Su Xiaotian had told Su Xiaosi that the opening would be in a little over a month.
This didn't actually refer to the entire five floors of the mall opening.
According to Su Xiaotian's plan, the first and second floors would open first. The opening date she had set was for the grand opening of Yiming Pavilion, Yiming Pavilion Barbecue, and Yiming Pavilion Hot Pot, all located on the first and second floors.
Su Xiaotian's plan was to wait another half a month, until the customer flow on the first and second floors stabilized, and then open the supermarket on the third floor.
After some more time, the fourth and fifth floors would then open.
After all, opening all at once would indeed be quite difficult.
Especially since Su Xiaosi was absent, the preparations for the third, fourth, and fifth floors were not very thorough.
However, Su Xiaosi had misunderstood.
He thought Su Xiaotian's idea was to open everything at once.
As for the difficulties, for Su Xiaosi, as long as it could make money, nothing was a problem.
Although this building mostly belonged to Su Xiaotian, he had also invested some capital.
Moreover, the brother and sister had agreed from the beginning that the operations of the third, fourth, and fifth floors would be managed by Su Xiaosi.
Su Xiaosi only needed to give Su Xiaotian a portion of the net income as rent according to the agreed ratio.
Su Xiaosi's greatest virtue was that as long as he could make money, he would overcome any difficulty.
He worked day and night on the preparations for the three floors.
Even Grandpa Su and Grandma Su, who usually didn't see eye to eye with their grandson, began to feel sorry for Su Xiaosi.
Su Xiaotian could only help as much as she could.
Su Xiaotian handled the original recruitment information and pre-job training herself.
Because she had classmates interning at newspapers, Su Xiaotian also specifically invited reporters to come and interview them at the time.
In this era, there were many advertisements, but most of them were from large corporations.
Only these large corporations had the financial strength to bear significant advertising costs.
This time, Su Xiaotian thought of taking a different approach, promoting the shops without advertising.
As a complex business mall, integrating dining and shopping, this was a good gimmick, and she felt that newspapers would be interested in this kind of information.
As expected, after a simple discussion, reporters indeed expressed great interest.
Since she was going to advertise, Su Xiaotian didn't intend to do things on a small scale.
Reporters were familiar with each other, and if Su Xiaotian could find one, she could find others.
Soon, Su Xiaotian invited reporters from four good newspapers in the capital to come and interview them at the time.
Su Xiaotian was not someone who didn't understand social courtesies; she made all the necessary gestures.
The reporters were already interested in the matter, and with Su Xiaotian's generous approach, they readily agreed.
The money Su Xiaotian gave them was much less than paying for advertising directly, but for the reporters, they were very satisfied.
No matter how much advertising fees were paid to the newspapers, it wouldn't reach their hands.
However, this Miss Su was different; she directly gave red envelopes, and this money was their own writing fee.
The satisfactory outcome was that the reporters were all secretly thinking that they must write a good report to let everyone in the capital know that such a place for eating and shopping had been added.
Shopping was also one-stop, where one could buy daily necessities, as well as clothing, shoes, and hats.
Just as everyone was gearing up for the opening preparations, an unexpected event suddenly occurred.
One day, Su Xiaotian was busy translating manuscripts at the Translation Bureau when the office phone suddenly rang.
Tang Ping answered the phone and, upon hearing that it was for Su Xiaotian, called her over.
Su Xiaotian put down her pen, picked up the phone, and twirled the phone cord with one hand.
"Hello, this is Su Xiaotian."
A worried voice came from Grandma Su on the phone.
"Xiaotian, hurry over here. Someone came to our door saying that our building is an illegal structure and demanding that we demolish it immediately!"
Su Xiaotian was stunned.
What was going on?
How did this building become an illegal structure?
Su Xiaotian remembered that the regulation on illegal structures was still a few years away from being officially introduced.
At this time, it was merely a concept that had been proposed.
How could someone come to the door and directly declare their building an illegal structure?
Grandma Su, on the other end of the phone, didn't hear Su Xiaotian's reply and became even more anxious.
"Xiaotian, Grandma isn't educated and doesn't know what an illegal structure is. Hurry over and take a look. Your fourth brother doesn't know where he's gone either, and we can't find him when we need him!"
Su Xiaotian, who had been pondering the issue of illegal structures, was suddenly interrupted by Grandma Su and only then reacted.
The problem now was not to consider when the policy on illegal structures was introduced, but to see what had actually happened.
Su Xiaotian quickly grabbed her bag and said, "Tang Ping, I'm going out. Please inform Director Cai for me."
Tang Ping vaguely heard Su Xiaotian's phone call and knew that something had happened at home.
"Xiaotian, do you need any help?" Tang Ping asked with concern.
Su Xiaotian shook her head and said, "I'll go and see the situation first. I suspect someone is deliberately looking for trouble."
"If there's anything, call us, and we'll figure it out together."
Tang Ping and Su Xiaotian had been getting along very well since they reconciled.
She used to think that Su Xiaotian got in solely through connections, but now she greatly admired this strong and hardworking young girl.
"Okay!" Su Xiaotian didn't stand on ceremony, nodded in agreement, and then hurried out.
As soon as Su Xiaotian left, Xie Kaiyu began to speak sarcastically.
"Tang Ping, why are you trying so hard to curry favor with Su Xiaotian? Were you rejected?"
Xie Kaiyu originally thought he was very capable, but after arriving at the Translation Bureau, he realized that there were many people more capable than him.
If nothing else, among the interns who came in the same batch, he had become the worst.
Before, he might have made an effort to stay at the Translation Bureau for his future.
Now, knowing for sure that he had no chance of staying at the Translation Bureau, Xie Kaiyu had completely let himself go.
Tang Ping was displeased by these words.
"Xie Kaiyu, we are colleagues. Why are you saying such unpleasant things?"
What did she mean by currying favor?
Wasn't it just mutual concern between colleagues?
The more one interacted with Xie Kaiyu, the more problems one discovered.
"You know Su Xiaotian has connections and want to curry favor with her to stay, right? What, if you can say it, why can't I?"
Xie Kaiyu didn't know about Tang Ping's family situation, but the fact that Su Xiaotian had connections was almost common knowledge in the Translation Bureau.
Xie Kaiyu naturally assumed that Tang Ping was trying to curry favor with Su Xiaotian in order to stay at the Translation Bureau.
"Don't you think about it, Su Xiaotian relies on such a big tree behind her. What can you help her with?"
Xie Kaiyu's words did remind Tang Ping.
Yes, even they knew that Su Xiaotian was someone with real backing.
The powerful figure behind her was as thick as it could possibly be!
How could anyone be so blind as to go and cause trouble?