Chapter 845 — Hiring a Spokesperson
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"I don't..." Lai the Fatso smiled bitterly. "But money makes the devil turn the millstone — so long as we're willing to pay, hiring a spokesperson is easy enough."
"Oh, then do as you see fit." Wei Zhao shrugged indifferently.
"Do you have anyone in mind, boss?" Lai the Fatso knew that many manufacturers hired celebrity endorsers not only to bring popularity to their products, but also because the company owners were often fans of those celebrities themselves. So he wanted to ask Wei Zhao which star he liked.
"Someone in mind?" Wei Zhao was taken aback. He did not know any celebrities — how could he name one? But then a name suddenly came to him. "Isn't there a celebrity called Xu Shilan?"
Wei Zhao remembered buying Xu Shilan's albums for the young miss and Little Shu, and he had seen the two of them watching her concert at the villa. A rather pleasing young girl, bouncing about the stage — though he wondered whether she would still look good with her makeup off.
"Ah — yes, there is!" Lai the Fatso was startled at the name, then nodded. "Boss, Xu Shilan is a top-tier pop idol..."
Lai the Fatso was calculating how much it would cost to bring in Xu Shilan as spokesperson. She was wildly popular at the moment, with countless middle schoolers among her fans, so her price and terms would surely be high. But since it was Wei Zhao who had suggested her, Lai the Fatso said nothing more — he would simply do his best.
"Oh, then let's hire her." Wei Zhao did not think Xu Shilan was anything special and did not take it seriously at all. He had only heard that the young miss, Little Shu, and Tang Zhi were all her fans, and he simply wanted to bring her in to make the three of them happy. As for Wei Zhao himself, he had never even looked closely at the great star, so he was hardly her fan.
"All right, I'll do my best!" Lai the Fatso nodded and noted it down, then said, "By the way, boss, will you attend the product launch that day?"
"Me? I'll pass." Wei Zhao shook his head. This pharmaceutical company had been set up as something of a lark; Wei Zhao had meant to earn a bit of pocket money from it. But as his "friendship" with the young miss and Little Shu deepened, he no longer felt like a guest living under another's roof — though he was not sure whether it counted as friendship. In any case, the young miss no longer looked down on him, and she was someone with only a faint notion of money anyway.
So what the pharmaceutical company has produced amounts to nothing less than a public welfare undertaking. Turning a profit in the short term is probably out of the question, and the drug prices have been set rather low, purely to compete with Divine Physician Kang's wound medicine.
Fatty Lai knew that Wei Zhao had always kept a low profile, and his earlier question had been no more than a casual probe. Since Wei Zhao was not interested, he did not press him, and instead went on: "Boss, regarding the matter of Kang Xiaofeng and Xiaofen, this is how I have arranged things. What do you think?"
"Go on." Another reason Wei Zhao had opened this pharmaceutical company was for the sake of Kang Xiaofeng and Xiaofen. Wei Zhao did not have many friends, and Kang Xiaofeng counted as one, so Wei Zhao was willing to help him with everything he had.