293 The Eleventh Store
◎New area opened.◎
The bookstore volunteer recruitment is not only open to the three central districts, but also the third district.
However, the prisoners in the fourth, fifth and sixth districts do not know this news yet. Just hearing that the bookstore dares to accept prisoners as clerks, there is already a lot of whispering. In
the first few days after the bookstore opened, which troublemaker in each district did not openly or secretly trouble the store owner?
All of them were subdued by the store owner, lost face, and lost money.
But the peace under the iron fist is not stable, and the volunteer recruitment is simply a perfect opportunity to test the store owner's ability and collect intelligence.
For a while, whether it was the prisoners who really liked the bookstore and wanted to work in the bookstore, or the prisoners who had evil intentions and still had ideas about the owner's brain, they were all ready to go.
The prison guard first dropped the bomb lightly, and then carefully explained the rules and time limits for recruiting volunteers.
The bookstore only needs two volunteers at a time, and they rotate every eight days.
The prison is also limited to eight days, and the prisoners are tested.
Because the owner is short of staff, the first two vacancies need to be decided as soon as possible, and the test day is today.
Zhu Wei from the fourth district is still saving money recently.
She has just arrived on Guandao Island. When she was sent to the island, she was penniless and had no relatives to take care of her at home.
Recently, I have been undergoing labor reform in the Ninth District, and I can't save enough money to buy "To Kill a Mockingbird" in a short time.
The bookstore puts new books on the shelves every day. Sometimes Zhu Wei goes to the Eighth District to read books during her rest time. She has read most of the books, including "To Kill a Mockingbird".
It's very strange, because she has read many times and many of the contents are already familiar to her, but the desire in her heart is still lingering.
She wants to buy those books she likes and put them in her cell.
Hearing the news that the bookstore is recruiting volunteers from the cell, Zhu Wei's dull and indifferent heart rises with fighting spirit, and she wants to get that quota.
In each cell, there are many prisoners who have the same idea as Zhu Wei.
Early in the morning, the balloon banner over the Eighth District changed again.
The shop owner replaced some of the colorful balloons and put up banners recruiting volunteers. Airships from various districts passed by, and the prisoners leaned against the window to take a closer look.
The banner was printed with the volunteer remuneration, which was similar to the labor subsidy for service-oriented jobs in District 9, or even a little higher, thirty star coins per hour.
Including rest time, the working hours per day were about forty hours.
After the volunteer activity was over, volunteers could choose a favorite book for free in the bookstore.
Volunteer positions were already popular, and once the shop owner promoted it, they became even more popular.
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Lu Yao replaced the balloon banner early, and the airship from the post station came to collect the parcels.
Thousands of packages were piled up in the warehouse on the second floor, and Lu Yao, Yin Hua and Ling Liu were busy.
Restricted by the safety management regulations, the prison guards and prisoners in Guandao were not allowed to use space rings.
Lu Yao had just heard about this kind of ring recently, which has a similar use to the Qiankun bag and her portable warehouse. Unfortunately, it is not allowed to be used on the island, so she can only use a cart to transport the packages.
The packages are of different sizes and there are many of them.
The prison guard from the post station was transferred from the Eighth District. He originally thought that there was only such a store on the island, and the owner was a bit stingy, so he did all the packing himself. The post station was only responsible for receiving and sending goods every day, which was an easy job.
Who would have thought that the bookstore’s sales on the Internet were so good? He came to receive hundreds of packages yesterday afternoon, and this morning there were more than yesterday, at least one or two thousand, all neatly packed.
The prison guard of the post station thought that it was no wonder that Director Jilan could agree to so many outrageous conditions. The bookstore was indeed well managed, and the post station was also well run.
Lu Yao and two robot shop assistants were busy moving books up and down for nearly 40 minutes. They emptied the warehouse, confirmed that there were no missing or missing items, and waved to the prison guard of the post station.
The prison guard of the post station hesitated for a moment and said to the owner: "Books are not large in size. It is easy to pack them in compressed capsule boxes. The boxes are of the same size and it is not so troublesome to move them every time. Don't you think about it?"
Lu Yao packed until midnight last night. He was so tired that his waist and hands were sore. His life was supported by drugs and pills. He was indeed a little tempted.
In terms of compression capsule technology, a few hundred star coins per box is not expensive, but it cannot withstand the high consumption of the bookstore.
One package costs a few hundred, ten packages cost a few thousand, and a hundred packages cost tens of thousands.
Thousands of packages like today cost hundreds of thousands of star coins every minute.
