I open a bookstore in the human world

【Xingzhou Convenience Life Forum】

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Is there any news on the old street?

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When driving through the old street, I found a lot of people gathered together, because it was inconvenient to park, so I didn’t go down. I would like to ask if anyone in the know knows what happened?

1L: upup, I also want to know [eat melon]

2L: Please tell me clearly, where is the old street?

3L: Go back to the second floor, it seems to be in the middle of the old street.

4L: The middle section of the old street?Is it the shadow bookstore?

5L: If it is at the entrance of the shadow bookstore, I know what the host is talking about. It should be the mobile book kiosk, right?In the past two days, many people have been watching the library booth.

6L: Brother 5 is correct, I also went to watch!

7L: The people of the New District ask for an explanation!What mobile library kiosks are you talking about.

8L: The mobile book kiosk seems to be a service just launched by Shadow Bookstore. It says that everyone can take the books in the kiosk home for free to read, and everyone can also put the books that are not at home in the kiosk for others to read. Personally, I think it is a bit similar to book rafting activities.

9L: Does that mean that all the books in the library booth can be taken home for free?Wouldn't it be embarrassing if all the books were taken away?

10L: Isn't this too lacking in quality?Just speaking for myself, I wouldn't do it anyway.

11L: No +1, I have put many old books I don’t read at home in the library kiosk.

12L: Speaking of which, I also have a lot of idle books at home. I was thinking about selling them to waste paper collectors, but now it seems that there is a good place to go.

13L: Shadow Bookstore again?I found that the owner of this bookstore is really good at making things happen [laugh cry]

14L: I didn’t notice it upstairs, so this mobile book kiosk is made by Shadow Bookstore?I thought it was some kind of project of the city government...

15L: Shadow Bookstore, a bookstore that never disappoints you!

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Song Lan not only rented the snack bar next door, but also rented the second floor of the snack bar by the way. After the wall between the two shops was opened, the area of ​​the Shadow Bookstore was doubled.

The enlarged Shadow Bookstore is indeed not as crowded as it used to be. It can handle more traffic, and the phenomenon of finding a seat is greatly reduced, making both new and old customers satisfied.

Taking advantage of this renovation, Song Lan simply divided Tang Chi's counter for making coffee and desserts, opened a new ordering counter for him in the bookstore, and separated a small space with a glass wall. Five tables can be regarded as a simple separation of food and books. This is the initial prototype of the Shadow Cafe.

After everything was done, Song Lan had a new idea.

The street where the old shadow bookstore is located is an old street, which was originally one of the busiest places in the city before the urban space continued to expand outward.However, after decades of continuous development, new urban districts have risen, and old streets and even the entire old city have begun to decline.Although this generation is still a densely populated area, many foreigners or young people in this city will choose to buy a house in the new area. Firstly, it is for the convenience of commuting to and from work, and secondly, because the infrastructure in the new area is relatively complete and developed. , life is more convenient.

Relatively speaking, the infrastructure in the old districts is relatively old, and many of them are "old antiques" left over from 20 years ago, such as the old public telephone booths. Today, when mobile phones have become a necessity of life, almost no one uses them anymore. The phone is up.

Song Lan gave his idea to an almost abandoned public phone booth in front of the shadow bookstore.

For the sake of the city's beauty, the Xingzhou Municipal Government once uniformly painted all the telephone booths with new paint, which is a relatively retro brick red, and the telephones inside have also been updated.Even so, users are few and far between, and people prefer to make calls from cell phones rather than phone booths.

Song Lan noticed that although the phone booth at the entrance of the bookstore was occasionally used as a prop by literary youths to pose for photos, in fact, few people actually used the public phone booth, and the phone booth had long since lost its original function.

Can you transform the phone booth into a small bookstore?Song Lan knew that some bookstores in China had transformed abandoned public telephone booths into mobile libraries. This behavior had achieved great success. At that time, Song Lan noticed the relevant reports, and there happened to be such a telephone booth in front of her house. Then he had a good idea.

After discussing with the relevant departments, the other party agreed to transform the public phone booth in front of the shadow bookstore into a small mobile bookstore, installed bright reading lights in the booth, and nailed some bookshelves, and prepared Clean drinking water and two small chairs, and hang a small wooden sign in front of the door, let Zuiyue write a few words: Shadow Flowing Book Pavilion.

The mobile library quickly attracted the attention of passers-by, and almost everyone who passed by would stop and carefully read the announcement posters pasted on the door of the phone booth.

Naturally, many people have asked the clerk of the Shadow Bookstore, will they lose money by doing so?After all, the books in the mobile library can be taken away at will. What if someone borrows them and refuses to return them?

When Ma Yuming, a reporter from Xingzhou Evening News, came to interview Song Lan, he also asked this question.

Song Lan showed a decent smile, and said: "Actually, at the beginning, we were also worried that someone would take all the books in the library booth away, but later found that our worries were unnecessary, and the library booth was only halfway into use. For more than a month, the books in the booth not only did not decrease, but also increased a lot.”

Ma Yuming asked very cooperatively: "Are they all sent by the citizens?"

Song Lan nodded: "Yes, many kind-hearted citizens sent their idle books to the shadow bookstore, saying that they would put them in the mobile library kiosk for everyone to borrow. Because you-yu-xi-du-home-the whole - Reason, more-more-exquisite-color-respect-please-close-note. There are too many books, and the library booth can't fit them. Here, look, those two boxes over there are full of books, and they are all gifts from everyone. here."

Ma Yuming smiled: "It seems that the quality of our Xingzhou citizens is quite high. Boss Song, what do you think of these books?"

