108: You're someone I traded my cousin for.
Undercover, day three.
Exactly nine o'clock in the morning.
Lei Zhen and the other students who passed the assessment yesterday had all arrived at the training room. After waiting for more than ten minutes, Li Mingwei finally arrived late.
However, Teacher Li seemed to be in a good mood today.
"Students, you will soon be assigned to several groups in the business hall, officially starting a new chapter in your lives. Next, I will read out the groups each of you will be assigned to. Everyone, listen carefully."
Everyone focused their gaze on him.
"Li Chunchun, He Xiang, Zhou Chang, and Zhao Yilong are assigned to Business Group 3.
Zhong Zhaofeng, Wu Yanling, and Fan Xinxin are assigned to Business Group 4.
Chen Jiajia, Su Xing, and Hua Yuchen are assigned to Business Group 5.
Lei Zhen, Lin Miaozhen, Shen Ao, and Zhu Xiaojun are assigned to Business Group 10."
Lei Zhen was also very surprised after hearing the group assignments. The four of us undercover agents were actually assigned to the same group!
"Did everyone hear clearly?" Li Mingwei asked.
"Clearly!"
Next, Li Mingwei led these fourteen new employees into the business hall.
The business hall was at the other end of the company. After passing through a long corridor, everyone heard a certain clamor getting closer and closer.
A large double-door glass door appeared before them. The moment the door opened, air laden with heat and noise rushed towards them.
Before their eyes was a scene of bustling activity.
In the thousand-square-meter business hall, densely packed workstations were like chopsticks stuck in a bowl, with a hunched figure sitting behind each gray partition.
The "da da" sound of fingertips on keyboards blended together, like heavy rain hitting a tin roof, making even breathing quicken by half a beat to keep pace.
No one looked up at the fourteen newcomers. The man in the plaid shirt in the front row was smiling foolishly into his headset, his voice low but full of excitement:
"Sister Wang, this market trend is just missing your step. If you enter tomorrow, it will really be too late."
Next to the workstation closest to the window, a supervisor in a black suit was patting his subordinate's shoulder, the printed paper crumpled in his hand rustling, whether he was urging an order or announcing good news was unclear.
The aroma of instant coffee hung in the air, mixed with the smell of takeout boxes someone hadn't had time to throw away.
And the red words "This Month's Performance TOP3" scrolled on the electronic screen on the wall, making the entire hall's bustle even more dry and dense.
Occasionally, someone would get up to get water, their steps a quick jog, the chair legs scraping "squeak" on the floor, only to be instantly drowned out by louder keyboard and call sounds.
Even the sunlight streaming in through the window seemed to be cut into fragments by this bustle, falling on everyone's tense backs.
The scene before them stunned everyone.
Seeing the new employees enter, several team leaders left their seats and came up one by one to collect their people.
One of them, a small boy, ran the fastest. His name was Xu Feng, and he was the leader of Group 10.
Lei Zhen and Lin Miaozhen were all assigned to his group.
Among the team leaders, only Xu Feng smiled brightly, while the others looked displeased.
Li Mingwei handed the newcomers over to the team leaders, then turned and left.
As soon as he left, everyone surrounded Xu Feng.
"Xu Feng, you really sacrificed your face for performance!"
Because everyone had heard that the reason Li Mingwei assigned Lei Zhen to Xu Feng was because he introduced his cousin to Li Mingwei last night.
"What did I do?" Xu Feng pretended to be innocent.
"Don't think we don't know. You treated Teacher Li to dinner last night and even called your cousin. Your cousin is so beautiful, don't you feel like you're losing out?"
Xu Feng laughed heartily: "Old Zhang, if you talk like that, I'll tell Teacher Li!"
The other team leaders also looked disgusted: "For a new person, you sold your beautiful little cousin. If your family knew about this, they'd beat you to death!"
"That's right, you're too cunning. We clearly agreed to draw lots for the newcomers, but you actually engaged in sexual bribery. Can a person be so shameless?"
Xu Feng laughed heartily: "What sexual bribery? My cousin is single, and Teacher Li is also single. I'm just setting them up. Does it need to be exaggerated like this?"
With that, he pulled Lei Zhen and walked forward: "Don't listen to these people's nonsense. Come on, come on, I'll take everyone to get familiar with things first."
Group 10 was at the very edge of the hall, almost requiring traversing the entire hall to reach it.
Lei Zhen saw that the first position in each group was for the team leader, and the team leader's position faced the two rows of team members to the left and right.
In addition, next to each team leader's position stood a two-meter-high metal flagpole, and on the red flag at the top of the flagpole was written the name of their respective group.
