Chapter 1

After the Chen family’s issue was resolved, the alley returned to its former tranquility.

The silver safety lock that Chen Zichen gave to Jiang Qi was made into a beautiful bracelet by Wang Erya using colorful ropes, and now Jiang Qi wears it on his hand every day.

Old Man Chen's shop was still handed over to Boss Wang for sale. The shop in the alley was in a good location. Boss Wang had to answer countless phone calls every day and was so busy that he didn't even have time to stew the food, which was a good thing.

Chen Si and Liu Xinhong have no plans to remarry, but they are ready to cherish and raise their lost daughter. Chen Si quit his job in another city and planned to come back to find a new job after Chen Zichen's ear is healed.

Liu Xinhong asked the school for a long vacation of several months to go to the capital to accompany her daughter for treatment. The school leaders and colleagues knew her situation very well. The school readily approved her long vacation, and her colleagues also helped to share her original teaching work. Liu Xinhong was very grateful for this, and she went to thank her colleagues and leaders one by one with gifts, and accompanied her daughter to the capital for treatment without any worries.

Admittedly, there are still many problems waiting for this family to solve.

Whether Chen Zichen’s hearing can be restored, Chen Zichen’s household registration, Chen Zichen’s future education, Chen Zichen’s future, but none of these matters anymore.

Only when the family can be reunited will there be a chance to solve these problems, and only with opportunities will there be a future.

This should have been a good news item in the local area, if not a national hot search. But it didn't make it to any media. The Chen family didn't want this to attract attention from outside the area. The merchants in the alley and Liu Xinhong's colleagues at school also tacitly didn't publicize this matter, and only discussed it in a small circle.

This has resulted in Yan Huaiyou, who is in the merchant group, not knowing about this matter until now. There are too many group chats in his mobile phone, and it is impossible for him to pay attention to every group. Most groups are in a semi-blocked state with no message notifications all year round, and the same is true for the merchant group.

Jiang Qi guessed that he was probably the only member in the entire merchant group who didn't know about this.

Although Yan Huaiyou missed this news that would make people happy for the whole day, he did not miss the opportunity to become friends with Jiang Qi.

Although Jiang Qi didn't think that he and Yan Huaiyou became friends, ever since Yan Huaiyou got together to play "Chef Contest" under Chengzi's strong recommendation (actually it was because Chengzi couldn't get a sixth person that day) and tasted Huang Fugui's vegetable noodles, the task progress has been 1/8.

Yan Huaiyou decisively applied for a monthly card, and Chengzi transferred the days' worth of usage that he had not used up to him.

It can be seen that Yan Huaiyou prefers the green vegetable noodles made by the chef to the braised food cooked in a stone pot.

Shi Guo lost this time.

"I understand the logic, but you are obviously the boss. Why do you come to our store to eat employee meals?" Jiang Qi asked a soul-searching question to Yan Huaiyou, who was sitting opposite him, holding a pig's trotter in his left hand, chopsticks in his right hand, and eating noodles with one mouthful of pig's trotter.

"That's because it's National Day and business is too busy. People in the store don't have time to come down and help me get the braised dishes." Yan Huaiyou said very honestly and continued to eat pig's trotters with big mouthfuls.

Jiang Qi:

Jiang Qi looked around at the people eating the staff meal today, and was thankful that there were more employees than non-employees eating the staff meal.

Since today is the second day of the National Day holiday, normal office workers, including the young boss Fang Jing, are on vacation, so there are a lot of people coming to eat the employee meal.

Jiang Qi, Liu Lan, Qin Can, Jiang Wanwan, Huang Fugui, Lao John, Wang Erya, Cheng Cheng, Bei Ru, Cai Min, Yang Fan, Fang Jing, Gong Ye, Zhou Yuan and Yan Huaiyou.

There were 15 people and the store could barely accommodate them.

Bei Ru, Cai Min and Yang Fan quickly plunged into their intense and busy work after completing their internship.

Yang Fan filled the vacancy of the store's lack of young and handsome DMs and became a brick in the store, moving wherever there was a need. All the young male NPC roles belonged to him, including Jiang Qi's scumbag role in "Mask Club".

Cai Min is a science student with good logical thinking ability, and helped old John share a lot of the reasoning work.

With her outstanding looks and eloquence, Beiru quickly became another gold medal DM in the store, and she was showing signs of becoming a queen of curling.

Gold Medal DM Beiru quickly finished her noodles, took out a small mirror to touch up her lipstick, checked the time, stood up and said, "I'll go back to the store first, my carload of guests should be arriving soon."

Yan Huaiyou looked at Beiru's active work and asked Jiang Qi with envy: "Why are the employees in your store so active at work?"

Jiang Qi thought for a moment, looked at Qin Can who was gnawing at the duck feet as if he would have no chance if he didn't, and said: "Maybe it's because our staff meals are delicious."