The bookstore is the most expensive store since Lu Yao opened it. The entry fee was 10 million star coins, and the soft sister coins spent on purchasing copyrights. Now that it is cooperating with District 8, the dividends, postage, volunteer subsidies, and the cost of printing books, the time, energy, and even the drugs she and the staff have spent are not a small amount of money.
Since the opening, the bookstore's revenue seems to barely offset the various expenses.
However, in Lu Yao's eyes, this store is still in a loss-making state, and unnecessary expenses must be reduced as much as possible.
Lu Yao considered for a moment, and still declined the post station prison guard.
The airship of the post station left, and Lu Yao turned back to the store, calling Yin Hua to go with her to the warehouse to move the books.
The four popcorn literature books that were put on the shelves yesterday were not finished, but the contents of the entire book had been translated and proofread, and the new sample books were placed in the mustard space.
All the orders for the first day of the shelves were shipped this morning, and the online customers have not yet finished reading the contents of the first volume. It is not appropriate to put the subsequent books on the shelves immediately. Lu Yao plans to release the news of the subsequent books being put on the shelves after about half a month.
However, the bookstore also has new books to put on the shelves today. Classic literature and popcorn literature are gradually opening up this world, and Lu Yao has begun to select tool books.
She hopes that the books available on the shelves of the bookstore will be richer.
This task was not easy. The reference books in Lu Yao's world did not match those in Guandao's world. The gap between the development of science and technology and the development of economy and history was too big.
Lu Yao carefully selected for a long time, and picked several history books, several books on art, and works related to psychology.
The translation of such books is no less difficult than that of classic literature. In order to express accurately, a lot of information needs to be consulted.
Lu Yao stayed in the mustard seed space until early morning, and only completed the preparation of one psychology-related work.
First, a sample book was made, and a batch was printed and put on the shelves of the bookstore.
In addition to this psychology book, the new books on the shelves today include two popcorn literatures and one classic literature.
The shop owner picked out a popular Western fantasy novel called "The Great Magician" and a love novel with a style very different from "The Human Angel" called "The Vampire Lover", which tells the forbidden love between a beautiful human girl and a beautiful vampire. The
new classic literature on the shelves is a book that Lu Yao likes very much, Qian Lao's "Fortress Besieged".
This book requires a certain age and reading experience to understand. The words and sentences in the text are humorous and vivid, and have a unique interest.
To this day, the sentence "People in the city want to escape, and people outside the city want to rush in. They don't care about marriage or career. Most of the wishes in life are like this (1)" is still thought-provoking.
With Yin Hua's help, Lu Yao's life was much easier.
The two were busy tidying up the display area and putting new books on the shelves, while Ling Liu finished the daily cleaning of the store.
It is a cleaning robot, and only cleaning-related work procedures are implanted in the program.
After cleaning, it follows the owner like a little tail, never missing a step.
Lu Yao is used to the situation that there are no customers in the first one or two hours after the store opens in the morning. After finishing the preparations, he goes back to the office to prepare tea and snacks and start the daily live broadcast.
Yesterday's late-night theme live broadcast attracted a lot of fans. Before the broadcast, there were only about 20,000 followers. Over the past night, the number of followers of the bookstore account has exceeded 200,000.
As soon as the broadcast started, hundreds of thousands of viewers instantly flooded into the live broadcast room.
It was not comparable to the 1.5 million people who watched the show online last night, but it was early in the morning, and many people were on their way to school or work.
The layout of the virtual live broadcast room had returned to the two long glass tables of the day, and Lu Yao sat in the old place to greet netizens.
Many "Good morning" messages immediately appeared on the message screen.
One netizen spent 500 Langhua coins to buy a special message box, and the big golden words scrolled repeatedly on the message screen -
[Wild Star 996: When will the second floor area of the live broadcast room be opened? The number of real-time viewers last night exceeded 1.5 million! ]
Last night, the number of people in the live broadcast room exceeded 1.5 million in the last half an hour of the food-themed live broadcast. At that time, everyone was immersed in the charm of food and forgot to mention it.
After being reminded by netizens, Lu Yao also got up and walked towards the staircase.
Go up the stairs, push open the wooden door on the ceiling, and go up to the second floor.
A group of smart flying cameras followed the owner.
The layout of the second floor was directly exposed to the eyes of netizens. It is actually a reading room that provides tea and snacks.
Lu Yao adopted the bookstore plan he learned about in the Guangguang City, and tried his best to improve the reading experience of customers. A virtual coffee reading room was added on the second floor.
