Yanzi Valley of Jingcheng

Chapter 86

"Da Nuo! Mom met a senior in the book market today who can take care of Xiao Nuo. His name is Ren Tianxing. He also graduated from Qingda Finance and is taking the postgraduate entrance examination. If I find you at work in the future, remember to take care of me too! There are back and forth Well!"

When Xiao Jie saw his mother's message on WeChat, his eyebrows tightened. Ren Tianxing is taking the postgraduate entrance examination?

Xiao Jie then opened a video sent by Aunt Xiao. In the video, besides Aunt Xiao's self-satisfied monologue and the figure of her cousin, there was also Ren Tianxing who picked up a book and quickly put it back without reading two pages.

The corners of Xiao Jie's mouth turned up slightly, and he only gave this kid three days. He thought he would just look up the content on the Internet and get away with it. Unexpectedly, he went to the market...

Ren Tianxing in the video made Xiao Jie suddenly recall that night when it was raining heavily.

He just came to Qingyang that night, and he was having dinner with his old friends at a hot pot restaurant. , the lad left without ordering anything.

At that time, Xiao Jie suspected that this young man must be doing market research related to shared charging treasures.

Sure enough, Xiao Jie's idea was verified by another encounter in the coffee shop on the same night.

After that, Xiao Jie was so impressed with Ren Tianxing that on the day he was interviewed by a reporter from the central media, Ren Tianxing broke into the office suddenly, and Xiao Jie recognized him at a glance.

Although Xiao Jie recognized Ren Tianxing, his eyes continued to maintain a strange relationship. Before everything was familiar, Xiao Jie thought it would be safer for him to treat all employees equally.

What he didn't expect was that this fat boy could always give amazing answers, and his work was so solid that even Guan Hongwei wanted to take him under his command.

"Mr. Guan, we only have a few hundred people in Jin Quan, and your Guan Hong real estate is tens of thousands..."

"What's the use of the number of people? The quality can't improve." Guan Hongwei sighed, "My company has gone to the market too much, how many of them have achieved results?"

Xiao Jie didn't answer immediately, he thought for a while, and then took a swing towards the hole not far away, "I'll send manpower to complete the entry procedures for Ren Tianxing tomorrow."

"Hahahahaha!" Guan Hongwei pointed at Xiao Jie and shook his head vigorously, "You! You are just like the little girl Guan Sha who has the same temper as the little girl Guan Sha. She doesn't even look at the toys that are snatched by anyone, and they are all piled up at home to eat ashes. When her cousin came, she immediately took possession of her and didn't give it to anyone!"

Perhaps in this matter, Xiao Jie is indeed a bit childish.

For a few days, as long as Xiao Jie's mind is empty, he will think of the wet young man looking at the data in the power bank with concentrated eyes, thinking about it, he actually thinks of himself many years ago.

In those years, he also ran out industry research reports day by day. At that time, he was young, but he was also very humble. When he was working hard, no one paid attention to it, and no one thought it was very valuable.

"You have the right to refuse, because even if your report is completed, I will not promise that you can enter the job, I will not pay you, and I will not send you someone. Everything is up to you. You go back and think carefully, even if this is the case. , are you still willing to do it?"

The reason why Xiao Jie tested Ren Tianxing in this way was because he wanted to know whether he really likes to do venture capital. If he really likes one thing, he will focus on it wholeheartedly, enjoy the process, have no extravagant expectations, and do not expect anything in return.

For so many years along the way, Xiao Jie is either working overtime and on business trips, or on the way to work overtime and on business trips. Even on New Year’s Eve, he has to attend the annual meetings of various companies and cannot go home. If he doesn’t love this industry, Xiao Jie Can't go today.

Probably because of the right timing, mood and vision, or because of that rainy night, Xiao Jie wanted to train Ren Tianxing well, so he trained himself.

The child Ren Tianxing is gifted, and he is also persevering and willing to endure hardships. The only difference is the help of the nobles and a little bit of luck.

At this time, Ren Tianxing, who was hiding in the men's room of the book market, didn't know Xiao Jie's psychological activities. He only asked Xiao Jie's mother to leave quickly and stop taking up his research time. The book wholesale market closed at 10:30 in the evening. He must collect the most information in the shortest possible time.

After about five or six minutes, a head cautiously poked out from the door of the public toilet in the library, like a thief.

After scanning around, Ren Tianxing came out with a sigh of relief and found no suspicious targets.

He felt that he couldn't stay in the test area any longer, so he immediately went upstairs.

