Yanzi Valley of Jingcheng

Chapter 88

Ren Tianxing investigated two more private bookstores before midnight.

The family occupies a very large area, covering two floors, and the collection of books is almost half of that of the library of Qingyang University.

The bookstore provides a spacious and bright public reading area and a leisurely and elegant sofa discussion area. However, the people sitting on the sofa are not discussing, but crazily taking selfies and retouching pictures with their legs crossed. The reason is that the bookstore is beautifully decorated and the background of the photos is still It can be decorated with a strong cultural atmosphere by various books.

Another private bookstore is small and exquisite, with the warm yellow color of the coffee house as the main color. The wall paper in the store is similar to walnut wood. With simple tables and chairs and exquisitely carved oil lamps, it is full of medieval British style.

The people who read in this store are indeed reading, but there is a cup of coffee on their table, and the green smoke is curling up.

On the way home, Ren Tianxing had mixed feelings. He went to a bookstore, but it was completely different from the bookstore he remembered.

The bookstore in Ren Tianxing's memory is more like the Qingyang Book Wholesale Market, where people only come there to read and buy books, but these two private bookstores give Ren Tianxing the feeling that one is a holy place for online celebrities to check in, and the other is naked. a coffee shop.

Ren Tianxing, a science graduate, used to be a hypocrite at heart. When he was a teenager, he occasionally went to the corridor to take a breath between classes. When he looked at the silkworms and sparrows on the old trees, he also briefly dreamed that he might be able to Domineeringly dropped out of school to open a bookstore.

It's just that in this era, the life span of Ren Tianxing's ideas can only be as short as a blooming epiphyllum.

Ren Tianxing, who learned about the tragic survival of the book market, is glad that he did not become a real literary youth in the end.

Chinese private bookstores started in the 80s and flourished in the 90s. After entering the new century, this industry has entered a 10-year adjustment period.

Finally, in 2010, the online price war of e-commerce books exacerbated the decline of private bookstores. Online books are cheaper than others. It can be delivered to the door for free. Such a price war in physical bookstores is as cruel and bloody as stabbing a cancer patient three times in the chest and causing his immediate death.

Subsequently, the physical bookstore set off a shocking wave of closures without any suspense.

The most famous humanities and academic bookstore in Beijing, as well as the private chain bookstore that claims to have the largest chain channel in the country, have closed down within two years. In addition, the popular bookstores in major first-tier cities have not survived 2011. These are signs of the ice age of physical bookstores. The time has officially arrived.

The fate of these bookstores seems to be much more tragic than that of Ren Tianxing.

Ren Tianxing thought that although he was poor, he would not be unable to survive.

Now in his first year of employment, his salary is less than 7000 yuan. Half of the 7000 yuan has to pay rent, water and electricity grids, and the remaining half is for food, daily necessities, and milk tea.

The monthly balance in Ren Tianxing's bank card is sometimes hundreds of yuan, and sometimes it will disappear when an old classmate gathers for dinner or buys a decent gift for parents' birthday.

There is a saying that is indeed true: the money Qingyang earns is Qingyanghua, and I want to take it home with each other.

When Ren Tianxing dragged his exhausted body back to the Yanzigu community, got out of the elevator and was walking towards his rental house, he heard two women's heart-piercing scolding coming from Guan Sha's door from a distance.

"I just want to start a business! I am my own boss and I will see who dares to fire me! I don't want to be like you, working hard every day to help others!"

"What's wrong with working for others? I earn money with my own hands. I never owe debts or rely on my family. It is precisely because there are countless hardworking workers like me in this world that you entrepreneurs have someone to support your career! It’s possible to do it!”

"Then I'll take my Yangguan Road, and I don't care what bridge you cross! You're fine and less troublesome!"

"I'm just kind enough to remind you of the importance of work experience."

"I don't need your kindness! It's great to be able to repair electrical appliances! I can learn how to do it!"

Guan Sha and Shen Li were arguing here, and the door was knocked several times.

Guan Sha opened the door angrily, and wanted to dismiss the property owner, but the person standing outside the door was Ren Tianxing.

Seeing Ren Tianxing Guan Sha became even more angry, "Why is it you again! I can meet you everywhere! Get lost!" With Guan Sha slamming the door, Ren Tianxing has been busy for a month without cutting The broken hair was blown horizontally by the sudden wind, and it looked like an electric shock at that moment.

Ren Tianxing was dumbfounded, but he could still smell the alcohol in Guan Sha's mouth.

Shen Li who was angry was also quite dazed, she came back at the usual time today, saw Guan Sha greeted her, and then was reprimanded by Guan Sha inexplicably.

Guan Sha reprimanded Shen Li for the fact that Shen Li made the kitchen too oily by cooking, took a bath too late so that blowing hair always disturbed others to sleep, and of course Shen Li’s toothbrush and toothpaste were never put back in place and sleeping at night Snoring and more.

When Shen Li first saw Guan Sha drinking, she was in a trance, so she didn't bother with her. She kindly asked her if she was under too much pressure to start a business recently. Work and accumulate work experience, which is also a preparation for starting a business in the future.

Who would have thought that Guan Sha not only didn't appreciate Shen Li's kindness, but also hit Shen Li with all her words.

No matter how good-tempered a person is, she can't stand Guan Sha's swearing at such indiscriminate abuse, so Shen Li finally began to argue with reason. She knew that Guan Sha, who was completely different from before, must be drunk. , then she won't remember what she scolded the next day, let alone take it to heart.

So there was the sound of "biting each other" that Ren Tianxing heard after getting out of the elevator.

"He's a disaster star! Do you understand the disaster star?! I didn't have a good day when I met him!" Guan Sha pointed to the door and continued to complain to Shen Li, "The car was hit! The business can't be done! Du Jing again Let's go! It's all because of him!"

"Keep your voice down!" Shen Li reminded, because she judged that Ren Tianxing hadn't left yet.

"I don't want to keep my voice down!" Guan Sha deliberately raised her voice and continued to scold in the direction of the door, "Hurry up and move away, the man who crashed the car! You knocked out all your luck!"

Since Shen Li couldn't listen anymore, she walked over and explained to Ren Tianxing who was outside the door, "She is drunk, don't take it to heart, go back to sleep early."

"Who's drunk?!" Guan Sha violently pushed Shen Li away. This push caused Shen Li's shoulder blades to hit the wall. Shen Li was thin, and the pain caused her whole body to twitch.

This time Shen Li was really angry, she clenched her fists tightly, "Drinking crazy, right?! Believe it or not, I will call the police!" After speaking, Shen Li endured the pain and took out her mobile phone and blindly pressed three buttons, pretending to call the police.

"Report! The police will also arrest you when they come!"

(End of this chapter)