Serve as Contrast Team in a ‘Dad with Baby’ Show

Chapter 12,Part 1: Making Money

Lin Cheng took eight LPG tanks from the warehouse.

“These tanks are not light,” the warehouse manager reminded Lin Cheng, only thinking that he was inexperienced.

However, as soon as the manager finished speaking, Lin Cheng picked up two tanks of gas and walked towards the door without changing his expression.

After going back and forth four times, Lin Cheng firmly fixed the eight gas tanks on the rear compartment of the electric tricycle.

The station master had also come over from the side, and seeing Lin Cheng do this, he exchanged looks with the warehouse manager, their faces full of surprise. They had heard that the person who would come here to record the show was a singer, and they thought it should be someone who couldn’t lift their shoulders or lift their hands—have no strength at all.

At this time, Wang Xi, sitting in front of the computer, was also surprised.

“Brother Chen Yu, Brother Cheng wasn’t a sports science student before, was he?” It seemed he was the type that only looks thin wearing clothes but is actually fit and strong?

“How is that possible?” Chen Yu said, glancing at Wang Xi.

After thinking about it, Chen Yu said again, “I seem to have heard someone say that Lin Cheng graduated as a finance major.”

“Finance?!” Wang Xi and Zhou Qi’s eyes widened.

“Why did Brother Cheng go study finance?”

“That’s right, Brother Cheng debuted quite early, I thought Brother Cheng graduated as a music major.”

“Or acting, art or something,” Zhou Qi echoed.

“You’re asking me, but how would I know?” Chen Yu muttered, shrugging.

Truth be told, he was equally puzzled about Lin Cheng’s choice of major in college.

The attention of the three people returned to the livestream page again.

At this time, Lin Cheng had already set off on his tricycle.

Seeing Lin Cheng going west, a few words suddenly popped up on the barrage:

[Did he go in the wrong direction? ]

[I also noticed that the first user on the order list is in Huajiang City Garden, so he should go east.]

[Even celebrities should have basic common sense. ]

[That’s right, if he doesn’t know the way, doesn’t he know to look at the navigation or ask passers-by? ]

……

Just when the audience in the livestream channel posted questions one after another, thinking that Lin Cheng’s ‘job’ was going to be messed up, they saw Lin Cheng driving the tricycle into a small alley.

[Tianlan District? Is this on the task list? ]

[It’s not, I’m sure of it.]

[Oh, I understand now! This is not a scheduled appointment on the task list, this should be a newly reserved real-time order! ]

Someone finally stumbled on the truth.

In addition to the schedule of deliveries he got from the distribution station, they also gave Lin Cheng a special app on his work phone on which he could receive real-time orders.

[I see. ]

[But Lin Cheng hasn’t even finished delivering the 30 reserved orders, and now he started taking real-time orders, wouldn’t that be bad? ]

[That’s right, at this rate, it is uncertain if he would be able to complete the task and get the guaranteed salary.]

Among the doubts, someone soon put forward a different idea: 【Could it be that he didn’t intend to complete the guarantee task? The addresses on the appointment form are all over the city, delivering them one by one, I don’t know how long it will take to complete everything on the way. If you can’t complete the 30 tasks because of the distance and time delay, it’s better to just deliver a real-time order and get the extra money instead.]

[That makes sense. ]

[If this is the case, that would be a smart move. ]

……

Just as the audience was guessing Lin Cheng’s purpose, Lin Cheng has already finished delivering the real-time order to the first customer and was rushing towards the second customer.

Then to the third, the fourth, the fifth…

Gradually, someone summed up Lin Cheng’s delivery pattern—first of all, Lin Cheng didn’t deliver gas according to the order listed on the task list, but instead divided the orders according to geographic area and time. Only the farthest household along the way was used as the endpoint. In the process, Lin Cheng will take timely orders within 200 meters of his route.

In this way, Lin Cheng’s gas delivery efficiency was indeed much higher. Within an hour, although Lin Cheng only completed 3 appointment orders, he had already delivered 8 real-time orders of liquefied petroleum gas.

“Brother Cheng is so smart!” Wang Xi exclaimed in front of the computer.

Zhou Qi also nodded approvingly.

Staring at the livestream display, Chen Yu secretly breathed a sigh of relief. When Lin Cheng was handed this job-orders list this morning, he sweated a lot for him in his heart, and he never expected it would be okay.

“But if Brother Cheng’s tasks go so smoothly, will there be less barrage discussion and highlights?” Zhou Qi asked worriedly.

On Day 1 after the livestream was launched, the most popular Bai Yulin attracted a large number of new fans in the livestream channel because of his dancing.

Actor Gao Yuankai also showed a lot of skills in repairing small appliances, flower arrangement, and cooking on the first day of recording the show.

Although the brat from Zheng Chenye’s family got a lot of attention because he was too spoiled, he still somehow created a buzz and became a topic of conversation.

Even Duan Bei, the pretend ‘daddy’, turned tapioca pearls into medicinal jelly because of a work mistake and became a hot search.

Only the group of Lin Cheng and Lin Momo behaved so normal that there was no bright spot or hype.

“Not necessarily,” Chen Yu murmured while staring at the number of people in the livestream channel.

Although Lin Cheng and Lin Momo’s performance was mediocre, the number of people in the livestream channel was surprisingly stable, and has gradually increased to more than 20,000.

Chen Yu watched Lin Cheng who had already delivered a batch of LPG orders in the live broadcast room and was returning to the station to pick up another batch of gas tanks. He couldn’t help complaining in his heart: why didn’t he see this person show such focus when it came to his own singing engagements…

If Lin Cheng had only shown a little willingness to improve over the years, his career wouldn’t be so muddled as it is now.

T/N: Google tells me this is what an electric tricyle from China looks like. The other picture is from Thailand but it specifically delivers LPG tanks. Just so we’re all on the same page as to what Lin Cheng is doing haha