trend for something to become popular.
At that time, computers were not yet popular. There was one computer in a dormitory, and people on the same floor could borrow it. When you played a game, there would be seven or eight people around to guide you.
Suddenly, such an interesting party board game was released, and its popularity was like an avalanche, everyone wanted to have it, and wanted to have it. The price of such a board game was still relatively high at the time, and many people in the dormitory pooled money to buy it.
But clubs are different, they have money, the membership fee is 20 yuan per person, and they can often get sponsorship when they have activities. If they are student unions or large clubs, they can get tens of thousands of yuan in sponsorship.
Therefore, if the club wants to be more creative than others in the gifts for the event and buy other things, the first thing it will face is objections and opposition from people around it. Secondly, many people who come to the event are there for the gifts. Once they see that it is Three Kingdoms Kill, they will think that if they get this thing, they can sell it for 50 yuan and someone will take it.
With the board game as a prize, popularity can at least be guaranteed to a certain extent. Most importantly, if you want to invite Qin Xizhen, you have to order this thing. After all, she is the spokesperson for this thing. And she is the killer weapon to gather popularity.
Therefore, the club activities of Sichuan Conservatory of Music's Shanhai Campus at the end of 1997 basically became a joint board game club promotion festival, and Three Kingdoms Kill became the main best-selling product.
Qin Xizhen returned to the college as a judge or guest of various club programs to make his presence felt.
At the Art Club's event, she performed piano music and amazed everyone. Many people were talking about who she was. She even overshadowed Nie Qiannan from the piano department. Some people said that she was the former student union president. People like Nie Qiannan were not introduced to the piano department until after her. This suppressed the existence of the entire piano department.
During the guitar club's activities, she sat on a small stool on the stage, playing and singing "Falling Leaves" in a beam of white spotlight. The last beam of light gradually faded on her, and the tail of the chord also faded away. She was completely silent in the black curtain of the stage, but everyone saw the look she gave the audience before the light and shadow faded. She was like a cat in the dark night. As her gentle voice passed through their ears, they all felt aroused. When the lights turned on again, she was gone, but her voice could linger for three days.
This is the legendary figure.
Needless to say, this year's year-end club activities were very popular, and many clubs that offered Three Kingdoms as prizes had tasted the sweetness of filling up their classrooms and performance halls.
However, there were also some incidents.
Lu Yubo, the instructor of the school student union, was her former classmate. He stayed in school and was in charge of the work of the student union. When he learned that Qin Xizhen had returned to school to participate in activities and endorse board games, he probably didn't expect that the goddess he had admired for four years would be so asking for help, so he used official language to try to trick Qin Xizhen.
They said that the student union has limited funds and could only approve 500 yuan for gifts, so they could only buy ten sets of Three Kingdoms Kill. But for your sake, I will make an exception and let the student union buy twenty sets.
As a result, when he said this to Qin Xizhen, Qin Xizhen had just ordered 30 sets through the Student Union Logistics Department. This kind of thing can't even be decided by the Logistics Department. It's not as mysterious as Lu Yubo said.
Of course after knowing the real situation he just laughed it off and said that actually using chess and cards as gifts for club activities is not allowed by the school, but he said a lot of good things to the leaders and gave Qin Xizhen a lot of convenience and so on... Before the event, Lu Yubo also got close to Qin Xizhen and pestered him in various ways, but fortunately Qin Xizhen had many fans around him who always interrupted him when he wanted Qin Xizhen to stay for dinner.
The student union later ordered ten sets of Three Kingdoms. After the event, Lu Yubo, who was also on the judging panel, saw Qin Xizhen get up and go out, so he followed her and seemed to see Qin Xizhen go to the women's restroom. He waited in front of the door of the women's restroom, but after listening for a while, he felt something was wrong and immediately ran to the spiral staircase next to him. He just happened to see Qin Xizhen in a black dress flashing past the building.
