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Chapter 493 If you don't accept gifts for this year's festival, you will accept gifts...

(five thousand words)

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, the weather is always cold, but there are still some people who have to go to work. It is indeed not easy, but this year there is one more industry that has to go to work during the Lunar New Year.

"On the first day of the Lunar New Year, the buses stopped, and I had to go to work. I really wanted to die. I'm really sorry, but I trouble you to come around so far and pick me up. I'm afraid we'll be late together."

"It's okay. It's the first day of junior high school. It doesn't matter if you go late. I used to be on the New Year's shift. I was busy with New Year's greetings this morning. I usually only buy books and read books in the afternoon."

"That's true. By the way, I've been working shifts for the past few days and resting at home. I heard that the store's "Legend of the Condor Heroes" came over a few days ago?"

"That's right! Let me tell you, this book is really good-looking by his grandma. I didn't believe that it was so lively online before, but after I got the goods, I couldn't help looking through it curiously, bang, it's a bad dish, and my eyes can't be pulled out anymore. I haven’t done anything in the past few days, so I just focus on watching this, oops, I’m so ****, I can’t stop it!”

"Really? My naughty brother whispered in my ear half a month ago, saying that I would leave him a whole set no matter what. He said that as long as he has a set of "Shooting the Condor", he will have nothing to ask for in the next six months. , I must grit my teeth and clenched my fists to create a school!"

"The young man is ambitious. According to my estimation, there will be many people who come to buy "Shooting the Condor" today."

"...Then will we be late?"

"Not at all. As I said, there are quite a few people who bought and read books on the first day of junior high school, but most of them were in the afternoon. When it was approaching noon, there were some children who received the lucky money after paying New Year's greetings... Hiss! , what's the situation?!"

The two bookstore staff were chatting when the car turned around and arrived in front of the bookstore.

On the side of the road, several piles of debris from the firecrackers that roared last night were collected by the cleaners.Haven't had time to remove yet.

In the open space between the piles of crumbs, there are a few sticks lined up, which is not too long.But the total number adds up to a team of nearly a hundred people.In fact, it's not really a queue, everyone just stands scattered.Waiting to chat happily together.Most of the young people are dressed in new and fashionable clothes, showing the festive atmosphere of the Spring Festival everywhere.Among them, there are a few children who look like elementary school students, wearing brand-new clothes and shoes, jumping around happily.

The winter is thin and sunny.Early in the morning, before the sun came out, the temperature was close to zero.

But even though we were waiting outside, everyone chatted happily.Obviously, they didn't expect to meet so many like-minded people, and it was a festive Chinese New Year, so no one showed too much impatience.

After seeing two staff members wearing work clothes of the bookstore stop, the whole crowd calmed down a little. From the scattered state before, they consciously gathered towards the door of the bookstore.

The two staff raised their wrists to look at their watches, looked at each other, and walked over bravely, preparing to open the store.I am also ready to welcome everyone's condemnation and complaints. After all, I was really late today, and I was almost 10 minutes late.Xiao Fang, the staff member who drove the car, lowered his head and opened the door, and Xiao Yuan, who rubbed against the car.Quickly turned around and apologized:
"Happy New Year, everyone! I've been late for something, so I kept everyone waiting. I'm really sorry..."

However, it was far beyond their expectations.Everyone cheered and greeted them sincerely:
"It's okay, it's Chinese New Year, I understand."

"That's right, we just arrived too. We had a good chat and made new friends."

"Happy New Year, both of you."

"You two are the ones who have worked hard. Those who celebrate the Chinese New Year have to come to work."

"That's right, your leader will get a salary increase, otherwise we won't obey him!"

Although the words are simple and unsentimental, but in such a winter morning, you talk to each other, accompanied by white heating exhaled in front of smiling faces, but it made the two staff who were still dissatisfied with coming to work The whole body was warm, and all the unhappiness and gloom in his heart disappeared in an instant.

Xiaoyuan asked curiously, "Is everyone here to buy... "Shooting the Condors"?"

Everyone laughed and then nodded. There was a self-evident and like-minded meaning in the smiles.

