Jia Ru can come back

Chapter 234 Strolling in the Clouds
The commercial street is very large. When walking side by side with him, I suddenly realized that this street has never been visited well. What remains in my impression is the scene of the past few years. I don’t know that the street is still the original street, but the changes are astonishing.There are many new stores that have replaced the original old ones. There are various industries. When I passed by a store, I couldn’t help but stamp my feet. In my impression, it used to be a Xinhua Bookstore, but now it’s called "Walking in the Cloud". I can’t tell from the name of the store. Is it a business or something.

"What? Want to go in and have a look?" Zhou Yu asked from the side.

I shook my head, "Let's go eat first."

He and Zhou Yu walked into a side stove shop, a pot of chicken soup with half a chicken, two taels of beef, and some vegetables.It's a very simple dish, but the taste is very good. I asked Zhou Yu if he had eaten it before, and he said no, it was the first time.

After paying the bill and walking back, I passed the "Walking in the Clouds" again. Zhou Yu walked in directly, and I had to follow.However, it turned out that this is still a bookstore, or should be called a bookstore. It has changed the traditional model of the original bookstore, from the layout to the decoration. The water bar is imitated together.

The scale may not be as large as that of Bashan, but looking at the past, it is almost full of people. Some people simply sit on the wooden steps to watch when they have no seats, and some people sit on the ground.

After the advent of Bashan, I thought that it would drive the rise of the book industry, not only subvert the original traditional model, but also bring a new era of reading books.And this "walking in the clouds" is very close to Bashan, I am afraid that a large number of people come from the original Bashan.My heart suddenly tightened, and a thought flashed through my mind.

Zhou Yu walked casually in the bookstore, occasionally flipping through the books on the book wall, like a very ordinary customer.When he finally stood up, he pulled out an ancient historical book, turned around and suggested to me, "Why don't you read a book?"

At this time, Zhou Yu seemed to have a smile on his face, but it seemed to me that there was a deep meaning in it. He walked over and picked out a random book, and sat down on the floor with him in a corner.I thought he was going to say something to me, but I didn't expect him to read the book seriously.

I looked down at the book in my hand, and couldn't help but fix my gaze—"What should you have when you fall in love at first sight? Jia Ru, you don't need to read the book, just ask me." Zhou Yu beside me teased me lazily, but his eyes were still focused on In his own book, he is the one who does two things at once.

"Look at yours, how can it be so wide." I snapped back angrily, and he said that it was broken, so I got up and put it back, and it didn't matter if I continued to look through it.His hand was empty, the book was taken away by him, and he stuffed the historical book in my hand into my hand, "Look at mine." He lowered his head and scanned the pages, and saw that it was "Zhuangzi · "Mountain wood".

After reading this article, I raised my head and looked at him suspiciously: "The mantis catches the cicada and the oriole is behind?"

The page that Zhou Yu turned was precisely this story, and I wouldn't believe it if he said that his actions had no deep meaning.He threw the book in his hand on the ground and said, "This is a cicada." Then he bent his fingers on the ground and said, "This is a praying mantis, and the book in your hand is a squirrel. The most profitable in this chain The person who is playing this game of chess is the person who set up this game."

"You mean..."

Zhou Yu stopped me with his eyes, "Let's go."

I didn't ask until I got back to the car after leaving the bookstore, "Is there something wrong with that bookstore?"

He said to me noncommittally: "You first talk about your previous idea."

my idea?I felt that he had roughly guessed it, and there was no need to hide it, so I spread out my doubts about Xiao Dong and told him everything about the conversation I had with Xiao Dong just now.

After listening to it, he looked at me with idiot eyes: "Have you ever questioned me face to face? This matter is impossible for anyone to admit. Why didn't you learn anything from Tang Jin? Xiao Dong panicked?"

"Who said that? I deliberately questioned him in order to observe his reaction. No matter how deep he is, human instinct can't deceive people. Recently, I have been learning the micro-expressions of psychology from Tang Jin. "

"Then did you see something?" He raised his eyebrows and asked me.

I hesitated for a while and said my judgment: "Judging from the reaction he gave, it doesn't seem to be the pushing hand."

Zhou Yu laughed, "Jia Ru, you made a detour to rule him out."

I frowned, and was about to distinguish when he said again: "But Xiao Dong's suspicion can basically be ruled out." Hearing what he said, I retracted my words and waited for his next words.

"I don't know how this person behaves like you do. What I see is the maximization of benefits. As you said, if Xiao Dong is the mastermind, the value of the benefits he can get in this incident is at most one solution to me. The hatred in his heart, but the cost he has to pay is to buy Qian Huijuan, and then buy He Xiangjie, and even spend a lot of money to promote online public opinion, buy naval forces, etc. It is obvious that the cost is not directly proportional to the return on benefits, such a scheming city Deep people never do things that don’t pay off.”