Song Lan's smile is very sincere: "I am really grateful to them. If it weren't for their support, this book rafting activity would not have been able to go on so smoothly. To be honest, I was really worried at the beginning. There are many book rafting activities, but as far as I know, there are not many of them in China."

"That's also because it's held by Shadow Bookstore. Readers like you very much, so they are eager to participate." Ma Yuming took the opportunity to compliment Song Lan.

Song Lan just smiled, knowing that Ma Yuming intended to befriend him. After all, the Shadow Bookstore has been in the limelight recently, and many newspapers hoped to interview him. Out of various considerations, he finally chose to accept the "Xingzhou Evening News" interview.

After the question-and-answer session was almost done, Song Lan looked at his watch and proposed to take Ma Yuming to the mobile library booth outside to take a few photos on the spot.In fact, Ma Yuming had already taken photos before, but since Song Lan invited him so enthusiastically, he thought that there would be nothing else to do, so he just followed Song Lan to take another photo.

Because of working hours, there is currently no one in the mobile library kiosk. After Ma Yuming finished taking pictures of the details of the kiosk, he discussed with Song Lan if he could find one or two people to act as readers of the kiosk and pose for him.

Song Lan smiled and said, "What's wrong? I'll go to the bookstore and find two people to be your models."

The people Song Lan was looking for were all old customers of the Shadow Bookstore. When Boss Song asked, they naturally agreed enthusiastically and cooperated with Ma Yuming to take a few photos.

Just when Ma Yuming was about to call it a day, a cleaner suddenly came towards him.

What surprised Ma Yuming was that Song Lan seemed to know the cleaner, and greeted him warmly, and introduced Ma Yuming to him: "Uncle Huo, this is reporter Ma from Xingzhou Evening News."

Lao Huo glanced at Ma Yuming, seemed a little shy, moved his lips, but couldn't say a word, just rubbed his hands nervously, and stood aside, looking at a loss.

Ma Yuming was a little strange: Why is this uncle still standing here?Don't work?

The scene was a little awkward for a while.

It was Song Lan who said, "Uncle Huo, do you want to come and have a rest and drink some water? Come and have a seat in the pavilion. Today's offer is herbal tea. My cousin boiled it himself. It can relieve the fever."

Saying that, Song Lan opened the door of the phone booth, invited Lao Huo in, took a clean paper cup, and poured him a full cup of herbal tea.

Ma Yuming couldn't understand, and asked the old customer who hadn't left yet: "Hey, what is Boss Song doing?"

The old customer seemed to be familiar with the interaction between Song Lan and the cleaner, and explained: "Oh, this mobile library can not only borrow books for us to go home for free, but also pass by cleaners, takeaways, couriers, etc. If you are tired, you can go in and have a rest, drink some water or something."

Ma Yuming knew about this, but he only knew that the Shadow Bookstore provided free tea benches for citizens to use, but he did not expect that the main service targets were working groups such as cleaners.

Think about it, except for cleaners, takeaways, and couriers who need to be exposed to the wind and sun all day long, there are not many people who really need to rest and drink water in a phone booth. They can find a coffee shop to sit down Take your time, not shelter from the elements in this somewhat rudimentary phone booth.

If Ma Yuming only admired Song Lan's business methods before, now he also admires his character: in fact, Song Lan can use this to make a fuss, and make a big deal about the humanitarian care of Shadow Bookstore, but He didn't do that. To him, this incident seemed like a trivial effort, and it wasn't worth telling others about it.

Ma Yuming felt that his eye sockets were a little hot, so he quickly picked up the camera and took wild pictures of the old Huo Yidun who was sitting in the phone booth enjoying his herbal tea with a satisfied face.

After returning home, Ma Yuming worked hard and wrote a long report, which was published in the "Xingzhou Evening News" the next day.The title of the press release reads: "Shadow Mobile Book Kiosk: A Safe Haven for Sanitation Workers."The report highlights Shadow Bookstore's humanitarian care for manual labor groups. The article is full of emotions and the words are deep and meaningful, which has touched many readers.

Even Ma Yuming himself admitted that this press release is one of the best among all his works. After it was published in the "Xingzhou Evening News", it was reproduced by several media in Nanhai Province and news platforms on the Internet. , The popularity of the shadow bookstore has further increased. Now, not only young people know this bookstore, but even many middle-aged and elderly people who like to read newspapers and news know that there is such a bookstore in Xingzhou City.

For all this, Song Lan was well prepared.

Ma Yuming didn't know that it was not an accident that he met Lao Huo that day, but the result of Song Lan's deliberate calculation.It's not that Song Lan doesn't want to use the mobile book kiosk to provide cleaners and takeaways with "wind shelters" to hype, but his method is very clever. Instead of telling Ma Yuming directly, he uses actual actions to let Ma Yuming see that the shadow bookstore is open. humanitarian concern in this regard.

——What can be called good news that moves people to tears?First of all, the writer must be moved, so that he can write a report full of true feelings from the bottom of his heart, and only in this way can he move the readers even more.

If it was Song Lan who told Ma Yuming how good their bookstore was, it would be a bit disgusting for a queen to sell melons and boast. It would be better for Ma Yuming to observe with his own eyes. The effect would definitely be better.So Song Lan had already calculated the time. He knew that Lao Huo was on duty today, and he would always come to the phone booth to rest and drink tea at that time, so he took Ma Yuming to the phone booth to take pictures a period of time in advance, so that he could "naturally" meet Lao Huo. Huo.

Of course, this cannot be regarded as deception. After all, it is true that Shadow Bookstore provides rest places and drinking water for passers-by, especially manual workers.

I have to admit that Song Lan is a good businessman, one of the signs of a good businessman, he will use every opportunity to get what he wants.