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Chapter 32 Acquisition of Waste Books
Colorful flowers dotted the straight street, and the faint fragrance of flowers wafted in the air. On this sunny and fresh morning, an old tricycle creaked and creaked on the novel street.

On the back seat of the tricycle sat a young man who was Liu Xing.

On the front seat of the tricycle, a middle-aged man is riding a tricycle hard. The man is about 27 years old, with dark skin and strong muscles all over his body, especially the well-developed biceps, which is quite stylish. You can tell by looking that he must often do heavy physical work in the sun.

This robust man is called Xing Wanli. He used to move bricks on the construction site, but recently changed his career. He is riding a tricycle to collect waste in the vicinity.

However, Xing Wanli didn't come to collect waste products today, but to help Liu Xing buy waste books.

Liu Xing has decided to buy waste books on a large scale. Since it is a large-scale purchase, there are naturally a lot of waste books, so it is necessary to use large-scale transportation.When going out in the morning, Liu Xing happened to see Xing Wanli who was collecting waste books on a tricycle, so he temporarily spent 300 yuan to hire Xing Wanli to use a tricycle to help him carry waste books.

"Boss Liu, why did you buy scrap books?" Xing Wanli asked curiously while riding a tricycle.

"Personal hobbies." Liu Xing said casually.

"Boss Liu's hobby is really special!" Xing Wanli said, "I buy scraps because I can make money, but buying scrap books not only can't make money, but also has to lose money. Bosses like you have a strange way of thinking. "

What Xing Wanli said was not wrong. For ordinary people, buying waste books is tantamount to losing money.

The so-called waste books refer to books that have not been sold in bookstores for several years.

Due to the huge number of novels in Huaxia Kingdom, a lot of waste books are produced every year.Even if these waste books are sold at extremely low prices, few people will buy them. In the eyes of many people, waste books are not even comparable to waste paper.

Because Huaxia has a law, the "Novel Protection Law", which clearly stipulates that it is forbidden to destroy novels in any form.

It is precisely because of the existence of the "Fiction Protection Law" that the useless books that cannot be sold in bookstores can neither be thrown away or damaged, nor can they be sold as waste paper, but can only be collected.If you don’t want to collect them, you can sell the waste books to the Reading Alliance, but the recycling price is relatively low, and a book can only be sold for a few cents to a few cents, and most booksellers are unwilling to sell it.

As a result, many bookstores have a backlog of waste books in their stacks.

Liu Xing is going to buy a large number of waste books today to see if he can find star novels from them.

A few minutes later, when the tricycle arrived at the Meiyangjia Bookstore on Novels Street, it stopped.

"Old Xing, you wait at the door first, I will call you later."

"Okay, Boss Liu."

After explaining, Liu Xing jumped off the tricycle and walked into the Meiyangjia Bookstore, where the proprietress of the bookstore, Guo Meiyu, was sitting in front of the computer and surfing the Internet.

Guo Meiyu is about 24 years old, with a figure of 1.6 meters [-], plus a pair of black high heels on her feet, she looks tall and slender, with a bit of beauty.

As soon as he entered the bookstore, Liu Xing's eyes fell on the bookshelf behind Guo Meiyu's body.

"Isn't this Liu Xing?" Standing up, the proprietress Guo Meiyu stepped on her high heels and greeted her, "Why do you come to my place to play when you have time?"

Although Liu Xing hasn't done any big things yet, he is still well-known in the novel street.Two years ago, he suffered from dementia. Many merchants in the Fiction Street area had heard about it, and Guo Meiyu had obviously heard about it too.

"Boss, I'm here to buy books today." Liu Xing went straight to the point.

Guo Meiyu smiled coquettishly: "What books do you want to buy? My bookstore has brought a lot of good books recently. Do you want my sister to introduce you to some books?"

Liu Xing said bluntly: "I don't buy good books, but trash books."

"Useless books?" Guo Meiyu wondered, "Useless books are all rubbish novels, hard to read, why are you buying them?"

"collect."

"Are you kidding me?"

"I never joke around with pretty grown women."

"Oh, this little mouth is really sweet." Guo Meiyu smiled and said, "There are more than 400 waste books in my store. If you want them, you can take them all for 500 yuan."

"Okay, I want it all."

"These waste books are in the library, you have to carry them yourself."

"No problem." Liu Xing yelled outside the bookstore, "Old Xing!"

"Okay!"

……

Xing Wanli deserves to be a professional physical laborer. In less than 10 minutes, he moved more than 400 waste books from the library back to the tricycle.