He jumped down the stairs in two steps at a time, feeling angry. He excitedly shouted "Xizhen! Xizhen!" while his face looked gloomy and totally inconsistent with his expression. He jumped down the stairs, then went back and searched along the corridor... After a moment, he walked out of the teaching building and ran towards the garden.
After a while, he came back, frowned, and walked around twice along the places where Qin Xizhen might have passed. Finally, he had to admit that he had lost the person.
He stood in front of the flower bed and cursed, "Fuck you! Why are you pretending? You used to be a goddess, but now you are just a vulgar person who bows to money! Bitch..."
He vented a few words, then walked away cursing on the ginkgo leaves.
Little did he know that Qin Xizhen, who was experiencing a feeling no less than that of a police and spy movie, was just sitting at the corner of the corridor separated from him by a wall.
She leaned against the wall, her chest heaving.
After quietly confirming that Lu Yubo had left, she wiped her face with her hand and then went out.
…
After the evening self-study get out of class, Cheng Ran asked Yu Xiao to go home first, as he had something else to do and didn't go home with him. When he was talking, Yang Xia and others were also there.
Recently, everyone from the same compound went home together after evening self-study. Yang Xia looked puzzled, "Where else are you going if you don't go home quickly so late? Be careful, if your mother asks us about it, we won't cover for you..."
"Women shouldn't care so much about men's affairs. I just want to talk to someone about something. You should go home early." Cheng Ran waved his hand.
But these words made the group of people around Yang Xia start to boo.
"Very manly! Cheng Ran!"
“What a style!”
Yang Xia's face turned red and she said, "Who wants to care about your business!" Then she turned around and left.
Cheng Ran walked out of the school gate, crossed the street, walked into an alley, and then saw Qin Xizhen sitting there at a table in a small restaurant.
She was wearing a black dress and a coat, her eyes were unfocused and seemed to have a hint of depth covered by the night.
She just sat there. If someone who didn't know her happened to see this scene on such a night, it would be absolutely stunning. If this scene was like a painting, then she was the person in the painting with a slightly sad look in her eyes, but she was always out of reach.
This was not a painting. Cheng Ran sat down in front of her.
Qin Xizhen was stunned for a moment, then reacted and showed a touching smile on his face, "You are here..."
Cheng Ran looked at her black dress and light makeup and said, "Thank you for your hard work."
"Making money... isn't hard," Qin Xizhen smiled, then opened a bag beside him, revealing a lot of hundred-yuan bills.
Nowadays, there is no convenient payment with a smartphone, so basically everything is paid in cash. Societies and student unions have plenty of cash.
"This is the payment. The subsequent 160 sets plus the initial 140 sets, a total of 300 sets. Your channel gave me an 80% discount, 55 yuan per set... minus the 6,000 I can get, this is your... 10,500."
Qin Xizhen counted the money skillfully, with a gleam in his eyes.
Cheng Ran felt quite helpless. It was obvious that she was a pretty girl who had dressed up carefully for the performance, but she was counting money here in the dark and windy night, and she even counted out the spoils. It was enough...
Swish, swish, swish.
Qin Xizhen took his own stack, put the other stack on the table, and handed it to Cheng Ran, "Here, this is yours."
"Wait!" Cheng Ran had just taken it when Qin Xi's jade-like fingers picked up the money in his hand again, and several hundred-dollar bills fell back into her hand.
"What...what does that mean?" Cheng Ran grinned, "You even gave me a few tickets back... You're just taking advantage of me, handling fee?"
Qin Xizhen pointed at her skirt with a half-smile, "This one, and there's another one, it's work wear for promotion, it's free!"
"You... I'm wearing this dress, right? You didn't buy it just because you wanted to!"
"If you can wear this, you can wear it..."
"Then take it off..."
Pop.
Cheng Ran got hit on the head.
Cheng Ran rubbed his forehead. This woman's fingers were so strong.
pain…
After a moment, Qin Xizhen said softly, "Cheng Ran, I don't want to go to the music school anymore. I don't want to participate in any more activities..."