book eye

Chapter 89

Liu Xing was a little surprised that Cai Fugui had found him so early. It seemed that he really hoped that Meteor Book Bar would go bankrupt as soon as possible.

Cai Fugui's reason for coming today is not difficult to guess, he just wanted to fool Liu Xing into spending money indiscriminately, which caused Meteor Book Bar to close down due to lack of funds.

If Cai Fugui didn't achieve his goal today, he probably wouldn't leave.

Therefore, Liu Xing was not in a hurry to go downstairs. He first went to the bathroom to brush his teeth and wash his face, changed his clothes, and then stood at the window for a breath of fresh air.

After struggling for more than ten minutes, he slowly left the reading room.

Liu Xing walked to the first floor of the book bar, and saw a fat middle-aged man standing in the hall, leaning on a black cane in his hand, it was Cai Fugui.

After being beaten up by Ah Lang last time, Cai Fugui's left leg was shattered and fractured, and now he needs crutches to walk.Cai Fugui's injuries hadn't fully healed yet, and his left face was obviously swollen with blue bruises.

Beside Cai Fugui, there was a burly muscular man who was Cai Fugui's newly hired bodyguard.

Since the violent beating incident, Cai Fugui has raised his vigilance and spent a lot of money to hire a veteran as a bodyguard.He wouldn't dare to go out without his bodyguards during the day.

"Liu Xing, you finally came down."

After waiting for more than ten minutes, Cai Fugui didn't complain, and greeted him with a smile, "I've been waiting for you for a while."

Liu Xing went straight to the bar, took down a bottle of fruit juice and whole wheat bread from the cabinet, and began to enjoy breakfast: "What's the matter?"

"Don't you want to buy waste books?"

"what happened?"

"I'm here to discuss business with you today." Cai Fugui limped to the bar with a cane, and said kindly, "There are more than 23000 useless books in my bookstore. interest?"

"More than 23000 copies?" Liu Xing sighed inwardly. This Cai Fugui is worthy of being an old bookseller in Fiction Street, and his background is indeed beyond the reach of ordinary people.The average bookstore in Fiction Street only has a few hundred waste books, but Cai Fugui actually has more than 23000 copies.

"Useless books also depend on the type." Liu Xing took a sip of juice, "I have to check the source first."

"No problem." Cai Fugui said along the words, "You can go to the library of my book club to take a look first."

"I just woke up and haven't eaten yet."

"It's okay, I can wait for you to finish eating."

So, Liu Xing sat at the bar and continued to enjoy breakfast, drinking juice and eating bread, while Cai Fugui watched dryly from the side.

After ten minutes.

"Boss Cai, you can go."

After eating and drinking, Liu Xing got up and left the Meteor Book Bar. Accompanied by Cai Fugui, he went to the Fu Gui Book Bar located at No. 118 Fiction Street.

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Arriving at Fugui Bookstore, Liu Xing and Cai Fugui went straight to the underground library.

The underground library of Fugui Book Bar is nearly 200 square meters, and more than 100 special steel bookshelves are neatly arranged, like a steel army, quite imposing.

"Liu Xing, these ten bookshelves are full of useless books."

Under the leadership of Cai Fugui, Liu Xing walked to the corner on the east side of the library. Ten silver steel bookshelves were lined up in a row, and all of them were old waste books that had been accumulated for many years. It was estimated that there should be more than 20000 books.

Liu Xing browsed around the bookshelves. There are many types of waste books in these bookshelves, such as romance novels, science fiction novels, mystery novels, workplace novels... all kinds of novels are available.

However, there are not many campus novels.

According to Sun Xuecai's introduction, all of his 3 campus novels were sold to Cai Fugui, and the number of campus novels in Fugui Book Bar should be very large.

Looking around, Liu Xing soon found campus novels in another row of bookshelves opposite.

At a glance, nine consecutive bookshelves were filled with campus novels, about 20000 in total. These campus novels were a bit outdated, apparently aged, and should be campus novels sold by Sun Xuecai.

"These campus novels are also useless books, right?" Liu Xing asked.