Qin Can got off the train an hour ago. After leaving the station, he didn't even go home. He came to the restaurant to eat with his suitcase.

Yan Huaiyou:

He chose to continue eating pig's trotters.

After finishing the last piece of pig's trotter, Yan Huaiyou took off his gloves, picked up the bowl of noodles and drank the soup in the bowl, then leaned back in the chair as if he was full.

"By the way, Jiang Qi, which date do you plan to book your flight? I'm also going to this exhibition, let's book the tickets together." Yan Huaiyou said.

"What flight ticket?" Jiang Qi didn't understand, "I don't plan to go out recently."

"You're not going," Yan Huaiyou was surprised, "You're not going to the capital's autumn exhibition."

"What big exhibition?" Jiang Qi didn't understand a word he said. "Don't make it sound like a riddle. Explain it more clearly."

Yan Huaiyou: “…When you said you were a layman before, I thought you were joking, but I didn’t expect it to be true.

Yan Huaiyou could only start to explain to Jiang Qi the basic common sense that every owner of a script-killing store should know.

Generally speaking, there are three ways to buy a script from a script store.

The first is to go to an online platform.

The second way is to buy the book directly from the publisher. There are always some books that cannot be put on the online platform for sale due to various reasons.

The third way is to attend exhibitions.

The main purpose of going to exhibitions is to buy new scripts. The producers of the scripts will bring their new scripts to the exhibitions.

Can a new instinct be accomplished?

Whether a product is going to be a hit can often be seen at an exhibition.

Since most script-killing games can only be played once, if a store does not frequently purchase new scripts, regular customers will soon have no scripts to play. This has led to some script-killing store owners being very fond of going to exhibitions to buy and grab scripts.

Generally speaking, the exhibition is a display of new scripts, with distributors and script-killing stores from all over the country gathered together, one wanting to sell goods, and the other wanting to buy goods.

The Capital Autumn Exhibition that Yan Huaiyou just mentioned is one of the two largest exhibitions of the year.

At this point, Jiang Qi couldn't help but complain that the script exhibition was like a fashion week, with two big exhibitions in spring and autumn.

The spring show is usually held in April, in different cities.

The autumn exhibition is usually held after National Day, which is October 17 this year, and is usually held in Beijing.

The cost of attending exhibitions is high. In addition to the ticket price of several hundred yuan, round-trip fare, accommodation, and meals all cost a lot of money. For efficiency, a store usually sends several employees to attend exhibitions together. When the miscellaneous expenses of several people are added up, an exhibition may cost nearly 10,000 yuan.

Small shops simply cannot afford such high costs. If they want to attend exhibitions, the Spring and Autumn Exhibition is their best choice.

The Spring and Autumn Exhibition is large in scale, with a large venue and a full range of issues. As long as you are lucky enough to be the first to find a good book, or buy an exclusive or city-limited best-selling book, the store's business will surely be booming for a while.

To see how profitable exclusive hits are, just look at Galaxy Script Club.

After the National Day, the script-killing industry completely entered the off-season, because there have been no major festivals for a long time since the National Day, which is a good time to attend exhibitions.

"Your store has been open for such a long time, haven't you ever attended an exhibition?" Yan Huaiyou was surprised.

Jiang Qi said calmly: "No. Not only have I never been to an exhibition, I have never bought a copy on an online platform. All the boxed copies in our store were bought by my sister from a second-hand trading group."

Yan Huaiyou:

“Why do you have so many exclusive items in your store?”

"Oh, that's actually quite a coincidence. You should know that all the exclusives in our store are produced by the same publisher. The copies released by this publisher are very expensive. I guess they haven't sold many copies before. Then, in order to promote the products, they added my sister's WeChat in the second-hand group and told my sister that she could try the new copies for free for two weeks."

"My sister agreed to it in order to get something for free, and then because the business was not good she ran away and left the store to me.

"You know what happened next. The books produced by this publisher were unexpectedly well matched with our store's employees. I always bought exclusive books from publishers. I bought whatever was published. I never knew about those exhibitions you mentioned."

Yan Huaiyou:

For some reason, Yan Huaiyou suddenly wanted to shed two lines of tears.

Why didn't he recruit such a great employee?

Although his employees are also very good,

Woo woo woo woo.

“So are you going to this year’s autumn exhibition?”

Jiang Qi thought for a moment and asked: "Can I still buy a ticket now?"

"Sure, do you want me to buy it for you? I guess you don't know where to buy the ticket.

Jiang Qi nodded: "Thank you, please help me book the plane ticket, and I will transfer the money to you when the time comes."

Jiang Qi said that it didn’t matter whether he bought books at the exhibition or not, what mattered most was that he wanted to meet seven friends in the same industry.

Not too many requirements, 7 will do.

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