At about 7 o'clock in the morning of 12 August, the Zhonghua Bookstore in Haiding District was ready to open as usual, and the store manager, Wang Weide, made a round around the store as usual.

It is said that the bookstore is just open, and there is no need to inspect at all, but Wang Weide has been working for seven or eight years since the opening of this store, and he has become accustomed to taking care of every inch of land in the store every day.

The main content of his inspection is to see if there are any books that have been messed up, where there are too many books missing, or whether some prominent places have been put on the latest mainstream books.

In fact, ordinary clerks can do these jobs, but he is still not at ease, and he has to personally supervise them every day.

After inspecting around, he walked to the door and saw a new poster erected at the door, which was a poster of a new book, the title of which was "Alive", and I heard that it has been quite popular on the website of the literary and art world recently.

And I heard that there was a joint recommendation of Kang Youwei and Cai Yuanpei, but Wang Weide didn't think so, he knows better than anyone what people like to watch now.

As long as you walk into the bookstore, you can naturally see that the most conspicuous position is always a few chivalrous novels, such as "Three Heroes Sword", "Yongzheng Sword Heroes" and relatively new books similar to "Continuation of Three Heroes and Five Righteousness", of course, the best selling is "Three Heroes and Five Righteousness" that came out decades ago.

As for the new book "Alive", Wang Weide did not read it, and he did not have the time to read it, he is the manager of a bookstore, and he still sells things, and selling things is selling things, and the nature of a businessman does not change with what he sells.

Therefore, Wang Weide is essentially a businessman, what he studies every day is what books are good to sell and what books are not easy to sell, and the books that are easy to sell will naturally be put in the front, and the books that are not easy to sell can only be placed in the shadow corners.

This time, putting the poster of "Alive" at the door was requested by the above, and Wang Weide had no choice even if he was reluctant, but it only said that "Alive" would be put on the shelves and put the poster on, but it did not say that the book should be put in front, so forty-nine of the fifty copies of "Alive" that had just arrived last night were still lying in the warehouse, and he only symbolically took out one and put it on the bookshelf of modern and modern novels on the third floor, and it was still an inconspicuous position.

To be honest, if it weren't for the fifty books that were shoehorned in by the library, he wouldn't even want these fifty books, and the small library on the bookstore side was not large, and he didn't even want to leave the fifty books for "Alive".

At eight o'clock, the bookstore officially opened, and Wang Weide saw that as soon as the door of the bookstore opened, many people poured in, and he smiled knowingly, it seems that today is a good start.

Usually few people come to buy or read books in the morning, although today is Saturday, but more people prefer to stay at home, or have breakfast first, so this point is usually rarely visited.

Of course, there are exceptions, such as in the middle of last month, on the morning of the first day of the release of the new book "Da Song Qi Jianlu" by the famous chivalrous novel writer "Bandit I Sicun", many of his fans came to buy books.

Thinking of this, Wang Weide glanced at the poster of "Alive" at the door, and then he shook his head and smiled, the author of this book has never even heard of it, how can there be the appeal of "I think of it".

But after a minute, he couldn't laugh anymore, because the people who had just come in looked around the display cases in the hall on the first floor and didn't seem to find what they were looking for, and began to shout for the clerk.

"Clerk, where did 'Alive' go?" a big brother shouted at a little girl, the clerk.

"yes, yes, where is "Alive". ”

"yes, I didn't find it. ”

It seems that they are all here to find "Alive", the man just asked, and everyone else also asked, and the little girl was stunned by their question, "Alive?"

Those people nodded in unison: "Yes, aren't all your posters released, what about the books?"

The little girl who was the clerk remembered what "Alive" was, she glanced at the poster, and then at the display shelves in the hall, suddenly thought of something, and hurriedly calmed everyone's emotions, saying: "Don't worry, everyone, "Alive" is a modern novel, I will take you there." ”

As soon as they heard this, everyone looked at each other, and suddenly someone complained: "The new book has just been put on the shelves, why did you put it on the top, is your poster fake?"

Of course, there is also a good-tempered persuasion: "Hey, just have a book, and I don't care about taking these few more steps, right, little girl, you lead the way, let's go together." ”

Wang Weide, who was standing next to the cash register, saw this scene, and his heart immediately sank, he never thought that these people were really here to buy "Alive".

He looked at the dozen or so people who went up with the little girl of the clerk, and his brows locked, he knew that they would definitely go up in vain this time, because there was only one book on the shelf now, and the rest of the books were in the warehouse.

Thinking of this, Wang Weide hurriedly beckoned a male clerk over and instructed: "You hurry up and go to the warehouse and take out all the copies of "Alive", take as many copies as you want, it is the new book that just arrived last night, after taking it, make a vacant space on the display shelf on the first floor, and put all the books on it." If you can't do it alone, go and call someone to help you, be quick. ”

He said that he wanted to hurry, and the male clerk did not dare to delay, so he called the other two people and went straight to the bookstore warehouse.

On the other side, the little girl who led the people up was embarrassed, because she searched around the modern fiction bookshelf on the third floor and only found a trial book, although it was a new book, but the plastic packaging of the book had been torn off.

The most important thing is that it is the trial book, and there is only this one left.

Seeing this, the man who spoke before spoke: "Little girl, what's going on, your bookstore has entered this book?"

The little girl didn't know how many books she had entered, but now she found one on the shelf, and she said hesitantly, "There should be more than one, there should be one in the warehouse." ”

The man couldn't stand this ambiguous attitude, and frowned: "Yes or no, you give a quasi-word." ”

The little girl was obviously taken aback, looking a little nervous, and the other man who was persuading people downstairs just now also spoke, and he said with a smile: "Don't embarrass the little girl, there are so many books, where can she remember, so let's do it, little girl, you find the person in charge of your bookstore, and we will ask him." ”

"Everyone, everyone, don't worry, listen to me first. At this time, Wang Weide walked up from downstairs.

Facing everyone's puzzled eyes, he continued: "Hello everyone, I am the manager of this store, and I already know your needs. Here I will explain to you what happened just now, the book "Alive" arrived last night, but because of the negligence of the clerk, it was not put on the shelves in time in the morning, and it is still in the warehouse, I have already asked someone to go over and get it, and now you can see it when you go down with me. ”

At the end, he saw that everyone looked worried, gritted his teeth and said, "Because of the inconvenience caused by the fault of our store, you can get a 7% discount on the purchase of books immediately." ”

Sure enough, as soon as he said this, everyone's expressions softened a lot, and someone immediately said happily: "Then I'm going to buy more books today." ”

Wang Weide was stunned and almost cried, but when he saw that there were only a dozen people, he couldn't buy many books no matter how much he bought, so he felt better.

In this era, the gross profit of a book in a bookstore is about less than 40%, and most of the profits are given to publishers and authors, of which of course publishers account for the majority.

But in order to make up for his mistakes, Wang Weide had to grit his teeth and cut his flesh, he just didn't expect that "Alive" would be popular, but it doesn't mean that he can't do it, no matter how he says it, he is also a store manager for several years, and he can be regarded as a thriller to solve this little thing.