After leaving Meiyangjia Bookstore, Liu Xing sat on Xing Wanli's tricycle and went to the next bookstore to continue his plan of buying waste books.

In more than five hours, Liu Xing found another 30 bookstores, and Liu Xing bought all the waste books in 14 bookstores. The total number of waste books was more than 3000, and the total purchase price was about 5000 yuan.

The other 16 bookstores also have waste books, but the owners of these bookstores seem to think that Liu Xing is a fool, and deliberately raise the price of waste books. A waste book costs 7 yuan.

Liu Xing himself estimated that when the price of a scrap book exceeds 5 yuan, the risk of losing money is relatively high.

He is now in a small business and cannot take too much risk. Therefore, the bookstore that bid more than 5 yuan had to give up the acquisition.Fortunately, there are many bookstores on Fiction Street, and there are also many bookstores willing to sell waste books at low prices.

"Old Xing, it's almost time, let's transport these books back to the hotel first."

In the afternoon, Xing Wanli pulled more than 3000 books on a tricycle, followed Liu Xing, and returned to Mingxing Hotel in a mighty manner.

When this large cart of waste books appeared at the entrance of the restaurant, Liu's father and Liu's mother were a little dumbfounded.However, they all knew that Liu Xing liked to read novels since he was a child, so it was understandable that he would buy so many books.

What's more, Liu Xing earned the money for buying books by himself, so his parents let him go.

……

After dinner, Liu Xing returned to his room.

There used to be more than 2000 books in the bedroom, and more than 3000 waste books were purchased today. Now Liu Xing's personal collection of books is close to 6000, and one-third of the entire room is occupied by books.

Sitting on a small bench, Liu Xing started his work - appreciating books.

Although appreciating books is a physical labor, it is a manual labor full of hope.

Every waste book may be a buried star novel. In the process of book appraisal, surprises may appear at any time.If you can find a high-star novel, you can get rich overnight.

Therefore, Liu Xing enjoys the process of appreciating books very much.

He did what he said, following the order in which the waste books were placed, he appraised them one by one, maintaining the speed of appraising 1 books in one minute.

"The Happy Life of an Excellent Doctor", a doctor's novel, none, with a matching degree of 0.7%;

"Dark City Steel Special Police", a criminal investigation novel, none, matching 1.2%;

"Under the Tree, I'll Wait for You", a romance novel, none, matching 0.4%;

……

Two hours later, Liu Xing identified nearly 1500 novels, but he didn't find half a star novel, but only found two ordinary novels that matched 15% of his own.

There is a certain element of luck in searching for books. Although the probability of finding a star-rated novel is one in a thousand, it does not mean that every thousand copies can be identified to find a star-rated novel.

Liu Xing naturally understood this truth, he was not in a hurry, he did a set of eye exercises, let his eyes rest for a while, and then continued to immerse himself in reading books.

In the next half an hour, he appraised more than 300 books, but still had nothing to gain. When he started to feel drowsy, the surprise finally appeared.

Among the piles of waste books, Liu Xing picked up a novel with a white cover called "The King of Sleeping Kings".On the cover of the book is a drawing of a man who is sleeping late, in a very strange sleeping position, in an upside-down state.

Liu Xing is also a person who likes to be lazy. When he saw this cover art, he immediately became interested and immediately flipped through the novel.

[Book Title] "The Sleeping King"

【Category】Casual Fiction

【Grade】One star
[Matching degree] 27%
"Finally found a star novel."

Liu Xing breathed a sigh of relief, the appearance of this "The King of Sleeping King" reassured him, because its appearance was equivalent to explaining a problem - among the waste books, star novels can also be found!

The matching degree between this novel and Liu Xing is as high as 27%, and the reading value is still very high.He flipped through a few pages of "The King of Sleeping Kings". This novel tells the story of a person who loves to sleep. In order to sleep better, the protagonist in the novel invented many special sleeping techniques. The people around are out of place, and the plot is relaxed and funny, which makes people laugh.

"When you suffer from insomnia, you can read this novel. It may help you sleep..."

Speaking of this, Liu Xing suddenly thought of that little girl Wang Lanlan, didn't she suffer from insomnia recently?If the insomnia had not been cured, this novel might be for her.

"The King of Sleeping Kings" is a one-star casual novel, with a market price between 500 and 1000 yuan. Obviously, it is not enough to solve Liu Xing's urgent needs.

So, putting away "The King of the Sleeping King", Liu Xing continued to identify other useless books, and after ten minutes, he made another discovery.

""The Master Craftsman of the Book Coffin"? What kind of book is this?"

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