The woman said perfunctorily: "This kind of equipment needs to be specially customized. I don't know the price."
Lu Cheng said: "I can pay the reservation fee first!"
"Sir, are you serious?"
"Of course I am serious. If your company doesn't do it, I will find another company and someone will do it."
"Then you first make a deposit of 100,000 yuan. We need to open a separate mold for you and use lead-copper alloy, which is relatively expensive."
"What material are ordinary barbells made of?"
"Alloy steel."
"Is the lead and copper barbell strong? Will it break if dropped?"
"It's not made of mud. It's as strong as a shot put. How could it break?"
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At Shuanghe Fitness Equipment Co., Ltd. in Botou, Hebei Province, the original receptionist was sick and asked for leave. The manager's assistant Lu Xin answered the call. She received a reservation payment of 100,000 yuan and felt incredible.
She took the recorded data and handed it to the company manager Hu Chang.
"Manager, someone asked for special customization! Looking at this data, how should it be produced? How should it be priced?"
Hu Chang is young, about thirty-five or six years old. After reading the data, his eyes widened and he shouted: "How dare you accept such a request?"
Lu Xin said: "He has already called to make a reservation!"
"Who is he?"
"The person who placed the order is named 'Lu Cheng' and his address is Daicheng..."
"Can I check this name?"
"What did you do to check him?"
"I suspect that he used barbells and dumbbells as weapons, rolled down the mountain, destroyed vehicles, and killed pedestrians."
"We are not from the Public Security Bureau. Why do we care so much?"
"It is the obligation of every citizen to ensure social stability and unity."
"Wait a minute, the name Lu Cheng seems familiar to me. Maybe he's not an ordinary person... I remembered that in this year's Olympic trials, an outstanding male athlete emerged and qualified for three events. His name is 'Lu'
Cheng'! Could it be this person? They are all from Daicheng!"
"This is too weird! Can a 5,000-kilogram barbell be played by a human being?"
"Manager, since the other party has called us for the advance payment, let's make it for him! I think this is a good thing! Although we can't mention his name to avoid infringing on our reputation and portrait rights, we can hype our equipment."
"Yes, it is necessary to hype it up and call it a 'barbell made for dinosaurs.'"
"Since we need to open molds, we might as well make several more, 1,000 kilograms, 2,000 kilograms...5,000 kilograms, and promote them as 'all-round, all-field' equipment. Even if no one buys them, they can still be placed in the exhibition hall.
For publicity!"
Soon, the company's website and online stores on Taobao, JD.com, and Pinduoduo launched advertisements for "equipment made for dinosaurs"! This gimmick attracted the attention of many shoppers.
"Are the manufacturers crazy?"
"In order to gain popularity, we will do anything we can!"
"A barbell weighing up to 5,000 kilograms? Who is this for?"
"There is also a treadmill with a speed of 200 kilometers per hour! Is this a test of a sports car?"
"The normal speed of a treadmill is only 16-18 kilometers per hour. 200 kilometers per hour. It's too abnormal. Is it really for dinosaurs?"
"I heard that when spiritual energy is revived, dinosaurs will be resurrected..."
"How can spiritual energy be revived? You have read too many novels!"
"It's true! My dad works in the Jiangsu Provincial Public Security Department, and there have been a lot of strange murders recently... If nothing else, in the past six months, there have been five prison escapes across the country. This would never have been possible in previous years! Five or six
The meter-high wall can be turned over in a whoosh...Prisons are being renovated everywhere..."
"The train accident not long ago was caused by ants biting the bridge piers. It is said that the end of the world is coming!"
Lu Cheng only waited for half a month before receiving the specially-made equipment. For this reason, he made a final payment.
He told the manufacturer: "Please keep the mold. I will buy another set in a few months."
He wanted to wait until Quancheng bought a house before getting a set of equipment to put in it.
Manager Hu Chang replied: "Haha, don't worry! The mold will be kept for a long time. Since the advertisement was released, we have received unexpected orders and sold several sets of 800kg barbells and a set of 1000kg barbells.
If this continues, how do we know that in a few years, 2,000 kilograms of barbells will not be sold?"
2000 kg refers to the upper limit of the barbell. Reducing the barbell plates can reduce the weight.
Lu Cheng thought to himself: "It seems that with the revival of spiritual energy, some strong men were born!"
In the following days, he received calls from Li Hong one after another, saying that he had negotiated endorsement deals with several companies!
Some time ago, due to malicious attacks by Tian Feifei and suspicion of doping, many manufacturers did not want to get into trouble. With Tian Feifei losing two lawsuits and Lu Cheng qualifying for three Olympics, all of a sudden
His net worth has soared, and more and more people want to be endorsed by him.
After negotiation and struggle between Li Hong and Huang Guangjing, three large companies were selected, with endorsement fees of more than 10 million each, with the highest being "Xtep". The 15 million agreed upon last year was cancelled, and this year it was raised to 25 million. There will be more endorsements later.
One note, if Lu Cheng wins the Olympic marathon championship, the endorsement fee will double; if he wins the 100-meter championship, the endorsement fee will quadruple, which is 100 million! This is just one year's endorsement fee!
Track and field is the king of sports, unlike table tennis and weightlifting. Any Olympic champion who wins the marathon or 100 meters is comparable to a superstar!
As the signing bonus gradually entered Lu Cheng's account, he had more than enough money to buy a house in Quancheng, and he was in no rush to sell those bracelets, rings and necklaces.
Because prices are soaring, saving money is not as good as saving things. It is similar to buying real estate. In the past few years, the value of real estate has increased very quickly, which is much higher than depositing money in the bank. Saving jade has the same effect, and the value increases by 20-30% every year. Sometimes,
The value increases by 100% in one year. For example, for Hetian jade, in 2004, the price of first-grade white jade seed material was 60,000 to 80,000 yuan per kilogram; in 2021, the price was 20,000 to 30,000 yuan per gram; by 2028, it will double
Three times!
Moreover, he is also planning to buy a jade micro-engraving machine and try to engrave runes on the bottom of the ring or the pendant. If he can succeed, the jade will be transformed from a simple decoration into a magic weapon, such as a storage ring, and its value will rise to the sky.
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His current skill is too low and he is in the stage of keeping a low profile. In time, if his skill improves to a certain level, he might not be able to sell jade talismans publicly!
Thinking of this, Lu Cheng placed an order online for a jade micro-carving machine and cut Russian blue and white jade.
He cut the green and white jade into thin slices of several inches, and then used a CNC multifunctional jade carving machine to machine-carve them.
The first rune he chose was the word "empty".
According to the great witch Wu Huan, the most common characters on storage rings are the first character "empty", the second character "empty", the third character "little" and the fourth character "kuo".
Wu Huan doesn’t know what else is behind.
After the runes were carved, he put the jade piece on his forehead and vaguely saw a circular space inside, only one foot in diameter.
Despite this, Lu Cheng was still very happy: "Not bad! I didn't expect it to be so easy to create a storage space!"
Then, he tried to carve another word "virtual" on the back of the jade piece.
However, before the characters were carved, there was a crisp "click" sound, and the jade pieces were broken! It seemed that the jade slips were too thin.