Chapter 606: The Trend of Martial Arts

As soon as school was over at noon, Zhao Xiaoguo and his three good buddies rushed out of the classroom like flying, and ran all the way down, and they were the first to leave the school gate.

Not far from the school gate diagonally, there is a bookstore for rent.

"Boss, has "Tian Long Ba Bu" arrived?"

These three are old book fans, and they have had their membership cards for several years. The boss is naturally familiar with them, but he smiled when he heard the words: "You guys are a little late. You just delivered five books in the morning, and they are all rented out!"

"Ah?" Zhao Xiaoguo was furious when he heard the words, "Didn't you agree to keep three copies for us?"

The boss sighed helplessly, "Yes, I know, but they are willing to pay five yuan a day, and they have agreed to return it before six o'clock in the afternoon! Tell me, I have to rent it! "

Zhao Xiaoguo was speechless.

Don't look like an old bookworm, but you are a poor student after all. It is true that you have a membership card here, but since the third part of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", the price has already increased. During the new book period, the membership has been increased to two 1 yuan, non-members simply pay 3 yuan a day, and it is generally impossible to grab it like that, you have to line up!

Now someone offers five yuan a day to rent books, even though Zhao Xiaoguo is a student, he also knows, how can a boss not make money?

But yesterday, someone in the class next door bought "Dragon Babu", which made them greedy for old bookworms, and they couldn't stand it, it was Jin Yong's new work! And it’s said to look great!

In the end, they made an appointment in advance, and they were the first to rush over after school, but they still didn't get it!

Zhao Xiaoguo was very angry, "You should leave us a copy anyway!"

His classmates also couldn't help complaining, "Why don't you buy more of Jin Yong's books? Some people are willing to rent ten or twenty books!"

The boss squinted his eyes and smiled, and quickly turned into a helpless face, "If you can still rent it as well as "Shooting the Condor", then I will make up the book in a few days, but if the rent is not good, I will If I buy ten or twenty copies in one go, I won’t have to pay for it! The delivery person said that this "Tianlong Babu" is only 20% off, and it costs 16 yuan a copy, my friend! How much do you rent for a day? I have to rent it eight times to get my money back, you know that?"

Zhao Xiaoguo immediately retorted, "This is Jin Yong's new book, it must be no worse than "Shooting the Condors"! Sigh, why are you so timid in doing business!"

The boss smiled, "I have a store of ten square meters in total, and the monthly rent is so expensive, dozens of dollars is a lot of money, young master!"

Zhao Xiaoguo couldn't say no to him, so he exchanged glances with the two iron buddies helplessly. At this time, another person ran over quickly, panting heavily, and asked, "Is "Dragon Ba Bu" coming?"

The boss pointed at Zhao Xiaoguo with a smile, and said, "They came faster than you, and they didn't grab it!"

After a pause, he smiled unintentionally again: "Who asked you to make up the lessons! If you don't make up the lessons, you will wait here at my place in the morning, and you will definitely see a new book by now!"

A group of boys sighed.

Originally, it was depressing enough to start make-up classes before entering the third year of high school, but it was even more depressing because I couldn't get new books to read because of make-up classes!

Seeing that there were more people, many people went straight to the bookstore here after leaving the school. Zhao Xiaoguo and the three left the bookstore and walked a few steps away. Thinking about it, they were very unwilling. Thinking about the fact that someone in the next class has been holding a book and reading it all morning, it is even more itchy.

Zhao Xiaoguo suddenly reached into his trousers pocket, took out a few banknotes, and stretched them out, "I have six yuan, you two find a way to get ten yuan, and the three of us go buy one!"

His two classmates were taken aback when they heard this, but their eyes lit up immediately.

That's right, you can buy it!

In the past, poor students like them would not be willing to spend more than a dozen yuan to buy books, and they still mainly rent books. After all, they read books quickly, and one book a day is no problem. In the past, they used to read new books for one yuan a day, but now they pay more The price is only two yuan, which is much more cost-effective than buying books. What's more, if you look back at those old books that have been on the market for more than a month, it only costs 20 cents a day, which is very cost-effective!

But the problem is that depending on the situation now, although the first part of "Tian Long Ba Bu" has just started, the popularity is no less than that of the third and fourth parts of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes". If you are staying at the bookstore, when would you want to get the book?

As soon as Zhao Xiaoguo finished speaking, his two classmates looked at each other and stretched out their hands to pay.

One took out four yuan, and the other took out a "big bill" of ten yuan!

Zhao Xiaoguo's eyes lit up, "Good guy, you are really taking advantage of the money!"

