Chapter 305
Ji Wanmei spent two days in Pingdong City with Lei Tingjun.
Two days later, she returned to East China University.
She also has her own urgent matters to attend to now, which is to prepare for the opening of a music and video store.
After discussing it with Lei Tingjun, Ji Wanmei decided to take out the remaining 10,000 yuan from their savings accounts as the initial investment capital for the audio-visual store.
We source our goods from Guangdong, mainly cassette tapes, DVDs, and some discs.
Because the shop is right next to the university, in order to accurately target the student population, Ji Wanmei also plans to stock up on some foreign language cassette tapes.
The library at East China University of Technology doesn't have this; you have to buy it outside.
East China University has a foreign language department that specializes in teaching foreign languages. At that time, students in inland China generally did not have a very good foundation in foreign languages.
Moreover, many students only begin to learn a foreign language gradually in junior high or high school, so it is quite difficult for them to start learning from scratch after entering university because they have no foundation.
In audio-visual stores, offering some foreign language learning materials along with audio tapes would likely attract more business.
Ji Wanmei studied management. Her father's original plan for her was to go back to Dongfang Factory after graduating from university and learn to be a factory department manager.
Having studied management twice and experienced so much in her previous life, Ji Wanmei is very good at making detailed plans for herself.
This time, she was preparing to open a video store. Because the initial investment was several times that of the small store in Pingquan County, Ji Wanmei had to be extra careful.
Ji Wanmei made a detailed budget for the entire process of opening the store.
The simple decoration and layout, as well as the procurement time, were all scheduled during the May Day holiday.
Once she returns from purchasing goods in Guangdong, the bookstore can be converted into an audio-visual store, and it can officially open after the May Day holiday.
May Day and Youth Day fall on the same day every year.
University coursework is not heavy, so the May Day holiday is also a seven-day break.
These seven days gave Ji Wanmei ample time to prepare.
Lei Tingjun hired five renovation workers to come to East China and renovate the bookstore for Ji Wanmei according to her design.
After the holiday, Ji Wanmei directed the renovation workers to adjust the overall layout of the bookstore. The rest was to paint the walls, rewire the circuits, and assemble shelves suitable for displaying DVDs.
These tasks can be done by the workers themselves.
With five people, it can basically be done in two or three days.
Those five workers were all handpicked by Lei Tingjun from his development projects; they were all experienced interior decorators.
It took less time than Ji Wanmei had anticipated.
Meanwhile, renovations were underway, and Ji Wanmei finally managed to find some time from Lei Tingjun. On May 3rd, the two of them boarded a train to Guangdong together.
During the bookstore's renovation, students from East China University of Technology who were passing by were surprised to see that this bookstore, which had been open for a long time, had changed owners.
Everyone who passes by asks curiously:
"Why did this bookstore change owners? Is it closing down?"
"I saw the bookstore owner post a 'For Rent' notice on the door before, but I don't know if it's true?"
"Maybe business was bad and they couldn't continue operating."
"Sigh, there's nothing we can do. Who told him to open a bookstore at the very entrance of East China? If he opened a bookstore anywhere else, the business would be just as good."
"Yes, our school has the largest library in East China, which was donated and built by Senior Brother Lu. Many other universities come to our school to borrow materials."
Some people are also curious: "This bookstore is under renovation, I wonder what it will sell instead?"
"Maybe it'll be a small snack shop."
Near the university town, the food street is the busiest, especially the cheap and affordable ones, like clay pot noodles, cold noodles, and sesame seed cakes.
Don't be fooled by the low prices; little by little, you can still make a considerable amount of money every day.
Business owners who run small businesses near schools are generally wealthier than they appear to be.
The bookstore near the school gate is closed.
Although it attracted everyone's attention and curiosity, the few days in between were the May Day holiday.
Except for a few students whose homes are far away, most students are still not at school.
Therefore, it didn't attract much attention; people would just occasionally peek inside the store that was under renovation when they passed by.
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Meanwhile, Ji Wanmei and Lei Tingjun were on a train heading to Guangdong.
Last June, when they went to Zhejiang, Ji Wanmei bought a hard-seat ticket. The 20-plus-hour hard-seat journey was really hard to endure.
Lei Tingjun was in an even worse situation. In order to follow and protect Ji Wanmei, he didn't even have a hard-seat ticket and had to stand for the entire twenty-plus hours.
Now that they have money and time, Ji Wanmei felt sorry for Lei Tingjun, so when she booked tickets in advance, she booked two sleeper berths for the two of them.
They were all old-fashioned green trains, not very fast, and the journey from East China to Guangdong took more than twenty hours.
Ji Wanmei booked tickets for consecutive upper and lower berths.
Lei Tingjun was tall with long legs, so he slept on the lower bunk, while Ji Wanmei was slender and could sleep on the upper bunk.
Ji Wanmei didn't bring much luggage, but she did bring a rolling suitcase with some personal items for her and Lei Tingjun to use together.
There was also some food and drinks to eat on the train at night.
These things will be used up after they get off the train, and then the empty suitcases can be used to carry other things they bought.
While waiting for the train on the platform, the surroundings were very crowded.
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