It occupies half of the space on the second floor. Opposite the coffee room is a warehouse, which was concealed by Lu Yao's sleight of hand.
There are twelve tables in the reading room, divided into left and right sides, and an aisle in the middle.
The row of six tables on the right is by the window, and there is a strange button on the corner of the table by the window.
Press the black side, and you will see the bookstore street outside the window. Press the green side, and you will see a stretch of native forest outside the window. Some old and dilapidated buildings can be vaguely seen in the distance.
There are two rows of bookshelves on the left and right sides of the coffee shop, displaying all the books on the shelves of the bookstore.
At the end of the aisle, there is a self-service beverage area and dessert area, and you can pick up the goods by paying with Star Ring.
While Lu Yao showed the netizens in the live broadcast room how to use each area of the virtual reading room, he did not forget to promote: "From here, you can see the boundary line of the three outer island districts.
"When your eyes are tired, adjust to the mountain and sea mode and look at the green mountains and forests to relax your eyes.
“The reading room is available to customers who have purchased books online. After placing an order and paying, if they cannot wait for the books to arrive, they can come to the virtual reading room first and read the content after the trial reading section.
“Customers who have received the books can also enter this reading room and read any book they have purchased. "
There is only one camera in the virtual reading room, located above the bar and dessert area. The books and the scenery outside the window will be blurred in the live broadcast.
Guandao's location is too special, and the owner wants customers who buy books online to experience the feeling of reading in a bookstore. He thought of this method and spent a lot of time negotiating with 0815.
The netizens in the live broadcast room were a little disappointed when they saw the layout of the reading room at first, thinking that the owner had prepared a big surprise, but it turned out to be an ordinary reading room.
But as the owner introduced it, the netizens gradually realized the uniqueness of this reading room. The virtual reading room is on Guandao Island .
You can see Guandao Island from the window. This is the gimmick of "Guandao in the store" used to the extreme.
Netizens who are curious about Guandao Island will definitely pay for it. If they cannot enter Guandao Island by normal means, they can also satisfy their cravings by entering the virtual reading room of the bookstore.
The virtual reading room is only open to customers who place orders. Impatient customers who buy books and can't wait for them to arrive can come to the reading room to read the full text first.
The owner considered the possibility of placing an order, reading the whole book in the reading room, and then refunding the money, so he specially consulted 0815.
0815 was a little surprised by the store owner's question.
The emergence of the virtual live broadcast room has made online shopping and offline shopping not much different.
In order to restrain certain bad behaviors, Star Domain issued relevant protection regulations decades ago. For special categories of goods such as books, no subjective return application will be accepted unless there is a quality problem.
After introducing the functions and environment of the virtual reading room to netizens, Lu Yao instructed the Dream System to open the reading room permissions.
The door just opened, and in the blink of an eye, the virtual reading room that was empty just now was full.
The little food god only caught up with the end of the live broadcast last night and did not see the exciting part of making food, but later saw it from elsewhere When it came to a few recorded clips.
He stared straight at them, not sleeping all night, and saw a lot of comments in the clips. Netizens who had tasted a few dishes in the bookstore live broadcast room kept showing off how delicious those dishes were.
The little god of food couldn't sleep even more. His mind was full of thinking about the taste of those dishes in the bookstore live broadcast room, and he couldn't help looking forward to the two cookbooks he bought last night.
Just when he was waiting to sleep and eat, the bookstore live broadcast room that set a "special reminder" last night started broadcasting again.
The live broadcast style was a little different from last night. The little god of food patiently listened to the owner's nagging, and then waited for the virtual reading room to open.
The little god of food held his breath and concentrated.
This time he didn't miss it. In the blink of an eye, he was already sitting in the virtual reading room.
The little god of food was very lucky. He happened to sit at the second table on the right by the window. He could see the scenery outside the window just by turning his head.
But he had no interest in the view outside the window. Just as he was about to get up and walk towards the bookshelf, he looked up and saw a mini bookshelf on the table in front of him.
All the books on the shelves of the bookstore were neatly displayed on the bookshelf, but most of them were gray. Only the two cookbooks he paid for were colored.
The little god of food reached out to take the new book "Fortress Besieged" that had just been put on the shelf, but he couldn't touch it. He turned his hand and took down the cookbook.
[Author's words]
Note (1): The original sentence is quoted from "Fortress Besieged" by Qian Zhongshu.
There are many interesting sentences in "Fortress Besieged", "For ugly people, a closer look is a kind of cruelty" is also from this book.
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