"Yes. However, these campus novels were published earlier and are more expensive." Cai Fugui pointed to two rows of waste books, "I can sell you all the waste books on the bookshelf. How about it? Are you interested?"

Liu Xing didn't show any expression on his face, and said very flatly: "Whether you are interested or not depends on the price."

"Don't worry, we are all old neighbors in Fiction Street, and I will definitely give you a super-valuable discount." Cai Fugui waved his hand, with a very generous gesture, "The waste books on the left are 10 yuan a book. The ones on the right Campus novels, 30 yuan a copy."

"30 yuan for a copy? Boss Cai, you really know how to joke." Liu Xing casually took a waste book from the shelf next to him, patted it lightly, and the dust filled the air, "These waste books are backlogged here It’s been at least 15 years? So much dust, it’s too dirty to wipe your butt, and it’s worth 30 yuan?”

Cai Fugui smiled and said: "The earlier the novel is published, the more likely it is a star novel that has been missed, and the more valuable it is. Of the more than 21000 campus novels on the bookshelf, more than half were published 40 years ago. For novels, 30 yuan is already a very cheap price.”

Liu Xing spread his hands: "If you say that, then there is nothing to talk about."

Cai Fugui always thought that Liu Xing might not be smart enough to buy useless books, so he deliberately raised the price, trying to take advantage of the fire.Now after hearing Liu Xing's tone, Cai Fugui realized that this wishful thinking seemed difficult to make.

"Otherwise, how much money do you think is suitable?" Cai Fugui asked tentatively.

"5 yuan." Liu Xing said.

Cai Fugui's face changed, and then he forced a smile again, and said, "Liu Xing, you are also very good at joking. Old books published more than 40 years ago sell for 5 yuan. What is the difference between selling waste paper? 5 yuan , I might as well sell it to the Reading Union."

After thinking for a while, Cai Fugui said again, "I'll give in one more step, and the price is 28 yuan for a book."

"In that case, I'll go first."

After finishing speaking, Liu Xing suddenly didn't want to talk anymore, turned around and was about to leave, and walked straight to the exit of the underground library.

One step, two steps, three steps, four steps...

"Wait a moment."

Finally, Cai Fugui stopped Liu Xing. How could he watch the cooked duck fly away, and said, "Liu Xing, how about 25 yuan?"

Liu Xing didn't make a sound, and continued walking without looking back, and was about to walk out of the underground library...

"Okay, tell me, how much is it?"

Cai Fugui couldn't help but compromised and said, he knew that some people's personalities were particularly stubborn, once they recognized a reason, nine bulls couldn't be pulled back.Liu Xing finally agreed to buy the book just now, if he is let go, I really don't know if he can be brought back.

Stopping, Liu Xing turned his head and repeated: "5 yuan."

Cai Fugui showed a very distressed expression on his face, and said earnestly: "Liu Xing, you are too mean, 5 yuan for a copy is really too low, and the price of jumping off a building is not so low. Do you know that this There are more than 21000 campus novels, and I bought them back at the price of 100 yuan, but now it’s very cheap to sell you 25 yuan.”

Liu Xing didn't take it seriously: "It's useless even if you bought it for 10000 yuan. A waste book is a waste book, and it's worthless in the first place."

"You can't say that." Cai Fugui analyzed, "The book appraisal technology 40 years ago was very poor, and the probability of missing star novels was about 21000%. Many of the more than 40 campus novels were written [-] years ago. Published, the probability of finding a star novel from it is one percent, and the chance is very high."

Liu Xing asked back: "If it was really so easy to find star novels, Boss Cai, you would have made a fortune long ago, wouldn't you?"

Cai Fugui was at a loss for words for a while, and didn't know how to refute, because what Liu Xing said was the truth.

Cai Fugui himself once selected more than 100 books from these waste books and sent them to the Book Testing Center for appraisal, with a total appraisal fee of more than 30 yuan.However, in the end, only a two-star novel was found, worth 1 yuan, which was equivalent to a loss of 29 yuan.

It is almost impossible to make money from waste books, and this is already a consensus among Chinese scholars.

Cai Fugui originally thought that Liu Xing didn't understand, and wanted to fool him, but now he realized that it was not easy to fool him.

