47: Chapter 47 High-Price Buyback

Seeing Wu Ya choked up, Chen Guangke secretly gloated.

"See! Isn't this coming up with a better name than 'Three-Person Company'?"

Wu Ya took a deep breath.

She wouldn't argue with an idiot.

Turning around, she asked Shen Yan, "Do you have any ideas?"

Shen Yan thought for a moment and replied, "Three men make a tiger; I think we can call it Cheng Hu Enterprise."

As soon as he finished speaking, Wu Ya applauded enthusiastically.

Chen Guangke's eyes widened; he simply refused to accept it.

"Three men make a tiger—I used the first two characters from the idiom, and he used the last two. Why is your attitude so drastically different?"

Wu Ya replied as a matter of course, "Because his name sounds much more advanced than yours! Anyway, I agree. The company name will be Cheng Hu Company!"

Chen Guangke snorted heavily and said nothing more.

The company name was settled.

Shen Yan then told them about the office space issue.

"Then why don't we just rent that place?"

"To get there, we must take ten subway stops and five bus stops, and most importantly, we still have to walk for about ten minutes."

"It's a bit remote, but it's cheap and practical there!"

"Exactly! We are just starting out. The office space doesn't need to be too fancy, and the location doesn't need to be too central. We just need enough spaciousness."

Hearing the two of them say this, Shen Yan hesitated for a moment before replying, "Fine. I'll call the Agent later and have him bring the contract over for me to sign."

...After renting the office space and purchasing office supplies, Shen Yan had less than 650,000 left.

Looking at his assets on the system panel, Shen Yan felt that this situation wouldn't work.

The company was just starting, and not only was it unable to generate profit for him, but he also had to pour money into maintaining the capital chain.

If he waited and just spent what he had, he would return to the situation he was in four months ago.

"System, you haven't given me the second piece of ordinary wealth intelligence for today yet!"

The system acted as if it hadn't heard him speaking and remained silent.

Helplessly, Shen Yan had to go attend to his own matters.

When he was almost done with his work, a call came in on his mobile phone.

"Hello, who is this?"

"My name is Li Wen. Are you Shen Yan?"

"Yes, I am. What is the matter?"

"It's like this: I heard that you bought a painting at a private gallery a couple of days ago, is that correct?"

Shen Yan raised an eyebrow, took his phone away, and glanced at the number displayed.

The source of this number was Sea City.

After checking, he put the phone back to his ear and asked the person, "I did buy a painting, that's correct. What about it?"

A strange voice came from the other end of the line: "It's like this: the author of this painting is a very good friend of mine who passed away in an accident a while ago."

"I want to buy this painting back at double the price. I wonder if you agree?"

Shen Yan naturally agreed.

After all, he bought the painting to make money.

However, he still needed to put on an act.

"Are you a scammer?"

"Where did you get my personal information?"

The other party quickly explained, "Sir, I am absolutely not a scammer. If you are worried that I am a scammer, I can transfer the money to you first."

"The reason I have your personal information is because the owner of that private gallery gave it to me."

Shen Yan feigned hesitation and then agreed, "Fine. Since you put it that way, let's meet in person."

After setting the time and place, he set off.

In the coffee shop.

A man wearing a deep blue suit was sitting by the window waiting.

Seeing him arrive, the other party excitedly stood up and waved at him.

Shen Yan walked straight over.

The other party extended his hand toward Shen Yan and said, "Hello, my surname is Han. You can call me Old Han."

Shen Yan smiled and shook the other party's hand.

"You look about my age, so I won't call you Old Han. I'll call you Mr. Han."

"Take a look, is this the painting you want?"

Saying that, he handed over the painting in his hand.

The other party glanced at it and nodded with certainty.

"This is indeed the painting by my good friend. Thank you for being willing to part with it and let me have this painting."

Shen Yan shook his head.

"You're welcome. This is equivalent to selling the painting to you again. Regarding your good friend... please accept my condolences."

Hearing the words 'good friend,' the other party's eyes immediately filled with sorrow.

"...She... She was a good person. I just don't know why good people don't get good rewards; she actually got cancer at such a young age."

"Forget it, let's not talk about this. Please give me your card number, and I will transfer the money to you right now."

Shen Yan nodded, then exchanged money for goods.

After the money arrived in his account, Shen Yan parted ways with the other party.

He clicked on the system panel and checked his current assets.

[Assets: 182639]

He now had a total balance of 1.82 million.

Although it seemed like a lot, he actually knew it was far from enough.

The company was in its early stages and still needed money for many things.

This included not only labor costs but also office facilities and the consumption costs during software development.

He could receive two pieces of ordinary wealth intelligence every day, but these two pieces were not necessarily local intelligence.

This meant that ordinary wealth intelligence could only occasionally bring him unexpected windfalls; it couldn't provide him with a stable income.

To achieve a stable income, he must first get the company on the right track.

Or, he needed the system to upgrade again so he could reliably receive one piece of advanced wealth intelligence every day.

Between these two options, Shen Yan felt the first one was more likely to be completed.

Because up to this point, he didn't know what to do to make the system upgrade.

Therefore, the second option was impractical for him.

As for the first option...

He already had an idea in mind.

The next day.

Shen Yan received a call from the organizer of the Internet Competition early in the morning.

"Mr. Shen, we are currently in An City. I wonder if you have time to meet with us?"

Meet in person? Shen Yan felt confused.

The Internet Competition was already over; why was the other party looking for him?

It couldn't be about the competition ranking, could it?

Thinking of this, he asked the other party on the phone, "What is the matter you need me for?"

The other party didn't explicitly say on the phone.

"In short, if you have time, we hope to meet you in person."

Seeing the other party's insistence, Shen Yan felt they must have something important to discuss face-to-face, so he agreed to the meeting request.

The meeting place arranged by the organizer was a pet store.

This was somewhat unexpected for him.

After arriving at the pet store, he began looking around for the organizer.

"Are you looking for me?"