After paying the money and completing all the formalities, I walked out of the post office.

Ning Weimin looked at the watch on his wrist. It was already eleven o'clock.

As a restaurant owner, he actually doesn't like the bustling scene when there are overcrowded customers, and prefers a relatively quiet dining environment.

He thought for a moment, and although he wasn't particularly hungry, he decided to eat first so as to avoid the peak meal period for office workers.

Because he had to go to Nishi-Azabu later, Ning Weimin walked south along the road in front of the Akasaka Post Office.

If I don’t find a place to eat, I plan to take the bus to Nishi-Azabu where there are various restaurants and bars.

As a result, as soon as he walked more than a hundred meters, he was attracted by the Japanese classical music that came from time to time on the roadside.

I turned around and saw that the music playing was from a Marunobu store.

Next to the store, there is a ramen restaurant with a variety of noodles displayed in the window.

Some noodles are topped with egg slices and bamboo shoots, some are topped with pieces of cartilage and vegetable leaves, and some are topped with fried Japanese dumplings, all of which are made of wax sculptures.

Colorful, very lifelike, like a work of art, emitting an alluring brilliance.

At this time, Ning Weimin's appetite was not only aroused, but he also wanted to inquire with the boss about the origin of these food wax sculptures.

In this regard, there is a need for him to open a restaurant.

It is completely instinct for business people to look for things that are beneficial to their business everywhere.

So licking his lips, Ning Weimin opened the curtain at the door and walked in.

As expected, there were no customers in the ramen restaurant at this time. The owner of the noodle restaurant had quite a bit of free time, and he was very polite and attentive to Ning Weimin.

He nodded and bowed, poured water and handed chopsticks. He was also very enthusiastic about Ning Weimin's inquiries about wax sculptures. The boss wrote down the address and contact number of the wax sculpture production company in his own hand.

Since others were so polite, Ning Weimin was embarrassed to be stingy.

He ordered the more expensive pork cheek ramen and the Tang Yang chicken nuggets that came with it.

The reason why he didn't ask for fried dumplings, which is generally regarded as the best friend of ramen in Japan, was because he really didn't have much interest.

The dumplings he made himself were much more delicious.

Besides, six of these craps cost 390 yen, which was enough for him to buy a piece of clothing at the flea market.

He is not the rich second generation who relies on his father to become an Internet celebrity and start a company. When paying for meals, he never asks the price and just throws out an integer.

His money is hard-earned and has many serious uses.

And to be honest, the standard of this ramen shop is quite average.

The broth was mediocre, the noodles were cooked so-so, and the barbecued pork was a little tough.

To put it bluntly, the soft-boiled eggs are just okay, and the pickled red plum in the noodle bowl is quite special and very satisfying.

Although Ning Weimin also felt hot in the ears and itchy in the scalp, and felt a little sweaty, he felt a little regretful that he had entered the wrong door.

He thought that the meal that cost 1,300 yen was not worth it.

This price is purely because the store is located in the city center. Otherwise, if it were located in the outer suburbs, the meal would only cost 900 yen at most.

If their Tan Palace chef comes, he can just boil a pot of broth and cook noodles and he can kill this restaurant in an instant.

Come on, even if you pay the consulting fee.

After finishing an unsatisfactory meal, Ning Weimin walked out of the noodle shop again. At this time, his mood turned a little gloomy again, and the joy of sending the package to his master was gone.

You know, a person's stomach is in his right center, so of course he won't be happy if he doesn't eat well.

What's more, he will have to face another problem that needs to be solved urgently.

That's what to do with the bookstore he bought?

Speaking of which, the location of this bookstore is absolutely no problem.

Ning Weimin visited Japan in his last life, and a domestic tour guide once made a general evaluation of some of the most prosperous commercial places in Tokyo.

Shibuya, which is full of popular culture, is called the "high school student's street," Shinjuku, with its many nightclubs, is called the "young people's street," and Ginza, where the rich and famous come and go, is called the "adult's street," and it is adjacent to the embassy district.

Roppongi, full of foreign culture, is called the "Western Street".

In fact, the bookstore is located at Nishi-Azabu 2-chome, Minato-ku, Tokyo, which is similar to Roppongi.

You know, the Azabu area and Roppongi are connected to each other.

Near Ning Weimin's bookstore, there are also many embassies and international schools.

Therefore, there are many high-end restaurants and nightclubs here. It is also a place where movies and TV dramas are often filmed, and every inch of land is precious.

