Hearing Yu Dong's words, the expression on the bookstore owner's face suddenly froze.
The "Notre Dame de Paris" in his bookstore is indeed the first edition of the book published by Shanghai Camel Bookstore in 1949, and it was placed there intentionally by the boss.
The reason why he put this book here is because he doesn't think anyone can see the details of this book, and students prefer books with newer covers.
Of course, the boss was not completely worried, so he put away the second volume and left only the first volume on the bookshelf. Even if he met some students who wanted to buy it, they would not buy it when they heard that there was only the first volume.
But if you still insist on buying the book after hearing that it has not been released, there is only one possibility. This is a person who knows the goods.
In fact, knowing this book is not a very special thing, but the boss feels that he will not meet such a person in Donghu Middle School.
He just liked this feeling, the feeling of putting a precious thing in an obvious but inconspicuous place, but hiding it from everyone.
The boss wanted to reject the deal, but once he said it, it was difficult to follow up. He had just said he could sell it, but now he said he wouldn't sell it. His old face had no place to put it.
"Twenty-five yuan." The boss finally said a price.
Yu Dong smiled, took out his wallet, counted twenty-five dollars, and said, "Exactly twenty-five, no more, no less, boss, count it."
The boss looked at the twenty-five dollars and his lips twitched.
After arguing with himself for a while, the boss sighed slightly, put the money away, and then said to Dong, "Your accent sounds like you're not a local?"
Yu Dong nodded: "Yes, from Jiangsu Province."
"Coming here on business?"
"That's right." Yu Dong smiled and just clapped the "Notre Dame de Paris" on his hand: "I didn't expect that there would be an unexpected gain. This version of "Notre Dame de Paris" was only produced in 1,500 sets that year, and there are already
There aren’t many left, so it’s not easy to find one in such good condition.”
In fact, Yu Dong was quite surprised. He didn't expect that the boss was really willing to sell the book.
The boss, who was originally in a calm mood, felt his blood pressure rise again when he heard these words, "I've given you a big advantage, but let me tell you, since you took the book back, keep it well and don't waste it."
"Don't worry, boss." Yu Dong looked back at Quan Bookstore again, "I see that your bookstore contains a lot of literary works. How are the sales of these books?"
"Of course it's not as good as teaching aids, but it's pretty good. Of course, these kinds of books are better sold at bookstalls outside."
Yu Dong nodded, he understood what his boss meant.
With the development of printing technology, pirated books have not been curbed, but have been better developed, becoming more and more sophisticated.
For the same book, the price difference between genuine and pirated books can be many times greater, and the quality may only differ a little, but it does not affect reading. Some pirated books can even achieve the same quality as genuine books.
In this case, students who are not wealthy are of course more willing to buy pirated books.
Even though they know that buying pirated books is wrong, reality forces them not to give in to piracy.
Therefore, the boss said that such books sold better at outside book stalls.
In fact, not only bookstalls, but most small bookstores are also filled with all kinds of pirated books.
A small bookstore like Dongzhong Bookstore, which only has genuine books, is a different kind. Just now, Yu Dong was a little surprised when he saw that it was full of genuine books.
Nowadays, the piracy situation is better in first-tier cities. On the one hand, because the economic level has risen, more people have the ability to choose genuine books. On the other hand, because of the preparations made by Deep Space Company in the past two years, only by purchasing genuine books can people buy genuine books.
By earning deep space points, you can get some things that you can't get by buying pirated books.
"Which books usually sell better?" Yu Dong asked again.
The boss didn't answer Yu Dong's question. Instead, he adjusted his glasses and looked at him, "You're not here to buy books, are you? Why are there so many questions?"
Yu Dong smiled and said: "Hey, you saw it through. In fact, I also want to open a bookstore. This time I passed by Donghu Middle School and wanted to come and learn from it. Of course, boss, don't worry, my bookstore is in Jinling, and it will never be in Jinling.
I'm here to steal your business."
Hearing this, the boss smiled disdainfully and said, "What if you open a bookstore nearby? In business, it still depends on the people. Some things cannot be done on impulse. I think you still have to do it."