His buddy smiled and said, "My mother just asked for it this morning, and that's all the pocket money for the next few days!"

Zhao Xiaoguo immediately made a decision, "Buy!"

While talking, he took the four yuan from the other person's hand, handed it to the other, and then took his ten yuan, which was always in his hand, and proudly said: "We don't want to rent it anymore, we own it." Buy it! We can count as supporting idols! Right?"

The other two nodded.

The buddy who offered four yuan had bright eyes, and said: "I guess it will not be easy to rent in Lao Chen's bookstore next time. The three of us can still rent out after reading it. Let's charge one yuan a day, maybe Can you still earn back the money you paid for buying books, what do you think?”

The eyes of the other two brightened when they heard the words, Zhao Xiaoguo patted him on the shoulder directly, "Okay, you boy, you are worthy of being a vegetable seller from your ancestors, and you really have a lot of business experience! It's done, let's do it like this! Six yuan, Cheng also pays six yuan, he will look first, and I will look later, you will pay four yuan, and you will be the last!"

The three of them had already made up their minds, and all of them immediately looked high-spirited.

Zhao Xiaoguo put sixteen yuan into his pocket and said, "Let's go, brothers, let's go buy books!"

While talking, three young men aged sixteen or seventeen shouted excitedly and started running.

However, things backfired.

Twenty minutes later, they stood in another bookstore, and they got the same sentence, "Out of stock, sold out! But if you are willing to wait, I guess I will have the stock tomorrow!"

Zhao Xiaoguo cried and said, "Then you don't have it here, do you know where you can get it?"

This question is stupid. It is said that colleagues are enemies. It is unlikely that other shopkeepers will tell them, thus driving away their potential customers. However, these three children look unfamiliar, unlike this area, and anyway He was also out of stock, but he directly pointed out the way, "If Dongguan Bookstore is out of stock, then there must be no stock anywhere in the city! But it's just a little, expensive! Usually it's the original price, 10% off if you buy it !"

Expensive too!

Another 20 minutes later, "Tian Long Ba Bu" is available!

It is said that after I finished buying, even Dongguan Bookstore only had three or two books left!

It was simply copied!

Although the selling is really expensive, 20 yuan a book!

But it doesn't matter, after all, I bought it, after all, I can start watching it!

All three of them have empty pockets, but they are all very excited. Zhao Xiaoguo is responsible for carrying the books at noon, because he has a place to hide - there is a pile of bricks just outside his house, and he often takes his dare not go home Where is the book hidden!

Go home, get scolded, just find an excuse to explain why you came back so late, grab a few bites of food in a hurry, there is no time for a nap, and rush to school!

Alright, let's see who pays ten yuan first, Zhao Xiaoguo's itching is unbearable.

As a result, he couldn't finish reading it all afternoon, so Zhao Xiaoguo had to wait while urging him to read it quickly. As a result, Cheng Zi didn't knock on the door to deliver the books until ten o'clock at night.

Zhao Xiaoguo was lying on the bed, unable to sleep, staring and dreaming, what kind of story did this book tell, and how beautiful and beautiful the story should be! It must be better-looking than Guo Jing and Huang Rong, and there must be more powerful characters in the book than Huang Laoxie and Wang Chongyang!

After much deliberation and torment, I finally fell asleep after tossing and turning until after one o'clock in the middle of the night!

As a result, he got up early the next morning, but his mother didn’t call him. After eating a few mouthfuls of food, he ran to Chengzi’s house and asked him to go to school together. As a result... Chengzi came out with dark circles under his eyes. !

However, still haven't watched it.

Zhao Xiaoguo was furious, and the other one also complained, "If I knew this, I shouldn't have read it first. I read books much faster than you!"

Chengzi had no choice but to beg his grandpa to sue his grandma, and kept apologizing to the two of them. At the same time, he couldn't help explaining: "No way, if it wasn't for my mother, I would have finished watching it. The key is my mother checked the night, last night If it weren't for my cleverness, my mother would have taken this book away!"

Then he continued to beg, "Two, two, it's my fault this time, please let me go for a while, I don't have much left, I'll be done soon!"

The man wanted to say more, but Zhao Xiaoguo simply said, "Don't say it, Chengzi pays ten yuan, and he will read it first as agreed, so there is nothing to argue about! But Chengzi, hurry up!"

Chengzi finished the third class in the morning.

