Chapter 66: The Bookseller
The next day, Meng Huo brought three songs to school.
"Can you play three songs?"
Chen Jie asked with the score, Meng Huo nodded: "Yes."
"If you can do all three songs, give me them. I will practice them together and sing them next week. "Chen Jie took the score without hesitation. Although she couldn't compose the song, she learned it when she was in elementary school.
Thursday, November 20.
Jiang Mao, who lives on Longquan No. 3rd Road, is the owner of a small bookstore. Just after six o'clock, the sky was hazy and it didn't light up. He carefully observed the situation outside the store and only opened the roller shutter door after finding nothing abnormal.
"Boss, why do you think you are frightened?"
The first guest who walked in smiled.
Jiang Mao saw that he was an acquaintance. He was a male guest working night shift. He went home at six o'clock every morning and occasionally came to the bookstore to buy books.
"You don't know that many book dealers from "Weekly Boys" have appeared recently." Jiang Mao complained: "Those book dealers will force us to sell magazines to them. Yesterday I met one, and then there were no magazines to customers during the day."
The man walked to the counter with a book "Weekly Girl" and smiled and said, "Weekly Girl" is very popular, there is nothing we can do about it. Today is the day when the "Weekly Girl" is released. I think there should be no problem."
"There are all He Xi's serializations above, who knows?"
Jiang Mao took the machine and scanned the barcode of "Weekly Girl": "Twenty-five Chinese Coins."
Girls’ Weekly is thinner and has lower prices than Youth Weekly. However, the prices of magazines are very low. The thickness of single-line books purchased at the same price is only half of them. The main reason is that single-line books are both excellent in paper and images.
If you sell a magazine, there will be no customers in the bookstore next time. Longquan 3rd Road is not a central area. In addition, the weather is getting colder, so there will be more customers at 7 o'clock.
Jiang Mao leaned against the counter and squinted his eyes to rest.
"Hello."
Suddenly, a dull sound like thunder sounded. Jiang Mao looked up and saw that he was completely sleepy.
"I want all twenty "Weekly Girls"."
A man wearing a mask tied a bunch of Weekly Girls with a rope and placed a few hundred-dollar bills on the counter: "You should be able to sell it!"
He stared at Jiang Mao with his eyes very fierce.
"Yes, yes..." Jiang was timid and did not dare to disobey it. He cursed in his heart: Why are these book dealers coming again!
After selling the book, watching the book vendor leave, Jiang Mao took the money from the table: "Forget it..."
Anyway, they were all sold, except for feeling sorry for other customers, Jiang Mao did not suffer any financial losses. Less than one kilometer away from Longquan Road is Longquan Middle School. The book vendor came here with the Weekly Girl, looked left and right and saw that there was no one, and turned around and walked into the alley.
Half an hour later, children who went to school appeared one after another.
"Hey, a few classmates over there... do you want to come here? I'll sell "Weekly Girl" here."
The book dealer avoided the security guard's sight and specially carried groups of children to shout to them. The book dealer's name is Lu Fei, but he is actually a businessman, and recently he has reselled comics and magazines.
"Weekly Girl?"
"Many people in the class watched it. It was the one who serialized "Inuyasha"."
Many students knew about this magazine and followed Lu Fei into the alley.
"How much does this cost?"
"Thirty-six, it's very cheap. You guys can buy it together."
Lu Fei said with a smile that the school attends some wealthy children, but they are children after all, and a person may not be willing to use the money to buy a magazine.
"Let's buy the three of us together?"
"Okay, each person is twelve yuan."
The students simply paid for one. They left with the Weekly Girl. Lu Fei quickly added: "I will come here every Wednesday and Thursday, and I will also sell Weekly Boy. You are welcome to come again next time."
"Will there be "Weekly Boy"?"
"That's great, then we'll buy it next week."
Lu Fei watched the students leave with a smile, thinking that there was no pressure to sell out today's "Weekly Girl". Sure enough, before seven o'clock, all other magazines of Lu Fei were sold for him, and he was very satisfied.
This is the beginning of the day, with net income exceeding two hundred.
Lu Fei packed his parcel, moved his position, walked to the lively pedestrian street, and after breakfast, he walked into an alley and began to solicit guests.
"I want to buy a disc, my little brother? I have classic blockbusters and out of print collections..."
"Big movie?"
"Yes, the Jidong action blockbuster, the little brother is a person who knows the goods at first sight, you must understand."
"Hehe, this is not suitable for early morning. Let's get aside...how much?"
"Not expensive, twelve dollars per card, twenty two."
"Then choose for me."
Lu Fei's profession is to sell discs. In recent years, with the strengthening of law enforcement efforts of urban management and cultural departments, this industry is becoming increasingly difficult to survive. But he is also a fan of He Xi. A while ago, he suddenly discovered that someone was selling "Weekly Boy", so the smart Lu Fei also worked as a book dealer.
After selling the disc for two hours, the figure of the urban management appeared on the pedestrian street. Lu Fei skillfully avoided it. He knew that these urban management would leave in less than half an hour, and there was nothing to do during this period, so Lu Fei took out the "Weekly Girl" to read it.
This time, the number of pages in "Inuyasha" is more than before, with more than thirty pages.
Is there any big plot?
Lu Fei couldn't help but get excited. The plot of "Inuyasha" is gradually opening up. It's already very interesting now, but he is still a little disappointed. The world view and environment of this comic are very good. The general story is simply a waste of these comic pictures. He has been looking forward to the plot twist with "decisiveness" and "shockness".
Lu Fei vaguely felt that this issue of "Weekly Girl" would have a major turn.
The story begins differently from before. It no longer tells the story of the journey. Instead, a ghost runs to the village where Inuyasha's journey begins and digs the tomb of the witch Kikyo who died fifty years ago.
Seeing this, Lu Fei became even more excited. Kikyo was the witch who appeared at the opening of "Inuyasha". The bow and arrow she shot sealed the half-demon Inuyasha, and then led to the story fifty years later.
This witch has always made many readers curious, and He Xi rarely reveals her information, so readers still don’t understand what happened fifty years ago. And in theory, Kikyo and Inuyasha should be mortal enemies, but in some subtle shots of the story, sensitive people can find that Inuyasha’s attitude towards Kikyo’s memories is very different.
Do they have any stories? The ghost woman took away the body and soil of Kikyo from the grave... What was she going to do?
This issue of "Weekly Girl" is about to reveal the answer.
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Chapter completed!