When you are young, you cannot understand it without encountering some setbacks. When you are more than ten years older, you will understand everything."
Yu Dong looked at the proud bookstore owner and found it quite interesting. He asked with a smile, "I heard that celebrities came to Donghu Middle School in the past two days?"
The boss looked at Yu Dong up and down, "You are quite well-informed. Yesterday morning, a lot of people did come. Their cars drove directly to the school gate, and dozens of people got out. There was a big fight, they must have come.
Some important person, I don’t know who he is... Do you have any news?"
Yu Dong waved his hands and said, "What news can I have? I just heard about this and asked out of curiosity."
"It's nothing strange. Donghu Middle School is funded by Deep Space. Everyone knows this. It's not a big deal for a few celebrities to come. It's not surprising that Yu Dong is here. Maybe Yu Dong was among the people who came yesterday. But.
It was a bit far away and I couldn’t see it clearly.”
"Have you met Yu Dong?"
The boss snorted, "Of course, I watched it on TV during the deep space annual meeting at the end of last year. Yu Dong is very young. From what I saw, he is about the same age as you."
Yu Dong raised his eyebrows and said jokingly, "Boss, have you not changed your glasses for many years?"
"Well, it hasn't been replaced in more than ten years. What's wrong?"
Yu Dong smiled and said, "It's nothing. I see some stains on the lenses and I think it would be better to change them."
The boss didn't take it seriously and said, "Although I haven't changed it for more than ten years, it is still easy to use. My eyes have some astigmatism. If I am outside in the sun, it will be better than the eyes of students inside the school."
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Yu Dong said this, then walked out of the bookstore with "Notre Dame of Violence" in his arms and walked towards the school gate.
The boss looked at Yu Dong's back, rolled his eyes, picked up the previous book and continued reading.
He thought this young man was a bit weird, but when he opened his business, he encountered many weird people, and there were even weirder ones than this one.
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When entering Donghu Middle School, you need to register your name and the reason for your visit, but it is not particularly strict. After Yu Dong told the name of the dean, the guard let him in.
After entering the school, Yu Dong did not rush to find Yu Hua and the others, but casually walked around the school.
It was Yu Dong's first time to come to Donghu Middle School, but the company had the school's files, and the files contained old photos of the school.
Donghu Middle School has changed a lot in recent years. The main teaching building and dormitory building have been newly built.
When Deep Space first funded Donghu Middle School, they only built a basketball court and a few table tennis tables for them in terms of sports facilities, but now the school has several basketball courts and an additional football field.
The cafeteria is also newly built, with three floors. In front of the cafeteria, there is a small pond surrounded by warm stones.
There were many people on the playground at this time, all students taking physical education classes.
Yu Dong stood by the pond for a while and watched the students having physical education classes, and then walked along the path paved with bluestones towards the main teaching building.
Arriving at the door of a classroom on the second floor, Yu Dong heard a familiar voice.
"The sense of space in literary works is very important. The sense of space mentioned here is not an illusory thing, but a real space. For example, the classroom we are in now is a typical space."
Yu Dong turned his head and looked inside the classroom, and saw Bi Feiyu standing on the podium giving a lecture to the students.
"Everyone has a different way of creating a sense of space." Bi Feiyu continued, "And the excerpt from "Old Book" we are talking about today is an epitome of the means of creating a sense of space in all of Yu Dong's works. Male
When the protagonist comes to the heroine's bookstore for the first time, Yu Dong does not write about the space directly, but first writes about the cashier cabinet inside the bookstore. What is his purpose?"
The students looked at each other, but no one responded.
"The heroine's legs and feet are inconvenient, so her cabinet must be very short. Otherwise, it would be difficult for her to take care of the movement in the store."
After Feiyu said this, the students all seemed to suddenly realize that they had never thought about this before.
The description in the book seemed quite ordinary. I wrote that the cabinets in the bookstore were relatively short. They didn't think much about it when they read it before.
Now that I think about it, this is indeed true. Generally, the checkout counters in bookstores are not very short. The reason why the heroine's bookstore is so short must be because of her inconvenient legs and feet.