Zhao Xiaoguo took the book as if he was holding a ginseng fairy fruit. On the podium, the teacher said ABCD, but off the stage he saw his eyebrows fluttering - damn, Duan Yu is so lucky! This Mu Wanqing is so beautiful and innocent, if only Wang Yumeng in our class is like her, whoever gets her hand first, she will marry in this life! Then I have to be the first to rush up! It's useless for Old Liu to be bigger than me. When that time comes, he will definitely not be able to get me when it comes to talking about who is smart. Wang Yumeng is definitely mine!

Looking at it, he accidentally laughed out.

Fortunately, the teacher was writing on the blackboard on the podium, and they were sitting in the last two or three rows. The teacher didn't care, so Cheng Zi quickly touched him, his face beaming, "Isn't it nice?"

Zhao Xiaoguo nodded quickly, Chengzi felt itchy and couldn't help the spoiler, "The back is even more beautiful, Duan Yu got the Six Meridians Excalibur, which is very powerful!"

Zhao Xiaoguo had a book in his hand, so he reluctantly agreed, but continued to read with his head down. The people beside him couldn't help it, and asked in a low voice, "What is the Six Meridians Excalibur?"

Chengzi immediately wanted to speak proudly, just as the teacher finished writing on the blackboard, he turned around and continued to explain. The classmates in front of them were already quite dissatisfied with their constant whispering, so he had no choice but to shut up and turn to the last page , write the words "Six Meridians Excalibur", and write below it: The world's unique learning...

The one who bought the book together but only paid four yuan, so he had to be the last to read the book, couldn't help but feel even more itchy!

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Students have always been one of the important readers of martial arts novels, but it is generally difficult for students to become the main force in purchasing physical books of martial arts novels. You said that music albums, CDs, or tapes are actually not much cheaper than a book, but parents generally believe that although listening to songs is not very helpful for learning, after all, it is just listening to music after class and after school, and it is not It's totally unacceptable, adults still listen to it, why don't children listen to it?

But martial arts novels are different!

Chinese people have always had the habit of reading novels. Since "Sou Shen Ji", various early ghost novels are not uncommon in the history of Chinese literature. The main body is booming, especially the Ming Dynasty, as the pinnacle of classical novels, dedicated four masterpieces in one fell swoop-"Water Margin", "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "Journey to the West", and "Jin Ping Mei".

Regardless of how high the literary value is, first of all, they have a good story that readers at the time liked and loved to read very much. Only then can they gain fame within a certain range, and then they can talk about their literariness.

After all, in the final analysis, novels are written for people to read, especially at the beginning of the novel's birth, it was written for the newly emerged citizens of the Ming Dynasty.

At the end of the Shun Dynasty, the country experienced major changes unseen in three thousand years, the society was in turmoil, and the people were in dire straits, but literature glowed with great vitality in such troubled times. At the turn of the times, the old and new mausoleums replaced each other, various thoughts and thoughts emerged one after another. , The idea of ​​novel creation has also been greatly expanded!

Beginning with "The Legend of Swordsman and Heroes", modern fairy tale novels flourished, and starting with "Qi Shaobao Pingwo Biography" at the same time, modern martial arts novels began to appear.

Before the 1940s, the power of martial arts novels was still weak, but after 20 to 30 years of discontinuity, martial arts novels revived in the 1960s and 1970s, and in the 1970s and 1980s, famous writers emerged in large numbers.

Basically, at this time in 2000, almost nine out of ten people under the age of forty, especially men, had read martial arts novels.

It is not even an exaggeration to say that it is the popularity of the generation in their 30s and 40s that is the root cause of the great prosperity of martial arts novels. The continued popularity of martial arts movies and TV dramas is actually just martial arts novels It's just a continuation of the heat.

But it is this group of people who also liked to read martial arts novels when they were young. When they grow up to be the heads of the family and have children, they strictly prohibit their children from reading novels!

still buy? There are no doors!

Those are idle books!

Now that I think about it, if I hadn’t been obsessed with martial arts novels back then, I wouldn’t even have been able to get into a public university? Is it possible that you still want to be like your old man and me?

Therefore, there is at least one rental bookstore at the gate of a school, which is already a school standard.

If you are not allowed to buy it, I will rent it.

If I can't rent it, I'll chip in to buy it!

Then, when Jin Yong, who made a great name among martial arts readers with his copy of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", published a new book. Things like this are happening all over the country.

But this is not surprising. What is surprising is that within a few days, many children who either rented books or were forced to buy books with pocket money suddenly discovered that there was an extra copy of "Dragon Babu" at home. ", I only found out after asking, that my dad actually likes to watch it too!

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There is a second update tonight, around ten thirty.