Without waiting for the supervisor to speak, Lin Cheng continued, “The cost for the company to arrange for technicians to come over just to oversee the unpacking should not be cheap. I will help you get things unpacked and installed all the way to just before debugging. Each unit will only cost 50 yuan.”

Lin Cheng’s words made the supervisor a little moved, but she was still very hesitant.

“What if you can’t do it?”

“Either way, the positioning of the equipment has already been determined. Even if I can’t install it properly, you won’t have much to lose, right?” Lin Cheng said lightly.

“If matters can be handled well today, you should be able to save a lot on additional costs. Also, according to your original plan, these equipment will at least meet the debugging conditions you promised to have done by tomorrow.”

Lin Cheng’s last words struck a chord in the supervisor’s heart: her report has been typed up. If there were still a bunch of unopened boxes here by tomorrow, the boss would definitely be dissatisfied with her work. But if matters could be finished today…  Just install the equipment first, so that when the boss comes to inspect it tomorrow, at least they can show progress.

The supervisor hesitated again and again but finally nodded and said, “Then let us try one. I’ll watch it from here. You can try it.”

“But the price can’t be 50 per unit. I can only give you 30 yuan per unit assembled.”

Lin Cheng said nothing, and the two looked at each other.

“Alright, 40 yuan per unit. My budget is limited. There are 12 units here, so I can only give you 40 units at most,” the supervisor said.

“Okay,” Lin Cheng nodded and began to direct the staff and porters on site on how to unload and position the boxes.

The reason the equipment manufacturer designed the products’ exterior this way was two-fold: in addition to technical convenience, it was also an anti-counterfeiting method.

As for why this not explained clearly in the early stage and technicians were not arranged to arrive with the goods, it was nothing more than a way for the dealership to increase its income.

Fortunately, as long as one could understand the instructions, the unboxing and assembly process was actually not that complicated.

Soon, under the clear directions of Lin Cheng, three factory workers plus Huang Yang and another repairman assembled the first piece of equipment.

The assistant flipped through the promotional pictures provided by the sales agent and compared them with the equipment in front of him. He said excitedly, “Yes, yes, yes, that’s what they have in their promotional pictures. It shouldn’t be wrong.”

… … translated by Maela @ whitemoonlighttranslations.com

The audience in the livestream channel couldn’t help but exclaim:

[It’s really like that!]

[Is this okay?]

[Lin Cheng is so smart, he can figure it out just by reading the instructions at the last minute.]

[I really admire this as I never understand the instructions in the manual.]

[Haha, don’t forget, Lin Cheng was the ‘boss’ who revitalized a farm last week. This instruction manual is a trivial matter.]

[Sure enough, the saying ‘knowledge is power’ is correct.]

[But I just want to know, what does Lin Cheng not know?!]

……

The supervisor also carefully looked at the assembled equipment. After confirming that it was correct, she nodded and said to everyone, “Then continue working.”

“Those unloading goods outside, as well as our staff, please hurry up!” the supervisor shouted to everyone again.

With the experience of assembling the first equipment, everyone’s efficiency improved a lot when working on the subsequent ones.

Soon, with everyone’s joint efforts, all the equipment were assembled.

Very satisfied with the night’s work, the supervisor simply increased the original salary for the porters from 8 yuan per unit to 10 yuan per unit.

“Thank you for your hard work today.” The supervisor asked the assistant to pay wages to the temporary workers and then thanked Lin Cheng.

As for Huang Yang, although he worked a little more, he also earned an extra twenty yuan. Therefore, Huang Yang was very happy when he received his wages.

But when he saw the five one-hundred-yuan bills that Lin Cheng received, he suddenly felt that the more than one hundred yuan in his hand was not so delicious anymore…

“If I get married, and we have children in the future, I will definitely let him study hard,” Huang Yang said.

He knew that Lin Cheng was only here to film a show and was actually different from them. Therefore, he was not jealous of Lin Cheng for making more money. He just couldn’t help but sigh in his heart: learn more and master more knowledge. This was always good.

The two chatted all the way back to Chaoyang Community.

……

It was already past one o’clock in the morning when Lin Cheng returned to where they lived.

Lin Cheng opened the door, and Lin Momo was still sitting on the bed with her eyes wide open.

“Why haven’t you slept yet? Aren’t you sleepy?” Lin Cheng asked as he walked into the room.

Sleepy…

Lin Momo was so sleepy that her eyes were glazed over, and her head was confused.

But Lin Momo had been unwilling to sleep before Lin Cheng came back.

“I was waiting for you, and I wanted to tell you, um…, um…” Lin Momo muttered a few words in confusion.

Seeing this, Lin Cheng felt a little funny.

“Okay, I’m back. If you’re sleepy, just go to sleep,” Lin Cheng gently patted Lin Momo’s head.

“Well, okay, good night, dad…” Lin Momo snuggled into the quilt, remembered something, and yawned again, “Uncle Hu and Aunt Yang from next door left half a pot of hot water for you on their earthen stove… …”

“Okay, I understand, go to sleep.”

Lin Momo turned over and almost immediately fell asleep.

Lin Cheng went out to wash up and also borrowed a lounge chair from next door.

This was a plastic reclining chair that was used beside a swimming pool. Who knew where Hu Mao’s family found it.

Lin Cheng placed the recliner next to Lin Momo’s bed and fell asleep too.

Serve as Contrast Team in a ‘Dad with Baby’ Show translated by Maela @ whitemoonlighttranslations.com

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Chapter 84.4 — Knowledge is Power