"Liu Xing, it's okay to bargain, but you can't haggle. We are doing business, and we should be mutually beneficial and win-win. We can't just let you take advantage of it and let me take advantage of it, right?" Cai Fugui persuaded Said, "How about 20 yuan for each of us?"

Liu Xing ignored.

Cai Fugui thought for a while, and gritted his teeth: "The minimum is 19 yuan! This is already the price of vomiting blood, and it can't be lowered!"

In fact, when Cai Fugui called out 20 yuan, Liu Xing already felt that it was almost the same, because according to the current waste book market, the price of a waste book published more than 40 years ago is more than 20 yuan.

Liu Xing bought scrap books before, and the price of a scrap book was only 1 to 3 yuan. That was because the scrap books he bought at that time were all published in recent years, and the probability of finding star novels from them was only about [-]/[-] .

As for the novels published more than 40 years ago, due to the extremely backward book appraisal technology at that time, the probability of missing good books was 10%. Therefore, the probability of finding star novels increased by 10 times, and the price also increased by [-] times. above.

Therefore, a waste book published 40 years ago sells for 20 yuan, which is indeed a very cheap price.

However, Liu Xing still did not agree to this, and said: "Boss Cai, for the sake of your sincerity, how about this, one step back, 10 yuan."

"..." Cai Fugui almost vomited blood when he heard it. What kind of person is taking a step back? It's obviously a big step for me, and a small step for you, right?Is this kid really stupid, or fake stupid?
"Liu Xing, your price is too ruthless. There is no one like you. Cut off 30 yuan from 10 yuan. Isn't that killing me?" Cai Fugui gritted his teeth, as if he had made a heavy decision, and made a final decision. Said, "It's okay for one person to take a step back. It's not 19 yuan, and it's not 10 yuan. Let's take an intermediate value, a buy-it-yourself price, 15 yuan!"

Liu Xing asked back: "Why not 14 yuan, but 15 yuan? Boss Cai, you are not kind!"

"Okay, okay, you care about every dollar, you are really stingy." Cai Fugui said again, "14 yuan and 5 cents, is this fair?"

Liu Xing frowned slightly, thoughtfully.

"Liu Xing, aren't you still dissatisfied?" Cai Fugui said, "Go out and inquire, this is definitely the lowest price in the entire novel street!"

Liu Xing asked: "If I buy these waste books, can you carry them for me?"

Cai Fugui thought for a while, then nodded: "No problem, I can send all the books directly to your store, how about it?"

"make a deal!"

Hearing that Liu Xing agreed, Cai Fugui heaved a long sigh of relief, and sighed inwardly: Doing business with this kid is really strenuous!
……

In this way, Liu Xing bought all the campus novels in Fugui Book Bar at a price of 14.5 yuan.There are more than 21000 campus novels in total, and the total purchase price is 31 yuan.

In addition, there are other types of waste books in Fugui Book Bar, totaling more than 23000. These waste books are books published in the last ten years, so the price is relatively low, 1.7 yuan per book, and the total purchase price is about 4 yuan.

The difference between the two is that Liu Xing bought a total of about 45000 waste books at a total price of 35 yuan.

After the transaction, Liu Xing left Fugui Book Bar.

Looking at Liu Xing's leaving figure, Cai Fugui showed a smug smile on his face. He didn't expect things to go so smoothly, and he secretly rejoiced: Liu Xing seems so stupid, he actually bought all 45000 useless books After leaving, I spent 35 yuan all at once.With such a prodigal son, it seems that Meteor Book Bar is not far from closing down...

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Walking on the street of novels, Liu Xing was relaxed. Although he had just spent 35 yuan, he didn't feel bad at all.

35 is a lot of money, but Liu Xing didn't use his own money.

More than a month ago, Cai Fugui spent 40 yuan to hire Ah Lang to teach Liu Xing, but the 40 yuan commission eventually fell into Liu Xing's hands.Liu Xing just spent 35 yuan on the acquisition of waste books, which came from the 40 yuan commission.

Therefore, Liu Xing used Cai Fugui's money to buy Cai Fugui's useless books...

(End of this chapter)