At this time, Xiao Fang had already opened the door of the store, and while letting everyone in, he hurriedly said: "Actually, you don't have to come so early, and it's not too late to come after the New Year's greetings. The physical book of "Shooting the Condors" is definitely in sufficient stock. It is guaranteed that anyone can buy it..."

"You misunderstood, we are just going to buy a set, and then bring it to New Year's greetings."

"That's right, those nutritious products are too vulgar now, and the elderly don't like them. It's good to buy a set of "Shooting the Condors"!"

"The old man at home loves to read it very much. At the beginning, the newspaper was inconvenient, so he read a few copies unevenly, but he didn't read all of them. It's a pity that he kept talking about it. After buying all six volumes, Zhun Baobi would be happy if he said auspicious words."

Xiao Fang and Xiao Yuan were both startled, and then Xiao Fang grabbed a kid who was skipping around him and went straight to the counter of "The Condor Shooting", and said in surprise, "Little friend, you can also understand "The Condor Shooting" "?!"

"can't read."

The child shook his head resolutely, then snapped his fingers and said, "But my grandpa loves to read it. He has every newspaper. My mother asked me to come over and buy a set of physical books of "Shooting the Condors", and then take it to my grandparents for New Year's greetings. My mother She calculated it for me, the six books were discounted 200 yuan, and when the grandparents were happy, the red envelope must have risen from [-] in previous years to [-]. My mother said, this is called, this is called "a small fight for a big '."

"..."

One day passed quickly. Throughout the day, there was an endless stream of people who came to buy "Legend of the Condor Heroes". Xiaofang and Xiaoyuan had never understood why two-thirds of the bookstores in the city were closed between the first and third grades. You can go out of business, but the manager of your store would rather pay five times the overtime wages than insist on changing shifts and not going out of business. At this moment, I finally understand.

What single-day sales record for volumes, what single-day total foreign sales record...has been refreshed by "The Condor Shooting" and completely numb.

Closing was delayed for 10 minutes, and the last batch of book buyers were sent away. After hanging a "Closed Business" sign at the door of the store, the two began to clean up.When I tidied up the last corner, I found an old man with gray hair squatting here.

The old gentleman held three, four or five volumes of "Shooting the Condors" tightly in his arms, holding the second volume in his hands like a treasure, and beside him was the finished first volume, as if he had seen some nervous and exciting plot , I didn't even hear the announcement that the business was closed. At this moment, my lips were trembling, and my fingers trembled slightly when I flipped through the book...

"Mr. Sorry, it's time for us to get off work. Come back tomorrow!"

"Come on, off work? Is your bookstore still off work at noon!"

"Noon, noon?!" Xiaoyuan was dumbfounded, gasping for air: "Old man, you came in the morning? You didn't have lunch! It's almost 06:30 in the evening!"

"Ah?!" The old man was stunned, then stood up abruptly, looked up at the clock on the wall, and then looked at the twilight outside the window. He was dazed for half a minute, then slapped his thigh suddenly, and shouted: "Ah , Broken! My grandson is still at home. I came out in the morning to buy a comic book for him. I saw that there are many people here, and they are all buying this book. I was curious to look through it. What happened, why did I forget the time all of a sudden! It's broken, it's broken, and no one has cooked for him at noon!"

"what?!"

Xiaofang and Xiaoyuan were also dumbfounded.

Xiao Fang clicked his tongue: "Master, what do you mean, you haven't heard of this "Legend of the Condor Heroes" before?"

"I've never heard of it, but it's so beautiful. When I saw it, it was like being stunned. I didn't know I was hungry or thirsty. I didn't know the habit of half-life without a lunch break! It's really evil. !"

As the old man spoke, he suddenly said in a hurry: "Oh, what are you talking about with me! Why don't you hurry up and get a whole set of these books out for me. I'm waiting to go home. I can't starve my grandson for dinner, can I?"

"Oh oh oh." Xiao Fang hurriedly tidied up, then searched around, and found that the sixth volume was sold out, so he had to go to the warehouse to pick it up, and said, "Master, I'm sorry, the sixth volume has to be picked up from the warehouse. It takes about half an hour to come and go, why don't you come back tomorrow..."

The old man stared: "What day is tomorrow? Hurry up and take it! Sir, I will watch it tonight!"

