271 The Eleventh Store
◎We should accept everything that happens.◎
0816, like a traveler who has been walking in the desert for a long time, suddenly found an oasis, let go of Lu Yao's wrist and ran quickly towards the bookshelf.
0829 and 0877 glanced at Lu Yao and also walked quickly towards the bookshelf.
0877 saw at a glance that the three volumes of "The Count of Monte Cristo" were neatly arranged on the bookshelf. His heart, which had been tortured by the subsequent stories all night, finally got a moment of peace.
As if worried that someone would snatch it away, 0877 quickly took down a whole set of "The Count of Monte Cristo" and held it in his arms.
0816 and 0829 hesitated in front of the bookshelf, their mechanical eyes turned around, and there were too many types of books on the bookshelf, and they didn't know where to start.
They wanted to buy the books they had read at 0815's place yesterday, but when they arrived at the bookstore, they found too many choices. The bookshelves were full of books they had never seen before, and the titles and descriptions were quite interesting.
The prices of the books were indeed a bit high, but 0816 and 0829 agreed that it was not the books' fault, but theirs.
0815 fell behind and greeted the owner a little embarrassedly, explaining: "Everyone read those books in the office last night, and the spirits were a bit excited. You can feel it if you stay in Guandao for a while, life here is very peaceful."
It was so peaceful that three hundred days passed as if it was the same day. The appearance of the book was like a stone breaking the calm lake.
Lu Yao thought of the shop owner who had opened a shop in the eighth district before. The life of a prison guard must be different from that of a shop owner. He nodded politely without saying anything.
But there is also a message here - the prison guards on the island have stable jobs, they have more wealth at their disposal, and have higher authority and more freedom than prisoners.
Lu Yao saw that 0816 was holding a pile of books and was a little unsteady, so he led 0815 to that side and pushed a shopping cart from the cashier: "You can put the books you are interested in in the cart. There is a reading room twenty steps straight along this aisle. You can take them there and try to read. After you make your choice, you can go to the cashier to pay."
0816 couldn't help but ask: "Aren't you worried that we won't want to buy the book after we finish reading it in the reading room?"
Lu Yao had a faint smile on his face and spoke in a soft tone: "Words are not fast food. Swallowing them whole is like Zhu Bajie eating ginseng fruit. You can't taste the flavor at all. After trying it, if you don't want to buy the book again, it's not your problem, nor is it the book's problem. You don't have to worry about it, and the book won't be ashamed of it. It will wait for someone who can read it, understand it, and love it deeply. You will also encounter a book that you can't help but open again even if you have read it tens of millions of times."
They arrived early and there was still half an hour before work time.
It was the first time for several people to come to the bookstore. The owner was completely different from the people they usually interacted with. 0816, 0829 and 0877 wanted to go to the reading room.
They couldn't wait until lunch break or after work to come. They had to experience it now, otherwise they would think about it all day.
0815 asked his colleagues to go to the reading room first, and he selected new books and went to find them.
Lu Yao took advantage of the gap and hurriedly put the new books she made last night on the bookshelf. Just now she was regretting that she didn't put them out earlier.
These prison guards were in a fever, and they would be interested in seeing new books.
0815 took out a few books that he was very interested in yesterday from the bookshelf. After a lot of hesitation, he finally put down the books. He saw Lu Yao across two bookshelves. He hesitated for a moment, but couldn't help his curiosity: "Shopkeeper, I have a question to ask you."
Lu Yao thought the customer wanted to consult about books, so he took off his gloves and threw them on the cardboard box, walked around the bookshelf and said: "Go ahead."
0815 thought this question was a bit strange, but he was really curious.
The shopkeeper had already walked up to him, and 0815 was still organizing his words. The shopkeeper's eyes were clear and bright, and there was encouragement in his gentleness. No simulated mechanical eyes could express such emotions.
0815 opened his mouth, as if taking a deep breath, and lowered his voice to a very low level: "You just said 'rent Bajie to eat the human body fruit', I want to know what is 'rent Bajie'? What is the human body fruit?"
Lu Yao raised his eyebrows almost imperceptibly, but this subtle expression was still captured by 0815.
0815's mechanical eyes are replaced with the latest models every year, and the materials and performance are the latest and best versions at present. In face-to-face situations, any subtle expression on the face of the native cannot escape his eyes.
0815 was a little confused, and Lu Yao suddenly laughed.
It was a little different from the polite smile during business hours. 0815 was already embarrassed. He must have asked an extremely stupid question.
Lu Yao turned around and strode past two bookshelves, accurately pulling out a sample book from the pile of new books she had just put there: "This is a new book that is on the shelves in the store today. Zhu Bajie is a character in this book, and ginseng fruit is also a kind of fruit that appears in the book. 'Zhu Bajie eats ginseng fruit' can be regarded as a summary of one of the short plots."
0815 interrupted Lu Yao: "Can I buy this book?"
