[Xiaoyang, you’re actually pretty good!]

The whole livestream sighed in unison.

Yang Zhengxi modestly shook his head. "No, no, you flatter me, you flatter me..."

Good grief, say you’re fat and you start panting, huh?!

A 50-yuan coupon, right?! Fine, we’ll claim it! Look at your group’s web page, this month’s sales—so straightforward! Not a trace of fake data, [0]!

And that’s already saving your face. If we looked at total sales, it’d probably also be 0, right?! I refuse to believe anyone buys this online, seriously!

Just fooling our poor Qiao Bao! Out here in thirty- or forty-degree heat picking cotton!

We were about to scold you two more sentences, when suddenly we heard Yang Zhengxi say, "Everyone get ready, the lucky draw is starting—"

Nothing more to say then! Qiaoqiao, hurry up and pick more cotton, or there won’t be enough for the quilts later!

Everyone noisily squeezed together again, but the barrage instantly quieted down.

Inside the group as well, they were watching the lively livestream, and the more they watched, the more stirred up they felt:

"Gotta say, the vibe in this livestream is really good!"

Livestreaming comes in all shapes and forms; you get all kinds of people.

Some big anchors who focus on selling—when they go live, the chat is as noisy as a hired comment army, all synchronized greetings and endless echoing.

If you want to ask a question, it’s gone in the blink of an eye, and nobody even responds.

Then there are those who don’t sell anything, or who keep a slower pace, with fans that are too many and too mixed.

A lot of people are just wandering around; naturally they’ll say good and bad things alike, just want to watch a random stream for fun, and somehow that restlessness rubs off on you.

After watching, not only do you not relax, you actually get more anxious after spending a bunch of money.

But Qiaoqiao’s livestream is different.

Everyone’s chatting aimlessly from all corners of the country, yet the barrage is oddly orderly.

By orderly, it’s not that people line up to talk, but that when someone in front asks a question, someone behind immediately answers.

Reading the barrage feels like carefully scrolling a comment section, and even when there are skeptical fans, they never argue; instead, they keep spamming [yeah yeah yeah][right right right]...

As if they’re afraid of drawing attention, quiet yet lively at the same time.

This contradictory contrast makes the whole livestream feel very calm.

Watching and watching, they couldn’t help it; they quietly clicked follow.

After clicking, they sighed again:

"If only we had some products for the streamer to sell for us."

As long as it’s not a 7-million farm machine, they’d surely be able to buy something.

Not for anything else, just because it feels good watching this streamer—they want to buy something.

Once this was said, several people in the office agreed.

They joined in the fun, shouting loudly:

"Don’t just follow; we gotta boost the popularity too! It’s our group’s product after all, let’s at least go claim the coupon, yeah?"

As soon as they said that, everyone burst out laughing.

Right then, an unfamiliar alert sound suddenly chimed from the backend.

The sales department froze, then crowded over—

[Paid]

[Paid]

No way? Someone actually bought this thing?!

The tech department next door was dumbfounded too, staring as the sales figure suddenly jumped from 0 to 2, completely blank.

Then they checked the usage of the distributed coupons—

One was used.

Hold on, this isn’t about using one or two coupons!!!

Looking at the backend again, the buyer had sent a message: [You can only claim one coupon per person? Then what if I want to buy two units?]

Before they could reply, the next message came:

[Forget it, it’s only 50. For such a big group, you’re really stingy. If it weren’t for Qiaoqiao, I wouldn’t even bother buying from you.]

Heavens above! They were being wronged!

Their group benefits are great, with an excellent local reputation; they are absolutely not like this!

Wait! Now’s not the time to explain that!

The tech department shrieked and rushed out, the sales department also bolted over; the two sides met in the corridor and said in unison:

"Someone really bought it?!"

...

Meanwhile, in the scorching cotton fields.

The cab had a driver’s seat and a co-driver’s seat, and Yang Zhengxi was helping with the stream from the window.

Right now, Qiaoqiao was carefully learning the indicator lights and how to adjust the seat from the driver, extremely meticulous; nobody was paying attention to the sales figure on that link.

Back in the group, though, they were already in a panic.

Here’s the thing: when you buy large-scale farm machinery like this, the state offers certain subsidies.

Also, many people don’t pay in full; they choose installments instead, and most of the time they can get interest-free loans.

They put down a small amount, drive the machine away, and only after they earn money do they have the cash flow to pay the balance—otherwise, with something costing 7 million at a time, anyone who can look at it and is willing to get into this line of work would be hurting down to the bone, right?!

Plus, the sticker price is 7 million, but what kind of discount they can offer depends on policy. The value of the follow-up support services and freebies, though, that’s a whole different story!

Seven million isn’t 700; how do you not at least ask a few more questions?

In short—

Ah! Everyone slapped their thighs in unison: they seriously never thought someone would actually buy it!

Seeing that lone 50-yuan coupon hanging pitifully in the backend, the tech and sales departments exchanged looks, their old faces flushing bright red.

With the way they handled this, the group is definitely going to hit the trending list for being stingy.

What else could they do?

The sales department decided on the spot:

"Since the client paid in full so decisively, we can’t just let them spend money in a fog—Xiaowang, go talk to our Chairman Yang’s kid. Xiaoli, make a spreadsheet of all the preferential services, installment deals, and bundled freebies we’ve given for this model over the past three years."

"I’ll go contact Assistant Chen right now..."

Once the whole system started moving, the efficiency was outstanding.

At the same time, someone in the livestream had also noticed that suddenly jumping monthly sales figure.

[2]

It really stood out.

[Did I remember wrong? Just now the sales were still at 0, how is it 2 now?]

[Xiaoyang, Xiaoyang, that’s shady! How can you pad the numbers on your own product? We wouldn’t laugh at you if you couldn’t sell it]

[Exactly, we also wouldn’t laugh at Qiaoqiao hahahahaha]

[Did some big shot deliberately bump it by two units to save Qiaoqiao’s face?]

[Two units, that’s 14 million. Who’s got that kind of guts? Must be the backend glitching.]

[Backend crashed +1]

[Pass it on, the backend crashed]

[Don’t get sidetracked, I’m seriously learning new tech here; you don’t get to touch this kind of farm machine when taking a normal driver’s license test]

[For real, look at how they’re adjusting the seat, and this light, and the A/C modes—she’s teaching us step by step, doesn’t seem that hard]

[Farm machinery operation generally isn’t too difficult; if the threshold’s too high, it really hurts operator efficiency]

[Exactly, the more complicated it is, the easier it is to go wrong; you can’t afford the repair costs and wasted time]

[Alright, alright, I’ll study hard. Next time my résumé will have one more line under skills]

[Yep! More skills never hurt, don’t forget to add "cotton picking" too]

[Too bad Teacher Qiaoqiao doesn’t work an office job, otherwise she could teach us how to write résumés. Feels like all these skills have nowhere to go]

[Buddy, you mean skills like picking cotton and driving a cotton picker without a license?]

[Just say, if I’m an accounting major and I add that line, won’t the interviewer remember me?]

[I’m dying, let me answer as if I were the interviewer! If everything else is equal, I’d definitely prioritize hiring you]

Everyone was happily going off-topic, and Yang Zhengxi only caught a quick flash of something about sales or whatever before his attention was pulled away again.

It wasn’t until his phone started vibrating nonstop that he picked it up for a look—and froze.