69: Chapter 69 You brought the warehouse?

Hu Gualing originally thought... this truck's aesthetic value far outweighed its utility; in other words, he thought this truck was just something Director Liu brought in to show off.

After all, how much space could shoes take up, even with shoeboxes? Using an eight-meter-long truck for transport was just too ostentatious.

But when the cargo doors were opened and the scene inside the truck appeared before his eyes, Hu Gualing was truly stunned.

Shoeboxes, shoeboxes.

Still more shoeboxes.

Square shoeboxes bearing the Nadi trademark were neatly stacked in the cargo hold; looking at it, one couldn't see a single gap.

While Hu Gualing was dazed, General Manager Wu Jinkai seemed to have expected this, calling the employees to move the shoeboxes off the truck, "Move them to your Team Leader Gualing's new dormitory, and be careful with them!"

Hu Gualing had no heart to ask General Manager Wu Jinkai when he had changed his dormitory... his entire attention was on the countless shoeboxes before him.

He had originally thought that these shoeboxes might have been shaken to the back of the truck during transport, creating an illusion of quantity, and that they were actually empty inside...

But as one shoebox after another was removed, what was revealed before his eyes were even more shoeboxes inside.

Just how many pairs of shoes were there? It couldn't be hundreds, could it?

Hu Gualing was somewhat stunned. He clearly remembered that when Director Liu spoke to him on the phone, he said he would send one pair of every style of Nadi sneakers.

He had some understanding of the term "style."

A style refers to a brand-new design; for example, if Nadi launches a shoe with a brand-new design, it counts as a new style. Other products produced based on this design, even if the color scheme or patterns are changed, still count within the original style.

And the variety of Nadi shoes is quite refined: sports styles, casual styles, basketball shoes, soccer shoes... Sports styles don't even make up half of that.

So, one could imagine that there weren't many Nadi sneaker styles, and even if one of each were sent over, it would be at most a few dozen pairs... It was with this thought that Hu Gualing had accepted Director Liu's kindness last night without any psychological burden.

But now that the shoes were delivered, why was the whole cargo hold full?

Did he move the warehouse here?

Just then, he heard Director Liu introducing from the side: "These are a total of 1,286 styles of Nadi sneakers. Most of the shoe sizes match, so Gualing, you can completely change them up and wear them..."

"How many?"

Hu Gualing widened his eyes, "How many did you say... 1,286?? All different styles of Nadi sneakers?"

"Yes," Director Liu nodded with a smile, "Constantly innovating and producing more comfortable shoes is our Nadi responsibility."

"However, it's a pity that some styles sold too well and are out of stock, and there are even a few limited editions that are out of print. I had to rush samples from the design department overnight and pack them to send over. Things like these can only be used for collection..." Speaking of this, the expression on Director Liu's face looked a bit regretful.

Hu Gualing was completely dumbfounded.

Nearly 1,300 pairs of shoes. Even if he wore them out at full speed, one pair a month, it would take a hundred years to wear them all out...

And not to mention whether he could wear them all, just the value of these shoes... It is well known that Nadi focuses on the mid-to-high-end market. Even if not every pair of shoes is as expensive as the pair on his feet, they are at least 500 yuan a pair.

Let's calculate at the lowest price of 500 yuan per pair.

1,286 * 500 = 643,000.

640,000.

His salary as a security guard is 2,800 a month. Even if he didn't eat or drink for 20 years, he couldn't save 640,000.

640,000 is enough to buy a large apartment of over 100 square meters in the county town in full.

640,000 can build a large villa in the countryside.

640,000 can order takeout for a lifetime.

...

And Director Liu also said that there are some limited editions in these shoes, and some out-of-print samples. One can tell just by the name that these things aren't cheap.

"Are these samples and such very valuable?"

Director Liu thought for a moment and said: "I personally don't advocate hype, but according to the current market trend, the market price of limited edition sneakers should be between several thousand to tens of thousands... As for the samples, because they have special commemorative significance, the collection value should not be less than 150,000 per pair."

Hearing this number, Hu Gualing couldn't help but twitch the corner of his eye.

He secretly glanced at Wu Yingying, General Manager Wu Jinkai, and others, and found that their expressions were all a bit surprised, so he felt relieved and thought: "It seems I'm not the only one who is ignorant."

'But calculating this way, how much is this truckload of sneakers worth? It must be two or three million, right?'

Facing such a large sum of money, Hu Gualing not only didn't feel surprised, but instead felt distressed.

If he had saved not Wu Yingying, but the Young Miss of Nadi Group, then he would accept these shoes worth two or three million.

But now that he and Nadi Group are unrelated, he feels embarrassed to take this...

While he was distressed, the cargo hold had been gradually emptied, and General Manager Wu Jinkai led everyone to visit the dormitory.

This dormitory was originally Captain Tiao Zi's separate residence in the factory.

Upon learning that Nadi Group wanted to send shoes to Hu Gualing, General Manager Wu Jinkai had someone clean up the dormitory overnight.

Not only was the bedding replaced with new ones, but display racks specifically for placing shoes were also set up on three walls.

The shoes unloaded from the truck were all moved here and taken out of the shoeboxes to be placed on the display racks.

With over 1,000 pairs of Nadi sneakers of different styles displayed and arranged, even someone who doesn't understand shoes would feel a little shock in their heart at a glance... let alone Hu Gualing, a Student Athlete?

However, these things were too hot to handle.

He whispered to Director Liu: "Director Liu, these... are too valuable. I'm afraid I can't accept them."

Director Liu smiled peacefully: "Shoes are just commodities. Being able to match the spiritual character you displayed actually realizes their value. Plus... you didn't receive this for nothing."

"When you were being interviewed, our Nadi shoes were under your bed. Although it wasn't deliberately arranged, it will have a great positive impact on our Nadi's reputation. Even spending tens of millions or even hundreds of millions in advertising fees wouldn't achieve this effect..."

Hu Gualing listened, feeling a bit dazed.

When could the value of his, Hu Gualing's, be calculated in tens or hundreds of millions?

Just because Nadi shoes appeared in his interview video, Nadi Group could get such a big benefit?

"Do I have such great influence?" Hu Gualing felt it was so unrealistic.

Before Director Liu could speak, General Manager Wu Jinkai teased: "You think your influence is small? After that 'Empty out Jinkai Factory' interview of yours came out, the factory's orders have dropped by thirty percent in the past two days."

The reason General Manager Wu Jinkai could speak without any Life Qi was that... he knew in his heart that this was only temporary. As long as Hu Gualing and Jinkai could be tied together, the benefits for Jinkai Factory in the future would be unimaginable.