Xiaoyuan exchanged glances with Xiaofang, then pointed to the wall clock on the wall, and kindly reminded: "Master, look at the time, the little grandson at home hasn't got dinner yet..."

The old man rolled his eyes: "Don't talk nonsense, take it quickly! Uncle, my house has bread, milk, ham sausage, instant noodles, apple eight-treasure porridge, everything!"

"..."

........................

During the New Year's Eve, various statistical mechanisms will take a rest and lag behind.

In addition, the regular edition of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" is released in six volumes this time. Some bookstores sell the whole set, and some bookstores specially allow a part to be purchased in separate volumes, which also increases the difficulty of statistics to a certain extent. The sales results of the third year of junior high school did not come out in time.

But anyone who knows a little bit about the insider market knows that the sales volume must be quite terrifying.

Because if the sales were not too appalling, how could bookstores that had been on vacation rush to open in the second and third year of junior high?
Even on the day of the third day of junior high school, more than 80.00% of closed bookstores across the country could not resist the temptation of profit, stopped their vacation and opened for business, which was unimaginable at any time before.

However, everyone's attention was soon cast on the hardcover limited edition collection that will be released on the fourth day of the lunar new year.

The hardcover collection this time is said to have adopted the most advanced printing technology in China and the world as well as the highest quality paper, and the price is also much higher. The six-volume hardcover collection of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" is priced at 906. no discount.

"Hey! It's Lao Zhang. Today is the fourth day of the lunar new year. Didn't you accompany your daughter-in-law back to your mother's house?"

"The two of them have gone back, so I'll come over to see the old leader when I have time." Lao Zhang stood outside the door and said with a smile.

The old leader was about to invite him in when he suddenly saw something in his hand.I couldn't help but point my finger at him:

"Old Zhang, I'm going to criticize you now. Since when did you learn this style, I'm already very happy to come over and sit down. Why do you mention these messy things. It's not that you don't know my temper, so quickly put it back Go in the car and tell you, we don't like this."

Lao Zhang explained: "The old leader misunderstood, I'm not giving gifts, I'm out of my heart..."

The old leader interrupted with a wave of his hand: "It's all right, don't go around, take it away quickly, or I will say something ugly in front of you, and I won't let you in!"

Lao Zhang just laughed: "Let me take it away! Old leader, are you sure you don't regret it?"

The old leader got angry: "What do you mean, Zhang Youbao, do you think I'm playing hard to get! Let me tell you, if I hadn't been a colleague for more than ten years, would you believe it if I spit at you? Okay! Hello! Look at what you Zhang Youbao brought, let me find out your real face!"

As he said that, he took the bag and opened it, and he was dumbfounded.

It wasn't anything else, it was the hardcover limited collection of "Legend of the Condor Heroes" that he had gone out to several bookstores just now.

Lao Zhang smiled and said: "I told you earlier that there are too many shooting powders, and the number of collections is limited. If you go to the bookstore this morning, you may not be able to buy them if you delay a little bit. You still don't believe me! No, I passed the bookstore early in the morning. A friend bought two sets. I heard that you didn’t make it, so Baba will deliver it to your door. It doesn’t matter if you accept it or not. Anyway, the total is 906 yuan. I will ask my sister-in-law for it later!”

"Oh, Zhang, you are so particular!"

The old leader smiled happily, embraced Lao Zhang's shoulder affectionately, and carried the collection happily.Turning around, he rushed into the room and shouted: "Daughter-in-law, Lao Zhang is here, look at it at noon, it's a hard meal!"

……

"What time did you go out in the morning and what gift did you buy?"

The wife glanced at the honest husband, patted the rime on his hair, and then sighed without waiting for his answer:
"Forget it, don't ask. Anyway, they are the third eldest, and they are no more important than the eldest sister and the second sister. However, things like filial piety, each depends on the ability, and we should do our best. I don't care about the eldest brother-in-law and the second brother-in-law later. Whatever happens, let's be happy and not compare with them!"

The husband shook her hand, grateful and ashamed at the same time, and said, "I let you lose your status in front of your parents."

"What else can I do? If you marry a chicken, you will marry a dog. If you marry a little gardener like you, you will be poor but noble."

