"Students, tomorrow is New Year's Day, and the school is closed on New Year's Day, but ah, don't be greedy for fun, use the time of the holiday to review well, and when you come back on New Year's Day, you will have to take the exam for the winter vacation......"

This day is the last day of 2017, Wednesday, in order to let the students not lie during the holidays, the head teacher Ma Yi deliberately left the students to tell them when they were out of school.

What Mr. Ma said actually didn't have much effect on the students, what everyone is thinking about now is to get out of school quickly, what do the students in the township like the most? That is, of course, the holiday.

No matter what Teacher Ma advises, there will not be many people who can do what she says.

Even Hu Mingchen, it is impossible for him to review at home on the day of the New Year's Day holiday, and during this time, his family is busy.

After nagging for more than ten minutes, Ma Yi was able to let the classmates go. It's just that Hu Mingchen was left alone by him.

"Hu Mingchen, this semester, you are a little sloppy in your studies, you have asked for a lot of leave, and even skipped class, and now you are facing the semester exam, can you still do well?" Ma Yi stood on the podium and looked down at Hu Mingchen under the podium and asked.

This semester, Hu Mingchen's house is a movie theater and a house, and there are naturally a lot of things. Especially on the side of the cinema, many things have to be done by Hu Mingchen, such as going to get movies in Daocheng, Hu Mingchen knows which movies are good and which are not, and this is something that Hu Jianqiang doesn't know. It is impossible for someone from the film company to let him decide whether to take it or not after watching it, and he doesn't have that time to spare.

At this time, communication was very backward, and unlike the era when there were mobile phones, a phone call and a text message could ask for leave, so Hu Mingchen was absent from school because he was too late. Ma Yi didn't reprimand Hu Mingchen much at that time, but when she was about to face the exam, she moved out.

"Teacher Ma, I'm sorry to bother you this semester and cause you trouble. Contrary to Ma Yi's expectations, Hu Mingchen apologized to her first.

"These are nothing, your family has a difficult situation, which the teacher understands, so some things are not bothered with you. But you have to be clear that you are different from other students, most of the students in our class finish primary school, at most go to junior high school, and their studies will end, but you have to continue to move forward, you have to continue to study upward, so at this time you have to lay a good foundation, you are a child with ideas, but those ideas will only become reality if you are down-to-earth, do you understand?" Ma Yi said sincerely.

Hu Mingchen was moved in his heart and nodded again and again: "Teacher Ma, I understand, I know how to do it, I won't be blinded by my eyes." I did slack off a little this semester, but I will make up for it, and I am still confident that I can do well in the exam this holiday. ”

"Well, you don't need a hammer to beat the drum, you just understand this, okay, go back early. Ma Yi was very satisfied with Hu Mingchen's answer, and from Hu Mingchen's expression, she also saw Hu Mingchen's seriousness and determination, rather than perfunctory her.

After leaving the school, Hu Mingchen's immediate place was the Duge Cinema.

Although tomorrow is not a rush day, many places are closed on New Year's Day, and the business of the cinema should be better than usual.

Walking into the courtyard of the grain station warehouse, Hu Mingchen saw that the cement benches under the wall next to him were full of people, and a line came out in the movie theater, and those people leaned back and laughed.

"Tang Bohu Dots Autumn Fragrance" is being shown in the cinema, this comedy was shown yesterday, and it was shown again today, but there are still many people who buy tickets to watch it, this kind of nonsensical comedy is very popular with ordinary people in the middle and lower classes.

There are five families selling food in the stall under the canopy. One sells jelly, one sells melon seeds and peanuts, another sells cigarettes and tea drinks, one sells sweet potatoes and fruits, and the last one sells snacks and popcorn.

The answer is no, these five companies were determined by Hu Mingchen through auction.

At the beginning, Hu Mingchen let them use it for free for a week, and there were not many people on the street, so when he saw someone selling things here, the business was not bad, and many popped up all of a sudden. Anyway, you don't need money, and from noon to night, there is basically a constant flow of people, especially after dark, when the rest of Dugg Street is dark, but the movie theater is brightly lit.

In the past, people didn't go out much when it was dark, but since we had this movie theater, after dinner or in the afternoon, men, women and children like to go to the movie theater for a while. Those who have money watch movies, those who don't have money listen to movies, or brag and chat, eat a bowl of cold noodles, and eat a cup of melon seeds.

Where there are people, there is business, no matter how many families come, Hu Mingchen will not refuse to come, and there are not enough platforms and pergolas, and they are allowed to operate under the wall.

