Perfect Life

As soon as school was over at noon, Zhao Xiaoguo and his three good buddies rushed out of the classroom like a fly, dashing all the way down, and sure enough, they were the first to leave the school gate.

Not far from the school gate, there is a bookstore.

"Boss, has "Dragon Babu" arrived?"

These three are old book fans. They have had membership cards for several years. The boss is naturally familiar with them. Hearing this, he smiled and said, "You guys are a bit late. Five books were just delivered this morning, and they are all rented out!"

"Ah?" Zhao Xiaoguo was furious when she heard the words, "Didn't you agree to keep three copies for us?"

The boss sighed helplessly, "Yeah, I know, but people are willing to pay five yuan a day, and they agreed to pay it back before six o'clock in the afternoon! You said, I can't help but rent it! "

Zhao Xiaoguo was speechless.

Don't look at the old bookworm, but after all, he is a poor student. It is not false to have a membership card here, but since the third part of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", the price has already increased. During the new book period, the membership will be increased to two a day. Yuan, non-members simply pay three yuan a day, and it is generally impossible to grab it, and you have to queue!

Now someone pays 5 yuan to rent books a day. Even though Zhao Xiaoguo is a student, he knows that the boss can't make money without making money?

But yesterday, someone in the next class had already bought "Dragon Babu", which made them greedy for this group of old bookworms, they couldn't stand it, it was Jin Yong's new work! And it's said to be pretty cool!

As a result, they made an appointment in advance, and they were the first to rush over after school, but they still didn't get it!

Zhao Xiaoguo was furious, "You leave us a copy anyway!"

His classmates couldn't help but complain, "Jin Yong's books, why don't you put in a few more? Some people are willing to rent ten or twenty books!"

The boss squinted his eyes and smiled, and quickly turned into a helpless face, "If the rental is as good as "The Condor Heroes", then I will make up for the book in a few days, but if the rental is not good, I will If I buy ten and twenty copies in one go, I won’t pay for it! The delivery person said that this “Tianlong Babu” is only 20% off, 16 yuan a copy, classmate! How much does it cost you to rent for a day, I have to rent it eight times to get my money back, do you know?"

When Zhao Xiaoguo heard the words, he immediately retorted, "This is Jin Yong's new book, and it's definitely not worse than "The Condor Shooting"! Alas, why are you so timid in business!"

The boss smiled, "I have a total of ten square meters of storefront, and the monthly rent is so expensive, tens of dollars is a lot of money, young master!"

Zhao Xiaoguo couldn't say anything about him, so he exchanged glances with the two iron buddies helplessly. At this moment, someone else ran over quickly, and he was still panting, and asked, "Is "Dragon Babu" coming?"

The boss pointed at Zhao Xiaoguo with a smile, and said, "They came faster than you, and they didn't get it!"

After a pause, he smiled unintentionally: "Who asked you to make up the class! If you don't make up the class, you will be waiting with me in the morning, and you will definitely see the new book by now!"

A group of boys sighed.

Originally, I started making up classes before I entered the third year of high school. Things were already depressing enough, but because I couldn't get a new book to read because of the make-up classes, it was naturally even more depressing!

Seeing that there were more and more people, many people went straight to the bookstore here after leaving the school gate. The three of Zhao Xiaoguo left the bookstore and walked a few steps away. Thinking about it, they were very unwilling. Thinking about the fact that someone in the next class had already been reading the book all morning, it was even more unbearable.

Zhao Xiaoguo suddenly reached into his trouser pocket, took out a few banknotes, and stretched them open, "I have six yuan, you two find a way to get ten yuan, and the three of us will buy a copy!"

His two classmates were stunned when they heard the words, but their eyes lit up immediately.

Yes, you can buy it!

If in the past, these poor students were reluctant to spend more than ten yuan to buy books, they still mainly rented books. After all, they read books fast, one book a day is not a problem. In the past, they used to read new books for one yuan a day, but now the price increases. The price is only two yuan, which is much more cost-effective than buying a book, not to mention that if you look back at those old books that have been on the market for more than a month, a book only costs two cents a day, which is very cost-effective!

But the problem is that depending on the situation now, although the first part of "Dragon Babu" has just started, its popularity is no less than that of the third and fourth parts of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes". It's in the rented bookstore, so when do you want to get the book?

As soon as Zhao Xiaoguo finished speaking, his two classmates looked at each other and stretched out their hands to pay.

One took out four yuan, and the other actually took out a "big bill" of ten yuan!

Zhao Xiaoguo's eyes lit up, "Good guy, you really take advantage of the money!"

His buddy smiled and said, "I just asked my mother this morning, and that's all for the pocket money for the next few days!"