Lu Yao: "Of course you can buy the new books that are on the shelves in the store. But I still suggest that you decide after trying it. The language style of this book is somewhat different from those you bought before."
The more Lu Yao spoke, the more 0815 became interested in this new book.
He discovered yesterday that words can be so versatile. In the hands of poets, they are gorgeous and delicate poems, and in the hands of writers, they will change their appearance and be woven into a magnificent world with a completely different style. He can't wait to know what kind of world he has never seen in the new book introduced by the store owner.
08:15 I went to the reading room with half a cart of new books, among which there was a set of "Journey to the West" that had just been put on the shelf.
The Dream Fulfilling System couldn't help but complain: "Is this okay?"
Lu Yao turned around and continued to put new books on the shelves: "We should accept everything that happens."
Dream Fulfilling System: "...I always feel that your personality has changed after you opened the bookstore."
Lu Yao: "This is called brand image."
Dream Fulfilling System: "..."
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The reading room has two parts, one half is an open space, which is furnished with long wooden tables and chairs, similar to the layout of a university study room.
Opposite the open space are six mini reading rooms separated by soundproof glass, for one person, two people, or even three people to read together.
0816 When several people came in, they studied it for a while. The open space is a free reading room, and the mini reading room needs to be paid, ten star coins per time, unlimited time.
Compared to the price of books, the cost of using the mini reading room is shockingly cheap.
However, when they came in, there was no one inside, so there was no need to use the mini reading room. 0816, 0829, and 0877 sat down in the public area, took out their books, and started reading.
0877 didn't even raise his head until 0815 was late, asking, "Why are
you so late?" 0816 saw a book in 0815's cart that he had never seen before, so he reached out and picked it up, saying, "I didn't see this book just now. Where did you find it?"
0815 excitedly introduced, "It's a new book in the store. When I was choosing books just now, the owner was putting them on the shelves, so I took one over."
0815 also told his colleagues about his chat with the owner as a joke.
0829 slowly raised his head: "15, have you been seduced by the owner? You are too soft-hearted, and you become soft-hearted when someone talks to you..."
0816 on the opposite side suddenly spread out the new book and pushed it in front of 0815: "The language style of this book is very unique, different from "The Count of Monte Cristo" and "One Hundred Years of Solitude."
0815 nodded immediately: "Yes, the owner also said so. She asked me to try reading it first, and then decide whether to buy it if I like it."
0829 was interrupted, and after hearing this, he didn't know what to say.
The owner of the bookstore is indeed different from the previous owner who opened a store in the Eighth District. She may recommend new books to customers, but she will not force customers to buy books they don't like.
At this moment, 0829 completely forgot the surveillance video he had seen yesterday.
The four guards didn't stay in the reading room for too long, after all, they still had to go to work.
About fifteen minutes later, they had picked out the books they wanted to buy and went to the cashier to pay.
0829 carried his five books to the side and noticed for the first time that the book bag was different from the pockets they usually used: "This book bag is quite sturdy. Is it given to customers every time they come to buy books?"
Lu Yao: "Yes. This book bag is handmade. The raw material is a huge vine that grows in the primeval forest and is naturally degradable. If you think you have too many book bags to use, you can take them to our store to exchange for books."
0829 didn't expect that after asking casually, there would be such a thing: "How to exchange?"
Lu Yao: "Twenty book bags can be exchanged for any book you like in our store."
0829: "A book worth 99,000 is also OK?"
Lu Yao nodded patiently: "Yes, any one, as long as it's a book you like."
The material for the book bag is a kind of thorny vine that is rampant in the forest of the Nittian continent. The Nittian little man is troubled by it and asks Lu Yao to help think of a solution. The
Nittian little man once tried to start a fire to burn the vines, but the vines would grow again in the spring of the next year.
Lu Yao came to light a fire, and it was indeed possible to completely burn the roots of this vine, but she didn't like this method.
Lu Yao initially tried to take some vines to make paper, but the effect was not very good. She accidentally discovered that the skin and stems of this vine were particularly soft and tough.
After she split the rattan, she took it to Dawu Dynasty and asked someone to weave it into cloth. It is not very warm, but it is very breathable.
Before the bookstore was about to open, Lu Yao wanted to add a little feature to the bookstore. He abandoned the ordinary plastic bags and magic bags and used this cloth to make book bags from the weaver.
However, this "recycle book bags and exchange them for new books" activity was something Lu Yao thought of last night.
The book bags can be recycled and disinfected in the store to make them look brand new. Recycling is not a bad thing.
However, book bags are not easy to discount, so they are simply exchanged for books to give to customers.
The books in the store are not cheap, and the acceptance of exchanging books is also high.
This activity is not mandatory. Customers can participate if they are willing, and forget it if they find it troublesome.
Lu Yao thought this was similar to accumulating shopping points in a supermarket, except that recycling book bags also has economic benefits for bookstores and can increase customer stickiness.
