After school at noon, Du Chen and Liu Yi led a group of classmates to Du Chen's family store.
"Hello, auntie and uncle!" Du Chen's classmates greeted them in unison as soon as they entered the store.
"Hello, hello. Please take a look around." Du Chen's mother replied quickly.
Du Chen went into the counter and briefly told his parents what happened at school that morning. Du Chen's parents didn't say much and just told Du Chen to make his own decision.
Everyone walked around the store and picked out things for themselves. Liu Yi and Du Chen also went to the book rental room next door.
"Du Chen, why are there so many books in there?" The door of this room was not opened in the morning, so Liu Yi didn't know what was inside. Now seeing that the room was full of books, he immediately asked Du Chen in surprise.
"These books are for rent. There are famous novels, comic strips, and cartoons. Take a look yourself. If there's anything you like, I can lend it to you."
"There are comic books and cartoons! I'll go take a look!" Liu Yi was immediately happy when he heard there were comic books. Children like to read these.
After wandering around the bookshelf for a long time, Liu Yi chose a book called "Doraemon" and a book called "Old Master Q".
"Du Chen, I'll just read these two books." Liu Yi handed two books to Du Chen.
"You can only choose one book at a time. You can read one book before reading another. Also, you can't bring comics to school. Be careful if the teacher confiscates them and you have to pay compensation." Du Chen asked Liu Yi to choose one of the books to read and reminded him by the way.
"Okay, then I'll choose Doraemon. The Doraemon animation is really good. It would be great if I could have a Doraemon too." Liu Yi said with anticipation.
The current domestic translation is still called "Doraemon". It was not until later that domestic publishers unified the name "Doraemon" with the rest of the world.
Liu Yi held "Doraemon" in his hand and started walking around the bookshelf again. He wanted to see what other comics were available so that he could borrow them later.
"Du Chen, Liu Yi, what are you doing?" The classmates who had finished shopping outside asked the two people in the room.
"Come and take a look, there are so many comics here!" Liu Yi said loudly to the students outside.
After hearing Liu Yi's words, not only Du Chen's classmates, but also some other students walked in curiously to see how many comics there were.
The students who just entered were surprised by the bookshelves inside. They had never seen so many books before.
Most children have no resistance to comic books and so they asked Du Chen how to sell them.
"Not for sale, not for sale. These books are for rent..." Du Chen saw that so many students were interested, so he briefly explained to everyone how to rent books.
After he finished speaking, everyone fell silent. After all, a deposit of ten yuan was a huge sum of money for a primary school student, and not many children could afford so much money.
"Why aren't you talking? Do you want to rent it or not?" Du Chen looked at the students who were excited just now with curiosity.
"I don't have that much money..." someone said in a low voice.
Du Chen slapped his forehead. It was indeed his negligence. He did not consider that children of this age would not have so much pocket money.
"How about this, ten yuan for thick books and five yuan for thinner ones, how about that?" Du Chen asked again.
"It's still not enough..." Most students still don't have that much money.
"You can rent a book together, and each person can read it for a few days." Du Chen continued to give advice.
"Yeah, why don't we just rent one together?" After hearing Du Chen's words, the students reacted and gathered together to pool their money to rent the comics.
"Du Chen, here's some money so we can rent a few comics." At this time, Du Chen's classmate came over and said.
"Well, you guys can choose first." Du Chen saw that there were many people here, so he didn't say much. He took the money and asked his classmates to choose books quickly.
During the half hour after school at noon, the Du Chen family was busy. Some were buying snacks, some were buying stationery, and quite a few students were renting comics. Not a single novel was rented out, after all, children still like to read comics.
After receiving the peak of elementary school students leaving school, Du Bin brought a group of his classmates over after school, and some other junior high school students also passed by.
"Come, come and take a look. Here are novels and comics. See what you like." Du Bin also led the classmates over first.
"Oh, there are also "Saint Seiya" and "Cat's Eye"? I'll rent these two!" Du Bin's deskmate said happily when he saw these comics.
Yuncheng, a small city in the north, is isolated from the outside world. Many new things people have only seen on TV but never in person. Today, Du Bin's classmates were delighted to see these Japanese comics at his store. They usually only see these cartoons on TV, but never read comic books. Seeing these comics was a novelty for them.
"Just like it. There are many more. You can choose whatever you like."
Soon after, several other students saw the martial arts novels of Jin Yong and Gu Long and were also attracted by them. They picked out their favorite ones and rented them.
After everyone left, it was already past half past twelve. Du Chen's mother hurriedly asked the whole family to eat quickly. It was still the fried cakes and stewed pork ribs from the morning, as well as the two dishes she had fried before school was over.
"Hurry up and eat! You're missing your nap." Du Chen's mother urged the two brothers to eat quickly, but she felt a little regretful. She hadn't expected lunch to be so busy at this time. If it was like this every day, it would really affect her two sons' naps.
"Son, why don't you stay at home for lunch from now on? I'll have nothing to do in the morning, so I'll prepare dinner. You can take it home and eat it when you get home at noon, and then go to sleep after eating." Du Chen's mother came up with an idea.
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