Zhao Xiaoguo immediately made a decision, "Buy it!"

While speaking, he took the four dollars from the other person's hand, handed it to the other, and then took his ten dollars, always in his hand, and said proudly: "We haven't rented it yet, we ourselves Buy it! We are also supporting idols! Right?"

The other two nodded.

The guy who paid four yuan had bright eyes, and said, "I guess Lao Chen's bookstore for rent is definitely not easy to rent here. After the three of us have read it, we can rent it out. We will charge one yuan a day. Can you still earn back the money for buying books, what do you think?”

When the other two heard the words, their eyes lit up, Zhao Xiaoguo patted him on the shoulder directly, "Okay, you kid, you are indeed the one who carried the burden of selling vegetables from your ancestors, you really have a lot of business experience! It's done, just do it! I'll go out. Six yuan, six yuan will be paid out, he will look first, I will look later, you pay four yuan, you are the last one!"

The three people's plans have been decided, and they are all in high spirits.

Zhao Xiaoguo put sixteen dollars in his pocket and said, "Let's go, bros, buy some books!"

During the conversation, three sixteen- or seventeen-year-old boys shouted excitedly and ran.

However, it backfired.

Twenty minutes later, they stood in another bookstore, and they got the same sentence, "Out of stock, sold out! But if you are willing to wait, I guess I will have stock here tomorrow!"

Zhao Xiaoguo cried and said, "Then you don't have stock here, do you know where you can get it elsewhere?"

This question is stupid. It is said that the peers are enemies. It is unlikely that the shopkeeper will tell them and drive away their potential customers. However, these three children are not like this one, plus anyway He was out of stock himself, but he directly pointed the way, "If the Dongguan Bookstore is out of stock, then there will be no stock anywhere in the city! But it's just a little bit expensive! Usually it's the original price, and it's 10% off. !"

Expensive too!

Twenty minutes later, "Dragon Babu" arrived!

It is said that after I bought it, even Dongguan Bookstore only had three or two copies left!

It's just copied!

Although it is really expensive to sell, 20 yuan a book!

But it doesn't matter, after all, it is bought, after all, you can start watching!

All three of them had empty pockets, but they were all very excited. At noon, Zhao Xiaoguo was in charge of carrying the books, because he had somewhere to hide—there was a pile of bricks outside his house, and he often didn't dare to take them home. Where are the books hidden!

Go home, get scolded, find an excuse to explain why you came back so late, grab a few bites of food in a hurry, have no time for a nap, and rush to school!

Alright, let's take a look at the ten dollars, Zhao Xiaoguo's heart is itching.

As a result, he couldn't finish reading it in one afternoon, so Zhao Xiaoguo had to keep waiting while urging him to watch it faster. In the end, until ten o'clock at night, Chengzi didn't knock on the door to deliver the book.

Zhao Xiaoguo was lying on the bed, unable to fall asleep, staring and fantasizing, what kind of story is this book telling, how good and how good the story should be! It must be better-looking than Guo Jing and Huang Rong, and there must be more powerful characters than Huang Laoxie and Wang Chongyang in the book!

After thinking about it and going through all kinds of torment, it wasn't until after one o'clock in the middle of the night that I finally fell asleep!

As a result, he got up early the next morning, without having to call him by his mother, he hurried to Chengzi's door and asked him to go to school with him after eating a few bites of food. As a result... Chengzi came out with dark circles under his eyes. !

However, still not finished.

Zhao Xiaoguo was furious, and the other complained, "If you knew this earlier, you shouldn't have read it first, I read books much faster than you!"

That Chengzi had no choice but to look like he begged his grandfather to tell his grandmother. He continued to make amends for the two of them. At the same time, he couldn't help explaining: "No way, if it wasn't for my mother, I would have read it already. The key is that my mother checked the night, last night. If it wasn't for my cleverness, my mother would have collected this book!"

Then he continued to plead, "Two, two, it's my fault this time, you can hold me for another half a day, I don't have much left, and it will be over soon!"

The man had to say more, but Zhao Xiaoguo was simply, "Don't say it, Ren Chengzi costs ten yuan. If he agrees to read it first, there is nothing to quarrel! But Chengzi, hurry up!"

In the third class in the morning, Chengzi finished it.

Zhao Xiaoguo took the book as if he was holding a ginseng fairy fruit. The teacher on the podium said ABCD, but off the stage he saw his eyebrows fly--Damn, Duan Yu's luck is really awesome! This Mu Wanqing is so beautiful and simple, it would be great if Wang Yumeng from our class was like her, whoever grabs her hand first will marry her in this lifetime! Then I have to be the first to rush up! It's useless for Lao Liu to be bigger than me. When it comes to that, whoever is smart, he will definitely not be able to handle me. Wang Yumeng will definitely belong to me!

