Dark Light Chaser

Dark Light Chaser Chapter 106

2022-03-09

Chapter 106 Bookstore

Making beds, washing dishes, arranging daily necessities and seasonings, these things don’t take much effort , It only took less than ten minutes when everything was done.

I can only say that the power of reading is really good.

The arrangement of the place is ready, and Ai Liang will officially move into this home from this moment.

After packing up the things at home, Ai Liang plans to go out and visit the bookstore in the city.

During the day, the Qianhua Market is relatively harmonious in places where the sun shines.

Ai Liang took the bus for more than half an hour and came to the city center.

In this completely unfamiliar city, Ai Liang can only follow the navigation to check the location of each bookstore.

In the age of big information, almost every store, even just a grocery store, will show its location on the map.

So, after Ai Liang entered the bookstore in the navigation software...no information popped up.

It's already 2030, and brick-and-mortar bookstores are shrinking almost every year.

It's a small bookstore with only one front and few rows of bookshelves in the store.

All are almost eliminated.

The ones that still survive now are those high-value, multi-functional cultural and creative coffee bookstores.

On the one hand, the rise of the Internet and mobile terminals makes it easier to obtain resources and more convenient to read. People no longer need to go to traditional bookstores to buy physical books.

On the other hand, there is competition in the industry, but the competition also revolves around the Internet.

The cost of opening an online bookstore is much lower than traditional bookstores, and there are more sales methods and home delivery services.

This further exacerbates the difficult situation for traditional bookstores.

Under the combined effect of external oppression and internal reform, the business model of Wenchuang Coffee Bookstore came into being.

This kind of bookstore's profit from selling books only accounts for one third of the profit, or even lower.

Rather than selling books, such bookstores sell coffee, peripheral gifts, as well as cultural atmosphere and services, in order to satisfy the "style" that most people seek.

Therefore, coffee bookstores are only common in the top ten international cities of the Asian Union, or more popular tourist cities.

The reason is also very simple, the cost is high.

The coffee bookstore sells services, not only bookshelves, sofas, and tables, but also a large venue and exquisite decoration.

Because of the addition of elements outside the bookstore, there is also a special barista.

Aside from the cost input, the monthly salary for the clerk is not a small amount.

The citizens of big cities will regard reading as a habit, and there will be a variety of customer probabilities in the bookstore. In addition to students and young people, there will also be adults or retirees.

Secondly, in more popular tourist cities, such as Qianhua City, this exquisite coffee bookstore will be used by people who come to visit as a place to take pictures and punch in the circle of friends, which will bring greater benefits to the bookstore. human traffic.

In this way, income is guaranteed.

The bookstore in front of Ai Liang is just like that.

The bookstore lobby is decorated in khaki color. Whether it is the bookshelves or the conjoined tables and chairs, they are all brown in style. Just looking at the appearance makes people feel comfortable.

The most important reason why Ai Liang chose this store is that it has a separate reading room outside the bar.

It is specially prepared for those who want to read quietly.

It's no different from the bookstore in Neihua City, which is also a membership system.

One hundred and twenty-one year ordinary members can read books at will in the reading room of the store.

Three hundred and fifty high level members can enjoy 10% discount on books and can borrow books.

Ai Liang thought about it for a while, then applied for a membership of 350 and paid a deposit of 200 yuan.

Reading is one of his few hobbys, so he is willing to pay for it. The 200 yuan deposit is only to prevent customers from deliberately damaging the books, and the deposit will be refunded when the membership expires.

Ai Liang began to wander among the bookshelves in a happy mood to find novel categories.

Even though Ai Liang has psychic abilities, he cannot see through the thoughts of the characters in the novel.

Almost every story can bring him a sense of freshness, the kind of sincere emotion that reality cannot bring him.

After all, most of the real society is gray, and only in the world of stories will the truth, goodness and beauty be promoted for various reasons.

"So there are two volumes in this book?"

Ai Liang glanced back and forth on the bookshelf, and suddenly he found the novel that Yang Xingyue gave him.

Yang Xingyue gave him only the first volume, didn't expect to see a whole set of high, middle and low here.

Ai Liang didn't hesitate, brought three books high, middle and low, came to the long table and sat down.

He first spent ten minutes reviewing the plot of the first volume, recalling the general content of the book, and then gradually immersed himself in the subsequent stories with curiosity.

It's only after nine o'clock in the morning, and there are almost no people who come to the bookstore to read books. Ai Liang is equivalent to a reserved room.

Time goes by every minute and every second, and the teenagers who read books have become a landscape in the reading room.

Buzz, buzz.

What awakened Ai Liang from the story world was not the buzzing sound of the phone, but the reminder of the girl diagonally opposite.

"Your phone rang."

Ai Liang's thoughts were disturbed by the sudden voice.

After finding his phone buzzing, Ai Liang returned an apologetic smile.

The caller at this time was none other than Ma Yu, one of Ai Liang's few friends.

It was inconvenient to speak in the reading room, so Ai Liang hung up the phone and checked the private chat.

Generally, Ma Yu will call directly only when Ai Liang does not reply to the message in private chat and there is an urgent matter.

[Hello? Is Little Ai here? 】

【Have you found your place? ]

[When the house is rented, remember to squeak, tell me the address, and go to your place to play with you later. ]

[A message back. ]

[I won't be kidnapped. ]

[Squeak when I see the news. ]

The earliest news was last night.

Two were when he was doing housework in the morning, and the most recent one was ten minutes ago.

There are many more of the same information, all from Yue Qihua and Yang Xingyue.

According to the chat time, Ai Liang realized that it was almost eleven o'clock.

[I'm fine, I've found a place to stay, it's on Huayuan Road near Qianhua Experimental Middle School. I was doing housework in the morning, and I was just reading and didn't pay attention to the news. ]

[Wow, I'm finally willing to reply to the message, why didn't you answer the phone? ]

[The reading room of the bookstore is inconvenient. ]

[Really? Are you kidnapped? send a picture to see. ]

[...]

If you made such a request yesterday, I really can't explain it.

Ai Liang silently opened the video and turned all around for half a circle, then clicked send.

【Wait? You hooked up with a new girl just after you arrived at Qianhua City? ]

Hooking up girls? Am I that kind of person?

Ai Liang raised his head suspiciously, looked all around, and found the person sitting on his right staring at him with a complicated expression.

Ai Liang actually found out that there were people around him, but he didn't care. Where to sit is the freedom of others.

This is not the first time he has encountered such a situation. When he went to the bookstore before, people often came up to talk to him.

Anyway, just read books by yourself.

(end of this chapter)