The day before the opening, Zhu Xiaotong and the others got together and happily discussed the upcoming opening ceremony. Coincidentally, on this day, Lao Wang and Liu Zhilu walked out of the bookstore together to buy books.

Lao Wang smiled and said to Liu Zhilu: "Look at them planning to make a lot of money again."

Liu Zhilu answered: "They will be closed in half a year at most." Liu Zhilu said this definitely not just by opening his mouth, he knew that Zhu Xiaotong's store was rented on a half-year basis.

Lao Wang listened to the "hehe" and laughed for a while, and then stopped talking.

The next day, Liu Zhilu saw Zhu Xiaotong and them pulling a banner at the door of the supermarket in Building 45, which read "Leading the New Revolution of National Underwear - Xueba Nenei". What makes Liu Zhilu feel even more amazing is that their clerks are still men!

After most of the day, no girl stopped to find out, it was all regarded as a bold joke, and no girl was embarrassed to laugh.

As a result, it was even more bleak than Liu Zhilu expected, and there were no more than ten girls who entered their store in the past six months.

In stark contrast to Zhu's lingerie store is their Botang bookstore next door. A group of tourists are going to the bookstore, they are tourists from all over the country, it is not easy to come to Peking University, most of them will take this bookstore as a place they must check in, and it is normal to buy books here as a souvenir.

This bookstore not only does not raise the price of goods to rip off customers like other scenic spots, but gives profits to customers. In addition to the textbooks of Peking University, which is discounted by 20%, the others are discounted by 75%, or even lower, and it is common for some special books to be discounted by 2 to 65%.

The prices of books here are lower than those of bookstores in almost any other place, and there is a wide range of academic books, so you can buy books that you don't know where to buy them.

No matter how many books you buy, you can support the shipping service. If you buy a lot, you can deliver it to your car or near the bus subway station if you buy as much as you buy in Beijing for free, and if you buy it on campus or not far from the school.

Many teachers and students in the school or those who come to Peking University for further study deposit the book money in the bookstore through the method of reimbursement in advance. Most of them are in the hundreds, and some are in the tens of thousands. Because Botang Bookstore is located in Peking University, it can recruit clerks at a very low salary. In recent years, the state has also exempted bookstores from business tax.

Despite this, due to the annual increase in the rent of the storefront, coupled with the impact of online bookstores, the increasing popularity of e-paper books, the rising cost of store staff, and the vicious competition with another on-campus bookstore, etc. As a result, Botang Bookstore has only barely been able to operate in recent years.

Lao Yang and Lao Wang often worry about this, but they can't think of any good way, so they can only continue to do it. Because they have been running a bookstore for more than ten years, if they don't do it, they don't know what else they can do.

The staff in the bookstore are like flowing water, and they leave not long after they come, and they change again. Most of them only work for a month or a year, and there are very few who work for more than two years. In addition to low wages and no social security, the books in the bookstore are only allowed to be touched and not read. There is almost no room for advancement in the workplace.

Most of the people who work in this bookstore are people who like books, or have passed self-study exams, or want to come to Peking University to have a look, and there are people like Liu Zhilu for marriage and love. If it's purely to make a living, it's often less than a month before leaving.

Originally, Lao Wang's brother's family was also involved in the operation of the bookstore, but it has not been very good in recent years, and the management rights have all been handed over to the husband and wife duo of Lao Wang and Lao Yang, but the shares are still retained.