Looking at it, he accidentally laughed.

Fortunately, the teacher on the podium was writing on the blackboard, and they were sitting in the last two or three rows. The teacher didn't care, so Chengzi hurriedly touched him with a beaming expression on his face, "You look good, right?"

Zhao Xiaoguo nodded quickly, Cheng Zi felt itchy, and couldn't help spoiling, "It's even better in the back, Duan Yu got the Six Meridians Excalibur, it's amazing!"

Zhao Xiaoguo had a book in his hand, so he reluctantly agreed, but he continued to look down at the book. The person next to him couldn't help it, and asked in a low voice, "What is the Six Meridian Sword?"

Chengzi immediately wanted to speak proudly, just as the teacher finished writing on the blackboard, he turned around and continued to explain. The classmates in front of them were already quite dissatisfied with their constant chattering, so he had to shut up and turn to the last page of the workbook. , wrote the words "Six Meridians Divine Sword", and wrote it below: The world's unique learning...

I saw that I bought the book together but only paid four dollars, so the one who had to be the last to read the book couldn't help but feel even more itchy!

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Students have always been one of the important readers of martial arts novels, but in general, it is difficult for students to become the main force for purchasing physical books of martial arts novels. You say music albums, CDs or tapes, are actually not much cheaper than a book, but parents generally believe that although listening to music is not very helpful for learning, after all, it is just after class to learn to listen, and it is not It's totally unacceptable, adults still listen, why not let children listen?

But martial arts novels are different!

Chinese people have always had the habit of reading novels. Since "Sou Shen Ji", various strange novels in the relatively early period were not uncommon in the history of China. In the Shun Dynasty of the Ming Dynasty, novels were the main body of the citizens. It is booming, especially the Ming Dynasty, as the pinnacle of classical novels, dedicated four famous novels in one fell swoop - "Water Margin", "Three Kingdoms", "Journey to the West", "Golden Plum".

Put aside how valuable it is, first of all, they have a good story that the readers at that time liked and liked very much, so that they can become famous within a certain range, and then they can talk about their nature.

After all, in the final analysis, novels were written for people to see, especially at the beginning of the novel's birth, it was written for the newly emerging bourgeoisie in the Ming Dynasty.

At the end of the Shun Dynasty, the country was undergoing major changes unseen in three thousand years, the society was turbulent, and the people were struggling to live. The idea of ​​​​creating novels has also been greatly expanded!

From "The Legend of Swordsman Heroes", the modern Xianxia novel Zhaoxing, and from the "Qi Shaobaoping Japanese Biography" in the same period, modern martial arts novels began to appear.

Before the 1940s, martial arts novels were still weak, but after 20 to 30 years of faults, martial arts novels were revived in the 1960s and 1970s.

Basically, at this time in 2000, almost nine out of ten people under the age of forty, especially men, have read martial arts novels.

It is not even an exaggeration to say that ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ is precisely the popularity of the current generation in their thirties and forties, which is the fundamental reason for the great prosperity of martial arts novels - the continuation of the current martial arts movies and martial arts TV series The popularity is actually just a continuation of the popularity of martial arts novels.

But even these people who liked reading martial arts novels very much when they were young, when they grow up to be the head of the family and have children, they strictly forbid their children to read novels!

still buy? There are no doors!

Those are idle books!

Now that I think about it, if I hadn't been addicted to martial arts novels, I wouldn't have been able to get into a public university? Could it be that your kid still wants to be like you and me?

As a result, there is at least one bookstore in front of a school, which is already standard for schools.

If you don't buy it, I'll rent it.

If you can't rent it, I'll scrape together the money to buy it!

Then, when Jin Yong, who made a name for himself among the readers of martial arts novels with a copy of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", published a new book, it can be said that since the launch of "Dragon Babu", people like Zhao Xiaoguo and the others have pooled money to buy books. things are happening all over the country.

But this is not surprising. Surprisingly, within a few days, many children who either rented books or were forced to spend their pocket money to buy books suddenly found that they had an extra copy of "Dragon Babu" at home. ”, only when I asked, did my father actually like to watch it too!

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There's a second watch tonight, about half past ten.

In addition, please pay attention to the public.public. account again, please search for "knife and plow". Well, the one who drove the car without saying a word was me! You don't pay attention all the time. I have so few people, so I can't help harassing you at the end of the chapter. It's not good, just pay attention? You don't have to worry about it, you can still see some interesting things from time to time, and I also have more capital to brag with others. How wonderful! (To be continued.)