Opposite the hall was a giant blackboard over ten meters long, which divided areas by the names of the ten groups, with each area displaying the current month's performance.
Lei Zhen took a quick look and saw that it was only the 20th, but two teams already had over 700,000 in performance.
And this business department on the 11th floor was only one of three business departments, known as the First War Zone. There were also the Second War Zone and Third War Zone upstairs.
Although the three war zones operated independently, they also competed with each other. It was said that the First War Zone currently had the best performance among the three war zones.
Walking to Group 10 at the very edge, Lei Zhen saw the name written on the red flag: [Flying Eagle Team].
Lei Zhen looked back and saw that the Flying Eagle Team's performance column showed 280,000, which was at the bottom among the ten war zones.
Team leader Xu Feng was only about 1.6 meters tall, short and plump, forming a huge contrast with the 1.8-meter tall, handsome Lei Zhen.
"Everyone is busy. I'll introduce my colleagues to you after work." Despite Xu Feng's loud voice, he spoke very politely.
The other seven or eight team members, although all on the phone, still glanced at this 'god-like' person who had shone so brightly during the training period, in between their work.
Besides that, the beautiful Lin Miaozhen was constantly being looked at by several male colleagues.
Meanwhile, Shen Ao and Zhu Xiaojun were almost invisible.
Then Xu Feng arranged seats for Lei Zhen and the others. Xu Feng adopted a one-on-one approach, with the four of them sitting next to an experienced employee.
And Lei Zhen was personally mentored by him.
Everyone first familiarized themselves with the environment, then Xu Feng took out a stack of phone cards and distributed two to each person.
"These are the bank cards bound to our WeChat business accounts. These business accounts are old accounts that have been nurtured for a long time and are very valuable. Don't add people indiscriminately to avoid getting them blocked. If you leave your job later, these WeChat accounts must be returned to the company intact, understood?"
The four nodded, took the phone cards they were given, and saw that each had a label with the phone number, WeChat ID, and login password written on it.
In addition, each person also received two business phones, and everyone inserted the phone cards they were given.
Then it was time to log in to WeChat.
After logging in, Lei Zhen discovered that these WeChat accounts still had many friends, which should be customers that former employees hadn't developed.
In the morning, Xu Feng didn't give them any phone resources, only letting them listen to others make calls.
Xu Feng, however, specifically came to Lei Zhen's side and chatted with him.
"Lei Zhen, I spent a lot of money to get you into our group. Do you know how many people covet my cousin? If it weren't for you, I really wouldn't have wanted to introduce her to Li Mingwei. Maybe you don't know, but that guy is divorced. If my aunt knew about this, she would definitely beat me!"
Only then did Lei Zhen realize that the team leaders' words earlier were not nonsense; he really was exchanged by Team Leader Xu for his cousin.
Of course, Xu Feng didn't make this decision lightly.
He went to the monitoring department to retrieve Lei Zhen's call recordings. After listening to Lei Zhen's calls, he was nothing but shocked.
Others might not know, but as a professional, he was very clear that when Lei Zhen communicated with customers, both his overall state and his on-the-spot reactions were exceptional.
In all his years in the industry, it was the first time he had seen a new employee with such talent.
In addition, the Flying Eagle Team was already on the verge of great danger.
Because the company adopted an elimination system, employees who didn't close a deal for three months would be eliminated, and team leaders who ranked last in performance for three consecutive months would face the same outcome.
The Flying Eagle Team's performance was at the bottom last month, and it seemed they couldn't escape the last-place finish this month either. The time left for him was indeed not much.
So Lei Zhen had now become Xu Feng's last resort.
Two hours of the morning passed quickly. Perhaps due to the atmosphere on-site, even Shen Ao gradually integrated into his role, slowly diminishing his identity as a police officer in his heart.
However, while he was in the restroom, he overheard a conversation outside.
"I didn't expect the team leader to get that new guy into our group. He's really something else."
"Probably the company saw our group's performance was the worst and found a strong newcomer to see if he could save it."
"A newcomer, no matter how strong, how strong can he be? I think that deal he closed was pure luck, just ran into a dumb customer."
"I don't know about that, but Lin Miaozhen is quite pretty."
"What, you want to pursue her?"
"Pursue what? She just arrived, don't scare the little girl."
"What do you think about the other two?"
"What else can I think? The younger one is quite sharp, but the older one always seems a bit dull."
"I heard that too. Shen Ao had the worst scores among this batch of trainees and almost got eliminated. Li Mingwei pairing the best performer with the worst performer makes it seem fairer, otherwise, the other team leaders would have revolted."