I open a bookstore in the human world

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[Tree Hole] I suspect my partner is out of his mind

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Not long after I started working, it was considered a shareholding. I found that my partner seemed a little abnormal. He was either planting flowers or drinking tea all day long. He didn't care about the affairs of the store at all, and he didn't worry about the store going bankrupt.People say that my partner's brain is not normal?

1L: Are you so Buddha? [吃瓜]

2L: If you can’t, just change your partner. I feel that the landlord is the kind of ghost with great ambitions. It’s a bit unlucky to meet such a partner...

3L: I also hope to meet ghosts like the landlord’s partner. My immediate boss is a very motivated person. After five months in the job, I work overtime all day long, and I feel my body is hollowed out.

4L: The landlord’s partner is a rich second generation, right?Opening a store is just for fun, otherwise how could you not care about business?

5L (landlord): I would like to add an explanation.Due to some irresistible factors, it is impossible to change players, at least for now.As for the possibility that the partner is a rich second generation, according to my observation, this possibility should not be very high. I heard that his parents are both dead and there are no other relatives in his family.

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78L: Do you think that the author’s statement is very strange, you generally don’t use “both parents died” to describe ghosts?I suddenly had a bold idea...

***

After signing the contract, Song Lan ignored Xie Daonian who continued to listen to the flower gardening guide, and carefully visited the store.

Song Lan was a little surprised to find that the bookstore looked dilapidated, and the books in it were also inconspicuous, but after searching carefully, many of them were books that were out of print and valuable for collection. I searched the old book network and found that some books with a price of a few cents can sell for at least three digits now.

It seems that this bookstore is not as bad as he imagined, Song Lan thought to himself.

At this time, there was a commotion at the door, Song Lan frowned, and looked outside the door: What happened?

The person who came was a fat middle-aged aunt in her forties. She was full of anger and strode aggressively towards Xie Daonian behind the counter, yelling: "Boss Xie, what about the rent?"

Xie Daonian stood up unhurriedly, without seeming flustered at all, and said, "Sorry, Aunt Zhang, can you give me a little more time?"

The aunt called Aunt Zhang showed a mocking smile, looked at Xie Daonian with contempt, and snorted coldly: "How many more days of grace? How many days of grace have I given you? Tell you, no way! If you can't get Pay the rent, and leave immediately! The things in this store are regarded as collateral."

Are things this serious?Song Lan was shocked.According to the information, Xie Daonian's bookstore is on the verge of bankruptcy. Looking at it now, this is not "on the verge". It is clearly the rhythm of bankruptcy every minute, okay?

"This..." Song Lan saw Xie Daonian frown for the first time.

Aunt Zhang wanted to say something, but was interrupted by another voice: "Aunt Zhang, the store really can't pay the money right now, why don't you wait another week, if you can't pay the rent after a week , we must move!"

Aunt Zhang turned her head and looked at the strange man in front of her strangely: "Who are you?"

Song Lan smiled warmly, and said calmly, "It doesn't matter who I am, the important thing is to please Aunt Zhang rest assured, give us another week, and we will definitely pay the rent on time."

Aunt Zhang looked at the strange man in front of her in a daze: "Huh?"

No, where did this person come from?Wait, Boss Xie is in his twenties. I have never heard of him having any friends, and I have never seen him come back after looking for a partner. This person came suddenly. After a big change, the look in Song Lan's eyes became more and more strange.

Although she didn't know why Aunt Zhang looked at him more and more strangely, Song Lan still had a very calm look on her face, showing no flaws at all.

"I don't care who you are. Let's be smart and don't whisper. He has already owed half a year's rent. If he doesn't pay, then I have no choice but to take back this store." Seeing his calm attitude, Aunt Zhang only said that she was After thinking too much, he emphasized to Song Lan with righteous words.

When Xie's family was still there, the bookstore's business was mediocre, but it was passable. The rent was always paid on time, and the relationship between the landlord and the tenant was pretty good.

When the Xie family and his wife passed away in a car accident a few years ago, their only son Xie Daonian became the owner of the bookstore, and the bookstore went downhill.This Xie Daonian doesn't know what's wrong, he has been very eccentric since he was a child, he is obviously a very smart person, but he doesn't care about anything, doesn't do his job properly, he either grows flowers or drinks tea all day long, and he is also a tricky person, who doesn't drink only good tea. I don't know how much it costs to buy tea.

If you want to spend money, you can spend it. Anyway, it's his own money, and it doesn't bother others.But you must know that the premise of spending money is to be able to make money!

When the parents passed away, it stands to reason that the son should take the lead, right?At the beginning, Aunt Zhang was quite sympathetic to Xie Daonian, and gave him a lot of condolences, and also reduced the rent of the bookstore for one month.But gradually, Aunt Zhang discovered that although Xie Daonian became the owner of the bookstore, he was indeed sitting in the store, but he did not do business all day long, did not buy goods, and did not solicit business. He did not sell a few books, but bought a few teas. catty.

The money was not spent. The insurance compensation that the Xie family received after the accident was gradually used up, and the rent began to be unable to be paid.

Because Xie Daonian didn't care about the bookstore business at all. In recent years, the development of online e-books has led to the general depression of the paper book industry. Coupled with the prosperity of online shopping, physical bookstores are getting worse, making it even more difficult to operate.