The wife smiled. "Let's go, it's getting late, don't make parents wait."

The husband and wife drove a second-hand car to the downstairs of the old man, and the luxury cars of the elder sister's house and the second sister's house had already parked there impressively.

I went upstairs and knocked on the door to enter the house, and as expected, the two rich and powerful families were carrying out their annual routine reservation project-displaying gifts.

At this moment, it was the eldest sister who opened the air. Hearing the younger sister and brother-in-law came in, the tone instantly rose an octave:
"Dad, Mom, these two things were bought by Lao He when he went to France to meet a client last month. They are very valuable! I heard that the French Louis Dozens came, and the cane used at the time was made by this company. Pure Handmade, only accepting reservations, not available in China. In addition, here are two red envelopes, I wish you two old people a happy new year, good health and good luck in everything!"

The old man had always been taciturn, so he nodded and said nothing.

The old mother-in-law smiled happily, and quickly took it, and hurriedly told the eldest son-in-law to fly around frequently, but pay more attention to rest and diet...

The second daughter coughed, not to be outdone, and said: "Dad, Mom, this box of cigarettes and alcohol was brought over by an old comrade-in-arms of Lao Yun. It is not available in the market. It is specially made internally for the heads and above. Lao Yun is reluctant." I don’t want to give it away, but I don’t want to drink it myself, so I used it to honor my father. This is our red envelope, and you two are safe, healthy and auspicious!”

"Hey, special offer!"

The old mother-in-law was all smiles again, and hurriedly asked the second son-in-law to socialize a lot, but pay attention to nourishing the liver and protecting the kidneys...

The wife, the third daughter, snuggled up and held the old mother-in-law's arm, "Mom, Xu Ke and I came back to celebrate the New Year to you and Dad."

The old mother-in-law just started to smile, and when she turned her head and saw the third son-in-law standing at the door, the wrinkles on her face instantly deepened, and her smile became lighter.

But the old father-in-law who had been silent all this time suddenly said hello, "Xu Ke, why are you standing, sit down."

Only then did the husband come back to his senses, and walked up to his father-in-law with his things, "Dad, I brought you a set of books..."

"I said Xu Ke, what book to give to the Chinese New Year, and let people play mahjong later!" the eldest sister complained.

"That's right, I was unlucky last night, and I was expecting to return to the book in the afternoon. You're going to 'lose' in the first place, isn't it bad luck?" The second sister also echoed.

The wife's face turned pale, and her nails got into the flesh.Although she actively adjusts her mentality every time and comforts her husband not to care, it is definitely impossible for her not to compare and not care at all, and she does not ask her husband too much, as long as she buys some thoughtful gifts. Parents won't mind, especially father, but books...

For a moment, the disappointment and sourness in my heart was not to mention how turbulent it was.

The husband was suffocated, and while taking out the gift, he said:

"Dad, I heard you mentioned "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" more than once on the phone, and your tone was quite regretful. So I have been paying attention to the news of the physical book, and I got up this morning and lined up to buy you a hardcover limited edition Edition collection. I paid special attention to it, which contains tens of thousands of words of historical background interpretation and creative experience written by the author Mr. Han Yi himself, as well as his favorite fifty book reviews and long comments, which are very valuable for collection.”

The old father-in-law raised his eyelids, reached out to take the collection, and suddenly shook his head and sighed.

The eldest sister took a good look at her words and said hurriedly: "Xu Ke, it's not easy for you to earn that little salary. I heard that it's more than 900 for a set, and your head is pumped!"

The second sister also nodded: "Isn't it? I heard that you have to get up at five or six o'clock to line up. I think it's... hard to understand!"

His wife's complexion was even paler, and she was about to cry.

The old father-in-law sighed, and said slowly: "Xu Ke, it seems that you know me the best."

what? !

Nani? !
Everyone was dumbfounded.

As the old father-in-law said, he got up and greeted his husband Xu Ke, who was also a little dumbfounded, "Come, come to the study and have a chat with you."

The expressions of the elder son-in-law and the second son-in-law, who had always been calm and composed, suddenly changed.

The wife covered her mouth with her hand, and tears of excitement and surprise flowed down.

(End of this chapter)