"After writing Short Cabinet, what did he write again?" Bi Feiyu asked again.
The students hurriedly looked at the test papers in their hands, and then one student shouted, "Write on the innermost stairs of the bookstore."
"Yes, Yu Dong immediately wrote that there is a not high but very delicate staircase in the bookstore. Under normal circumstances, when describing a scene, one should follow a principle, either from far to near, or from near to far.
No matter what it is, it's best to move forward slowly, but the two things Yu Dong described here have a very large space span, skipping the proprietress behind the cashier, and also skipping the bookshelf from the door to the stairs. You guys
Do you know the reason for this?"
The students tilted their heads and thought for a while, but they couldn't think of an answer, so they all shook their heads.
Bi Feiyu smiled and said: "This is actually paving the way for rescuing people from the fire later in the chapter. The perspective can be switched from the cabinet to the stairs inside, which proves that there are not many obstacles from the door to the stairs.
In addition, it also explains one thing. The bookshelves in this bookstore are not high, otherwise the protagonist will be blocked from sight. This brings us back to the question we just mentioned, why are the bookshelves in this bookstore not high?"
"Because the heroine has inconvenient legs and feet." Someone rushed to answer.
Bi Feiyu snapped his fingers, "Yes, this is the way Yu Dong describes space. He has a problem, that is, he likes to be circuitous when writing about space, using other scenes to highlight it."
"Teacher Bi, what about you? How do you express space?" A student asked curiously.
Bi Feiyu's analysis of Yu Dong's article just now was very clear, but when the students asked about his expression method, he was speechless.
At this time, Yu Dong walked to the door and said with a smile, "It is a very cruel thing for a writer to comment on his own works and writing methods."
Bi Feiyu turned his head in surprise and saw Yu Dong standing at the door, his eyes widened.
At this time, some students were surprised and said, "Yu Dong!"
Not everyone knows what Yu Dong looks like, but among the dozens of students in a class, there will always be students who can recognize him.
Hearing the name "Yu Dong", the classroom suddenly became lively.
Although many students don't know what Yu Dong looks like, they have basically heard of Yu Dong's name. After all, this school is funded by Shenzhen Space.
Besides, even if there is no funding for this matter, it is normal for middle school students to hear the name Yu Dong.
Not to mention the books displayed in bookstores, in recent years some provinces or educational institutions like to include excerpts of Yu Dong's works in Chinese language examination papers to allow students to test their reading comprehension.
What Bi Feiyu just told the students was a set of Chinese test papers issued by a well-known educational institution in Sichuan Province, which contained excerpts from "Old Books".
Because Yu Dong's novels often appear in these test papers, many students purposefully buy Yu Dong's relatively serious works.
But several years have passed, and during important exams, Yu Dong’s works will not appear in the Chinese language test papers.
In fact, it is easy to understand, because Yu Dong’s works are widely circulated and many students have read them. Such works are not suitable for taking exams.
Bi Feiyu walked off the podium and said with a surprised look on his face, "Why are you here?"
Yu Dong said with a smile, "I can't come?"
"I can come, but why didn't you tell me in advance?"
"It's boring to say that." Yu Dong smiled and waved to the students, "Sorry for disturbing your class."
The students were so excited that they didn't know what to say. Of course, some students were still confused and didn't know what was going on.
Yu Dong asked Bi Feiyu, "Why are you the only one and where are the others?"
"Some were in other classrooms, some were in the office, and some were out. Wang Xiaobo took Chen Mobai and the others to organize a practical class, and several classes participated."
"How long until this class ends?"
Bi Feiyu looked at his watch, "There are still fifteen minutes."
Yu Dong nodded, "Okay, I'll wait for you here. You finish this lesson, and then we go to find the principal."
"Don't say you came here, you didn't even tell the principal."
Yu Dong shrugged.
Bi Feiyu shook his head and said, "You are really good at it."
"Okay, bald man, don't laugh at the monk's hairlessness. Didn't you come to Donghu Middle School without saying hello in advance?"
As soon as these words came out, Bi Feiyu stopped talking.
Chapter completed!