So in the end, things developed to today's situation: Friendship Bookstore is on the verge of bankruptcy, Xie Daonian is heavily in debt, and is facing the danger of being swept out.

It's really hard for a penny to be a man... Thinking that there are still a bunch of messy things waiting for him to deal with, Song Lan felt a headache.

But no matter what, since he has already signed a contract with Xie Daonian, for the sake of his own activities, he must come forward to resolve this matter.Seeing that Xie Daonian didn't respond, he simply replaced Xie Daonian's request to Aunt Zhang to postpone the rent payment for another week.

Aunt Zhang saw that Song Lan was dressed in a suit and leather shoes and looked like a decent person, her tone softened a little, and she half-believingly asked, "Are you really going to be able to pay back the money after a week?"

Song Lan's smile was very standard: "I swear, if we still can't pay the rent next week, we don't need Aunt Zhang to tell us, we will take the initiative to leave, and we won't say anything!"

Aunt Zhang pondered for a moment, and decided to soften her heart again.After all, she and Xie's family have also been in a relationship for 20 years. Seeing Xie Daonian grow up, it is still a bit unbearable for her to do something to drive people away.

After sending Aunt Zhang away, Song Lan breathed a sigh of relief, turned to look at Xie Daonian, frowned and said, "The situation is so serious, why are you still acting like a normal person?"

Xie Daonian spread his hands: "When the car arrives at the mountain, there must be a way. You are still here."

Song Lan: "..." You actually came here because the Buddha of the Western Paradise made a mistake and came down to the mortal world?Do your parents know that you are so Buddhist?

***

"Here..." Song Lan followed Xie Daonian up to the second floor of the bookstore, and was quite surprised when the fluorescent lamp above his head was turned on.

Song Lan didn't expect the scene on the second floor to be completely different from the same floor——

The entire second floor is filled with all kinds of flower pots, and there are green plants of different shapes growing in the flower pots. Song Lan had no interest in plants before his death, but after his death, he was busy studying and taking exams, and he barely recognized orchids among them. Daffodils are some of the more common flowers.

"You raised this?" Song Lan turned to Xie Daonian in disbelief.

Xie Daonian was surprised by his surprise: "Is there something wrong?"

"..." Song Lan choked.If it’s wrong, there’s nothing wrong with it. Isn’t planting flowers one of the favorite activities of Chinese people?It's really not a rare thing to like to grow flowers, but...

"Then why don't you go to the flower shop?" Song Lan choked out such a sentence after a long time.

It's not that he's exaggerating. Although he doesn't know how to grow flowers, he can tell that the plants on the second floor are not bad, and they are no different from those carefully maintained flowers in flower shops.

Song Lan couldn't understand: Brother, you have this skill, why are you still struggling in a bookstore?Just switch careers and sell flowers!

"Flower shop?" Xie Daonian refused without thinking, "No, I don't grow flowers for selling money."

Song Lan knows that there are many people who love flowers who are unwilling to sell the flowers that they have worked so hard to grow. For them, growing flowers is a kind of fun rather than a way to make money. If you mentioned the matter of selling money to him, you might be scolded.

Song Lan felt that he was a vulgar person, and could not reach the realm of elegant people. He did everything for a purpose, and would never spend a lot of time and energy on something that was not beneficial. For those elegant people, although he could not Understand, but also show respect.

Apparently, although Xie Daonian's personality is a bit weird, he also belongs to the ranks of elegant people.

This topic could no longer be continued, Song Lan simply didn't speak, carefully avoiding the luxuriant plants and leaves spreading around, and wandered around on the second floor.

"You live here too?" Song Lan was surprised again when she saw a small wooden bed hidden deep in the branches.

Xie Daonian nodded, with a flash of loneliness in his eyes, and said, "This second floor was originally where I lived with my parents."

"Sorry..." Song Lan didn't expect to poke Xie Daonian's sore spot unintentionally, and was a little embarrassed for a while.

"It's nothing," Xie Daonian smiled, and continued, "After they... left, the second floor became very empty, so I got some seeds to grow flowers, and it was pretty good."

It turned out that he planted so many flowers because he was afraid of being lonely...

Song Lan, who thought she had guessed Xie Daonian's thoughts, was filled with sympathy and love, and felt that she was wrong to blame Xie Daonian just now.Presumably he insisted on keeping the bookstore open to commemorate his deceased parents?After all, it was the painstaking efforts of the Xie family and his wife for half their lives...

Just thinking about it, Song Lan heard Xie Daonian say thoughtfully, "But after the space becomes bigger, the flowers really grow better."

ha?Song Lan was stunned, and looked at Xie Daonian with puzzled eyes.

Sensing his gaze, Xie Daonian smiled at him, and explained: "It turned out that there were a lot of books in stock on the second floor, and I moved them to the first floor, so I can finally make room for planting flowers."

"..." Song Lan suddenly felt that he had misunderstood Xie Daonian.

"Wait, you..." Song Lan felt that she needed to clarify something, "You liked to grow flowers before? Uh, I mean, before your father Lingtang passed away?"

Xie Daonian nodded: "Yes, what's the problem?" It's just that the family of three lived on the second floor, which also served as the warehouse of the bookstore, and the space was narrow, so he could only grow flowers at random and enjoy himself.

"..." Song Lan remained expressionless, "No problem."