On the third floor, most of the stores sell children’s picture books, story books, mathematics enlightenment, and logical thinking enlightenment books. There are quite a lot of people here, adults are busy picking books, only children chase The sound is endless.

Ren Tianxing walked to several shops in the depths, and he found that all the shops that did not sell exam reference books and early childhood education books were extremely deserted, and almost no one was there.

Ren Tianxing saw an old man about 60 years old guarding a large bookstore, reading a book by himself among the piles of books.

Ren Tianxing is not sure if this old man can communicate well, but he must have a lot of time!
So Ren Tianxing walked over generously. Hearing the footsteps, the old man looked up at Ren Tianxing, "Buy books?" the old man asked.

Ren Tianxing shook his head, "Master, can I interview you?"

"Interview me? Why?"

Ren Tianxing then told the uncle in detail about his research on the book publishing industry, and at the same time took out his ID card and work card to prove that he was indeed an employee of Jinquan Investment Group.

The uncle pushed his reading glasses after reading it, and remained silent, neither saying that he could do the interview nor saying that he couldn't.

Seeing this, Ren Tianxing looked around casually. He took out a copy of Lao She's "Camel Xiangzi" from the nearest bookstall, and then said to the old man, "I'll just hold you up for 10 minutes and ask you a few questions. I bought it, okay?"

The old man hesitated for a moment before taking off his reading glasses, carefully wiped the lenses and put them away carefully.

"go ahead."

"Is this store yours? When did you sell books here?"

"When..." the old man fell into memory, "Graduated from junior high school... about 15 years old... Well, it should be 15 years old. I was here when I was 15 years old. I didn't go to high school. When this place opened, the storefront I rented, Then I bought the storefront.”

Ren Tianxing nodded and continued to ask, "I think your bookstore is bigger than other similar bookstores. How many books are there?"

"More than 2 copies." The old man answered simply and briefly.

"Then besides examination books and children's picture books, what books are more popular?"

"Reference books." The old man said, "For example, reference books for doctors, Chinese medicine, and art. Other books are not very popular."

Seeing that Ren Tianxing took out a pen and paper to take notes seriously, the old man sighed and stated:
"I used to do everything related to books. The business was very prosperous. I did publishing, wholesale and retail... all of them. I did it for more than 30 years. Later, it became more and more difficult, and only retail remained."

"Then how many books can you sell here in a day?"

"Heh!" The old man laughed at himself, "You may not believe me when I tell you."

The old man said and made a zero with his hand.

"Ah? Zero?" Ren Tianxing was shocked.

The old man put down his hand, "It's zero, not a single copy. Of course, sometimes seven or eight copies can be sold in a day, but generally speaking, the income of this store can't cover my cost. Having said that, I bought this store fortunately, saved a lot, and can still maintain it. In fact, I am exploiting myself. I am here to look after the store. I have no salary, and I have to pay for electricity. I want to live a good life. Life in old age is impossible."

At this time, Ren Tianxing said based on his previous research, "Many internationally renowned chain bookstores are closed now, and some domestic private bookstores that were once very popular were closed in 2011. Why are you still open?"

The old man seemed to be stumped by this question, and he looked into the distance for a long time, as if he was seriously thinking about the answer to the question.

"Probably for the sake of having a beginning and an end." The old man sighed, "I have been selling books all my life, and I know nothing but selling books."

"I see that selling middle school exam books makes a lot of money, as well as children's picture books. Why don't you consider selling those categories?" Ren Tianxing was really curious about this, because he saw that the old man's bookstore displayed philosophy and history. There are esoteric books on science and medicine, and of course there are many world famous books. "

"Boy, I don't know what books are to you, but to me, books are the spiritual home of our human beings. If there are only children's worlds and various exams left in this home, then adults will be very happy." Lonely." The old man said, "Young man, think about it, if you walked into this wholesale market and couldn't see a bookstore like mine, except picture books were exam questions, what would you think?!"

Ren Tianxing: "..."

"So... persevere, there will always be a way out." So far the old man didn't continue talking, and he didn't ask Ren Tianxing to pay for the copy of "Camel Xiangzi".

"I gave you this book, young man. It's not worth the money of a book. It's all fate."

The words of the old man made Ren Tianxing, who came home with "Camel Xiangzi", have mixed feelings.

When he left the bookstore, he looked back and saw that the old man had put on his reading glasses and started reading books in the store. He insisted on what he insisted on, but under the social wave of e-commerce, the personal insistence of the owner of the physical bookstore is just like the old man. Like Xiangzi, the rickshaw puller of society, he is insignificant.

(End of this chapter)