If we have to talk about the difference between Nishi-Azabu and Roppongi, it is that although Roppongi is the most famous and prosperous, the main customer base is young people.

At night, Roppongi is filled with drunken foreigners, noisy college students, company employees who urinate unscrupulously, young people arguing over trivial matters, and young girls vomiting in the middle of the street, defiantly.

Lovers kissing passionately, etc.

Not only was it noisy, but it was also dirty. There were always cigarette butts everywhere and needed to be cleaned overnight.

Nishiazabu is more suitable for older age groups.

It's relatively quiet, not too noisy, and the environment is much cleaner.

Especially because there are many "platforms" suitable for construction and there are many high-end residential areas, it is more livable.

Therefore, it would be great to open high-end restaurants, bars, coffee shops, and luxury stores on Nishi-Azabu Street.

It's not bad to open a pet shop or a video store. Even if you open a lounge or gallery, you will have constant business.

However, opening a bookstore is not satisfactory, because almost all the people wandering on this street come for parties and consumption. Who would go to a bookstore to wander around?

There are quite a few students, but most of them are foreigners and children of wealthy Japanese families.

Basically, everyone is picked up and dropped off by cars at home, and most of them started out with a Mercedes-Benz, and you would be embarrassed to say hello to others even if you drove an Audi.

Of course, students with such a family environment cannot come here to read comic books or buy exam textbooks.

Ning Weimin didn't even need to go in. Just standing at the door of his bookstore, he could feel how embarrassing this "Huiwentang Bookstore", which was founded in 1891, was on this street.

On the left is an Italian restaurant, and on the right is a high-end barbecue restaurant.

Because it was meal time, every restaurant was busy and crowded.

Only in Huiwen Hall, there was not a single guest.

This even gave Ning Weimin an absurd feeling, feeling that this bookstore was like the enchanted Order of the Phoenix in Harry Potter, which existed but was ignored.

Looking across the street, a traditional Japanese confectionery shop with a facade as old as Huiwen Tang was also packed with customers, and boxes of souvenirs were sold.

Its popularity is similar to that of "Daoxiang Village" which has just been relaunched in Beijing.

Standing here, Ning Weimin felt even more speechless, because they were all old shops, look at how miserable Huiwentang was.

However, there are people who are more embarrassed than Ning Weimin, and that is the two clerks in the bookstore.

Because Ning Weimin at least understands one thing, if the business situation of the bookstore is not so bad.

If it weren't for the fact that the bookstore owner is getting older and doesn't want to waste time switching careers to open a fashionable store.

If he hadn't been willing to accept a premium purchase and promised to the bookstore owner, he would have continued to hire two college students who worked part-time in the store until they completed their studies.

There is no chance that a shop in such a good location would fall into his hands.

But the clerks in the bookstore didn't know this. They just thought that Ning Weimin had been taken advantage of and impulsively bought a money-losing product at a high price.

Moreover, the new boss is a third-world Chinese with no experience in opening a bookstore. It has been half a month since he bought the store, but he has not come up with any ideas to change the business situation.

If the losses continue like this, God knows how long this new boss can last?

They might break their promise and change hands of the bookstore, which would ruin their jobs.

So as soon as Ning Weimin opened the door and walked in, the two store clerks who were taking over the shift, Oda and Yoshii, immediately put down what they were doing and bowed to Ning Weimin with fear.

Almost in unison, they said, "Hello, boss! Thank you for your hard work!"

Ning Weimin bowed slightly and returned the greeting, "You have worked hard too. How has the situation been in the store these two days?"

Oda is older and has just been admitted to graduate school. He immediately reported the income of these two days, "I sold two books in two days on the weekend. But it rained yesterday. At noon and afternoon, several customers came to the store to take shelter from the rain.

So I sold some more books, totaling 21,200 yen. Do you need them? I'll give them to you."

"What kind of books are being sold? Are they study books and comic books?"

"Ah... no. What we sell are travel and lifestyle categories, as well as magazines and so on."

"As expected, then... just give me that 'Yuyoshi' (the character on the 10,000 yen note is Fukuzawa Yukichi), and leave the others in the store first. In case someone buys the book,

You always have to give change, right?”

Ning Weimin sighed, and secretly smiled bitterly in his heart.

Although Japanese books are more expensive, the profit is only about 20%. In other words, the income is 4,000 yen in three days.

If you do this, even if the house belongs to you, you will still be compensated.

You must know that these two part-time college students are each paid 800 yen per hour.

Assuming that each person has five hours a day, the three days is 24,000 yen, and the living compensation is 20,000 yen.
To be continued...