A few days later, seeing that the time was almost up, Hu Mingchen summoned them. Clearly told them that in the future, only merchants who rented the sales table could operate in the courtyard, and the five sales tables would be rented to them according to the auction price of the highest price.

At first, the people chattered and expressed a lot of opposition.

If you have something that doesn't cost money, who wants to spend it? It's not that the brain case is broken.

Some people even say that if they spend money, they would rather sell it elsewhere than here, and the implication is to boycott it.

It's just that in Hu Mingchen's view, in the face of interests, any boycott or cruel words are meaningless, and they are all local chickens and dogs. Even if Hu Mingchen has not systematically studied economics, it is impossible for him not to know such a simple truth.

Therefore, under Hu Mingchen's strong request, even those who threatened to boycott could only obediently return to the negotiating table in the end, and were even afraid that the opportunity would be snatched away by competitors.

To be honest, if there is no cinema, or if there are no people in this cinema, then no one will want to ask them to set up a stall here even if they don't need money. There are people who do things that lose their heads, but no one wants to do a loss-making business.

On the other hand, even if the rent is required here, or the rent is a little higher, as long as there is a business and money to be made, it is worth it. This simple account is well known even to illiterate people who can't even write their names.

In the end, Hu Mingchen got 200 yuan a month for the rent of the five stalls, which means that these five small sheds can get an income of 2,400 yuan a year, which almost offsets more than half of the money he spent renting this warehouse.

When there are lights, stools to sit on, and vendors, correspondingly, the cinema has a surrounding market environment, which is the result of complementing each other.

"Third uncle, how is it today?" asked Hu Mingchen as he pushed the door into Hu Jianqiang's small ticket booth.

Before he was short of money, Hu Jianqiang only had a set of old tables and chairs to sell tickets, but now he is more generous, in order to look formal, a small kiosk was set up at the door on the right hand side of the movie theater to sell tickets.

"Now it's the third show, and 2670 movie tickets have been sold. As soon as Hu Mingchen walked into the courtyard, Hu Jianqiang saw him, so he first glanced at the small book at hand, knowing that Hu Mingchen would definitely ask about this situation.

In normal times, it is difficult to fill the Duge Cinema, especially during the day, everyone has to work, and Dug Township is not big after all, and the consumption level is not so high. It's good for a movie to have an attendance rate of 40 percent and 50 percent.

In the evening, though, attendance increases by twenty or thirty percent.

Now there is a phenomenon that after work in the evening, not only the people who live on the street will watch the movie, but some young people from the surrounding villages will meet to watch the movie, and even the people in the town of Fanger will ride motorcycles or tricycles to Duge Township to watch the movie.

Especially for those young people, where to go for love? The first place to go is, of course, to go to the Dugg Cinema.

Although the number of people does not seem to be so much, but the price is not a lot of profit, more than 200 tickets, almost 500 yuan.

As for the rush day, the business is even more different, except for the first movie that starts at 10 o'clock in the morning, which is not very full, the other five movies can basically reach full seats, and occasionally even if one is not satisfied, it will reach 890% attendance.

In a month, you can receive about 8,000 to 10,000 tickets in just four rush days, plus usually, tickets that sell more than 20,000 yuan a month are basically no problem.

At least in December, which is about to end, Hu Mingchen has already seen 21,000 yuan.

During this time, Hu Jianjun spent less than half of his time repairing the house and helping out in the cinema.

The movie theater has made money, and Hu Jianjun is not worried, at least all the funds that Hu Mingchen withdrew from him have been returned.

"That's good, there are eighty or ninety people watching a movie, even if it's only fifty people, it's satisfying. Hu Mingchen's request was not ambitious.

"This year is about to end, and there are almost 10,000 yuan left on the books, do you want to make a settlement?" asked Hu Jianqiang.

"This is what you want, at least how much you earn, you have to have a number in your heart...... Third uncle, if you go and withdraw 1,000 yuan in a while, it will be regarded as a year-end bonus for you. After Hu Mingchen nodded in response, he muttered a little.

"Bonus? That's a thousand dollars! That's too much, why don't you discuss it with your parents first?" Hearing that Hu Mingchen was going to give a bonus of 1,000 yuan, Hu Jianqiang was taken aback.

Previously, Hu Mingchen only negotiated a monthly salary of 200 with Hu Jianqiang, and in the local area, there was no talk and practice of year-end bonuses. The equivalent of five months' bonus popped up all of a sudden, and the time was still so short, of course Hu Jianqiang would be surprised.