As for giving away a book worth tens of thousands of dollars, it seems extravagant. Even if customers only buy one book each time, they have to spend 20 times to participate in the event, so there is no loss no matter how you calculate it.
Several jailers repeatedly confirmed the authenticity and timeliness of the event with the store owner, and praised the boss for his generosity when they left.
0815 finally bought a complete set of "Journey to the West". His trial reading experience was very novel, and he could not imagine the direction of this story at all.
There were not only words on the pages of the book, but also some illustrations. The images of the four masters and apprentices gradually took shape in his mind. When he read those words again, it seemed as if a world of monsters full of amazing imagination really emerged in his mind.
Among the four jailers, 0815 bought the most. He didn't even put the two book bags in, so Lu Yao took three book bags to fill them.
When 0815 was about to leave with the books, his colleagues came to help.
0816 took a bag of books from 0815 and said, "Brother, you have so many book bags, give me one when the time comes."
0829: "Ah ah - you actually asked for it, shameless!"
0877: "Brother, I don't want to put the book bags in. Just lend me the books when the time comes."
0815 couldn't help but want to laugh, but he could only laugh in his heart.
His mechanical body is very hard, and his face is made of the same material as his body, so he cannot make any expression.
For some reason, 0815 suddenly remembered the day he was transferred to the Eighth District three years ago.
As a prison guard with a 3S-level mental value, 0815 should not have come to a sparse department like the Eighth District.
Three years ago, 0815's number was still 0315.
All the prisoners in the Inner Island District 3 were above the 3S-level mental value, and 0315 was originally one of the prison guards in charge of these prisoners.
However, during the work of arresting a jailbreak prisoner, 0315 suffered fatal damage to his brain, and his mental value, which had been stable for many years, began to decline.
Three years ago, 0315 underwent a physical examination, and the mental value test result was 2S level.
After leaving the Mental Value Research Center, 0315 wrote an application for transfer.
At that time, the boss and colleagues in the third district tried their best to retain him. With a 2S-level spirit value, he could still work on the inner island. 0315 did not want to become a burden, so he politely declined all requests to stay.
Because of his impressive work experience, 0315 was transferred to the eighth district and changed his number to 0815. He successfully entered the secretary's office of the eighth district's management director.
After three years, 0815 seemed to suddenly breathe a sigh of relief.
The reluctance and frustration that he thought was hidden and had no end finally dissipated in the wind (1).
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Shortly after the secretary of the Eighth District left, airships from the prisons of various districts set off one after another.
At the door of the bookstore, Lu Yao straightened up, wiped his sweat, and finally caught up.
Above the Eighth District Bookstore Street, the number of balloons increased, and new banners appeared.
[A floating leaf returns to the sea, and life is no place where we will not meet (2). ]
[The mountains are high and there are always paths for travelers, and the waters are deep and there are always ferries (3). ]
[Drink today and drink today, don't worry about what is right and wrong in front of the door (4). ]
...
A few bright yellow banners suddenly appeared in the middle of the green and white banners, and the text style was different from the ones added yesterday and today.
[Take my grandson's stick (5)! ]
[Are you the rescuer invited by the monkey (6)? ]
[Big brother, it's bad, the master has been captured by the monster (7)! 】
...
The jailers and prisoners on the airship were confused. The text on the banner today was in a completely new style, as if another language system had suddenly been loaded.
Gus was also going to work in the Ninth District today. Seeing the new banner, he thought that the store might have new books.
He had spent all his star coins yesterday, and he hadn't even found the middle and lower volumes of "The Count of Monte Cristo". The new book seemed very interesting.
Gus thought of the sour face of the 0666 jailer, and he was embarrassed to plan to apologize and apply for a job change.
He wanted to make clothes.
It is said that this type of job is a tradition left over from a long, long time ago. The cloth has been cut to fit by a robot, and you just need to operate the machine to sew it.
The machine deliberately imitated the style of a thousand years ago, and it needs to be used by stepping on the pedals below with both feet.
Gus went to a sewing factory once when he first arrived, but he found it boring and later refused to go there.
However, making clothes is piecework. Although one piece only costs five stars, as long as he makes six pieces in an hour, it is better than working as a part-time worker at a vegetable base.
Gus calculated very well, and when he went to find 0666, he found that there were others who had the same idea as him.
The two seemed to have obtained the permission of the prison guard.
Gus walked over with a stern face (it was not visible on the surface), and greeted stiffly: "Prison guard, I need your help."
0666 was curious: "What is it?"
Gus: "I also want to go to the sewing machine."
[Author's words]
Note (1) "Secret and endless" is borrowed from Borges' poem. The original sentence is: Deep rose, secret and endless.
Notes (2), (3), (4): quoted from the original novel of Journey to the West.
Notes (5), (6), (7): quoted from the lines in the drama version of Journey to the West.
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