I have to admit that Zhou Yu's reasoning is very reasonable.

This is exactly what confused me when I was thinking about Xiao Dong's motives. Did he really hate Zhou Yu to such an extent that he wanted to attack Shucheng at all costs?It might be possible to say that I was jealous and resentful towards Zhou Yu because of me, but this hatred is not enough to support Xiao Dong's irrational behavior.

"So that bookstore just now is the biggest possibility in your opinion?"

There was a slight smile on the corner of Zhou Yu's lips, "Do you know why I was late in the morning? Because I have been wandering around here for the past few days, visiting shops one by one, whether it is a bookstore, a beverage store, a restaurant, or even a game hall. I’ve been in it before. It’s really boring recently, who let people knock down my bookstore.”

I heard something in his words: "What did you find?"

He shook his head at me, "It's not what we discover, but what we hear. In fact, we are often blinded by what our eyes see, but we don't know that there are some things that our ears can't cover. For example, when I go to a restaurant to eat, there Some customers will say that the food in this store is better than which one; for example, when I go to Starbucks to order a cup of coffee, some people in the queue will say that the coffee drinks in Bashan Yeyu are actually very good, but it is a pity that Bashan is closed. gone."

When I heard Bashan Yeyu was mentioned, I couldn't help but feel a little bit emotional.It turned out that some people were thinking about this drink they created, but if it wasn't for Bashan Bookstore to promote it, and only the small shop near the apartment was operating, how many people would remember it?

"I just cited one or two examples. Catering in these stores can be excluded, and they have no immediate interest relationship with the bookstore. Clothing stores can also be excluded. The nature of catering is the same, and there will be three industries left behind: one is beverage stores. , the second is a children's playground, and the third is a bookstore."

The place he took me into was a bookstore just now. Could it be that one of the three choices has been locked as a bookstore?
But why must it be a bookstore?In my opinion, beverage stores are unlikely. Cafes such as Starbucks and milk tea drinks have their own fields. Bashan Yeyu has definitely not affected them to the extent that it is necessary to plan ahead. too early.And I think children-themed parks are more suspicious, because the advent of Bashan Book City has led to the elimination of the original children's parks in this business circle.

Although Bashan Book City is a parent-child education project, it actually has play facilities for young children downstairs, and the castle in the air is aimed at children's entertainment and education. Even older children have books in the children's area to read.

So it covers almost all age groups of children and teenagers, and basically only those who have already applied for a card and are reluctant to give up will go to the surrounding inherent children's places.And this group of people will eventually be occupied by Bashan Book City.

But Zhou Yu still shook his head: "It's not."

"Why? If it is said that interests are relativized and Bashan is down, aren't these children's playgrounds the direct beneficiaries?"

"Come with me." Zhou Yu got out of the car again and took me back to the business district.

We came to a children's playground, which was the traditional ocean ball mode of play.It is now past two o'clock in the afternoon, and the traffic in the commercial area is usually good at this time, but there are only three or two children playing in this children's playground, and the staff are all idle.

Zhou Yu took me to another house, and the same situation was also there.

As he was walking back, he asked me, "Have you ever wondered why?"

I am very puzzled, business is really not my strong point. It is reasonable that the business of these places has become sluggish due to the influence of the bookstore. Now that the bookstore is closed, it should be booming again. Why is it still so depressed?
Zhou Yu said: "It is people's thinking that is changing, just like it is easy to go from frugal to extravagant and difficult to go from extravagant to frugal. When people enjoy high-grade services, there will be comparisons when they return to low-grade places. Two-phase balance makes the latter worthless.”

So even if the book city collapses, this children's playground is not the biggest beneficiary.

There are three options, and now only the bookstore with a makeover is left.We have already been there just now, and it is not an exaggeration to describe it as "the crowd is like a market". If Zhou Yu really considers the direction of maximizing profits, then only this bookstore is the biggest beneficiary.

Then what I want to ask is this entire business district, is there only this "Walking in the Clouds" bookstore?
Zhou Yu opened the map on his mobile phone and entered the bookstore. There were three nearby bookstores on the map, scattered in three points in the east, west and east. Walking in the Cloud was one of them, and the other two were called Walking in Yuncheng and Walking in Yunding.

I looked up in surprise: "These three are chain bookstores, with the same owner?"

Zhou Yu pursed his lips and showed a mocking smile, "Otherwise, how could he have the strength to compete with my Bashan?"

I couldn't help but sigh: "How did you notice it?" He glanced at me, "Are you listening to me carefully? Didn't I just say that, I've been walking around recently, and it's natural for me to walk around. I saw it."

Mo looked at him, and it was obvious that he wasn't just wandering around aimlessly, he was actually spying.

Some things live in his blood, so he is more sensitive than anyone else, and he divides and screens in a wide range of categories, and finally finalizes this chain bookstore.

(End of this chapter)